Rollersnake posted:

On an XBox controller, do yourself a favor and remap bar swap to B, Ability 3 to left d-pad and stick your least-used skill (magelight, expert hunter or whatever) there. It is much easier to deal with rotations and maneuvering while performing them if you do this.

Beefeater posted:

I'm thinking it's this one.

JackBadass posted:

Rollersnake posted:

It makes perfect sense, and if anyone has a better solution I'd love to hear it. When you're moving with the left stick, it's cumbersome as gently caress having left d-pad as one of your most frequently used buttons in combat.

Rollersnake posted:

On an Xbox controller, specifically, because the stick is above the d-pad. Like, regardless of the size of your hands, I can't comprehend how you'd use the d-pad while moving unless you had some weird claw grip or an extra finger on the right side of your thumb.

JackBadass posted:

Right thumb. It's pretty easy for me.

graynull posted:

Am I reading correctly that in Summerset now, melee weapons for magicka characters has gone from dual swords to 2h? Was going to make a casual magblade and wanted a good melee option, even though I know fire staff is the recommendation. Also, how does fire staff compare with shock or ice staves for just casual solo play? I guess my confusion comes from reading guides which are all mostly written as min/max group performance so I don't know how much it matters if I just want to do my own thing to quest and explore.

omg chael crash posted:

Just hop into dungeon finder, it’s chill as hell. You’ll be fine.

Mr. Carrier Pigeon posted:

I want to beat you to death with a sock full of nickles.

rio posted:

Cool, thanks. Didn’t know how serious to expect it to be.

Snowy posted:

I’m bad at this game and I’ve found that most dungeons are fine but for some of the dlc dungeons, especially newer ones, people get a little prickly. At my level of noobishness I’d just drop out of them but I’m probably over cautious.

Fernando Frantegro posted:

Picked up the base game from steam the other week. Now i'm debating if I should get Summerset and go ESO+ are they worth it?

Blockhouse posted:

The base game is on sale on Steam for $10. Is it worth just picking that up and playing around to see if I like the game?

Blockhouse posted:

Boy I wish I had checked the thread before hitting the buy button.

Maybe I can get a refund.

somethingawful bf posted:

If possible, I'd recommend not getting it from Steam.

JackBadass posted:

Yeah, Steam has been... sketchy lately, to say the least. Still, I'd rather have the Steam version just to have all my games together in one place.

DJ Dizzy posted:

How out of date is the OP?

