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The passiv doesn't trigger effects like burn/chill and so to 100% it just increases it by a 100%. There are weapon which have 5% chance to trigger burn with the passiv it then would be 10%. The first time I read I also thought it would be a 100% :-)

Yeah, I just worded it weird, double the amount is still huge.

I'm still working on my build but I thought about something like this:

 

 

Altmer Dragonknight Mage

 

Destruction Staff:

Obsidian Shield/Destructive Touch

Fire Breath

Searing Strike

Impulse

Weakness of Elements

 

Ultimate: Dragonknight Standard

 

 

Restoration Staff:

Regeneration

Fire Breath/Entropy

Dragon Blood

Spiked Armor

Obsidian Shield

 

Ultimate: Magma Armor

 

 

The biggest downside for me is that I currently don't have a Stun.

Kiting won't be easy in this game because you don't have cooldowns on abilities like the Teleport from the Nightblade which is also a stun.

If someone tries to kite me I just stay at range and use my range abilities and when someone gets in close than I drop everything I have.

But I'm not completly happy with it, but as long we don't know each and every morph it will be hard to nail it down.

I think you'll only be able to have 1 ultimate slotted, unaffected by weapon swaps..but I'm not sure, I do know that in the quakecon gameplay video the ultimate doesn't swap--but he may just have it double slotted? It makes sense that it would be, because you could use a cheap and an expensive one if you need to rely on it right away. 

This build is a lot like my mage build, where when they get on you you switch to Resto and pop defensives. In 1v1 though the mage would outdamage you unless you were on top of him. I'd highly recommend reflective scale for your ranged section instead of any up close abilties, that way you can caster vs caster/bow much easier. VS melee when you switch to your resto build you are very similar to my mage, but I actually like your DK resto build a lot more than my Mage's. I just think offensively you're going to have huge problems because you will lose to melee and you'll lose to casters. Your heals aren't good for other people. And, you're not a real tank..so what are you going to actually be trying to do with this? Run around and not die for a bit in resto slots? I really don't see who you'd be able to kill in 1v1 with this build unless you can outlast melee in your resto build, but I doubt that because you simply have no +armor which is your first mitigation source.. (not that this matters, because you should have more mitigation than most, but it's one thing that the mage build is better in vs melee, 300 more armor is probably a lot considering he had like 250 in medium armor at level 17(?) in the quakecon video.)

I think kiting will be pretty easy actually, stuns/roots are expensive for melee users while knockbacks and slows aren't expensive for casters at all. The only time you'll be on someone knocking you back is when you use charge abilities like teleport strike, but those cost high magicka on a character who'll have mostly stamina. The best gap closer for melee is the 1h/shield charge for 48 stamina with a stun, the 2h charge is next best because it also costs stamina, but it's damage only. Your best bet is using things like Heavy Armor's active ability to be immune to knockback (iirc).

I actually think I'm going to play as that Templar build I posted. Defense- for the magicka while using a resto staff, this is amazing. Healing Ritual with Regenerate Ticking = very mana efficient, throw on Rune Focus if you are worried about getting interrupted and entropy on everything when you can to get magicka back. Guardian Circle, of course, since it appears to be the best armor/magic resistance buff in game, 12s--although I might replace Guardian Circle with the Templar's dispel ability (forget name) if it seems more useful in PvP--which it probably will be.. And, during offense- between Sunfire/Piercing Javelin/Destructive Force melee won't touch me. Casters will get fucked by Eclipse and Force Shock. It might take a long time to finish someone, but I'd feel pretty chummy in the process. 

All just speculation mate, nobody knows anything for sure.

I spend $60 at applebee's probably 3-4 times a year. That's more than ESO is going to be yearly.

A little more then that, but the loot is hopefully better. XD

Thank you so much! I'm not finished with it, but it finally seems like a decent player, too!! =) =) =) <3!

