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Do you want to do more damage in The Elder Scrolls Online? If you are
struggling with DPS in ESO, Lucky Ghost will list the most important things you
can do to increase your damage while Parsing or Fighting enemies in the
game.
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Choose
the Right Rotation
AoE vs. Single Target
First, you have to recognize what type of
damage you want to do. The most important factor in your Rotation is how many
enemies you are approaching: If you're approaching more than a couple of
enemies, you'll want to lead with your AoE abilities and use an AoE spammable,
such as Brawler or Whirling Blades, or Unstable Wall of Elements. It's better
to do 4K damage to six enemies than 9K damage to one.
Conversely, if you're walking up to a boss
with no adds or you're Parsing, you'll want to use a single target spammable
because 4K damage to one target is worse than 9K damage to that same target.
The mistake many new players make is using
the same Rotation, whether walking up to a bunch of trash mobs or a Parse
Dummy.
Light
Attack Weave
Light Attacking between every ability will
do huge things for your damage. Below is why Light Attack Weaving is so crucial
in ESO:
Light
Attacking Generates Ult Charge
Light Attacking Weaving will generate Ult
charge. If you're not consistently Light Attacking, your Ultimate will take a
very long time to become available again.
Light
Attacking Triggers Weapon Enchants
Light Attacking will also Proc Enchants on
your weapons. There's a long list of Enchants that you can take advantage of,
and you have a chance of activating them every time you Light Attack.
Light
Attacking Provides Set Bonus
Many sets in this game, such as Relequen,
Siroria, and even some Monster sets, benefit from Light Attacking. If you're
wearing one of these sets and you're not Light Attacking, you are completely
wasting the bonus that those sets are providing.
Use
Your Ultimate Often
As long as you're Light Attacking between
your abilities, your Ultimate will be coming up every one or two minutes. In
other words, it's going to be available very often, so you should use it very
often.
Use
Potions
Potions are incredibly important in The
Elder Scrolls Online. They increase your Weapon or Spell damage by 20%. They
also increase your critical rating and sustain so that you don't run out of
resources.
When you get serious about doing damage or
any time you're Parsing, you should use good Potions every time they come from
Cooldown.
Potions can be a little expensive for a new
player, but it's worth it. Anytime you're using a Parse Dummy to test your
damage, you should always use good Potions such as Essence of Weapon Power or
Essence of Spell Power. If you're not using Potions when you Parse, you’ll have
no idea what you're capable of.
Use
Food
Like Potions, Food is pretty important, and
you should never Parse or go into a Dungeon/Arena/Trial without Food equipped.
Every 1,000 of a resource that you get adds
100 of that type of damage. That means 1,000 Stamina is about 100 Weapon
Damage, and 1,000 Magicka is 100 Spell Damage.
The size of your resource pool is directly
related to how much damage your character will do. It's a part of the formula
that determines how much the next attack is going to do. That means if you're
eating a Food that adds 5,000 Magicka, the food also adds 500 Spell
damage.
Food makes your character much stronger so
that you don't run out of resources. If you're running out of resources, the
reason might be that you're not using Potions or Food, or both.
The effects of Food can last two hours.
Don't be the guy that says Food is expensive. It's not. Selling a few trash
items to a Vendor pays for your Food for the next couple of hours.
Get
the Right Gear
There are hundreds of sets in TESO, but not
all of these sets are created equal. Some of them are downright bad, some of
them are amazing, and some are just okay. If you're wearing one of the sets
that are just okay, your damage is just going to be okay; if you're wearing one
of the bad sets, your damage is going to be bad.
AoE
vs. Single Target
In The Elder Scrolls Online, some sets are
better for single target damage but horrible at AoE damage; some do well in PvP
but badly in PvE. Therefore, it's important to make sure the sets you're
wearing are good at what you want to do. If you want to do a lot of damage, you
need to wear a set that allows you to do that. The easiest way to achieve this
is to follow guides that have a proven record of taking down content that
requires high levels of damage.
If you only want to do Quests or Delves, it
doesn't matter what you wear because that type of content doesn't require a
high level of DPS. But if you want to do the Veteran mode of
Arenas/Dungeons/Trials, you need to make sure that the build you're following
uses sets that will be good for putting out large amounts of damage.
If you want to Parse, be sure to wear Parse
Gear; If you want to do AoE damage, make sure you're wearing AoE gear.
Keep
Your Dots and Buffs Up at All Times
Dots and Buffs are the hardest part for new
players, and these will be the single largest DPS loss in your build until you
master recasting these abilities as soon as they fall off.
It's easy to cast them the first time, but
it is difficult to cast them again the second they fall off. If you use Arrow
Barrage, you'll want to let it take all the way down, and as soon as it's done
and hit zero, you need to recast it again. Don't recast it before it hits zero
because if you reapply your AoE abilities too soon, you will run out of
resources. If you reapply them too late, you will lose damage. Therefore, the sweet spot is to reapply
them the second they fall off.
