xylena_lazarow wrote: »

It doesn't make you tanky on its own if the rest of your build is squishy

Well I kept everything else the same as before, and I have decent resists and survivability. I mean, I'm not talking night-and-day difference or anything, but there are times I feel like damage is just draining that health down quicker. Just not sure why I'm noticing it.

Vamp 3 is a nice buff to mitigation but it's effectiveness is drastically over stated. It gives you just a little bit more chance to survive but you still need to heal and escape incoming damage.

My experience is in no-CP Ravenwatch (Cyrodiil) PVP. I have been a level 3 vamp the whole time. I do notice I'll die easier/faster if my vamp level 3 drops down to 2 because I let the 4-hours run out. What I think some people forget is that the mitigation goes higher the lower your health is. So when you're at full health there may be close to no mitigation. I've never seen anything official in writing that describes exactly how this works either. But as a previous poster mentioned, by the time you get to close to 30% mitigation you're probably so low on health that a lot of people can 1-shot you with many abilities. So while I think vamp3 helps with surviving, it's not as much as people think. Imagine if it was really 30% mitigation period! Every player would have to use it or they'd have no chance or being competitive. Pariah buff works the same way. I tried Pariah, Gaze mythic, and vamp 3/undeath and felt pretty tanky but I couldn't kill anyone but a bad player who was already low on health. These days I'm going 2 offensive sets with a defensive mythic. Heavy head, chest, and pants. With the skill that gives almost 6k resists I have my resists at like 28 and 25k and still wearing 4 light pieces divines. It's the most competitive I've ever felt in PVP but I'm also slowly getting better with practice and learning more about how my class and all its skills work and what a good kill combo should look like. People don't get that it takes months of practice to be better than average in ESO PVP and that's if your build is top notch and you understand how to play. Most who try PVP get frustrated because they run into elite players who 2 or 3 shot them quickly and they just give up. Or they avoid fighting because they don't want to die and never get better. You need to play 10-20 hours a week probably minimum to become one of the better players and duel/fight most of that time. That would involve finding the nearest enemy/fight and probably dying 50-times during your 2-hour play session. During your first couple of months maybe you'll get a couple kills per night if you're lucky enough to run into PVE players farming skyshards or something.