Are you using any skills or just swinging your weapon? That is the reason most people have issues with combat is they don't use the skills. In fact, skills are your primary damage, with weapon attacks being used to weave in between.

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Combat in this game comes down to Skill Rotations, with Light or Heavy Attacks interspersed. So, it's more like 1,2,3,4,1,2,3 dead. Pick your skill rotations so that one skill will set up or buff another skill. For example, use a skill that Snares, then a skill that gives Damage over Time to an area so the snared mobs spend longer in pain, then use a spam damage skill. This is just one example.

Once you learn a good rotation, then you can weave in light or heavy attacks between the skills to extend the resource pool you play from. So it's more like 1, LMB, 2, LMB,3, LMB, 4, LMB, 1 Dead. Then once you learn how to weave attacks, then you can start animation canceling to up your DPS.

So, attacks are not just a spam of the Left Mouse Button, but an application of your skills and weapon attacks.

You add in Blocking (reduce damage), Bashing (interrupting a caster or heavy attack wind up), Dodge Rolling (double click on a WASD key to avoid damage and get out of red quickly). Throw in some terrain advantage, and your basically a Mobile, Agile and Hostile wrecking machine.

And, do you have gear in every slot? While matched sets are better, anything is better than nothing.

I’ve never played online before, so the whole format is different than, say skyrim for example. I don’t have the game in front of me right now, so I can’t give many specifics. I’m a wood elf, level 19, night blade (I think it’s called). I’ve been focusing on putting my points in mostly health, in hopes that I don’t die quite as quick

Ideally you want most of your attributes in the one that scales your skills. But, since we are all running on Magic Skills until you can morph then, that means magic for now, and stamina later. I am assuming Stamina NB as your a Bosmer and that is best suited to a Stamina focus. From here on out, put your points into Magic until you get the respec scroll the game gives you from leveling. Then you can spec your Attributes into Stamina and your Morphs into Stamina Choices.

Do you use Foods? Ask in zone chat if someone can make you some scalable foods to boost your attributes.

Don;'t stand there and take damage, Block (right trigger probably), move around, dodge roll, get out of red, if the red is going towards you, move to the side

There are some nice skills in the NB line, like the one it's either Hidden or Shrouded Dagger that does damage to 3 mobs. Also, you might find a bow easier to use early on, then add in the Dual Wield (Bow and DW are tyical NB weapons, but you can do others if you want)

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I’ve never played online before, so the whole format is different than, say skyrim for example. I don’t have the game in front of me right now, so I can’t give many specifics. I’m a wood elf, level 19, night blade (I think it’s called). I’ve been focusing on putting my points in mostly health, in hopes that I don’t die quite as quick

Some tips:
1. You are playing wood elf which is designed for stamina characters. Put some points into stamina then, this will increase your damage.
2. Use two-handed weapons. At first they look not so good but there are 3 amazing skills that will make you almost invincible in PvE.
a) The most important one is Cleave (third one). You need to morph it into Brawler. This will give you shield each time you use it and the more enemies you hit, the bigger shild will be. It also damages your enemies and make them bleed so called DoT damage (damage over time). You can survive almost any fight by just using this skill and heavy attack to restore stamina.
b) When you will get used to killing things, you will probably want to kill mobs faster. This is where Reverse Slash (fourth skill) morphed into Reverse Slice comes into action. It deals AoE damage (area of effect) like brawler but these damage are increased the lower your enemy HP is, so when you brought at least one enemy below 50%, 2-3 uses of this skill will finish whole group.
c) Momentum (fifth skill) morphed into Rally. This skill doesnt deal any damage but it increases all damage you do with other skills and attacks (physical and poison ones), heals you each second allowing you to survive more and when your health is critical you can use it again to heal your self almost to full.

Also you have mechanics like Roll Dodge (allows you to dodge any single attack directed at you, also alows you to escape out of roots), Block (reduces damage you recieve by a half) and Break Free (when you are stunned or feared you can do this to end the disabling effect and react faster).

are you pc eu if you are add me i help you . as a few players have given you lots of help

Just a learning curve getting used to the mechanics if you're not familiar with MMO's. Took me 2 characters to get to a point im happy with.

Only thing I can suggest is:

• looking at tutorials on combat - light/heavy attack weaving, AoE, DoT etc... look at Gilliam & Alcast
• spec majority points into either mag or stam (probably go with a 3/1 ratio with health until you're comfortable)
• Use a heavy armour set with mag/stam enchants until you're comfortable with survival, or morph skills to ones that heal you.
• join a friendly guild (can be found in game chat, or on the sub section of these forums) - this one's probably the most important.