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
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, 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 🙂
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 ✌️✌️
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
@@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?
Major breach (nmg), minor breach (absorb stam), 4 light armor, nightblade pen passive, free cp passive, sharpened offhand. Should hit around 18k before balorgh.
Dual wield gets more damage than 2h because of the passives. There is a passive that gives flat weapon damage (why we use nirnhoned mainhand), and several passives that will buff your weaving damage. The only useful passives on 2h are the stam regen on kill and the heavy attack empower, but they're both niche.
@@ReactFaster mmm gotcha that does check out, i kept going back in forth on the passives and trying to see the big differences lol and ice for block mitagation and resto if you wantn better sustain/heals? thank you again
Refreshing path will proc concealed weapon whenever it refreshes your major expedition while you're on the frontbar, and it will proc it if the expedition fully expires while on your front bar. Standing in the path while on the frontbar will continually proc concealed once per second.
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.
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.
What's ice staff for ? Minor brittle?
@@jacksondeanbean944 Block cost reduction and block mitigation, magicka return heavy attacks, ranged light/med/heavy attacks
Would you strictly only run duel wield or could it be okay with 2h, or is the duel wield passives just better
@@nathanielphiatheo579 dual wield is just flat out better. More damage and better passives.
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 :)
Where has this been all my life ❤️
This was really in depth and I loved it, we need more of this
This is by far the BEST NB video I’ve Eva watched… I’m learnin how to play NB in pvp now.. this helped tremendously thank u brother
Holy cow the combat breakdown visually/and you commenting was amazing. Great vid!
Finally someone explained the Roll Catch technique. So important on this class
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.
@@benzii9331 magblade / stamblade is not a thing anymore. This is really a mix of the two leaning towards mag.
@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.
Awesome build and the burst breakdowns were very helpful!
Bro, this is the most useful pvp video i've ever seen. Big thanks to you, now i know mechanics a lot better
This just set a new hight for your everyday build video. Nice job explaining things
whats a GUIDE. Thanks so much man been playinh nightblade to 800 cp and is honestly the first video explaining combos thank you !
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!
Thank you for this well constructed build video. Most useful were the burst combos thank you again!
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 👍
INSANE BUILD WOULD RECOMMEND 100%
stop talk wretched vitality enjoyer :(
One of the best Nightblades 🔥🔥
naw he aint 1 of the best, He is the best
Great Video bro. Can’t wait to see the next one.
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
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 😉)
I’ve been sticking barrier on the back bar for passive mag regen and a pretty decent oh shit button if you get piled on. Awesome build my dood.
I remember when you and joker was on console man the good ole days.
Really good guide, watching this a couple times really helped me. A+
Ty for taking the time to sharing your knowledge, we all appreciate it! Great video.
Pretty Goated build video actually
Incredible video! 👍👍😊
Thanks for sharing the build w/ me after the battleground--nice to see something other than toxicity :D
Best build video out of all creators. Breakdown of the combos was amazing but take it easy on me in cyro, my ego can only handle so much humbling
thanks for the detailed explanation, will definitely try this
New to nightblade pvp and I needed how to burst tutorial like this :p
Hey man, awesome video!!! Magblade has some tricks and you definitely are teaching them to ppl, thank you. 👍🏻
Great video, very informative! I love the combat breakdown and detailed explanations.
This was super helpful, thank you so much!
I was waiting for this video very top this build works on the console
Thanks so much , I need all the help I can get on night blade , maybe now the meat bag player I am will change 😅
really fun build and playstyle ,,, helpful in depth video.
I fought you in cyrodill. Solid build. Respect!
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.
Great instruction! I’ve had a lot of success using Vatshran backbar with RoWH. For your next challenge get a MagSorc to work well. Lol
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.
I got absolutely slaughtered by a NB twice and told him he was nasty… he politely directed me to ur UA-cam… god bless tht night blade
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.
Got, I’m missing something then. Either the dmg and survivability here is really nice.
Figured it out. Undaunted passives put me where I needed to be. Thanks again!
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
Nice breakdown!
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.
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.
Hello there! Amazing breakdown on everything, well done especially for first build. what sets would you use in the no cp no proc campaign?
Keep up the good work brother
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.
@@ReactFaster ahh yeah thanks! That'll be a fun open spot to mess around with.
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what up React, Silky-Smooth here. We ran for awhile on DC im just getting back into ESO after 9 months. Will you still consider this a Meta Build?
In my opinion yes, I'd say this is the meta way to play a hybridNB this patch.
Its actually ridiculous how many people dont take advantage of the off balance mechanic
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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.
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What controller layout do you use? Mainly curious about your barswap button
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
Love your night blade vídeos when is the next one?!
Hopefully soon! Been grinding up on EU while waiting for zenimax to fix controller.
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 🙂
Nice build bro!
