Alright, let's break down some of what's happening.

First off, some of my advice is predicated on the idea that you can back out, reequip and return to the quest. I've done this quest a couple times and I dont remember how feasible that actually is, so if it isnt, I'm sorry. A work around might be to have one of your other characters collect items and have someone else mail them to you if needed.

1. The loss of stats as you level up is due to Battleleveling. As you level, you are scaled up to CP 160. At low levels, you get plenty of benefit from this because you have few skills and usually bad gear. At higher levels, the benefits drop off as you gain attribute points and skills. Now, yoir battleleveling benefits are tied to your gear as well - so if you've outleveled gear and weapons a while back, you will feel quite weak.

What you can do to address this - I see that you are CP 190 and presumably have CP 160 gear? You might look at equipping set pieces to get a useful 5 piece bonus. Make sure your gear is repaired - 32 tries is a lot of wear and tear.

2. Your stats. 22k health, 12k magicka and 8k stam, is not a good balance of stats, even for a tank.

Here's why. Your magicka skills will deal more damage based on the ammount of magicka you have. Your stamina skills will deal increased damage the more stamina you have. 12k and 8k are tiny amounts, so your skills are hitting comparatively weakly. Then for PVE questing, the best defense is killing enemies quicker than they kill you, so 22k health probably isnt helping much.

What you can do - Are you using a food buff? If not, go get a food or drink that increases your stats. I prefer Dubious Camoran Throne for stamina and Witchmither's Potent Brew for Magicka - both are readily available from guild stores.

Then match your weapon and armor to the resource you use. If magicka, use light armor and a destro staff. If stamina, use medium armor and a Bow, and dual wield or two handed.

(Health, heavy armor, and one hand and shield are all oriented towards tanking, and there's really not a need for a tank in PVE questing before group content. If you do want a tank, you still need to look at food buffs, self-healing skills, skills that give you damage resistance, and how you are going to damage your enemies. Because questing enemies have relatively low health and low damage, its usually not worth it to tank them when you could just focus on killing them faster.)


3. Actually fighting. The fight I remeber struggling the most with in the Main Quest is the one where . This one didnt make an impression on me recently, but that's probably because the last character I ran it on has enough DPS to rip through it like wet paper,

Its not uncommon for some quests to become absolute roadblocks for players until you find a method that works.

The simplest (in theory) is likely to be putting a DOT on the enemies, then kiting them with light attacks as you self-heal when needed.

1. If stamina, volley from bow is your damage over time skill. If Magicka, Wall of Elements.

2. Now, your light attack damage will scale up with the matching weapon's resource, so remember all that stuff about matching magicka or stamina and increasing your resource pools? Yeah, it helps with this to.

3. Light attacks dont take resources, so you can spam them and save your magicka/stam for self heals and your damage over time. This is important because right now you have very little magicka and stamina to use. Heavy attacks will restore stamina or magicka depending on the weapon.

4. Use self heals when you need it. If you don't have a self heal, you might consider using health potions or back barring a resto staff even if that doesn't normally make sense for your build.

The more complex strategy is to do a DPS rotation, where you use your skills in a rotation that mixes buffs, DOTs, and single target skills.

In this fight, you'll also want to prioritize certain mechanics. If the mages are giving you headaches, kill them first. The Storm Atronachs have a number of interruptible mechanics that make the fight more annoying if you don't bash them when you see flashing red lines around them.



It can be frustrating to hit fights that roadblock your progress. I hope I was able to break down some of the issues I saw could be causing you problems and offer workable solutions. In any case, good luck saving Tamriel from the Planemeld, Vestige!

sorry that was all a rage quit moment, but i still stand by the wierd thing, why in molag scaly balls do my base attributes get lower?

i NOW have cp 160 armor but my ATTs are still majorly focked up.

as for set pieces: yes im currently trying to start with the health one from deshaan (plague doctor i think)

i run into the issue that i gain 20 lvls last night and now i have to swap out my gear... again
might help if i give some more details:
Argonian F Warden
lvl 50 CR 202
neither vamp or werewolf
maxed all 3 classes
preferred battle axe two handed
heavy armor with most of its perks
exact base stats:
SS: THE LADY
MX MAG:13,887 MAG RE: 601
MX HEA 17,491 HEA RE: 309
MX STA 9,373 STA RE: 575
MAG: 24 HEA: 40 STA:0
SPELL & PHYS RESIST: 2752
all that without any armor
WITHOUT CHANGING MY CLASS OR RACE

Is it possible to make a moderate/good take with some mild DPS and crowd control?

Also fyi, the game is easier than it used to be not harder. But there's some very useful advice above, and you dont need to play a meta or "straight" spec at all to completely main game quests. But you do probably need to wear at least 1 5pc set, make sure you have skill points for all of your class passives, racial passives etc and that you have a way of doing damage and staying alive.

i am now painfully aware there is a build (i dont know what it consists of) that allows a warden to literally walts through a delve almost instakilling enemies, now THAT would be a nice build instead of a mild tank/dps build, all i can tell was they focused on the ice tree with some mild animal tree, and that they were of one of the human races(not sure if that even matters) they also were using a staff, not sure of their armor though they had the graht wood active gear costume on

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/459638/lets-see-if-we-can-fix-my-train-wreck-of-a-character/p1?new=1

thats the new thread incase any of you have anymore insight for different builds

@Beardimus
ive seen them, im just painfully aware it will takes minimum of 16 days to get some of the pieces needed, im also painfully aware that i may have reached a burn out point, i cant wrap my head around how the elder scrolls games, a series about making a character of any race you want and play just about any style you want, has become if your not {insert race here} and {insert class here} you will NEVER be able to play endgame at all... i understand the " there will always be a bigger fish" theory but if it were possible id have been content with just making a casual explorer, dungeoneer and crafter, but i guess being a casual gamer is not allowed for ESO