heavy attack magsorc.

If you really want to, you can go:

Frontbar (lightning): both pets, bound armor, hardened ward, inner light.
Backbar (resto or another destro, it really doesn't matter): both pets, bound armor, surge, flex spot.

Just lightning heavies for damage, hardened ward as your only "active" skill you really need (and occasionally swapping to backbar and keeping surge up).

It's faaaaar from an endgame build, but you'll roll through overworld content no problem and have enough DPS, honestly, for all normal and most vet dungeons.

Are you animation canceling?

I ask because one of the things I noticed myself doing when the game first came out and i knew nothing about Animation Canceling, was I would repeatedly press the same button leading up to the end of the previous animation, trying to get the skill to activate as soon as the previous one ended.

Once I learned how to animation cancel, my fingers calmed down a lot because I knew exactly when everything was going to happen because I had better control over skill timing.

Perhaps this is not the issue for you, but if it is, learning animation canceling might help.

altmer or breton will work. compare the passives and decide which race will best augment your playstyle.

best of luck to you. welcome back!

sutasafaia wrote: »

Made a post a few weeks back or so, finally got into the game, messing around...and my hands hurt. So bad. I thought having fewer buttons compared to a bloated game like SWtoR would help, and it does, but only for so long. I took a recommendation and picked up a logitech gaming mouse that had more buttons on the mouse so I could avoid moving my left hand so much but that, of course, adds all the strain to my right hand. Is there any build or class setup that allows virtually all of your skills to be passives/toggles or the like? I was having fun (although maybe I should not have picked nightblade? heh...) but the pain is a bit too much to actually enjoy the game right now, even only playing for an hour or so at a time. And of course...will I still be able to actually play the game successfully with such a build? Obviously PvP is out but what about the rest of the game? Kind of discouraged right now =/ hoping people can help me out with this one. I know playing with almost no skills would be incredibly boring for most people but I'm completely fine with it, so no worries there.

The closest I could find is, I'm guessing, a sorc of some form or another since they can use pets to take up slots and have quite a few good passives, but I don't know enough about the game to be sure, and I would have no real idea how to build it anyway. Maybe get away with only needing to use 1-2 skills? I have no idea.

know the needs, i have 2 builds specifically for when my eczema on my hands becomes so painful i can barely move my fingers.

ones a stam sorc build the other is a mag sorc build, both mostly run on light and heavy attacks

*takes his time typing them both up*

with magicka i go fully into damage, mainly the light+heavy attack star cp star and elemental damage, go for whatever defence stats you prefer, green = health regen, cause your mostly gunna be spamming light+heavy so no need for regen buff, especially since altmer
you slot surge, bound ARMAMENTS (the stam one for the 12% heavy attack bonus), dark deal, mages guild mage light for the crit while slotted bonus and entropy mainly for the health boost, ultimate is overload (slot the same stuff on that bar to) while using a lightning staff
5 brahas curse (rings+neck), 2 of the monster set for the magic crystal chain bombs (for the likes of me i forget the name) and rest is julianos.
this setup melts most content even dungeon stuff but not hardmodes and even scores you some brownie points in cyrodill wall defences due to all the aoe spam from holding heavy attack.

stam setup is pretty similar except you either go orc or argonian, replace mages light with the one from fighters for weapon crit, dark deal is replaced by vigor from cyro, overload is replaced with flawless dawnbreaker and replace magicka cp stars with physical stars for obvious reasons.
sets are the main difference, you go DW, 1 dagger 1 axe, both sharpened, 5 briarthorn set (rings+neck)for healing on crits which is easy with 5 hundings on top, the monster set should be selenes for the AoE frontal slam.
downside is this set is melee and wont compete well in cyro, especially since bows arent great for this setup either, but it's axe at soling most overland content and even some dungeons (not hard mode)

mundas stone for magicka is apprentice while melee is the theif

sorry this took so long to write but its agonizing using my hands atm.
would write these up in a guide and build of my own but i never get round to it, put off by hand pains and the idea of getting sore wrists

@sutasafaia
I would suggest hooking up a controller to your PC and playing with the controller. I have carpals in both hands and arthritis, and the mouse and keyboard kills my hands. The controller is so much easier to use and far less strain on my hands.

Agree with Hippie4927, using a controller allows longer play. I have a rheumatic condition so I can relate! My setup is a wireless xbox controller for PC, with keymapping via a third party program called xpadder. To play even longer, balance the controller between your hands but still resting on the desk - the desk will support the controllers weight while you game. It's the only way I've found to make gaming doable... and also setting down the controller when there's a pause in play to give your hands a chance to rest. Good luck!

Hippie4927 wrote: »

@sutasafaia
I would suggest hooking up a controller to your PC and playing with the controller. I have carpals in both hands and arthritis, and the mouse and keyboard kills my hands. The controller is so much easier to use and far less strain on my hands.

sutasafaia wrote: »

Race: People keep seeming to recommend Altmer, but I do like Breton...is that a problem?

Front Bar: Clannfear, Matriarch, Hardened Ward, Bound Armor, Mage Light (Ult? I dunno? I have no idea which ult to use...)

