ESO Class Tier List - Which Class Is the Best in Blackwood

hey guys it's lucky ghost and today i'm going to be going over my tier list for blackwood i'm going to be ranking each class from worst to best in terms of ability to solo all things in the game i promise you some of these are going to shock you i know they shocked me this time around but we'll get to that in a moment and just in case you don't know me this video isn't just some haphazard opinion i've spent weeks and months theorycrafting builds for every single one of these classes and when they didn't perform well i went back to the drawing board figured out what was missing and then tried again this video is a culmination of all that i've learned about these classes this patch and the intense efforts i've put into mastering each one for solo content over the last few years but remember it's just my opinion which means it's valuable and you're okay to disagree with it if i rank your favorite class at the bottom it's nothing personal maybe i'm right or maybe i just didn't piece the puzzle together perfectly enough to make it shine so let me know if you agree or disagree so how did i test these builds did i go round up and kill some overland npcs and tip them over no that is the minimum baseline for a build if that's all you want to do i assure you every class on this list has you covered so don't stress as for this list i've taken these classes i've built and rebuilt them until i loved them and that's actually made my job a lot harder what i mean by that is if i had stopped with the first iteration of these builds some of them would have felt awful and i'd have said hey this class sucks i died three times but instead i kept working on them until they were steamrolling through veteran dlc content and trifecta veteran arenas and i'm gonna be honest i'm having a really difficult time picking the worst from the best why should you care well every one of these classes is capable of doing all the content in the game the worst are not far from the best and this is especially true for solo content so don't let this list be the end all be all deciding factor for which class you choose choose the one that excites you first and foremost as always i'll link all of the builds i used in this video in the description down below so that you can try any of them out for yourself i'm going to rank these builds from a minus to s tier and some of you are going to hate this but i kid you not they really are that close together if you want to extrapolate that in your head and call the a minus an f tier then go for it but by the time i finished refining the builds for each of these classes there really were none that felt like they were bad this patch however there were a few that felt surprisingly strong so i look forward to getting to that part of the list with you because i know one of them is going to absolutely shock you let's begin number 12 on the list is going to be the magic of dragon knight coming in at an a minus the magic of dragon knight has a great kit does a ton of aoe fire damage and once it gets into its rotation it's very hard to kill the downsides for the fire breathing master of aoe damage are largely tied to the fact that it's melee while the other mag classes have a lot of the same benefits but they get to do it at range this isn't a huge thing but the competition being as fierce as it is we've got to nitpick if we're going to place someone at the bottom the ring of the bell order does a lot to make up for the deficiencies of this class namely its lack of great heal over time abilities and it was only in the opening moments of fights before my dots were turned into hots by the ring of the pale order that i ever felt like i was in any danger this was easily countered by pre-loading a harness of magicka shield before going toe-to-toe with the boss i was fighting so i had a couple of seconds to get those dots down and thusly get my life flowing back in all in all this class is in great shape it's doing incredible damage and it does a great job of staying alive but the other classes on this list all do those things as well a little bit easier and often times at range next up number 11 the stamina templar coming in as an a minus the stamina templar is the king of simplicity a few button rotation can get you nearly 100 000 dps with your eyes closed this is also where it feels the tad vulnerable the class spammable does a ton of damage but can leave you a little unprotected due to its channeled nature with the ring of the pow order on however it is bringing a ton of life back in it also has a rune that you can put on the ground to significantly reduce the damage that it takes by granting major resolve however zos has nerfed this rune for blackwood removing a playstyle that promoted standing within your rune to greatly bolster your defenses this was an unfortunate change for this melee centric class who had no choice but to stand toe to toe with the boss anyhow on the bright side it has fantastic mobility thanks to toppling charge its built-in gap closer and it puts out a ridiculous amount of damage when allowed to do so with very little effort making this the easiest class to play in the entire game number 10 the stamina sorcerer coming in at a tier the stamina sorcerer has some really cool looking abilities however hurricane can make it difficult to have any clue what your character is doing for new players who aren't totally confident in their muscle memory of the game yet this can be very confusing as you're often hoping you pressed the right button the thing about hurricane is that it's so good we use it anyways this skill provides major resolve and it also does a ton of damage while increasing our move speed we zip around tanky as can be and cleave enemies down with ease the stamp sork also has access to the sorcerer's pets who can off tank and do a tremendous amount of damage of their own the stamp sork ended up being one of the most difficult characters to kill this time around while still putting out a ton of damage but your pets can be unreliable and you don't have a built-in access to major breach like some of the other classes to follow not only that but those classes were squeezing out a little bit more damage this time around than the stamina sork was number nine magika templar coming in at eight here the magic of templar is one of the easiest classes to play in the game and perhaps the easiest solo class to play in the game if you use nothing but toppling charge and your sweep enemies will die and you will not sweep is bringing back 40 percent of the damage you deal as health amazing the magicka templar