Hey Dan love the build.....I've been on the edge of my seat waiting for this build video to come out.... I personally think for this build should be pretty good next chapter. as we have the nerfed Mara's Balm Set. 1 bar heavy attack Oakensoul. I think you might be onto something with Dot damage!!
Can you explain why you use 3 med / 3 light / 1 heavy? I'm considering using Mark of the Pariah instead of Aetherial Ascension but Pariah only comes in heavy, so I'd have to do something different with the weights and I don't know what is optimal.
You could put it on jewellery to help. I went 3,3,1 for undaunted passives. Medium gives more damage than heavy and light as we stack spell damage and crit on a templar but honestly the weight change won't impact the build massively of you go heavy. Equally you can use oblvion foe medium and mix pieces that way with pariahah. There is another set called buffer of the swift which is a light armour set and very good too.
@@Unified-Gaming I understand the Undaunted passive but I'm not sure why in PvP people choose 3/3/1 over 5/1/1 or some other permutation that still gets the passive bonus. For example, why didn't you go with 5 medium on your build? Given that Pariah only drops in heavy, even with jewelry I still need 2 (heavy) pieces. So should I try to maximize medium with 2 heavy, 4 medium, 1 light when running Pariah and Oblivion's Foe? Or should I try to maximize light with 2 heavy, 1 medium, 4 light? Or something else?
@wkrick people often go 3,3, 1 to maximise resistances whilst keeping a good amount of damage when stacking weapon / spell damage. You find it I'd either medium 5-1-1 for high damage builds. Light 5-1-1 isn't used often due to low resistances and penalties from light armour bonuses (increases martial damage). Heavy isn't used in 5-1-1 unless you use a strong damage set like ravager. As such, the sweet spot is often 3,3,1 allowing heavy chest, legs and helm. Medium boots, hands and shoulders and light waist which gives good defence and damage stats.
@@Unified-Gaming Excellent. Thank you for the guidance. This is super helpful. I'm an ESO newb and my understanding of PvP builds is even less than my understanding of PvE builds.
Solid man, im going to try and make this work on magblade. I have wanted a viable and effective rot style caster builld but over the years it seemed like ZOS kept trying to stop that from working. Thematically, this build on a magblade with soul assault is 100 percent my shit XD. Mechanically, assuming sustain isnt too much of an issue, balorghs seems like a nice fit. My only concern is the ramp up time. It seems like you having to spend 5 gcds before the damage starts rolling.
Have you tried using the Force Pulse Skill?... Focus all the elemental energies with your staff and blast an enemy for 696 Flame Damage 696 Frost Damage, and 696 Shock Damage. Up to 2 nearby enemies will take 2399 Magic Damage if they were already afflicted with a status effect.
How does it differ to a dot magNerco? Nercos have tether, which is another dot and gives a 3% damage buff while on the bar. Plus all of the passives for necros that increase dot damage
Templar has burning light which dots fill and proc on cooldown. The dots on templar are better as snare and you have minor sorcerer. The big thing is the execute and unblockable stun - that makes a huge difference 😳
@@Unified-Gaming true about the unlockable stun. But dots, blast bones, and major breach. Also the ghost for heals and a 10% DR on top of bone armor. Plus for group content, others can stun
@ZombieJesus we get major breach from elemental susceptibility anyway. The dot boost is nice but not huge and blast bones can be brutal when max range but I find the templar execute is vastly better.
Also, Mara's Balm is a heal? Has this been changed since you made this video? I thought you were saying Mara's Bomb from the flame meteor hitting the skeleton after putting the negative effects? So you are putting the effects to get a heal?
Mara's balm is a pvp set. It heals the target when they have a dot on them a small amount then every 15s (now 30s) cleanses all dots and heals for all the cleansed dots. E.g. if you have 1 dot cleansed you get 1000 hp. If you cleanse 10 dots you get 10k hp. This set was and still is very strong and it is why we have to counter it by forcing the proc at the start of the fight with soul trap + elemental susceptibility. By doing this, we can then reapply the dots and the target has to take the damage unless they manually cleanse it. It also means they can't rely on the burst heal the set gives until 30s into the fight.
what is your thoughts to use vateshran staff backbar instead of oblivion foe and this way you can add mythic like sea-serpent and add mistform instead of soultrap for mobility and escape?
