Metemsycosis wrote: »Dw healing is awesome on magnb. I use that with innate axiom heavy for big path and offering and tether numbers.
Similar to 2h but looks cooler imo
A good bump in front bar damage? Hahahahaha. You are SO wrong:My exact build is here:jimijac0me wrote: »Out of curiousity what health are you guys running on these builds?
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6312003/#Comment_6312003
Have you tried running DW on your front bar? You’ll miss ranged light attacks but see a good bump to your front bar damage skills. MH nirn, OH sharpened.
Looking again, why inner light on your back bar?
(1) Destro gives +8% single target damage. I believe that includes the procs.
(2) Destro does elemental-based light attacks that scale with magicka and spell damage, spell crit and spell pen.
(3) Full Sharpened beats Nirn, more so, since my build is about the procs not my skill damage.
So unless you're telling me there is something about how "wrong-(stamina)-weapon" light attacks now scale, that I've missed, destro light attacks and destro staff synergy with the procs far outweighs any possible skill damage gains from DW in my build.
Inner Light is my flex-spot. I like it, because the slight magicka gain improves my shields and the crit improves my heals, e.g. Swallow Soul and Healing Ward. No room for it on the front bar and also the procs don't crit anyway. Between Inner Light and Willpower I have almost 4K more magicka on the back bar. However other skills in that spot include Retreating Maneuvers, Siege Shield and Deep Thoughts in no CP.
I like Swallow Soul for IC, but for Cyro you could arguably run Cripple + Entropy or Soul Trap on the back bar this patch. What I don't like about Entropy is that blue health projectile every 2 seconds, as it can give away your cloaked position. Again it comes down the procs being the "star-feature" of the build. I don't particularly care for Major Sorcery. Indeed, I have always found Immovability potions far more effective when the other choice was a Sorcery or Brutality potion, so I don't get it from potions either.
Switching from a flame staff to DW swords is about a 10% tooltip increase....
Yep tooltip wise, DW will show the higher numbers. But tooltips are not everything. It doesn't reflect penetration.
And the fact that you can deal significant light attack weaved damage beats out any tooltip increase DW may have.
You also get to have ele drain. The most OP mag skill in the game imo.
Reaper’s mark is better than ele drain in almost every way.
By the way, you guys realize that the pen passives from destro staffs only work on destro staff abilities right?
Yep I realize that, I was just saying that tooltips aren't a good metric as a general statement because penetration isn't reflected. Not specifically on the destro staff vs DW topic. I can see why my statement was confusing!
I don't think i'd slot reapers mark ever in PVP. Minor magickasteal is too good.
A good bump in front bar damage? Hahahahaha. You are SO wrong:My exact build is here:jimijac0me wrote: »Out of curiousity what health are you guys running on these builds?
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6312003/#Comment_6312003
Have you tried running DW on your front bar? You’ll miss ranged light attacks but see a good bump to your front bar damage skills. MH nirn, OH sharpened.
Looking again, why inner light on your back bar?
(1) Destro gives +8% single target damage. I believe that includes the procs.
(2) Destro does elemental-based light attacks that scale with magicka and spell damage, spell crit and spell pen.
(3) Full Sharpened beats Nirn, more so, since my build is about the procs not my skill damage.
So unless you're telling me there is something about how "wrong-(stamina)-weapon" light attacks now scale, that I've missed, destro light attacks and destro staff synergy with the procs far outweighs any possible skill damage gains from DW in my build.
Inner Light is my flex-spot. I like it, because the slight magicka gain improves my shields and the crit improves my heals, e.g. Swallow Soul and Healing Ward. No room for it on the front bar and also the procs don't crit anyway. Between Inner Light and Willpower I have almost 4K more magicka on the back bar. However other skills in that spot include Retreating Maneuvers, Siege Shield and Deep Thoughts in no CP.
I like Swallow Soul for IC, but for Cyro you could arguably run Cripple + Entropy or Soul Trap on the back bar this patch. What I don't like about Entropy is that blue health projectile every 2 seconds, as it can give away your cloaked position. Again it comes down the procs being the "star-feature" of the build. I don't particularly care for Major Sorcery. Indeed, I have always found Immovability potions far more effective when the other choice was a Sorcery or Brutality potion, so I don't get it from potions either.
Switching from a flame staff to DW swords is about a 10% tooltip increase....
Yep tooltip wise, DW will show the higher numbers. But tooltips are not everything. It doesn't reflect penetration.
And the fact that you can deal significant light attack weaved damage beats out any tooltip increase DW may have.
You also get to have ele drain. The most OP mag skill in the game imo.
Reaper’s mark is better than ele drain in almost every way.
By the way, you guys realize that the pen passives from destro staffs only work on destro staff abilities right?
Yep I realize that, I was just saying that tooltips aren't a good metric as a general statement because penetration isn't reflected. Not specifically on the destro staff vs DW topic. I can see why my statement was confusing!
I don't think i'd slot reapers mark ever in PVP. Minor magickasteal is too good.
