Stamina NB help

AppleJuiceBox2 · July 2015

I need some help starting off with my Stam NB. This is what I got so far on my bar, Killers Blade, Funnel Health, Blood Craze, and Flurry. My assassination is 11 and Siphoning 10. Shadow is 2, DW is 8.

I got 4 points in Stam and 2 in Health.

I don't want to tank nor heal others except myself. I like just doing damage

ClaspingZero · July 2015

Killers blade an awesome finisher with that 300% extra damage to low health targets.

I'm lvl 43 and have 17 points in stam, 12 in health and 14 in magicka (will be putting the rest in magicka now I have come up with a good set ability bar in my opinion.

Depending on your build, stamina is good for sneaking, running and that speed boost you get on the assault skill tree.

My dual wield ability bar has no DW abilities slotted... instead I focus on the assassin and shadow lines. However on my bow i do use the bow abilities. My build so far works perfectly with a good spread across all 3 attributes.

If you are doing a stamina build (as i intended to start out as) then throw all your points into stamina, it can't hurt and the 17 I have certainly assists.

Flurry os good (in my own opinion) at lower lvls even though the damage output is decent but as your character lvls you will begin to rely on other skills you unlock. With each skill point you will ask yourself "what can i sacrifice this time?"

As for heals, I would argue not to waste a slot with funnel health or any other healing ability. Gather your potions and use them instead as if that itself was an extra slot.

Lastly, to be a true assassin, never go out in the field without eating. Seriously! Food and drinks give your character a great boost to your stats whether it is increasing your max magicka/health/stamina or increasing the rate at which you regenerate the three.

Every slot is an important one...

Definitely lastly, use shadows cloak (not logged on but think thats what it is called the first ability in shadow tree). This can buy you some time to disappear for a brief moment and take your enemy by surprise or get away altogether in order to catch your breath. This uses magicka though and to get away successfully you may have to use it several times.

Anlaemar · July 2015

I wouldn't worry too much about your attributes at this point. Just worry about enjoying the game and leveling your skills (ie having at least one skill from each tree on your bar so you're leveling it). It won't be till you get the veteran ranks when you'll "kind of" need to worry about those, in which case if something isn't as you want it you can respec.

Get to know the game and know your class and everything will fall into place.

VoidBlue · July 2015

as a Stam DPS nightblade one thing I dislike is how I watch other players just stand there taking on a 2 bar elite world boss not giving any cares while if I did that Id be dead within 3 hits. It really stinks not being able to see what class people are unless you know what certain class skills look like. but I am pretty sure i seen a nightblade do the above and I am left wondering what I am doing wrong or what their spec is but since I cant inspect them i am left in the dark and either hope to cheese world bosses or sit there and wait 2-3 hours until someone finally shows up to "tank" the world boss while i help dps it

Hardicon · July 2015

exactly why I shelved my nightblade at level 43. Public dungeons and world bosses just murder the nb. I can use every trick I know, shadow cloak, ambush to keep them stunned but I cant take more than 2 or three hits from most world bosses, even try avoiding/blocking their charge up hits and still get murdered by the normal hits. Great damage but no survivability.

BaconMagic · July 2015

Even with refreshing path, swallow soul, and soul tether you can't keep up a health bar? With 1h/shield, and 5 medium armor and 2 heavy, you're almost a tank, add a reapers mark to a few trash mobs while fighting to get the big health boost back as well. NBs are awesome.