One Bar Builds For Solo PvE? [Discussion]

Enslaved · October 2018

sDK 2h
Dizzying, rally, reverse slice, volatile, noxious and leap/DBoS

Kel · October 2018

Jack_Of_Shades · October 2018

On a side note, I'm working [Attempting with some difficulty] on making a one bar Necromancer build. Should be fun!

-Jack Of Shades,
The mysterious Sage

HaakkaPaalle · January 2019

I one bar with my Breton MagSorc.
5 pc. Thunderbug (armor slots)
5 pc. Mothers Sorrow ( jewelry/Lightning staffs)
2 pc Iceheart set

Liquid Lightning, Elemental Blockade, Volatile Familiar, Power Surge, Boundless Storm

Thief mundus stone.
Super easy drop all the dots, keep up boundless storm and power surge and with your high crit, you just heal and proc iceheart for the shield and some additional damage. Very survivable and melts all trash and does fairly well against single targets as well. i only switch to the back bar to use dark conversion as an oh *** heal (never really needed) and endless fury as an execute.

Kagukan · January 2019

I did one bar for a long time on my magsorc. Even soloed normal 4 man dungeons easily with one bar. Then I started PVP. NOPE. 1 bar doesn't do well in PVP. Had to learn bar swap and found it pretty easy after a few days.

SirAndy · January 2019

Jack_Of_Shades wrote: »

So, naturally, I don't bar swap.

Sylvermynx · January 2019

Um..... with my lag (2k ms) I can't bar swap (among MANY other things) so.... it's what I do already?

Seriously, I am NOT kidding. I have never once since my first girl got to level 15 been able to bar swap. At 2k ms lag.... it's a completely useless option.

No this is not on ZOS. This is on where I live. However.... where I live has the cleanest air and water, the cheapest power and water, anywhere in the US. So....

It's a trade off. I love where I live. I won't have "real broadband" here before I die (probably three decades on). Then again.... I'll probably live 30 years longer than people who live where there's "real broadband"....

BloodStorm · February 2019

Invigorating drain, structured entropy, inner light, blazing shield, puncture on my Templar vampire tank. I have beaten ever veteran dungeon as well but that's with groups of course mostly and for the DLC ones espdcially. I personally enjoy non DLC veteran dungeon the most as you can tank through the mechanics without thinking it's so easy. Maw of infernal set is fun because I light attack spam besides blazing shield and taunt/ emergency heal in the very rare cases I need it from invigorating drain/ mostly a PVP thing. I always down to help people get a monster helm if they want one and am on PS4 Vampire_Noble is my PSN. I have ran banished cells 2 a million times so I mainly do that that one since maw of infernal set is my fave set in the game

. I can solo pretty much every world boss in ESO minus a few I think. I Have solod every Morrowind world boss accept the defiler boss sometimes is really annoying if remember. I haven't tried him in forever as your damage is sorta lacking and he has some type of mechanic will have to. Check again. But ya tanks are usually very fun for PVE as you can solo pretty much everything in zones which dps can very rarely ever do.

CompM4s · February 2019

I typically keep one attack bar and one buff bar. Keeps it simple.

MartiniDaniels · February 2019

Kel wrote: »

https://youtu.be/cafavdcH7po
https://youtu.be/pE-ILni0HPI

Well, say bye bye to 15k shield

Barbican1965 · February 2019

I am an overland solo'er for 95% of the time. Played every ES game since 1st day Arena came out. so Im used to going it alone.. I run a "single bar" x2, but they are short range, and long range. So, self contained w/in their scope. Right now Im running a recreation of a character I played in high school (dNd, Viking) about 35 years ago... Nord DK, Stamina 2H/Bow. You mentioned curiosity for a one-bar build, so:

Skills:
1. Reverse Slice (2h/execute), FLEX TO Brawler
2. Burning Embers (Ardent flame/FireDOT Heal)
3. Noxious Breath (Ardent Flame/PoisonDOT Debuff), FLEX TO Green Dragon Blood
4. Hardened Armor (Draconic Power/Defense buff)
5. Igneous Weapons (Earth Heart/Offense multi-buff)
U. Magma Shield (Ooooh ***! button)

All those abilities allow for tie-ins to the passives for synergy and tree advancement, and I dont seem to run outa juice.

Im 34th level now, and haven't figured out a way to die yet, but I only do solo delves so far. Altho I like to fight a lot of things at once, and mess with overland bosses (RP from my old character, crazy F'k who used to attempt solo dragons, mostly unsuccessfully, but he didnt give a F'k). I think I might try to solo some dungeons soon, not sure which one to try 1st if anyone has a suggestion.

Nerouyn · February 2019

Mag warden only has 4 damage class abilities to choose from (so sad) and personally, I find spamming the insta attack to be terrifyingly inane so almost never slot it.

