any NB using Path of Darkness/morphs?

tintin_milou

Hi everyone,

I know, Path of Darkness and its morphs are not commonly used. They offer weak DPS for the amount of magicka cost.

But anyway, for some vet pledge dungeons in which there are crazy amount of AOE's almost everywhere, I thought that Path of Darkness (50% speed boost) would get me out of those nasty red circles fast - and I don't want to spend precious Stamina to use dodge-roll (saving stamina for damage). Sometimes the boss would teleport like crazy too and I would like to catch up to him quickly, without using dodge-roll.

Curious thing I found is that the speed boost from Path of Darkness "seems" to lasts 5-6 secs instead of the 11 secs from the tooltip. Is this just my imagination? I seem to just revert back to normal speed while my Refreshing Path morph still gives out health.

Thanks for your help!

Artis

It is a pretty useful skill. If you go spell caster that uses DoTs(to proc Scoria for example) - then Twisting Path is one of the best options (together with Crippling Grasp or course). It actually shows me 76 dps with my spell damage softcapped. Also, it affects more than one target and I don't think it ever had aoe cap, i.e. my FTC would show that it hits more than 6 targets at the same time.
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If your build is about getting ultimate - you could use Refreshing Path. Damage over time + healing over time = some good ulti gain. Also, you are helping your healer a little (or if you are a healer you could use as an AoE HoT).

And yes, the skill is good if you need to move faster and don't want to spend your stamina. For example, bring torches at the 2nd stage in VetDSA (not that you really need this skill though). You can use it to kite something, for example, I use it to kite the adds in City of Ash on the Ash Titan fight.
So, I would say, it's a good skill to use sometimes in your flexible slot for some fights (as a tank) or you can use it for some extra damage, heals+ulti gain.

Cody

I am a stamina/hybrid build; I have tons of stamina, and thanks to siphoning attacks and high stam regan, i can roll dodge/sprint and get back my stamina very quickly(in fact, all my medium armor pieces have the well-fitted trait. this, combined with medium armor passives, allows me to sprint almost forever) so for me, it is very useless.

but for magicka builds im sure some use could be found for it.

Panda244

Refreshing Path I use from time to time on my NB, stacked with Rapid Regen, Entropy, Swallow Soul, etc... Makes for 300-400 heals a second on live. It's just a little tad bit thingy ma jig you can weave in with other heals/DoTs... I'd definitely use it more if I had the Valkyn Skoria set on my NB, toss it off a postern wall in PvP and watch the targets' below get hammered.

tintin_milou

Thanks everyone for sharing your experience with Path of Darkness!

Could you tell me whether the speed boost of Path of Darkness/morphs lasts for 11s as stated in the tooltip? For me the speed boost seems to last only 5-6 secs. Thanks for your help!