Iam struggling with the Void Gauntlet

[Knighthonor]

I only have 10 points and trying to power grind the void gauntlet to higher levels. I was forced to spend all my azoth recently, so I cant teleport to the lower level zones.

So I been spending time in my own level range zone, and I been struggling with the Void Gauntlet.

The Self Sustain without the elite trait just seem nearly non existent. I respected into Focus and Int and the self healing doesnt seem nearly enough as a trade off for the lack of blocking and the lack of damage.

The Harvest part of the gauntlet consumes too much health for its utility it provides. Because for soloing, the PvE areas tend to be overcrowded with NPC with high respawn rates, yet the damage for the gauntlet is low compared to other weapons, and it lacks self defense, with the Harvest ability dealing far more damage to the player than the hard hitting enemies do…

The skills have far too high Mana cost as well.
Oblivion cost 30 mana yet its damage and utility are both super weak.

Void Blade should have been a toggle skill since its our only way to block attacks, especially when surrounded by lots of NPCs.

The Scream range and cone are small, but its understandable. My issue is that the base version of this is super weak and ineffective for self defense. But I can understand it for offensive use. But its damage is far too low for the asked mana cost of this skill. I believe the initial stock version or the traited version should have a Knockback effect to it, to give the player more time to recover in crowded fight.

Leeching Blade is also far too weak for self sustain and the requirements for Thrust attacks here dont seem ideal when the weapon lacks self defense as is. So Thrust attacks just leaves the player more open to being beat down, yet the healing from it is far too weak.

for the Decay tree, the Tether ability cost too much for the utility it provides.

Orb of Decay is far too weak, cost too much, and have a funky mechanics. the aim aspect of this is so wonkers.

Rupture seem like the one skill that may be decent, but it requires good dps to make it useful for self sustain, but the decay tree especially is lacking heavy in damage, and the Annihilation damage really only has Void Blade.

So far, I had these issues with the Void Gauntlet. I would hope for some feedback on what I can do.

[Anuro]

I agree on pretty much every point. I thought the VG would make my life easier as a light armor healer, but it’s the opposite. Never chugged so many heal and mana potions using the VG and LS. Great weapon to kill myself while being staggered by 2 mobs into oblivion.

Void Blade should be a toggle and drain hp on light attacks. Can’t thrust anything because of Fing stagger.

[wheei]

I leveled the VG to 20 and did the “legendary questline” Im running full ligt with 50 cons and 440 INT

Im litteraly not dying cause of the mad selfhealing this weapon has… even against greataxe users that spam me while my Max health is 7.2k i outheal their Dmg by just doing dramaet myself

[laoi]

i havent tested VG yet so hard to tell but you should be careful with commenting on it when you dont have it fully lvld yet. the scream for example hits ridiculously hard in pvp. like stupidly hard even if you´re in heavy.

gonna get it to 20 during the weekend probably and do some proper testing but from what ive seen in OPR it seems to do quite fine. obviously a new weapon so most ppl havent fully figured out how to play with or against it yet.

[Azrapse]

I am by no means an expert on VG. I just wanted to have an off-weapon to go with my lifestaff since I am main healer.
I cannot do as the other commenter above that went 420 INT to make it hit like a truck because, as I said, I am main healer, in light armor, and I am going 300 FOC, 100+ CON.

For me, it helped to go to Restless Shores and farm the mobs on the little camp just outside the south gates of the town.
Focus on the left tree only. Get all 3 skills from it.

Pull the entire place there in one go (about 13 enemies on the side with the tents) by running past them (don’t stop to shoot at them).
When you have them all, turn around to face the crowd that follows you, then use, in quick succession, first Scream, then Oblivion, then Blade.
Then start chopping them down while they are still recovering from the scream.

The combination of applying multiple debuffs, DoTs, will make your perks trigger, and you will be dealing extra crits, self healing, becoming tougher, dealing extra damage, debuffing their damage, etc.

You will be getting over 700 mastery points per pull, and you will level it up pretty fast. You want to get all the perks on the left tree that increase your crits, reduce your cooldowns, heal you, fortify you, empower you, etc. Ignore the right tree totally until you don’t know what to do with your points. Also, ignore the last perk in the Oblivion column, since it just regens stamina and you don’t use that for much for the moment (it might be useful in other situations like in wars or expeditions).

Also, remember you want to fight big clumps of enemies at the same time, the more the better, since you will build up debuffs and buffs on youself much faster, and trigger the self heal much more often, and make most of the scream and oblivion circle, and of the AoE attacks of the blade. It has like a 180 degree arc, so you might be hitting the entire group at a time.

You only need mana to cast the 3 abilities in quick succession. After that, you just attack with your blade, that is free.

Rinse and repeat until you get to level 17 or so. After that point, the rest of the perks are not as critical to get.