New Sorcerer Concern / Issue

CrushDepth

This 'character ' is now at level 15, however, the so called attendant Unstable Clannfear I is not increasing in level. Can anyone tell me what I need to do?
I have two Summoning abilities active that I use and two passive abilities. I use the Clannfear for healing as necessary, I have no idea how one "unsummons" (the description reads that It lasts until killed or unsummoned).it however.
The blue progress bar has remained where it is shown in the screen shot for many level ranks now, whereas the Curse has increased.

SolarRune

The individual skills grow when you earn experience and that skill is slotted on the active bar when you are earning experience.

Soarora

Curse probably leveled faster because you were leveling the unmorphed one while clannfear is a morph.

CrushDepth

Thank you for your replies. It seems to me that I do not recall anything level as slowly as the Clannfear before. The character is up to 16 now and Clannfear level has barely moved up; I believe that the winged one just became available, but in reading its abilities, I do not see that it provides much more for burning a skill point.

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CrushDepth wrote: »

Thank you for your replies. It seems to me that I do not recall anything level as slowly as the Clannfear before. The character is up to 16 now and Clannfear level has barely moved up; I believe that the winged one just became available, but in reading its abilities, I do not see that it provides much more for burning a skill point.

CrushDepth wrote: »

Thank you for your replies. It seems to me that I do not recall anything level as slowly as the Clannfear before. The character is up to 16 now and Clannfear level has barely moved up; I believe that the winged one just became available, but in reading its abilities, I do not see that it provides much more for burning a skill point.

you think thats bad? i am level 18 and above before my ice tanks get frost clench. what's she supposed to use to taunt with? just nuts!

Wishingstaff

When levelling you don’t need to stick to your chosen role to level your skills. Play DD which will level you faster and slot the skills you want to level. Dolmen runs are great for levelling skills that you don’t even need to use to complete dolmen.

Danikat

Do you have the clanfear on both skill bars? If not try to make sure the one it's on is the one you have selected when you gain XP.

If you're completing quests on this character it's especially helpful to make sure it's on your active bar when you turn in a quest. I had one character using a bow and dual wield and I was surprised that the bow skills always levelled faster even though I didn't think I used it that much. Then I realised: I always switched back to bow at the end of a fight, so I almost always had it active when turning in quests and getting the XP.

CrushDepth

I have destruction and restoration staff for skill bars and the Clannfear on both. I am staying on the restoration staff and bar just to level it up to the destruction level.

SolarRune

I use Harvens Improved Skills Window addon, it allows me to view the level of XP and what the alternative morphs do when mousing over skills. If you want to see how much XP you need to reach the nextlevel (and are on PC) this type of addon could help. As others have said the second tier levels much slower than the starting tier.

Veinblood1965

Danikat wrote: »

Do you have the clanfear on both skill bars? If not try to make sure the one it's on is the one you have selected when you gain XP.

If you're completing quests on this character it's especially helpful to make sure it's on your active bar when you turn in a quest. I had one character using a bow and dual wield and I was surprised that the bow skills always levelled faster even though I didn't think I used it that much. Then I realised: I always switched back to bow at the end of a fight, so I almost always had it active when turning in quests and getting the XP.

This is true, it's a fast way to level anything especially when doing dailies.

CrushDepth

Soarora wrote: »

Curse probably leveled faster because you were leveling the unmorphed one while clannfear is a morph.

I am in my declining years, 78 is not all that far away now and my memory is not all that good; SO I do not even recall what I did to be honest; evidently I morphed my imp thing into the Clannfear then?
I mentioned that I can now activate the flying thing and it seems to about as much as the Clannfear and I see other players running about with it. So should I go ahead and replace the Clannfear and see if it levels faster, or should I save the point and just keep muddling along?

CrushDepth

SolarRune wrote: »

I use Harvens Improved Skills Window addon, it allows me to view the level of XP and what the alternative morphs do when mousing over skills. If you want to see how much XP you need to reach the nextlevel (and are on PC) this type of addon could help. As others have said the second tier levels much slower than the starting tier.

Thank you, I shall look into it. I was using Minion on my Intel Mac but since I got the M2 mini I forget the strange terminal calls that I had to use in order to get it to work, so I have to transfer the manual way now.

CrushDepth

@SolarRune
That is indeed a nice add-on. It lets one look ahead at the morph and I saw that evidently, the winged thing does NOT heal when morphed. And as an aside you motivated me to look into finding my terminal command lines and get Minion working again, thank you for that.

Soarora

CrushDepth wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

Curse probably leveled faster because you were leveling the unmorphed one while clannfear is a morph.

I am in my declining years, 78 is not all that far away now and my memory is not all that good; SO I do not even recall what I did to be honest; evidently I morphed my imp thing into the Clannfear then?
I mentioned that I can now activate the flying thing and it seems to about as much as the Clannfear and I see other players running about with it. So should I go ahead and replace the Clannfear and see if it levels faster, or should I save the point and just keep muddling along?