Okay, I was confused on why you said destro staves have better pen. They're exactly the same as DW. MH Nirh, OH Sharpened is best but you could go sharpened for both traits and still see a sizable tooltip increase.
DW because of passives have higher base weapon damage by about ~200. The difference between DW and destro staves is stamina based light attacks and weapon damage vs ranged magicka based light attacks and status effects.
Destro staves are better for 90% of magblade builds, but not all.
thankyourat wrote: »A good bump in front bar damage? Hahahahaha. You are SO wrong:My exact build is here:jimijac0me wrote: »Out of curiousity what health are you guys running on these builds?
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6312003/#Comment_6312003
Have you tried running DW on your front bar? You’ll miss ranged light attacks but see a good bump to your front bar damage skills. MH nirn, OH sharpened.
Looking again, why inner light on your back bar?
(1) Destro gives +8% single target damage. I believe that includes the procs.
(2) Destro does elemental-based light attacks that scale with magicka and spell damage, spell crit and spell pen.
(3) Full Sharpened beats Nirn, more so, since my build is about the procs not my skill damage.
So unless you're telling me there is something about how "wrong-(stamina)-weapon" light attacks now scale, that I've missed, destro light attacks and destro staff synergy with the procs far outweighs any possible skill damage gains from DW in my build.
Inner Light is my flex-spot. I like it, because the slight magicka gain improves my shields and the crit improves my heals, e.g. Swallow Soul and Healing Ward. No room for it on the front bar and also the procs don't crit anyway. Between Inner Light and Willpower I have almost 4K more magicka on the back bar. However other skills in that spot include Retreating Maneuvers, Siege Shield and Deep Thoughts in no CP.
I like Swallow Soul for IC, but for Cyro you could arguably run Cripple + Entropy or Soul Trap on the back bar this patch. What I don't like about Entropy is that blue health projectile every 2 seconds, as it can give away your cloaked position. Again it comes down the procs being the "star-feature" of the build. I don't particularly care for Major Sorcery. Indeed, I have always found Immovability potions far more effective when the other choice was a Sorcery or Brutality potion, so I don't get it from potions either.
Switching from a flame staff to DW swords is about a 10% tooltip increase....
Yep tooltip wise, DW will show the higher numbers. But tooltips are not everything. It doesn't reflect penetration.
And the fact that you can deal significant light attack weaved damage beats out any tooltip increase DW may have.
You also get to have ele drain. The most OP mag skill in the game imo.
Reaper’s mark is better than ele drain in almost every way.
By the way, you guys realize that the pen passives from destro staffs only work on destro staff abilities right?
Yep I realize that, I was just saying that tooltips aren't a good metric as a general statement because penetration isn't reflected. Not specifically on the destro staff vs DW topic. I can see why my statement was confusing!
I don't think i'd slot reapers mark ever in PVP. Minor magickasteal is too good.
Okay, I was confused on why you said destro staves have better pen. They're exactly the same as DW. MH Nirh, OH Sharpened is best but you could go sharpened for both traits and still see a sizable tooltip increase.
DW because of passives have higher base weapon damage by about ~200. The difference between DW and destro staves is stamina based light attacks and weapon damage vs ranged magicka based light attacks and status effects.
Destro staves are better for 90% of magblade builds, but not all.
I can’t think of a build where dual Wield would be better than destro staff. The destro staff allows you to apply more pressure because you can play from range to get bow procs. So you can sort of hide the magblade weakness of low spammable damage and bad healing. With duel wield you are going to have less bow uptime due to the loss of ranged light attacks. you are also going to take a lot more damage so you are going to have to rely more on burst meaning you are lowering magblades already low spammable damage. I think 2hand is better than duel wield as well because it at least gives you access to the most op ability in the game
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=170445
^ This is my build in an easy to consume format. This build started to take shape some 2 years ago, and this is the current iteration.
Offensive pressure is simple: LA-weave. Just semi-charge light attacksy for about 500ms (or half a second) so that every light attack you land, the shock enchant procs. I find that it's the best dps instead of straight up LA weaving and only getting shock enchant procs every 2 seconds. Lighter on the sustain side this way too.
Kill combo happens when you have the spectral bow. So always light attack weave even on the resto bar. The full combo starts with a light attack weave RAT into weapon swap, enabling minor force and the torug's infused spell damage buff glyph on the resto staff. Then it's soul harvest => hysteria => spectral bow (all with uncharged light attack weaves that should equate to two shock enchant procs). Then after that it's LA-weave of swallow soul to execute the target. If they dont die, just do it again since the bow should be up soon.
Defense is tricky-er because positioning is very important, and defensive rotations change depending if stam is low or mag is low. But first, always have the shade up (it's the only dot that helps with maintaining magickasteal of ele drain). Doesn't have to be behind a tree or w/e (but that's ideal), it just has to be a bit away. Then the main goal is to make yspace. Never use cloak first. You'll only be revealed instantly. You want to either RAT or roll away, and then cloak. LOS also matters a lot.
In summary: it's very mobile and bursty, good recoveries, and it has decent sustained pressure with the 6k shock enchant with torug's and infused making it available every 1.5 seconds. Use RAT, dodge roll, shade to make space, then use cloak to exponentially grow the space you make.
