Magica Melee NB is not Dead. ;p

Xinthisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l5hA_oEn7U

Waylander

Sad to see you take a break man.

Skillful NB and duelist.

Maybe you should just go wreck people with a stam blade for a while. Imperial is no slouch. You would have to be near having vigor yeah?

Lava_Croft

Magicka Nightblades are for people longing to do less damage than Stamina Nightblades while at the same time being squisher than Stamina Nightblades and having to equip a fairly useless Restoration Staff in order to get a decent heal.

Unlike the Stamina Nightblades! This is your year!

Erondil

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Magicka Nightblades are for people longing to do less damage than Stamina Nightblades while at the same time being squisher than Stamina Nightblades and having to equip a fairly useless Restoration Staff in order to get a decent heal.

Unlike the Stamina Nightblades! This is your year!

Magicka Nightblade also permite to use absorb shields (harness, healing ward) to endless cloak, to have a better aoe burst with proximity detonation. Both stamina and magicka got their advantages and I would say, overall one isnt stronger than another imo.

Lava_Croft

Erondil wrote: »

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Magicka Nightblades are for people longing to do less damage than Stamina Nightblades while at the same time being squisher than Stamina Nightblades and having to equip a fairly useless Restoration Staff in order to get a decent heal.

Unlike the Stamina Nightblades! This is your year!

Magicka Nightblade also permite to use absorb shields (harness, healing ward) to endless cloak, to have a better aoe burst with proximity detonation. Both stamina and magicka got their advantages and I would say, overall one isnt stronger than another imo.

Harness useless against Stamina users, Medium Armor gets you 75% the protection of Heavy Armor while having endlessly better passives. Healing Ward requires you to equip a nearly useless weapon for a single heal, Vigor requires no weapon at all while Rally also provides a decent heal. Endless Cloak is easily countered cloak, easier and cheaper to just dodgeroll. Proximity Detonation is cute, but I raise you a Steel Tornado. And there's this Champion System thing.

kaithuzar

Yea right now it's OK as long as you're not fighting someone with 5-7 nirnhoned HOWEVER
it's gonna suck when they nerf concealed strike =*(

@Xinthisis , according to your vid, I can't believe I didn't see a single armor set piece that had "inc sp dmg"
I've heard that most people run way more dmg than what's needed, but it looked like you weren't increasing it at all?
I'm really surprised you are not using nirn? too expensive + nerf soon?

JDar

Magicka Nightblades are Stendarr's chosen ones

The meek shall inherit Nirn

JDar

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Magicka Nightblades are for people longing to do less damage than Stamina Nightblades while at the same time being squisher than Stamina Nightblades and having to equip a fairly useless Restoration Staff in order to get a decent heal.

Unlike the Stamina Nightblades! This is your year!

Well resto does have the absorb passive.

pjwb16_ESO

Erondil wrote: »

Xinthisis wrote: »

@Erondil Also running full spell power really isn't worth it, unless you're really trying to run a burst and run build.
I don't like that playstyle as for dueling most people learn how to tank your burst and once that happens you end up losing indefinitely to them.

Once I have enough ressource managment to break cc every 6 seconds and endless cloak, I put all in max magicka/spell dmg.
In EU the few duellers that I can't burst down won't kill me either unless I become too agressive (except Fluffy that kill me all the time because Fluff is OP and I'm vamp).

Same xD

Xinthisis

Its been a while ladies and gents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d857mhSQ9KE

Whyn Aurum

Daaaaaaaaaamn, at last! Great youre doing the diaries again! welcome back man

BTW is this pre IC

chuckselegy

C

Araxleon

Xinthisis

@Whyn Aurum Yes this was footage collected pre 1.7, so far messing around in this patch I feel that the damage is WAYYY too low.
I doubt 1vx will still be a thing, and if there is it will people with 450+ champ points using the broken heavy armor 1h/s & 2h "hybrid" builds. (tank harder then anyone else, while sustaining more then typical sustain builds, and Dpsing higher then full dps builds)

Besides that I doubt solo play or duels will still be a thing with the way damage is, because theres only 3 ways to kill someone. Outsustain them, burst them, or out tank them. 1.6 ,made the sustain route unreliable at best, and this patch is killing the burst path.
All thats left is tanking, which is basically meaning that heavy armor is the new meta. Add in the champion system and you end up with the only path being stamina, due to the passives that nerf magicka damage.
I might keep playing ESO here and there, but it seems since B2P Zos takes 1 step forward, and 3 steps back. Sad to see a game with real potential being destroyed by the very people that would benefit greatly from its success.
Oh well.

Xinthisis

@Araxleon I wish they still had the "Lol" response. Sigh

I'd "LOL" at the 1.7 patch notes forum post x1000000000 if I could.