Schemering wrote: »in pve you should be able to trust the healer, that way you wont have to lower dps for any actions by yourself that restore your health.
Ep1kMalware wrote: »I use a stam templar, I open with a binding javalin, vigor, poison injection, light attack, nova, caltrops, light attack, arrow barrage, crit rush, then jabs. I can do all this before you get back up.
TheUrbanWizard wrote: »As the question says. I'm having trouble shooting up my health when I really need to, and rely on dropped health potions way too much, which often isn't enough. PvE mainly, Vet dungeons especially.
Please no answers of kill before killed, L2P etc 'cos that's what I'm doing.
How do other stam nbs cope??
TheUrbanWizard wrote: »As the question says. I'm having trouble shooting up my health when I really need to, and rely on dropped health potions way too much, which often isn't enough. PvE mainly, Vet dungeons especially.
Please no answers of kill before killed, L2P etc 'cos that's what I'm doing.
How do other stam nbs cope??
With my stam NB with a bow I use these healing:
1. Assassin's Blade morphed into Killer's Blade
2. Mark Target with either morph
3. Scatter Shot morphed into Draining Shot from Bow Skills - marvelous healing skill, afaik can be used against many targets and healing applies for all of them separately (at least it was before patch).
The key is to use them in proper way. I don't have Vigor yet (don't like pvp), so these suffice
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And I have resto Staff on back bar, but usually don't need it with the above.
Ep1kMalware wrote: »TheUrbanWizard wrote: »As the question says. I'm having trouble shooting up my health when I really need to, and rely on dropped health potions way too much, which often isn't enough. PvE mainly, Vet dungeons especially.
Please no answers of kill before killed, L2P etc 'cos that's what I'm doing.
How do other stam nbs cope??
With my stam NB with a bow I use these healing:
1. Assassin's Blade morphed into Killer's Blade
2. Mark Target with either morph
3. Scatter Shot morphed into Draining Shot from Bow Skills - marvelous healing skill, afaik can be used against many targets and healing applies for all of them separately (at least it was before patch).
The key is to use them in proper way. I don't have Vigor yet (don't like pvp), so these suffice
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And I have resto Staff on back bar, but usually don't need it with the above.
In general, for PvE dungeons and trials, your healer should be keeping you alive. Sounds like your healer has issues.
... why are people always blaming the heals?
its got nothing to do with that. every competent player should have at least ONE self heal. its not an argument. you cannot solely put it on your healer to keep you up 100% of the time. whatever role you play. its called character balance.
the only exception to that rule are elite trial guilds like Hodor who have 3-4 healers in their Raid anyway and thats 0.01% of the player population where their DPS's need all 5 slots to punch leaderboard topping numbers. Those builds are set up for specific rotations and having heals slotted = less deeps
when i'm on my argonian healer you know which players always drop first? stamblades. and thats because 90% of them are glass cannon 'oh but Deltia said so' burst builds that die after one hit. blaming the healer is a pointless argument for poor players who have no experience outside their class and don't understand the mechanics from each classes perspective.
i tank 80% of the time in dungeons. i never rely on the healer. I keep one self heal active and mitigate damage in other ways. When i switch to DPS i still keep GDB/Vigor up regardless.
TheUrbanWizard wrote: »Ah Vigor..but I hardly PvP. I'll give Rally a go as I use a 2h.
For me Killer's Blade was never quite enough, and @Whatzituyah I prefer Siphoning but thanks.
Ep1kMalware wrote: »yes, we all know you're the all knowing ,master of elderscrolls pvp warfare. Problem with your flawgic is: It works. If you think you can ,agically break free of the stun, sit in the damage area and heal hop on a ps4 and show me, because I gank small groups like this all the time, and unless I fumble ky fingers I usually do exactly what I set out to do. I 'd really like to know what kind of k=mental gymnastics you do to think you're going to adtually sit there and survive all that. Oh well, guess everyone's a super hero with spiderman-esque teflexes these days >_>
also, your wd is where mine is without weapons, and your max stam is where mine is without food. so we'd probably be even if I ate a green food statwise.
