Any advice for a high crit rate bow Nightblade?

Elyna

As the title says, anyone have any suggestions for a high crit build?

Tigeracer

Full medium = 21%
Khajiit carnage = 6%
Hundings rage = 8%
Night mothers gaze = 8%
Each assassination ability = 3%
Precise = (depends on quality, but use 3%)

On my bow build I don't use night mothers gaze, I use ashen grip, so I lose 4% crit. I have blur and reapers mark for 6% extra crit chance. If you want even more crit chance, use the thief stone, but I use shadow for higher crit damage.

If you are looking for awesome damage, go with dual wield rather than bow though, you get an extra precise and an extra 10% crit for using daggers.

dracobains_ESO

A lot of players are running with Impen armor now so crit builds are not all they use to be. Although when you tag someone that doesn't have impen it is really noticeable.

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO

Learn Alchemy and make the potions that give around +50 percentage point crit chance, +26 damage and restore about 556 instant and 556 more over 8 seconds. These numbers only works for nightblades because we have that potion buff passive in siphoning.

Ser Lobo

What the above players have said, pretty much. I use almost the same gear and setup as @Tigeracer, skipping the Khajit bonus. In veteran dungeons particularly, my single-target capabilities are fairly on par, especially since I'm usually out of the damage zone.

ArRashid

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO wrote: »

Learn Alchemy and make the potions that give around +50 percentage point crit chance, +26 damage and restore about 556 instant and 556 more over 8 seconds. These numbers only works for nightblades because we have that potion buff passive in siphoning.

it's not +50% crit, it's +20% crit (26% for NB) for 10(13) seconds (nerfed from 30/36%). Good temporary buff, but not all that great as it has (at best) 43% uptime

Cody

Always get sneak hits, go ALL medium armor, as one of the passives gives critical chance. use precise on your bow, and use a set that gives weapon critical(I use nights silence) potions work too. there are many ways to do it.

ZeroTheCat

Elyna wrote: »

As the title says, anyone have any suggestions for a high crit build?

Yeah, re-roll

zazamalek

Don't forget potions.

Kego

Tigeracer wrote: »

Full medium = 21%
Khajiit carnage = 6%
Hundings rage = 8%
Night mothers gaze = 8%
Each assassination ability = 3%
Precise = (depends on quality, but use 3%)

On my bow build I don't use night mothers gaze, I use ashen grip, so I lose 4% crit. I have blur and reapers mark for 6% extra crit chance. If you want even more crit chance, use the thief stone, but I use shadow for higher crit damage.

If you are looking for awesome damage, go with dual wield rather than bow though, you get an extra precise and an extra 10% crit for using daggers.

You can't have Hunings Rage and Night Mother with both 8% Crit, cause you only have 8 Slots with Armor and Weapon.

I think best for max. Crit would be:
21% Full medium Armor
5% Bow Passive
6% Khajit carnage
8% Hundings Rage
4% Night Mother Gaze
10% Deadly Strike Set
4% Precise (Green Weapon VR12, higher with upgrade to blue, purple, yellow)

58% overall Crit.

+3% more Cirt with every sloted Assassins Skill in your active Weapon Bar.

CapuchinSeven

7 Medium and all the passives you can get, but in PVP it's not going to do much for you. (Although in PVE it will really help).

In PVP you're much better off with raw damage.

Tigeracer

@Kego‌

Look.... 8 slots with weapon means you can have 4 pieces of hundings and 4 pieces of night mothers. You get 4% from both of the 2pc sets and another 4% from each of the 4pc sets. 4+4=8, so before you try to correct me, do some simple mathematics.

Kego

@tigeracer

You are right, didn't thought of 4/4 Sets, even if it still makes no sence. With 5 Hunding, 2 Night Mother and 3 Deadly Strike (Ring, Ring, Weapon) you will have way more Crit than with 4 Hunding and 4 Night Mother, besides with 5 Hundings you gain the 5 Set Bonus as well.

Cuyler

I use shadow cloak (shadowy disguise) morph as there is a 70% crit increase for the duration of the effect. apply the skill and then fire a venom arrow. rinse and repeat. I killed molag bal pretty quick with this technique. the associated invisibility helped a lot to as it causes most NPCs/bosses to just stall half the time.

This will eat up your magicka quickly however so it should be used in conjunction with the mages guild skill equilibrium (balance) morph. unfortunately this will sap your health so you'll need to mitigate that too. This can be achieved by using marked target (reapers mark) morph which will heal you 60% max health for each kill while increasing spell and weapon damage. The balance morph on equilibrium will increase your health recovery as well.

Maxing your shadow passives will give increased damage considering the invisibilty from shadowy disguise your attacking from stealth ~50% of the time and weaving light attacks the other 50%.

The fifth skill is really up to you, I tend to use scatter shot (draining shot) morph to knock back the few enemies that survive my initial attacks or strife (funnel health) morph to get additional healing when needed.

Obviously all the passives that improve crit as well as a good potion (increase weapon crit/increase dmg/restore magicka all in one) are handy. The thief boon too.

This build will consistently sustain a 100% crit chance

I55UE5

Use the bow to shoot things.

c0rp

Avoid Cyrodiil. Too much Impen.