Which Race Should I Pick in the Elder Scrolls Online? | DPS + Tank + Healer + PvP 

Khajiit. How can you not like cats? Plus light armor comp ez clap vas lol

Breton or Bosmer? Whichever I more resemble.

What’s yours? I think in the video you mentioned khajiit??

haha specifically who I had in mind

i thought for sure he'd talk about jamus foxbeard the imperial, too

:O

Theoretically how high could argonian hit? I'm hard stuck at 117k with my Lizardplar.

​@@murfturf4366117k is pretty damn good, surely that'd be more than passable for leaderboard runs?

haha thanks!

this exactly! i tend to favor the altmer cuz of their height and builds and how they look in armor compared to other races, but i also am kinda tired of making magicka toons and wanted to do melee but i didnt want to gimp myself by being a stamina high elf. nice to know someone else thinks the same way, thats reassuring lol.

Just watch out for the time travelling cyborg terminator who destroys anything with pointy ears! 🤣

thanks Fenix!

I played some Nord Healer back in the day with the Bloodspawn helmet for a ton of Ult generation, and it was really fun

100% this I have done the hardest content in the game as a wood elf tank, and I did it because it was the most fun for me. I have Nords for min-maxing groups but I never have as much fun as I do on wood elf

awesome. and thank you!

Mind sharing your build? Cuz I have a breton magsorc and I'm not able to go over 110k with good weaving

@@echoo5093I was hit 72k on mine and was estatic. What are YOU running?😂

@@scrawny-ronnie rele's, nirn, kilt, slimecraw and maelstrom arena inferno staff

​@@echoo5093hey bro a question, do you feel like the magsorc needs the resource sustain from Breton?

Their potion passive is awesome for support and PvP.

Thank you!

@@skinnycheeks you’re quite welcome! Any advice for someone who is going to go bosmer? I can’t decide between bow or melee? Also, Templar or warden??

Probably because they’re right there at the top race wise for DPS lol

I started playing eso a few months ago and chose a Breton mage arcanist. I always picked Breton when playing Oblivion and Skyrim because I love the druidic/Celtic inspiration behind their races lore. I didn't notice how OP they were until I played ESO. They're really stacked with magic, and their resistance to magic is wildly beneficial. Love the Bretons.

eh I've done plenty of trial trifectas with off-meta races, and even often out DPSd other people using the meta options...so I don't think it really matters unless you are trying to get top scores for content.

It's definitely good, but worse than your analysis makes it out to be. They need a rework/buff. Consider the following: 1. You need to constantly be fighting to trigger that. There is an infinite amount of fights and bosses where there is downtime in between in which you're not triggering it where basic stamina regen would work better. Handy for pvp and tanks that are blocking though since regen doesn't work there. 2. Yes, in a fight where it's triggered every 5s it is equal to 402 Stam regen.. however, that is after Stam regen modifiers. Consider the 258 stam regen from Wood Elf as a comparison. Most classes have +10% or more. A Stam potion is 30%. 5 medium is 20%. So that 258 is actually 413. Now imagine minor endurance, more medium and a better class passive and it's going even further than 413, active 24/7 fighting or not, the only drawback is blocking or sprinting which as a DPS you should be doing very little of. 3. The weapon cost reduction passive gets less valuable the more and more skills we get at our disposal. Hybridization has effectively killed this passive since Stam toons can now use their Magicka class damage abilities, at most today, I use 1-2 weapon skills on average. 4. Stam regen enchants aren't necessary for 4-12 group content due to synergies, group buffs, food, and hybridization. As long as you fit 1-3 Magicka skills in your rotation, even as a non Red guard/Woodelf with or without regen food, a regen enchant isn't needed. There is CP for an extra 150+90 regen and 1500 Stam on kill as well to help non sustain races, without sacrificing any DPS since it's from the red CP isntead of blue.

Also I'm not saying to never pick Redguard, pick what you find fun and what works for you. Just explaining some of the drawbacks and why they deserve a buff in the games context today. If you're playing PVP more than PVE, then Redguard as with many other races becomes a lot closer to "best in slot" because PVP builds require a lot more build variety than PVE DPS where you push as much DPS as possible with enough sustain to do so (fairly easy in 2023). If sustain in ESO was in a worse state, then Redguard's would get a lot more value for PVE.

@MarshallTeixeira thank you for breaking it down for me so well. This is exactly the kind of answer I hoped to get. I'm fully aware that the difference is minor and that, ultimately, you can make redguard work. The math in this video shows a 3% difference in pure dps potential, and that's definitely not very big. Still, it's good to know exactly why that stamina regen isn't as good as it appears. You had multiple reasons, each of which is valid on its own.

Yes, though I don’t remember which ones specifically they are. Might have to google it.

Nothing wrong with roleplaying

@@davedavidson8892 I like to roleplay. Not to an extreme extend, ofc, but I like to pretend I'm wiriting a story as I play :D

I like the passives, they give some identity to the race in line with the elder scrolls lore.

Passives are good but they suuuck when you’re forced to follow a “meta” and can’t use the race you truly want if you play competitively.

Hey, my templar is also a Redguard. Try some bow skills, they have quite a few dots and hit hard, together with deadly strike set my templar does very well in both PvE and PvP.

Yes

im trying to heal and tank on one class, what race should i pick then?

@kyiambeckwith9960 It won't make or break any clear. With that said I'd probably pick Imperial or Argonian.

Can’t really directly compare. Depends how costly and how often you are casting stam skills and also how much boosting to stam recov your build has

@@skinnycheeks I recently changed my stam Arcanist to imperial (cause I can't stay away from this race apparently lol) and I used sugar skulls, I was also vampire stage 4 at the time and I didn't notice my stamina going down too much. It's almost scary how much worse Magicka Arcanist is with sustain in comparison. Will test more properly later, no idea what food I may need, but magicka was more of an issue with the stam Arcanist.

no, cause it picks your higher of the 2, they don't add together

@@skinnycheeks ahh alright 👍 thanks

nice

Damn racists!!

Nah. They have no other strengths. They wouldn’t have a good reason to pick them unless they added something else in exchange for that

*You* are not gonna play stam with a breton. I just might, if that is a character fantasy that appeals to me. As clearly shown in the actual video, the actual percentage difference between the top and bottom race for any particular scenario is not particularly relevant outside of score pushing runs, so "gimping your potential" does not matter to the vast majority of players in practice. Yes, it's an MMO, numbers are important if you're playing combat-focussed aspects of the game and there is no getting around that, but what you seem to forget is that not everyone lets numbers dictate how they play.