Ep1kMalware wrote: »yes, we all know you're the all knowing ,master of elderscrolls pvp warfare. Problem with your flawgic is: It works. If you think you can ,agically break free of the stun, sit in the damage area and heal hop on a ps4 and show me, because I gank small groups like this all the time, and unless I fumble ky fingers I usually do exactly what I set out to do. I 'd really like to know what kind of mental gymnastics you do to think you're going to adtually sit there and survive all that. Unless you're quick you won't even survive the critrush. You would HAVE to do some sort of heals in order to last that long. Oh well, guess everyone's a super hero with spiderman-esque teflexes these days >_>
Sure, I loose fights too, some people are alot quicker than I am and can hit fairly hard in return. You don't actually think I'm going to stop what I'm doing and be like "You sir! I challenge you to an honorable duel!". No, you're going to fly across the screen and it's going to be a complete suprise. You're going to walk through a door and step on a rearming trap, you're going to be walking down an alley in temple district with your mates into a preplanned bottleneck, and unless you have streak (the f*king bane of my existence), you'll be watching me from the floor.
also, your wd is where mine is without weapons, and your max stam is where mine is without food. so we'd probably be even if I ate a green health food statwise. You keep saying your dps is excellent statwise. You done a bloodspawn score with your build? 4-8k dps is not impressive, even in pvp all I have to do is hit lingering ritual and rally every now amd again and I can ignore you completely.
The only time I even notice scrubs like you exist is when I'm grindimg in the sewers and happen to noticd the AP pile in the corner of my screen.
Ep1kMalware wrote: »yes, we all know you're the all knowing ,master of elderscrolls pvp warfare. Problem with your flawgic is: It works. If you think you can ,agically break free of the stun, sit in the damage area and heal hop on a ps4 and show me, because I gank small groups like this all the time, and unless I fumble ky fingers I usually do exactly what I set out to do. I 'd really like to know what kind of k=mental gymnastics you do to think you're going to adtually sit there and survive all that. Oh well, guess everyone's a super hero with spiderman-esque teflexes these days >_>
also, your wd is where mine is without weapons, and your max stam is where mine is without food. so we'd probably be even if I ate a green food statwise.
Constructive reply, I'm impressed.I'm sure you're running with points into Tumbling? The second you notice you're stunned you can break free and dodge roll away (whoever mentioned sitting inside the DoT area? It's 8 bloody metres, doesn't take much to roll out of it
). I'm actually on the PS4 pal
What server you playing on?
My "mental gymnastics" as you so eloquently put it, actually laid out your damage output provided I DID allow you to keep me stunned for the entire 6 seconds AND then sat in your DoTs for the proceeding 6 seconds. Quite frankly if you opened with Javelin anyway, which is a VERY VISIBLE stun to boot, it'd have been broken free and your AoE's avoided within 2 seconds, let alone 12. You would then proceed to try to land your dots for the next 12 seconds I presume since this is your cycle?
No, don't be daft. What would happen is I would break free, your AoEs would be made redundant (bar Caltrops...which costs a LOT of stamina to cast may I add), you'd then charge into me with Crit Rush (which wouldn't CC me any further) and start trying to land Jabs over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. This can be busted via CC'ing you back which would require you to lose your rhythm and have to re-initiate your cycle. During this Rally and Vigour would be ticking.
The other thing you would do is sit at range and try spamming light attack + poison injection (or maybe you're going to do heavy attack?) Heavy Attack takes about 2.5 seconds to charge fully and it hits hard, yes. But invasion takes an instant to cast and will stun you for about 4 odd seconds. You'd then waste stamina to break free which means you've just lost another ability out of your rotation. I hope you regularly weave in heavy attacks with your DW in order to maintain your stamina. I also hope you're not spamming dodge roll all the time to avoid my hits because this will rinse through even further.
I'm assuming you're running The Warrior mundus and you're running max stat food? Which would place your recovery at about 1.5k? Maybe lower? I'd also assume that you're not running as a Vampire because you are a PVE player and you don't want the Fire damage debuff?
I also assume that you have about 35k stamina? Or wait, 40k by the sounds of it? Dodge roll costs more each time, and to fully utilise it and mitigate my burst you'd have to use it regularly. This will push your stamina lower and lower all whilst you're spamming your AoEs etc? Plus Caltrops costs what...like 6k Stamina or something stupid? You'll be using this regularly. Your recovery won't be able to keep up and you'll eventually not be able to break free. I assume you're running stamina pots? And even assuming you have 50 in Alchemist your cooldown on this is say...30 seconds??? You then have a space of about 15 seconds where you'd have to attempt to kite me to recharge stamina. During this time I can either heal or I can continue attacking. Huge stam recovery and a decent-sized pool comes in handy you know pal.
