To increase your overall damage output, it’s important to time your attacks and skills correctly.
Here’s how to do it for different weapon types:
🗡️ Sword and Axe Users
Casting a skill resets your attack bar.
For maximum DPS:
- Perform a melee attack (left-click).
- Immediately cast a skill.
- Repeat after the global cooldown resets.
This ensures that every swing and skill cast contributes to maximum damage efficiency.
🔥 Destruction Staff Users
Staff combat allows you to stack even more damage:
- Strike with your staff (left-click).
- Immediately right-click to fire your staff’s projectile.
- Then, cast a skill right after.
This triple combo (attack → fire → skill) is the best way to achieve peak damage output due to the 1-second skill cooldown.
🛡️ Tanking with a Shield
If you’re a tank, your role is to control enemies and protect allies:
- Use a taunt skill such as Puncture to make enemies focus on you.
- While blocking with your shield, you can still cast skills.
- The ideal tank rotation is:
Block → Sword Attack → Cast Skill → Block Again
This keeps you safe, maintains threat, and allows you to contribute solid DPS.
📕 How Skills Work in Combat
Skills are special abilities that players can cast during combat using Magicka or Stamina.
To enter Cast Mode, press F (or your custom binding for weapon swap). Once in Cast Mode, press keys 1–5 to use your equipped skills.
Press F again to exit Cast Mode.
Tip: The slot number of your weapon is skipped when assigning skill keys.
For example, if your sword is in slot 1, your skills will be on slots 2–6, and your ultimate skill will appear on slot 7.
For consistency, always keep your weapon in the same hotbar slot.
🌟 Ultimate Skills
Ultimate Skills are the most powerful abilities available to your character.
They cost Ultimate, a special resource that is generated in combat.
🌟 Understanding Crowd Control Effects
🌀 Stuns
- Temporarily disable a player or mob.
- Break free: Sneak (costs 5 stamina).
- Grants 7 seconds of stun immunity after breaking free.
⛓️ Immobilizes
- Grants 7 seconds of immobilize immunity after breaking free.
- Prevents movement for a short duration.
- Break free: Sprint (costs 3 stamina).
🧪 Testing Your Damage
Want to measure your DPS (damage per second) and refine your rotation?
You can test your build and damage output on target dummies.
💡 Hint:
A public target dummy can be found near the arena in the Imperial City.
Use it to test your skills, combos, and ultimate generation in a safe environment.
🧙 Summary
Enter Cast Mode (F) to access your skills.
Skills are bound to keys 1–5, with ultimate on slot 7.
Stack your attacks and skills efficiently for maximum DPS.
Tanks should taunt, block, and cast for optimal defense.
Learn about build synergies in the Character Build Guide
🔗 Related Links for More Info
- For details on all the available skills, see our Wiki: Skills
- For details on items and weapons, see our Wiki: Items
- Make sure to check out our Build Guide