I forgot to mention something pretty important.. do NOT put passives into the "tri focus" destruction staff passive. Putting points in there will make your block cost magicka instead of stamina, but you want to be blocking with stamina.
I love how well you've understood your gameplay and the time you take to explain how to play it well... A quality build video, subbed! Love to see more :)
Most informative build video I've ever watched. Can tell you have spent a ton of time playing this class/build. The amount of understanding you have of your build is rare. 99% of players don't utilize Off Balance this way, and you showcase just how strong basic combat mechanics can be when combined with common burst combos. Have been trying to transition my magblade to be less ganky and more viable against better players, and this video gave tons of great advice and inspiration. I main magplar and stamcro, and have always had my magblade set up as a gank build for when I'm feeling cheesy, but this genuinely made me want to change it. Thanks.
Update.. Usually dont follow build guides, exactly, and end up making quite a few changes as i play, but this feels so strong. Especially coming from a more ganky playstyle where movement was my survivability. Have also spent a lot of time on stam blade, so the play style came natural. Extremely solid build. Couldnt imagine magblade feeling much better than this.
@JM.MEL_ Not nearly as heavily defined as it used to be. Hybridization kinda killed the option to have viable variety, but there is definitely still mag and stam specs for builds.
@@benzii9331 I think hybridization gave broader access to abilities that were otherwise held behind stam or mag specializations. I think it was a great change, personally. Also, while there may be stam and mag leaning specs, it is usually best to slot whatever morph is objectively stronger / compliments your build better. Thats why I say stam / mag isnt really a thing anymore.
Can't wait till templar is good again, cause I have fought you many time back in the day on xbox on your plar. Best build video I have seen for covering everything. Keep it up.
Great content sir! Not enough content creators show in depth class mechanics the way you did, very clear & on point! If I didnt have 220ms I would definitely main NB 😂 ggwp!
great info on the combat.. made me realize I've not been using off balance with any real thought other than a damage bonus. Thanks, subbed and waiting for more 👍
As some one who plays against you regularly on many toons you are an extremely good night blade with some of the best situational awareness I have seen in our game. Now i use pve gear and rarely use potions but I really don’t think it would matter. Also having no idea you were H’eh until now I do want to say that I get on 16 toons a month get my 100 k ap which I can do in an hour most of the time thanks to you and scrappz and just a couple of other players. When you are in a keep killing people the defense tics are monsterous. When I fought you at Ash mine I got 17.1 k. Alessia keep was even better 22-23k. Definitely impressive.
Love the explanation on the combos ive been nightblading for ever and i had no idea about theboff balance and stun. Very sad but this info should step my game up tyvm
Hey man great build and fantastic video/explanation. I'd love to try this build out finally but my toon is Breton. Any recommendations on set up change for that? Thanks!
There isn't really much you can do to compensate for the extra mag sustain breton would give you, because you don't run any specific mag sustain anywhere in the build. Breton wouldn't be awful, just not ideal. The only thing I could think of would be dropping siphoning attacks since you probably wouldn't need the mag sustain, and running something like shade, invis cloak, debilitate, or whatever you wanted in that slot.
Absolutely best PvP build video I’ve ever seen. Safe sub. Is there a set you can recommend to use instead of Rallying cry? Ist seems to be impossible to get hands on the frost staff on console.
Glad you enjoyed it! Honestly, there is no set that will adequately replace rallying cry. It is incredibly stat dense, has an easy 100%+ uptime, and can be backbarred. You could potentially slot maras balm back there if you want mitigation, wretched vitality if you want sustain, or clever alch if you want damage, but overall in my opinion rallying is just the BIS option.
A fantastic video. Appreciate the information as it lets me not have to answer any questions. You've answered them all. A+ (Here to feed your algorithm 😉)
Amazing video! Have you tried using race against time instead of refreshing path for minor force? Or minor recovery buffs from refreshing path are crucial to sustain that build?
