Get used to brewing potions of bestial memory. Don’t lock yourself in a build, because they are all situational.

Now, the mannequins even allow quick swap, so you can have the gear to match your build. Place a preservation box and 3 manequins with some weapon stands in a room near the exit. Change builds when necessary.

Test several builds to find the sweet spot fir all-around-build you will spend most if your time in.

Learn to gather materials efficiently. Know the bests spots in the map and farm big. Farming near the base is just for when you are starting. This applies even on Siptah, although at a lesser extent. Then you’ll do farming runs with a specific build, gear and followers.

On pve, for combat, the build is mostly the same that you use on pvp, but you can sacrifice 5 points in Vitality and put them in Expertise so you can carry a little more and, most importantly, benefit from heavy armor while keeping your encumbrance on the green.

You want full strenght and full agility. Rolling thrust is a must, not so much for the extra armor pen, but for the stamina cost free strike you get with it. You want second skin instead of combo master.You won’t be doing many finishers, so it’s better to benefit from those 10% more armor pen you’ll get from Precision Strike from Agility.

For pve, you prefer Crushing Swings to Blood-mad Berzerker. For pvp it’s the opposite… You should go to 15 Vit to get those extra 100 points Robust will give you.

There’s nothing you can’t beat on pve with this build, but you can go full SAV if you want, but you’ll have to reduce the weight of your armor so you can use heavy.

Thralls suck anyway, so if you are counting facing mobs, take one you can afford to lose if things go sour. Give it a mace, put fast healing food in its inventory and equip it with dragonbone armor. You can refine it, obviously, but it won’t make a world of difference and Dragonbone is cheap to make. Better still is giving it the epic armors you loot.
When thralls were better, it used to pay guiving them supreme armors. Now, not so much, so you won’t be wrong if you take the most efficient route and just give them a decent kit.

Goof luck out there and keep those bestial memory potions flowing.

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