Another example is Barbed Trap. This Buff
will start ticking down from 18 seconds as soon as it activates, giving you 10%
increased Critical damage for the duration. It also puts a decent amount of DoT
on the enemy, so you are getting a DoT and a Buff simultaneously from this
ability, which means the second it comes up, you will want to recast it again.
Once you've got into the habit of Light
Attack Weaving, the biggest thing you can do to increase your damage is to
master the upkeep of your DoTs and your Buffs. It's what all the new players
struggle with. But once you get into the habit of reapplying them, your damage
will go through the roof.
Also, remember that your Rotation will
depend on what you're fighting – if you're fighting a large pack of enemies,
you don't want to start spamming a single target DoT or a single target
spammable. Instead, you want to lay down your AoE DoTs and AoE abilities to
make sure you're hitting all of those enemies at once.
Get
Your Gear Traited and Enchanted Correctly
Don't underestimate the importance of
having the correct Enchants and Traits on your gear. The Enchants will add
Maximum Stamina, and the Traits, such as Divines, increase your Mundus Stone
effect by 9%.
Enchants and Traits are also important in
Jewelry. Weapon damage Enchantment and Bloodthirsty Trait are going to add a
massive amount of damage to your character. Once you have all of your gear
properly Traited and Enchanted, it's going to have a very significant impact on
the amount of damage you can do.
Gold
Your Gear Out
It's important to gold out your gear once
you're going for big Parses to put out high DPS. But not every piece is equally
as important to gold out. Some pieces are significantly more impactful than
others when they're golded.
First of all, you'll want to gold out your weapons first because
weapons are going to have the single largest impact on your overall damage
output. After that, move on to your
Monster sets, then your body gear, and lastly, your Jewelry.
Jewelry is the last step because it is
costly to gold. Often, you may not even get around to it. When the gear meta
changes fast, it's not uncommon to leave your Jewelry purple and save yourself
a lot of ESO money it would have taken to gold these out. You might lose
a couple of percent of damage, but it's nothing too significant. However, when
you start trying to go for a 90K or 100K Parse, golding out the Jewelry does
help.
Don't worry if you only have one or two
pieces of a set golded. You are still receiving the benefit of having those
pieces golded. The game does not require you to have all five pieces of a set
golded out before you start receiving the benefits of having the set golded
out.
Practice
Nobody hits high DPS without ever touching
a Parse Dummy. When practicing your Rotation on a Dummy, you will want to keep
up those DoTs and Buffs, using the spammable anytime all of them are ticking.
Not only that, but you're going to practice Light Attack Weaving, use your
Ultimate as soon as it comes up, and use Potions anytime their Cooldown is
over.
You can come and Parse once every 50 Champion
levels. Don't start Parsing before 160, and there's no point in Parsing
before you have two five-piece sets and a Monster set on. Every 50 CP levels or
so, you can come to practice and check how much damage you did, and then come
back 50 CP levels later and see how that's improved.
Things that will increase your
damage:
• Champion Points
• Gear improvements
• Getting and golding out your
Trial sets
• Getting Arena weapon
Practice
on the Target Iron Atronach, Trial
The best Dummy for practicing is the Target
Iron Atronach, Trial because this guy replicates real game circumstances best.
This Dummy gives you a bunch of resources and Buffs, which will significantly
increase your damage and sustain, making you feel like you are playing with a
group as opposed to playing yourself.
Also, make sure you are standing behind the
Parse Dummy, particularly if you're using the Backstabber star because it is
the best one for Parsing, but it only works when you're Flanking the
enemy.
Useful
Addons for PC
For PC users, there are some Addons you can
use to make the process of increasing your damage much easier.
Combat
Metrics
When you're Parsing or in a Dungeon, this
tool tells you how much damage you're doing. Using this Addon, you will get
real-time feedback as you're fighting or Parsing.
Not only that, but you can also open it up
by typing /cmx into the chatbox, and
it's going to bring up a report of your damage.
Light
Attack Helper
Light Attack Helper is a tool that helps
you track your Light Attacks, and it does this by incrementing a counter each
time you actually hit a Light Attack. You'll want to shoot for a Light Attack
ratio of roughly 0.8. Above 0.8 will be fantastic, and 0.9 will be amazing.
Global
Cooldown Bar (GCD Bar)
If you are only Light Attacking between
every ability, you can cast an ability once per second. The Global Cooldown Bar
is a tool that tells you when you're allowed to cast your next ability.
As soon as the bar completes, it means one
second has passed, and then you can use another ability straight afterward. If
you are casting abilities before the bar finishes, it means you are casting
abilities too early, and you will be missing Light Attacks.
Those are the tips on how to improve your
damage in The Elder Scrolls Online. If you found this guide helpful, be sure to
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