Does it cost any gold or is it free?

no thats what i just said - it costs gold. sliding scale based on how many points you have.

someone above posted about throwing Attrib points into Health.. I wouldn't do that unless you're planning on Tanking later on. Throw everything into either Magicka/Stamina depending on what you're playing as. If you chose Imperial DK, definitely throw everything into Stam. Magicka Templar? Obviously Magicka. Buff health on your gear with Enchants. At low levels mobs drop so many white glyphs its not funny.. Just apply one or seven to your gear.

Choose your race based on whether you go Magicka or Stamina also.

The racial passives for Imperials make them better suited to a Stamina Build (Conditioning Passive - 10% Stam @ Rank III)

The racial passives for Nords give them exceptional Health Recovery (so better for tanking IMHO)

Personally I'd go Redguard over both of those for a Stamina Build as the racial passives not only give you additional Stam, But added combat Stam Recovery as well.

Also have a think which role you will serve (DPS/Tank/Healer) as that will come into play later on and it's good to set the framework for it up now.

Thanks! I'm gonna try to respec all my stats tonight and throw all my attribute points into stamina and work on my food/drink creations. I'm gonna rock probably full heavy armor tonight because I have some health boosts on that but what armor setup do you run? Like 5 H 2 M? Or something like that?

Alright thanks! I'm probably gonna do that and I think I want to do dual wield instead of 2 handed. It seems like it'll be better for group fighting especially with the steel tornado (something close to that)

KrustyWilly wrote: »

Thanks! I'm gonna try to respec all my stats tonight and throw all my attribute points into stamina and work on my food/drink creations. I'm gonna rock probably full heavy armor tonight because I have some health boosts on that but what armor setup do you run? Like 5 H 2 M? Or something like that?

i suggest you do not keep your health dowm, in low levels, otherwise you are going to die easily several time when you fight mobs; anyway experience your way is always a good thing to do, and you always be able to respect (respect attributes is cheep, around 3k for 60 points; skill respect is around 12k over 300 skills)
early in game, and in pve, your main target is the survivability and learn 1 good ranged, dot, stun combo to use in conjuction with 1 dps combo. later on when you master the class you may dedicate your attenction in a proper build, becouse you already mastering your survival skills.
i always met in dungeon low levels werrior with 7k healt, and 12k magika or stamina. they always going to die 3,4 time in dungeon, becouse there is no gap of sustain with such low health pool. they cant even survive 1 attack .

BurtFreeman wrote: »

i suggest you do not keep your health dowm, in low levels, otherwise you are going to die easily several time when you fight mobs; anyway experience your way is always a good thing to do, and you always be able to respect (respect attributes is cheep, around 3k for 60 points; skill respect is around 12k over 300 skills)

that only really applies to initial first characters (which OP is, so it applies)

once you have Master Crafting right up on a higher level char you can continually craft new gear for the new char you're levelling and you will never have a sustainability issue. This is what I do for all my chars, Craft with my VR14 and dump it onto the lowbie toon. I'm replacing a Hundings/Ashen Grip combo every ten levels and sustainability is not the slightest issue.

All right thanks guys! And what is a good DPS combo you guys use on your guys? You said something about having a good one. Ill spread points into health as well as magika or stamina, whichever I choose.

Nice thread. Players helping other players, I love it. And as a bystander it helped me as well so thanks.

KrustyWilly wrote: »

And hey @likewow777 when you say doing damage and staying away from big attacks so you mean run in deal a ton of damage and run back out?

When I DPS, I think of it as a "me or him", type of thing. I try and dish out the damage faster than what I get hit with, ideally getting no damage at all. Obviously, that's not really practical, and there are big attacks, which you'll learn to see. Many enemies like to hit you with Uppercut, for example, which sends you flying back, CCs, and drops your health a ton. Blocking that, when you get used to what it looks like, is one example of avoiding big attacks. Daedra from dolmens, for example, tend to use high powered attacks. Watchers have their green eye beam, Daedroth shoot fire, Lich do a ton of AoEs on the ground, etc. A good DPS will see all of these things and avoid them.

Remember: Dead, your DPS is 0.

There's a lot of advice above about keeping health high early on, using light armor instead of medium, etc, that I won't quote because it's just going to bloat this post. It's all great advice, especially the attack stuff. However, you will always find builds and playstyles that conform to different standards. I, for example, put no points in HP and for stamina builds I forget about magicka almost entirely. Still, none of my stamina DPS characters have ever had problems with dying.

It can be an issue early on to have resources to do anything at all. That's just the way it is. Weaving heavy attacks is a good idea. I've found that by the time I can unlock weapon swap, lvl 15, my DPS and resources are high enough to deal with standard 3-man mobs without issues.

As @BurtFreeman says, though, the only trouble is levelling class skills. Do you need to unlock all of them? Probably not. I certainly don't. What you do want, though, are all the passives, which only unlock if you level skills and get the class tree levelled up. Typically, I use Bar 2 to level non-primary skills and weapons. When turning in a quest, finishing a dolmen, whatever it is that gives XP, I swap to Bar 2 prior. The game levels skills that are on the active bar at the time.