Ezareth - Revenge of the Sorc PvP 1vX Video + Build

Ezareth · May 2015

I finally finished putting together together my first 2.0 1vX Video and I'll be including my entire build and design strategy here for those who are interested.

Please note: I post these videos for entertainment purposes only, I have many long (and to me boring to watch) fights of me killing skilled players and more than a few 1 v 1s that I've won against them but I try in each of these clips to only show 1vX which usually means the majority of players I'm fighting are not going to be top grade. That said, this video does showcase my playstyle pretty well and so I hope you enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GjwRMPYkzc

Current Stats with no PvP Buffs in Cyrodiil:

Current Gearing + Attributes:

All 62 points are allocated into Magicka
Mundus is Attronach
Set bonuses:
5 Piece Seducers (When using Sword & Board)
5 Piece Archmage
2 Piece Cyrodiil's Light

All enchants and gear is VR14 and legendary quality except for Rings and Neck.

Nirnhoned Resto Staff with Disease Enchant
Nirnhoned Sword with Disease Enchant
Nirnhoned Shield enchanted with Magicka
Heavy Nirnhoned Seducer Chest enchanted with Magicka
Heavy Reinforce Seducer Boots enchanted with Magicka (Soon to be Medium Nirnhoned)
Light Divines Seducer Belt enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Helm enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Legs enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Gloves enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Shoulders enchants with Magicka
Archmage Neck enchanted with Stamina Cost Reduction
Ring of Cyrodiil's Light enchanted with Stamina Cost Reduction (x2)

Champion Allocation:

Thief:
Arcanist - 37 Points (12.5% Magicka Regen)
Magician - 5 Points (2.6% Magicka Reduction)
The Rest of my Points and all future points split between Tumbler (Dodge Roll and Break Free) and Mooncalf(Stamina Regen)

Mage:
Spell Erosion 7 Points (3.9% Spell Penetration)
Thaumaturge 4 Points (2.6% Magic Damage)
Elfborn 1 Point (1% Spell Critical)
The Rest of my points are spent on Elemental Mastery although I'll be putting future points into Elfborn and Thaumaturge

Warrior:
100% of Champion points currently allocated into Bastion and will continue until at 100.

Current Skills:

Resto Staff Bar:
Crystal Fragments
Mages Wrath
Ball of Lightning
Healing Ward
Boundless Storm (Alternate with Mana Detonation when necessary)

Sword & Board Bar
Efficient Purge (Alternate out with Dampen Magick when necessary)
Hardened Ward
Ball of Lightning
Velocious Curse
Defensive Stance

Power Overload Bar
Structured Entropy
Hardened Ward
Ball of Lightning
Daedric Mines
Defensive Rune

Build Analysis:

I normally keep my build and gearing pretty close to my chest but as I'm not sure how much longer I'll be playing ESO I figure I may as well let it all go.

Thoughts on Magicka:
In 2.0 I pretty much can cast nonstop and never run out of magicka and I mean *Never*. Archmage / Seducers has always been the core to my sustainability. 16% additive cost reduction to spell is very powerful for a sustain build. You only get the Seducer 8% Reduction on the S&B bar which is fine by me since the majority of my mana consumption occurs there as I'm always switching to it when I'm playing defensively and Bolt Escape kiting my enemies. The key to my playstyle is the fact I use my magicka almost exclusively for defensive abilities where many other sorcs use it offensively. Probably 60% of my damage comes Power Overload which allows me to focus on dedicating my magicka to keeping my shields active and bolt escaping and using mines whenever I feel the need.

