Why light armor casting Nightblades make sense in Elder Scrolls

audabon2013 · July 2014

CapuchinSeven wrote: »

audabon2013 wrote: »

Gratz on being the spelling police.

...man who corrects forum spellings gets snooty about being corrected for forum punctuation and spelling. News at 11.

Yes! Youre still fighting the good fight. Bravo! You are relentless in your complete misunderstanding of whats happening here.

Im giddy that you persist in this way. Work is being extra slow and this keeps crackin me up.

Xnemesis · July 2014

CapuchinSeven wrote: »

Kafolarbear wrote: »

Pretty much, what I have done with my Vet 2 Nightblade is Full stealth 7 pieces of medium armor and both slots with bows for Solo content and PvP. For group content I go full light armor with both slots restoration staffs to heal. When I am PvP'ing, I try to use dark cloak to get a critical hit in or escape from a losing battle, but it usually ends up consuming magicka without even working. This is a real problem, as I was counting on shadow cloak to aid me most of my battles, but nope it breaks if I am in the vicinity of an enemy PC.

The right stamina build with the right weapons with magic used for support do just fine in PvP. The problem is when people want to use no magic class abilities at all, and it just doesn't work.

For example my full medium, bow stamina build actually has more magicka for escaping than my magicka damage build even without the light armour bonuses because that's all I need the magic for. It also destroys casters with venom arrow.

With all stamina glyphs and only magic regen on jewels, ambush/soul harvest STILL hits like a 10 ton truck when I swap from bow mid combat for burst damage.

EDIT - This is of course, a hybrid build but it's a heavy stamina build and my bow hits like a train because of it. Even my magic build uses some stamina abilities so I just see it as the reverse of that.

Exactly we have lots of magical stuff for utility and stamina as a burner while we gain magicka back with a proper balance you can do great in PvP

khele23eb17_ESO · July 2014

Xnemesis wrote: »

It's not what I think it's what a night blade has been since it's inception in the ES series. I was just pointing out that night blades have always and probably will always be a magicka based class. Most people just see Nightblade and automatically assume stamina and they are wrong. It's just a shame ZoS didn't include Rogue as a class so now we are forced to awkwardly retrofit a Nightblade to fit the role.

Youre working under the wrong assumption that NB in ESO is a direct counterpart of the NB from previous games. If that were true other 3 classes would be direct counterparts to classes from previous ES games too. This is not the case however. There were no Templars and Dragon Knights in previous games and ESO Sorcerors arent Morrowind or Oblivion Sorcerers. The 4 classes in ESO are broader categories, each including a couple of archetypes. Depending on your build the NB class should provide a variety of playstyles with the common theme of darkness, stealth and mobility. A sorc should provide playstyles with the common theme of arcane knowledge. The ESO NB contains the archetypes of rogue, agent, assassin, nightblade, etc. from previous games. The Sorc contains the archetypes of mage, battlemage, spellsword, etc.