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dovakiin5574

Oh Alcast, how I did used to look up to you
But now, your builds make me feel blue
How great you used to be
But now all I see is cheap cheese
Oh how high my dps went
with your builds all packaged and sent
Now just a sad reminder
Of how other builds treat me kinder

Alcast

dovakiin5574 wrote: »

Oh Alcast, how I did used to look up to you
But now, your builds make me feel blue
How great you used to be
But now all I see is cheap cheese
Oh how high my dps went
with your builds all packaged and sent
Now just a sad reminder
Of how other builds treat me kinder

I do think you are trying to say that my builds helped you become a good player and now you are experienced enough to keep going without my help? That is great to hear!

Thanks for the feedback

dovakiin5574

Alcast wrote: »

dovakiin5574 wrote: »

Oh Alcast, how I did used to look up to you
But now, your builds make me feel blue
How great you used to be
But now all I see is cheap cheese
Oh how high my dps went
with your builds all packaged and sent
Now just a sad reminder
Of how other builds treat me kinder

I do think you are trying to say that my builds helped you become a good player and now you are experienced enough to keep going without my help? That is great to hear!

Thanks for the feedback

Yes I was really hoping to get a few lolz Nah man, your builds are cool. Back when I hit CP 250, your builds were the only thing getting me to Vet Trial level (minimum reqs 18k). The gear and skills you use is the best. I had to learn to tweak a little on CP and skill arrangement due to being a controller using scrub (yes controller on PC). And from your builds I have been able to "git gud" over time with practice and gaining the courage to experiment with CP and rotations.

People I know in game always copy your builds to a "T" and wonder why they can't get your same DPS. I like to say to them "Because you aren't Alcast", not as an insult of course. Not every single detail is going to work for all players. Not one of those types of players ever remember you saying "But you can also try X", they copy expecting that to immediately make them good.

Most notably, in my case, your 2 handed stamina sorc build has helped me a lot. I had been wanting to do that kind of build, then I saw your video. I took a lot from it, changed some too. Like 3 wrecking blows was slowing me down and decreasing my dps (likely a controller issue), so I changed to only 2 and that worked wonders.

After mastering that build, I took to building a 2 handed nightblade build. PTS results were great to say the least.

Point being, you are great and I am poor with humor lol

Alcast

dovakiin5574 wrote: »

Alcast wrote: »

dovakiin5574 wrote: »

Oh Alcast, how I did used to look up to you
But now, your builds make me feel blue
How great you used to be
But now all I see is cheap cheese
Oh how high my dps went
with your builds all packaged and sent
Now just a sad reminder
Of how other builds treat me kinder

I do think you are trying to say that my builds helped you become a good player and now you are experienced enough to keep going without my help? That is great to hear!

Thanks for the feedback

Yes I was really hoping to get a few lolz Nah man, your builds are cool. Back when I hit CP 250, your builds were the only thing getting me to Vet Trial level (minimum reqs 18k). The gear and skills you use is the best. I had to learn to tweak a little on CP and skill arrangement due to being a controller using scrub (yes controller on PC). And from your builds I have been able to "git gud" over time with practice and gaining the courage to experiment with CP and rotations.

People I know in game always copy your builds to a "T" and wonder why they can't get your same DPS. I like to say to them "Because you aren't Alcast", not as an insult of course. Not every single detail is going to work for all players. Not one of those types of players ever remember you saying "But you can also try X", they copy expecting that to immediately make them good.

Most notably, in my case, your 2 handed stamina sorc build has helped me a lot. I had been wanting to do that kind of build, then I saw your video. I took a lot from it, changed some too. Like 3 wrecking blows was slowing me down and decreasing my dps (likely a controller issue), so I changed to only 2 and that worked wonders.

After mastering that build, I took to building a 2 handed nightblade build. PTS results were great to say the least.

Point being, you are great and I am poor with humor lol

haha nice. Ye I am still working on stuff like that, in my opinion I do not create enough tutorial videos around my builds. With that I mean videos that help people UNDERSTAND why something is being done this way, why use this particular piece of set and so on.
I am also still unsure how to categorize those videos so people actually find them, youtube channel always hard to find a bit older videos if you do not look closely.

