Cheesiest build?

Lumenn

Like many others here I've played for some years(almost 8 for me) and have at times seen or even run some pretty cheesy builds to humorous ends, many that wouldn't work anymore. Yes, I know many will claim the (soon to be nerfed?) HA sorc build but I was curious, over the years what's the cheesiest build you've ever run, even for laughs?

Mine would probably be frozen watcher and leeching on a warden built for health, s&b/ice staff. Solo'd my way through Falkreath almost just blocking.(it did take 20-25 minutes but I won that bet)

So what's the cheesiest build you've run(even if it wouldn't work now?)

SkaiFaith

Not really cheesy but I think I remember Thunderbug Carapace and Storm Knight were scaling on max health back then and doing lots of damage. I used both together and crancked up health. Just for laughs I was aggroing public dungeons and standing still waiting for npcs to basically kill themselves XD this was before Companions and it was quite useful for gathering in peace.

With that setup, one time I was surrounded in a public dungeon, my internet dropped and last thing I saw was me alone standing still and getting hits. Usually in these situations when you log back in you are dead... Well, I was alive and I had to collect the drop of all the npcs' dead bodies. That's been fun 😂. Sadly got nerfed...

Tyrant_Tim

Update 35, a Dragonknight using Oakensoul, Witch Knight and Corrosive Armor with a Vateshran Bow.

https://youtu.be/C_wQ0Q53EL4

Necrotech_Master

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Not really cheesy but I think I remember Thunderbug Carapace and Storm Knight were scaling on max health back then and doing lots of damage. I used both together and crancked up health. Just for laughs I was aggroing public dungeons and standing still waiting for npcs to basically kill themselves XD this was before Companions and it was quite useful for gathering in peace.

With that setup, one time I was surrounded in a public dungeon, my internet dropped and last thing I saw was me alone standing still and getting hits. Usually in these situations when you log back in you are dead... Well, I was alive and I had to collect the drop of all the npcs' dead bodies. That's been fun 😂. Sadly got nerfed...

i used to use thunderbug back in the day too, back when certain skills like flurry could proc thunderbug on each hit lol

i remember being in cyrodiil doing the bruma dolmen and some NB tried to gank me, but they basically ended up killing themselves when they hit me with flurry and thunderbug procd hitting them 5 times with thunderbug during the 1 second channel lol

ive always used leeching plate for afk tanks, along with a set that does a shield

my 2nd acct toon runs shadowrend + leeching plate + hatchling shell and with that setup can almost basically facetank easier dungeons (i even dual boxed fungal 1 using a healer and my afk tank, i just occasionally hit taunt on the tank and just stood there, and used the healer to top him off between shield procs (this was back before hatchling shell was changed, when it granted a dmg shield every 15 sec as opposed to on hit, honestly its actually better now lol)

this toon is also a sorc, so i have shadowrend proc, twilight, and scamp pets along with leeching plate, i usually use this acct for extra farming such as witches festival lol

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Turtle_Bot

Had a funny moment back when there was the bug that made people constantly crash on the 2nd (or 3rd) last round of DSA, I was running a leeching plate + crimson DK tank, and despite the game constantly crashing on that round my character just couldn't die. I was completing DSA while being DC'd from the game.

Twig_Garlicshine

Cheesiest?

DK wearing gear, any weapon, any spec.


I never play mine.
Bored as soon as I start.

merpins

There was this video floating around a few years ago of this group tackling the hard mode Vet Bloodroot Forge last boss, and doing so i under 10 seconds with a highly curated combination of sets and abilities. Dunno if that's cheese exactly, since it probably took several months of preparation and practice to pull it off. But it was impressive.

Lumenn

merpins wrote: »

There was this video floating around a few years ago of this group tackling the hard mode Vet Bloodroot Forge last boss, and doing so i under 10 seconds with a highly curated combination of sets and abilities. Dunno if that's cheese exactly, since it probably took several months of preparation and practice to pull it off. But it was impressive.

Keep in mind I actually consider any build that works as valid. "Cheese" might just be what makes you laugh, makes things easier etc. A lot of prep for a great finished product? Considering my favorite saying is measure twice, cut once I'd say it's solid.