Here are the most viable looking stave builds I've come up with so far:

Mage- Best Damage, Strong Defense vs Melee

Destro Staff (while not being focused and VS casters)

Weakness to Elements - Debuff

Surge – Self Buff

Force Shock - Interrupt

Mages Fury - Damage

Dark Exchange – Replenish Health/Magicka (costs Stamina)

Resto Staff (while being focused and VS melee)

Regeneration – Heal

Force Siphon – Heal

Lightning Form – Tank

Guardian Circle – Tank

Bound Armor – Tank

Templar- Best Defense, Very Good Offense for Kiting

Resto Staff (on a when-needed basis)

• [*]

Entropy – Regen Mag./Dot

Regenerate – Heal

Healing Ritual – Heal

Guardian Circle – Tank

Rune Focus – Tank

Destro Staff (really well rounded offense, not as much damage output as Mage but still very nice)

• [*]

Eclipse – Anti-caster - Target targets itself with single target negative spells.

Sunfire – Anti-melee - Slow/Damage

Piercing Javelin – Anti-melee - Knockback/Damage

Force Shock – Interrupt

Destructive Touch – Damange/CC

Nightblade- Kind of a passive killer, but it should work fantastically

Destro Staff (Open with this and get buffed/debuff them.)

• [*]

Cripple – Dot/Slow

Mark Target – Debuff

• [*]

Weakness to Elements – Debuff

Drain Power – Buff/Debuff

Haste – Attack Speed

Resto Staff (Switch to this and let your passive damage do the work while you self-heal)

• [*]

Entropy – Regen Mag.

Strife – Dot/Heal

Summon Shade – Dot/debuff

Haste – Attack Speed

Force Siphon – Heal on Attack

was in an article of mmorpg.com nearly a year ago back than several other sources said the same thing. So it could have changed but if so they didn't mentioned anything.Your mounts will also have 3 stats speed, stamina and storage you can feed than max 30 times and depending on the food you improve one stat. source here is shoddy cast.The DK can reduce the incoming dmg with obsidian shield plus spiked armor for 70% and you could use the ultimate which caps the dmg at 3% plus with dragon blood heals for 25% gives you HP regneration and improves your received healing.I mean you can put down lots of Dots on your target than give your self defensiv buffs plus regeneration to stay alive and keep refreshing those DoTs. Seems to me a pretty nasty build for PvP but we will have to see how it will work out in game.

Yeah, we'll have to see how it plays out. Every class can tank well if they try to, but as a staff user you'll want light armor so it won't fair well against melee attackers. Magic vs Melee will be a kite-fest in this game, for sure, you'll be trying to distance yourself from the melee user the whole time if you're using magic. This will be a lot less magicka intensive (and probably still take less damage) than if you're using tanking spells to just take the damage.

That's why I don't like DK staff users in PVP. DK abilities are good at keeping enemies near you, not away from you.

I think the best DPS (I think they'll be best 1h/shield tanks though) combo for DK is using Ash Cloud (best slow in the game for keeping them on you) with a 2H (2H applies "burn/chill/frost" effects 100% of the time--so if you have a burning 2H you'll apply the burn effect which is amplified by the DK's abilities a lot.) Using Critical Charge with it in case they lightning bolt out of it or stun and run, uppercut and then lava whip to throw them off balance, and also since Searing Strike is melee range (and huge huge damage) I think it'll be best used on melee users... I doubt you'd even be able to get it off, ever, in a magic vs magic fight against any other class that's kiting you.

I do acknowledge that you'd be able to tank a lot, but you'll run out of magicka too quick if you get focused.

I really like the DK class, I keep trying to make Staff builds that work--It LOOKS like it should be able to work, but it just ends up not being as good as the others no matter what talents I replace in there.

Would you mind posting the build that you plan on using as DK+Staves, There's probably a huge oversight I'm missing.

Anyone looking to sell theirs? Must be in very good shape to be considered.

