Best class

fpbiggs · December 2014

Im just starting to play elder scrolls im wondering what would be the best way to go for a good dual wielding melee build.I always love melee so thats the ideal thing for me so what would be the best way to go about that?

Nestor · December 2014

Your weapons don't have that much to do with your class. So, if your trying to leverage stats based on the weapons, look at the Racial Bonuses and see of they work with or against your weapon that you want to use. Note, most of the bonuses that give you increased exp with an armor or a weapon can be replicated with a Trait in crafting (Training Trait)

So, probably Redguard or Khajiit is what you want to look at first.

eventide03b14a_ESO · December 2014

Nestor wrote: »

Your weapons don't have that much to do with your class. So, if your trying to leverage stats based on the weapons, look at the Racial Bonuses and see of they work with or against your weapon that you want to use. Note, most of the bonuses that give you increased exp with an armor or a weapon can be replicated with a Trait in crafting (Training Trait)

So, probably Redguard or Khajiit is what you want to look at first.

Well that's not entirely true. Nightblades are a good choice just for the stamina regen, while sorcerers would probably be worst choice.

Nestor · December 2014

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

Well that's not entirely true. Nightblades are a good choice just for the stamina regen, while sorcerers would probably be worst choice.

Medium Armor is what gives the most Stamina Regen. The Refreshing Shadows does not give that much regen in comparison. And you can get the same regen or close to it with the Imperial Passives that boost that aspect.

This has nothing to do with the weapons being used.

Cuyler · December 2014

fpbiggs wrote: »

Im just starting to play elder scrolls im wondering what would be the best way to go for a good dual wielding melee build.I always love melee so thats the ideal thing for me so what would be the best way to go about that?

Most OP dualweilding assassin builds will go with a khajit or Dunmer (dark elf) nightblade.

Khajit - has carnage ~8% increase to crit chance (AD)
Dunmer - Increase xp gain with dual wield skills. (EP)
Redguard - Increase max stamina and Increase stam regen (DC)
*racial will depend on which faction you want to play
*dual wield skills use stamina

If you don't care about which faction you are then khajit is the best choice for the inc to crit.

Dual wield abilities synergize well with nightblade "siphon" skills and med armor.

This is a cookie cutter type of build referred to as a "siphon" build.

Rosveen · December 2014

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Your weapons don't have that much to do with your class. So, if your trying to leverage stats based on the weapons, look at the Racial Bonuses and see of they work with or against your weapon that you want to use. Note, most of the bonuses that give you increased exp with an armor or a weapon can be replicated with a Trait in crafting (Training Trait)

So, probably Redguard or Khajiit is what you want to look at first.

while sorcerers would probably be worst choice.

Critical Surge build is still viable, isn't it?

Nightblades are the most popular choice, dragonknights work well too. I wouldn't take a templar, not because they lack synergy with dual wielding (I don't know anything about it, but they seem to work well enough with two-handed) but rather because this class is better suited for tanking or healing.

Cuyler · December 2014

Rosveen wrote: »

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Your weapons don't have that much to do with your class. So, if your trying to leverage stats based on the weapons, look at the Racial Bonuses and see of they work with or against your weapon that you want to use. Note, most of the bonuses that give you increased exp with an armor or a weapon can be replicated with a Trait in crafting (Training Trait)

So, probably Redguard or Khajiit is what you want to look at first.

while sorcerers would probably be worst choice.

Critical Surge build is still viable, isn't it?

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You could use a sorcerer for the crit surge I suppose but a sorc won't come close to the dmg output of a nightblade unfortunately (I'm a sorc

).

In addition update 6 is supposed to bring a lot of changes to the alignment of spell crit with spell dmg and weapon crit with weapon damage so crit surge could potentially change.

It's possible that crit surge will increase spell damage in the future patch which would not synergize with the dual wield abilities. Who knows though this is just speculation at this point.

The safe bet is to go nightblade if you want to DW.