Advice for Singler Player

[DigiAngel]

So I tried to play a thief before...that failed as other players around will agro your target. That being said, any advice on class/build that's single player friendly? Thank you.

[Requimatic]

Nightblades are very much single-player friendly, but a typical "Thief" archetype build will not work in ESO; you will have to have some kind of self-healing to survive. That being said, you have 3 options as a Nightblade, 4 if you spend some time in Cyrodiil:

1. Siphoning: Strife > Swallow Soul - deals a moderate amount of Magicka damage and puts a HoT on you that heals you for 25% of that damage every 2s for 10s.

2. Dual Wield: Twin Slashes > Blood Craze - puts a Bleed DoT on your target and heals you for X damage every 2s? I believe. The bad part about this one is that your target has to be alive for you to be healed.

3. Dual Wield: Flurry > Bloodlust: deals rapid damage to your target and heals you for 50%? of the damage done. For your endgame build, you'll want the other morph of this skill (along with the opposite morph of Blood Craze (Rending Slashes)), but for leveling it works pretty well.

4. PvP - Assault: Vigor - the best stamina-based heal in the game. Even if you don't PvP a lot, it's a great idea to go in to Cyrodiil to pick this skill up, even though it will take some time to get it. Resolving Vigor, the morph that most people take, is absolutely amazing for the cost.


All of that aside, if you want to tank as a Nightblade, you'll need a sword & board, a taunt or two (skills with the sword & board icon on them), and a drastically different build. Thankfully, Nightblades have a pretty great toolkit for tanking (drain skills, mitigation skills, etc.), which makes them very competitive later on. (Dragon Knights are widely considered to be the best due to their group utility, though.)

Typically, if you start attacking an NPC first they'll continue attacking you, unless someone comes along and taunts them, or deals a significant amount of damage more than you.

[DigiAngel]

Great information..thank you!

[stealth archer 007]

Sorc pet are really good for single player when dealing with three enemies as it distracts one enemy -it takes up a slot on each bar. But all the skills are there as a sorc with destro staff like frost clench that immobilies an ememy anyway. Also it has dark conversion class skill which restores resources.