Magicka NB - PvP

Mustard

Is light armor viable again with some of the fixes with cloak? I'm not talking about gank builds.

@NightbladeMechanics - all hail the master! Hook us up!!!!! No one makes vidoes anymore of magicka NB's

arkansas_ESO

The only thing they really fixed about Cloak is that Infernal Guardian no longer pulls you out of it. Gap closers, Vampire's Bane/Reflective Light, etc etc still pull you out.

NightbladeMechanics

Big shield builds with Pirate Skeleton can be strong. Necro + Willpower + Pirate + vMA/Master staves or dual wield with a 5pc like Spinner would be your baseline. More creative builds can branch out from there, but any shielding mageblade build just feels like a gimped, strealess, mineless, wardless sorc to me.

Builds not using Annulment can use sets like Bloodspawn, Pirate, Transmutation, and maybe Meritorious Service to gain durability. I'm exploring this area right now myself.

If you're not building durability in one of those ways, over time you will find yourself spending more and more time in cloak or spamming it when attacked. I also prefer using shade + cloak over mist form when in light armor. Hell, maybe use all three.. Also mirage is very strong in light armor. Double take is fine if you're using shields. Your defense will be the main challenge when in light armor, not your damage. I'll think on this for a bit.

thankyourat

I'm playing light armor magblade right now with cloak and no annulment. I think it's viable if you are at a certain skill level but that's the case with all the classes. I'm finding cloak to be more reliable overall but it's still a crap shoot some times. I say if you want to play light armor go for it. it's alot more fun for me than playing heavy. Even though heavy is better. Overall though all the reasons magblades switched to heavy armor hasn't changed

DHale

As long as you have more than 1800 crit resist... sure. Shields too help a lot.

Huggelz

If u want to play light armor magblade ur only chance to have decent survivability is running pirate skeleton

Mustard

Such a sad day

Stamicka

It's rough out there with light armor. I have about 49k max magicka on my back bar and 100 in bastion but my 2 shields still go down pretty quick against 2+ people even if I constantly reapply them. The combination of only having 2 shields, no purge, and very limited options for mobility makes you a very easy target, especially if you are rooted cause you can't do much at that point. Light is still very good in duels but for open world you'll probably have more success with heavy. Damage is just way too high unfortunately.

If you are usually in cloak light might still be viable, but I'm not really a cloak user so I can't say how effective that will be

Volrion

I have two NBs which I love (Stam and Mag) and they're strictly for ganking.

Any other playstyle, you're just better off using a different class (IMO).

Reefo

Destro Bomblade makes light armor viable.