Shrooms. Then you'll be big enough to stomp on anything, and go head to head with Molag Bal.

Well, I cannot help me with my melee DK. I just keep struggling hard with most trash groups. Easy and plain.

Although I appreciate your rather funny comments I was looking for something more valuable in regards of spec ideas and such stuff. Thanks for the lols

I am using Ash Storm in my current build and it helps alot - however, it does not help me to burst down certain thrash groups as I would like to - similar to what I see from some mages with their petty army.

Also using the breath to reduce my opponents armor rating.
The main problem I face is some insane damage to deal with. I can easily take a hit of 1000 once but not three times from a single group of three mobs. Thats simply silly and might not even be an issue with the DK itself but with game difficulty balance.

Some heavy attacks I receive are simply too strong along with their knockback and some dumb follow up attacks. Blocking them is sometimes not a valid option due to missing stamina used up to execute poor attacks.

Therefore I want to roflstomp everything now without using my brain at all. I need my brain to decide between the different chocolate to eat now as well as choosing between beer, coffee and coke and to think about some rant for this forum.

rebellisb16_ESO wrote: »

I am using Ash Storm in my current build and it helps alot - however, it does not help me to burst down certain thrash groups as I would like to - similar to what I see from some mages with their petty army.

Also using the breath to reduce my opponents armor rating.
The main problem I face is some insane damage to deal with. I can easily take a hit of 1000 once but not three times from a single group of three mobs. Thats simply silly and might not even be an issue with the DK itself but with game difficulty balance.

Some heavy attacks I receive are simply too strong along with their knockback and some dumb follow up attacks. Blocking them is sometimes not a valid option due to missing stamina used up to execute poor attacks.

Therefore I want to roflstomp everything now without using my brain at all. I need my brain to decide between the different chocolate to eat now as well as choosing between beer, coffee and coke and to think about some rant for this forum.

Well your problem is that you are using melee attacks. Those Sorc that are cruising a long are not using melee weapons either. You have to save all your stamina for blocking since it is the greatest form of mitigation in the game AND you can cast instants while keeping your block up.

The problem is not with your build, but with your mindset. You should be challenged by these groups of mobs in vet levels and they should require some effort to defeat.

The fact that some DKs and Sorcs can currently "roflstomp" these enemies is what's broken, not the fact that you can't.

rebellisb16_ESO wrote: »

When I understand you correctly, there is currently no valid melee build to play with but instead using class spells "only" while preserving stamina for just blocking attacks? Sounds like I picked the wrong class or even game...

In general, if you want to burst down packs of mobs asap, you need heavy AoE DPS. Currently the best sources of AoE DPS is arguably Impulse and its morphs. Combine that with perpetual blocking (for ultimate gain and mitigation) since Impulse an instant cast and its hard to argue against that as foundation for clearing packs.

There are plenty of melee builds that can successfully clear packs of mobs as well. They just will not do so as quickly.

Summary:
Melee can be successful in solo PvE, but the game substantially favors magicka based staff builds.

As an aside, Sorcerers do fine at taking down packs, but they are a fair bit weaker than DK's in comparison.

kirnmalidus wrote: »

rebellisb16_ESO wrote: »

When I understand you correctly, there is currently no valid melee build to play with but instead using class spells "only" while preserving stamina for just blocking attacks? Sounds like I picked the wrong class or even game...

If you are playing a Nightblade or Templar you can currently say you picked the wrong class. You won't find many agreeing with you as a DK.

There are NB`s soloing Craglorn too... stop trying to make them look weak.

As for the OP... CC helps... Magma Armor is also a God Mode for the duration...

NB are very powerful if you run into the wrong one. Cut you down to 58% hp within a few seconds in pvp at 3khp in heavy armor that is all purple.

Hello there,

thanks for all the offtopic and non-related advises and issues you brought up.
I am aware of some NB issues but yet this is not what I was initially was asking for nor was I asking for Vet12 Solo Trials bla bla.


I was looking for some helpful tips regarding my DK. From 20 posts I got two useful suggesting to use Ash Storm and Magma Armor as ultimate ability. I agree with you, @alexandru987eb17_ESO and @demonlkojipub19_ESO . Much appreciated. Well, guess I have to somehow integrate your rant into my build.