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GEAR AND poo poo
5p Sets
• Spell Power Cure (White Gold Tower): The most important set, you always want to have it active. Massive boost to dps as it adds over 250 weapon and spell damage.
• Worm's Raiment (Vaults of Madness): Made its way into the healer meta back when trials were dominated by magicka DPS. Now that stamina dominated groups are more common, I think it will fall off as a set you should keep, but you don't always need active.
• Healing Mage (Aetherian Archive): Amazing set. It is a noticeable difference when Mending is active and when its not. One healer should always have Mending in trials, and I almost never change it for dungeons either.
• Kagrenac's Hope (Crafted, Earth Forge): The best starter set for healers in my opinion. Health, Magicka Regen, Max Magicka, and a bunch of Spell Damage. All of the stats you need to start building a healer.
• Armor of the Seducer (Crafted, 2nd Alliance Zone): If you feel like you are having resource issues, you can use Seducer until you learn how to manage them. Law of Julianos (Crafted, Wrothgar): Gives raw power to healing. If you don't have access to Kagrenac, this would be my 2nd choice.
• Eyes of Mara (Crafted, Eyevea): Suffers the same blight as Light Speaker, looks like a good set on paper, but it only affects 2-3 skills. 12% reduced cost may seem like a lot, but really the cost of Restoration Staff skills is offset by the magicka return from Healing Springs.
• Draugr's Rest (Falkreath Hold): If the sacred ground had a larger radius it would be a very strong set. Right now, it's just too small to be useful over another set.
• Master Architect (Halls of Fabrication): Your ulitmates now carry Major Slayer for the 2 closest DPSes. Positioning is very important.
• Inventor's Guard (Halls of Fabrication): Your ultimates now carry Major Aegis for the 2 closest DPSes. Positioning is still very important.
• Infallible Mage (Aetherian Archive, Sanctum Ophida, Hel Ra Citadel): This set was popular before shock damage allowed us to get the same debuff (Minor Vulnerability). On certain fights (Lightning Storm Atronach, Foundation Stone Atronach, Ra Kotu) it is still useful because these bosses can't be concussed, and therefore they can't get Minor Vulnerability the normal way.
• Twilight Remedy (Maw of Lorkhaj): Orbs, Shards, Rituals, Novas, and any other synergies you throw out now carry Minor Force and a huge heal. Wearing this set can give ranged magicka characters Minor Force, which is a huge buff.
• Light Speaker (Elden Hollow): It seems like its a very strong set on paper, but once you realize that it only buffs Healing Springs, Combat Prayer, and Rapid Regeneration it falls short.
• Stendarr's Embrace (Eastmarch): I like this set on healers in pvp. Free purge every 30 seconds is a bit weak in pve, but in pvp its actually really strong if you can time the cooldown with a push through a keep wall.
• Combat Physician (Wayrest Sewers): Again, it seems like it would be good. I tried it, but the shield size and only affecting one person at a time really limits its usability.
• Trinimac's Valor (Wrothgar): This set is bugged or something. I can spam Healing Ward or any other shield and it procs maybe 1 out of 20 times. Not a 20% chance from my testing. Sees moderate use on DK due to Igneous Shield.
• Meritorious Service (Yes I am serious)(Tel Var Merchants): If it gave more resistances or had a longer duration I could see it being useful for certain fights. Currently its only use is in Zerg VS Zerg.
• Sanctuary (Banished Cells): It may seem like a good set, but its way overkill. In a good group, you won't need the extra healing so its just wasted spots.
• Healers Habit (Dragonstar Arena): This set is absolutely useless on Templars and Nightblades. On Warden, DK, and Sorc it sees SOME (but very little) use as there is no 'easy' way to get Minor Mending, outside of a potion or something.
• Prayer Shawl (Spindleclutch): This set suffers the same fate as most of the other healer sets. It's just simply outclassed by SPC/Mending or SPC/Worm. If the shield was stronger or longer then maybe it could be useful, but right now it's just too weak. Many old sets are like this.
• Gossamer (Cradle of Shadows): Major Evasion is nice, but a 10% proc chance for 6 seconds makes this set not as viable as it could be. Make no mistake, this set will add to survivability, just less so than say Mending or Twilight.
Weapon Sets/Monster Helmets
• The Master's Restoration Staff (vDSA): The Stamina restoration makes this very strong. Especially since stam is meta again. Has an 8m radius to the caster.
• The Maelstrom's Restoration Staff (vMA): This is a very situational item. In places like vASS this is an amazing item because you'll be off by yourself sometimes and you won't have any way to get a heavy attack off. Everywhere else its kinda meh because you can just HA.
• The Asylum's Restoration Staff/Perfected Restoration Staff (nAS, vAS, vHM AS): The sustain from this set is good in very healing heavy fights (such as Asylum). If you need to fill a slot because you have body/jewelry for your sets, this is an easy one to acquire.
• Earthgore (Veteran Bloodroot Forge): Massive amount of healing. If it procs, it will keep someone from dying.
• Nightflame (Veteran Elden Hollow II): Again a large amount of healing over a short period of time. I feel that if this set had another effect (such as a resource return) it would be a very strong set for new healers.
