ESO - NIGHTBLADE INVISIBILITY CHANGED! - U44 

patch 44...You want to be stealthy? Hide in shadows? Nope. Shrink potion? Nope. Strap a banner to your back nearly doubling your height? Yes

I fucking love when anyone with a European accent uses the phrase "Little bit naughty"

Nightblades are squishy compared to other classes. Stealth is their survivability.

I love how eso sends this guy for damage control each time they do something stupid.

Yet another Counter to NB invis, So let's recap how to counter NB invis - Detection Potions and Poisons - Revealing Flare - Sentry set - Cp for increase detection Radius - Another Nb using Mark - Inner Light - Inner Beast - Structured Entropy Heal dot - Ele Sus Dots - ANY Type of AOE - Sea Serpent Coil to avoid Gankers First Hit - Am i missing something? While in the Meantime, Let's Talk about how to Counter Sorcerer Streak: - Gap closer - Very Balanced :) Have a Good day

Yeah you can be invis permanently....crouch. Literally all classes have access to this 'skill'. Kinda feels like like killing the useful and defining skill of a nightblade. Nightblades don't have the tankiness of dk's or the shields of sorcs they have/had stealth. Stealth is countered by: 1. Detect pots 2. Detect skills 3. Aoe dmg sets/skills 4. Sticky dots Basically it makes it similar to vampire's blood frenzie, which is imo a contender for worst skills in eso, not good to be similar to that. One final thing, yes you can build a nb to be permanently invis... you can build a dk/necro that just blocks defensive even with 10 people beating on it..... You can make a templar/warden that can hit a whole group with 10k of heals every second one stubbs their toe.... You can make a sorc that streaks across the map when they're even slightly in danger or refresh 20k shields every 2 seconds...... You can build arcanists with 40k health, huge recoveries, constant shields, and a ton of damage..... The idea that the nightblade is so uniquely powerful to need such a class breaking change is hilariously shortsighted. As annoying as it is to hunt nightblades in stealth, its also annoying to deal with every other pvp build Ive described. Just my two cents.

This is trash. There are skills that pull me out of stealth, detect pots that let people see me from a 100meters away, dots that can pull me out of stealth. Literally unfair.

Just when I started to enjoy Nightblade again... 🤦‍♂️

Terrible change actually awful.

I was hoping they would just make it work like sorc streak with increasing cost each time cast

This change makes no sense. Way to many things counter invis in pvp anyways. A balanced nerf would be to nerf it the same way steak was. And if you are going to mak it this, then you should also make that damage thing affect players

This will 100% not work fighting literally ANY ball groups on comms and group comp. 1 detect pot, 1 dot on you and you’re done. Completely done for. This destroyed anybody who solo mains nb.

Gotta kiss the ring to keep your status as an Elder Scrolls content creator.

Seriously "cloak requires no skil." This requires no skill. It's a lazy toggle that benefits only PVEs while harming PVP play. And it's funny how you cheer on this absolutely dumb banner skill. This game has been tank central since 3 years ago and they just keep on going. Now they are putting the foot on the throats of the only full damage build running around the flipping map. You need to stop drinking that kool aid. It would be one thing if the 10% damage increase worked on players to. At least there would be some benefit to it other than making the rock runners and tower humpers cheer because they'll get another minute+ of running out of their system because there aren't any nightblades to help the 10 people already attacking them to bring the tank down.

That's such a cheek... You invest a lot of time, gold and even money in your Nightblade, and then the Nightblade is devalued to the last drop... That makes me angry. The main thing is that Sorc and Warden become a god class.... Then ZOS should also make the current meta tank groups and damage shields useless! ZOS is ruining the whole game by now (and that's not just my opinion). What else should give me as a preferred PVP player the incentive to continue supporting the game (e.g. through Eso plus, crown store etc.)?

There are so many ways around this that every good nightblade knows. Laughs in Darlocs Brae

This is a dumb change, major nerf

Dots ticking on opponents pull you out of stealth already. If you can't kill a DK with your initial burst you might as well run to the other side of the map. You just showed us a meta build for running away. Might as well trot out the old cowards gear.

Ugly flag alone is a deal breaker

I still think stage 4 vamp needs just a little bit of health recovery.

There goes your fun thieving ninja build :/

I think having 0 magicka recovery is too much of a nerf since pvp heavily relies on sustain. NB is already one of the weakest classes for PVE but one of the best gankers for PVP. Now youre literally killing this class.

No more NBs hiding permanently in keeps? I see this as an absolute win

Why can't you just trade some health for resources? There was a skill like that in NB toolkit

As someone who has been a NB for 10 years this is 100% nothing to get worked up for the only time a NB has ever been or had a nerf was 8+ years ago when NBs lost the purge from cloak 😂

I love seeing gankblade mains mad.

