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Help me fix my Bowplar

Valyndras
Valyndras
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Hi there

I have been playing a Bowplar since release, but I have only recently come back to ESO.

However, at this time, I'm really struggling to deal a decent amount of damage. Single target I deal 6k-7k to normal enemies and 7k-9k to undead/deadra with Evil Hunter procs. (sometimes 10k when I'm lucky.)

At this point of time, I'm still playing a Breton. I am fully aware this isn't optimal at all for a stamina based build, but I have been playing this character since launch, when people adviced me to roll one since the softcaps were quite low. However, this doesn't apply anymore and I'm planning to race change to Redguard asap. (when Race Change comes available)

These are my current stats: http://i.imgur.com/358t9RR.jpg (Health and Stamina are affected with a food buff: Kwama Egg Omelet: +5k health, +4.6k stamina)

My weapon damage is around 2.2k with Rally, which is still quite low compared to other people with 3k+.

My bar loadouts are as following:

Bow:
  • Lethal Arrow
  • Poison Injection
  • Acid Spray
  • Evil Hunter
  • Blazing Spear
  • ULT: Ice Comet

2H:
  • Rally
  • Anti-Cavalry Caltrops
  • Repentance
  • Biting Jabs
  • Power of the Light
  • ULT: Flawless Dawnbreaker

As far as gear is concerned, I'm using 5 Hundings Rage + 3 Air. (still saving for Shadow Walker Rings)

As long as I'm Breton, I was thinking about changing them to 4 Morag Tong + 4 Shadow Walker + 2 Night Silence.

Once I've race changed to Redguard, I'll probably go for 5 Ravager + 4 Morag Tong + something else.

Can anyone help me fix my build? Any advice would be very welcome :)

Thanks in advance

Kind regards
  • TheSunAlsoRises
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    is this 6-7k on a long boss fight too? i'm assuming you're also v14 based the gear and skills you listed.

    deltiasgaming.com/2014/11/24/radiant-harvester-eso-templar-dps-build/ might be something you might find interesting.
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  • RavenSworn
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    Valyndras wrote: »
    Hi there

    I have been playing a Bowplar since release, but I have only recently come back to ESO.

    However, at this time, I'm really struggling to deal a decent amount of damage. Single target I deal 6k-7k to normal enemies and 7k-9k to undead/deadra with Evil Hunter procs. (sometimes 10k when I'm lucky.)

    At this point of time, I'm still playing a Breton. I am fully aware this isn't optimal at all for a stamina based build, but I have been playing this character since launch, when people adviced me to roll one since the softcaps were quite low. However, this doesn't apply anymore and I'm planning to race change to Redguard asap. (when Race Change comes available)

    These are my current stats: http://i.imgur.com/358t9RR.jpg (Health and Stamina are affected with a food buff: Kwama Egg Omelet: +5k health, +4.6k stamina)

    My weapon damage is around 2.2k with Rally, which is still quite low compared to other people with 3k+.

    My bar loadouts are as following:

    Bow:
    • Lethal Arrow
    • Poison Injection
    • Acid Spray
    • Evil Hunter
    • Blazing Spear
    • ULT: Ice Comet

    2H:
    • Rally
    • Anti-Cavalry Caltrops
    • Repentance
    • Biting Jabs
    • Power of the Light
    • ULT: Flawless Dawnbreaker

    As far as gear is concerned, I'm using 5 Hundings Rage + 3 Air. (still saving for Shadow Walker Rings)

    As long as I'm Breton, I was thinking about changing them to 4 Morag Tong + 4 Shadow Walker + 2 Night Silence.

    Once I've race changed to Redguard, I'll probably go for 5 Ravager + 4 Morag Tong + something else.

    Can anyone help me fix my build? Any advice would be very welcome :)

    Thanks in advance

    Kind regards

    You might want to take a look into Dark Flare which gives you a range empower. The idea is to weave empower with focused aim, rather than Lethal Arrow. It gives fracture and you can concurrently use power of the light to add to all that damage. Currently poison injection seems to do a range execute so all that should help with dps.

