Linaleah wrote: »

pink_panther wrote: »

Raideen wrote: »

I don't weave, I hate the playstyle and because of that I can't seem to get my DPS much above 20k. I have read tutorials out the wazzoo, copied builds from popular players/streamers/you tubers, golded entire sets (sans rings/neck), placed CP points according to tuts and I have a low ping and I still can't get much above 20k, not on my sorc, not on my templar, not on anything.

I really don't want to be rude and what you are doing is fine for normal content but If you don't like the Playstyle why Play at all?

Weaving will never be removed and it is necessary to keep combat fluently. Also you burn through your ressources a lot faster If you don't weave.

Hope you really never enter vet content.
Also I doubt you could have really copied any end game build because to get the gear you would have to play vet trials and arenas. With 20k dps it would have been Impossible unless you bought carry runs. I get 20 k If I Just use my spamable and maybe 1 dot.

Weaving isn't hard just learn and try it or stay with casual content.

hey, did you know that gear drops in... normal trials as well? and that you can still copy an end game build WITHOUT perfected sets? and many builds call for sets that drop in trials that existed before perfected set thing, so there ARE no perfected sets? did you know that farming on normal and then simply upgrading from blue is faster AND easier and most people prefer i when it comes to sets that do not have perfected versions? (and many builds also offer alternative setups with world drops/dungeon/crafted sets)

yes, weaving is part of this game. unfortunately. I say unfortunately, because not everyone can do it. yes even with practice.

Honestly you can equip some basic sets and so just fine. All that trials gear is only really necessary for score pushing and leaderboards only. Certain skins and achievements may also be out of reach as well like speedrun and hard modes where dps checks are very real in some dungeons, but in basic stuff you can pass 50k DPS easily and clear all content with a little bit of practice.

Stam toons you can pair Hundings with Briarheart or Spriggans. Hundings is craftable, Spriggans and Briarheart are easy to get at traders. Throw on whatever 2 piece you want or 2x 1 piece monster sets. You can actually get Kra’gh monster set really easily with a half competent tank that can control the boss in fungal grotto.

Mag toon you can use Julianos and mother’s sorrow and hit solid numbers. Mothers sorrow may cost you a bit of gold because it’s in demand. You could always use seducer or inate axiom in its place and still get ok numbers. Again use whatever 2pc set you want. Maw is an easy enough set to get as well, don’t be scared by that final boss, you don’t have to do hard mode to get it so a competent tank can stack everything while the group burns. I’ve seen tanks pull low dps players through that dungeon Single handedly.byou could settle for slimecraw set also. Wayrest sewers is even more simple.

The rest is getting your bars properly setup and learning how to pace the LA’s and skills. I find more people button mash in a panic which causes more problems than being too slow on the inputs. Stay smooth even if it’s slow. La-skill-la-skill-la-skill-swap-la-skill-la-skill. Just keep following the rotation. Some builds have 1 bar rotations where you take swap out of the equation. I’ve even seen a Stamden build using 2 buffs and 2 skills only hitting 60K. Of course that’s on an 810 in perfected gear with proper CP allocation but even in basic gear it should still hit 25-30K easily.

So where I am CP640 wearing hunding/briar on Stamden with Sellistrix, I come in at 58k. Stamblade hunding/briar with Selene is 56k. Magplar with MS/juli 1pc balrogh 1pc slimecraw hits 63k. MagDK with ms/juli and maw 68k.

You don’t need the trials gear to hit big numbers. But you do need the proper enchants in the gear and a good solid rotation. You’ve also got to be using food and drinking pots along the way.

Rigurt the Brash.
I can't help it, everytime I see him appear in another chapter/dlc I just have to chuckle at the mishaps we've gone through and I go ahead and help him through his next poorly planned (but well intentioned) scheme. Seeing him pop up every so often as I go world traveling always brings a smile to my face.



Otherwise I'd say Naryu Virian. (I know I know, everyone seems to like her...) But she was the first npc I met (my first character started with the morrowind training scenario) so we had a special connection from the start, and helping her (and vice versa) throughout the quests has been very fun. That and I love her attitude towards life in general.

I loved to hate General Tanval Indoril from Stonefalls as an ally. He was so arrogantly certain that he was doing the right thing while my Vestige was like "Hold up, using necromancy ancestral worship to unleash a volcano is generally what the bad guys do..."

I really enjoyed getting to know Valsirenn and Iachesis from Summerset. Valsirenn is older and has experienced loss that deeply effected her, yet she handles it much more maturely than most of ESO's characters with similar backstories. Likewise, Iachesis was a refreshing subversion of the "wise old mentor" and a notable contrast to the attitude of his two most famous students: Mannimarco and Venus Galerion.

There are other characters I liked. Eveli's bubbly naivete was a fantastic foil for my older, bitter Vestige in Orsinium. Aranias finding fulfillment as the Wilderqueen instead of the Veiled Heritance. Queen Marsha holding the Covenant together in the background. I could go on and on.

But those are the ones who made the biggest difference in my characters' stories.

Drake of Blades is the best character in the game.

Best example of a sensitive person trying to be (and succeeding at) being a badass I've seen.


Runner up would be Velsa of the Thieves Guild.

Tough gal with a heart of gold.