The staff would work but means more medium to close range. Foe is very good and with that and elemental susceptibility allows us to proc others maras Balm easily so is kinda needed. Mistform can be added if you want. If you use a mythic drop the monster set.
Yeah elf bane could be fun as we have loads of fire dots. I think flame blossom would be good with toppling charge :) My setup is more ranged however so flame blossom wouldn't work too well.
Yeah - I've used it recently and it is really solid as once the dots are ticking it is hard for people to counter, especially if you stun and beam them in a group.
I give suggestions and skill alternatives mid way. You can use masters staff, willpower or double bar oblivion foe. With each of these move entropy to the front bar instead of elemental ring and put destructive reach on the back bar so it is on both bars.
@Dawn Dixon give it a go honestly. Treat the shield as a pseudo heal. It also let's you temporarily boost your health before combat and also shields your twilight which makes it harder to take down too
I hope this gets answered please. Why are you going medium, light and heavy? Why not heavy all 7 pieces with health increase for HP? I mean only 1 piece of light, and 1 piece of heavy? aren't the passives useless with only 1 piece?
There are undaunted passives which give up to 6% max stats if you have 1 medium, 1 heavy and 1 light piece. That's why people often go 5-1-1 or a mix of heavy, light and medium. Medium armour increases weapon and spell damage so pairs nicely with the templar buffs which is why we stack more of that vs heavy as our major and minor sorcery will boost the bonus further.
@@Unified-Gaming Totally clarified. Much appreciated :) I have been playing for only 1 year, but am just now getting into and trying to become good at PVP. Thanks so much for your time.
Dots dynamically adjust now Edit: on PTS they don't dynamically adjust anymore. However I'd still use blood thirsty as it significantly ramps up damage on the beam and if you reapply dots when low they do a lot more
@@Unified-Gaming yea i was about to say i just tested it and you have to recast it for them to scale. Pretty lame tbh especially if someone casts a dot on you when youre low and you have to deal with that stronger dot even after you heal
if it will be on both bars, it could be good. Maybe you can swap this instead of defencive set mantioned in video and use something like hist set on backbar instead of oblivion foe. But need to test
You need to use the sets given that's why. Oblvions foe is an extra dot as is the wild impulse set. These combined give a lot of extra damage to your build and also allow you to counter anyone using cleanse sets with cooldowns as you can soul trap and elemental susceptibility to trigger their cleanse.
Fun build but even without maras set Templars would still cleanse at least half of this damage and Wardens would cleanse aswell. Honestly after the dots changes i feel like making a dot build pvp viable is incredibly difficult. This is an interesting build though.
Templar cleanse removes 5 things. Elemental susceptibility and soul trap + foe is 6-7. The dots need the templar to cleanse twice which gives you time to apply a lot plus stun and add more. I haven't had issues dotting templars as they spend ages cleansing and not doing damage then or do damage to me but take dot damage.
@@Stephencurran_7 you start by procing maras. Then dot. Cleanses would always be the way to counter a dot build but it is a move they need to use to do so and is very expensive. With maras also being nerfed to 30s next patch I'm not worried but do see your point. To your point about dot builds. They need you to stack loads and is why they're hard to make. Once stacked do well. This works on magden too and I've tested it - had 2m damage in a bg with 28 kills lol
@@Unified-Gaming I appreciate your feedback as i said fun build just after the dot nerfs recently i wouldnt have expected a dot build to be kicking about i thought they were kinda dead. You've definitely found a way to make it work
Could you back bar Athenian Accession? Five piece Oblivions foe on the body to keep it up? You would lose armor on your front bar.. and what traits are you using on the armor? I like divines unless I’m roll dodging a bunch.
