What class are you playing?

Klixen,

which server are you on? If you are on PC-EU, feel free to mail or whisper me in game @EllieBlue and would be very happy to help you.

Ellie

I am currently leveling a new character lvl 28 currently that I have not distributed any champion points in and I only use the gear I find. I am finding I can solo most stuff some world bosses are tough as hell but they should be imo, but delves, public dungeon bosses and quest bosses are very soloable.

I would advocate to level as you quest, I can't see any fun in grinding to 160cp as a new player to then start doing quests. How would a new player know where to grind?

I believe you find it hard because you are learning the game and it will take some time to know it well.

Basics to having a easier time in pve is to have a self heal, best if it is over time, so you can deal dmg or mitigate dmg while healing.

What class, magicka/stamina focused, level are you?

Klixen wrote: »

I'm a Magicka Templar. It's supposed to be the easiest class to play. But I really suck at it

My hope is that if I can just level up and get some decent gear, then I'll breeze through the content like everyone else does.

I just need some leveling advice. How do all of you 'power level' your alts?

I will assume you will go magicka.

The first skill in each of the 3 Templar skill lines are very good. You have the puncturing strikes that you can morph to sweeps, which will give you heal when you attack.

In the 2nd skill line you have sun fire which will give you a good dot on your target.

And 3rd skill line have powerful heal skill.


It is a perfect toolkit.
Use light armour it will give you more dmg and better sustain i like to have 1 big piece of armour in heavy, the chest legs or helmet. Use block more than roll dodge to mitigate dmg if need be.

Look for the enemies heavy attacks(bright sparks) to block and the interruptable heavy attack(red sparks) to bash.

Go get them quests

The basics for 0 CP new magicka players:

1. Always use food, not drink: if green or store bought white, magicka. Blue magicka + health is better if you can buy it or craft it
2. Get the + magicka mundus ASAP (Grahtwood, Deshan, Stormhaven.) The spell power one will give you more damage but leave that till later. Early on it's better to up your damage with magicka not spell power because that also gives you a larger pool to use when you may not be all that great at regenerating magicka.
3. Use light armor set gear from delve bosses, dolmens, public dungeons, chests, group dungeons, etc. Try to get your magicka to 35K plus. Heavy armor will indeed protect you better but the problem is that it's hard to find dropped heavy armor sets that help up your magicka and spell power which you need. Light armor passive also help you regen magicka which you also need.
4. AOE skills and any skills that do damage AND heal you at the same time are what you should focus on using. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that you can level from 1-50 as a magplar doing nothing but Puncturing Sweep.
5. Focus on learning when to block, bash and dodge and just step out of telegraphed attack areas.
6. Slot a self heal but don't over use it: kill them fast before they can hurt you.

No offense but you're fooling yourself if you think that by leveling you'll be able to do the quest bosses better. Chances are that if all you do is level up you'll just keep on struggling against them. What you actually need and all you really need is the basics.

I quested through DaggerFall, Stormhaven, and Rivenspire before I learned anything else beyond playing like an MMO. I played with pick it up as I found it gear the whole time. Not full sets, and not always the level I actually was.

I still quest to level, because all the speed leveling ways are boring as *ell (This includes the 2 characters I made at Christmas while being CP690.

Now my first character did end up being a tank, even then I couldn't really solo World Bosses, but everything in quest wasn't so bad. My first character was also a Templar.

Restoring Light - Hasty Prayer is your best friend (First skill in the tree)
Aedric Spear - Puncturing Strikes - Puncturing Sweeps, heal yourself for doing damage (First skill in the tree)

Now if you want to just grind to CP160 that's up to you. I know people that do that to get to CP cap as well. I don't find that fun at all though

Klixen wrote: »

I'm a Magicka Templar. It's supposed to be the easiest class to play. But I really suck at it

My hope is that if I can just level up and get some decent gear, then I'll breeze through the content like everyone else does.

I just need some leveling advice. How do all of you 'power level' your alts?

If you are on PC-EU, I'd be happy to help in-game.

As for leveling:

It's paramount to learn when to block, bash and dodge. Without knowing how/when to do that, the game becomes a lot harder than necessary.

Try different classes/playstyles. Different weapons can make a lot of difference and you'll get a lot of skill points anyway, so there's nothing wrong with trying to find the right one that suits your playstyle.

Use buff food, especially when you're about to do a dolmen, delve or face a quest boss. Even if you're just using green food to buff your health. ESO doesn't sadly teach the importance of food to a new player.

I'd recommend questing to level on your first character. If you grind to 50 from the beginning, you'll get bored rather quickly and you won't learn much about the game at all.

1. spam Puncturing Sweep. best solo questing skill. good damage, AoE damage, and self heal, all in one.
2. all stats in max magicka. because damage is scaled on (Spell Damage + Max Magicka / 10.46)
3. use crafted food that gives Max Health + Max Magicka bonus. same reason as above. actually single bonus food gives higher Magicka. but better use two bonus food for the huge health bonus.
4. get spell damage bonus from mundus stone.
5. craft and equip a full set of Law of Julianos.

don't bother to power level, you need to travel around to collect skill points and mage guild lorebooks anyway.

better join a guild to get some support.

EllieBlue wrote: »

Klixen,

which server are you on? If you are on PC-EU, feel free to mail or whisper me in game @EllieBlue and would be very happy to help you.

Ellie

Unfortunately not. I offered the same. Klixen is playing on the NA Server.
Is there someone from the NA Server that would be willing to help?