Even if you were running Repentance, you'd have to kill something first to be able to get some stamina back. Each time you heal is another ability cost that costs more than your recovery can handle.
Keep in mind I am using skills that boost my recovery and give me stamina back on every hit too. You could make it a range fight but let's say we encountered each other in an open field with minimal cover? How would you go about avoiding my LoS for my gap closer? Also keep in mind that through the entirety of you spamming your heals to mitigate my damage, you're draining your stamina AND you're only getting 2/3rds of the actual heal.
PVP is not about burst damage. PVP is about sustain. PVE is about burst damage for DPS. If you cannot sustain past the 10-15 second mark in a fight in PVP, you're a goner. You'll get steamrolled. You have the option to either burst down your opponent in a very short time (even assuming you can do this, they'd have to be incompetent or caught by surprise to allow you to), or sacrifice damage in order to have more sustain.
The lowest recovery I run on a character is that of my Magicka Sorc's and that is 1.7k, but he has 46k Max Magicka to boot and regularly weaves in heavy attacks. Sustain is everything in PVP. You can burst for days but if they avoid the burst and wait for you to run low on resources then you're a sitting duck
You could also try against my Magicka NB build if you'd like. That one has 1.7k recovery, 25.5k max health, 46.7k max magicka and 2.9k spell damage. It also has a method of permanently rooting you and can stay out of range of your jabs. Builds with lower sustain don't stand much of chance against a perma-root enemy (which makes Magicka DKs so powerful too).
I run 3 Infused, 2 Divines, 2 Impen and 1 Well-Fitted on my Stamina NB to mitigate some dodge roll cost even further than my Tumbling pushes it. Even WITH my sustain, I struggle against perma-root classes, but at least I have a decent chance.
Out of curiosity, what is your max stamina and your recovery? Plus what is your weapon damage and max health? I am intrigued to be honest. You seem to assume that you have a huge damage and resource pool that can mitigate the need for sustain, it's sparked my curiosity.
P.S.: If you drop your weapons you actually have <500 Weapon Damage. Well played mate.

Ep1kMalware wrote: »so add my psn slicer_of_cats . We can 1v1 tomorrow and I'll upload a vid of you getting 1-2shot while rally spamming. Also, pve = burst damage? have you ever tried to burst anything down with <30,000,000 max hp? Or even 5,00,000. I can do bloodspawn in <60sec on stambuild, I don't have to *try* to hit hard.
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Ep1kMalware wrote: »so add my psn slicer_of_cats . We can 1v1 tomorrow and I'll upload a vid of you getting 1-2shot while rally spamming. Also, pve = burst damage? have you ever tried to burst anything down with <30,000,000 max hp? Or even 5,00,000. I can do bloodspawn in <60sec on stambuild, I don't have to *try* to hit hard.
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What server are you on? It would be redundant if you weren't on mine. Your timeframes are also all over the place. Firstly you state "tomorrow", then you say "in 5 minutes". You're also assuming you can 1-shot 21k Max Health through 15k resistances and Shuffle, we both know that even if you landed all 4 Biting Jabs hits (your strongest ability) you'd still be hitting roughly 7k on me max.
You are getting increasingly agitated as this debate goes on, this reflects negatively on your assumption that you're correct, FYI.
I also asked for your stats, but you're refusing to share them? Care to explain why?
11.3k Against a player seems doubtful if I'm honest. You're not factoring in crit resistance and you're also considering that burning light procs at a 50% rate. I'm sure you are well aware but it only procs 25% of the time, therefore it'd be 1/4 hits and it will only hit about 2-3k after factoring in other mitigation. You could slot Warhorn, yes, but you'd be losing out on another burst and/or mitigation ultimate.
I'm still unable to understand why you are avoiding my questions.
Edit: I've just seen your screenshot.
I see that you've only got 1k recovery, whilst maintaining only 35k stamina as a resource pool. Your resistances are low and you only have 21k max health (in fact lower).
Lovely.
P.S.: I can see that that is running Overload, and not weapon-less. I hope you are aware Overload still factors in your weapons when it calculates damage.
