Since 1 Tam am unable to solo bosses

Loden111

I primarily play a Woodelf Templar using a bow and dual wield with a mix of heavy and light armor and maxed out on Magicka. My strategy when soloing higher mobs is to keep moving and gradually wear them down. In caves or other restricted areas that just doesn't work. In the past have simply leveled up and come back, but now, while I am able to solo sub-bosses and multiple soldiers, I am hitting the wall on soloing bosses in restricted areas. I am using a set of crafted armor, with purple, crafted weapons, all maxed out on Magicka enchantments.

I have watched other players since 1 Tam run up to the same bosses that hand me my butt, sliced and diced, and just go toe to toe with them. None of the ones I have seen used ranged attacks.

Do I just have my roll wrong for solo? My toon is built for magic damage dealing with a healing secondary and stealthy characteristics. Would soloing bosses be better done with a tank?

Joy_Division

Loden111 wrote: »

I primarily play a Woodelf Templar using a bow and dual wield with a mix of heavy and light armor and maxed out on Magicka. My strategy when soloing higher mobs is to keep moving and gradually wear them down. In caves or other restricted areas that just doesn't work. In the past have simply leveled up and come back, but now, while I am able to solo sub-bosses and multiple soldiers, I am hitting the wall on soloing bosses in restricted areas. I am using a set of crafted armor, with purple, crafted weapons, all maxed out on Magicka enchantments.

I have watched other players since 1 Tam run up to the same bosses that hand me my butt, sliced and diced, and just go toe to toe with them. None of the ones I have seen used ranged attacks.

Do I just have my roll wrong for solo? My toon is built for magic damage dealing with a healing secondary and stealthy characteristics. Would soloing bosses be better done with a tank?

Sounds like youa re trying to play a hybrid build which do not work very well atm. Bows and magicka enchantments, with ix of light and heavy armor means your build has no focus, which is what works best for ESO since the 1.6 patch.

CasNation

Yeah, your build sounds like it is bad. I mean, if it works for you, then there is nothing wrong with using it, but the other players you see are likely using stronger builds designed to output more damage and stay alive longer.

Besides, the world bosses are balanced for 2-3 people now. So, while a skilled player can still solo them, they are designed to be tackled as a group.

I would suggest reading up on some magicka templar theorycrafting to hone your build, or bring a friend to world boss fights. There are also sure to be people in zone willing to help out.

leepalmer95

Not sure why your using a bow when your a magplar.

Go either stamina or magika and google a build if you need too.

kadar

Loden111 wrote: »

I primarily play a Woodelf Templar using a bow and dual wield with a mix of heavy and light armor and maxed out on Magicka. My strategy when soloing higher mobs is to keep moving and gradually wear them down. In caves or other restricted areas that just doesn't work. In the past have simply leveled up and come back, but now, while I am able to solo sub-bosses and multiple soldiers, I am hitting the wall on soloing bosses in restricted areas. I am using a set of crafted armor, with purple, crafted weapons, all maxed out on Magicka enchantments.

I have watched other players since 1 Tam run up to the same bosses that hand me my butt, sliced and diced, and just go toe to toe with them. None of the ones I have seen used ranged attacks.

Do I just have my roll wrong for solo? My toon is built for magic damage dealing with a healing secondary and stealthy characteristics. Would soloing bosses be better done with a tank?

Yeah, the thing about hybrid builds (uses both magicka and stamina) is they end up being mediocre at everything and excellent at nothing (there are very few exceptions). I mean, someone who can spec for full Magicka damage with weapons that scale off Magicka is going to do much more damage than someone who has some Magicka and some Stamina characteristics.

Basically because you're using Bow and DW, but full magicka gear-wise, your Bow/DW skills and attacks are not doing any damage. Those abilities only get stronger from Stamina and weapon damage.

And like someone pointed out, the strategy of leaving and coming back at a higher level doesn't work anymore because of the way everything is scaled to CP160 now. So instead of beating the boss because you're a higher level than it, you need to find a way to be more effective while at the same level as the boss.