Won't work they said that you will get enough points (49) to max out one stat and get another one to around half. So i guess that you can spend up to 30 points into one Stat.PS: A Dragonknight Mage will have some awesome survibility, cause he has a nice amount of HPs great defensive skills plus a good amount of healing because Power not only improves dmg but also healing.

I'm sad to hear that you can max out a stat. --Each level you get to allocate 10 points into either stam, health, or magicka-- So you could get like 33 of your levels into magicka and the rest into health? Can you provide the source for this, I don't think I've heard that before.

A dragonknight with destro/resto staves? Yeah, there's a lot of +healing and +health regeneration. If you max out HP then that could be pretty good, but I don't think the DK class has that great defensive abilities. scale armor, dragon heal thing, spiked armor, and possibly obsidian shield are pretty sick defensives. And the Magic Resistance from DK passives is helpful for defense, but if you're in light armor then you'll already have a lot of magic resistance and you'd be better off focusing on Armor like from the Mage's talents (bound armor) or damage reduction (lightning form). I think dragonknight has the least amount of survival in PVP situations, because it's all kind of slow/passive abilities rather than reactive abilities that shine in specific situations.

I think Dragonknight will be the best DPS for PVE with Destro Stave too, unless Nightblade's "Marked Target" is really effective at higher levels, which I think it could be. But idk, I don't care much for PVE anyways.

They all definitely have potential, I just think DK's too hybrid feeling between melee and magic to shine in PVP where puritans rein supreme.

That's a tad bit too much, especially if you have to pay to buy the game in the first place. I think I'll play quite a lot during my first month, and then try out F2P, see if paying is worth it that much, and let that determine how frequently I get subscription.

I'll be damned if I'm paying over €150 a year.

Hopefully the 3/6mo//yearly subs bring the total down a noticeable amount. If it's 10-12$ for a year then I'll be paying yearly, otherwise I'll just pay month/month because I tend to take months off of MMOs.

This has worked in several games that allow you to designate your stats how you choose, such as Diablo 2 and mana-tanking sorces for example.

Awesome potential! Dig this concept-- 100% magicka. Instead of putting any points into health or stam put ALL your stat allocations into Magicka. Then take healing/damage reduction/absorption spells in one weapon slot and damage/(de)buff/CC skills in the other weapon slots... seems like it could be good for increasing EHP quite a lot, and this is how:

You regen stats based on how much of the stat you have, because it's % based. 5% regen per second or so (haven't timed it while watching videos yet, but I will sometime soon!) (Templar also gets 4% magicka back per spell cast..which has the potential to make your magicka nearly endless if you are casting spells around 10% your max magicka [which is low, but if you're in full light armor and such then this number goes up and your max magicka should be quite high] at 1 spell per second endlessly!!)

So..now..the only thing you need to worry about is being one-shot to death, but unless a couple nightstalkers snipe you from stealth who are fully bow-damage geared, I doubt this will happen anyway. I mean, SOME HP allocation might be required to avoid being one-shot, but I think this really has potential.

If you were a mage (they have incrs magicka, magicka regen, and lower magicka costs, too) then think about being able to Lightning-Teleport (forget the name right now..) so many times in a row, this could even be faster than a stamina templar with a bow and medium armor!

IDK, it's just something cool to think about-- since I haven't talked a whole lot about health/magicka/stam distribution as much as I have on spell synergy combos.

You stole my answers. 

I'm pretty sure that with their targeting system and everything I've seen it'll be the best PvP option by quite a bit.

For some reason, MMOs always draws me to Medium Armor wearing bow types.

 

And since I can't hand to hand, I'll go with that. Maybe a little dual wielding for close engages.

