Hey buddy! Your set up is much like mine. I'm a VR14 NB Bosmer vampire. Set up for stealth attacks (bow primary with dual wield secondary). I use 5 medium armor (for the full medium set perks), a light armor hood (for the magicka benefits), and heavy armor gauntlets (for the health benefits). I'm maxed out on all passives- so the benefits are worth having two non-medium armor pieces. When I have bow equipped, I have 5 hunding rage pieces and 3 night mother pieces. When I swap to dual wield, I now have 5 night mother and 3 hunding rage.

I keep all armor pieces set at divines EXCEPT head, chest, and legs. Those are infused with magica, health, and stamina (for max gains). Of course, you know that my Mundus stone is the Thief.

Here is my set up with Bow (Weap Dmg enchant/Precise trait) equipped:
Impale>Concealed Weapon>Focused Aim>Magnum Shot>Ambush with Soul Tether as the Ultimate. This gives powerful weapon shots as well as high crit concealed weapon strikes.

I used this as a primary source for enhancing as much crit, magica, and health benefits. The stamina is a given due to the nature of our characters.

With the Dual Wield equipped (Sword weap dmg/infused)(dagger decrease health/infused):
Impale>Concealed Weapon>Flying Blade>Haste>Shadowy Disguise with Soul Tether as the Ultimate. This is AWESOME for high crits and up close powerful attacks.

Wearing medium armor as a Bosmer vampire maxes out all stealth abilities. You can literally walk up and whisper in your enemy's ear before giving them a devastating slash from the concealed weapon attack.

Let me know what you think!

i may be weird but i treat the craglorn stuff in the exact same way i do most else.. tho i throw in reaper mark when fighting groups for that half way through the fight heal...

If you are going for dps then both of your bow abilities would be better with the other morphs (poison injection and lethal arrow). Crippling grasp deals a bit more damage, but I prefer swallow soul/funnel health for its healing tick. Those are the three offensive abilities on my bow bar. I usually open with lethal arrow, then use cancelled light and heavy attacks with poison injection, with swallow soul thrown in to make sure stamina doesn't deplete too much.

My current bow bar is lethal arrow, poison injection, swallow soul, reaper's mark or double take, shadowy disguise and flawless dawnbreaker. Can't really help with dual wield as I use one Hand and shield on my other bar for melee combat.

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

good dps,

Bow = Focused Aim, Light Attack, Poison Injection, Focused aim spam untill injection wears off and restart.

this holds high dps.

Wow thanks for sharing Hypertionb14!

So in this bow attack rotation, essentially all the damage comes from Focused Aim + Poison Injection (DOT) + buffs from Reaper's Mark and Flawless Dawnbreaker then? I supposed Light attack would contribute a little too. And you get ~1000 DPS from this build right? Oh, I should ask about your total Stam number - which figures into the DPS too. And your armor, which gives additional buffs.

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

DW = Surprise Attack, Rapid Strikes until Surprise attack wears off.

Main Bar should have Flawless Dawnbreaker. offhand bar should have Death Stroke or morph, use the ult then switch to main bar and spam rapid Strikes.

And here I guess the damages come from just Rapid Strikes + buffs from Surprise Attack, Flawless Dawnbreaker and Reaper's Mark? And also ~1000 DPS too?

So I am surprised that 2 bow attacks + buffs would get very high DPS. Just looking at the tooltip numbers of Focus Aim and Poison Injection gives around 500 DPS (Focus Aim also takes 1.5 sec to cast which would decrease the tooltip DPS some factor). And I guess the buffs + high stamina raise the DPS much higher then?

Also I must try out the Rapid Strikes + Surprise attack combo + buffs to get the high DPS!


Thanks again for sharing your successful rotations!

Snipe takes 1.1 second to cast and back to back casting of it removes the cooldown period after casting between another cast (universal to all abilitys)

Poison Injection can hit for up to 160-600 damage on its DOT, which at the basic every 2 seconds all Dots hit for (even the well loved DK ones) that is 70-300 dps added for 10 seconds depending on Mob HP...

Snipe alone will generally hold 800-900 dps if you crit consistantly (due to hits
of over 1.5k with a good build on crits)

Lethal Arrow is 100% overrated for PvE, and adds nothing really for it.. No mob will really require the reduction to healing.. those that could be useful on are universally boss monsters who are also immune to the effect. the Extra range on Focused Aim however increases the Passive from bows that increases damage depending on your distance from the target, as well as giving a straight Weapon Damage bonus on the target...