How to: Tanking 1st Boss in Sanctum Ophidia on Nightblade.

D3usEX · March 2015

Everything that you need to know about the fight is in the video's annotations.
If you have any questions just leave a comment below, I'll be happy to answer.

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

Surfinginhawaii · March 2015

Pretty awesome video!

TehMagnus · March 2015

Nice!

Rshidva · March 2015

you also need inner beast, deep slash, one of the defenstive stance morph, he has the morph of soul strife that increases health restoration.

I would switch dark shades with a defensive stance morph (the one you prefer) for the passive bonus.
Then on my off bar have again , structure enthropy, defensive stance morph (whichever) and you have room for deep slash, dark shade, and inner beast

rotation: blur morph, pierce armor or inner beast (depending on stam-majicka whichever is highest), darkshades, deep slash, go back to your main bar and keep those up all the time.

DeLindsay · March 2015

Rshidva wrote: »

you also need inner beast, deep slash, one of the defenstive stance morph, he has the morph of soul strife that increases health restoration.

I would switch dark shades with a defensive stance morph (the one you prefer) for the passive bonus.
Then on my off bar have again , structure enthropy, defensive stance morph (whichever) and you have room for deep slash, dark shade, and inner beast

rotation: blur morph, pierce armor or inner beast (depending on stam-majicka whichever is highest), darkshades, deep slash, go back to your main bar and keep those up all the time.

Shades do the exact same debuff as Deep Slash/Herioc Slash does, they no longer stack in 1.6 so it's either or. I agree 100% on the Defensive Stance morph (I personally use Absorb Magic). I also use Refreshing Path to keep up Major Ward so that I'm Armor hard capped 100% during fights and since RP has a 11.5 second duration and with 7/7 Heavy Armor NB's get Major Ward for 11 seconds it's a great fit.

Thanks for the video OP!!

Eppi_BE · March 2015

Dear D3usEX

is it possible to share(with a build caculator like esohead, or take screens of al the skill build tabs) your skill build?
i'm a wood elf nightblade, and i'm recapping my skills in to tank for the guild
but don't know that much about a good tank build likes yours

i am a lvl40, wanne hit lvl50/vet1 at the end of this week
and i thought if i can respect.to tank i will know haw it just works when i'm just vet10-14, right?

my post [url="http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/156190/possible-for-a-nightblade-to-tank?new=1[/url]

poughe · June 2015

It's amazing how I just started to work on a nightblade tank to think outside the norm. It would be really great to see which abilities you are working with as only some of them I know. Really appreciate it if you do looking to hit Vet 1 by end of next week