Magicka DK vs All the Nightblades

NirnStorm

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

Here are some cheerful clips I've gathered in the last two weeks PvPing on my MDK.
Hope you'll enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5COmdddnxw



Edit:
I have recently released a build video of the setup I used in most of these clips.
Here it is if some of you guys wanna try it out yourselves

https://youtu.be/paasIN084M4

enzoisadog

don't xpose me pls

NirnStorm

enzoisadog wrote: »

don't xpose me pls

I would never hit you bae!
...Unless it would help me get another vertical leap >.>

Iskras

Nirn bag the poor grass? What the grass do against you?

Adenoma

I love the ice staff over talons. So much more utility than S&B in my mind.

JobooAGS

NirnStorm wrote: »

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

Here are some cheerful clips I've gathered in the last two weeks PvPing on my MDK.
Hope you'll enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5COmdddnxw

NirnStorm wrote: »

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

Here are some cheerful clips I've gathered in the last two weeks PvPing on my MDK.
Hope you'll enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5COmdddnxw

NirnStorm wrote: »

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

Here are some cheerful clips I've gathered in the last two weeks PvPing on my MDK.
Hope you'll enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5COmdddnxw

Nice vid keep em coming!

NirnStorm

Adenoma wrote: »

I love the ice staff over talons. So much more utility than S&B in my mind.

Exactly. Ice staff = SNB + talons + minor maim + ult gen from distance. I have no idea why most people use S&B over it.

JobooAGS wrote: »

Nice vid keep em coming!

Thank you, will do!

NirnStorm

Iskras wrote: »

Nirn bag the poor grass? What the grass do against you?

Well, in your own words senpai Iskra: Anyone who is not yellow deserves bags. And the grass was green :P

ccmedaddy

Nice work. Bonus points for the use of frost blockade on magDK. Mind sharing your build?

DKsUnite

NirnStorm wrote: »

Adenoma wrote: »

I love the ice staff over talons. So much more utility than S&B in my mind.

Exactly. Ice staff = SNB + talons + minor maim + ult gen from distance. I have no idea why most people use S&B over it.

JobooAGS wrote: »

Nice vid keep em coming!

Thank you, will do!

Because SnB gives more resistances, faster movement speed while blocking, 15% more dmg mit. from range, extra stats (from shield ench). Not to mention talons provides the minor maim from choking, don't have to proc the root, easier to use open field and with a destro front which is the norm, you already get the ult gen from distance

NBrookus

A nice big aoe root is useful, but when I was originally testing it Minor Maim really didn't proc that often, whereas Choking Talons is 100%... but much smaller area.

Ice Blockade is superb for fighting nightblades, though.

P.S. Wow, what an amazing magplar for kiting and tanking all those guys for 6 hours!

NirnStorm

DKsUnite wrote: »

Because SnB gives more resistances, faster movement speed while blocking, 15% more dmg mit. from range, extra stats (from shield ench). Not to mention talons provides the minor maim from choking, don't have to proc the root, easier to use open field and with a destro front which is the norm, you already get the ult gen from distance

While I agree with some of what you say - SnB gives you slightly better stat and slightly more mitigation - I still find ice staff a lot more useful, at least for my recent setups.
* Being able to light and heavy attack for mag return on your backbar is useful in a ton of scenarios
* Ice blockade provides a MASSIVE area effect that damages, slows and roots enemies in it, not to mention the NB detection which is huge imo. There's also the fact you can choose where to place it and kite your enemies inside it.
* Blockade adds another external debuff that your enemy may cleanse to have reapplied to them, which proves super useful vs templars.
Plus AFAIK a huge amount of mDKs today double bar SnB, which I think is not the best idea, so having an ice staff on one bar for the ult gain is really an improvement imo.

Just my opinion anyway. We could probably go back and forth over talons vs blockade with things like synergy, cost, range and whatnot, it is personal preference in the end

jaws343

I've actually switched to back barring ice staff and running dual swords front bar on my MagDK. It runs surprisingly well. And the WOE into a stun is pretty powerful.

NirnStorm

NBrookus wrote: »

Wow, what an amazing magplar for kiting and tanking all those guys for 6 hours!

Hahaha most intimidating magplar NA, at least that's what it seemed like, took them days to get the courage to engage you 6v1 lmao

DUTCH_REAPER

Awesome vid!

WaltherCarraway

MOWED

NirnStorm

jaws343 wrote: »

I've actually switched to back barring ice staff and running dual swords front bar on my MagDK. It runs surprisingly well. And the WOE into a stun is pretty powerful.

Right? It's quite useful! And I used to run dual swords on front bar as well, but I've come to realize if you are able to weave light attacks well, a flame staff front bar can increase your overall damage more than DW! My light attacks are almost always in the top 3 most damaging skills on CMX recaps

heng14rwb17_ESO

SEND IN THE DK NOW !

THE_BIG_BOSS

GO DK OR GO CRY

NirnStorm

DUTCH_REAPER wrote: »

Awesome vid!

Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed!

WaltherCarraway wrote: »

MOWED

NirnStorm

heng14rwb17_ESO wrote: »

SEND IN THE DK NOW !

THE_BIG_BOSS wrote: »

GO DK OR GO CRY

DKs rule! ;D

NirnStorm

I have recently released a build video of the setup I used in most of these clips.
Here it is if some of you guys wanna try it out yourselves

https://youtu.be/paasIN084M4