As someone who learned the game with a Templar, there's one genuinely easy way to not die: get Puncturing Sweep (magicka morph of the Puncturing Strikes skill in the Aedric Spear skill line) and spam it. It does solid damage AND heals you AND scales based on your magicka, which is good for a Magicka Templar.

Also, while the people suggesting you dump everything into Stamina or Magicka mean well, I strongly suggest you ignore them for now. While it's true that all points into your main attribute is how you build for the mid-to-late game (or when leveling a new character after you've learned the game and know what you're doing), in the early game spreading out your points a bit so you can experiment with different types of skills and morphs - and putting points into Health for survivability - is not only valid, but advisable in my opinion. There's a reason the Trainee set gives you bonuses to all three attributes.

Speaking personally, I had a mostly even spread between Stamina and Health on my Redguard Templar with a good few points into Magicka as well, and I did just fine until I hit 50. I may not have killed things as efficiently or as quickly as possible, but I stayed alive and I learned how my abilities worked - and that above all else is your objective when learning this game. Once you get the basics down, THEN you can worry about optimizing your stats, traits, armor, etc.

OrdoHermetica wrote: »

As someone who learned the game with a Templar, there's one genuinely easy way to not die: get Puncturing Sweep (magicka morph of the Puncturing Strikes skill in the Aedric Spear skill line) and spam it. It does solid damage AND heals you AND scales based on your magicka, which is good for a Magicka Templar.

Also, while the people suggesting you dump everything into Stamina or Magicka mean well, I strongly suggest you ignore them for now. While it's true that all points into your main attribute is how you build for the mid-to-late game (or when leveling a new character after you've learned the game and know what you're doing), in the early game spreading out your points a bit so you can experiment with different types of skills and morphs - and putting points into Health for survivability - is not only valid, but advisable in my opinion. There's a reason the Trainee set gives you bonuses to all three attributes.

Speaking personally, I had a mostly even spread between Stamina and Health on my Redguard Templar with a good few points into Magicka as well, and I did just fine until I hit 50. I may not have killed things as efficiently or as quickly as possible, but I stayed alive and I learned how my abilities worked - and that above all else is your objective when learning this game. Once you get the basics down, THEN you can worry about optimizing your stats, traits, armor, etc.

Talk about bad advice...

Klixen wrote: »

I could be wrong here, but I get the feeling that the game is really designed for maximum level characters, with at least 160 champion points and good gear. I've read other posts that say you really shouldn't try to do quests at low level. You should get to level 50 as fast as you can (by whatever means you can), grind 160 champion points, get yourself a good 'set' of armor and THEN start doing the quests.

This is poor advice, rushing to level 50. If you've played the game a while and understand its mechanics, getting to 50 is more because you don't need the "tutorial" levels anymore, and now they're annoying.

If you're new, taking the time to learn the game during these levels is important. I can attest the new players who rush through the game do more to hinder groups later in the game because they didn't take time to understand their skill tree.

Yes, this game *is* brutal for those using physical damage characters (including myself) because the trade off is more damage for less health (though I still contend the bigger problem is more spells are tied to magicka rather than stamina).

For spellcasters, their sacrifice is speed.

DKs are popular because they're neither strong or fast.

Notice a pattern here?

This is why the game feels weird to me. It acts as a punishment system, rather than a reward system. That is, until you do get the gear you need to make the game less punishing.

Note my signature. That's the problem with the game's mechanics.

I enjoy playing this game quite a bit, as do many, but even I admit it gets frustrating at times because the mechanics seem to be playing against me, rather than me using them.

I just hit level 44, I think. I'm on my "3rd" character, a wood elf specializing in dual-wielding archery. She's getting her potato kicked. Without sustain and the dreaded 45s cooldown, I just try and try again, spending soul gems. Instead of leaving when I'm a bit stronger, I *refuse* to let this boss get the better of me. I'm an idiot.

The thing is: I'm kicking major tail right now. Not because I'm "gud", but because the game is punishing me once again by giving me stats well above my actual level. Between 1-50, nothing you wear or use really matters.

Once I hit level 50, with this build, I'm going to be investing in 100s of soul gems.

Going to need them for resurrection because stamina builds are spanked by this game.

I stopped playing my sorc because I felt too OP.

Now I feel way UP.

I'll take my lumps before I play a DK.

On top of the super helpful tips everyone else already gave, one more thing comes to mind;
Are you playing in 3rd person view?

Because I remember when I just transitioned from my favourite single-player RPGs to ESO, I couldn't even kill a pack of wolves without dying thrice over. Until my bf quietly and lovingly - and looking at me as though I was especially dense - took the mouse out of my hand, scrolled down, and introduced me to the wondrous world of third-person-view. I no longer needed to play in a frame that only showed ~30% of what was happening around my character. Mind was blown. Many wolf lives were destroyed that day.

Now, you may have caught onto this much, much sooner than I did. xD
Just thought it might be worth pointing out as it was the single-biggest change in going from single-player to MMO, for me.

Violynne wrote: »

Note my signature. That's the problem with the game's mechanics.

Are you serious?

Gear is almost irrelevant in this game.

Let's take at the current meta builds:
Mechanical Acuitiy - crafted
Julianos - crafted
Hundings Rage - crafted
Night Mother's Gaze - crafted
Torug's Pact - crafted
Shacklebreaker - crafted
Kagrenac's Hope - crafted

and there isn't a single 9 trait set on this list.
If people can finish the hardest trials or Maelstrom Arena in this sets, why aren't they good enough for you?

Stop looking for things to blame, and start asking people what you are doing wrong.