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The Elder Scrolls Online: Nightblade

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Nightblades blend dark magic with sleight of hand, leaping out of nowhere to fell opponents with a flurry of blades or siphoning their vital essence from afar. They also excel at exploration and scouting in PvP. Skill Lines: Nightblade possesses the usual three unique skill lines to choose from, with passives that increase your defence and regenerate your resources: Assassination: Deal massive bursts of damage to weakened foes or mark them for death with a deadly debuff. There are some good damage and utility options here, including a cheap Ultimate that can restore your resources. Shadow: Cloak yourself in shadow … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Nightblade

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Elder Scrolls Online: Battlegrounds

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Player versus player combat can be a fun (or frustrating) way to break up the process of levelling a character, or be a fast paced alternative to dungeons and trials at endgame. Battlegrounds: These are available to any character of level 10 or above, have a separate bracket for players below level 50 and disable the use of champion points. Three teams of four players are randomly generated from all those queuing, and matches last until 500 points or 15 minutes have accumulated, whichever comes first. Each match takes place on a randomly chosen map, most of which have environmental … Continue reading Elder Scrolls Online: Battlegrounds

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Warden

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Want to throw oversized prehistoric chickens at foes? Heal your friends with the power of mushrooms? Blow incapacitating snow at everyone nearby? Warden has all of this and more! Skill Lines: Warden possesses three unique skill lines that can be supplemented with guild, world and equipment lines. Animal Companions: Deploy all kinds of beasties to distract and destroy your foes – including a semi-permanent bear companion! Thanks to Betty Netch and Falcon’s Swiftness this line can also provide speed buffs, restore resources and clear debilitating effects. Passives include restoring health every time an Animal Companions ability ends, bonus resource generation … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Warden

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Necromancer

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Do you like poking corpses with a stick? Do you like throwing bits of corpse at people? If so, you might want to consider Necromancer! Skill Lines: Like all classes in ESO, Necromancer comes with three unique skill lines that you can base your build around. Note: Many of these skills will draw the ire of guards if cast in towns, since necromancy has something of an… image problem. Bone Tyrant: Shrug off damage with your undead flesh, reap a harvest of stolen life with an arcane scythe or pin foes with skeletal hands. Functioning as the tanking and crowd-control … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Necromancer

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonknight

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Dragonknights draw upon draconic essence to conjure flame and poison, dominating the battlefield with primordial force. Skill Lines: Like the other classes, Dragonknight comes with three unique skill lines that can be supplemented with equipment, guild and world skills. Ardent Flame: Focusing on damage over time and debuffs, this line also provides boosts to poison and flame effects, resource regain and passive snares. It’s also where you get the ability to breath flame or poison, increasing the flame damage victims take or corroding their armour with major breech. Rounding out this line is the ability to drag enemies to you … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonknight

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Templar

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Templars channel the power of the Aedra, summoning divine power to impale foes on burning spears or mend the wounds of allies. Templars are great choices for damage dealing or healing, coming with built in support abilities and a wide range of physical and magical attacks. Skill Lines: Templar possesses three skill lines to invest in, that can be supplemented with equipment, guild and world skills: Aedric Spear: High area-effect damage coupled with crowd-control, and if nothing else you’ll want Puncturing Strikes unlocked – strike and snare everyone in a cone, dealing a big chunk of damage, gaining minor protection … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Templar

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Sorcerer

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The sorcerer calls on the power of Oblivion, commanding eldritch storms, otherworldly crystals and daedric minions to overwhelm their foes with staff or blade. Skill Lines: Like all classes, sorcerer possesses three unique skill lines to invest in, each with their own specialities: Daedric Summoning: Call a variety of minions to fight beside you, mark foes with an explosive curse and generate a shield of raw magicka. If you want a whole bunch of pets to aid you in combat, this is where you’ll find them. Dark Magic: Encase foes in daedric crystal, summon arcane mines or launch blasts of … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Sorcerer

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Elder Scrolls Online: Crime and Bounty

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The Elder Scrolls games have always held that crime -does- pay, provided you can make your escape! Online is no exception, and there’s gold to be made from redistributing property… Burglary for Beginners: There’s plenty of containers in any city that can be stolen from, at the risk of being caught and assigned a bounty – so why do it? Well, the rewards can actually be rather good, including crafting materials, crafting recipes and general valuables going from 40 gold upwards – I had a 1500 gold find shortly before writing this. The other big advantage of stealing is that … Continue reading Elder Scrolls Online: Crime and Bounty

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Elder Scrolls Online: Crafting

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Crafting your own equipment is one of the draws of the Elder Scrolls series, so it’s no surprise Elder Scrolls Online offers that capability… Materials: If you want to craft anything, you’ll need materials. There’s a few options available for the budding craftsman: Gathering: Simply look out for plants, logs and ore as you ride around, or kill wild beasts for leather and meat! The materials you harvest scale with your level, so pick a zone you like! Crime: Breaking into unoccupied houses or barns can get you a surprising amount of provisioning materials, along with recipes to learn and … Continue reading Elder Scrolls Online: Crafting

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Vampirism

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Do you have too much blood and not enough dark powers? Consider becoming vampire tonight! Any player character in The Elder Scrolls Online can become a vampire as part of the base game, allowing some unique combinations. Becoming a vampire requires finding a vampire shrine and being bitten… By rare bloodfiends in The Rift, Bangkorai or Reaper’s March. Contagious bloodfiends spawn very rarely and at random – there is a better way to get infected. By a player at one of the werewolf shrines found at the previous locations. Players with the Blood Ritual perk unlocked near a shrine can … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online: Vampirism