I really would like to use a 2H and Bow on a medium armor class, but I can't make it work how I want it to while balancing stam/magicka between both weapons.. So it would cause me to have an EHP loss due to unbalanced resource management between the weapon swaps... Sucky nipples. =(

I did play league... and then I logged in and my account that I had bought a shitload of characters on was emptied out and it asked me for a new summoner's name...NO IDEA HOW. So then, when I put in a request to get it reset, they wanted the IP addresses of everywhere I've played league on, and since I've played in several different states there was no way I could get that information for them so they refused to reinstate my account... Bullshit imo. If I ever play that genre again I'll go with DOTA2.

I'm still going back and forth between Mage and Nightblade for Resto/Destro/Light Armor type class.

It seems that those two will be slightly better for that gearing for PvP where you want utility on your plate, while templar or dragonknight will be stronger for PVE rolls with that setup.

Latest build I've come up with that seems like it has potential:

Mage w/ Light Armor-

DESTRO (vs ranged and while not targeted)

Weakness to Elements - Debuff

Surge – Self Buff

Force Shock - Interrupt

Mages Fury - Damage

Dark Exchange//Soul Trap – Heal//Soul Shard Gatherer

RESTO (vs melee and while targeted)

Regeneration – Heal

Force Siphon – Heal

Lightning Form – Tank

Guardian Circle – Tank

Bound Armor – Tank

You must decide! No "I don't know yet" bullshit!! I want to hear what you guys would use if you had to choose right now!!!

=)

if they do this then they should lower down the overall price 

I think on PC they probably will, I was thinking that earlier. On console I doubt they'll lower it from $60, but it is really nice that it includes a 1-month subscription with purchase price no matter what.

Fucking awesome.

This shit will be p2p, ahahaha. swtor again.

Where is this info? I was under the impression it'll be b2p and pay for vanity if you want.

Physical Templar with Medium armor is officially awesome! For some reason I never paid attention to "Restoring Aura" in the Restoring Light tree. Increases health AND STAMINA regeneration passively? This will definitely stack with the medium armor bonuses. I can't wait to see how far one of these bitches can sprint for, HAHA! EPIC!

It's been a while since I posted any information on min-maxing/character creation.

I've realized one thing: Only TWO things really matter! This makes it very easy for min/maxers. The two things that matter are 1) Race. And 2) Class.

Everything other than your race and class can be changed later, and if you've already reached a higher level then it makes leveling up a lower level skill tree go faster. So, if you're a medium level and you switch to a new weapon type, you will gain much faster than if you were level 1 starting with a different weapon type than your other character.

This means you want to avoid making new characters at all costs, because it will take much more time. Sooo-- You want to base your choiced entirely on race & class, you can always level up a new weapon or armor type later on (at a much greater speed than re-rolling.)

Anyone trying to figure out what to play as, just look at the race and class abilities to decide. You'll be able to change everything else just fine anyway!

Kyle--  You get to choose 5 skills and one ultimate. You choose your 5 active skills from race/weapon/armor/guild/soul/class(x3 trees)/vampirism/lycanthropy/etc.etc.. You choose your ultimate out of the ones that have ultimates to choose from (everthing besides race, weapons, armors.)

R4VID-- Because you're able to "morph" the abilities each time you rank them up it makes it hard to say exactly what your character will end up as, no matter how much starting-planning you do. But, look at the thread "Min/Max Combos (Very Early Theorycraft)" for character ideas for now if you want. I doubt we'll get much more information on later morphs until the full game's released...

Based on what I've seen of morphs though, it really looks like you'll be able to get what you want (either more nuke, dot, utility, etc.) out of pretty much any skill in the game, so your original choices only matter slightly.

wtfudge....

I wrote another long post with lifting advice, but then I hit ctrl+V instead of ctrl+C before I posted it (I always copy before posting in case it fucks up..)

Bummer.. oh well! >.<

I think we Irish drink moar Tynisa.

 

Is green tea really that good? I have a pretty terrible diet, because I don't gain any weight/size from shitty food (genetic, all of my family are like me), I'm like a stick but without a doubt the biggest eater out of my friends. This leads to not the best fitness when you consider that I do quite a lot of training.

