I've tried, tried, and tried again, and I just cannot like DK. Templar it was the same but I finally made a fun build.

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I've tried, tried, and tried again, and I just cannot like DK. Templar it was the same but I finally made a fun build.

I actually love your Signature, you've managed to make a Tank out of almost every Class BUT Dragonknight, the defacto Tank Class. I've never seen a Sorc Tank in action before.

Arcanist by far.

All because of Fatecarver.

Not only does it create the most boring gameplay in existence with beam spam, but it's also super annoying to have the massive DPS drops whenever you need to block/dodge/bash or get stunned/interrupted (Even with Pragmatic morph)

Runner up is Necro because of the clunkiness of the summons and the horrendous corpse mechanic.

I like the idea of necromancer, but the unreliability of casting the skills is just horrible. If ZoS fixed it so the skills cast reliably, and so that they did decent damage (without having to farm IA for days), I'd be happy to use my 2 fully levelled Necros again.

I actually like all the classes. Love my DK dps. Arcanists are fun - what's not to like about beaming everything. I have at least one of them all fully levelled and used at some time.

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The one thing I like about eso is the combat, so a class where you only use a super long channeled ability and call that a rotation feels boring (and I'm still satly over the fact that it took me 2000 hours to get 125k dps on my stamblade while other people can get the same by slotting a mythic and pressing a button once every 5 secs)

When 6-8 arc Dps use Fatecarver attack boss and I am tank

I have several different versions of every class, across 36 characters on two accounts. But only one necro, and all he does is store my surveys. Never could manage to make necro work for me... it always felt too weak and clunky.

Despite that I main one, NB is the one I dislike the most.
NB is the only class I have (granted I do not have an Arcanist but have maxed every other class) that never feels thematically good to play. I don't ever 'feel' like a Nightblade when I fight on one. I really only feel like one when I'm just cloaking through PvE content because I don't wanna deal with aggro and trash pulls while farming for sets in dungeons.

I really wish more Nightblade abilities felt 'opportunistic'. I wish ZOS would consider more ways for Nightblade to feel like a combo class to match this thematic. Maybe using certain abilities in varying order creates different effects or empowers other abilities that get used afterwards. Hell even changing Nightblade abilities to be more effective based on positioning would feel more thematic but would also complicate bosses that never have available back/flanking hitboxes (like Sunspire dragons).

But yeah; Nightblade just feels like a glorified Weapon Skill Line class compared to the others. Sorc, DK, Necro, Templar and Warden all feel so distinctive and appropriate for what they are. My observations on Arcanist (aside from the EGREGIOUS amount of beam spam) look distinctive and appropriate for the class as well.

Loved my Necromancer back in the day but after so many nerfs there's no role for it to play, where I can't achieve better results with ease on a different class.

Necromancer is a problem, because of its lack of a good spammable and the corpse consumption mechanic, which is a pain in the entire backside, not just my rearward facing orifice.
I tried and tried for years to make a Necro build work on all levels that are important to me. SOLO performance/survivability, group play, in class synergy (I hate having to play with supplemental guild/weapon abilities) and a class fantasy based character background story.
In the end I settled on a heavy attack build, that can use both Lightning and Restoration Staff, depending on the situational requirements.

All other classes are enjoyable for me, because I do not run into these kind of ideosyncratic problems where a viable build is far off the class fantasy and my character's identity/backstory.

There's several for me;

Dragonknight; Just feels weird to me, can't get into it. The class seems all over the place to me. Doesn't know if it wants to be a fire mage, warrior, or a weird combination of the two. I'm also not a fan of the effects.

Templar; Mainly just because I don't like holy type classes as I find them rather boring (vampire dark mage character appeals the most to me). So, it's more of a ME issue. Also, not a fan of the spears...

Necromancer; HATE. I was so excited when it was announced as I LOVE dark mage playstyles (blood, shadow, and death magic). But I absolutely LOATHE how Necromancer is in this game. It's a Templar reskin (and a poor one at that). As well as a generic summoner class. The effects are poor, the corpse mechanic is...yeah, and it just doesn't feel dark or forbidden to me. The actual necromancers that you fight in this game (Mannimarco) are SO much cooler! Same with the npc vampires, their skills are much cooler than what we have...

Sorcerer; Sorc is OKAY. But I HATE the summons...They're more annoying than they're worth, poorly textured, and rather ugly. Wish they'd let us CHOOSE our summons (same with Warden's bear, would love a big cat or wolf instead) for some customization and uniqueness or get rid of them completely. Not a fan of the 'Dark Magic' skill tree either... Storm is the most fun (for me anyway) paired with a flame and lightning staff for a full-on elemental mage feel.

Arcanist; Haven't played it long enough to really give much of an opinion. Though I wished the Tome was an actual weapon rather than a skill effect (I like the thought of my character carrying a grimoire, have different grimoires that would do different things, like staves). We could use more weapon types in this game. Other than that, it's OKAY so far...

Warden; Is alright, I LOVE the nature theme (especially for Argonian and Wood Elf). Wish we could choose our animal companion though instead of being stuck with a bear (just not really a bear person). I don't like that skill tree overall though. I like the healing skill tree and the winter/ice skill tree. Loads of fun for me. Warden would have been more fun though if it was an actual druid class (able to shape-shift into different animal forms to do different things in combat as well as summon various animals (of YOUR CHOOSING) to aid you in combat. Not a bunch of short-term...bugs, jellyfish, and a pterodactyl (Cliff Racer) with the only long-term pet companion being a bear...

I'm just not a fan of the skill system in general; they're far too limiting. You're pigeonholed no matter what you choose.

I kind of forget necromancer exists. I have two of them, but I never really figured out what I was doing with them besides vaguely knowing what was on the tooltips for the buttons I was pressing.

Even from release, when it was a powerful class in PVE and a top class in PVP, its always been wonky with extraordinarily poor targeting and the silly tether. Sustain was a big problem, back when sustain was something you had to worry about. Present-day, the class is still a mess. Its not worth using in PVP and it is relegated to a barely-relevant EC Cro role in PVE.

My main has always been a sorc because lightning fits her character the most, but I don't like the class because I do not enjoy pets. I also don't enjoy slinging candy rocks at enemies.

Scribing so far has helped my no-pet sorc a fair bit, but I'm definitely excited for if/when classes get their own grimoires.