Path is primarily used to proc concealed weapon, since concealed weapon procs when you refresh expedition while on your frontbar, which happens constantly while you're standing in path.
Amazing video, I've never seen a more clear explanation of mechanics. I hope you can explain these sorts of mechanics for other classes. Also, maybe some words about how to avoid them. For example, I take it that when fighting a NB, you have to avoid the concealed weapon off balance effect, but it seems hard to do, maybe blocking prevents it? Watching you on stream, the vast majority of people are simply helpless and you kill them in 2-3 GCD without any counterplay. How should they do better?
For the off balance, to counter it you need to block or dodge every medium or heavy attack while the debuff is on you. It can only be applied to you once every 20-30s or so (don't remember the cooldown off the top of my head). Alternatively you can block or dodge the first couple while getting your HP to full so that you are able to safely eat the stun later into the debuff duration. For 120 ult (stun) incap -> bow, you need to learn the visual/audio queues for incap so that every time someone lands a stun incap on you, you can break free and roll in reaction to it.
whats the song? tried this build in bg. went 20-7.. guys this build is 100% legit. only issue is its high skill cap so it takes time to learn. thanks for this
This was a great video and I've subbed! I do have one question though, how does stamblade with 2h and bow stand up to this build, like in comparison? I really want to get better and just wanted to know what you thought about it. Maybe I should make a hybrid but I love the traditional stamblade.
Hybrid is just undeniably stronger than pure stamNB now. DW gives more damage than 2h, concealed weapon is a better spammable than surprise attack, and healthy offering (the burst heal) is so much better than rally that the two aren't even comparable.
Awesome video man, and loving the build. Quick question though, did you have a buff running or anything? I'm by mag, health, & stam with the same build and race
The only buff affecting my stats in this video is the bear haunch food. You should have 30k hp, 24k mag, and 18k stam if you set this build up exactly like mine.
New eso player here. What is the red “mist” your character is under in the video? The vampire disappear? Thanks for uploading this. Was informative and helped point me in a solid direction since I want to get into pvp
The red mist could be one of three things - phantasmal escape (blur morph) puts a red aura on your character, refreshing path puts a red mist on the ground, and siphoning attacks does a red mist above your head when you cast it or when it expires
If you want to use cloak, I would drop refreshing path off the back bar and I'd swap the ice staff for a defending bow. As long as you leave cloak while on the frontbar, or if your bow dodge roll major expedition expires on the frontbar, you'll get concealed weapon to proc. You go defending with a bow instead of precise because bow gets passive crit chance.
In my opinion, nightmother's is just better than stuhns as it'll automatically apply as you deal damage and there is no cooldown. You could in theory use stuhns if you wanted to, though.
It will work like react said dude I use a similar version of this but I'm using bow back bar the dodge speed and using spriggans front bar because... Well I'm poor and I already had it all golded out so 😂 I also use wild Hunt ring over markyn but concept is the same exect I'm a a speedy little kitty ✌️ Great build and explanation dude ✌️✌️
Glad you enjoyed! A few very minor changes for U37 *defending staff backbar instead of precise *soul harvest (not incap) on the back bar *soul tether on the frontbar *dropped deadly aim blue CP for the wrathful strikes blue CP
@@yasonkkk8344 soul tether just isn't enough to kill some of the tankier players, or people using evasion. Soul harvest gives you the option for the extra damage modifier & major defile, which helps with some of these types of players. Also doesn't hurt to be mixing up your offensive ults to catch people off guard.
I’ll never understand how you sustain this without wretched, first thing I always run out of is stamina. Any tips?I feel too squishy with wretched vitality
@@ReactFaster how does major evasion dictate which one you use? That's reduced AOE isn't it? But Duelist and ironclad defend against single target or direct DMG, can you just explain how evasion plays into this?
@@BuRnSy-85 major evasion reduces aoe damage. Ironclad reduces AOE damage. Duelist rebuff does not reduce AOE damage. I choose duelist rebuff on classes that have major evasion over ironclad because evasion already grants 20% reduced AOE damage, and duelist rebuff reduces DOT damage where ironclad does not.