Deep Fissure + Elemental Blockade + Winter's Revenge cover your aoe needs and isn't too magicka hungry so is also serviceable against single enemies.

The other two abilities can be whatever you want. I normally have Fetcher Infection and Blue Betty (betty half just because it looks cool).

Ultimate = bear. Love the bear.

On second bar, I slot heals - which I almost never need to use except at world bosses - and speed buffs.

drakeos99 · March 2019

Looking into magden atm but wondering if they are strong ? or go magplar?

Vyvrhel · March 2019

For a solo roaming, I believe you can easily go one bar with a 2handed on stamina and destro staff on magicka.

2H: Rally. Brawler, plus anything you like depending on your class, maybe also Critical Rush?

Destro: Harness magicka (light armor) / Hardened ward (if you are sorc), Elemental blockade, Destructive touch, plus anything you like from the class skills.

Also if you feel rather defensive you will be undestructible with healing staff and some offensive class skills.

If you are a mag sorc, you will be totally OK with pets, namely Twilight matriarch who does solid DOT plus has a very good heal. Something like

Daedric Curse (a very cheap and very effective skill), Hardened Ward, Twilight Matriarch and anything you like,
with a lightning staff I can think about the aforementioned Ele blockade, and either other pet (maybe the clannfear instead of scamp) and if you want to have something to play with, Crystal frags casted on a proc, or a Power surge for the self buff and heals, or anything else you fancy. You just cast Blockade, Curse and heavy attack with a lightning staff (gives you AOE which is better on overland mobs who are usually in a group) to replenish magicka and repeat at will. If you are feeling pressed, cast the Ward and use Twilight Matriarch to heal you. I bet you will do almost everything soloable with this single bar build - including some group dungeons on a normal difficulty. If you decide to use scamp and not the clannfear, you have just another aoe dot to clean the groups quickly.

Vyvrhel · March 2019

Or for even more facerolling option, you can go werewolf.:) You will need only 3 skills, one is the ultimate to get into the were form (Pack leader), then Feral pounce and Hircine's rage and thats all you need. You just use LA to tear through everything in your way, Pounce to cover distance quickly and Rage to heal and selfbuff. Just remember to chain kill things and devour them as you go to stay in were form and you will be unstoppable.

One bar build like no other.

Jack_Of_Shades · September 2019

So, as an actual necromancer, I have a nice little build I've been using. Only level 31, but I have prior champion points distributed as well. I'll give my build. It's relatively simple.

Basics-
Race: Breton
Class: Necromancer

Attributes-
Magicka: 39
Health: 0
Stamina: 0
Boon: The Apprentice

Skills-
*Flame Skull--->Ricochet Skull (Grave Lord)
*Death Scythe--->Hungry Scythe (Bone Tyrant)
*Render Flesh--->Blood Sacrifice (Living Death)
*Wall Of Elements--->Elemental Blockade (Destruction Staff)
*Boneyard--->Avid Boneyard (Grave Lord)

Passives:
*Death Knell (Grave Lord)
*Dismember (Grave Lord)
*Death Gleaning (Bone Tyrant)
*Disdain Harm (Bone Tyrant)
*Health Avarice (Bone Tyrant)
*Tri Focus (Destruction Staff)
*Penetrating Magic (Destruction Staff)
*Elemental Force (Destruction Staff)
*Ancient Knowledge (Destruction Staff)
*Grace (Light Armor)
*Evocation (Light Armor)
*Spell Warding (Light Armor)
*Prodigy (Light Armor)
*Gift of Magnus (Breton Skills)
*Spell Attunement (Breton Skills)
*Magicka Mastery (Breton Skills)

Champion Points:

Green-
*The Tower: 15 Warlord
*The Lover: 49 Tenacity, 60 Arcanist
*The Shadow: 16 Tumbling, 16 Shadow Ward

Blue-
*The Apprentice: 30 Elfborn, 35 Elemental Expert, 11 Spell Erosion
*The Atronach: 5 Staff Expert, 35 Master-at-arms
*The Ritual: 40 Thaumaturge

Red-
*The Steed: 42 Ironclad, 18 Spell Shield
*The Lady: 33 Hardy, 32 Elemental Defender, 32 Thick Skinned

Normally, I'd have Magelight and such, but I just didn't want to mess with what I made already. Since it already worked well for Solo. But anyway, this is it! No, it's not Min/Max. Obviously. But it gets the job done during most fights. And I've even ran through Maelstrom and made it quite far, even before level 30. Enjoy!