Bound Armor raises a question. More magicka = better pets, but the other version gives better heavy attacks. Which do you think is superior here?

Back Bar: Clannfear, Matriatch, Bound Armor, Surge, and...blockade? (Ult, again, no idea at all...)

Blockade seems like it should be on front bar but I'm not sure where to actually put it if I was going to use it. Putting anything on the back bar that has to be used constantly seems like a bad idea, and I would definitely classify 8s cooldown as constantly. Surge isn't as bad, especially since you don't even need it all the time. So really unsure here...

Sets are nice and all but at the speed I play I have no idea if/when I'll ever get to use them

Breton will be absolutely fine, and in the content you'll likely be tackling will make essentially zero difference.

I'd stick with the max magicka bound armor, personally.

Try Daedric Prey (morph of Daedric Curse) on your backbar.

You'll want some sets. If you are PC-NA send me a message and I'll hook you up. The nice thing about this setup is you don't need any regen because, well, you are heavy attacking. So something simple like 5x Julianos, 3x Willpower, 2x Torugs would work just fine and dandy (again, for the content you are talking about).

I find that the one of my toons that is the easiest on my wrists and shoulders is my pet sorc, so I think that all these folks know what they are talking about. So happy to see all this helpful input.

Welp, made it to 13...barely dont the first area. I play so slowly T-T figure I can ask some questions here rather than making a whole new thread.

Anyway...so far...

Blockade, Clannfear, and that's it...I have some other skills on my bar for leveling but this has been all I've been using really. I've been using Overload as a good boss killer. So far so good, no hand pain.

I'm a bit unsure of what to stick on my bar though. I obviously need to level all three skill trees for passives and the like, but I still want to get Matriarch on my bar. That's my last empty slot. I won't have room for Magelight for a long time...is that a problem?

Not sure about blockade either. It seems really annoying to use, enemies don't like to stay inside it, but every build ever seems to use it? Might swap it out sooner rather than later to make room for other stuff...

Possibly going to swap Clannfear for Imp once I get Matriarch also. Not sure...Clanny is a nice tank for bosses.

Just not sure what to do >>

Apache_Kid wrote: »

DeadlyRecluse wrote: »

heavy attack magsorc.

If you really want to, you can go:

Frontbar (lightning): both pets, bound armor, hardened ward, inner light.
Backbar (resto or another destro, it really doesn't matter): both pets, bound armor, surge, flex spot.

Just lightning heavies for damage, hardened ward as your only "active" skill you really need (and occasionally swapping to backbar and keeping surge up).

It's faaaaar from an endgame build, but you'll roll through overworld content no problem and have enough DPS, honestly, for all normal and most vet dungeons.

Add daedric prey for extra pet damage an this will be your best option for sure.

Also add Queen's Elegance for 20% light attack damage and play the game like an FPS shooter

Hang in there. You need to build your character of course as well.

You picked wrong class. Probably the hardest class in the to master mate. Heavy attack Mag pet sorc or heavy attack Stam DK I would recommend.

In the effort to make this build as simple as possible, I am attempting to trim it to one bar...obviously not optimal, but not sure it matters for soloing anyway. A little unsure what to use though. I was trying to swap back and forth to keep surge on backbar, so that I could keep blockade on front bar, and it's just frustrating. I have no real plans for competitive grouping/pvp anyway so I figure may as well just dumb it down even farther...

1: Clannfear
2: Matriarch
3: Empowered Ward
4: Power Surge (Maybe replace surge with inner light/aegis so I can have both and drop surge? But surge seems nice for the damage increase, even if I don't heal much from it with Ward up, and I have matriarch for healing also...)
5: Inner Light or Bound Aegis? Not sure which would be better. They both increase magicka 5%, one gives crit...which helps with healing, and one gives more magicka resist, which is nice stacked on top of my breton. Not sure on this one either.
Ulti: I've been using Energy Overload because I saw no better option. Will likely swap to Elemental Storm asap? Not sure which morph though...or even if that's the best option. Meteor is a long way off. Maybe the newly buffed Atronoch?

Finally hit 32 The farthest I've ever managed to get in this game. Barely done anything it seems like, just Morrowind and a few of the main story quests from Daggerfall/Anchorage. Talk about bittersweet. Yay I'm progressing! Yay I'm trying to dumb my build down even more...

Based on some more hunting (and asking on reddit for more help) it looks like this might be a decent setup, but still more questions. Also, no...not going to use a macro and get banned. That's an odd suggestion

1: Clannfear
2: Blockade
3: Ward
4: Matriarch
5: Inner Light or Aegis...unsure here
Ulti: May swap to Atronoch until I get access to a better ulti. Will have the Destro Staff one soon...ish. Only at rank 40. Meteor is a long way away so don't even need to worry about it right now.

The only thing missing is Surge but there is just no room for it. If only bars could be six powers. I may just have to experiment with changing my weapon swap hotkey. It's not like you need Surge all the time after all, mostly just on bosses. Still...spell power is nice to have all the time. Shame I can't seem to find room for Aegis either but I can't have everything I suppose.