Elder Scrolls Online - Trying out the Necromancer!

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There are two things that I'm waiting for:

  1. Diablo 3, Season 19 ~ yes, I know Path of Exile is "better" but sometimes you just want to mindlessly smash things while pretty colours invigorate your senses. Also. Rainbow goblins. Though mindless is the key word in this paragraph; I think too much in Path of Exile.
  2. Stardew Valley, Update 1.4 ~ technically to be released November 26th, but because I live in the future I have to wait an extra day.

Season 19 won't be released 'til the 22nd, which gives me plenty of time to get Diablo'd out before the SDV update.😀 A few days is all I need to get over this little phase.

In the meantime, while I should be writing (NaNoWriMo) but can't get into it during this period of No Sleep and Hyper Vigilance (new kitten) I opened up the Elder Scrolls Online and decided to make a Necromancer.

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Iselia Liss -- snobby High Elf of the Aldmeri Dominion by day, Necromancer by night. Well, technically both at all times! But, you know. RP.

Anyway. So I created her then sent her straight to my manor to get outfitted out. Beautiful. I like her skull belt the best, and of course I had to dye her outfit to match her hair. 😀

These are the three starting abilities for the Necromancer:


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First tree is DPS, second is Tank, third is Heal. Of course, all up to you if you want to mix and match and whatever. At the moment I'm running DPS with the initial Tank Heal, and am tempted to grab the Tank Armour ability too. Survivability ++

I'm one of those players who actually plays how they want rather than what's "best", so, whatever floats my boat at the time. The only character of mine I do a "best build" with is my PvP Templar Healer. She's amazing. I love playing with her.

Anyway. NECROMANCER.

After making her and checking out her abilities, I realised that I'd probably be going a more magicka based build rather than stamina, so jumped onto my main -- Friend of Razum-dar -- to...

...make her some nifty clothes.


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5 Set Julianos, 4 Set Magnus, and 3 Set Seducer. Super MAGIC!!

All clothing has Training on them to level her up quick-smart. 😆 I prefer to do my questing in the Champion levels so I can keep contributing towards endgame points. I'm at Champion 760 at the moment, cap is 810 at the moment. If my Templar was any indicator, I'll probably hit Champion halfway through the Greenshade Zone, when normally I'd be level 30ish.

The daggers!!

I don't actually use the daggers, but most magicka builds prefer having dual-wield weapons over a single staff for the extra set piece bonus. There was talk of them making it so a Two-Handed-Weapon counted as 2 pieces when it came to sets, but I'll be honest -- no idea if they ever implemented that. Better safe than sorry - 2 daggers!

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Rawr! Go forth my pretty!

That skeleton pictured belongs to my second DPS ability and, so far, my first criminal ability. It's also my keybind #2 which is a bad choice - on every other one of my ESO characters, keybind #2 is either RUN FASTER or HEAL ME, so... it's very likely that my Necromancer is going to get into some legal trouble at some point.

Have already forgotten a couple of times and pressed '2' to run faster, only to wrench a skeleton up out of the ground. Woops.

Anyway. So far I'm finding it pretty fun. Sending forth a skeleton to explode on someone followed by a bunch of fiery skulls is always fun. And at the same time, I'm using her to grab some lowbie materials that I'm slowly running out of. Since everything in the game is scaled to levels, my farming Nightblade, the illustrious Friend of Razum-dar, can no longer acquire such materials as Maple/Oak, Jute/Cotton, Iron/Orichalcum, or whatever other materials there are.

I needs them. I like having a crafting bag full of -everything- I could possibly need or sell.

She's only level 11 so has only just hit the requirements for dungeons and pvp. I won't be sending her into the PvP lands, but I am curious to see how she goes in a dungeon. I'll wait 'til 16 though since that's when I'm making her next set of clothes.

That level 4 gear isn't going to last forever!

😀😊😀

I don't usually last long on characters that aren't Nightblades or Templars, my Sorcerer and Dragonknight went nowhere, so will be interesting to see how long I stick with this character and if I'm willing to take her all the way to Champion or not.

I probably will at this rate, if nothing else just to get lowbie materials. 😅 And because exploding skeletons are fun.

We'll see how I go! And will do an update on my progress later. See how many times I get arrested for raising skeletons in the cities instead of running faster. 😆

 

Until next time, thanks for stopping by! 😊


All screenshots taken by me, kaelci@kaelci, from the game: The Elder Scrolls Online

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