Stamblades are the weakest stamina class this patch

  • Deathlord92
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    As a 6 year stamblade main nb is very strong this patch for the first time since elsweyr nerfs I have no complaints we are in a very good spot. All I ask for honestly is purge back on cloak because mag dk dots are horrible to fight against sometimes.
    Edited by Deathlord92 on 17 September 2020 12:13
  • JinxxND
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    Self casted brutality would be nice to open up stuff outside 2h builds on leeching strikes/siphoning attacks removed off power extraction/sap essence, single target abilities to stop breaking cloak only AoE, detect skills/pots. Remove the stun off incap and replace with major defile as the stun imo on that skill has always been complained about for having a stun that can lead to insta gib situations because of the nature of it's debuff, also because of the 60% heal nerf in PvP dark cloak goes back to being bad and if they don't revert the heal nerf esp with the nature of proc sets they should add minor vitality or minor mending while dark cloak is active to help offset the terrible healing it gives in PvP and lack of a purge
    Edited by JinxxND on 17 September 2020 13:13
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  • Firstmep
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    JinxxND wrote: »
    Self casted brutality would be nice to open up stuff outside 2h builds on leeching strikes/siphoning attacks removed off power extraction/sap essence, single target abilities to stop breaking cloak only AoE, detect skills/pots. Remove the stun off incap and replace with major defile as the stun imo on that skill has always been complained about for having a stun that can lead to insta gib situations because of the nature of it's debuff

    I still wonder why resolving vigor break cloak/stealth, it has 0 aoe application anymore.
  • Attackopsn
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  • PhoenixGrey
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    Don't mind Phoenix, I really don't know what his/her deal is with nightblades. Maybe ganked once or twice too many times and traumatized. I completely get it as I've been on the receiving end of it many a time. It is completely bizarre as a magsorc is as good or even better a class also with the option to choose their engage/disengage. Any sort of nightblade thread will be pooed by him/her.

    That being said stamblade is in a good position. The change to surprise attack and the introduction of some very good sets like eternal vigor and stuhns really already pushed up its potential. Nightblade is an easy or tough class to do well on. Easy in the sense that you can jump in and be an opportunist to kill a person already engaged which a ton of people dislike, but to be the elusive fight outnumbered nightblade is a whole other conversation. There are numerous counters to stealth and yes it is annoying and frustrating chasing down an elusive nightblade, but thats the game, its no more frustrating than trying to kill a 3x streaking magsorc, a pillar humping warden spamming their heal/ice fortress, or any other things people feel are a get out of jail free card.

    Magblades on the other hand are terrible, aside from being bound to certain sets to gank in 1-2 GCDs or die trying.

    What ganking ? Damage is so absurd that I can hit those numbers on a well balanced build. My week 1 stamblade does much better than my mag sorc main in outnumbered fights.
  • Langeston
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    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    This post deserve nothing but a spam of laugh reacts, is it ironic? Nightblade in a proc set meta is by far the best and easiest class because it cam spam cloak to get avoid all dot damage, plus the double nerf to impen is the most blatant indirect buff since shields got resistances added to them followed by a magsorc meta. it has the best and cheapest single target ult in the game hands down, combined with the hardest hitting non ult ability, it has shade which gives minor maim and cloak for a “Im about to get clapped, time to hide for 10 seconds button”. The class can literally insta kill anyone under 25k health with a poison inject on target, incap and bow.
    If you think crit resistance got nerfed then you haven't been paying attention.

    Before the crit resist changes, 7 impen gave you 1813 crit resist, or 27.47%. After the changes, 7 impen (plus the free baked in crit resistance) gives you 2239 crit resist, or 33.92% — a 24% buff. So this "most blatant indirect buff" as you put it, was, if anything, a blatant indirect nerf.

    Last patch Grim Focus was changed to give from between 2-10% more crit damage at the cost of mitigation — a definite buff in PVE, but an overall nerf in PVP for most players. This was apparently done in anticipation of the upcoming across the board crit rate/damage nerfs, so NBs can expect further indirect nerfs in patches 28 & 29.

    As far as the NB class itself, have you actually played it before? A lot of what you say in your post seems like it comes from a purely theoretical perspective — separately most of what you say isn't technically "wrong," but for the most part the class doesn't work the way you seem to think it does (at least, not in my experience.)
  • MBBOWOLVERINE
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    Damage is fine but you can't call them op when necros hit 10k blastbones, magdk proc builds just fossilise spam and brainlessly proc you down, defencively nb is weak, no cleanse, access to mending, squishy without access to resistance buff through ability use, need some kind of buff in that aspect, 5855787556 ways to counter cloak so that's an l2p issue if you cry that, stamplar is weakest class tho
  • Palidon
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    I have to agree Stamblades are a weak if playing melee trying to duke it out face to face. But as a Bow Ganker using distance and terrain to break line of site you can be a formidable foe especially in No Cp where champion points don't mean anything.
    Maneuvering where attacks are always from the rear or side and utilizing the Ring of Wild Hunt for movement speed just see what a Stamblade can do. Another player cannot kill what they cannot see. Detection pots or skills that will take a stamblade out of cloak are useless if terrain is used properly.
  • Fawn4287
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    Damage is fine but you can't call them op when necros hit 10k blastbones, magdk proc builds just fossilise spam and brainlessly proc you down, defencively nb is weak, no cleanse, access to mending, squishy without access to resistance buff through ability use, need some kind of buff in that aspect, 5855787556 ways to counter cloak so that's an l2p issue if you cry that, stamplar is weakest class tho