Thoughts on Stamina:
Increasing my stamina and my stamina efficiency has been a core to my improving success in 1.6. Once you reach an acceptable threshold of magicka sustain you should be dumping all of your extra champion points and efficiency gains into stamina abilities. Being able to dodge roll or break free whenever you need to saves you far more than anything else. Dodge roll is extremely powerful. I'm currently a Werewolf for the 15% Stamina regen (Absolutely zero negatives to being a Werewolf) and I'm using VR10 Drink for the Stamina/Magicka regen which is far more important than a higher Stamina/Magicka/Health pool IMO. Not being able to break free when you're CCed is almost always a death sentence in PVP. Since I never run out of magicka I currently am using 3 Stamina Cost reduction enchants. Not only does this make it so I can break free and dodge roll much cheaper, it also makes my defensive stance cheaper which as you can tell from my video I use liberally.

Thoughts on Damage:
My build is by no means a Glass cannon build yet it is design to be able to put down a dangerous level of damage through the use of overload. My Champion point focus on Elemental Mastery is design to boost my Power Overload damage as high as possible. My gear gives me two of the maximum 6 possible Spellpower bonuses which helps and none of my set bonuses are weak or unused.

General Strategy:
My strategy is to work around the edges of a battle utilizing my superior mobility to pick off soft targets and players on siege. When I'm in a group I often play "Bait" to distract the enemy while my group closes on them from a superior position. I'll often roll through a zerg and drop mines in the middle of them and bolt escape/roll out. When I'm 1vXing I always keep a clear avenue of retreat in mind as my primary defense is keeping as few targets as possible from all hitting me at once. If I'm trying to finish off an opponent and I'm in the middle of a group of enemies, that's when I'm most vulnerable. This is why I'll often dodge roll/overload to get the final couple hits on a target which gives me the extra time I need to finish the target and escape so I can begin working on the next.

Tri-stat pots:
If you PVP you'll make quit a bit of gold by selling AP items. Instead of Hording this gold I invest it into Tri-stat pots. I'm currently at something over 7600 of them and the number grows every week. In PvP I almost always have a pot on cooldown as the 20% Stam/Magicka regen bonus is pretty huge in addition the stamina it gives you on use. I'll typically pop a Tripot right after a break free to refill my stamina and allow for another dodge roll.

I'll add more as I get the time get asked questions about the build if people are interested.

Soulac · May 2015

dat magicka reg.

Lionxoft · May 2015

Sorc vid...

zzzZZZZZZzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz just like magicka DK videos pre 1.6.

Workerdroid7 · May 2015

Thank you for this - as a baby sorc still trying to feel my way around the class after months and months of playing NBs, DKs and templars, this writeup was amazingly helpful.

Waylander · May 2015

Highlight was the open world fight with araxleon, was very close.

Trademark Ezareth and I do like the dedication to the lightning!

Everyone wants to follow the sorc!

skillastat · May 2015

Am I the only one noticing his overload light attacks always goes to his target even when his mouse don't hover the hit box ?

Ezareth · May 2015

skillastatb16_ESO wrote: »

Am I the only one noticing his overload light attacks always goes to his target even when his mouse don't hover the hit box ?

That is the primary benefit of using tab targeting. It increases the target acquisition range of the target you have selected for all aimed attacks. It really comes in handy when your positioning changes so frequently.

Waylander wrote: »

Highlight was the open world fight with araxleon, was very close.

Trademark Ezareth and I do like the dedication to the lightning!

Everyone wants to follow the sorc!

Yeah he is a beast! This was earlier in 1.6 and we were both still trying to figure out our builds at the time.

Workerdroid7 wrote: »

Thank you for this - as a baby sorc still trying to feel my way around the class after months and months of playing NBs, DKs and templars, this writeup was amazingly helpful.