    I really find evil hunter underwhelming conpared to some other choices.. Perhaps camo hunter is a much better choice for burst stealth damage. You can also use Spear shards in conjuction with acid spray but I find Bombard a much better choice.
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  • Valyndras
    Valyndras
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    is this 6-7k on a long boss fight too? i'm assuming you're also v14 based the gear and skills you listed.

    deltiasgaming.com/2014/11/24/radiant-harvester-eso-templar-dps-build/ might be something you might find interesting.

    Yes, I'm VR14 and it's on also on long boss fights.

    Thanks for the link. I followed his build mostly. The updated build (Blazing Harvester) seems to be more focused towards solo PvP, though, which I don't do that much. I was thinking more of a PvE build.
    Valyndras wrote: »
    Hi there

    I have been playing a Bowplar since release, but I have only recently come back to ESO.

    However, at this time, I'm really struggling to deal a decent amount of damage. Single target I deal 6k-7k to normal enemies and 7k-9k to undead/deadra with Evil Hunter procs. (sometimes 10k when I'm lucky.)

    At this point of time, I'm still playing a Breton. I am fully aware this isn't optimal at all for a stamina based build, but I have been playing this character since launch, when people adviced me to roll one since the softcaps were quite low. However, this doesn't apply anymore and I'm planning to race change to Redguard asap. (when Race Change comes available)

    These are my current stats: http://i.imgur.com/358t9RR.jpg (Health and Stamina are affected with a food buff: Kwama Egg Omelet: +5k health, +4.6k stamina)

    My weapon damage is around 2.2k with Rally, which is still quite low compared to other people with 3k+.

    My bar loadouts are as following:

    Bow:
    • Lethal Arrow
    • Poison Injection
    • Acid Spray
    • Evil Hunter
    • Blazing Spear
    • ULT: Ice Comet

    2H:
    • Rally
    • Anti-Cavalry Caltrops
    • Repentance
    • Biting Jabs
    • Power of the Light
    • ULT: Flawless Dawnbreaker

    As far as gear is concerned, I'm using 5 Hundings Rage + 3 Air. (still saving for Shadow Walker Rings)

    As long as I'm Breton, I was thinking about changing them to 4 Morag Tong + 4 Shadow Walker + 2 Night Silence.

    Once I've race changed to Redguard, I'll probably go for 5 Ravager + 4 Morag Tong + something else.

    Can anyone help me fix my build? Any advice would be very welcome :)

    Thanks in advance

    Kind regards

    You might want to take a look into Dark Flare which gives you a range empower. The idea is to weave empower with focused aim, rather than Lethal Arrow. It gives fracture and you can concurrently use power of the light to add to all that damage. Currently poison injection seems to do a range execute so all that should help with dps.

    I really find evil hunter underwhelming conpared to some other choices.. Perhaps camo hunter is a much better choice for burst stealth damage. You can also use Spear shards in conjuction with acid spray but I find Bombard a much better choice.

    Thanks for the tips.

    The main thing I'm struggling is getting my stats high enough. 1.6k/2.2k weapon damage is quite low, and I'm looking for ways to improve that, without sacrificing anything else.

    I took Lethal Arrow, because the Fracture debuff from Focussed Aim doesn't seem to stack with the same Fracture debuff from Power of the Light.

    I'm not really sure about Dark Flare, since it's Magicka based and has quite a long casting time which might cause me to lose dps in the end. The Empower buff is nice, but I don't know whether I will benefit from it in my Stamina build. I can see it having a great advantage in a Magicka build, though.

    In PvE, I can only use an opener from stealth, and not really during the fight, giving Camo Hunter very little use to me, during the fight.
    However, I heard that Camo Hunter is bugged (in a good way atm), which will leave it activated longer than expected when killing undead/deadra, so I might look into that.
    But on my current Breton, I run out of Stamina quite fast, so I'll need the Stamina return from Evil Hunter. I might change this when I become a Redguard, though.

    I took Lethal Arrow + Acid Spray + Poison Injection, because they all deal Poison damage, which will let me benefit from the Thaumaturge Champion Point, and the Morag Tong 5 set bonus.

    Any more suggestions are always welcome. ;)
    Edited by Valyndras on June 17, 2015 9:36PM
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