@Ep1kMalware
For the third time, which you have decided to refuse to answer...again. What server are you on? It would be redundant to arrange this if you were on a different server. Also post your UPDATED stats, what use is a 2 month old screenshot? Ugh.
Cba turning on ps4 atm, so an old pic I dug from mobile will have to do. Ak=lso, for the 500th time, l2read.scroll up, info is there. Why don't you show us your stats buddy?
I repeat; you're assuming you're going to hit 11.3k damage on a biting jabs despite mitigation. *Sigh* For your information I'm not a Skeever.
You should have replied again instead of just editing a prior post assuming I'd read it. PS4 N/A and you run AD, not only are we on a different server but we are also the same alliance. Regardless from what I've seen your build isn't maintained well and you're over-exaggerating your DPS potential. At least I provided actual figures based on my actual damage. Shame.
Best of luck with your build. When you want to let me know your actual updated stats feel free. I'm seriously intrigued as to what sort of build you're so confident in and pulling off such damage again all that mitigation with.
It's quite amusing how this started as a harmless discussion, which turned into you belittling someone else's build and refusing to take into consideration all the benefits of their setup, then evolved into you getting increasingly angry and agitated then posting a screenshot displaying stats that are, quite frankly, shocking. Two months ago or not, those stats are horrendous and two months ago is no excuse for it as I am running sets that were around two months ago and still maintain better output than yours even on a "bad S&B scrubby setup".
For me to provide a death recap you'd have to have the potential to win. Based on what I've seen I can confidently say the chance were minimal. Not only do you seem to know nothing outside of your damage against an NPC that has minimal mitigation, you also seem to know nothing about your opponent's abilities and setup, which is not difficult to understand.
I've stated in the past that I am FULLY aware of how a Stamina Templar works as I run one myself. That character, for your information, maintains higher weapon damage than yours, with higher recovery. Unfortunately I have less max stamina (but I don't run max stat food). I would be interested to see your sets too. You said you had about 3.3k weapon damage, correct? Well...
Either way good luck, it's been entertaining. Thanks.

So that's fully buffed and you're either running 2 piece Kena OR you're running Alchemist. Your Stamina recovery is <800 which would honestly get you killed if you couldn't 3 hit someone (which you wouldn't). You're also now reliant on potions and a gap of about 10-15 seconds to do ALL your damage if you're running Alchemist. If you're running Kena you've now made ALL your skills boost by 1/3rd of the resource cost, but you've got <800 Stamina Recovery which means you can't sustain that for longer than about 10 seconds?
You'd waste your entire stamina to try to hit someone who is dodging 20% of the attacks whilst dodge rolling and kiting you, AND CC'ing you. You're also not going to be able to heal due to the high cost rate of your heals if you're running Kena. Once your 10-15 seconds of Alchemist are up you're back down to some standard damage BUT you have still got that god damn awful recovery.
Your build is not viable for anything but a stealth gank on a mounted stamina-less player. Fantastic work pal, fantastic!
Everybody please take note. THAT RIGHT THERE is how you heal and DPS on a stamina character. Solely reliant on a 10-15 second gap for damage and having minimal mitigation and NO recovery. Everyone rework your characters now!
Edit: You're also running 0 Crit res, you'd get killed in about 3 hits from anyone with decent crit rate.
Why would you post such a shocking setup when we're discussing PVP? You're posting a setup that you use for PVE and bragging about the damage on it, you've actually displayed some awful recovery that makes me feel sorry for you to try and make a point, but you don't actually run it in PVP? Therefore your screenshot was embarrassingly pointless. Ugh.
20.7k On a lethal arrow from stealth, mitigation reduces this further and crit res reduces it even further. *Sigh*
That is provided I run past you and you ARE in stealth, which is an unlikely circumstance unless you're the type to sit there in stealth and avoid a direct confrontation.
You posted a screenshot of buffed damage from a Kena proc with horrendous recovery and nowhere near enough sustain to keep going past 10 seconds into a fight, you claim it's not for PVP YET you still posted it during a discussion ABOUT PVP. Yet you have the audacity to claim I am "the dumbest person alive". This is fantastic. I applaud you for your ability to even further make a *** out of yourself, your aptitude for doing so astounds me.
Ep1kMalware wrote: »enough is enough, you lied, made excuses, and did everytho=ing to avoid getting on youtube. But I don't need to kick your ass on an internet game when you're here beating yourself up intellectually.