New player could use some help

Tariq9898 · August 2022

Hello, I started ESO about 5 days ago and I'm loving the single player aspect of it. I'm a Dragonknight Nord. It's fun questing and diving into the lore while experiencing the world building.

I have many questions and it's a lot to take in. I mainly want to talk about the various Dragonknight builds as well as the lore!! If anyone's down to hang out with me in Xbox live party chat, let me know!

I'm Xbox NA and usually get on around 10:00-10:30 PM Pacific time. Gamertag is Tariq9898 (shows a picture of Aloy from Horizon)

Thanks!

Tariq9898 · August 2022

Update:

Due to my schedule, I'll be on much earlier from today for about a week. I'll be on around 7-8 PM Pacific time.

If anyone's down to Xbox live chat (gt: Tariq9898), let me know. I still have many questions:

Why is the Crown store still asking me to buy smaller DLCs when I've bought ESO plus? What's the difference?

What's the difference in DPS and Tanking for Magicka DK vs Stamina DK?

Should I always be wearing the highest level gear that's dropped for me? Even if it sacrifices certain stats? Or can I get away with lower level gear with better stats? Will the lower level gear become less useful as I level up?

Which armor set should I ideally go for if I want to be able to solo endgame content as a DK?

Are endgame armors made through crafting or smithing? What's the difference between the two and how do they, if they do, intertwine?

Yakidafi · August 2022

Tariq9898 wrote: »

Why is the Crown store still asking me to buy smaller DLCs when I've bought ESO plus? What's the difference?

There is no difference.

Tariq9898 wrote: »

What's the difference in DPS and Tanking for Magicka DK vs Stamina DK?

stamina and magicka are more generalised now since you highest stat of your spell/weapon power and highest magicka/stamina pool will be the one contributing to your skills. Having higher weapon power than spell power will mean that all your skills scale from weapon power and none from spell power. Main difference will be weapons you use staff vs dual wield/bow in pve, morphs of skills you use and the item sets, light vs medium armour. For me tanking have been hybridised for many years since it has never been about your dmg or healing output that much. You use both pools equally, I lean to use more magicka resource skills on average.

Tariq9898 wrote: »

Should I always be wearing the highest level gear that's dropped for me? Even if it sacrifices certain stats? Or can I get away with lower level gear with better stats? Will the lower level gear become less useful as I level up?

Your lower lvl gear will become less potent the more you lvl up. If you have 5 pieces of a set you can use it for many lvls though. 10-30lvls or more depending on your wants.

Tariq9898 wrote: »

Which armor set should I ideally go for if I want to be able to solo endgame content as a DK?

Depends on if you want to use more stamina or magicka. As in if you want medium armour or light armour. Look up content creators if you want to see what they wear or try to experiment yourself

Tariq9898 wrote: »

Are endgame armors made through crafting or smithing? What's the difference between the two and how do they, if they do, intertwine?

Crafting consist of smithing(weapons&heavy armour)/clothing(light&medium armor)/woodworking(staves&shield)/jewelery/enchanting. You can do all those on one character if you want. Endgame gear consist of both dropped gear and crafted gear.
Site to see item sets: https://eso-hub.com/en/sets

You can create viable endgame build from crafted sets. If you want to minmax for dmg or for the current meta and so on dropped sets are usually necessary, varying in how difficult they are to obtain, some are more easily obtainable from overland farming etc.