Vampire... aaaargh, can I please not do it? Ha ha. Is it that good that you have to have it? If not, what should I have instead on back ulti? I really don't feel like leveling it, but maybe I have to.
The vampire skill line gives access to a passive called undeath. That reduces damage received by up to 30%. Below 50% hp you have 15% extra defence. Below 25% hp you have 22.5% damage reduction. This passive alone is as strong as 5 piece defence sets and some. Buffer of the swift is 10% damage reduction and is one of the best % sets in the game. That's why I use vampire. The ultimate is good too as we can use it as an oh no button. You could use a heal ult instead though.
@@Unified-Gaming Thanks :) Have you tried it against those green throwing monsters (arkanists)? Is this spec also really good against them? I was just wondering because there's a serious grind to get that staff and not that many groups for BRP.
Gw2 is good dan, was playing it not too long ago, it's where eso got most it's ideas from lol. I did get board of it though, but that's more because rhys kept moaning at me to play eso again 🙃.
@TSE EMPRESS haha ill look into it Zoe. I thought it was more tab target and skill duration combat so you're cycling skills rather than eso or new world action focused combat
@@Unified-Gaming the skill system is similar in some ways but there are more cooldowns, you would have to try it out to see what i mean. i mained reaper necro, honestly loved playing necro, but the reaper variant is really fun, the jumping puzzles in gw2 tho...they put my guild mazes to shame. if you mannage to hop into pvp that where you will see the most similarities, the 3 alliances, taking keeps, siege etc, and even Bgs, its all from gw2
Looking foward to your ideas for a light attack build.
It's a fun build
Great stuff as always!
Great job! I really glad the is a work around since I don`t the front bar staff. Can wait to try it.
Thanks 😊 I always try to find alternatives as I hate builds you can't use without specific gear
Just set this one up and it did really well in my first BG with it. It's also nice for RND normal dungeons so I can get both done with one setup.
Hey Dan love the build.....I've been on the edge of my seat waiting for this build video to come out.... I personally think for this build should be pretty good next chapter. as we have the nerfed Mara's Balm Set. 1 bar heavy attack Oakensoul. I think you might be onto something with Dot damage!!
I miss DOTplar from scalebreaker
absolute fucking terror on the fields of battle it was
cool to see it make a come back of sorts
That was a fun time
If use rallying cry at backbar still be good? Or if combo with deadly set? Btw does Stormfist monster set will be better damage ?
You had me at dk counter build
Honestly this is such a fun build and is really deceptive damage wise
how's this doing these days? still viable? i'm just returning and i loved this build a few years back
Did you switch to Consuming Trap? I thought you were using Soul Splitting Trap on the longer video about this build.
I'm using consuming trap but splitting soul trap works well in group modes for extra aoe damage as foe can proc on multiple people at once that way.
Can you explain why you use 3 med / 3 light / 1 heavy? I'm considering using Mark of the Pariah instead of Aetherial Ascension but Pariah only comes in heavy, so I'd have to do something different with the weights and I don't know what is optimal.
You could put it on jewellery to help. I went 3,3,1 for undaunted passives. Medium gives more damage than heavy and light as we stack spell damage and crit on a templar but honestly the weight change won't impact the build massively of you go heavy. Equally you can use oblvion foe medium and mix pieces that way with pariahah. There is another set called buffer of the swift which is a light armour set and very good too.
@@Unified-Gaming I understand the Undaunted passive but I'm not sure why in PvP people choose 3/3/1 over 5/1/1 or some other permutation that still gets the passive bonus. For example, why didn't you go with 5 medium on your build? Given that Pariah only drops in heavy, even with jewelry I still need 2 (heavy) pieces. So should I try to maximize medium with 2 heavy, 4 medium, 1 light when running Pariah and Oblivion's Foe? Or should I try to maximize light with 2 heavy, 1 medium, 4 light? Or something else?
