I would love to take your advice about how to return to ESO

pwhite222 · March 2016

Hello there.

My brief story is that I had to quit playing ESO 1 year-ish ago because life happened. Recently, stuff has calmed down a bit and I've been looking for an MMO to play. I bought and tried out Black Desert Online and... Did not like it, at all. In fact, I disliked it so much that it created within me a desire to play ESO again - A clean, interesting game with good sensibilities.

Plus, I'm playing games on a 55" 4k TV now, so that didn't hurt my cause, wanting to see ESO's world in glorious 4k.

So, I've installed the game now, I've logged in, only to find myself completely lost. I have a V2 character (Imperial, Templar) that I would love to pick back up, but I'm totally lost as to what to do, how to build, and what I should be working on in terms of gear and progression. I think I have some decent gear (screenshot album below), but my build is an unmitigated disaster.

I love PVP and group PVE content, dungeons and raids, and I typically find myself in games very engaged by tanking. I've just about 10k gold I could use to reset all of my skill points and everything, but I am hoping for some guidance as to how to build. If you had a blank pallette V2 Templar, how would you build it?

Also, I am looking for some advice as to how to start doing group PVE content (I believe "veteran dungeons"). I don't know if my current gear is solid enough, and if not, what I'd need to work toward to make it so.

Here is the link to screenshots of the gear and character info: http://imgur.com/a/Nv9WS

Thank you in advance for any responses.

Daraugh · March 2016

Well I'm not "the Templar person" as mine is only vr8 and mostly healer/dd, but I have a few general words that can help. Magicka is in a stronger place right now than stamina builds for the Templar and how it sounds you like to play. Hybrid builds really don't work well now, unfortunately. I don't recall now when the Champion Point system was introduced, but here is the wiki link to the basics of how it works. I would suggest you don't change any skills or champion points until after Monday since with the patch, there's going to be changes to both skill lines and CP.

Lots of good builds at Tamriel Foundry, while it's more fun to build your own, gotta start somewhere

This one sounds relevant to your pve style.

There's some upcoming changes with the Thieves Guild that releases on Monday and there's a bunch of new sets that came with Orsinium, the previous dlc. I really recommend checking out the Orsinium dlc, great stuff there! Cadwell's Silver and Gold are going away, so you can choose which order to do those questlines in for leveling. Daily pledges, especially not vet, are worth doing just to learn the basics of the dungeons. It will level up the Undaunted skill line for you, if you haven't already got that done. Vet ones are harder, well worth it, but get your build in shape and get comfortable. As always, finding a nice guild can make it all that much better.

Welcome back!

DephlaterMouse · March 2016

I recently returned also after about 7 months off. I have several types of characters that I used to PVP with friends in A.D. so I could fill in with range dps, heals, or tanking at various levels.

I've decided that for my comeback I'm just going to start fresh with a new toon in a new alliance and see what happens while I get used to the game again.

Bowdowntogreatness · March 2016

I just started myself after taking a 5 month break life happen with me as well. I honestly started over with a new character so I could have a fresh experience and I'm glad u did.

llSRRll · March 2016

I dont advise starting over bc at some point ( I think its two DLC's from now) all people that have VR16 characters get a 40 champion point bonus. Who ever knows the specifics please elaborate more for these guys.

Johngo0036 · March 2016

First of all welcome back,

A hell of a lot of changes have happened since you left and the meta of the game changed ALOT....

Magicka builds suffered alot and in particular the poor old DK got the bejesus nerfed outa him.... RIP,

Having said that with the Thieves guild coming out tomorrow i would keep an eye on Deltia's Gaming for PVE builds and Sypher, Fengrush and King Richard for PVP builds...

Your Gear you linked is not ideal,
The ashen grip is still ok but the other mixture of pick me up gear is not going to put you in good standing in cyrodiil or even the veteran dungeons...

The meta of the game changed not necessarily for the good of the game and hopefully with the thieves guild release tomorrow some of the damage done will be reversed....

Updates to a lot of templar and DK skills so lets see what tomorrow brings.

Duiwel · March 2016

Johngo0036 wrote: »

i would keep an eye on Deltia's Gaming for PVE builds and Sypher, Fengrush and King Richard for PVP builds...

Those are 3 of my 4 favourate ESO players ( Lefty Lucy being the 4th & in no particular order I love all of them! )

Some of the names you mentioned already have builds out for the new build actually I checked yesterday.

OP - All magicka , Champion points ( Thaumaturge is your friend for damage ) , puncturing sweep is your main attack, breath of life is your main heal, Julianos x5 is a good set, so is Mara's Gift tbh.

The 40 champion points for VR16 is really not that much you can make 40 CP relatively quickly yourself so if you feel you want to reroll to get back into things do so.

Might I suggest a Sorc or DK as with this new update both those classes will be ideal (Please note the most fun class is probably the NB, especially if you like rogues/ assassins...)

If you want to quest you can hit VR16 in about a month ( so you can easily reach VR16 before Dark Brotherhood releases ), if you grind you can reach it in a week or less ( more if you take your time and do delves, dungeons, dolmens ect. in between ).

Psyjiic Ambrosia is your friend when you want to level ( you gain +50% exp for 30mins when using it ).

If you max your provisioning to 50 and you put 3 points into connoisseur you can increase that time to 50mins I believe.

Given how easy it is to hit 50 in provisioning ( costs less than 5k and takes less than 20minutes ) I would recommend this.

A nice idea is also to perhaps try a different alliance? Maybe EP or DC? Since you already have a AD char...

Up to you

Remember that racials are important when creating a char:

Guidelines:
Sorcerer:
Altmer
Breton

NB:
Khajiit
Redguard
Woodelf

DK:
Dunmer
Imperial
Orc

Templar:
Altmer
Breton
Nord
Imperial
Orc
Argonian

phillyboy7897 · March 2016

Your race will benefit the most from being stamina unfortunately stamina templars are in a rough spot as far as PvP and its getting worse next patch (sorry bro). Stamina would of course be the way to go for PvE tanking

Should you choose to go the magicka route I have a build video of a PvP heavy armor tank for you, but this one is going to help you either way. You can get probably a level an hour if you do what I am showing in this video and get around 40k cash/hr for your new gear which it sounds like needs replacing, also hella CPs of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTLbIvZHs4

phillyboy7897 · March 2016

As far as the veteran dungeons do some farming and selling on guild traders like I am showing in this video first, then get some crafted gear your level, then you can start doing those without it being to frustrating.

The whole process of farming and crafting gear will only take probably 4-5 hours, though it may be best to just power through to v16 then worry about your gear, this will save you time and money in the long run

phillyboy7897 · March 2016

to get to the mobs from the video just head from the DC sewer base (or where AD and EP port in closest to DC base) toward the center, you will pass through the rooms on the video