Austinseph1 · September 2019

For mag builds I would put A shield, Ground dot, single target dot, possibly Inner light and any other utility buff. I usually revolve the single bar builds around heavy attacks as the spamable so if you can buy Elegence and solo arx coronum for Undaunted Infiltrator those would probably be the easiest for Lightning Heavy attacks and a cheap 2 piece if you dont have a monster helm. This is what I went with for my magdk to get flawless vMA clears for fun haha. Im sure most meta players would laugh at my meme build but its fun and effective. Especially if you don't do most group content Arx is a very easy one to solo on normal as far as I remember. If your Warden if mag I would probably Use Wall of elements, mag fissure morph, and maybe maybe arctic wind/ Frost cloak, Inner Light and Dampen Magika. If you want to take on harder contnt and take the survivability to a new level throw a healing staff on backbar and Just use it or rapid regen and healing ward. Cant say its going to be amazing after The dot reductions but for now It will be nice.

Since these builds are more casual play oriented I like to have Major sorcery and prophecy built in to the build and you can spam the free drop pots without worry, Betty netch could replace the self heal and inner light provides the other buff

FrancisCrawford · September 2019

If you must go one-bar, I'd favor magplar, because they can do a lot with only three skills:

HotD
Reflective Light
Puncturing Sweep

Skills that could make great additions to that bar include Channeled Focus, Unstable Wall of Elements, Crushing Shock (or Force Pulse), Degeneration (or Structured Entropy), Solar Barrage, Blazing Spear and others.

If you merely need your build to be "almost one-bar", Channeled Focus is a great backbar buff.

Jack_Of_Shades · September 2019

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

If you must go one-bar, I'd favor magplar, because they can do a lot with only three skills:
HotD

Reflective Light

Puncturing Sweep

Skills that could make great additions to that bar include Channeled Focus, Unstable Wall of Elements, Crushing Shock (or Force Pulse), Degeneration (or Structured Entropy), Solar Barrage, Blazing Spear and others.

If you merely need your build to be "almost one-bar", Channeled Focus is a great backbar buff.

Yes, that was my first one bar. I LOVED it. It definitely helped me beat the Maelstrom Arena for the first time.

tahol10069 · September 2019

I just got my one-bar Sorcerer to 50, and soloed one NORMAL dungeon with him easaly. His gear is in no way optimised, he is just so fresh out of oven and my main, who is crafter, hasn't got enchanting to 50 yet so for example encantments are low level, no gilded gear etc.

I got idea for this from Alcasts one bar build, and tried that first but I didn't like the skills he used. I'm sure his build is actually much better, but I don't really care about meta and liking the skills and the gameplay is more important to me. I want to point out that I'm 100% soloplayer so I don't have to care about how much I inconvenience others with my less optimal DPS. But this is how I did it and I love it.

5 pc Queens Elegance
5 pc Necropotence
2 pc whatever you like, I have acutally 7 pc Queens Elegance right now because that's what I had in bank, will change later.

Mundus: The Mage

Race: Breton

Skills: Boundless Storm, Blockade of Storms, Structured Entropy (this has to be changed comes the next patch), Twilight Matriarch, Inner Light, Thunderous Rage as ultimate.

Put your CP as you see fit.

Because you heavy attack all the time, there is no worry of sustain, ever. Matriarch heals you and herself, so it rarely dies and you can heal as much as you want because again, there is no worry of sustain. Boundless Storm gives speed too which I like. I'm really, really pissed about the changes in Entropy that are coming. So at least the morph has to be changed so you will keep the Major Sorcery, other option is to change the whole skill to Power Surge, which I haven't leveled so thank you ZOS for nothing.

Ysbriel · September 2019

At least for the most overland with my MagDK wearing julianos i used to slot

the whip healing morph, the talons, elemental blockade, anumulment, dragon blood and leap as ult, that will get you anywhere as a one bar. Same with the warden: winters revenge, wall of elements, anumulment , scorch,lotus, . bear ult.

Golden_Cat · September 2019

Personally I think it's too soon for post like this because most reliable AOE DOT or just DOTs are being nerfed really hard.
For me, 1 bar build consists of 1 spammable, 1 AOE DOT, 1 heal,last 2 slots can be used for self buff like damage and crit chance.

ZonasArch · September 2019

Golden_Cat wrote: »

Personally I think it's too soon for post like this because most reliable AOE DOT or just DOTs are being nerfed really hard.
For me, 1 bar build consists of 1 spammable, 1 AOE DOT, 1 heal,last 2 slots can be used for self buff like damage and crit chance.

It'll probably be best to replace AoE dot for summer other buff, sustain or otherwise, to allow you to use spammable more effectively.

On magplar, my bar would be jabs, rune focus, ritual, BoL and inner light. Maybe would replace ritual with radiant destruction for boss fights.

