Combinations of some of the above, but have never came up with my own build that "wrecks and melts". I usually make minor adjustments to builds to fit my playstyle, or just outright copy it.

The best build I came up with on my own was 5 Kagernac's 5 Trainee 2 Grothdar for my Magplar in PvP that I had moderate success with. Not to say nobody else used it but I didn't find it or something similar in a guide.

I use 5 rattle cage heavy 5 lich sword and board sharpened vma lightning and skoria
Front bar is ele drain for pen of light armour and sustain. Lightning clench bane raidiant jabs.
Back bar is run puryfying light ritual mist form gonor the dead and sheild ulti. Hits pretty hard. I win 9/10 times

I have one character that I prefer to run dungeons with and am constantly getting asked how I melt stuff so fast.

I started the game about 3 months ago, have 1 higher level character (currently around 295CP) and didn't look any guides what so ever when making it. Just followed the guidelines game told me on character selection screen.

I knew that I was going to do both solo and duo stuff so I needed a character that could take the hit and also heal. Seen Templar can restore all attributes to yourself and allies so it was perfect choice.

I picked a nord for various reasons, nothing nobody needs to bother with.

Turns out nord is perfect for tanking anyways.

I use 2h and one handed + shield. Found out abilities that I can use to self heal massively, momentum and its morphed version for good example. Couple others there too

+47k health
+15k magicka
+17k stamina.

I can solo various world bosses and even group bosses including final bosses.

Thing is, I hit kinda low but I can take a lot of damage before I go down which was perfect with my partner that I started the game with, so we managed to duo a lot group dungeons even as low levels and as complete noobs.

I have a magplar that I built myself and a Stam NB that likewise I built myself.

On my builds I set myself a limit - all gear must be craftable apart from the Jewellery.

My magplar runs 5 Julianos, 3 Twilights Embrace, 3 Transmutation jewellery. It does very well in overland content, can solo some world bosses (not all), and can solo some of the normal dungeons. (38K magicka, 2502 Spell damage, 65% crit)

I am able to get about 16K DPS out of that, but I am terrible with rotations (I forget which buttons to push....I have permanent short term memory loss)

I also have a self built high crit Khajiit Stam NB. Runs 5 Hundings Rage, 4 Night Mothers Gaze, 3 Agility Jewellery.
34K stam, 67.6% crit, 2962 Weapon Damage. Not been DPS tested as she is doing Cadwells Gold. Weapons are precise and sharpened, and will soon be switching the two swords for two daggers to see what it does to the crit and weapon damage.

However, she has little survivability in an extended fight, anything with more than 150K health can actually be a challenge to kill. Most normal overland bosses are relatively easy kills. She always ganks mobs where-ever possible, and is a master thief.

I run her from stealth almost constantly. Doing Delves has never been so much fun. I have actually gotten comments that I am a complete monster as I don't fight honorably. She ALWAYS ganks everything from behind, dealing 45K damage on the first hit.

Doing that, even on bosses, I have discovered some bugged bosses in game who can be Blade-of-Woe'd. There isn't many but there are a few.

On a side note, no one will probably believe me, but i was aware of pirate skeleton on magsorcs ever since one tamriel drop, and was the first thing i farmed. Run it from the beginning, and only told a couple of ppl who didn't even run sorcs. I was 100% sure whenever it got out there, it was going to be meta. Took the server a month and a half.

Besides that, yeah I like building setups and enjoy sharing them with friends.

MagNB can be incredibly strong with my setup.
But any class can be good if you master it.

Shadzilla wrote: »

Isn't the expression "ground up"? The s looks weird af.

You're right and I fixed it. I actually like it when someone corrects me. I do not like the expression "af" though, your comment went from intelligent to juvenile due to those two alphabets =/.

KochDerDamonen wrote: »

I don't make DD builds, rather not get involved in the gear rat-race... and I just generally prefer support character roles

Me too!