So gear is probably the lest of your problems. Skill selection, and of course, player skill generally are more important than gear. From the perspective of an open world solo type player focused on quests, public dungeons, world bosses and that sort of thing, the two easiest classes to play or Mag Sorc and Mag Templar.

Stam sorc mentioned above is also a good option, but Magic is just easier to play across the board, more range, big shields, typically stronger healing, etc.

The reason that these two classes are top of the list is that they have good ways to passively heal while you damage. Templar with Sweeps and a few nice ground HOTs, Sorc because of crit surge. Magic Nightblade is also an option, but I don't recommend for newer players because it has a much higher skill threshold when you start getting into end game (nightblade has the toughest damage rotation in the game).

If you want pets, mag sorc is what I would recommend. If you dont, I might suggest optimizing your templar build. Pets do draw aggro, but they dont come with a true taunt, so they wont automatically hold it for you. On avereage, the more pets you have, the less damage you take because enemies will attack your pets. A sorc can become a zoo if you want them to.

If looking for some Solo Templar bars, perhaps try something like this (of course adjust if necessary, both destruction staffs):

Bar 1: Puncturing Sweep, Radiant Destruction (or Glory for more heals), Purifying Light, Inner Light (just for passives, could be a flex spot), Honor the Dead

Bar 2: Unstable Wall, Blazing Spear, Channeled Focus, Extended Ritual (more heals) or Ritual of Retribution (more damage), Flex Spot (Degeneration if you want a source of major sorcery)

Ultimate's are dealers choice. Front bar Meteor, Back bar Destro Ult is a nice option on any magic setup.

Prefight, Cast Channeled Focus (armor and sustain), and Ritual. Then cast Blazing Spear and unstable wall on the enemy or pack of enemies. Most overland trash can be burned down with sweeps at that point. If a bigger boss, cast Purifying light before your sweeps spam, and reapply once it goes off after 6 seconds (dont recast before or you lose the damage). This gives some damage and additional heals. On bigger targets or perhaps low health enemies at range, spam radiant destruction (or glory) around 35% health. Honor the Dead is your oh crap button. Reapply things as they run out, otherwise spam sweeps. A templar could do the entire main quest by just spamming sweeps if they wanted to.

This setup will also work very nicely to ease into group content. You can effectively damage or heal with this setup in normal dungeons. If healing, use the healing morph of ritual, and the other morph of Honor the Dead (Breath of Life). If healing vet content, you would want a resto staff and some more heals, but for normal, I run a very similar build and can heal and put out a bunch of DPS at the same time.

On the limited info I would suggest to start using block and interrupt, players new to ESO can be unaware how important they play a role in combat.

I love my magwarden. I struggle with magplar because it is, for all intents and purposes, basically a melee mag class if you use jabs. It also suffers from a lack of mobility.

Magden can function as a purely ranged class, and the spammable does more damage the farther away you are, so distance gives you an advantage. You've got nice mobility because of that and because of the wings, and I like that I've got more time to move away from stuff. They also have some of the best heals and shields in the game. And yeah, the dumb bear comes in handy for pulling enemies away.

I'm not super duper great with mechanics (I've been playing for three years and this is the first time I've heard of the sparkles >.>) and warden seems to be the most forgiving when it comes to surviving stupidity. I'd give it a try... IDK if everyone has that Goldilocks moment with a class where it just seems to flow nicely for them, but I had that moment with magwarden.

Seriously, sparkles??? TIL.

BlackSparrow wrote: »

No matter what class you use, a lot of this sounds like you probably just need to get more comfortable with the mechanics. This is not a point-and-click combat game--you are expected to dodge and block at the right times, and you are expected to have some sort of heal either on your bar or in your quick slot. The combat in this game is solo-friendly, but as such, it expects you to be self sufficient.

So practice doing the following:

• Block the yellow sparkles
• Interrupt the red sparkles
• Get out of the red zones on the ground
• When the enemy has a swirl over their head, hit them with a heavy attack
• Use your slots for buffs and heals, not just damaging abilities
• After level 15, flip your weapon bars as situations change. My strategy is usually to have one bar specialized for dealing with large groups while the other is more single-target.

You have enough character slots to play around with every class, so you should definitely do so! Here are some builds from my army of alts that are pretty noobie friendly:

• Pet warden - The bear holds aggro pretty well (although it's not 100%) as long as you send it in first. Sending in the bear and then sniping with a bow is a big part of my stamwarden's gameplay.
• Pet sorcerer - These pets don't hold aggro as well as the warden's bear, but there's two of them, and they can both be slotted with healing abilities. The downside, though, is that keeping both pets on both bars eats up a lot of ability slots
• Stamina dragonknight - Super tanky class with a lot of synergy with stamina builds.
• Magicka Templar - Once you get your heals ranked up, you can heal through just about everything. I've soloed world bosses at low CP with my Magicka Templar. Sure, it took forever, but she was pretty dang durable.

The only build that you shouldn't try as a noobie is stamina Nightblade... take it from someone whose first character was one! Stamblades are absolute blenders once you know what you're doing, but they have a steep learning curve that punishes not paying attention to the enemy's sparkles.

this right here is the best advice you will find though others in this thread are good too...

My personal recommendation is to level every weapon skill up to level 50 on one toon so you know how every weapon works and you can develop a gestalt of the kind of gameplay you prefer. No doubt that will change over time. When i first started i found the bow to be pretty great and i loved the morph, though i forget the name right now, that when you fire the bow it locks the mobs to the ground and they have a circle of arrows around them. This is crowd control and is probably the thing you are lacking in your build that will make life easy for you. you need to do damage for sure but you also need to consider crowd control and healing while planning your build. This gets easier to understand how to build once you get above level 15 and can bar swap. Once you get that bar swapping then like has been said one bar for mobs and one for single bosses is a good plan for you. Plan for damage, crowd control and self healing. No one likes a glass cannon..