I'll try to fill in more details on the build writeup as time allows.

hamon · May 2015

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos , where we,re all to look at how good they are at wading through multiple players... but we,re absolutely not to form the opinion that sorcs are in any way too strong or nb burst is a bit severe..

its all down to uber players, compare the number of sorc videos to templar and DK ones since 1.6 landed....

sort of reminds me when it was nothing but dk's who felt they had enough footage of themselves looking awesome to flood the same forum section with videos of them selves wading through loads of folk...

funny thing was back then sorcs and nb's were all quite sure that dk's were indeed to powerfull then.

kind of ironic

Pixysticks · May 2015

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos , where we,re all to look at how good they are at wading through multiple players... but we,re absolutely not to form the opinion that sorcs are in any way too strong or nb burst is a bit severe..

its all down to uber players, compare the number of sorc videos to templar and DK ones since 1.6 landed....

sort of reminds me when it was nothing but dk's who felt they had enough footage of themselves looking awesome to flood the same forum section with videos of them selves wading through loads of folk...

funny thing was back then sorcs and nb's were all quite sure that dk's were indeed to powerfull then.

kind of ironic

Every thread I see you post in is you being extremely negative, and always complaining about sorcs/nightblades/potions/addons/pvpers who try. Try being positive for once, bud.

Pixysticks · May 2015

Ezareth wrote: »

I finally finished putting together together my first 2.0 1vX Video and I'll be including my entire build and design strategy here for those who are interested.

Please note: I post these videos for entertainment purposes only, I have many long (and to me boring to watch) fights of me killing skilled players and more than a few 1 v 1s that I've won against them but I try in each of these clips to only show 1vX which usually means the majority of players I'm fighting are not going to be top grade. That said, this video does showcase my playstyle pretty well and so I hope you enjoy it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GjwRMPYkzc

Current Stats with no PvP Buffs in Cyrodiil:

Current Gearing + Attributes:

All 62 points are allocated into Magicka
Mundus is Attronach
Set bonuses:
5 Piece Seducers (When using Sword & Board)
5 Piece Archmage
2 Piece Cyrodiil's Light

All enchants and gear is VR14 and legendary quality except for Rings and Neck.

Nirnhoned Resto Staff with Disease Enchant
Nirnhoned Sword with Disease Enchant
Nirnhoned Shield enchanted with Magicka
Heavy Nirnhoned Seducer Chest enchanted with Magicka
Heavy Reinforce Seducer Boots enchanted with Magicka (Soon to be Medium Nirnhoned)
Light Divines Seducer Belt enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Helm enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Legs enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Gloves enchanted with Magicka
Light Archmage Shoulders enchants with Magicka
Archmage Neck enchanted with Stamina Cost Reduction
Ring of Cyrodiil's Light enchanted with Stamina Cost Reduction (x2)

Champion Allocation:
Thief:
Arcanist - 37 Points (12.5% Magicka Regen)
Magician - 5 Points (2.6% Magicka Reduction)
The Rest of my Points and all future points split between Tumbler (Dodge Roll and Break Free) and Mooncalf(Stamina Regen)

Mage:
Spell Erosion 7 Points (3.9% Spell Penetration)
Thaumaturge 4 Points (2.6% Magic Damage)
Elfborn 1 Point (1% Spell Critical)
The Rest of my points are spent on Elemental Mastery although I'll be putting future points into Elfborn and Thaumaturge

Warrior:
100% of Champion points currently allocated into Bastion and will continue until at 100.

Current Skills:
Resto Staff Bar:
Crystal Fragments
Mages Wrath
Ball of Lightning
Healing Ward
Boundless Storm (Alternate with Mana Detonation when necessary)

Sword & Board Bar
Efficient Purge (Alternate out with Dampen Magick when necessary)
Hardened Ward
Ball of Lightning
Velocious Curse
Defensive Stance

Power Overload Bar
Structured Entropy
Hardened Ward
Ball of Lightning
Daedric Mines
Defensive Rune

Build Analysis:
I normally keep my build and gearing pretty close to my chest but as I'm not sure how much longer I'll be playing ESO I figure I may as well let it all go.

