Hey, I have a couple questions for you guys:
1. Does the shade proc enchantments? I’m wondering if it’s worth worrying about the enchantment on my resto bar
2. What’s the min recovery I should aim for in a dps dark cloak build? 1950 mag recovery enough?
Hey, I have a couple questions for you guys:
1. Does the shade proc enchantments? I’m wondering if it’s worth worrying about the enchantment on my resto bar
2. What’s the min recovery I should aim for in a dps dark cloak build? 1950 mag recovery enough?
Live in stealth. A sorc that doesn't see you is a dead sorc. No rotation -no shields = little puddle of blue goo. This is not true of DKs. Make sure lolz.
Be a troll to the BIS/meta endorsing/watchwestreammyself ball groups. Kill camp. Kill person sent to put up camp. Kill siege. Kill healer from stealth with SA in the middle of the group. Take out the stamblade with the scroll. Put time stop on their 30 man siege and watch them die to your mate's 2 oils. Get them to the point that a tiny whisper of a red path causes them to pull off siege and run around foaming at the mouth. Good fun.
Scout for your faction. Always hilarious to watch some uber enemy leader person spend 10 mins sneaking up to a door to find the faction waiting. I like to sit on rocks in the sun outside their keeps and hollar when they start struggling into the goat path. There's a few people on Ep I am not fond of who like to zerg solo players. Since my own faction is usually too outnumbered to take care of it I helpfully come out of stealth and indicate where they are to Ad, before disappearing again. Occasionally I sit up in a high place and do this with a fire siege. Running right into a group of enemies you don't like with the other enemy faction chasing you is also great -especially if they don't have line of sight until they go over the top of a hill.
Pack up with other blades and sit in a field between your keep and the enemy. Let them go past. Mark the moron spamming mutagen & healing the grass... Killing stamblades is also super easy as we know where they will be...guard your siege line.
Point of difference? It's a lot of fun. Totally nerfed to the ground. Unplayable. Paper-in-the-rain vulnerable. But hilarious. Given that choice and cookie cutter meta BIS playing...PURGE NOW < just no.
So I’m looking to tweak my build a little bit. This is my BG build, and I did some during prime time yesterday. There were lots of premades (moreso then during the day) and I want to see if I can up the damage for times when I’m in a low dps group:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=131568
I’d say I’m 50% healing 50% damage.
Harness magicka instead of rapid regen. With full stacks of merciless and dark cloak harness magicka is great.
I've found too that with enough +healing modifiers and sanctuary my dark cloak ticks for 1k per second in pvp non-crit. It's pretty nice, without harness magicka though if 2-3 people are on me my health never regens and it's hard to get out of execute range. I've also noticed with sanctuary I'll rarely break 1 million healing, but I think that's because it boosts everyone's self healing. Definitely not a build that's good for impressive stats, but it's effective.
Thinking of going troll king instead of pirate skelly, IDK. I want more punch, kill stealing off people is good, but if your group lacks damage I'd like to contribute more offensively.
GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
I’ve been trying to get a buddy of mine to run SPC+Transmitation+Troll King for our small group.
The stats actually look decent on the build editor
GhostofDatthaw wrote: »GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
I’ve been trying to get a buddy of mine to run SPC+Transmitation+Troll King for our small group.
The stats actually look decent on the build editor
That's what I ran it for, a small group in cyro. It works well and is honestly a great back bar or front bar only set.
GhostofDatthaw wrote: »GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
I’ve been trying to get a buddy of mine to run SPC+Transmitation+Troll King for our small group.
The stats actually look decent on the build editor
That's what I ran it for, a small group in cyro. It works well and is honestly a great back bar or front bar only set.
SPC body, Transmutation jewls+Ice staff front bar, Black Rose Resto Back bar.
Ice WoE, Combat prayer, major vitality, crit resist, health recovery, +group DMG, 6 man fear, execute. Group major protection. Nutty
GhostofDatthaw wrote: »GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
I’ve been trying to get a buddy of mine to run SPC+Transmitation+Troll King for our small group.
The stats actually look decent on the build editor
That's what I ran it for, a small group in cyro. It works well and is honestly a great back bar or front bar only set.
SPC body, Transmutation jewls+Ice staff front bar, Black Rose Resto Back bar.
Ice WoE, Combat prayer, major vitality, crit resist, health recovery, +group DMG, 6 man fear, execute. Group major protection. Nutty
This is similar to what I used to run, but add bright throat.
I dropped an ice staff back bar and WoE ever since the snare was remove. Now I run fire because there are still a lot of vampires in pvp.
GhostofDatthaw wrote: »GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
I’ve been trying to get a buddy of mine to run SPC+Transmitation+Troll King for our small group.
The stats actually look decent on the build editor
That's what I ran it for, a small group in cyro. It works well and is honestly a great back bar or front bar only set.
SPC body, Transmutation jewls+Ice staff front bar, Black Rose Resto Back bar.
Ice WoE, Combat prayer, major vitality, crit resist, health recovery, +group DMG, 6 man fear, execute. Group major protection. Nutty
This is similar to what I used to run, but add bright throat.