also has one of the coolest executes in the game often referred to in the community as the jesus beam it's the closest we get to feeling like goku while playing esl so where's the rub well it's another class that's locked into melee range by its amazing class spammable a very worthwhile trade-off but one of the things that made it so powerful in this melee position was its rune which used to increase our resistances by 50 while standing in it then zoss took the nerf bat to this and so we will no longer receive that the magicka templar has become slightly more vulnerable but to be fair they were insanely tanky while standing in that rune before so perhaps it was the right call all the same they are now slightly less tanky but still a melee magicka class and it puts out just a little bit less damage than some of these classes to follow which is going to put it down here below some of these other classes next up on the list is the stamina necromancer which is going to come in at an a plus the class puts out an insane amount of aoe damage and with ease it's semi spammable blast bones hits harder than almost any other ability in the game and in aoe fashion making it a blast to use get it okay okay but not only that the beckoning armor makes being melee a joy as ranged enemies are sucked in automatically by our armor all while providing major resolve which adds to our tankiness you can also outfit the necker with a double bow setup bow on the front bar and the back bar and absolutely annihilate the enemies from range really the necro just has a great kit and it's got something for everything and you can tell that this is the newest class in the game they really knew what a well-rounded class needed in every situation when they came up with this class the one downside to the necro can be the unreliable nature of blast bones which might also be attributed to it being the newest class in the game it's a skill that still has some bugs and some kinks in it and sometimes it will gray out preventing you from casting it at all and sometimes it'll have an existential crisis and just not explode or explode too late i suppose with great power also came some great unpredictability for this beautiful skill number seven on the list is going to be the magic and knight blade coming in at an a plus the magic in nightblade is incredibly simple to play you can play the mag blade poorly and still do an excellent job of staying alive largely due to the fact that you're spammable swallow soul is also healing you every time you use it just like the magic of templar spammable however this spammable is a ranged ability so you can kite your enemies around and drop them or just look in their general direction and delete them the choice is yours nightblades in general are a fantastic class for soloing because of their ease of access to crit chance and crit damage which is very helpful with the new nerfs to crit in the game they also have fantastic ult regen and multiple abilities beyond their spammable that will bring life back in why didn't i place it higher on the list well all the classes beyond this one just put out so much damage while also feeling nearly untouchable they all stand toe-to-toe with bosses and dispose of their ads almost without giving him a second thought but that's not to say that the magic knight blade is not an amazing class it's in a fantastic spot right now for both solo and group content number six the magic of warden coming in at an a plus this class hits hard and looks good doing it it's got some of the most attractive skills in the game and similar to the necromancer feels incredibly fleshed out thanks to the fact that it was added to the game years after launch and the devs had a lot of time to understand everything a perfect class would need the magic of warden has easy access to major breach via its built-in semi-spammable so everything you're fighting always has a debuff on it that you need by a skill you were going to use anyway so it's basically a two for one happening with deep fissure not only that but class passives provide a ton of extra damage and combine that with some of the multipliers that come into play when dealing with cold damage and then wearing two ice staves and rocking that new frostbite set from blackwood and you have yourself one insanely powerful solo class fantastic damage combined with amazing damage mitigation have landed magic awarded up here at an a-plus alright now we're in the top five the following classes are going to be split between s and double s tier i had such a hard time deciding who would go where because every one of these classes deleted every ounce of solo content i threw at them and performed incredibly well in group content such as dlc hard mode dungeons the first class to hit ester is the stamina warden the buff the stamina warden had a couple patches back is still helping this class hit so hard the rotation is fairly simple and the skills look amazing it has so much great utility in its abilities and stamina classes as a whole are really feeling good in solo content right now thanks to buffs to abilities like caltrops and stampede caltrops is a great aoe damage ability that can also provide major breach while stampede is now a fantastic mobility ability that provides a sizable aoe dot i love abilities that have more than one purpose so that you don't have to devote one entire ability slot just to a mobility ability it's nice that there's a dot attached to it now that does a lot of damage combine all of this with the fact that some mag abilities like mystic orb or nerfed and we see the gap closing in solo content in fact i would say it's been a race in summary the stamina warden puts out a nearly unmatchable amount of melee aoe damage incredible single target damage and has some fantastic utility abilities and bar buffers that help it be easy to play and hard to kill the next s-tier class is not going to be surprising to anyone the magic of sorcerer the magic of sorcerer always finds itself high up on these lists no matter who makes them due to some built-in healing from critical surge and pets that will kill things for you even if you don't feel like doing the killing it has easy access to major resolve for damage mitigation and it has a powerful and cost effective spammable really there is nothing not to like about the magicka sorcerer except perhaps for your pet's ability to position itself and its flapping wings front and center in your camera all the time actually that's the one thing not to like thanks to the sorcerer passives it's tough to make a sorcerer as strong as it can be without using at least one of its pets and