• Chokethorn (Veteran Elden Hollow I): The problems with the healing monster sets are that they are only extra healing. Almost all of the healer monster sets could become viable if they had a secondary effect, like Sentinel of Rkugamz. Chokethorn at least gives one piece magicka recovery.
• Troll King (Veteran Blessed Crucible): Health Recovery is a useless stat, unless you buff the hell out of it. This set is more like a 750hps hot (1500 recovery, ticks every 2 seconds).
• Ancient Grace (PvP Jewelry Rewards): This is a very underrated set. Sometimes it is viable to use 2/3/5 on a healer, like if you have a stamina dominated group and would like to use a monster set over Worm Cult. I've seen some Wardens use this set and reach 50k Magicka, which is unheard of for most 5/5 setups.
• Sentinel of Rkugamz (Veteran Darkshade Caverns I): Restores Stamina when group members stand in the spider. It has a small range, but it is very strong. Good for tight stacks.
SKILLS AND poo poo
Different skills for different stuff. Always adapt to your group, don't make them adapt to you.
COMBAT PRAYER:
This is your main buff skill. Everyone standing in it will get minor berserk, which will increase their damage by 8%. ALWAYS have this down on someone.
SPRINGS:
This is your main healing skill. It hits 6 people and can stack up to 3 times, making it one of the strongest skills for a healer.
BREATH OF LIFE/FUNGAL GROWTH/TWILIGHT MATRIARCH:
This is your burst heal. Self explanatory.
ELEMENTAL DRAIN:
Minor Magickasteal. Huge sustain buff.
SHARDS/ORBS:
These are your main way to add to group sustain (outside of the Master Staff and Elemental Drain). Orbs are also this nice little thing called the best heal in the game. Ticks 879 every .5 sec and explodes for a poo poo ton of healing? No other reason needed.
PURGE:
Healing is very situational. For Craglorn I will use ritual but for things like MoL/HoF/rear end I will use purge. Just use purge if you're unsure.
HORN:
MAJOR Force, 15% extra critical damage and 10% extra max resources. It's a huge buff, which is why optimized groups will have nearly perfect uptime on it.
NOVA:
Lots of trials can have everything go to poo poo really fast. Nova, Sleet Storm, and Consuming Darkness will reduce damage by 30% (Nova is a boss debuff, SS/CD are player buffs. Yes they stack.) If you see everything about to fall apart, drop a nova on it and save the day.
MY BARS AND poo poo
TEMPLAR
Setup 1: 5/5 Setup (No vMA):
• Lightning Bar: Blockade of Storms, Elemental Drain, Luminous Shards, Ritual of Retribution, Channeled Focus, Solar Prison.
• Restoration Bar: Dampen Magic, Healing Springs, Combat Prayer, Breath of Life, Energy Orb, Aggressive Warhorn.
Setup 2: 5/5 (vMA):
• Lightning Bar: Blockade of Storms, Elemental Drain, Luminous Shards, Ritual of Retribution, Energy Orb, Solar Prison.
• Restoration Bar: Mutagen, Healing Springs, Combat Prayer, Breath of Life, Dampen Magic, Aggressive Warhorn.
WARDEN
5/5 (vMA):
• Lightning Bar: Blockade of Storms, Elemental Drain, Budding Seeds, Lotus Blossom, Blue Betty, Aggressive Warhorn.
• Restoration Bar: Mutagen, Healing Springs, Combat Prayer, Dampen Magic, Energy Orbs, Northern Storm.
NIGHTBLADE
5/5 (vMA):
• Lightning Bar: Blockade of Storms, Elemental Drain, Refreshing Path, Funnel Health, Energy Orb, Aggressive Warhorn.
• Restoration Bar: Combat Prayer, Mutagen, Healthy Offering, Healing Springs, Dampen Magic, Bolstering Darkness.
SORCERER
5/5 (No vMA):
• Lightning Bar: Blockade of Storms, Elemental Drain, Twilight Matriarch, Efficient Purge, Boundless Storm (Flex, I prefer the armor buff, can also slot orbs here and use Mutagen with vMA Staff), Absorption Field
• Restoration Bar: Combat Prayer, Healing Springs, Twilight Matriarch, Empowered Ward, Energy Orb, Aggressive Warhorn.
DRAGONKNIGHT
5/5 (vMA):
• Lightning Bar: Blockade of Storms, Elemental Drain, Cauterize, Dampen Magic, Energy Orbs, Aggressive Warhorn.
• Restoration Bar: Combat Prayer, Mutagen, Healing Springs, Efficient Purge, Igneous Shield, Reviving Barrier.

Coldforge posted:

It’s two years old, good sir.

Veeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry.


A good site with decent builds and some good newbie guides: https://dottzgaming.com/
A good site with excellent power builds: https://alcasthq.com
The very best stuff for aspiring tanks: https://woeler.eu
Auction house item price tracking: https://us.tamrieltradecentre.com/pc/Trade
Item sets to fuel your dreams: http://eso-sets.com/
THE most important FSO site: https://eso.mmo-fashion.com/
Add ons! http://www.esoui.com/addons.php
I think this came from Reddit, not sure who wrote it, but it’s a v good healer guide:


Edit: yep, from here https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/7uiz3f/best_healer_build/

rio posted:

Regarding eso+, it’s pretty good even if you are just doing it for the crafting bag.

I have been super hooked since coming back. Still have over 20k crowns after spending 10k already due to having been subbed to eso+ the whole time I had quit - some day when Somerset comes to the crown store do you think it will be included with eso+ at that point too or will it likely only be available for purchase with crowns? I am probably going to hoard a lot of the crowns anyway but I’ll set some aside if it seems like I will need them for Somerset at some point.

Coldforge posted:

Is Morrowind free with Plus now? Summerset will probably be the same.