    No cleanse? Well something’s happening to all the dots I put on night blades when they enter stealth and its certainly not them eating damage. Stamblade until the nerfs to minor maim on PTS has been godly defensively, especially 1v1, cloak itself is an SSS+ tier defensive skill comparable only to streak. combined with shade and its no wonder even the most potato players can run 3 damage sets and a bow on a class you consider “defensively weak”.
  • Fawn4287
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    Damage is fine but you can't call them op when necros hit 10k blastbones, magdk proc builds just fossilise spam and brainlessly proc you down, defencively nb is weak, no cleanse, access to mending, squishy without access to resistance buff through ability use, need some kind of buff in that aspect, 5855787556 ways to counter cloak so that's an l2p issue if you cry that, stamplar is weakest class tho

    Ive played 3 damage sets on a necro and only very, very rarely seen a 10k blastbones on maybe some 500 cp light armour, I most definitely have however seen relentless on nearly every occasion hit between 8-14.5k, kind of makes every ability seem like absolutely nothing in comparison?
  • Langeston
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    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    Damage is fine but you can't call them op when necros hit 10k blastbones, magdk proc builds just fossilise spam and brainlessly proc you down, defencively nb is weak, no cleanse, access to mending, squishy without access to resistance buff through ability use, need some kind of buff in that aspect, 5855787556 ways to counter cloak so that's an l2p issue if you cry that, stamplar is weakest class tho

    No cleanse? Well something’s happening to all the dots I put on night blades when they enter stealth and its certainly not them eating damage. Stamblade until the nerfs to minor maim on PTS has been godly defensively, especially 1v1, cloak itself is an SSS+ tier defensive skill comparable only to streak. combined with shade and its no wonder even the most potato players can run 3 damage sets and a bow on a class you consider “defensively weak”.
    Just because you don't know how to play against a NB doesn't mean the class is "godly."

    Based on your post history with regard to NBs it's pretty clear that you don't know much about the class, and because of that it's difficult to take anything you say seriously. You should try playing one sometime so you actually have a frame of reference.

    Also, can you please stop complaining about crit resistance getting "nerfed" when in reality it got buffed?
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    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/545895/best-solo-stamina-class-in-the-game#latest

    I find it Ironic that the author of this post has made this whilst nightblade has been rated best solo PvP class in a pole, I guess its true not even carry classes can make bad players good. Whats next?a necro needs better defensive options post?
  • Langeston
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    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/545895/best-solo-stamina-class-in-the-game#latest

    I find it Ironic that the author of this post has made this whilst nightblade has been rated best solo PvP class in a pole, I guess its true not even carry classes can make bad players good. Whats next?a necro needs better defensive options post?
    The only reason NB is so good as a solo class is because it can hide/sneak/run away from fights, or avoid them entirely if need be. Take cloak out of the equation and I guarantee the results of that poll change dramatically.

    Also, solo PVP is only one facet of the game. Stamblades bring next to nothing to the table as far as group play is concerned — large or small. There's a reason why many people will immediately quit a BG match if they get 2 or more NBs on their team. I've never heard of that happen with any other class.

    I don't even play stamblade anymore. I play magblade almost exclusively now, and Stamblades are much stronger both offensively and defensively — but they're still easier to kill than literally every other stam class in the game. If someone on [arguably] the weakest class/spec in the game has no trouble killing stamblades, then that means that they're not as strong as you seem to think.
    Edited by Langeston on 23 September 2020 14:03
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    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    Damage is fine but you can't call them op when necros hit 10k blastbones, magdk proc builds just fossilise spam and brainlessly proc you down, defencively nb is weak, no cleanse, access to mending, squishy without access to resistance buff through ability use, need some kind of buff in that aspect, 5855787556 ways to counter cloak so that's an l2p issue if you cry that, stamplar is weakest class tho

    No cleanse? Well something’s happening to all the dots I put on night blades when they enter stealth and its certainly not them eating damage. Stamblade until the nerfs to minor maim on PTS has been godly defensively, especially 1v1, cloak itself is an SSS+ tier defensive skill comparable only to streak. combined with shade and its no wonder even the most potato players can run 3 damage sets and a bow on a class you consider “defensively weak”.
    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/545895/best-solo-stamina-class-in-the-game#latest

    I find it Ironic that the author of this post has made this whilst nightblade has been rated best solo PvP class in a pole, I guess its true not even carry classes can make bad players good. Whats next?a necro needs better defensive options post?

