Help me create a Dunmer Fire Mage?

Bam_Bam

Hi. Here's a bit of a challnge that has got me stumped - I want to make a Dark Elf "Fire Mage"

By that, I mean I just want to use destro fire staff (and resto on back bar) so I can make use of all the awesome Dunmer fire passives.

However, when it comes to gear sets, it starts to get tricky. There are some brilliant fire-bonus sets out the'r but where they have excellent damage opportuities, they seem to come up short in other areas such as sustain.

Baras' Big Burning Bastid Build - the idea

Lots and lots of fire damage. LOTS OF IT. Fire. Burning. Melting. Scorching. - That's what we are aiming for. MAX CINDER-ella.

I will use use Burning Spell Weave as the 'base' set - 5 pieces on the body - so that I always have the 'fire mage' thing going on.

Burning Spellweave
(2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka

(3 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(4 items) Adds 833 Spell Critical

(5 items) When you deal damage with a Flame Damage ability, you have a 15% chance to apply the burning status effect to the enemy and gain 525 Spell Damage for 8 seconds. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds.


All destros staves used will also be inferno and flame enchanted.

Now it starts getting a bit more tricky. I've spent the morning buying and upgrading the following sets using thesepieces: Head, Neck, Ring, Ring, Destro and Resto.

Elf Bane
(2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka

(3 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(4 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(5 items) Increases the duration of your Flame Damage abilities by 2 seconds.

Problem with this set is that it is heavy armour and healthy jewellry. It's a shame as the set details are really nice. Next...

Queens Elegance
(2 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(3 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka

(4 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka

(5 items) Increases your Light and Heavy Attack damage by 20%.

The max magicka and spell damage really help to sell this. However, it lacks any crit or regen/reduction

War Maiden
(2 items) Adds 833 Spell Critical

(3 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka

(4 Items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(5 Items) Adds 400 Spell Damage to your Magic Damage abilities

I've used this a lot on Magblade with great success - would it work as well with sorc though? Again - sustain is left wanting.

Spinners Raiments
(2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka

(3 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka

(4 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(5 items) Adds 3450 Spell Penetration

Very nice - a c;assic - but again, lacking sustain

Alteration Mastery
(2 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery

(3 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery

(4 items) Adds 833 Spell Critical

(5 items) Reduces the cost of all of your abilities by 6%.

This is one of my favourite sets - but this time I think I'd prefer to use something different for a change. LOL.

I also have Lich, SPC, Shackle Breaker (body pieces only) available - but may lack some bits to make it work around the BSW base set up.

Any ideas or suggestions - please throw them at me (preferably not connected to a brick). Thankee, Bara

dodgehopper_ESO

I just wanted to let you know the War Maiden big buff (5pc) 400 Magic Damage bonus only applies untyped magical damage like Fetcherflies, Funnel Health, Puncturing Sweeps, etc.

Bam_Bam

Awwwwww. That's sad to hear. Thanks for the heads up though - yo umay have just saved me from a huge mistake!

Still, I'm sure there is something else out there that can be used. I'll keep experimenting

Subversus

I summon @DDuke !!

He has the PERFECT (literally !!!) build for you. It focuses ONLY on fire damage. It has insane burst, is a dunmer and uses a destro/resto setup. It is also arguably one of the strongest magdk setups you can play this patch.

Turelus

Baranthus wrote: »

Awwwwww. That's sad to hear. Thanks for the heads up though - yo umay have just saved me from a huge mistake!

Still, I'm sure there is something else out there that can be used. I'll keep experimenting

There is a fire specific one which is Silks of the Sun however it has a health bonus rather than crit for the first bonus.

Minno

Subversus wrote: »

I summon @DDuke !!

He has the PERFECT (literally !!!) build for you. It focuses ONLY on fire damage. It has insane burst, is a dunmer and uses a destro/resto setup. It is also arguably one of the strongest magdk setups you can play this patch.

i got you:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/387955/pyromancer-magicka-dk-pvp-build-destro-resto/p1

GimpyPorcupine

I run Elf Bane (Jewelry, Chest, Legs), Silks of the Sun (4 on staff, 5 on DW), and Valkyn Skoria on a Dunmer DK. A full rotation is Molten Armaments, Green Dragon Blood, Proxy Det, Eruption, Eye of the Flame, Unstable Wall, bar swap, Empowering Chains to gap close, then burning embers and whips for everybody that's still alive, bar swapping as needed to reapply Wall, Proxy, Eruption. Also Igneous Shield on the melee bar, hit that and immediately refresh Embers for a huge heal. (Because Burning Embers is really a low-mana "heal me later").

When soloing trash mobs, if I aggro the nearest with the far edge of Eruption then lay down Wall, they generally die while running slowly towards me through 2 AOE DOTs, which almost always procs Skoria.

I got a nice skin from a flame atronach crate, can't remember the name, and I wear that and the Nordic Bather's Towel for the full-on Fire Mage look. I just wish my Skoria hat would show.

Jjitsuboy98

Sun or BSW front bar with eyes of mara back bar. Or lich back bar could work.

Bam_Bam

I am not worthy. You fine folk ROCK - thank you so so so so SO much!!!!

SugaComa

You just go balls to the walls with a four piece necropotence reduced cost glyphs

And then throw on grothdar monster set