the pet ai is always subject to letting you down from time to time but i digress the sorcerer also has a fantastic class shield in hard and ward freeing it from the almost obligatory use of annulment by every other mag class in the game as far as easy solo classes go this may take the cake or perhaps not anymore the final three the final three classes are all going to be achieving the coveted double s tier and even as i'm sitting here reminiscing on some of these builds and how they performed i'm wanting to bring more of the ones i've already talked about to double s here but i have to stay strong we can't all be double s here these three just hit so hard and felt so tanky and in one case frankly surprised the heck out of me never in a million years did i think the final three would look like this but that's the beauty of tinkering with builds for a living sometimes they just come together and blow away everyone's expectations number three the stamina nightblade the first double s tier class is going to be the stamina nightblade this class has so much built-in self-healing so much built-in damage mitigation and gains so much free crit chance and crit damage through class passives that it hits like a truck while always staying safe not only that but i love getting to use the spin to win execute also known as whirling blades it's so effective and so satisfying on the right builds now you could have just as easily went brawler and executioner on this build but dual wheel just feels right on the knight blade plus it allows for even more crit chance through the use of daggers our spammable of all things provides major resolve some of our abilities cost mag instead of stamp which works great for our sustain multiple abilities on this build bring health back and then on top of all of that you can use the ring of the bell order to further abuse these poor bosses lurking throughout tamriel and forget their ads that are just going to unsummon upon walking into your whirling blades the stamina knight blade is a lot of fun to play and insanely powerful the next class on this list is no stranger to being at the top of solo tier lists the magic and necromancer also coming in at double s tier just works it does so much aoe damage with its class abilities while also using those same class abilities to provide major breach damage mitigation and self-healing the magic and necromancer just hits so hard it phases solo arena bosses at speeds that have you asking is this ethical am i too powerful should i be allowed to do this much damage yes yes i should don't you dare give zos any ideas about nerfing necros ah wait they just did death knell took quite a hit this patch but that's okay i've parsed it out and tested it a lot on the pts and honestly it's not hurting the necro as much as i would have expected as i mentioned before the necro is the newest class and you can feel that in both the amazing utility abilities and the wonderful ways you can combine them to create something great the damage here surprises me every time i jump on this character it really ramps up as you get all your dots and debuffs and buffs up making it a blast to play oh man i did it again now with this last one i risk making a lot of people angry so please don't be angry a lot of people are going to literally foam at the mouth and tell me how garbage i am because i managed to take this class from zero to hero this patch and that's fair i might have had the same reaction if you said what i'm about to say two months ago but i'd be lying if i didn't say it i made fun of this class and i still make jokes at its expense all the time but i never stopped trying to make it work it's an amazing tank it's amazing at pvp it only makes sense that it should work out well for soloing and it finally did the final double s tier build for this patch is going to be the stamina dragon knight now before you type that comment telling me how garbage i am hear me out bear with me now maybe even try playing the build before you disagree i reworked the builds quite a bit this patch always looking for ways to improve it patch over patch i leaned into my dot damage and dot damage boosting passives we leaned on the incredible resource factory that exists in the dragonite passives we leaned on everything that makes them a great tank and we took this nearly indestructible character through veteran content through boss fights through veteran arenas and to my complete and utter surprise i casually ran through vadishron hollows which by the way has a speed run time of 45 minutes that is what the game considers a speed run 45 minutes and without focusing on speed and while tinkering around with the builds between fights i blew through veteran vodatron hollows in about 25 minutes on accident without dying once i wasn't going for speed i wasn't going for the trifecta but i got it this build just melted enemies bosses were deleted and i couldn't run my resources dry if my life depended on it i had to check to make sure i wasn't accidentally in normal multiple times six months ago the stamina dragonite was the lowest rated class on my solo tier list with blackwood it's one of the highest tied at the top with some insane heavy hitters the build is incredibly easy to play and the damage it puts out in actual content is a sight to behold like i said i'm as surprised as many of you are but try it and if you don't want to take my word for it then go watch my playthrough of vodashawn hollows on my stamdk build guide video it'll be linked in the description down below and there you go guys thanks for listening to me explain and share my solo to your list for blackwood zos is always balancing the game sometimes in obvious ways and sometimes in less obvious ways and it's fun to go through these builds and see how strong we can make them each and every patch i should also add that all of these builds can try effective vodafone holos and that all of them can do all content in the game they can solo world bosses and solo dungeons and of course they can quest so like i mentioned at the beginning of the video don't let this tier list decide what your class is going to be for you pick the one that looks awesome to you with the right build it's going to be capable of all of the content in the game that's all from me on this topic until next patch where we'll reevaluate all the classes and give them a report card all over again please consider liking and subscribing if you enjoy the video so you can be alerted to more elder scrolls content it also tells youtube that my content might be worth 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Published: Tue Jun 01 2021