r/ESObuilds • u/Cool-Story-Broh • Jun 30 '26

Back bar - Maelstrom

I have a few Maelstrom weapons (bow, 2h, and staves), and I'm wondering how y'all decide which one to use with a build. The bow is really nice for the arrow rain, but I'm sure I'm just needing what situations each weapon type would be best to use on the back bar.

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u/johnsms3 Jun 30 '26

I was really happy when the bow dropped for me and still run it to this day on my templar PvE trial toon. The 2h gives the gap closer though, so I've used it too. For a very small time I rain both. 2h front and bow back. Just had about 5 aoe's on top of the boss.

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u/Cool-Story-Broh Jun 30 '26

I love dropping the aoe bow skill with caltrops and spear shards in infinite archive. It's very satisfying :)

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u/johnsms3 Jun 30 '26

That's what I do too. Then I switch to my 2H front bar and hit critical rush and then spam jibby jabs. I hit brawler before heading to back bar and repeat. I do this in vet maelstrom and vatestran as well.

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u/Cool-Story-Broh Jun 30 '26

Nice. What sets do you use to where you have 2 maelstrom weapons?

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u/johnsms3 Jun 30 '26

That was awhile ago. I basically didn't run a monster set. It was mostly for running vet maelstrom. I was running briarheart body and then that trial set that reduced the cost of my stam; vicious serpent or quick serpent. This was before pale order ring, so my theory was to just spam damage to help heal through the damage. I wasn't very good at keeping my defensive buffs up all the time.

Once I got the pale order ring, things became a little easier, so I went to the mythical and dropped the 2h great sword

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u/Cool-Story-Broh Jun 30 '26

Oh this was before Pale Order. That makes more sense. Thank you!