@wkrick people often go 3,3, 1 to maximise resistances whilst keeping a good amount of damage when stacking weapon / spell damage. You find it I'd either medium 5-1-1 for high damage builds. Light 5-1-1 isn't used often due to low resistances and penalties from light armour bonuses (increases martial damage). Heavy isn't used in 5-1-1 unless you use a strong damage set like ravager. As such, the sweet spot is often 3,3,1 allowing heavy chest, legs and helm. Medium boots, hands and shoulders and light waist which gives good defence and damage stats.
@@Unified-Gaming Excellent. Thank you for the guidance. This is super helpful. I'm an ESO newb and my understanding of PvP builds is even less than my understanding of PvE builds.
Solid man, im going to try and make this work on magblade. I have wanted a viable and effective rot style caster builld but over the years it seemed like ZOS kept trying to stop that from working. Thematically, this build on a magblade with soul assault is 100 percent my shit XD. Mechanically, assuming sustain isnt too much of an issue, balorghs seems like a nice fit. My only concern is the ramp up time. It seems like you having to spend 5 gcds before the damage starts rolling.
With dots you could then land a spec bow which would be fun. Dots use same as my setup but swap reflective light for cripple.
I didn't see an enchant on your back-bar weapon. Do you run poison on both weapons?
I'd personally use berserk glyph (it will give more damage) or an absorb (mag) for sustain but you rarely proc it so don't stress.
Have you tried using the Force Pulse Skill?... Focus all the elemental energies with your staff and blast an enemy for 696 Flame Damage 696 Frost Damage, and 696 Shock Damage. Up to 2 nearby enemies will take 2399 Magic Damage if they were already afflicted with a status effect.
Force pulse aoe cleave is nice - I found it works well when spammed with aslym staff.
Thats a load of dots!
Yeah and it works at range!!
How does it differ to a dot magNerco?
Nercos have tether, which is another dot and gives a 3% damage buff while on the bar. Plus all of the passives for necros that increase dot damage
Templar has burning light which dots fill and proc on cooldown. The dots on templar are better as snare and you have minor sorcerer. The big thing is the execute and unblockable stun - that makes a huge difference 😳
@@Unified-Gaming true about the unlockable stun.
But dots, blast bones, and major breach. Also the ghost for heals and a 10% DR on top of bone armor.
Plus for group content, others can stun
@ZombieJesus we get major breach from elemental susceptibility anyway. The dot boost is nice but not huge and blast bones can be brutal when max range but I find the templar execute is vastly better.
How did you take the skeleton out with one hit when its health is at 3m?
Reset target dummy 🤪
Do you happen to know the ingredients for the poison you're using?
Sadly no but a quick Google should help. I usually buy them as you don't save much by crafting if buying ingredients
@@Unified-Gaming It looks like there are 2 combinations that make it:
Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Emetic Russula
Fleshfly Larva, Nightshade, Stinkhorn
What morph do you use on the Vampire ultimate? And what enchant did you put on the frost staff on your backbar? Thanks
Swarming Scion
Also, Mara's Balm is a heal? Has this been changed since you made this video? I thought you were saying Mara's Bomb from the flame meteor hitting the skeleton after putting the negative effects? So you are putting the effects to get a heal?
Mara's balm is a pvp set. It heals the target when they have a dot on them a small amount then every 15s (now 30s) cleanses all dots and heals for all the cleansed dots. E.g. if you have 1 dot cleansed you get 1000 hp. If you cleanse 10 dots you get 10k hp.
This set was and still is very strong and it is why we have to counter it by forcing the proc at the start of the fight with soul trap + elemental susceptibility. By doing this, we can then reapply the dots and the target has to take the damage unless they manually cleanse it. It also means they can't rely on the burst heal the set gives until 30s into the fight.
Wow...way to prove them wrong! Not only does this build work, it's fun to play. Thanx!!!!
what is your thoughts to use vateshran staff backbar instead of oblivion foe and this way you can add mythic like sea-serpent and add mistform instead of soultrap for mobility and escape?
The staff would work but means more medium to close range. Foe is very good and with that and elemental susceptibility allows us to proc others maras Balm easily so is kinda needed. Mistform can be added if you want. If you use a mythic drop the monster set.
Think a Breton would be good for this?
