The Arch Mage (PvP Sorcerer)

Deadric Summoning
Storm Calling
Assassination
World magic: Shock Soul (Shock, class mastery + Breach)

The Bowgank (SorcBlade) - PvP
Storm Calling
Dark Magic
Shadow

The Bowgank (BladeArcSorc) - PvP
Shadow
Harold of the Tome
Dark Magic
Shadow

OakenDK - PvP
Ardent Flame
Draconic Power
Assassination

And more to come on my YouTube channel

Will be taking a break from the game, overwhelming change and I'm not a fan, hope you guys enjoy subclassing and find some new playstyles.

Parkour just got better than ever!

Green Balance for Nature's Grasp to reach other players wherever they are.

Winter's Embrace for Frozen Retreat to pull players to anywhere cool you get to.

Storm Calling for Bolt Escape to reach hard-to-get places.

It used to take a warden and a sorc to team up for exploring, now you can support a whole group on your own. New meta.

A blue themed build could be:

Blue Puncturing Sweep
Default Deep Fissure (blue)
Magical Banner Bearer (blue)
Blue Resolving Vigor
Blue Fatecarver

Not blue, but Polar Bear could fit as ultimate.

This doesn't really contribute to an Elder Scrolls fantasy per se, but it's a combination of Class passives that maximize the PvE damage dealer potential of a Werewolf:

• Aedric Spear
  1. Burning Light
  2. Balanced Warrior
• Storm Calling
  1. Capacitor
  2. Energized
  3. Amplitude
• Herald of the Tome
  1. Harnessed Quintessence

These passives are the reason these skill lines were chosen. No skill points need to be spent on the other passive skills in those skill lines — meaning it's technically cheapest to make this setup on a Sorcerer to minimize the cost in skill points.

The PvE Werewolf skills in this setup are:

• Werewolf Berserker
• Brutal Pounce
• Howl of Despair
• Ferocious Roar
• Hircine's Rage
• Claws of Anguish

Hircine's Rage when cast at 100% Health gives Major Berserk, and it also procs Harnessed Quintessence for extra Weapon and Spell Damage. Howl of Despair (the main spammable) is buffed by Energized, and all skills are buffed by Balanced Warrior and Amplitude. That just leaves Capacitor as a recovery buff and Burning Light as a damage proc (which is buffed by other passives like Werewolf's own Savage Strength).

Overall, this setup doesn't play any differently than the old PvE Werewolf builds did — it doesn't even look visually different. It doesn't necessarily contribute to the Elder Scrolls fantasy of using any spell at all on your character, but it is a solid buff for Werewolf that I will take!


P.S. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the human form, haha

Dark Knight - melee MagCro
Grave Lord - Everything except skull
Shadow - Refreshing Path, Dark Shade
Aedric Spear - Sweeps
Healing Contingency and Smash

Blooddrinker - StamDen 2H Bleed Damage Brawler
Animal Companions - Everything that does Bleed Damage plus Deep Fissure
Green Balance - Lotus Blossom
Bone Tyrant - Scythe, Bone Armour
Healing Contingency and Smash

Shiva - Frosty MagDen
Winter's Embrace - Everything
Grave Lord - Boneyard, Colossus
Herald of the Tome - Recuperative Treatise, Abyssal Impact
Chilling Contingency, Chilling Burst

sans-culottes wrote: »

I can’t wait to play the Necromancer I paid for, @ZOS_Kevin

Or my non-pet lightning mage that was a big reason for even buying (and sticking with) this game back around launch in the first place.

I dropped Storm Calling like a hot potato on my Breton Sorc and replaced it with Winter's Embrace. Finally got something that feels something like a frost mage from the cold north!

Also levelled Restoring Light because restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!

And shadow, for the fun and usefulness of Cloak.


Not a build, per se., just a more flexible suite of skills.

I’m having a lot of fun with my new class, the Elementalist - Storm Calling, Winter’s Embrace, and Ardent Flame. I can finally have a more traditional magic using class like I’ve always wished was in the game since beta. I was always disappointed that the class most like a wizard was one-third summoning Daedric pets, so I tried to create something traditionally wizard-like from other classes but the class skills just never fit. So I resigned myself to just having “no-pet sorcerers” (except for one sorcerer I reluctantly use pets with).

Here's an idea for a thematic "hunter" build:

• Aedric Spear, using Piercing Javelin as a hunting spear
• Animal Companions, using Feral Guardian as a hunting animal
• Shadow, using Shadow Cloak to help you sneak up on your quarry

This setup would look even cooler if we had Skill Styles for certain skills to make them fit the target theme. For instance, various spear skills in Aedric Spear could get Skill Styles to look like hunting spears (not glowing), Animal Companions could get Skill Styles of some non-Vvardenfell creatures (and maybe one to make Feral Guardian look like a hunting hound), and maybe Shadow skills like Shadow Cloak could get nature-themed green colored Skill Styles to sell the nature/hunting theme.

Building up to what I think is going to be the Generically Good Dungeon Tank:

Earthen Heart/Winter's Embrace/Soldier of Apocrypha

Stone Giant
Igneous Weapons
Polar Wind
Wield Soul (Pull/Druids/Intellect & Endurance)
Runic Sunder
Precognition

Expansive Frost Cloak
Vigor
Caltrops
Frost Blockade
Elemental Susceptibility
Aggressive Horn

Very boring compared to some of the above, I just wanted to remake my old Affliction Warlock from the game that must not be named, all beams and DOTs - Necromancer / Arcanist / Nightblade - Works very well and a blast to play.

Abyssal thaumaturge (frost arcanist)
Base class: Arcanist
Weapon: Frost Staff
Sets: Frostbite, Threads of War, Oakensoul, and iceheart helm
Skill lines: Herald of the tome, curative runeforms, Winter's Embrace
Mundus Stone: Atronach
Full light armor

Skills
Wield soul (frost damage, class script for crux generation, and breach)
Tentacular dread
Arctic Blast
Inner Light
Crystallized Slab
Northern Storm (might swap to tide king's gaze, but I like having all frost damage)

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Curative runeforms isn't there so much for it's abilities as it is for it's resource restoring passives, erudition and hideous clarity.