I dropped an ice staff back bar and WoE ever since the snare was remove. Now I run fire because there are still a lot of vampires in pvp.
Maybe I’m uninformed but I thought the snare just got toned down? Not removed.
I actually thought about running that as well for my supportblade, but ended up going with bloodspawn in stead of TK, and Bright Throat in stead of SPC since it gives better stats. I always used to play as a full on healtank, but I got a bit bored of that and am now trying a hybrid dd/heal. So I went for Bright-Throat on body, Trans jewels (3 protective) and inferno staff, Blackrose resto and Bloodspawn.GhostofDatthaw wrote: »What do you healer/support blades think about SPC? I see yall saying you want to contribute more in damage. It's a good base stat set with a decent proc rate. I honestly used to run it with necro and funnel health (pre nerf) for a while.
I’ve been trying to get a buddy of mine to run SPC+Transmitation+Troll King for our small group.
The stats actually look decent on the build editor
Yea, mixing damage and healing is more fun. I’d add impale if you do BGs though and having an aoe is useful.
Impale alone can get you up to 10 kills in a BG and get you a win in a close game. I thought about swallow but there are too many pets so I’ve stuck with a BRP destro. I’m thinking of changing some things up for more punch, I’m not sure what to do.
I tried adding lotus fan yesterday but only did a couple BGs so am not sure if it’s a better build yet.
Yea I have been using impale and it works well. And swallow soul is the best single target spammable for me. I need the selfheals from it and it puts good pressure on the enemy, while getting me ult gen and giving me the siphoning passive for extra damage. I don't like adding another AoE because in such a build it literally is just fluff damage to inflate your score and is easily healed through.Yea, mixing damage and healing is more fun. I’d add impale if you do BGs though and having an aoe is useful.
Impale alone can get you up to 10 kills in a BG and get you a win in a close game. I thought about swallow but there are too many pets so I’ve stuck with a BRP destro. I’m thinking of changing some things up for more punch, I’m not sure what to do.
I tried adding lotus fan yesterday but only did a couple BGs so am not sure if it’s a better build yet.
I tried proxy det with lotus once in cyrodiil. It was hard to time it well, maybe because of the clunkiness of lotus? I’m still getting used to lotus and haven’t figured out yet what makes it so clunky.
Prox det makes a distinctive sound and that alone might be great for a healer. Like pirate smelly where when someone sees the skeleton animation they give up, do something similar with det so people run away.
Yea I have been using impale and it works well. And swallow soul is the best single target spammable for me. I need the selfheals from it and it puts good pressure on the enemy, while getting me ult gen and giving me the siphoning passive for extra damage. I don't like adding another AoE because in such a build it literally is just fluff damage to inflate your score and is easily healed through.Yea, mixing damage and healing is more fun. I’d add impale if you do BGs though and having an aoe is useful.
Impale alone can get you up to 10 kills in a BG and get you a win in a close game. I thought about swallow but there are too many pets so I’ve stuck with a BRP destro. I’m thinking of changing some things up for more punch, I’m not sure what to do.
I tried adding lotus fan yesterday but only did a couple BGs so am not sure if it’s a better build yet.
What I do when I want to burst someone is: build up merciless stacks with light attack + swallow soul, proc infused berserk glyph on backbar, switch front bar and use lotus fan, pop ice comet, fear, merciless resolve and impale right as ice comet meteor hits. I regulary blow people up or get them to execute range with this, and its hard for them to escape. Its also amazing when a group is stacked. Jump in, meteor, fear and then they all get blasted. Then pop out to range again, heal and finish people off. I was in doubt about meteor because of the cost, but with swallow soul as spammable, pot passive and bloodspawn it is up really fast.
I want more punch, kill stealing off people is good, but if your group lacks damage I'd like to contribute more offensively.
That’s why I like having a damage option
Very strong heals, decent damage and good mitigation. I feel like I am constantly doing everything, which makes it very engaging.
Yea, mixing damage and healing is more fun.
And swallow soul is the best single target spammable for me. I need the selfheals from it and it puts good pressure on the enemy, while getting me ult gen and giving me the siphoning passive for extra damage.
exeeter702 wrote: »I want more punch, kill stealing off people is good, but if your group lacks damage I'd like to contribute more offensively.That’s why I like having a damage optionVery strong heals, decent damage and good mitigation. I feel like I am constantly doing everything, which makes it very engaging.Yea, mixing damage and healing is more fun.And swallow soul is the best single target spammable for me. I need the selfheals from it and it puts good pressure on the enemy, while getting me ult gen and giving me the siphoning passive for extra damage.
exeeter702 wrote: »I want more punch, kill stealing off people is good, but if your group lacks damage I'd like to contribute more offensively.That’s why I like having a damage optionVery strong heals, decent damage and good mitigation. I feel like I am constantly doing everything, which makes it very engaging.Yea, mixing damage and healing is more fun.And swallow soul is the best single target spammable for me. I need the selfheals from it and it puts good pressure on the enemy, while getting me ult gen and giving me the siphoning passive for extra damage.