Great video! Theres something I dont understand though, is it 4 piece rallying or 5? I THINK im counting 4
All two handed weapons count as two set pieces
@@ReactFaster Thanks bro, I counted a bit better and the math is correct! Good shit, havent played magblade in ages and now im excited for it
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love the video. i play a ton of no cp cyro. by chance do you have a powerful setup for ravenwatch? (also hybrid nb)
😂 didn’t realize you were recording, whoops
Would serpents coil with 3 swift still work fine?
Master class in NB brawling there mate. I'm running this right now It is a great setup. Until you killed me last night at arrius lol
Are you running this in necro patch, or something similar? Still viable? What would you do if you don’t have any mythics currently?
Nice vid! Was curious, do you think Stuhns would work when using concealed weapon instead of night mothers?
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 ✌️✌️
well done
Nice vid brother
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.
@@ReactFaster Thanks for your fast reaction! Do you do it on the front bar too when you go offensive?
@@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.
@reactfaster more build videos! Do mag DK or stam sorc next please 🙏
Wanna make this rn. On your 65+ kills 1vx you had an extra 3k hp. I was wondering what did you do for that?
Probably was an emperor alliance buff or a well buff
Hey I dont know if you still play this game but is there any changes to the stamblade builld? Thank you.
if u wanna use cloak front bar , what would u drop? great video btw!
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.
Very good video
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
How would you build it without mythics? I was running a similar build but using 2h vateshran over dw to fill the gap, I want to go dw though
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.
@@ReactFaster Thanks mate
I assume the jewelry enchantments are weapon and spell damage with stamina regen?
Correct!
Would maras balm work in place of rallying ive got the ice staff for maras already
You could if you wanted to, but you'd have to run 2 maras jewelery and maras legs or boots. Rally is the better choice here imo
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..... 🤔.
Nice. I've missed nb, can't wait to lvl one up on PC. Pretty sure you hit ME with an 18k spec bow the other day lmao
Would you make any changes to this build in the new patch?
Nice Build❤Can you tell me the Mads for your Essenz of Detection plz 🤔
Could you use nord on this build if so what would you have to trade out?
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.
@@ReactFaster okay thank you
this guy is explaining off balance in a build 11/10 would off bal again
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.
@@ReactFaster Thanks. So does weapon crit apply to concealed weapon and spectral bow or not because they are magicka?
@@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
@@ReactFaster really helpful, much appreciated.
Coming back from a long absence due to patches was playing a high level what you recommend I pick up... this hybrid blade looks fun
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.
@@ReactFaster was a melee magblade no invis since launch maybe I will try this new and improved concealed weapon and stop being carried by dark cloak😂
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...
For some reason you can't hold bow stacks in IC, no idea why, but thats a thing so there ya go :)
@@davidclark9872 I knew it! Thanks 😅
Been seeing these hybrid Nightblades with Balorghs and also Zaan. Would you say Zaan is a viable option?
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.
I loved your Wardedn build and I am trying this now. Is Duelist rebuff more efficient than Ironclad for nightblade?
It's preference. I prefer duelist rebuff on classes that have major evasion, and ironclad on classes that do not have major evasion.
@@ReactFaster That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the reply!
@@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?
Good time of the day, but where does 9k penetration come from if you use axes in your guide?
Major breach (nmg), minor breach (absorb stam), 4 light armor, nightblade pen passive, free cp passive, sharpened offhand. Should hit around 18k before balorgh.
How would you change the build to make it more ranged? Obvs Impale > killers, swallow soul spam?
Shit man, I changed my mind. Watched more of your vids back and I'll just change my pve spec to melee
No CP to ? or Not with this build
i need help lol i feel dumb, why dual wield over 2h i dont see any benefit
Dual wield gets more damage than 2h because of the passives. There is a passive that gives flat weapon damage (why we use nirnhoned mainhand), and several passives that will buff your weaving damage.
The only useful passives on 2h are the stam regen on kill and the heavy attack empower, but they're both niche.
@@ReactFaster mmm gotcha that does check out, i kept going back in forth on the passives and trying to see the big differences lol and ice for block mitagation and resto if you wantn better sustain/heals? thank you again
So refreshing path constantly procs your concealed weapon? Or is it only when you leave it and major expedition ends?
Refreshing path will proc concealed weapon whenever it refreshes your major expedition while you're on the frontbar, and it will proc it if the expedition fully expires while on your front bar. Standing in the path while on the frontbar will continually proc concealed once per second.
@@ReactFaster oh so standing in it will essentially give you 100% uptime on it? Sick
I wonder which slot would be best to swap for mistform or inviz to take advantage of strike from the shadows. Would appreciate your thoughts.
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.
@@ReactFaster Thank you! Will try that. Otherwise this is really a great build once you practice enough to deliver the combo.