I’ve been leveling up my Warden, and he’s now my 3rd highest char (beating my two ‘attempts’ of trying to either re-learn my class), sitting at Level 27 now. Also been working on the main questline (and the Fighters/Mages Guild questlines).
Yet this wasn’t a thing before. Yesterday, I felt really tired IRL; like a feeling of fatigue. I couldn’t focus right. Thankfully the feeling went away in the evening hours.
That wasn’t the only thing. As much as I do love a bow, the fact the bear doesn’t hold aggro (as I said countless times) is making me reconsider going as an all melee class. Yet I didn’t feel like making yet another “am I going to be happy with this one?” class.
I saw a Sorcerer..dual welding as if they were a melee class, and that just made me feel “Wow..how in the FUCK is a ranged class doing Melee?” and started wondering if I could just buy a few daggers and make my primary build (the secondary has been my Bow build), using Dual Weld as well. Asked my guild, and got a few mixed reactions. One said the Warden doesn’t do decent DPS (in their opinion), with another said “it’s reasonable” and that I’ll still be using Stamina (which is what Medium armor is for).
I just went with my gut and did what I said, and surprisingly enough…it feels FUN (and kills most mobs pretty good)! Now I have a way to say “FUCK YOU” to any mob I choose with a flurry of daggers going into them when the bear fails to hold aggro. Infact, I’m starting to use these over my Bow. Though, it’s best to as that helps grind the Dual Weld skill up to preform more abilities.
This is fantastic. I don’t have to create a new char, and I still get what I want. It’s a win-win in my book.
I also figured out just how the bear is losing aggro, which is quite obvious (and I believe I stated this before). It’s when the mob does its own special abilities to stun the bear. If I don’t attack the mob, it will continue to attack the bear instead of coming after me. I just have to watch for those cues.
Yet even that, sometimes the mob will still come after me. Even with my Clannfear and it’s 75% less health pool than the bear (seriously..the bear hasn’t died once since I unlocked it. It’s quite OP on that count), this happens.
I do need to respec my char (if I ever decide to ask on how to go about doing that), and free up a lot of skill points from the Animal Companions skill tree (and also to remove the two points of Magicka I put in, thinking I had to in the beginning). Though I’m almost 90% sure I had to go to Mournhold in Deshaan (which is perfect as that’s where I need to go to continue the three questlines I mentioned) to respec. I also believe it costs gold.