Thoughts on Magicka:
In 2.0 I pretty much can cast nonstop and never run out of magicka and I mean *Never*. Archmage / Seducers has always been the core to my sustainability. 16% additive cost reduction to spell is very powerful for a sustain build. You only get the Seducer 8% Reduction on the S&B bar which is fine by me since the majority of my mana consumption occurs there as I'm always switching to it when I'm playing defensively and Bolt Escape kiting my enemies. The key to my playstyle is the fact I use my magicka almost exclusively for defensive abilities where many other sorcs use it offensively. Probably 60% of my damage comes Power Overload which allows me to focus on dedicating my magicka to keeping my shields active and bolt escaping and using mines whenever I feel the need.

Thoughts on Stamina:
Increasing my stamina and my stamina efficiency has been a core to my improving success in 1.6. Once you reach an acceptable threshold of magicka sustain you should be dumping all of your extra champion points and efficiency gains into stamina abilities. Being able to dodge roll or break free whenever you need to saves you far more than anything else. Dodge roll is extremely powerful. I'm currently a Werewolf for the 15% Stamina regen (Absolutely zero negatives to being a Werewolf) and I'm using VR10 Drink for the Stamina/Magicka regen which is far more important than a higher Stamina/Magicka/Health pool IMO. Not being able to break free when you're CCed is almost always a death sentence in PVP. Since I never run out of magicka I currently am using 3 Stamina Cost reduction enchants. Not only does this make it so I can break free and dodge roll much cheaper, it also makes my defensive stance cheaper which as you can tell from my video I use liberally.

Thoughts on Damage:
My build is by no means a Glass cannon build yet it is design to be able to put down a dangerous level of damage through the use of overload. My Champion point focus on Elemental Mastery is design to boost my Power Overload damage as high as possible. My gear gives me two of the maximum 6 possible Spellpower bonuses which helps and none of my set bonuses are weak or unused.

General Strategy:
My strategy is to work around the edges of a battle utilizing my superior mobility to pick off soft targets and players on siege. When I'm in a group I often play "Bait" to distract the enemy while my group closes on them from a superior position. I'll often roll through a zerg and drop mines in the middle of them and bolt escape/roll out. When I'm 1vXing I always keep a clear avenue of retreat in mind as my primary defense is keeping as few targets as possible from all hitting me at once. If I'm trying to finish off an opponent and I'm in the middle of a group of enemies, that's when I'm most vulnerable. This is why I'll often dodge roll/overload to get the final couple hits on a target which gives me the extra time I need to finish the target and escape so I can begin working on the next.

Tri-stat pots:
If you PVP you'll make quit a bit of gold by selling AP items. Instead of Hording this gold I invest it into Tri-stat pots. I'm currently at something over 7600 of them and the number grows every week. In PvP I almost always have a pot on cooldown as the 20% Stam/Magicka regen bonus is pretty huge in addition the stamina it gives you on use. I'll typically pop a Tripot right after a break free to refill my stamina and allow for another dodge roll.

I'll add more as I get the time get asked questions about the build if people are interested.

Omg assemblage 23, it's been so long since I heard them that I completely forgot they existed. Time to listen to some EBM.

DezIsDead · May 2015

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos , where we,re all to look at how good they are at wading through multiple players... but we,re absolutely not to form the opinion that sorcs are in any way too strong or nb burst is a bit severe..

its all down to uber players, compare the number of sorc videos to templar and DK ones since 1.6 landed....

sort of reminds me when it was nothing but dk's who felt they had enough footage of themselves looking awesome to flood the same forum section with videos of them selves wading through loads of folk...

funny thing was back then sorcs and nb's were all quite sure that dk's were indeed to powerfull then.

kind of ironic

wat about the stam templar video posted like 3 days ago? or the magicka DK video posted last week? or are you intentionally leaving those out to further a personal agenda? don't come into someones thread and push false fabricated information for your own choice. its rude, and your wrong. good day mate.

Snit · May 2015

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos

True, but it's mostly about a half-dozen players who stream. That's a tiny sample size.

I bumped into a Templar named Zozul in Chillrend a few times this week. He's an absolute beast. Both times, I was with two to three others, all of them from a good PvP guild and all of us on Teamspeak. He managed at least one kill before we got him in both encounters, and it took forever to down him. That dude needs to stream

But most people don't.

