Squad Gamma Tactics

[Darth Meeb]

Hello Striders, Gamma Ghost Meeb here with a squad update!  iMortal made a good suggestion about squad tactics/roles and I wanted to make a thread for us where we could share different ideas and tactics that our squad specializes in.  This will also serve to give new members a better idea of what kind of characters are suitable for squad Gamma.

Gamma squad is primarily magic based, and after playing a bit of the ESO beta I can think of 3 main archetypes for a magic based character, all of which will hopefully be represented in our squad.  Firstly a support caster, whether this is a squishy back line healer or a tanky de-buffer support casters focus on aiding their allies in the fight.  Secondly, the Crowd control caster.  The benefit of AoE crowd control is great in large battles, as well as locking down individual targets of extraordinary danger.  The final archetype I could think of is ranged DPS (Damage per second).  From what I have gathered many of the sorcerers abilities can pack quite a punch when they focus themselves on damage, and such a character works extremely well with the other two archetypes.  With a support caster keeping them safe and a Crowd control caster immobilizing the enemy the DPS caster is safe to lay down a devastating storm of heavily damaging attacks.

Now, I've only played the Templar so far and I know they excel in support/minor crowd control.  I assume many of the dragon knights abilities draw enemy agro, which is a form of crowd control (forcing the enemy to attack just you).  I'm not so sure about the other two classes, so for any who have played them I'd love to get your opinions.

For now I'll explain the role I am trying to fill with my Templar.  I am building him as a semi-tanky support caster with medium armor and a sword and shield.  I start off the fight at long range, throwings sunfire balls to ignite opponents and deal ongoing damage.  I follow that up with piercing javelins on priority targets, knocking them down (essentially a stun).  I then move into melee range with my shield charge ability, stunning the target I hit and comboing that with piercing strike to lower their armor and magic resist, making my allies do more damage.  I will then throw more piercing javelins at dangerous enemies, although mostly just fighting with my weapons to conserve magicka.  If any allies fall low I will use my healing spell to save them.

For those of you who have played the beta, tell me what your strategies were as mages!  Those who haven't check this webpage out and see if you can think of any cool skill combos
elderscrollsonline.info/class-skills?tv|class=13&resource|parent=172

[Darth Meeb]

elderscrollsonline.info/class-skills