Trying to break into pve

chiftie · July 2020

So I've finally hit 810 and I've gathered most of my skill points. Now I’d like to break into pve but I’m not sure where to start and how to progress. Can someone point me to a guide. I searched around and most resources and guides I found were from several expansions ago.

JKorr · July 2020

huh. Normally people use pve to level up to break into pvp and the "end game" trials.

Go to the starting town for your faction. Davon's Watch, or Vulkhel Guard, or Daggerfall.
Meet the Hooded Stranger.
Go meet your mysterious benefactor.
Follow the story from there, do side quests as you want to.

Luckylancer · July 2020

I think he means end game PvE.

Select the class you want to play with
Go to alcast site and grab the begginer sets for your class
Farm intermediate sets
Practice your (alcast's actualy) rotation (this is the most important step to increase dps
Find an active PvE guild from... Craglorn?
Do normal trials first then do veterans

Personal tips: you can fake tank normal dungeons, this will reduce your que times a lot and maybe you can skip begginer crafted gear to save money. You can be average healer if you are a mag dd too. It can work at veteran non-dlc dungeons too.
You can buy below average dd set in guild stores to skip begginer gear
You can craft 150cp gear to pay less to crafting gear, they are not that bad imo but cost 10% of 160cp crafting gear
veteran maelstrom arena will teach you how to survive at pve but it is a torture for me. Try it but if you cant beat it, get the normal MA weapons. You can go back there later on if you are a masochist

Asardes · July 2020

Start with base game veteran dungeons, then DLC veteran dungeons, vMA, vDSA and Craglorn trials, and the next tier is DLC veteran trials and vBRP.

chiftie · July 2020

Luckylancer wrote: »

I think he means end game PvE.

Select the class you want to play with
Go to alcast site and grab the begginer sets for your class
Farm intermediate sets
Practice your (alcast's actualy) rotation (this is the most important step to increase dps
Find an active PvE guild from... Craglorn?
Do normal trials first then do veterans

Personal tips: you can fake tank normal dungeons, this will reduce your que times a lot and maybe you can skip begginer crafted gear to save money. You can be average healer if you are a mag dd too. It can work at veteran non-dlc dungeons too.
You can buy below average dd set in guild stores to skip begginer gear
You can craft 150cp gear to pay less to crafting gear, they are not that bad imo but cost 10% of 160cp crafting gear
veteran maelstrom arena will teach you how to survive at pve but it is a torture for me. Try it but if you cant beat it, get the normal MA weapons. You can go back there later on if you are a masochist

Awesome. Thanks! This is a great roadmap.

Athyrium93 · July 2020

Just jump on a training dummy (most guilds have at least a few in their guild house if you don't have one) and see what your DPS is now, if your on PC download combat metrics or a similar add-on. Do a couple parses to see how you do, how your sustain is, and if you have add-ons how your uptime on AOE's and any buffs/debuffs are.

Then go look up some build guides for your specific class, Alcast, like mentioned above, is good, but so are a lot of other creators, so just find a build you like, (If you don't know how to LA weave, now is the time to go watch some videos on doing it) and then try a parse on the dummy with their recommended skills, rotation and potions/foods. You can worry about the gear later because it isn't the biggest part of your DPS.

Hopefully the numbers got bigger, If your hitting 20dps go run some normal vet dungeons, learn the mechanics, and have fun.
While doing that pick up whatever decent dungeon sets you can find, whichever build your following should have a list of gear that will work. Don't bother buying gear unless it's something you'll use for a long time (like mother's sorrow on some magicka builds, no idea what the stam equivalent is) Just gear that you will be using long term unless you have the gold to burn because there are a lot of good dungeon sets.

Once your comfortable with group content do some normal Craiglorn trials, you'll know when your ready to move up to vet DLC dungeons and harder trials

tsaescishoeshiner · July 2020

chiftie wrote: »

Luckylancer wrote: »

I think he means end game PvE.

Select the class you want to play with
Go to alcast site and grab the begginer sets for your class
Farm intermediate sets
Practice your (alcast's actualy) rotation (this is the most important step to increase dps
Find an active PvE guild from... Craglorn?
Do normal trials first then do veterans

Personal tips: you can fake tank normal dungeons, this will reduce your que times a lot and maybe you can skip begginer crafted gear to save money. You can be average healer if you are a mag dd too. It can work at veteran non-dlc dungeons too.
You can buy below average dd set in guild stores to skip begginer gear
You can craft 150cp gear to pay less to crafting gear, they are not that bad imo but cost 10% of 160cp crafting gear
veteran maelstrom arena will teach you how to survive at pve but it is a torture for me. Try it but if you cant beat it, get the normal MA weapons. You can go back there later on if you are a masochist

Awesome. Thanks! This is a great roadmap.

Please don't fake tank. You won't learn anything that way, and even on normal it can be frustrating for group members (even tho normal dungeons are really easy).

I would:
1. Do normal dungeons until you're comfy there
2. Try veteran non-DLC dungeons — daily pledges will be the easiest ones to find groups for
3. Join a guild to do pledges with. You probably want 20-30k DPS on a 3mil dummy before hopping into vet DLC dungeons (some are way easier than others)

Things to work on:
1. Light attack weaving. Really important for veteran DLC content & trials
2. Rotation. Same as above
3. I like to practice rotations on basegame world bosses. All the ones in Deshaan (EXCEPT the guar + spriggans one!!) are pretty straightforward, and require a bit of blocking & healing like real dungeon content.
4. Work on normal & vet Maelstrom Arena! Might be a long journey to finishing veteran MA, but once you can do that, any dungeon hardmode or vet trial is within reach

This is just DPS advice, tanking and healing are different, but still pledges with friends/guildies are the best way to learn.

Good luck have fun!!