TheBucket · May 2015

I was entertained during the Arax fight, but the rest was just watching you kite 3-4 scrubs and overloading them when they overstretched. That would get boring to me, and where is all this OP dodge rolling? XD lol

Brizz · May 2015

Not confirmed or not, but I heard that stam reduction enchants on jewelry doens't reduce cost of roll/break anymore. Need to test to be sure.

cozmon3c_ESO · May 2015

nice video!

How do you find people who dont know how to dodge roll overload lol. its like overlaod 101, get ready to dodge.

Xsorus · May 2015

I need to finish leveling my Sorc, so I can gain skill over night heh

Nivzruo_ESO · May 2015

Workerdroid7 wrote: »

Thank you for this - as a baby sorc still trying to feel my way around the class after months and months of playing NBs, DKs and templars, this writeup was amazingly helpful.

This ^, sorcs will be their own downfall.. nerf inc.

hamon · May 2015

Pixysticks wrote: »

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos , where we,re all to look at how good they are at wading through multiple players... but we,re absolutely not to form the opinion that sorcs are in any way too strong or nb burst is a bit severe..

its all down to uber players, compare the number of sorc videos to templar and DK ones since 1.6 landed....

sort of reminds me when it was nothing but dk's who felt they had enough footage of themselves looking awesome to flood the same forum section with videos of them selves wading through loads of folk...

funny thing was back then sorcs and nb's were all quite sure that dk's were indeed to powerfull then.

kind of ironic

Every thread I see you post in is you being extremely negative, and always complaining about sorcs/nightblades/potions/addons/pvpers who try. Try being positive for once, bud.

oh sorry i thought this was a public forum.. never realised the rule was these threads are simply for folk to post how awesome you guys are.. i,ll get with the programme then

" wow you guys are so uber"

( that better?)

hamon · May 2015

Snit wrote: »

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos

True, but it's mostly about a half-dozen players who stream. That's a tiny sample size.

I bumped into a Templar named Zozul in Chillrend a few times this week. He's an absolute beast. Both times, I was with two to three others, all of them from a good PvP guild and all of us on Teamspeak. He managed at least one kill before we got him in both encounters, and it took forever to down him. That dude needs to stream

But most people don't.

fair point, i,m sure in the hands of a skillfull player with AW10 and nirnhoned etc.. you can make dk's and templars look pretty good. but i think it would be hard to argue that the same player would be way way more dangerous using a sorc or nb right now.

Tankqull · May 2015

Xsorus wrote: »

I need to finish leveling my Sorc, so I can gain skill over night heh

you can play any class at lvl 10 and would win against 90% of the opponents in this vid, nothing against you ezareth but thats a great compilation of the most horrible players to be found...

Hypertionb14_ESO · May 2015

that poor group of reds... accepting vortexes rezzes just so you can kill them again..

Cinnamon_Spider · May 2015

Great video as always, Ez. That fight with Araxleon was awesome. I didn't realize it was him at first and wondered who that NB thought he was hiding from with that robot popping up every 5 seconds.
I could practically feel the confusion in that EP group at the end. There might as well have been five of you with the way you kept moving around them. Vortex should take up a soul gem collection.

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos , where we,re all to look at how good they are at wading through multiple players... but we,re absolutely not to form the opinion that sorcs are in any way too strong or nb burst is a bit severe..

its all down to uber players, compare the number of sorc videos to templar and DK ones since 1.6 landed....

sort of reminds me when it was nothing but dk's who felt they had enough footage of themselves looking awesome to flood the same forum section with videos of them selves wading through loads of folk...

funny thing was back then sorcs and nb's were all quite sure that dk's were indeed to powerfull then.

kind of ironic

If you notice, the same people that posted videos before 1.6 are the ones posting now. Other than Sypher, do any of the people that posted DK videos pre 1.6 still post on the forums at all?
I recall there being one magicka templar and two stamina templar videos posted recently. Doing a search on youtube for just this month brings up a number of DK videos. The forums are not the be all end all of PvP videos.

