Best way to increase health?

Lynx7386 · February 2017

My magdk is starting to feel pretty powerful, I run 5 julianos /3 torugs pact / 3 willpower with all spell power enchants on the jewelry and max magicka on the armor, also 64 points in magicka. I use Inferno/lightning staff and build around the constant off balance / flame lash setup via lightning blockade.

Right now my biggest issue is low health. I only have around 11k health but close to 30k magicka unbuffed. Dampen magic basically gives me a 100% shield, lava lash heals roughly 100% of my health over 2 seconds, and I get pretty much a full heal from dragon blood with the homestead changes when I'm low on health.

It feels like a lot of that healing is wasted with such a low health pool, and I often take enough burst damage to easily one shot me, so I have to pour tons of magicka into constantly keeping dampen up.

Is it better to swap enchants or attribute points for more health? Is there any other route?

Kammakazi · February 2017

To get health you can:

Use Max Health / Max Magicka Food
Put points into the Health Attribute
Use TBS instead of Julianos because TBS has a Health bonus stat
Utilize the Undaunted Mettle passive under the Undaunted skill line
Get higher CP

Waffennacht · February 2017

I feel food or drinks with a health bonus are a must.

I also like Tri Glyphs on the big pieces

Then I use either a set like Clever Alchemist (x2 health bonus) or even a jewelry set that comes in max health.

I never use attribute points to increase health (though it would or could work the same, imo is more expensive swapping attributes rather than the above)

Lynx7386 · February 2017

It'd be harder to swap gear at the moment since I'm out of mats to craft more. Also using training on all my armor to help get cp faster.

I'd love to get tri-stat glyphs but I can never find hakeijo runes and they're super expensive. I still haven't started leveling provisioning so buff food/drink is going to be hard to come by. Looks like my best bet right now is either attributes or health enchants, I just don't want to lose too much magicka in exchange

mr_wazzabi · February 2017

Lynx7386 wrote: »

My magdk is starting to feel pretty powerful, I run 5 julianos /3 torugs pact / 3 willpower with all spell power enchants on the jewelry and max magicka on the armor, also 64 points in magicka. I use Inferno/lightning staff and build around the constant off balance / flame lash setup via lightning blockade.

Right now my biggest issue is low health. I only have around 11k health but close to 30k magicka unbuffed. Dampen magic basically gives me a 100% shield, lava lash heals roughly 100% of my health over 2 seconds, and I get pretty much a full heal from dragon blood with the homestead changes when I'm low on health.

It feels like a lot of that healing is wasted with such a low health pool, and I often take enough burst damage to easily one shot me, so I have to pour tons of magicka into constantly keeping dampen up.

Is it better to swap enchants or attribute points for more health? Is there any other route?

Do you use food? No competitive player does anything without food.

Wear 5 light, 1 heavy, 1 medium and run dailies until your undaunted is rank 9. You'll have 6% more of each resource pool of magicka, stamina and health once you put the passives in.

Level up the heavy armour skill line and put points into the passive that increases your health by 2% for each piece of heavy armour.

Once you have all these you should be sitting at minimum 17k health.

AcadianPaladin · February 2017

My magpie healer sounds a bit similar. Unbuffed she is about 12.5k hp / 28k mag (she's a Bosmer with 64 attribute points in mag). She gets one boost of hp from an armor set bonus and another from a gold/gold helm.

Happily, she is a master provisioner of food and makes top of the line savories that (with perks) buff her up to about 18k hp / 33k mag which feels very good. Plus, as a healer, her primary defense is healing so 18k is plenty of hp.

If you don't want to make chow, you can easily find plenty of bread lying around that boosts your hp only for 6k.

Autolycus · February 2017

Lots of good suggestions here. It was mentioned already, but I want to reiterate CP. A few hundred CP (say like a CP 300 vs. 600) is a couple thousand points of health difference, just for allocating Warrior points into the trees in some fashion.

Waffennacht · February 2017

What you need to do, which maybe super boring to you but will pay off in the long run, is bite the bullet and send a few hours leveling your Provisioning skills and other PvE crafting type lines.

It'll save you un told thousands in gold and even allow you to personalize foods and potions to your needs.

Provisioning is extremely quick to level, I personally went to IC, in the very beginning of the sewers you have access to hundreds of provisioning items and you can just grind by making simple foods and drinks.

Literally within hours you'll be maxed, and for the rest of your eso career will never have to rely on someone else for your food

That's how my main maxed all his crafting lines, he got mad no one is on in the early morning hours and he needed stuff right meow.

Lynx7386 · February 2017

I do all my crafting on my nightblade, he's got everything at 50 except provisioning, just haven't gotten around to that one yet. Guess I'll get to work on it.

Lynx7386 · February 2017

Autolycus wrote: »

Lots of good suggestions here. It was mentioned already, but I want to reiterate CP. A few hundred CP (say like a CP 300 vs. 600) is a couple thousand points of health difference, just for allocating Warrior points into the trees in some fashion.

Yea im working on it, I'm at cp300 right now, been grinding out the points in full training gear.