Yup! Majority of our damage comes from the sheer number of dots. If you want more damage use rallying cry instead of aetherial ascension
Any idea how you would edit this for PvE. I'm thinking Azureblight...somehow.
For PvE you're best using a pve build tbh - if you're doing the odd dungeon the build will function but a PvE build is a big DPS boost.
And, Valkyn's Skoria only has an 8% chance to drop the meteor? has this been changed or is 8% worth it?
It's 8% per dot tick so each dot we place has that chance. Beam also counts as a dot and can proc it too. I found this works well vs nbs
Blackrose can be bought with Telvar stones in Imperial city vendors.
It's the destruction staff from black rose prison - wild impulse
People refer to it as black rose staff. Apologies for any confusion.
Hi Dan do you have a written guide for this build, many thxs
Not yet but will be soon on www.unified-gaming.co.uk
Im using flame blossom and elf bane dual dagger
Yeah elf bane could be fun as we have loads of fire dots. I think flame blossom would be good with toppling charge :) My setup is more ranged however so flame blossom wouldn't work too well.
Add Grothdar and the eye of flame ultimate to really put the pressure on. 😊
Hey do ya still think this is a good build?
Yeah - I've used it recently and it is really solid as once the dots are ticking it is hard for people to counter, especially if you stun and beam them in a group.
What about azureblight as the second set?
Good alternative to the Blackrose staff, nobody seems to want to run blackrose…many thxs
I give suggestions and skill alternatives mid way. You can use masters staff, willpower or double bar oblivion foe. With each of these move entropy to the front bar instead of elemental ring and put destructive reach on the back bar so it is on both bars.
Many thxs was just looking through what I had, have masters and vatershan, but you have kindly given me some other alternatives
@@dawndixon7394 the black rose (wild impulse) destro is really worth the farm!
Lol ok thxs, yeah might have talked me into it..
@Dawn Dixon give it a go honestly. Treat the shield as a pseudo heal. It also let's you temporarily boost your health before combat and also shields your twilight which makes it harder to take down too
I hope this gets answered please. Why are you going medium, light and heavy? Why not heavy all 7 pieces with health increase for HP? I mean only 1 piece of light, and 1 piece of heavy? aren't the passives useless with only 1 piece?
There are undaunted passives which give up to 6% max stats if you have 1 medium, 1 heavy and 1 light piece. That's why people often go 5-1-1 or a mix of heavy, light and medium.
Medium armour increases weapon and spell damage so pairs nicely with the templar buffs which is why we stack more of that vs heavy as our major and minor sorcery will boost the bonus further.
@@Unified-Gaming Totally clarified. Much appreciated :) I have been playing for only 1 year, but am just now getting into and trying to become good at PVP. Thanks so much for your time.
Id try infused because dots don't scale as they get lower they use whatever your damage was when you casted it and i assume this goes for beam as well
Dots dynamically adjust now
Edit: on PTS they don't dynamically adjust anymore. However I'd still use blood thirsty as it significantly ramps up damage on the beam and if you reapply dots when low they do a lot more
@@Unified-Gaming yea i was about to say i just tested it and you have to recast it for them to scale. Pretty lame tbh especially if someone casts a dot on you when youre low and you have to deal with that stronger dot even after you heal
@West Tickles of Steel helps keeps them low which is nice and it makes our beam go crazy high!
Would runecarvers be any good for this
if it will be on both bars, it could be good. Maybe you can swap this instead of defencive set mantioned in video and use something like hist set on backbar instead of oblivion foe. But need to test
Deadly strike plus oblivions foe?
You could but dargrkin is more damage than deadly. A second proc would also be good like sheer venom as flame ring is an execute so procs it.
dotplar only works in bg's i use balorg trainee markyn rally and deadly fire staff
You need to use the sets given that's why. Oblvions foe is an extra dot as is the wild impulse set. These combined give a lot of extra damage to your build and also allow you to counter anyone using cleanse sets with cooldowns as you can soul trap and elemental susceptibility to trigger their cleanse.