Ezareth · May 2015

TheBucket wrote: »

I was entertained during the Arax fight, but the rest was just watching you kite 3-4 scrubs and overloading them when they overstretched. That would get boring to me, and where is all this OP dodge rolling? XD lol

Yeah my shield addon was broken during that fight with Arax which made it very difficult to know when to go on offense or not for me. I could put together a video of me fighting single players out in the wild but since I'm not a burst damage spec my fights against very skilled players take a long time so I only like to include 1 or two long fights against good players in my videos like the Arax clip. I've never completed watching a "Dueling" video myself, 1 v 1s usually come down to who gets bugged first with a weapon swap delay, break free delay etc. I dodge roll a ton in the final clips of the video but I never use it like a stamina build, I use it to put distance against gap closer abilities while I bolt escape and I use it to animation cancel an overload attack to kill targets.

Brizz wrote: »

Not confirmed or not, but I heard that stam reduction enchants on jewelry doens't reduce cost of roll/break anymore. Need to test to be sure.

I'm reasonably certain it still provides both as I'm able to dodge as much as I always have. I'll run my build through my calculator to be sure.

Xsorus wrote: »

I need to finish leveling my Sorc, so I can gain skill over night heh

I had a much easier time of it in 1.5., but by all means go for it. Many of my kills in this video are against sorcs. As long as I don't run up against a named sorc I actually enjoy fighting them. Most of the people I know who have rerolled Sorc are atrociously bad at it.

Tankqull wrote: »

Xsorus wrote: »

I need to finish leveling my Sorc, so I can gain skill over night heh

you can play any class at lvl 10 and would win against 90% of the opponents in this vid, nothing against you ezareth but thats a great compilation of the most horrible players to be found...

Yeah some of them are horrible, others just not that good, and others were surprised before they could react. It's funny I saw several of the same names in Pixy's video haha.

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

that poor group of reds... accepting vortexes rezzes just so you can kill them again..

Yeah Vortexman was crying that I was running him out of Soul Gems. One of the guys I killed in that clip is the guy who reported me and had his guild report me so many times they actually banned me for "Hacking". I do so enjoy killing him and making him rage. I had to cut that clip short, it went on for like 17 minutes before I finally got pot-bugged and sniped.

Xael · May 2015

hamon wrote: »

Snit wrote: »

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos

True, but it's mostly about a half-dozen players who stream. That's a tiny sample size.

I bumped into a Templar named Zozul in Chillrend a few times this week. He's an absolute beast. Both times, I was with two to three others, all of them from a good PvP guild and all of us on Teamspeak. He managed at least one kill before we got him in both encounters, and it took forever to down him. That dude needs to stream

But most people don't.

fair point, i,m sure in the hands of a skillfull player with AW10 and nirnhoned etc.. you can make dk's and templars look pretty good. but i think it would be hard to argue that the same player would be way way more dangerous using a sorc or nb right now.

Stuff like this is the most biased / myopic sh*t you can read.

Hate to break it to you, Sorc's die insanely fast, shields or not. I have 35k Magicka, 2500+ Spell Dmg and 21k HP. I also have Champ Points. A stam build any class can kill me in no time. More importantly they can dodge 90% or more of my attacks. I hit hard as hell and have some of the best gear in game. Yet a Stam build can not only negate my barrage of r@pe, they can burn through my shields and knock my *** in the dirt ridiculously quick.

If they are so easy, even a troglodyte such as yourself should be able to excel with them. Yet just about anyone on a Stam build in player made easily obtained gear can wreck people with minimal effort. Just because good players make videos doesn't mean it's easy to do. I would love to see you play my build and have the success Pixy and I have. You are ridiculous.