NB can be Forrest Gump-but invisible. Now you can find Bubba without witnesses.

cant think of a dumber way to nerf that skill

I've seen so many night blades threatened to quit the game over this change. God forbid some skill be required to use such a powerful mechanic

This is actually the worst thing they could’ve done to nerf nb lol absolutely awful change 😂

BS. This is a downright major nerf. I never thought you'd bend over for ZOS so hard, but here we are.

Pvp will die because of this

RIP ESO 2024

Perfect. No more hiding from my ball group 😆

My nb is gonna be reduced to farming. 🥴

Oh my gosh! Bring the champagne, IS TIME TO MAKE A HUGE TOAST! Bye bye lazy cats! We won't miss u in Cyrodiil.

Holy crap this is exactly what the pvp game needed.

Join Team Scrubsorc easy to Play best def best mobility best sustain Best burst 😂

Sooo...hamper your dmg by tossing your dmg sets for straight recovery and max stats. Then waste 2 bar slots for a banner that the hampers recovery across the board by 40%(a skill not in base game) all the while not killing anything or anyone...while every other class blows nb out of the water. Oh, and having to run vamp for further increasing ability costs and fire damage taken...right.

I the banner has definetly potential, im tending to try the skill out on some of my dd's like 1bar sorc banner instead ele suseptebility, dubble bar it on my bow bow stam sorc build and on the cro, ppl always tend to complain or say its trash when it aint doing what they would want of it or when they cant make sence of it, but i believe there is gonna be a great uses to the banner

... so it's now basically the same as sneak but it burns magicka instead? Actually, for how I use it, I kind of like it. Having to constantly recast sucks in pve.

as a magblade main for years i love this change, the only people this will negatively affect are the proc ganking shitters that abuse the class anyways and i hope they cry themselves to sleep at night over this change lmao

I think I like this change

So that sprinting... they fixing the bit where if you run off a 2 inch drop it stops your sprint and drops the vamp invis?

I dont see how the sprinting invis from vampire is actually usable in PVP - and you could always do that anyway, could you not?

The only time I've ever used the Shadowy Disguise is when I can't be bothered to fight through a public dungeon or delve when I'm on a low-level character or dont have my Invis build gear on me. Since leveling everything and getting all the passives, gear sets, etc. It really doesn't do a whole lot for you to have the Invis skill. Darloc Brae from N. Elsweyr, Plus Night Terror from Stormhaven as a basic start, will allow most leveled NB Khajiits[optional, small boost] to be practically invisible to most everything in pve; Latern guards notwithstanding. You can touch 90% of world bosses and not pull aggro. There's like one or two you that have an exceptionally large hitbox that you can be inside, which triggers aggro, but that's a very small portion of them.

So now it's more of a situational ability.

I've been saying for years that there has to be a downside of being able to cloak, all forms of pvp are infested with gankers, or just cloak spamming nightblades in general. Might be 8 years too late but better late than never

Excellent idea there.glad someone is thinking ahead of all this.

This isn't going to make it past the PTS but it's funny to see how many celebrate early. The saltines is real but unfortunately they will probably stay salty post update

I have been playing ESO since day one, and I only play solo PVE, with one of my favorite characters being my Khajiit Nightblade, so I really hate whenever these people keep changing how things work in the game - it would be like someone changing how a particular chess piece moved. LEAVE MY GAME ALONE.

Look i get it Nightblades.. I'm a Nightblade main... but in what world would unlimited invis not be a problem? Think of it this way. You can backbar stealth now. Its utilitarian without making NB the clear pick for the PvP meta.

About time they nerf nb, sick and tired fighting all them tarnished nightmare shenanigans over and over. Now make sorcerers great again and I might play ESO again.

I thought devs were nbs. They are in fact not nbs now. I had to rewatch this a couple times. If stealth ends on attack still ganks r gonna be fine. Try to remember if you "oh shi" spammed youd lose that much magicka anyways 😅

I hate NBs, I really do. I've hated them from the first time I entered Cyro back in 2017...I hate them more than those filthy sorcs. However, even my hatred isn't enough to side with ZOS on this. What they're doing here is just a bloody outrage!

I wonder if they got a different person that works on this stuff, I don't think Gill would do this to himself lol.

When did you have your tail docked?

just gonna go ahead and delete my nightblade.

But sorcerer's can just zip off in PvP to the other side of the map.

I notice all the people that are angry are night blades because they fundamentally understand the class and why this is a bad change. And all the people that are happy are all 40k hp wardens arcanist and sorc zerglings 😂

Finally. Cloak needed a nerf since its inception. At the very least a ramping cost. Bye bye crutch blades😂💀

Is there any good night Blade build still out there

what about pairing prisoners with darloc's brae?

This is a foolish change to the core identity of the NB. Toggles are dumb. I'm not even remotely on board with this.