 

Anyway, this 80-120 second time under pressure method seems pretty solid, really feeling a lot more of a "burn" than just doing a shit-load in sets as fast as possible, lol.

I'm 1/4 Irish and 1/4 English, so I'll be the mediator: I only drink Japanese green tea because it has less lead in it. Bahaha!!

Yeah man, if you need to lose fat then green tea is where it's at. Revs your metabolism like mad, if I drink more than one tea-bag I'm always sweating within 15 minutes of drinking it, haha.

I totally feel you bro; I love to eat junk and I eat a lot. I mean, I hate that I do it but I love it while I'm doing it, haha! The very best thing you can do for overall health is fasting, I've fasted a bunch of times for longer than 7 days and I've found that the most benefit is around day 3 of water-only. But, this is hard for a lot of people if they're not conditioned to burn their own fats for fuel (plus if you're bulking it's not a good idea because you'll be amino-starved and lose lean mass on top of fat.) The reason fasting's so beneficial for people like us, who eat shitty, is because after about 18 hours of no food our bodies go into a catabolic state that you clean yourself up during. During this time your body is scrounging around looking for things within itself to consume for fuel, you end up locating toxins that are isolated (on top of a thousand other benefits.)

If you're not really able to go 3 days, every month or so, without eating then there is another way that I've come to really love while I'm not bulking: Intermittent Fasting. Eating all my daily food within about 4 hours and then not eating for 18-20 hours during the rest of the day.

During IF I feel like I end up getting about the same cleanliness feeling within about a week as I do from fasting completely for 3 days. You don't get all the benefits, like entering a really heavy ketone state, but you can at least clean the toxins from your body this way. If you eat beef during your eat period you won't get as hungry, because there's about a 20 hour absorption time on beef protein-- if you're trying to bulk then make sure you get enough beef proteins so you don't amino starve (a protein shake that's beef-based is a good option if you're into shakes, but do water the rest of the time.)

If you do go the full-fasting route and take a 3+ day, then I'd highly recommend breaking the fast with a big ass salad. The insoluble fiber will push all the toxins out that have been moving into your colon. It's pretty crazy, if you wait like 5-9 days you'll end up getting these pure black shits of toxic goop, you'll feel sick right before you poop it out and then it's like, "Woah..I feel fucking awesome all of a sudden." and that's the moment that you fast for, which you can speed up by eating the salad to push it out. Even if you don't eat a salad-- Do not eat any nuts, bananas, oranges, or anything too sugary either when you get off the fast: You want to avoid the soluble fiber because that will put the gel like fiber all over your intestines and lock in/reabsorb the toxins you want to get out. And nothing sugary because your ketones will be at a good level so if you give yourself a rush of glucose your body kinda feels like it's been hit with a truck afterwards.

I doubt any of you want to start fasting, but if you do then let me know how it goes! It has all the benefits of being a vegetarian (catabolic state) without everyone thinking you're a douchebag, HAHA! Gah, I was a vegetarian for quite a while.. I never hark on something if I don't try it.. biggest mistake ever.. I felt great for the first month or two and then I realized my sex drive was basically non existent.. plus I just wasn't gaining muscle or losing fat, I was doing it right and eating the right proteins and such... I really did enjoy the clean feeling, but through fasting or IF I get that feeling (and a lot more of that feeling) while also reaping the benefits that you can get from other diets.

DIdnt read the lungs thing, your lungs can be trained - or at least i've suffered from asthma for many years.  I've gone from not being able to run half a mile, to being able to run 3-5 miles, and my lungs are the main part of my body that hurts.

 

Same for when i weight train, my lungs are my main issue.

 

Might just be because i suffer from asthma, but im not sure.

If they're below a normal functioning level (a lot of people are) you can train them up to normal functioning levels even by getting a walk or two in every now and then, but they're not like a muscle that you can work harder and harder. You can only transfer so much O2.

