With how big the changes were between these updates, I'm wondering what characters did you play in U34, are you still playing those characters and why, and what characters are you playing now? I'll start:
Khajiit Stam Warden. U34 and for several updates prior to U35, my secondary was a Khajiit Stamden. It's been my highest DPS character for a couple years now, even over my main. U35 does't change that. It doesn't do the damage it did, but it's still, by far, my highest DPS character. It does 50k dps on the 3m dummy. It did more in U34, about 65k against the 3m dummy or 110k against the trial dummy. It's also my main now for reasons I'll get into when I get to my old main.
Imperial Stam Sorcerer. U34 I made the character. I had it for a while before U34, but I wanted to try out the Oakensoul Ring on it. It was great! It did fine damage, 45k dps against the 3m dummy and 85k dps against the trial dummy during U34. I no longer play this toon, however. The nerfs to Oakensoul and sorc brought the dps down to under 30k on the 3m dummy, no longer worth running in any content. I'll probably remake it if there is some positive changes in U36, but it probably won't use Oakensoul since I don't see it being buffed anymore than it already is, which is a shame.
Altmer Mag Templar. This has been my main since 2015. Before that, my main was a Nord Templar with no concept of Stam or Mag, who is now my dedicated crafter. My altmer magplar didn't do the best damage out of my toons, but it had the most survivability, was fun to play, and did ~40k dps on the 3m dummy or 85k on the trial dummy in U34. It's no longer my main, and is a dedicated crafter with U35, and I do not see myself ever playing it again after U35. I've gone into great detail in other threads and in my own threads as to why I dislike the change to Jabs, why the animation is bad (I'm a professional animator and know a number of other professional animators that dislike the new jabs animation for the same reasons I do). I won't go into it here. But unless Jabs is reverted to its old animation, or they go in and fix the new animation thoroughly, I will never play templar again. Which sucks, since I've mained it since beta.
Argonian Mag Nightblade. This was my secondary back in 2014. I played this pretty much since the game came out almost as frequently as my Mag Templar main, and just as much as my original main before 2015. I played it up until around 2018. NB has gotte pretty consistent nerfs over the years, and at one point it got so bad that I quit this character, even though I was only at the middle of mid tier at the time. Never saw any reason to go back to it until this patch. 2 of my 3 characters I played died, and nb got some buffs so I put some gear on it and am sitting at a nice 43k dps on the 3m dummy. Not the best ever, but it does well in all content.
Edited by ZOS_Hadeostry on 6 September 2022 01:40