Videos just for fun: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/493654/magblade-pvp-videos-for-fun
Ele drain offers better sustain than debilitate, because it is free and undodgeable, while the latter costs resources (more than you gain from the the minor magicka steal if the skill itself is the only thing proccing it) and can be dodged, which means sometimes you end up wasting resources. Currently debilitate is still the better skill overall because of the damage, but if i had enough bar space for both cripple + major breach i'd rather go for crippling grasp + ele drain instead of debi + mark.
And as it looks now i don't see a single reason to slot any dot skill next patch, so ele drain will be the way to go.
Also the only situation where dw is better than desto is bombing, because the la dmg is completely irrelevant there. For anything else including ganking, destro > dw. I also think tether > onslaught for bombing still, simply because of the bigger radius + cc. Lotus fan - while it sometimes works out well - isn't optimal for bombing (or ganking), because it reveals you before the burst, giving your opponents a chance to counter beforehand. I only use it if i can't get close enough without gap closer before proxy goes off or there is too much aoe flying arround, but it is always very risky and i have to hope my targets are sleeping.
For onslaught ganking you are better off going stam blade.
Anybody looking at next patch notes?That new moon set looks pretty good for a front bar set. Im wondering if using ele drain will off set the 5% while providing even more damge? Any thoughts on that set?
thankyourat wrote: »A good bump in front bar damage? Hahahahaha. You are SO wrong:My exact build is here:jimijac0me wrote: »Out of curiousity what health are you guys running on these builds?
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6312003/#Comment_6312003
Have you tried running DW on your front bar? You’ll miss ranged light attacks but see a good bump to your front bar damage skills. MH nirn, OH sharpened.
Looking again, why inner light on your back bar?
(1) Destro gives +8% single target damage. I believe that includes the procs.
(2) Destro does elemental-based light attacks that scale with magicka and spell damage, spell crit and spell pen.
(3) Full Sharpened beats Nirn, more so, since my build is about the procs not my skill damage.
So unless you're telling me there is something about how "wrong-(stamina)-weapon" light attacks now scale, that I've missed, destro light attacks and destro staff synergy with the procs far outweighs any possible skill damage gains from DW in my build.
Inner Light is my flex-spot. I like it, because the slight magicka gain improves my shields and the crit improves my heals, e.g. Swallow Soul and Healing Ward. No room for it on the front bar and also the procs don't crit anyway. Between Inner Light and Willpower I have almost 4K more magicka on the back bar. However other skills in that spot include Retreating Maneuvers, Siege Shield and Deep Thoughts in no CP.
I like Swallow Soul for IC, but for Cyro you could arguably run Cripple + Entropy or Soul Trap on the back bar this patch. What I don't like about Entropy is that blue health projectile every 2 seconds, as it can give away your cloaked position. Again it comes down the procs being the "star-feature" of the build. I don't particularly care for Major Sorcery. Indeed, I have always found Immovability potions far more effective when the other choice was a Sorcery or Brutality potion, so I don't get it from potions either.
Switching from a flame staff to DW swords is about a 10% tooltip increase....
Yep tooltip wise, DW will show the higher numbers. But tooltips are not everything. It doesn't reflect penetration.
And the fact that you can deal significant light attack weaved damage beats out any tooltip increase DW may have.
You also get to have ele drain. The most OP mag skill in the game imo.
Reaper’s mark is better than ele drain in almost every way.
By the way, you guys realize that the pen passives from destro staffs only work on destro staff abilities right?
Yep I realize that, I was just saying that tooltips aren't a good metric as a general statement because penetration isn't reflected. Not specifically on the destro staff vs DW topic. I can see why my statement was confusing!
I don't think i'd slot reapers mark ever in PVP. Minor magickasteal is too good.
You can get minor magickasteal from debilitate though which is actually better sustain than ele drain because debilitate procs magicka steak from its on damage where as ele drain won’t proc if you aren’t doing damage which can happen frequently when kiting especially in 1v5+ situations. If you are going to use cripple it’s really no reason to use ele drain over mark target.
Anybody looking at next patch notes?That new moon set looks pretty good for a front bar set. Im wondering if using ele drain will off set the 5% while providing even more damge? Any thoughts on that set?
jimijac0me wrote: »https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=178671 Almost forgot to post but this is the setup I was planning to try as my trigen build. Looking to use tri-pots so using Degeneration for major sorcery
jimijac0me wrote: »https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=178671 Almost forgot to post but this is the setup I was planning to try as my trigen build. Looking to use tri-pots so using Degeneration for major sorcery
That's my exact gear set up, but I focus more on melee fighting with skills. I'm loving it, you have a solid build there.
A lot more people using steed now... I’d like to think I had an impact on that lol. I’ve vouched for steed on magblades aggressively since the start of 2018
ScruffyWhiskers wrote: »Steed is terrible. Should get a buff. Ixnay on the Steednay guys.
brandonv516 wrote: »I tried out the Steed for a half dozen matches or so but then went back to the Atronach - I'm a sustain wh@re lol!