This was posted a long time ago, and may help.

http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2014/07/07/battlemasters-corner--the-blood-rogue

I don't know if it is still relevant, but I found/find it useful. I am a self-proclaimed uneducated ESO noob, eventhough I started playing at launch. I play purely for fun and infrequently. I still haven't gotten a character to 50 .

ShadowDisciple wrote: »

I am a big fan of Thief Archetype and wanted to know a lil bit about it before i start ivesting in my character a bit more...

Stamina even now is much more viable than Magic based NB's. I hardly ever cast spell anymore other than Veiled Strike and maybe a couple of others. With 1.6 some of the less used skills like Mark Target are better to use than now.

As with any class, have one skill from each class line slotted so you can build up those three skills. The NB passives are very nice to have. Then a slot or two for a weapon skill and then one for Healing (Siphon is still nice to use and its a magic spell)

However my approach to battles is to Burst damage from stealth, then apply DW to wear down the enemy, and Siphon if needed to heal. I have woven in other skills like Sparks or Shades from time to time for fun, but that is my basic approach to combat.

With 1.6, you will have to decide at some point if you want to have a Stamina or Magic Based Nightblade, as your Morphs will use one or the other. Not sure if the old school way of splitting the bar between Magic and Stamina skills (use up one pool. then the other, then go back to the first) as the damages now scale from their resepective pool. The NB is one that I am going to have to work with to get them back to the killing machine they were once 1.6 comes out.

xChikoun wrote: »

@Cody What do you mean by "Damage Shield Stack" ?
I'm also going to start as a NightBlade so i don't know most of things.

Isn't it possible to just hide and kill lone targets ?
Btw can someone explain to me how everybody can stealth ? Like, i didn't really understand it.. ><

damage shields are abilities that summon a magical protective force field around a player. Nightblades are the only class without a class based damage shield.

Everyone is equal in the stealth department. Nightblades get passives to increase burst damage, and have access to an invisibility spell, but other than that, all classes sneak the same(medium armor provides bonuses to stealth, but that is a not class based bonus, that is an armor bonus)

You can be a ganker that kills people from stealth, but your survivability will be extremely low; and will be made worse in 1.6 when damage shield spam/stack gets even worse.

@ShadowDisciple‌

Forgive the wall of text.

In 1.6, to try to adhere toward the character concept of Thief/Assassin in medium armor that I think you may be trying to achieve. Some of the following may help flesh out the ideas as you progress.

Due to the nature of the build, I may recommend allocating attributes toward stamina and looking for gear that promotes max stamina and weapon damage with weapon critical and stamina regeneration coming in next.

Medium Armor to improve physical critical chance, reduce the cost of your stamina abilities, reduce the stamina cost of sneaking, reduce the distance you are detected while sneaking, reduce your evasive roll cost, increase sprint speed, and increasing your weapon damage.

While the gear sets may be up to you, there's an early craftable set called Night's Silence that removes the movement penalty when sneaking. This will increase the convenience of questing and exploring when you can bypass groups of enemies on the way to key targets.

Coupled with the Nightblade's Shadow ability, Shadow Cloak, you can sneak by enemies that other classes cannot without using invisibility potions. When used for survival, use Shadow Cloak several times while escaping and hope that the 10 second head-start will keep you out of harm's way. If you're playing with others and get too many enemies on you, disengage with Shadow Cloak to allow you some breathing room.

Veiled Strike is another Shadow ability that can be developed and morphed into either Surprise Attack or Concealed Weapon. In the image of the Thief/Assassin that I suspect you're going for, Surprise Attack will aid you greatly. It's a hard hitting attack that will deal more damage as you improve your stamina and weapon damage. In addition, it will lower the target's armor and make all of your physical attacks deal more damage. You will be able to stun and disorient enemies if you use this move from stealth, invisibility (Shadow Cloak), or if any of your allies use a skill that let's you sneak or become invisible during combat.

The other morph, Concealed Weapon scales its damage from your magicka and spell damage. Its primary advantage, in my opinion, is the convenience it offers you by increasing your sneaking movement speed by a sizable amount. In PvE, you'll be getting around much faster without attracting as much attention and the ability is still useful when sneaking or invisible, but will deal much less damage than Surprise Attack with the way you may be setup.

In the Assassination tree, the ability Teleport Strike when morphed to Ambush will capitalize on your stamina and weapon damage to close the gap to the target, stun the target, and boost the damage of your next attack. When using this ability while hidden, you will most likely kill standard PvE enemies and by the time you finish opening on weaker and mid-level bosses, you'll have taken xyr half way down. The other morph of Teleport Strike does not stun, scales off your magicka, and afflicts bleeding to several enemies.

I'm still playing around with the Assassination's Grim Focus and its morphs. It grants a boost to the damage you deal and once you have made enough light / heavy attacks, you'll be able to perform one of the highest damage non-Ultimate attacks in 1.6. Even though this ability costs magicka, it takes your stamina and weapon damage into account.

I would recommend incorporating the Assassination's Assassin's Blade can be morphed to Killer's Blade. Although the ability effects don't quite scream Assassin to me, it will help your survival when fighting small groups. Killer's Blade deals significantly more damage when an enemy is at critical health. If the enemy is killed with or shortly within the use of Killer's Blade, you'll recover a sizable amount of health. Since you may end up using it anyway for damage to finish an enemy off, you may be able to sustain yourself in conjunction with the Assassination's Blur ability that will promote evasion (chance for enemies to miss without rolling.)

For an Ultimate, I would recommend starting with the Assassin's Death Stroke to start. It's a hard hitting attack that will boost your damage against the enemy for a while and reduce the healing they receive. In a longer fight, in conjunction with Surprise Attack's armor debuff, Grim Focus's damage buff and finisher attack, you'll be able to sustain high physical damage, though you'll have to be in melee range to use two of these abilities.

Overtime, you may want to consider becoming addicted to potions that increases weapon damage and weapon critical (and/or restores stamina if a triple effect potion). If you do this just before your opening sneak attack, you will significantly boost the damage you deal.

You may want to briefly consider a life of crime in the Justice System to get the Legerdemain skill line to reduce sneak cost and make money in the way a thief would.

A non-Thief/Assassin concept that will boost your damage is the Fighter Guild's Flawless Dawnbreaker ability. Just having the ability on your hotbar will increase your weapon damage and may complement your bow attacks. In addition the Fighter Guild's Expert Hunter will enhance your critical chance just being on your hotbar. There's an ability under the Mage's Guild that will help you detect stealth against enemies with a little will o'wisp like entity floating around you.

In PvP, well, it's a different game, but you may want to consider Shadow's Aspect of Terror. Think of more as people are afraid of dying and therefore panic and flee. Some will fight back and kill you. Others may be dead before they gain their senses. I still imagine an assassin as more of a ganking / one shot style, killing in three to six seconds style, but maybe that's just my mind set.

Oh gad I've been typing too long, I'm sorry - I should stop for now. Consider some of these abilities while exploring dual-wielding and bow and how they may fit in with what you're trying to do.

Thank you guys for your explainations.
I'll be trying out that build @Celless‌ détailed, and i'll arrange it to fit my needs while i level up and discover the game.

A little out of the subject, is a Sorcerer able to wield dual daggers or swords ? Like a battlemage or i don't know how it's called.
Efficiently i mean.