Best Bow Race And Class?

[Sparky862]

Okay, I own Morrowind so I have Warden. I KNOW that bow is not one of the most powerfull main weapons, and should rather be used as a secondary. But Bow just appeals to me, while in the same way I want to dish out damage.

So I narrowed it down to

1. Bow Wielding Night Blade
2. Bow Wielding Warden

I would like to know from experienced players which off those two classes they would choose to run with a Bow?? I am also open to suggestion of other classes that would work with a bow. But in my noob experience I can not see a Templar running a Bow for example?

Also which race to go with my Bow class? I know the Wood Elf would level Bow up much faster than the rest ... But from my understanding Kajit has more "raw power" than a Wood Elf, Orc has more sustain than a Wood Elf and so forth. So I do not plan on running Wood Elf.

Also which armor should I run with my Class and Race using a Bow??

Thank you for the help. Hope to get some good advice. Also, as I said, I am open to other Race/Class Bow suggestions if you have them.

[Trigger]

Warden/stamina/bow/dual-wield/Khajiit or Redguard

[Meliphis]

I run a Bosmer Warden with Bow on first row and daggers on second. Pretty good, especially since the racial bonuses make it easier to do stamina builds, and theiving/sneaking.

[Sparky862]

Question though. Do I dump my Attribute points into Stamina for my Bow/Dual Wield or Magica for my Warden Class Skills??

[amapola76]

It might help if you elaborate on your play style. What are your main interests? Exploring, questing, crafting, roleplaying, dungeons, trials, raids, pvp, etc.? That makes a big difference to the answers.

I know you said you're not interested in Wood Elves, but I have found that a bow-wielding Wood Elf warden works very well for my purposes, particularly for just normal questing and exploration.

ETA: for lower levels, I usually add one healing (mag) skill and one animal-summoning skill to my first bar, then all bow skills. Then for my ultimate I go with the summoned bear companion. What's great about that is that the bear holds off your enemies at distance while you snipe. That's the main advantage, imo, to going with warden + bow.

[MightyJean]

Here's a double bow warden build : https://alcasthq.com/eso-stamina-warden-bow-build-pve/
I like it, even if I don't play much my warden these days, my stamblade and magDK generally get all my attention.

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by amapola76:

It might help if you elaborate on your play style. What are your main interests? Exploring, questing, crafting, roleplaying, dungeons, trials, raids, pvp, etc.? That makes a big difference to the answers.

I know you said you're not interested in Wood Elves, but I have found that a bow-wielding Wood Elf warden works very well for my purposes, particularly for just normal questing and exploration.

ETA: for lower levels, I usually add one healing (mag) skill and one animal-summoning skill to my first bar, then all bow skills. Then for my ultimate I go with the summoned bear companion. What's great about that is that the bear holds off your enemies at distance while you snipe. That's the main advantage, imo, to going with warden + bow.

Well, I am mostly going to quest, dungeons, explore, trials, raids and role play. I might at some point when I get tired of the content go into PvP.

Because of role play, and I want to be a sneaky thieve also, I went with the Kajit

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by MightyJean:

Here's a double bow warden build : https://alcasthq.com/eso-stamina-warden-bow-build-pve/
I like it, even if I don't play much my warden these days, my stamblade and magDK generally get all my attention.

According to that site, he dumped all attributes into Stamina, but Warden is a Magicka build? I am not clued up with the Warden as much as other classes, but does he's skills morph into Stamina or what?

[Drake]

Originally posted by Sparky862:

Originally posted by MightyJean:

Here's a double bow warden build : https://alcasthq.com/eso-stamina-warden-bow-build-pve/
I like it, even if I don't play much my warden these days, my stamblade and magDK generally get all my attention.

According to that site, he dumped all attributes into Stamina, but Warden is a Magicka build? I am not clued up with the Warden as much as other classes, but does he's skills morph into Stamina or what?

Cliff racer, shalk, netch and bear pets have stamina morphs. He also has a stamina heal morph in the healing tree. Stamina warden was designed as a traditional ranger-like class.

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by Sajah:

Originally posted by Sparky862:

According to that site, he dumped all attributes into Stamina, but Warden is a Magicka build? I am not clued up with the Warden as much as other classes, but does he's skills morph into Stamina or what?

Cliff racer, shalk, netch and bear pets have stamina morphs. He also has a stamina heal morph in the healing tree. Stamina warden was designed as a traditional ranger-like class.

I noticed the healing in there yes. Was just not sure as to why it is a Stamina DPS build, but the class requires Magicka.

Thank you for confirming the Stamina morphs

[Drake]

Originally posted by Sparky862:

Originally posted by Sajah:

Cliff racer, shalk, netch and bear pets have stamina morphs. He also has a stamina heal morph in the healing tree. Stamina warden was designed as a traditional ranger-like class.

I noticed the healing in there yes. Was just not sure as to why it is a Stamina DPS build, but the class requires Magicka.

Thank you for confirming the Stamina morphs

The premorph of all class skills is always magicka. Stamina version is always a morph, that's how every classes are designed. The only exception to this would be the sorcerer pact heal because converts stamina into magicka (and the stamina morph converts magicka into stamina).

[ExiaRS]

I play only with Bosmers as I am heavy in RP but they are weakest stamina race in PvE, but who cares? Also I play PvP and that is completely different game where Bosmer shine with proper builds.

Anyway, if you want to play as bow/bow it's viable. I play like that. Not strong as DW/bow but still strong and with Summerset bow/bow is getting solid boost in DPS.

Class
Nightblade > Warden > DK, Templar, Sorcerer

Even Warden looks like perfect bow/bow class, DPS is lower than Nightblade. Best NB players do 40+k DPS, Warden goes up to 40k. But Warden is easier to play.

Race
Redguard is the best bow/bow race followed by Imperial who is just slightly worse. Khajit is 3rd and Bosmer is 4th.

[Trigger]

Imperial's get 12% more health through passives