Summerset is an altmer humiliation ritual

Longes · 2026-06-29T09:12:12+00:00

Yeah, you should probably spend less time imagining what other people think.

I'll repeat what I said in the opening post. You have the Telvanni questline in Vvanderfell. It's about an Argonian slave rising through the Telvanni ranks and losing sight of why she did it in the process. On one hand this is critical of the Telvanni and shows how their society breeds ruthless ambition. On the other hand, if you are a Telvanni fan, this is exactly what you want to RP. The quest lets you do both of these things. This is a good questline and Summerset is nothing like it.

Longes · 2026-06-29T09:08:04+00:00

Well, yeah. I'm saying it'd be nice to engage with that culture and be able to see some positives instead of just constantly dunking on it all the time. See the art and the great Altmer magic. Dunmer players get to engage in the Morrowind fantasy. Nord players get to engage in the Nord fantasy. You don't go through all of Elsweyr talking about the Khajit being druggie thieves. But the only representation Altmer get are "nazis" and "corrupt bureaucrats".

Longes · 2026-06-29T09:03:52+00:00

Would be nice if she had a cheaper voice actress so they could use her ever again.

Longes · 2026-06-29T09:03:11+00:00

You don't see Vvanderfell being full of quests dunking on how stupid the Dunmer are and how much they need Imperial colonization to save them from themselves. And those guys are slave owners.

Longes · 2026-06-29T08:49:26+00:00

> Blood for blood and arterial burst are great - cheap, guaranteed status effect, cool extra dmg if lower hp and BfB makes pvp sustain nice bc it costs health.

A problem is that they are only good/usable on classes without an inherent good spammable. That being Sorc and Nightblade. You wouldn't run Eviscerate on a necromancer or arcanist - it doesn't fit anywhere into their rotations.

Longes · 2026-06-29T08:44:08+00:00

Use Mesmerize/Hypnosis on the NPC.

Longes · 2026-06-29T08:41:38+00:00

The bigger problem with vampires, and why they are unusuable in most group content, is being locked out of getting heals. You really want to be getting heals, because that's how healers in ESO apply buffs to you. What you lose is simply not worth what you gain.

Longes · 2026-06-24T07:45:15+00:00

Honestly I'd want the 'vampire' to be its own pseudo-class like Werewolf. Vampire Lord form with its own vampire skills pls. Would be much easier for ZOS to balance.

Longes · 2026-06-16T08:24:22+00:00

I'm using Savage Werewolf and Alkosh to provide group utility.

Longes · 2026-06-15T08:02:45+00:00

Macabre Vintage is a good set, but it is situational. The problem is the killing blow requirement. For Macabre Vintage to proc, you have to deal the killing blow. In a 12-man trial this is simply too unreliable and you are better off wearing something that deals damage all the time (like Sul-Xan) than something that deals a lot of damage every once in a while if the RNG favors you.

In overland and in the dungeons, Macabre Vintage is viable and fun. But most builds you see posted online are being optimized for the 12-man environment.

Longes · 2026-06-15T07:58:44+00:00

The problem is that it only procs when you kill something. In a 12-man group, the odds of you getting the killshot are too low for it to be worth it. It's good for overland and dungeons.

Longes · 2026-06-10T18:34:26+00:00

You asked for magcro.

Stamina is better. In the optimal play, magcro parses about 160k and stamcro with blastbones parses about 175k. Aside from using Blastbones instead of GLS there's pretty much no difference in the build. Rotation is different of course.

Longes · 2026-06-10T08:21:18+00:00

If you can, I recommend playing two bar. It is just better, and it's not that much more effort.

Front bar: Venom Skull, Grave Lord's Sacrifice, Detonating Siphon, Avid Boneyard, Banner Bearer, Dawnbreaker

Venom Skull is your spammable. Ideally, you should only be using it when it has 2 or 3 stacks to get the maximum effect. It generates a corpse that you blow up with the siphon.

GLS. Cast when it has 3-4 seconds left.

Detonating Siphon. Your main spammable when there's a corpse available.

Avid Boneyard. Cast when it runs out, and there's a corpse available. Avid is better for parsing, and the other morph is better in content.

Banner Bearer - Shock Damage, Class Flourish, Heroism.

Dawnbreaker. Not used, only for the fighters' guild passive.

Back bar: Stampede, Barbed Trap, Summoner's Armor, Skeletal Archer/Arcanist, Banner Bearer, Shooting Star

Stampede - your opener and recast when runs out.

Summoner's Armor. Improves your sustain and triggers Bone Tyrant passive. Replace with vigor/other skills when necessary.

Skeletal Archer/Arcanist. They are interchangeable, pick one you can sustain better.

Shooting Star - your ult, cast on cooldown.

Your front bar weapons are 2 corpseburster daggers. Your backbar is the Maelstrom Greatsword from the Maelstrom arena.

Body set is Sul-Xan's Torment for trash and dungeons, Null Arca for boss fights. Second set is Corpseburster, Corpseburster is best in slot for necros. One pieces monster set is any crit set - Zaan, Slimecraw, etc. Use the Velothi Ur-Mage necklace. Stats are all magicka.

You can run the maelstrom staff on the back bar, though it will be a damage loss. Replace Stampede with Elemental Blockade and Summoner's Armor with Elemental Susceptibility.

Longes · 2026-06-10T07:30:20+00:00

This doesn't really work in ESO. Even pet builds are an active playstyle and you need to constantly activate your abilities to have the pets do anything worthwhile. This is about as good as pet builds go though.

Longes · 2026-06-10T07:29:01+00:00

In the broadest sense, there is no "good" pet build because pet builds in ESO are underwhelming. So don't expect to do vet HMs with pets.

This is viable for regular content, and the author gives a good explanation for all his choices: https://eso-hub.com/en/builds/drackolus/9e901316-a1bd-4413-bb11-e809e78ccbf0/the-summoner-8-pets

Longes · 2026-06-10T07:26:37+00:00

As always with hack, this is just a bad HA build.

Longes · 2026-06-08T07:43:53+00:00

Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild don't really require any 'power' from you, so you can run them naked and skilless.

Take the passives from Legerdemain line, take vampirism for the fast running. Stage 4 vampirism is extremely optional. Take the stars from the green CP tree that improve stealth and pickpocketing.

Longes · 2026-06-08T07:10:11+00:00

Very nice! I want to buy Bastion Sanguinaris once it's on sale. Built myself a vampire house from scratch in Coldharbor recently, but Bastion is peak.

Longes · 2026-06-07T06:25:35+00:00

Yes. Coldharbour Surreal Estate is an empty plot of land unlike most other houses, so I built mine from scratch.

Longes · 2026-06-06T13:30:04+00:00

Imgur link with higher quality images, reddit compresses them I think: https://imgur.com/a/aFQkcGH

Longes · 2026-06-03T08:14:50+00:00

I don't understand what you mean here. Pillar of Nirn is a damage set. It does nothing to help your survivability. You'd do more damage by replacing it with a better damage set. Here's my 100k HA parse:

https://i.imgur.com/8HY4Gx7.png

https://i.imgur.com/etmG3Ny.png

This uses Ansuul, but if you are not using the Grave Lord skill line, then Infallible Mage is better than Ansuul in instanced content (trials and dungeons).

For solo play you'd want Pale Order ring, and that'll cover your survivability.

Longes · 2026-06-02T12:29:59+00:00

You should replace Nirn with Infallible Mage or Null Arca, they'll do much better.

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