1h and shield skills questions?

SameMeteor26 · January 2017

What's the difference between puncture, low slash, and power bash. Their all instant, spammable dps right? So which one should I use? They all seem to be the same with a few minor differences like stunning and adding minor effects.

Airyus · January 2017

Those minor effects are why you choose between them. Do you want to stun? Heal debuff? Gain ultimate? Lower resistances? Not really meant for a only doing damage, they are all utility skills. Hope that helps.

SameMeteor26 · January 2017

Airyus wrote: »

Those minor effects are why you choose between them. Do you want to stun? Heal debuff? Gain ultimate? Lower resistances? Not really meant for a only doing damage, they are all utility skills. Hope that helps.

Yeah lol I guess I am kinda blind.

akl77 · January 2017

All of 1h and shield abilities are meant to be used if you are a specifically Tank role in a group dungeon. If you want to play DPS, do not use 1h and shield abilities, they are not doing any real damages, or your group will take forever to fight a boss, forever.

UrQuan · January 2017

akl77 wrote: »

All of 1h and shield abilities are meant to be used if you are a specifically Tank role in a group dungeon. If you want to play DPS, do not use 1h and shield abilities, they are not doing any real damages, or your group will take forever to fight a boss, forever.

Especially especially especially don't ever use Puncture in a group dungeon if you're not the tank. It's a taunt. In ESO the only way to reliably hold aggro and keep something from attacking other people (which is the main job of the tank) is to use a taunt. If you taunt a boss that the tank already has taunted, you can give that boss taunt immunity, which means that the tank loses control of it and it will just go and attack whoever it wants to attack.

In other words, if you're not the tank and you're in a group dungeon using Puncture, you can be the direct cause of your group wiping.

SameMeteor26 · January 2017

UrQuan wrote: »

akl77 wrote: »

All of 1h and shield abilities are meant to be used if you are a specifically Tank role in a group dungeon. If you want to play DPS, do not use 1h and shield abilities, they are not doing any real damages, or your group will take forever to fight a boss, forever.

Especially especially especially don't ever use Puncture in a group dungeon if you're not the tank. It's a taunt. In ESO the only way to reliably hold aggro and keep something from attacking other people (which is the main job of the tank) is to use a taunt. If you taunt a boss that the tank already has taunted, you can give that boss taunt immunity, which means that the tank loses control of it and it will just go and attack whoever it wants to attack.

In other words, if you're not the tank and you're in a group dungeon using Puncture, you can be the direct cause of your group wiping.

I never done a dungeon so it's good to know