Even the HA that was so controversial recently took a specific class leveled to a certain cp lvl with the right dlc, scrying skill leveled up, leads hunted down and found, the right gear farmed and correctly traited, and still had a (slower) rotation.

lironBD

I'm not the expert but by far the most cheesiest I got is:

Arcanist \ Stamina \ Medium Armor \ 2h Weapon \ Fighters guild
Hexo's Ward, Briarheart, Iceheart
There is champion point skills that:
1. heal you 7% of the damage done
2. AOE oblivion damage on kill
3. extra strength to shields + extra damage to shields.

So it's basicly the weapon and armor buffs on the backbar from arcanist tree,
Stempede to proc weapon damage glyph
Flail hentai thingie to boost damage, at this stage you have 3 crux up
Death beam

Nothing will ever kill you except mechanics with 50k+ damage.
Constant shields up more than your HP and you insta heal all the time.
Massive AOE damage.
You get most buffs from skills and passives.
Never ever get out of resources.

LittlePinkDot

lironBD wrote: »

I'm not the expert but by far the most cheesiest I got is:

Arcanist \ Stamina \ Medium Armor \ 2h Weapon \ Fighters guild
Hexo's Ward, Briarheart, Iceheart
There is champion point skills that:
1. heal you 7% of the damage done
2. AOE oblivion damage on kill
3. extra strength to shields + extra damage to shields.

So it's basicly the weapon and armor buffs on the backbar from arcanist tree,
Stempede to proc weapon damage glyph
Flail hentai thingie to boost damage, at this stage you have 3 crux up
Death beam

Nothing will ever kill you except mechanics with 50k+ damage.
Constant shields up more than your HP and you insta heal all the time.
Massive AOE damage.
You get most buffs from skills and passives.
Never ever get out of resources.

How would you get hit by the beam though? You can just dodge out of the way.

lironBD

LittlePinkDot wrote: »

lironBD wrote: »

I'm not the expert but by far the most cheesiest I got is:

Arcanist \ Stamina \ Medium Armor \ 2h Weapon \ Fighters guild
Hexo's Ward, Briarheart, Iceheart
There is champion point skills that:
1. heal you 7% of the damage done
2. AOE oblivion damage on kill
3. extra strength to shields + extra damage to shields.

So it's basicly the weapon and armor buffs on the backbar from arcanist tree,
Stempede to proc weapon damage glyph
Flail hentai thingie to boost damage, at this stage you have 3 crux up
Death beam

Nothing will ever kill you except mechanics with 50k+ damage.
Constant shields up more than your HP and you insta heal all the time.
Massive AOE damage.
You get most buffs from skills and passives.
Never ever get out of resources.

How would you get hit by the beam though? You can just dodge out of the way.

I didn't get your question,
I meant that I shoot the carver thingie beam on the morph which proc shield (you can spam rmb and activate again to refresh it if you get damaged btw).

AlterBlika

Master 2h, blackrose duals in pair with some dps set, plus sustain race (redguard works best but imperial is also cool). Been using it to solo just about everything including vdlc dungeons (sometimes even hms), also great in group content when you need good cleave damage.
The main point is that you almost don't lose any st damage when using brawler. And you get 10k~ shield every time you attack. More enemies = more shield and more damage. Also there's a cp star that greatly reduces dodge cost when under a shield.

NyassaV

Master DW, Way of fire, Vate Destro and probably pc2 marselok

Necrotech_Master

lironBD wrote: »

LittlePinkDot wrote: »

lironBD wrote: »

I'm not the expert but by far the most cheesiest I got is:

Arcanist \ Stamina \ Medium Armor \ 2h Weapon \ Fighters guild
Hexo's Ward, Briarheart, Iceheart
There is champion point skills that:
1. heal you 7% of the damage done
2. AOE oblivion damage on kill
3. extra strength to shields + extra damage to shields.

So it's basicly the weapon and armor buffs on the backbar from arcanist tree,
Stempede to proc weapon damage glyph
Flail hentai thingie to boost damage, at this stage you have 3 crux up
Death beam

Nothing will ever kill you except mechanics with 50k+ damage.
Constant shields up more than your HP and you insta heal all the time.
Massive AOE damage.
You get most buffs from skills and passives.
Never ever get out of resources.

How would you get hit by the beam though? You can just dodge out of the way.

I didn't get your question,
I meant that I shoot the carver thingie beam on the morph which proc shield (you can spam rmb and activate again to refresh it if you get damaged btw).

they were referencing it from a pvp perspective, from a pve perspective it would work great though lol

also just a minor note is the cp that heals on dmg, only works for direct dmg, but because the flail can do such high dmg, 7% of (ive seen) upwards 70k dmg crits is still a lot of heal lol