WhiteMage

Unable to solo world bosses? Sounds like WAI.

TheElf

I've discovered myself that these hybrid builds that I, too, am fond of, have gone the way of the dodo. ZOS seems to want to condone these cookie cutter builds, which really sucks because one of ESO's selling points (for me) pre-release was that it was less focused on defined classes and inline with other ES games where you could "live another life in another world" and be whatever you wanted.

I'm still struggling and I respec'd my khajiit nightblade from a heavy magicka build to a stamina build. I'm doing more DPS but...my survivability is still crap. I'm basically either cheesing enemies or getting lucky and someone else is showing up to help.

F*** me, right, for not having gotten any of my characters to level 50 and having 6,320 CP to deposit in my alts? I liked ESO's PvE because it felt like a more updated, expansive Elder Scrolls VI game. Now...it just feels like I have to be a tryhard pro MMO player to do anything solo.

MalakithAlamahdi

If you want a cheap magplar build that can solo next to every open world boss (and non vet dungeon bosses), just get 7 heavy, 5 kag, 4 magnus, 3 willpower. Bosses are still easy imo

lolo_01b16_ESO

Loden111 wrote: »

I primarily play a Woodelf Templar using a bow and dual wield with a mix of heavy and light armor and maxed out on Magicka. My strategy when soloing higher mobs is to keep moving and gradually wear them down. In caves or other restricted areas that just doesn't work. In the past have simply leveled up and come back, but now, while I am able to solo sub-bosses and multiple soldiers, I am hitting the wall on soloing bosses in restricted areas. I am using a set of crafted armor, with purple, crafted weapons, all maxed out on Magicka enchantments.

Oh, those memories. That's exactly how I played whten the game launched. But unfortunatelly it doesn't work that well anymore, so better take some of the advise others posted here and change your build a bit.

Sallington

"Play how you want" is mostly an illusions since 1.6 when they removed softcaps. You need to focus on one branch of the trinity (dps, healing, tanking) to be effective in harder content.

kadar

Sallington wrote: »

"Play how you want" is mostly an illusions since 1.6 when they removed softcaps. You need to focus on one branch of the trinity (dps, healing, tanking) to be effective in harder content.

I like to think the concept still holds true and I admire people who find a way to play however they want and still be effective...It's just pretty difficult the way the game is set up atm.

Sallington

The_Outsider wrote: »

Sallington wrote: »

"Play how you want" is mostly an illusions since 1.6 when they removed softcaps. You need to focus on one branch of the trinity (dps, healing, tanking) to be effective in harder content.

I like to think the concept still holds true and I admire people who find a way to play however they want and still be effective...It's just pretty difficult the way the game is set up atm.

You can still play however you want for sure, and you can come up with some fun builds. You just can't complete all the content however you want.

Which is how it should be, imo.

DHale

Wow not good. Bow and duel wield you should be maxed in stam and have nothing in magic. You should have no light armor no heavy armor and wear 7 pieces in medium armor. The skills you can run is biting jabs stam morph stam javelin, focus rune the one that gives you damage reduction and repentance and extended ritual and that is really it. The rest will be weapon skills.

m2super_ESO

TheElf wrote: »

I'm still struggling and I respec'd my khajiit nightblade from a heavy magicka build to a stamina build. I'm doing more DPS but...my survivability is still crap. I'm basically either cheesing enemies or getting lucky and someone else is showing up to help.

2h and DW have ability morphs that heal, you will need to take these to make soloing more efficient/doable.

Phelaen

Since T1 world bosses on a new toon are no fun and sometimes just not possible to do
before T1 you make a new toon, ebonheart for me and i get to stonefalls and you can solo the 2 world bosses there on pretty much any type of character.
now though with a new toon, even with over 200 cp they hit way harder and they have 2m HP
giving everything way more HP doesnt make it more fun, just more tedious and since a new toon is not doing high dps yet, because of missing passives, it sucks to do these now.