@@ReactFaster How does ironclad reduce AOE, it reduces direct damage, or are you talking about the fact some aoe initial hits could be classes as direct DMG?
One question please: How important is Blocking on a Nightblade in your opinion? Do you block often in between skills or just when health is very low and are highly pressured while healing? PS Great Vid!
Blocking is fairly important on a build like this. The ice staff has the same passive damage reduction and block cost reduction as a sword and board, so I do often block on the back bar. Most of the time I employ "block weaving" which is essentially blocking in-between abilities and light attacks on my back bar. This is similar to old school "animation cancelling" with block, but now the purpose of it is to block incoming damage between abilities without sacrificing your own ability to do light attacks.
@@thorstenbeckmann9155 On the frontbar you only really would "block weave" in 1v1s to negate your opponents damage. In 1vX scenarios you don't want to be blocking often on your front bar as it will burn your stam. On the frontbar you can "bash weave" your abilities, which is doing a light/med/heavy attack -> ability -> bash.
Can’t wait! I’ve followed your mag NB build and finally got the Balorghs monster set both in the correct traits. Just need to get used to the rotation in pvp now 🙂
HybridNightblade has the highest damage in the game right now and decent survivability, warden has the highest defense in the game right now and decent damage. HybridDK is right below both in terms of damage/survivability. Take your pick.
Great build. I can see you are stacking weapon damage, not spell damage. Why is that? Is it because weapon critical scales with weapon damage and therefore you benefit from Hemorrhage passive? Not sure how that works. Thanks!
It doesn't matter whether you use weapon or spell damage on nightblade. You do want to use weapon crit however, for the 6% extra weapon crit nightblade gets.
@@tennistube3331 all abilities in the game now use the highest of every stat. You can have spell damage and weapon crit, and concealed will take those two values for it's scaling
No matter how you look at it, dropping the mythic is a loss of stats. However, If you truly cannot get either markyn or DDF to use, you can slot 1) 1 piece druids braid or 2) a second piece of trainee.
I’m considering getting on ESO today to see what kind of rewards I can get from High Isle, but this morning alone, I admit I kinda don’t feel all that great. Plus I’m mostly done with the main High Isle story, but since I heard there’s a glitch with the Escape From Amenos quest, I don’t know what to do to avoid that somehow..... 🤔.
Nord isn't the best race for a setup like this. If yours is a nord and you really don't want to race change it, you'd probably want to do something like swapping the duelist rebuff blue CP node for an offensive CP node (exploiter, backstabber, untamed aggression), and you probably wouldn't need any attribute points into stamina.
lotsa of people arent taking advantage of the off balance stun. theres another dirty way to land bows and that involves dizzy. you can INSTASTUN them into bow and they get hit as theyre still falling down with NO counterplay possible.
I know this vid is half a year old now but I was wondering what your thoughts are on bloodthirsty vs infused for nightblade just curious about the pros and cons and if blood thirsty is a huge difference compared to infused
Bloodthirsty is signifcantly more damage. It overtakes an infused WD glyph at 60% hp on your target. Also a great counter to the fact that every single player is a stage 3 vampire. Infused is a tad more healing, assuming you're using all WD glyphs.
hey man! great examples and explaining! since you seem to be an expert on the spec bow: it is still mystery to me. I can for the life of me not figure out how to reliably build stacks. E.g. I am in IC killing some mobs to build ulti and stacks for the bow proc and I am losing them all the time. like, it will literally jump back from 3 to 1, etc. also a lot of the time it will not add one to the stack, even if I can see my LA did in fact hit. however it is working quite reliabe outside of pvp. so at this point I am not sure if it is just me being too stupid or if the lag on PS EU is the more likely suspect. btw: having the same trouble with constantly being de-cloaked by sth. like someone commented below...