I knocked over my water bottle and went to pick it up and was dead when I sat back down. I think I was afk maybe 5 seconds.

I have seen snipes hit for 17k. Same with uppercut and other Stam combinations. Hell I have done it on my Stam character.
You must be trolling to make the comments you make, or completely detached from reality.

@Snit Zoz was in Had today running with a 5m for a few hours. I got revenge about 6-7 times for you

DezIsDead · May 2015

Xael wrote: »

hamon wrote: »

Snit wrote: »

hamon wrote: »

this forum section is nothing but sorc/NB videos

True, but it's mostly about a half-dozen players who stream. That's a tiny sample size.

I bumped into a Templar named Zozul in Chillrend a few times this week. He's an absolute beast. Both times, I was with two to three others, all of them from a good PvP guild and all of us on Teamspeak. He managed at least one kill before we got him in both encounters, and it took forever to down him. That dude needs to stream

But most people don't.

fair point, i,m sure in the hands of a skillfull player with AW10 and nirnhoned etc.. you can make dk's and templars look pretty good. but i think it would be hard to argue that the same player would be way way more dangerous using a sorc or nb right now.

Stuff like this is the most biased / myopic sh*t you can read.

Hate to break it to you, Sorc's die insanely fast, shields or not. I have 35k Magicka, 2500+ Spell Dmg and 21k HP. I also have Champ Points. A stam build any class can kill me in no time. More importantly they can dodge 90% or more of my attacks. I hit hard as hell and have some of the best gear in game. Yet a Stam build can not only negate my barrage of r@pe, they can burn through my shields and knock my *** in the dirt ridiculously quick.

If they are so easy, even a troglodyte such as yourself should be able to excel with them. Yet just about anyone on a Stam build in player made easily obtained gear can wreck people with minimal effort. Just because good players make videos doesn't mean it's easy to do. I would love to see you play my build and have the success Pixy and I have. You are ridiculous.

I knocked over my water bottle and went to pick it up and was dead when I sat back down. I think I was afk maybe 5 seconds.

I have seen snipes hit for 17k. Same with uppercut and other Stam combinations. Hell I have done it on my Stam character.
You must be trolling to make the comments you make, or completely detached from reality.

@Snit Zoz was in Had today running with a 5m for a few hours. I got revenge about 6-7 times for you

yup i occasionally get 1 shotted by lethal arrow 18k crits. But Sorc is OP right? no its people that min max and know how to play the game that are OP. minus nirn destroying magicka, this game has come closer to balance then it has ever been.

vortexman11 · May 2015

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

that poor group of reds... accepting vortexes rezzes just so you can kill them again..

Didn't want to be accused of not ressing them, besides its always fun whenever I see 5 or 6 guys ganging up on one good player, to just res them over and over again to see how long it can go on for, I do it with Sypher too. It just makes my PvP day a bit more interesting

vichoi · May 2015

excellent video and build, been waiting for your post since you mention you're making it on last post.

they said werewolf do not give stamina regen on human form, isnt it?

Ezareth · May 2015

vichoi wrote: »

excellent video and build, been waiting for your post since you mention you're making it on last post.

they said werewolf do not give stamina regen on human form, isnt it?

Werewolf most definitely does give Stam regen in human form. I've never been a fan of the whole vampire/werewolf thing and up until 1.6 I have never tried either. Once I learned that though I didn't hesitate. Absolutely zero downsides to being a werewolf (unlike Vampire where you not only have to suffer all the downsides for a long time before you get the benefits AND need to use skillpoints to get them) and you get the 15% Stam regen bonus as soon as you're a werewolf. I'm still a L1 werewolf and have no need/desire to advance that further.

Oughash · May 2015

Ezareth wrote: »

Werewolf most definitely does give Stam regen in human form. I've never been a fan of the whole vampire/werewolf thing and up until 1.6 I have never tried either. Once I learned that though I didn't hesitate. Absolutely zero downsides to being a werewolf (unlike Vampire where you not only have to suffer all the downsides for a long time before you get the benefits AND need to use skillpoints to get them) and you get the 15% Stam regen bonus as soon as you're a werewolf. I'm still a L1 werewolf and have no need/desire to advance that further.

