Genuinely Confused

SneaK · August 29

I have thousands of hours on ESO, but I’ve taken a substantial break (3+ years) from the game. I’m trying to fire it back up again, but I’m honestly just lost on what I’m doing.

Mainly a PvPer, so all my old builds were geared towards that. I have every class except the new one, I would say I mained a Stamblade and both DKs. Had builds for ball groups but also solo on my mains.

I barely made it out of the starting point cause it seemed like every skill changed and all the champ points are different.

Is there a go to source for the latest and greatest? I don’t know who’s who anymore and the internet is saturated with “guides”.

I guess the big questions are, what is the focus on PvP damage (weapon dmg/crit/pen/max stat), what armor is best for damage (all med, mix for undaunted, light viable?), impen important still, key skills without this new subclassing stuff, target health (seemed to just keep going up)?

Sorry that is a jumbled mess above.

MincMincMinc · August 29

SneaK wrote: »

Mainly a PvPer, so all my old builds were geared towards that. I have every class except the new one, I would say I mained a Stamblade and both DKs. Had builds for ball groups but also solo on my mains.

You want a rundown of the stats generally? For the most part the current state of the game is a Stamblade's wet dream. We are in a crit damage Assassination meta almost no contest.

Max HP - most pvp builds shoot for 30-35k range. This has been fairly common since summerset like 7 years ago as everyone has access to hakeijos. Typically people run 3 heavy 3 medium and one light. People mix in more medium instead of heavy, but thats up to you. Just play around with the monster weights.

Resists and pen - Most players are in the 25k to 30k resist mark so after breaches you will need around 16k-21k pen to fully cut out someones mitigation.

Crit damage and resist - Ok now this is the biggest mess up zos has done. Zos has continued to add more and more crit damage sources everywhere, however they have not added an equivalent amount of crit resist sources. Before back in the day we sat at 46% crit resist vs maybe 50% to 75% crit damage on average......Now adays PvP you sit around 33%-57%mit against enemies with 90-170% crit damage

Weapon/Spell damage - For the most part zos butchered all the solo player sets like fury, briar, ravager, 7th either by reducing their tooltips or placing unrealistic janky cooldowns on the sets. So you are better off going with Modifier stat sets if anything like pen, %dmg. Otherwise you will grab up whatever WD/SD you can once you fulfill the rest of your build.

Regen - You will get the majority of your sustain from the armor weight passives, racials(imperial on 90% of builds), bear haunch food, and the tripots which give an insane 30% bonus. Most skill lines also have some passive regen or bonuses that are all balanced around a standard. Honestly I dont even run a sustain skill anymore because its not needed. Some people go crazy and run the Wretched vitality 5 piece, but I dont even know what they spend it on.....maybe im just an old stamsorc player that is used to not having anything?

Crit chance - For the most part building for crit chance isnt a great investment. It is a better hot healing type of stat than it is damage wise. A line of Weapon damage will net you more damage, but less heals. Either you will be running Assassination which by default brings you to 45-50% crit or you will be running the 5 piece mechanical acuity to go between 25% and 100% crit chance. Otherwise you are kinda shooting yourself in the foot playing a nonmeta build sitting around 25-30% with major active.

Max stam/mag - for the most part useless since capacity isnt needed with enough regen. Dont build for them or go out of your way for passives. Just grab up remaining attributes once you are done with maxHP.

General pvp set template is
Monomyth
1x heavy trainee chest (impen vs reinforced is questioned alot.....IMO im not getting killed by parses, im getting killed from a merciless resolve crit bow doing 80% of my health every 5s, so I run impen)
Backbar rallying cry which is the only way to really get crit resists

Then you are left with frontbar 5 piece and your monster......sometimes you can justify an arena

Balorgh, Bloodspawn, Nibenay, Roksa
Essence Thief, Stuhns, Mechanical Acuity

Other meta things to know are:

Status effects are super important, they essentially give 5 piece proc worth output
Subclassing makes slottable passives super important, so much so that you should avoid too many out of class skills if there are inclass alternatives
Most people have major and minor expedition now, so dont get left behind. Much like crit damage, zos has continued to add more and more movement speed sources everywhere, so the average has just crept out of control.
Assassination is without a doubt the most overtuned skill line. Merciless hits harder than every ult other than take flight every 5s, surprise attack is the best spammable without a doubt since it has 3 very strong bonus effects.