No matter how much to try to say this change is OK, you’re just wrong. Period. This change is just crap. I’ll predict NightBlade is going to be abandoned by many normal-level players until they fix this. NB already has no shield ability and Major Resolve only comes if you play the right abilities to activate the passives instead of just having a typical Major Resolve active ability. Also, your point about relying on Vampire Level 4 sprinting is sooo….. bad compared to an invisibility ability. You completely failed to mention how easy it is to fall out of invisibility. It happens constantly unless you’re on flat ground. So you’ll inevitably be dropping in and out of Vampire invisibility and waiting another 3 seconds before you can reactivate invisibility. I’ve played Level 4 Vampire for years for this exact feature and I can absolutely assure you that maintaining invisibility is quirky. Plus, as Level 4 you have zero health recovery so it’s really only good for a few dungeons or doing Dark z brotherhood or Thieves Guild quests. So, good try trying to convince people that this is a good change. It’s not, plain and simple. I know that my NB will likely get retired until they make some other major change to try to bring back the NB players they’re going to lose because of this. I don’t really care because I’ll just play all the other classes. But I think this was pretty stupid on behalf of Bethesda (in my opinion only).

Yeah I’m gonna toggle my eso plus off on this one. Haha

This people want players using sorcs spamming hardened shield, streak, and repeat the rotation oh ok healing ward too 🤷🏻‍♂️

Is the other morph unchanged? The max health heal morph?

I found the skill very useful in PVE and hope it still is for me after this update.

Y can't it just be like streak and just make it cost more

Bruh.... skill.. i have 21k mag and like 600 mag recovery and never had a problem.

Are invisibilty potions staying the same?

I honestly hate gankers. Even though, I don't know why they make it. Literally no one needs this

oh no one needs to think about how to use it now, what ever will we do haha, i dont pvp, so have no skin in the game, but in pve the NB always felt more PVP motivated, not completely true but its how it felt, . liking the direction the last two patches are taking it, in IA its my favorite one bar bow build to run with,

By the way, no one mentioned how NB in PVE is getting a stackable Major Slayer from Shadow Cloak. Combining Shadow Cloak with Minor Slayer, Major Slayer and Velothi's means a whopping +40% damage increase against monsters in Dungeons, Trials and Arenas. Which is something extremely insane when it comes to DPS parsing in PVE.

Lol necromancer master race

Well damn I got so excited thinking yes they are finally doing it but this seems more busted than before. The cost needs increased a lot, shouldn’t be able to go invisible that long.

Love the content, you’re great but this was trash. Let me clarify, this change is trash and the intended damage control isn’t working.

This is the same change they made to the Vampire mist form a few patches ago. They should stop nerfing builds that are fun for people. They should be nerfing the archinist

Ten years late but good change.

Another skill nerfed for the sake of PVP = why does every mmo have to have pvp- just go play fortnight!

Okay 😂

I will never understand why people waste time playing PvP in eso it will never be balanced and on top of that it’s just full of tasteless proc sets that require no skill to use. Imo PvP should be stat build only, no proc sets, champion points, or broken set of the week. But Sally this will never happen again.

Wtf.

Gonna see more and more brawl blades

Aint' Darloc Brae better than Crafty Alfiq at this?

how to kill the game finally by killing all classes

I love reading eso pvp comments sections. I just hop in to get my battle ground daily done once a day but its hilarious how generally horrible pvp'ers attitudes are towards the game and each other. Really breads hate.

Longtime coming. Besides, real men play bruiserblade.

Damn. You mean now nine blades will actually have to use skill and 1v1 people besides just hiding in a corner turning invisible and one shotting people virtually having zero counter play and zero sustain problems

All the invisibility babies crying

I never used this skill... I always thought it was a waste of a skill slot. So this doesn't effect me 🤷 I want them to add more benefits to Vamp stage 4

I love the tears.

Best thing they could do. The ganking NB makes clowns viable.

HAHAHHAA I see all the Ratblades crying already! LMAO! Great vid Xy, Thanks

🍺 and 🍰

No class should ever have access to permanent invisibility, while I do agree, night blade used to be ine of the more skillable classes, nowadays is one of the least skilled classes, all of this is someone who clicks three or four buttons while invisible hits. You, then goes back to being invisible where no one can see them, yeah there are small counters to this. Such as certain pots etc. however, having to spend gold and change your potion just to see someone invisible is a bit much, this is a good change, this will make night Blair go back to being a skilled class, and get rid of all the no skills that think they're good just because they can blow someone up while camping in a spot for 50 minutes 😂 But honestly, I'd love to see some Dragonite nerfs even more, dk is absolutely overtuned and busted in every way possible, PVE and PVP, But you know zos... How many times should they ever Nerfed Dragonite, out of my 8 years of playing this game, there's probably only been a few months the Dragonite has ever, if ever been one of the worst classes, always been top three at virtually everything at every given time. And this is coming from someone that has five dragon knights..... They need to be nerfed