Asking guild mates to make you a crafted set that you can't craft yourself isn't "cheating the game", it's sensible (provided you supply them with the materials to craft with).

Also, asking guild mates to make a crafted set that comes from DLC you don't personally own, again isn't "cheating the game", it's sensible. For the same reason. This is a multiplayer game, after all.

Still... I have some agreement with the OP, despite coming from the opposite perspective of having been a sword-and-board tank who still nevertheless has to actually have the damage to kill things in solo play (because there are places which can ONLY be done solo, so "wait for someone else to come along and kill it" is not an acceptable solution.) My main spammable skill is magic-based, I need stamina for dodging and blocking, but in solo, you've got to be able to hand it back as well as take it.

I also take issue with the monster levelling system that allows even the trashest of trash mobs like skeevers and wolves to level up with you so it takes as many hits to kill them at high levels as low levels. At some point, monsters should STOP levelling up, and the player be able to out-level and take fewer hits to kill them.

That being said: It appears that a lot of Sorcerer class skills seem to be lightning focused... oddly enough this does NOT necessarily mean that one needs to use a lightning staff, class skills are non-weapon skills: and your staff skills might be better suited to a strategy with a fire or cold staff than a lightning one.

When levelling up a character at low levels, it can often be a good idea to take a mix of stat points anyway. When first levelling up my tank, I found out that I needed a fair amount of both magicka and stamina, so I put points in both at the expense of health, but kept with the sword-and-board and heavy armour playstyle. You get a free stat-respec scroll during your level up process, I used it once I had enough CPs spent to actually make up for the loss in damage, and respecced to add several thousand more health and made a proper tank of myself.

In most RPGs, it's been a well known thing - magic-based characters are usually harder to start because they are squishy, wear light armour and do not have many hit points. As the phrase goes: "Linear fighter, quadratic wizard". Fighter types start out stronger and hit a wall later: traditionally they find out that they can only hit one enemy at a time with one sword, while wizards can pull big area of effect attacks, in D&D you know you've made it as a wizard when you can regularly cast Fireball and leave Magic Missile behind. But you need a fighter or two to keep you alive until then. Wizards *are* always more dependent on gear and skill synergy.

It also looks like you're confusing the class term "sorcerer" with the "role" of magicka damage, stamina damage, healer or tank. A "sorcerer" can actually be any of them - as can any of the other classes.

Maybe you could use enchantment glyphs to put more magicka-restore on your gear? Or higher Magicka, which will increase your magicka damage, or bonus spell power? Have you improved your gear to green, blue or even purple quality?

Maybe an Absorb Health enchantment on your staff to restore your health when you do basic damage with it? (intersperse your magicka-costing attacks with basic attacks which don't cost magicka, or heavy attacks which restore it, and an Absorb Health enchantment will restore some of THIS damage - not your class skill damage, not your weapon skill damage, but your basic Light and Heavy attack staff-zapping damage - to health.

Consider the Traits of your armour as well as what it's made of? If you're not into buying sets from players, it may actually be more important that your armour has good Traits until you find a complete set. Admittedly the only place you can actually change a Trait is at a Transmute station, and there is only one of these in the wild - in a DLC area, the Clockwork City, to be exact - but this is where multiplayer comes in handy, because the Transmute Station is also a piece of furniture that can be bought with Master Writs from master craftsmanship (a LOT of them!), and a lot of guilds will have someone who has one publicly available in a guildmate's home that you can travel to for free, so you don't need the DLC.

Which Mundus stone bonus are you using? And what have you spent your Champion Points *on*? Just having the points does nothing (you may think I'm asking if you're stupid, but I really have seen people who had hundreds of CPs and had not in fact ALLOCATED a single one of them.)

After my main "Breton Templar Tank" I think my second character is going to be "Orcish Magicka Necromancer". Again I've been told that the race, class and role don't really fit each other - in the earlier case I was told "Templars don't make great tanks, go magicka-DPS or healer instead, especially as a Breton" and "Orcs aren't great with magicka, you should do stamina if you want an orc necro" - but any race/class/role is, I am told, eventually viable even in endgame content such as veteran trials, with the right gear and strategy, even if you might not hit leaderboard points for said endgame content (and who ACTUALLY cares about your "score", when what matters is completing it at all?)

magnusthorek wrote: »

Even at near max / max CP Magicka can't be compared to Stamina. Most of the times we have short timed skills that need to be constantly (refreshed thus making our sustain difficult) that are slow to cast if compared to stamina equivalents. A basic example is Templar's Puncturing Sweeps vs. Flurry, the "excuse" is that the former heals while hits (needed to the ground) and hits multiple targets while the latter don't (fails to mention sweeps' secondary targets take considerably lower damage)

Word of advice? Keep trying and don't go blind on superstars' builds. You can use them as base, sure, but if you think outside the box you can do wonders.

But most importantly (and this may sound harsh to others reading this) don't bother with such discussions here. You'll get so stressed you might even almost explode your heart. I almost died 5 years ago because of this, forcing me to take a huge break and live with the side-effects.

Great advice and I'm glad to hear you are doing better now!

Sanctum74 wrote: »

Good, please have them lock the thread until you can learn to speak to people with basic manners and reading comprehension. You obviously either don’t want to learn the basics of the game or you’re just trying to troll.

Man said items you can get from anyone are cheated into the game. I think we know the answer here lol

I also take issue with the monster levelling system that allows even the trashest of trash mobs like skeevers and wolves to level up with you so it takes as many hits to kill them at high levels as low levels. At some point, monsters should STOP levelling up, and the player be able to out-level and take fewer hits to kill them.

That's not actually how One Tamriel works. All monsters are set to Level 50 gear level CP 160. Initial characters at level one are granted various behind the scenes bonuses to make the effectively perform as a level 50 gear level CP 160. These bonuses are never visible to a character - unless you look up the mechanics specifically nothing is mentioned about them in game. As you level up towards level 50 the bonuses are slowly reduced and removed. It can be noticed that sometimes as characters level up they appear to get weaker at points, as the hidden bonuses are removed and actual worn gear and stats start to become more central to the characters damage and survivability.

So the it's not the monster that is leveling, it is the training wheels that are getting taken off your character. Once you hit level 50 CP 160 you will start to overhaul the monsters. Better gear, more experience, better skill combinations and applied CP points in excess of CP 160 will see to that.

Does this remind anyone of similar style posts from another user name not too long back....?