Can't help but hesitate your weight loss diet. I mean I'm certainly no dietitian but this sounds like one of those diets where you lose the weight fast but if you don't continue doing it you gain it all back. I've always heard these diets can be hazardous to your health due to lack of nutrients vitamins etc. from foods you've taken out of your diet. In all honesty i would rather go with cardio versus dieting. You say lungs are not exercisable which is probably very true, but your heart IS a muscle and it CAN be conditioned. honestly there are way too many benefits of cardio to list. It may not be the easiest way to lose weight that's for damn sure, but it's probably the healthiest way you can.

 

Sorry for ranting about your post I'm just throwing in my 2 cents. Your lifting routine looks great though no issues there

NP mate, I love discussing diet more than anything. No matter how much cardio you do, weight loss is almost 100% based on your diet for many reasons: If you're eating a lot then cardio will actually make you gain weight, just like heavy lifting but slower gains. Your heart can definitely be conditioned, but it's been found over and over that it's healthiest to have moderate activity levels with fewer bursts of activity throughout the day. Your heat's pumping all the time, even when you sleep, and when you do heavy lifting you get more actual heart exercise during that time frame than from cardio. As well as having a huge metabolic boost from heavy lifting compared to only burning additional calories during workout from cardio.

My personal story is that my volleyball team placed 3rd in the world's largest outdoor volleyball tournament, at the time I was training vigorously in cardio for around 4 hours a day, 4 times a week, plus some jogging on top of that once in a while. During this time I had a pretty steady resting heart rate of at least 70 (really high for an athlete), with palpations, even though I was in awesome shape (I was running 5 miles in under 30 minutes at this time.) Now I'm about 230 lbs and I've gained a bit of fat because I'm eating a lot more to bulk, but my resting heart rate is about 45 bpm despite all that! I never get palpations that I used to get when I was doing a ton of cardio, I actually feel a lot healthier than I did back then, and I contribute it 100% to my diet change.

I've also taken people who don't exercise and helped them (from 20 year old men to 60 year old women) lose over 40 lbs per month: no exercise at all!

As far as nutrition is concerned, the only thing you could be deficient in while on this diet is phosphorous, but between some fish and a moderate amount of veggies you're taken care of as far as all vitamins/minerals. I actually prefer to go zero veggies too, because it releases a lot more serotonin and I am way happier all the time. All you need to do for a 100% meat diet is include some eggs or any organ meats at least once a week and you won't have any deficiencies at all, plenty of tribes in arctic areas rely 100% on meats for almost every month of the year.

If you're into counting macros then 80% fat 20% protein is about the ideal ratio. Man, I've tried everythinggg: vegan vegetarian pescetarian, paleo, raw food, south beach, atkins, etc. Honestly, I feel the best, look the best (took care of acne, toned me up, actually made my dick grow because I think I was testosterone deficient before! HAHA, awesome right!?) since I've been on a meat diet.

Consult your doctors before trying anything crazy, but if you just follow the rules from the OP then you'll cut weight for sure. And no, you won't regain it. Honestly if you just drink a cup or two of green tea in the morning you will lose fat, so no worries about bouncing back as long as you can drink some tea, haha

Pretty good read, i've still got a big ish belly, but fortunately my shoulders are big enough to make me passable to look at.

 

Guess thats life.

 

I'll probably try and trim it down at some point, but i just cant be bothered these days.

Hey man, well if you simply eliminate the foods I mentioned in OP and start drinking green tea in the mornings you'll start shedding weight like crazy no matter how much you eat!!  That's awesome that you've got a good build already, that's what really takes a long time!

Good luck on the weight loss, it goes way faster than you expect once you start. I used to be about 40% body fat, it only took me around 3 months to get almost 6% and another month for 5%.

Haha, wtf Ghost?! Link me a video of people eating white bread... makes me want to give her a nutritional report! That Krewella song's good though, haha..

Dem shoes..wtf...