Zaan. But you'll have to run vet Scalecaller. Grothdarr is easier to get, but its an AOE attack.

Since its a magcro, Ilambris could work as magcro deals both fire and lightning attacks, depending on the build. Its easy to get, too.

Nerien'eth would work too. But if you are looking for range, Maw is going to be the best as Zaan and Grothdarr have a distance attached to either the proc requirement or the range of the damage done. I've found it best to wear a monster set that will be most effective for bosses. Trash mobs are trash for a reason.

Don't take this the wrong way but I'm guessing you might still be working out a rotation. Once you tighten up the light attacks, the Maw will proc a lot more. And if you are using a lightning staff/heavy attack rotation, each tick of the heavy attack has a chance to proc the Maw, unlike the "wind up" on inferno or ice staff heavy attacks.

QuebraRegra wrote: »

El_Borracho wrote: »

Nerien'eth would work too. But if you are looking for range, Maw is going to be the best as Zaan and Grothdarr have a distance attached to either the proc requirement or the range of the damage done. I've found it best to wear a monster set that will be most effective for bosses. Trash mobs are trash for a reason.

Don't take this the wrong way but I'm guessing you might still be working out a rotation. Once you tighten up the light attacks, the Maw will proc a lot more. And if you are using a lightning staff/heavy attack rotation, each tick of the heavy attack has a chance to proc the Maw, unlike the "wind up" on inferno or ice staff heavy attacks.

why does Nerien'eth fell like crud? is it the delay? the hit seems lackluster... can't figure it out. Relegated to an alt of an alt

Nerien'eth can be improved in the damage output with your CP setup. But, its starting point is lower than other sets, which means the other sets that start at a higher baseline have more potential damage than Nerien'eth. Think about Selenes. It says it will put out 13,364 damage, but after allocating CP points and with group buffs it will routinely hit in the 25K and above range.

You have identified what I think is its weakness, the delay. Add in the small range and it can be rendered ineffective with any boss that doesn't stand still. It might be more effective if it exploded immediately or tracked its target. But I don't think its as good as Ilambris

Here's an thread about it from last year:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/516226/nerieneth-monster-set-problems

@DigiAngel I'm familiar with that build as I run a variation of it. Mag necro is one of the harder builds to sustain even when you are hitting all the light attacks. The cast times and the animations of the skills also make a rotation more difficult than a magsorc or a magblade. It will come with time and gameplay. Two things necro-specific I have found: make sure you are hitting the targeting button when fighting a boss with the necro. I've noticed blastbones and the tether get kind of picky when you don't and won't always fire. Second, you must keep the tether up as much as you can or your DPS will take a big hit.

Everyone was once where you are now, just starting to figure out how DPS works when it comes to sets, skills, and rotation. Hate to tell you but there is no shortcut to big DPS numbers. Best piece of advice I ever got was slow your rotation down. Players tend to rush it, especially in harder content. The basic way to learn a LA rotation is to hit your LA first, then hit the skill so you can see on the screen how the animation cancelling works. Its NOT the other way around. If you do skill then LA, there is a good chance you will cancel the skill itself this early on. Once you get that down you can work on speeding it up.

Good luck as always

DigiAngel wrote: »

Thanks @El_Borracho! So I think I took your "guessing you might still be working out a rotation" exactly as you said it I took a look at the lightning as well and sure enough....a constant heavy procs Maw pretty consistently, so I'm gonna be running Arx until I get a lightning staff since I can see this being useful against a boss.

As for my rotation....<sigh>....well...I have a modded:

https://alcasthq.com/eso-magicka-necromancer-build-pve/

whereas I've dropped in inner light, which replaces harness magicka and mystic orb, and then changed channeled acceleration for degeneration. Here is in all honesty exactly what I do for my rotation:

Degeneration -> Unstable wall of elements -> unnerving boneyard -> swap bar -> skelatal arcanist -> stalking blastbones -> richochet skull -> light -> stalking blastbones -> light > richochet skull -> etc..

It really seems like I fire off all the DoT items first, and THEN finally start a rotation of sorts. Clearly I have this wrong. I think my brain tells me "don't waste time with light attacks while the DoT's are initially ticking away".

I'll keep analyzing...not gonna lie ESO has been a wonderful diversion doing this pandemic. Thanks as always.

Good then.. So i wont be the only fool running ARX for the 100th time trying to get that neck to drop? Kinda wondering when everyone will start MEDUS farming in force with the upcoming changes (been farming it for months, before I even knew the changes were incoming). I like that I can run a HEAVY chest, and don't have to run trap/channeled on most of my MAG characters.

I got lucky and got the lightning staff very early on.. I must have 100 rings by now

@QuebraRegra LoL...ya welcome to my world. Oddly rings and neck I had no problem...and I *think* I actually deconstructed the lightning staff a while ago when I wasn't looking at the set The inferno staff took moons though.

@GreenHere Thanks.....yet another reason why I REALLY need some way to get actual metrics/stats...I have the Skoria set...I guess I give it another look see...most likely in ARX