Fun build but even without maras set Templars would still cleanse at least half of this damage and Wardens would cleanse aswell. Honestly after the dots changes i feel like making a dot build pvp viable is incredibly difficult. This is an interesting build though.
Templar cleanse removes 5 things. Elemental susceptibility and soul trap + foe is 6-7. The dots need the templar to cleanse twice which gives you time to apply a lot plus stun and add more. I haven't had issues dotting templars as they spend ages cleansing and not doing damage then or do damage to me but take dot damage.
@@Unified-Gaming What about a Templar running mara though surely that's gonna stop most of your dps.
@@Stephencurran_7 you start by procing maras. Then dot. Cleanses would always be the way to counter a dot build but it is a move they need to use to do so and is very expensive. With maras also being nerfed to 30s next patch I'm not worried but do see your point.
To your point about dot builds. They need you to stack loads and is why they're hard to make. Once stacked do well. This works on magden too and I've tested it - had 2m damage in a bg with 28 kills lol
@@Unified-Gaming I appreciate your feedback as i said fun build just after the dot nerfs recently i wouldnt have expected a dot build to be kicking about i thought they were kinda dead.
You've definitely found a way to make it work
why acension over pariah?
Defence always active whereas pariah is when low. Is we do loads of dots we don't roll loads so this set becomes a good option.
Could you back bar Athenian Accession? Five piece Oblivions foe on the body to keep it up? You would lose armor on your front bar.. and what traits are you using on the armor? I like divines unless I’m roll dodging a bunch.
I ended up building it as listed.. worked pretty well in Cyrodiil as long as I was with a group. I need to perfect it.
Not really sure that Valkyn Skoria is the best option for a monster set/ mythic.. 8% chance to summon a meteor is pretty low.
Cool build, dude. I hate that my only Templar is an Orc... :/
This would work with an orc to be honest - race isn't too key in pvp nowadays beyond niche builds.
Vampire Templar? No just no, can’t bring myself to do it😂
It'd work without it but you won't be as tanky
Seems sketchy only having 1 heal and no movement skills
Seems like a group build where you relie on the group to tank most of the dmg
I say that very early on lol
@@Unified-Gaming oh lol my bad, didn't have my sound on and just kinda skimmed through the vid, didn't have time to watch the entire thing
@@V_ranx12 I mention it about 1-2m into the video
Bro your website is empty.
www.unified-gaming.co.uk
Vampire... aaaargh, can I please not do it? Ha ha. Is it that good that you have to have it? If not, what should I have instead on back ulti? I really don't feel like leveling it, but maybe I have to.
The vampire skill line gives access to a passive called undeath. That reduces damage received by up to 30%. Below 50% hp you have 15% extra defence. Below 25% hp you have 22.5% damage reduction.
This passive alone is as strong as 5 piece defence sets and some. Buffer of the swift is 10% damage reduction and is one of the best % sets in the game. That's why I use vampire.
The ultimate is good too as we can use it as an oh no button. You could use a heal ult instead though.
@@Unified-Gaming Thanks :) Have you tried it against those green throwing monsters (arkanists)? Is this spec also really good against them? I was just wondering because there's a serious grind to get that staff and not that many groups for BRP.
this looks awful for a game lol.. Try Gw2 its much better then trash like wow as well
Not played guild wars myself but heard mixed things
Gw2 is good dan, was playing it not too long ago, it's where eso got most it's ideas from lol.
I did get board of it though, but that's more because rhys kept moaning at me to play eso again 🙃.
@TSE EMPRESS haha ill look into it Zoe. I thought it was more tab target and skill duration combat so you're cycling skills rather than eso or new world action focused combat
@@Unified-Gaming the skill system is similar in some ways but there are more cooldowns, you would have to try it out to see what i mean. i mained reaper necro, honestly loved playing necro, but the reaper variant is really fun, the jumping puzzles in gw2 tho...they put my guild mazes to shame. if you mannage to hop into pvp that where you will see the most similarities, the 3 alliances, taking keeps, siege etc, and even Bgs, its all from gw2