Werewolf is the default position for sure.

I actually think Vampire is better since 1.6, even considering the downsides. Here's why:
1. 10% (additive) stam and magicka regen is a TON without softcaps. For magicka-based classes, stam regen is absolutely critical for survivability. AND, the additional mana regen enables you to focus on spell damage. Regen and damage are the most efficient stats right now.
2. The improved sneak speed is quite useful.
3. Damage reduction bonus at low health gives you another split second to get your shield or heal off.
4. Mist form is a nice dis-engage or positioning skill for Templar and DK (which don't otherwise have one).
5. Bat Swarm is still one of the best ultimates (base cost 158) in the game because it moves with you (~2k dmg/s for 5s per target is nice). Especially for DK which receives Battle Roar stat returns as if the ultimate cost 200.
5. Its possible to stack a ton of spell resist to reduce fire damage.

Ezareth · May 2015

Ishammael wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Werewolf most definitely does give Stam regen in human form. I've never been a fan of the whole vampire/werewolf thing and up until 1.6 I have never tried either. Once I learned that though I didn't hesitate. Absolutely zero downsides to being a werewolf (unlike Vampire where you not only have to suffer all the downsides for a long time before you get the benefits AND need to use skillpoints to get them) and you get the 15% Stam regen bonus as soon as you're a werewolf. I'm still a L1 werewolf and have no need/desire to advance that further.

Werewolf is the default position for sure.

I actually think Vampire is better since 1.6, even considering the downsides. Here's why:
1. 10% (additive) stam and magicka regen is a TON without softcaps. For magicka-based classes, stam regen is absolutely critical for survivability. AND, the additional mana regen enables you to focus on spell damage. Regen and damage are the most efficient stats right now.
2. The improved sneak speed is quite useful.
3. Damage reduction bonus at low health gives you another split second to get your shield or heal off.
4. Mist form is a nice dis-engage or positioning skill for Templar and DK (which don't otherwise have one).
5. Bat Swarm is still one of the best ultimates (base cost 158) in the game because it moves with you (~2k dmg/s for 5s per target is nice). Especially for DK which receives Battle Roar stat returns as if the ultimate cost 200.
5. Its possible to stack a ton of spell resist to reduce fire damage.

From a Sorc Perspective:

1. 15% Stamina > 10% Stamina - The magicka regen is nice, but unnecessary. There are no options for me to increase spellpower at the cost of magicka regen that I could make or I'd already be doing that.
2. I *Never* sneak on my sorc (unless I have to go AFK)...that's why I play bait in groups because the whole sneak and jump people thing seems wrong on my Sorc.
3. Being a vampire actually makes you far less survivable as a sorc. Not counting the obvious fire damage bonuses, if my shield is down and I'm hit with a Snipe in the 100% Hitpoint to 50% hitpoint range the 9% Bonus damage players do against me actually ensures I'm dying as undeath only kick in if you're hit at low health. It's pretty rare that I'm actually at low health. Then there is all the people who are running Evil Hunter and Dawnbreaker....
4. Have Bolt Escape, Mist form is definitely great for Templar/DKs as an escape.
5. Bat Swarm is great but I need my double overload for many reasons.
6. Spell resist can mitigate player fire damage somewhat but it doesn't mitigate siege damage. I already get 1-shot by fire trebs half the time, don't want to make that all the time haha.

Oughash · May 2015

Ezareth wrote: »

6. Spell resist can mitigate player fire damage somewhat but it doesn't mitigate siege damage. I already get 1-shot by fire trebs half the time, don't want to make that all the time haha.

Yeah b/c of this very reason have to ensure >20k HP no matter what. Siege drives me nuts.