Cheers

Alcast

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Alcast

Added a new PVP build:
Magicka Damage PvP Build: https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-templar-build-pvp1/
https://youtu.be/6WZnv_NXDDA

Also added Buildvideos:
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Azurya

Thx!

DemiDemon

I have a question about your PVE warden builds. Which build would you suggest for a mostly solo player? I'm reading over them but I would like an opinion as well. I do dungeons from time to time but I'd love to be able to sustain myself as a warden while solo too.

Asardes

DemiDemon wrote: »

I have a question about your PVE warden builds. Which build would you suggest for a mostly solo player? I'm reading over them but I would like an opinion as well. I do dungeons from time to time but I'd love to be able to sustain myself as a warden while solo too.

Depends on what gear you have available. If you go stamina you can basically use any generic stamina sets, and still be able to solo most overland content as well as normal dungeons, some of the easier veteran ones as well as vMA. I picked stamina because magicka seemed pretty weak during the leveling process, damage wise. The build has basically all the major buffs and debuffs, healing, and the bear that draws some of the aggro from you. My build is the following:

Gear:
5 Hunding's Rage: heavy chest, light waist, medium legs all with stamina enchants, nirnhoned dagger main hand poison enchant, precise dagger off hand weapon damage enchant
5 Vicious Serpent: medium feet, hands with stamina enchants jewelry with physical damage enchants
2 Selene head and shoulder medium with stamina enchant
1 Maelstrom Bow infused with weapon damage enchant
*If you don't have Vicious Serpent or Maelstrom Bow you can run Spriggan and craft a Hunding bow instead also any other stamina DD monster set works well: Velidreth, Stormfist, Kra'gh, Meplala etc.

Skills:
Front Bar: Subterranean Assault | Shrouded Daggers | Deadly Cloak | Rearming Trap | Bull Netch || Wild Guardian
Back Bar: Razor Caltrops | Endless Hail | Poison Injection | Resolving Vigor | Green Lotus || Wild Guardian
*if you haven't unlocked Vigor and Caltrops yet you can use Soothing Spores and Arrow Spray respectively until you get them

Rotation:
Buff with Bull Netch and Green Lotus at the start and every 2nd rotation
Poison Injection -> LA -> Endless Hail -> LA -> Razor Caltrops -> Bar Swap -> Subterranean Assault -> HA -> Shrouded Daggers -> HA -> Deadly Cloak -> HA -> Subterranean Assault -> LA -> Rearming Trap -> bar swap [repeat]
*HA = heavy attack, LA = light attack

Alcast

DemiDemon wrote: »

I have a question about your PVE warden builds. Which build would you suggest for a mostly solo player? I'm reading over them but I would like an opinion as well. I do dungeons from time to time but I'd love to be able to sustain myself as a warden while solo too.

Do you want to play magicka or stamina? For Solo I do like Magicka warden, unique skills and a lot of passive/active heals. I think a magicka warden is more fun to play, you can do light attack rotation with the right setup and also very costumizable.

DemiDemon

This is gonna be a entirely new character, so I wont have anything at all besides what I can get. I just got Morrowind through buying Summerset so, going with a Warden on my Xbox One version.

Sparr0w

@DemiDemon Can do most overland & normal dungeons (non-dlc) with either a Stam 2H or Mag Shields - Obviously you could run more self healing to use DW or not run Shields.

Basically trying to say either is very viable for solo play, so long as you sacrafice a bit of DPS for survivability. Personally pulling 20-25K at cp260 while able to solo any non-Vet/II/DLC dungeon (e.g. Fungal Grotto 1/Selenes) running 2H Stam.

EDIT: Will you be on EU or NA server? If EU I can craft you some beginner gear to get you through to CP 150

DemiDemon

Sparr0w wrote: »

@DemiDemon Can do most overland & normal dungeons (non-dlc) with either a Stam 2H or Mag Shields - Obviously you could run more self healing to use DW or not run Shields.

Basically trying to say either is very viable for solo play, so long as you sacrafice a bit of DPS for survivability. Personally pulling 20-25K at cp260 while able to solo any non-Vet/II/DLC dungeon (e.g. Fungal Grotto 1/Selenes) running 2H Stam.