Generally, the clannfear is used by tanks and not so much the other roles. The matriarch will heal other people as well. Sorc DPS tend to use the other morph of scamp and matriarch. I wouldn't worry too much about it though, I'd start by just getting the base skills and skill lines you want to use unlocked and level the morphs over time by regular play.

CrushDepth

@Soarora
Howdy,
Thank you for your insights.
I believe that Clannfear is the morph of Scamp (Daedric familiar?), and using the add-on that SolarRune gave me the heads-up about I was able to see that it was indeed leveling up, albeit slowly. However, given all y'alls advice I did move it up nicely and it is now level 2!
Alas, regarding the Matriarch and morphing:
"Once summoned, you can activate the twilight matriarch's special ability for 4590 Magicka, causing it to heal 2 friendly targets for 3600 and itself for 1799. The twilight matriarch remains until killed or unsummoned." I do not think the player is a "friendly target" is it? The other descriptions say "...heal you..." for example.

As indicated, I am pretty old and go back to the old Apple II days and all games were initially text, then modest graphics like the first Wizardy game, so I am pretty much locked into Solo Play / PvE. My son introduced me to WoW and then I discovered ESO, which I far prefer. I am still looking for a Guild that matches the old style of thinking or perhaps old military vets.

I am also wondering if the restoration staff was the best choice for the second skill line, seeing as how I did not catch on to the Clannfear healing until late into the game as-it-were. If not, what would be? I can always go to a temple and redistribute those points into something else perhaps?

Again, thank you all for being so kind.

Soarora

CrushDepth wrote: »

@Soarora
Howdy,
Thank you for your insights.
I believe that Clannfear is the morph of Scamp (Daedric familiar?), and using the add-on that SolarRune gave me the heads-up about I was able to see that it was indeed leveling up, albeit slowly. However, given all y'alls advice I did move it up nicely and it is now level 2!
Alas, regarding the Matriarch and morphing:
"Once summoned, you can activate the twilight matriarch's special ability for 4590 Magicka, causing it to heal 2 friendly targets for 3600 and itself for 1799. The twilight matriarch remains until killed or unsummoned." I do not think the player is a "friendly target" is it? The other descriptions say "...heal you..." for example.

As indicated, I am pretty old and go back to the old Apple II days and all games were initially text, then modest graphics like the first Wizardy game, so I am pretty much locked into Solo Play / PvE. My son introduced me to WoW and then I discovered ESO, which I far prefer. I am still looking for a Guild that matches the old style of thinking or perhaps old military vets.

I am also wondering if the restoration staff was the best choice for the second skill line, seeing as how I did not catch on to the Clannfear healing until late into the game as-it-were. If not, what would be? I can always go to a temple and redistribute those points into something else perhaps?

Again, thank you all for being so kind.

Other players are friendly targets. I don't recall exactly how it works, but it may let you heal people at world bosses / world events. If you plan on sticking with overland though, there's nothing wrong with keeping the clannfear as a buddy. You also have the option of using other skills from sorcerer such as: hardened ward, dark deal/dark conversion, and vibrant shroud. Later, you can use Ring of the Pale Order or a champion point slottable to heal when you deal damage if you'd like. Lots of options!
I've certainly seen guilds that claim to be laid-back and no drama made exclusively for older individuals. I also actually have gotten a trial trifecta (for Halls of Fabrication) with an older member; he had some trouble with reaction times, but we got through it!

CrushDepth

Other players are friendly targets. I don't recall exactly how it works, but it may let you heal people at world bosses / world events. If you plan on sticking with overland though, there's nothing wrong with keeping the clannfear as a buddy. You also have the option of using other skills from sorcerer such as: hardened ward, dark deal/dark conversion, and vibrant shroud. Later, you can use Ring of the Pale Order or a champion point slottable to heal when you deal damage if you'd like. Lots of options!
I've certainly seen guilds that claim to be laid-back and no drama made exclusively for older individuals. I also actually have gotten a trial trifecta (for Halls of Fabrication) with an older member; he had some trouble with reaction times, but we got through it![/quote]

I am sure that the older player truly appreciated that. When Old Arthur gets hold of one's hands, it is hard to have good reaction times.

El_Borracho

Wishingstaff wrote: »

When levelling you don’t need to stick to your chosen role to level your skills. Play DD which will level you faster and slot the skills you want to level. Dolmen runs are great for levelling skills that you don’t even need to use to complete dolmen.

This is good, but I prefer to do the random daily normal dungeons. With an XP scroll. You get a massive XP dump as soon as the final boss dies, so be sure to have the skills you want leveled on the active bar.

CrushDepth

Wow!!
This has been a great, informative discussion.