robc04
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OK, I’m 1 step closer. What options do you guys think is the most fun? I’ll probably only ever play solo PvE stuff. I’m guessing class has the biggest effect on the fun factor, right?
- Alliance: The Daggerfall Covenant, The Aldmeri Dominion, The Ebonheart Pact
- Race: Breton, High Elf, Argonian, Orc, Wood Elf, Dark Elf, Redguard, Khajiit, Nord
- Class: Dragonknight, Sorcerer, Nightblade, Templar
I’d recommend a high elf magicka sorc in your case, with pets, shield and patience, you can solo pretty much anything outside of dungeons.
Magicka nightblades are good for questing too, since you can basically skip anything you don’t feel like fighting.
Magicka Templar, breton or high elf, any alliance is fine, they all have different starting areas so fun to try them all.
Magicka Templars get their main skills very very early on, including a self heal that you don’t need a resto staff for (i.e. you don’t need to swap weapons to use your heal). They are a great class to start the game with, because their main attack is not only AOE, it also heals you as you use it. 99% of the encounters in ESO are 3 mobs at a time, so an AOE attack that both kills and heals you, is pretty much the gravy train.
Oghier
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Yeah… a solo, high elf magicka sorc solo’d one of the toughest four-man dungeons in the game this week (veteran White Gold Tower).
Rob, all the classes are very well developed. Generally, do you prefer spellcasters, warriors, teefs? They each have excellent options.
robc04
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Thanks for the above suggestions!
I tend to play warrior classes, but it’s mostly out of habit. I’m usually not a big fan of summoning creatures / having pets as I like to be in on the action. I don’t usually like MMO combat (well at least Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World as that’s really all I’ve played in the past 15 years as far as MMOs go).
So, I don’t expect to fall in love with the ESO combat, but I hope I don’t dislike it. I can’t even remember how it was when I tried it out like a year ago.
To further the case, magicka templar plays very much like a melee class. Your main attack is a cone AOE with a fairly short radius, so you’re usually in melee range. You can attack things at range, and do quite well that way, but it’s really sort of a battlemage kind of spec. It “feels” much more like a melee class than it does a traditional spellcaster.
Stamina nightblade and stamina templar and stamina sorcerer are all things you could look into as well. There are a lot of viable options. I picked Templar because I believe it’s the easiest class to get into the game with, and it’s not something you need to put 20 levels into before it starts to get “good”.
At the end of the day, you’ll probably try a bunch of different classes, and make some goofy builds, and start over lol. I started over a lot until I really got the hang of what’s going on. ESO is very different, in the way it combines classes. “Classes” in ESO really don’t tell much of the story, you can build any class as either a caster or a melee character, and do well with all of them in either roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JQtrA5Mo1E
This will give you some idea of how to get started, and what the game play is like.
At the end of the day, anything you choose is really viable, it’s more a matter of how you build it, and what skills you focus on.
Daagar
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I’m still on step 1 of installing ESO so I can’t compare (ok, step 2 - $14+this thread was step 1), but @robc04: Don’t judge MMO combat based on TSW. You don’t play TSW for the combat system (widely considered the weakest part of the game).
Agreed with Ultrazen’s suggestion, magicka templar is also very good in that the very first skill you get is one that is amazing all through, and they get fun toys later on as well. With magicka sorcs, you’ll only unlock some of their best skills as you approach the end of the first storyline (if you’re just playing through the story, that is, and not grinding, which would land you ~lvl 50.)
Though as mentioned f you’re just playing solo for the quests/exploration, you can’t really go wrong with any class/combo. Just go with a cool character concept.
The combat in ESO is so much better than TSW, and I was a huge fan of TSW. No cooldowns!
robc04
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OK thanks guys. I’ll start with a magika templar and see how it goes.
If you hate it, remember that I had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!
robc04
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Remember my expectations are low :-)
I expect I’ll like traveling the world for a time, but I’ll be lucky to make it to level 20.
I’ve done a stam NB and a mag sorc, though in weird builds, and also a mag Templar, and currently sitting at about CP250, as I don’t play much really. But the Templar is by far the closest to faceroll mode. I built him as an Imperial, sword and board and restro staff, and he’s durable, capable in DPS, and I want to make him an actual tank if I can ever get my butt in gear to actually start doing some dungeons. A more focused Breton templar is probably even better, but I wanted an Imperial damn it.
For you guys just starting here is how to get the free item that buffs your XP:
What do you start a new character, go to the crown store. That is accomplished by clicking on the coin symbol In the top of your screen when you have your inventory open.
‘Buy’ the crow caller… It’s called something like that. The price of it is free so you’re not really buying it, you’re just claiming it.
Open your collections (U… I think). Find it. Right click. Witch appears. Talk to her. She gives you a quest to give her 3 items… guts, pumpkin, and an essence of death. The first two are easy, and the last is obtained by killing a boss in a delve, which is like a small public dungeon. They are scattered around the world, and look like little torches on the mini map. The bosses can be tough but the dungeons are usually busy.
the starter islands that you begin on won’t have delves so you don’t have to do this until you hit the first real city.
Once you get the items you turn them in to the witch in her cave. You then get some sort of doohickey that you can use over and over for a 2 hour long 100% XP buff. The item can be used as much as you want until Nov 1.
I hopped in yesterday - after a very long break with the game - and can’t find a damn pumpkin of all things.
You can buy one at a grocer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/22az7v/provisioning_grocer_location/
Do not pay the outrageous prices on the guild stores! 5k for a pumpkin
Thanks! Got the doohickey, and used it near a corpse… is there any way to tell if the bonus is active?
Use the whistle AND then drink from the cauldron. Check your character stats and look down at the bottom where your buffs are listed. You should see it there. Buff addons like Srrendars will show it on your screen as well. Plus you should look like a skeleton if you don’t have a costume over it.
If the buff is active you’re a Skelton, and if you hit ‘C’ to view your characters stats at the bottom there will be a listing for the buff with the Remaining time of the buff shown.
As an update, my tank pet using stamina sorc is game breakingly overpowered lol. This has been really fun to level. The sorc pets damage scales via magicka, but their health scales with player level. This is awesome, because having a really beefy tank pet is incredibly handy for some of the PVE content, especially boss fights. It pretty much trivializes the game. The other great bonus from this, is that re-summoning the pet also heals you. Between the pet heal, and the 2 heals you can get from dual wielding, you’re pretty much unkillable. My initial idea for this, was to try and make sort of a WoW hunter combined with a ranger of sorts, it’s almost exactly that.
Bow on the front bar, dual wield on the back bar, it’s just so much fun. Easily the most entertaining and powerful build I’ve played. Great for leveling, that’s for sure. FUN!
Thanks for the help, everybody. Got it together and got the buff and the bones. Pumpkin was purchased from a grocer, and it turns out I was blowing the wrong whistle trying to get the buff to work. What a dummy. But then I had fun killing scamps!