The game is hybridized now so it doesn't matter which glyph you use, as long as you use all of one type. The only time it matters is if 1) you're using spell power or weapon power pots for your brutality/sorcery since they aren't hybridized yet or 2) if you're playing with a templar or dk, in which case you'd use spell/wep glyphs respectively as those two classes give you minor sorc and minor brut (respectively)
I would suggest dropping refreshing path, putting on a bow on the backbar (can go defending since bow gives crit), and putting invis cloak where refreshing path was.
Major breach (nmg), minor breach (absorb stam), 4 light armor, nightblade pen passive, free cp passive, sharpened offhand. Should hit around 18k before balorgh.
If I was playing on a team with someone else who applied breach, like a DK or a warden what should I replace night mother's with? Do you like deadlands assassin?
No, I don't think deadlands is a good replacement. I would consider rushing agony in a group, dropping killers blade for lotus fan. If you just want a damage set, you can do medusa, orders wrath, briarheart, clever alch, in u36 you can use back alley gorumand
@@ReactFaster thanks for the fast reply and the detailed breakdown in the video of your combos. You have a great understanding of mechanics, thanks for sharing 🙏🏼
Zaan is somewhat viable, depending on what you're doing. When it comes to killing permablockers, tanks, or wardens/templars zaan is better as it is unblockable and unpurgeable. HOWEVER, the effectiveness of zaan becomes severely diminished when you're line of sighting, and even more when you've got more than 3 or 4 people on you as it's harder to proc it and stand your ground in those scenarios.
so i have doubts about something u and pelican have very similar builds for nb yet he is in 4 med u in 4 light whats the diference? i tried both and idk wich one to go for i like both but yeah🤔
Honestly it's up to preference. Medium is stam sustain, weapon damage, crit damage/healing and light is mag sustain, penetration, crit chance. You could go four of either and it'll work fine, you'll just have to adjust your sustain accordingly. Personally, I like the numbers I end up with offensively using this setup.
Unfortunately, you will be losing a signifcant amount of stats by using non-tri stat glyphs on your gear. If you can't afford them, I'd reccomend trying to farm some telvar to purchases the hakeijos with.
Prismatic on all armor pieces, ability layout on bars (if you have any shadow abilities in different spots), number of heavy armor pieces (I think I have 2 in this iirc), free stat boosting cps in, same distribution of attribute points as me. I don't remember off the top of my head if gear quality changes the glyph values.
@@ReactFaster There is a benefit to 2H though in that any direct damage attack after a heavy attack deals 10% more damage. Which is counter to the Ruffian passive which requires them to be stunned or immobilized. DW still stlightly better, but if you work around this passive you can have a lot of damage. ie. HA into incap, HA bow specifically for CC immuned targets would be better with 2H than DW.
@@benkeller3696 DW also has DW expert, increasing your weapon damage further and providing more flat stats than 2h offers. Slaughter and ruffian only increase your damage with light/medium/heavy attacks. To get the follow up passive on 2h you need to do a fully charged heavy attack, which is slow/clunky and often times not ideal in some of the fast paced scenarios you'll find yourself in.
Haha yeah, you don't really need the damage. The other thing is that mist form really hurts your sustain, especially on a class where you don't have some sort of regen that goes through mist form (like templar rune, warden netch, or using cost reduction on dk).
In battlegrounds this can work fine, but swapping out for 1piece magma 1 piece baron helps quite a bit with sustain. However, I do think that running frontbar NMG backbar wretched vitality, balorgh, markyn would be better in battlegrounds. For no-cp cyro and IC, all procs are still disabled so this build would not work in there.
@@ericmann1506 yeah, in nocp IC and nocp cyrodiil, only sets like hundings, spriggans, rattlecage, heartland conquerer, etc work. Sets with flat bonuses that have no conditional proc. For some reason, pariah actually works in there too.
In duels against wardens or templars, I'd just continue using this exact build. You can swap markyn for sea serpent coil there if you want. In duels against every other class, swap markyn for coil, swap NMG for gourmand, and drop phantasmal for ele susceptibility