EDIT: Will you be on EU or NA server? If EU I can craft you some beginner gear to get you through to CP 150

I'm on NA but this account is on Xbox. I have PC and Xbox version so I can maybe play with some friends of mine on Xbox if they have it. So, hopefully you meant on the Xbox. XD

Sievertsv

hey alcast your builds have helped me get into eso a year ago and now im on the argonian stage in vma

can you tell me what skill rotation to use for the mag sorc vma beginner guide you have one for the end-game build

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-maelstrom-pve/

Alcast

Sievertsv wrote: »

hey alcast your builds have helped me get into eso a year ago and now im on the argonian stage in vma

can you tell me what skill rotation to use for the mag sorc vma beginner guide you have one for the end-game build

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-maelstrom-pve/

Hey, great! Soon you get to the last stage haha. I do not have a rotation there because I think in MSA its not that "useful". What you need to learn is:
1. Where to place DoTs where enemies will spawn.
2. If there are low health enemies do not reapply DoTs.

Yes for bossfights it might be useful but in the end you can take about the same rota as Mystic build aka:
Keep up all the DoTs and weave your spammable in between, keep up healing abilities and debuffs on the enemy.

Also, take sigils, it will make your life so much easier.

Alcast

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Creepsley

having lots of fun with the blooddrinker Stamblade build ^^ only thing its hell to lvl fighters guild :P but the alliance ranks was surprisingly easy to get ;-) 1 or 2 days and i was there ^^ now to get the gear though... ofc its from the hardest dungeons hehe

Alcast

Creepsley wrote: »

having lots of fun with the blooddrinker Stamblade build ^^ only thing its hell to lvl fighters guild :P but the alliance ranks was surprisingly easy to get ;-) 1 or 2 days and i was there ^^ now to get the gear though... ofc its from the hardest dungeons hehe

Niceeee, glad you like it I have not gotten that much feedback for those builds yet so I am unsure whether people like them or not. So I am actually glad that you like the build haha.

Ye about the monster set, I could leave an secondary option for a monster set that is easier to aquire if that would help? You can run any monster set basically, but I could defo put a 2nd option on the buildpage.

MakeMeUhSamich

@Alcast

Was wondering if you tweaked your Red CP to optimize for vMA like you do for group trials. If so, would you mind sharing it?

Thanks, as always!

Alcast

MakeMeUhSamich wrote: »

@Alcast

Was wondering if you tweaked your Red CP to optimize for vMA like you do for group trials. If so, would you mind sharing it?

Thanks, as always!

Hey, I usually just use the standard CP there like this:

The Lady
49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 62 Spellshield

Alcast

I added some prototype builds to my website for Summerset, keep in mind, things will most likely still change:

---Summerset Chapter---
PROTOTYPES
Magicka Dragonknight Heavy Armor PvP Build: https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-dragonknight-build-pvp-summerset/
Magicka Dragonknight Burst PvP Build: https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-dragonknight-burst-build-pvp-summerset/
Magicka Dragonknight PvE Build: https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-dragonknight-build-pve-summerset/
Magicka Sorcerer PvP Build: https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pvp-build1-summerset/

MakeMeUhSamich

Alcast wrote: »

MakeMeUhSamich wrote: »

@Alcast

Was wondering if you tweaked your Red CP to optimize for vMA like you do for group trials. If so, would you mind sharing it?

Thanks, as always!

Hey, I usually just use the standard CP there like this:

The Lady
49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed
81 Ironclad, 62 Spellshield

Cheers!

Bscott0905b14_ESO

There a stamblade rotation thats not as complex thats still decent pve dps?

Sievertsv

hey alcast do you have any build i can work towards for imperial city you have the homestead one is it still viable?

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pet-build-pvp-homestead/

im currently using gear setup 1 from this build except i dont have a maelstorm staff using a random shock staff

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pet-build-pve/

Alcast

Bscott0905b14_ESO wrote: »

There a stamblade rotation thats not as complex thats still decent pve dps?