Been using this on my main for ages, never failed me, and can pull 20k plus dps. I do use back bar but only for harder content, otherwise I avoid switching because if latency

Jack_Of_Shades · September 2019

Hey thanks for responding, folks! I like some of the feedback and builds. I didn't put gear on mine simply because I tend to find gear that works great for him. But also, you can generally take down some difficult bosses that drop good gear. Normally I'd use my maxed put crafter to make gear, but my ESO plus is out. So all the materials and such just stack in my normal inventory. Might make a few pieces of training gear for level 30 and so I can just finish his leveling to 50. That way he'll be at champion 496. Then I can grind CP and see how the build works after maxing him.

FrancisCrawford · September 2019

tahol10069 wrote: »

I just got my one-bar Sorcerer to 50, and soloed one NORMAL dungeon with him easaly. His gear is in no way optimised, he is just so fresh out of oven and my main, who is crafter, hasn't got enchanting to 50 yet so for example encantments are low level, no gilded gear etc.

I got idea for this from Alcasts one bar build, and tried that first but I didn't like the skills he used. I'm sure his build is actually much better, but I don't really care about meta and liking the skills and the gameplay is more important to me. I want to point out that I'm 100% soloplayer so I don't have to care about how much I inconvenience others with my less optimal DPS. But this is how I did it and I love it.

5 pc Queens Elegance
5 pc Necropotence
2 pc whatever you like, I have acutally 7 pc Queens Elegance right now because that's what I had in bank, will change later.

Mundus: The Mage

Race: Breton

Skills: Boundless Storm, Blockade of Storms, Structured Entropy (this has to be changed comes the next patch), Twilight Matriarch, Inner Light, Thunderous Rage as ultimate.

Put your CP as you see fit.

Because you heavy attack all the time, there is no worry of sustain, ever. Matriarch heals you and herself, so it rarely dies and you can heal as much as you want because again, there is no worry of sustain. Boundless Storm gives speed too which I like. I'm really, really pissed about the changes in Entropy that are coming. So at least the morph has to be changed so you will keep the Major Sorcery, other option is to change the whole skill to Power Surge, which I haven't leveled so thank you ZOS for nothing.

Crit Surge should be strong for that build next patch.

DocFrost72 · September 2019

Tasear wrote: »

Today I sloted some gear I thought might work, then generated ultimate then light attacked my way to 20k DPS on werewolf. Changed glyphs and food then pushed up to 34k DPS. Want something simple yet powerful and fun then try werewolf.

This didn't age well.

Jack_Of_Shades · September 2019

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

tahol10069 wrote: »

I just got my one-bar Sorcerer to 50, and soloed one NORMAL dungeon with him easaly. His gear is in no way optimised, he is just so fresh out of oven and my main, who is crafter, hasn't got enchanting to 50 yet so for example encantments are low level, no gilded gear etc.

I got idea for this from Alcasts one bar build, and tried that first but I didn't like the skills he used. I'm sure his build is actually much better, but I don't really care about meta and liking the skills and the gameplay is more important to me. I want to point out that I'm 100% soloplayer so I don't have to care about how much I inconvenience others with my less optimal DPS. But this is how I did it and I love it.

5 pc Queens Elegance
5 pc Necropotence
2 pc whatever you like, I have acutally 7 pc Queens Elegance right now because that's what I had in bank, will change later.

Mundus: The Mage

Race: Breton

Skills: Boundless Storm, Blockade of Storms, Structured Entropy (this has to be changed comes the next patch), Twilight Matriarch, Inner Light, Thunderous Rage as ultimate.

Put your CP as you see fit.

Because you heavy attack all the time, there is no worry of sustain, ever. Matriarch heals you and herself, so it rarely dies and you can heal as much as you want because again, there is no worry of sustain. Boundless Storm gives speed too which I like. I'm really, really pissed about the changes in Entropy that are coming. So at least the morph has to be changed so you will keep the Major Sorcery, other option is to change the whole skill to Power Surge, which I haven't leveled so thank you ZOS for nothing.

Crit Surge should be strong for that build next patch.

Are they reworking the ability?

FrancisCrawford · September 2019

Barbican1965 wrote: »

I think I might try to solo some dungeons soon, not sure which one to try 1st if anyone has a suggestion.

If you mean group dungeons, I favor Banished Cells 1 over Spindleclutch 1 or Fungal Grotto 1 as a first solo, because it feels like the final boss hits a little bit less hard, leaving more margin for error.

If you mean public dungeons for the skill point -- you can solo any of them, at least the 16 in the base game. (You can solo all the DLC ones too, but some can be a bit challenging with the wrong build.)

Varkal2112 · September 2019

What does playing solo and playing the other elder scrolls games have to do with using one bar only? I don't get this rationalization, is it too hard for you to swap bars or what?

mocap · September 2019