Hey, if you have trouble with the full rotation, I recommend trying to use a one bar rotation only. So you want your spammable (Surprise Attack), Rending Slashes for dot that you apply every 10 seconds, deadly cloak that you reapply every 15 seconds and maybe the execute (Killers Blade)

You will loose a lot of dps tho if you do not utilize a second bar. What you also can try is only use ENdless Hail on the backbar and then swap back to the frontbar.
Or whats the biggest problems you have with the rotation? Is it the spectral bow?

Sievertsv wrote: »

hey alcast do you have any build i can work towards for imperial city you have the homestead one is it still viable?

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pet-build-pvp-homestead/

im currently using gear setup 1 from this build except i dont have a maelstorm staff using a random shock staff

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pet-build-pve/

I do not have a full Imperial City petbuild anymore no. At the moment I only have the "Wrath" magicka Sorc build, you could try to use the same gearsetup as Wrath but with the petbuild skills: https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pvp-build1/

Sievertsv

Sievertsv wrote: »

hey alcast do you have any build i can work towards for imperial city you have the homestead one is it still viable?

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pet-build-pvp-homestead/

im currently using gear setup 1 from this build except i dont have a maelstorm staff using a random shock staff

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pet-build-pve/

I do not have a full Imperial City petbuild anymore no. At the moment I only have the "Wrath" magicka Sorc build, you could try to use the same gearsetup as Wrath but with the petbuild skills: https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-sorcerer-pvp-build1/[/quote]

thanks for the fast reply that sounds good i really like your pet build skills i have been using it for quite some time i will experiment with the wrath skills as streak is tempting even for escaping pvp

hopefully wizard riposte is not hard to find in guild stores

Sparr0w

Bscott0905b14_ESO wrote: »

There a stamblade rotation thats not as complex thats still decent pve dps?

Just use a static rotation & spec bow when swapping on to and off front bar.

BC = Blade Cloak, RF = Relentless Focus, LS = Leeching Strikes, EH = Endless Hail, TB = Trap Beast, PI = Poison Injection, RS = Rending Slashes, KB = Killers Blade, la = Light Attack.

--Before Starting--
BC > RF > Swap
LS > EH > TB > la > Caltrops > la > PI > Swap
la > RS > la > SA > la > RF > la > SA > la > BC > Swap

--Rotation--
la > EH > la > TB > la > Caltrops > la > PI > Swap
la > RF > la > RS > la > SA > la > SA > la > BC > la > RF > Swap
(Every second rotation cast Leeching Strikes before switching bar, then only do 1x SA on the front bar. Swap SA for KB during execute, maybe drop BC for a KB too?)

Easier than constant bar swaps, sure you'll miss a Spectral bow and will over cast TB & Caltrops but its easier to get the hang of.

You could also drop TB/Caltrops and cast another la > SA on the front bar if it's DoT management you struggle with.

EDIT: sounds complex but really its just 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, swap, 5, 2, 3(1), 3(1), 4, 5, swap, 1, 2, 3, 4, swap, etc...

xKaSx7

Question.. Breton nb magica.. what sets should I be running I'm 170 cp. My sustain is great and all but I feel like my damage could go up. Oh and I'm level 22 too.. if that makes any difference. I'm all light armor too..

Asardes

At low levels go for crafted sets and random jewelry in the trait that mostly favors your build: arcane for magicka, robust for stamina. Don't bother upgrading past blue since you'll throw those away. One combo I use for a long time is 5 Hunding's Rage 4 Night Mother's Gaze for stamina, 5 Armor of the Seducer 3 Torug's Pact for magicka. I guess those combos can be starter sets at CP160+, until you can buy/farm the proper items. Note that sustain will be pretty tricky with low CP, so Seducer is not as bad as it looks.

Alcast

xKaSx7 wrote: »

Question.. Breton nb magica.. what sets should I be running I'm 170 cp. My sustain is great and all but I feel like my damage could go up. Oh and I'm level 22 too.. if that makes any difference. I'm all light armor too..

If your sustain is great, thats already worth a lot, because usually a lot of new players have a lot of sustain issues. Make sure to weave Light Attacks between all abilities. This will increase your damage by a lot. Start working on learning a easy rotation and you will increase your damage further and further