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    Stamblades top tier borderline op now.

    [edited for baiting]
    Edited by ZOS_Lunar on 23 September 2020 15:15
  • Fawn4287
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    Langeston wrote: »
    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    Damage is fine but you can't call them op when necros hit 10k blastbones, magdk proc builds just fossilise spam and brainlessly proc you down, defencively nb is weak, no cleanse, access to mending, squishy without access to resistance buff through ability use, need some kind of buff in that aspect, 5855787556 ways to counter cloak so that's an l2p issue if you cry that, stamplar is weakest class tho

    No cleanse? Well something’s happening to all the dots I put on night blades when they enter stealth and its certainly not them eating damage. Stamblade until the nerfs to minor maim on PTS has been godly defensively, especially 1v1, cloak itself is an SSS+ tier defensive skill comparable only to streak. combined with shade and its no wonder even the most potato players can run 3 damage sets and a bow on a class you consider “defensively weak”.
    Just because you don't know how to play against a NB doesn't mean the class is "godly."

    Based on your post history with regard to NBs it's pretty clear that you don't know much about the class, and because of that it's difficult to take anything you say seriously. You should try playing one sometime so you actually have a frame of reference.

    Also, can you please stop complaining about crit resistance getting "nerfed" when in reality it got buffed?

    I definitely know how to play stamblade, I find it boring how easy it is in bgs how you can spam light attacks until bow proc, cloak, heavy attack, surprise attack relentless 99/100 players. You don’t even need to run the shade as about the only damage build with a decent change of killing you is a magdk proc cheese or a warden, which after shuffle and a tri pot is still easily dealt with.
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    Langeston wrote: »
    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/545895/best-solo-stamina-class-in-the-game#latest

    I find it Ironic that the author of this post has made this whilst nightblade has been rated best solo PvP class in a pole, I guess its true not even carry classes can make bad players good. Whats next?a necro needs better defensive options post?
    The only reason NB is so good as a solo class is because it can hide/sneak/run away from fights, or avoid them entirely if need be. Take cloak out of the equation and I guarantee the results of that poll change dramatically.

    Also, solo PVP is only one facet of the game. Stamblades bring next to nothing to the table as far as group play is concerned — large or small. There's a reason why many people will immediately quit a BG match if they get 2 or more NBs on their team. I've never heard of that happen with any other class.

    I don't even play stamblade anymore. I play magblade almost exclusively now, and Stamblades are much stronger both offensively and defensively — but they're still easier to kill than literally every other stam class in the game. If someone on [arguably] the weakest class/spec in the game has no trouble killing stamblades, then that means that they're not as strong as you seem to think.

    "Take cloak out of the equation..."

    Wth? Thats stupid. You dont take cloak out of the equation because its in the equation. Its practically the whole GD formula for NB.

    Smh
    Edited by Waffennacht on 23 September 2020 23:07
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  • Langeston
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    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    I definitely know how to play stamblade,
    I said you don't know how to play against one — which seems pretty obvious considering the fact that you think the class is "godlike" and you're authoring threads like "Cloak needs to loose invisibility" as recently as a month ago. I felt the same way in the beginning, but I learned how to play against the class & now they're free AP for the most part.
    I find it boring how easy it is in bgs how you can spam light attacks until bow proc, cloak, heavy attack, surprise attack relentless 99/100 players.
    So instead you play stamplar? Lol, yeah — everyone knows how complicated the burst combo is on that class. If you die to NB burst that's either a build problem or you need to learn how to roll dodge. I play literally the squishiest magblade you've ever seen and I rarely die to stamblades.
    You don’t even need to run the shade as about the only damage build with a decent change of killing you is a magdk proc cheese or a warden, which after shuffle and a tri pot is still easily dealt with.
    Then why am I able to kill pretty much all of them at will on my [relatively] low powered magblade? The only issue I have is that literally all of my burst is dodgeable, (something you don't have to worry about on your Stamplar) but since every stam class is capable of perma roll-dodging, that point is moot.


    "Take cloak out of the equation..."

    Wth? Thats stupid. You dont take cloak out of the equation because its in the equation. Its practically the whole GD formula for NB.

    Smh

    You just accidentally proved my point. Let me see if I can make it clearer for you:

    If every class in the game had cloak or something like it, nobody would consider NB to be even be close to the top of the list with regard to "best solo class," because every other class in the game has an overall stronger & more cohesive toolkit. Can you name a class with worse mitigation than NB? How about a class with worse healing? More telegraphed & easily defeated bust combo? No, you cannot. Because NBs are at the bottom of the list in every regard. So that reduces our argument to one morph of a single skill — and it just so happens to be the most easily defeated skill in the game.

    As far as you being incredulous over me saying "take cloak out of the equation," what is so absurd about that? Literally every time I fight a NB I do exactly that with a detect pot, Magelight/Camo Hunter, an AOE ability, etc. — ZOS has gone out if it's way to make sure that every player on every class in the game has multiple options to make it trivially easy to 100% defeat this supposed "godlike" ability. Hell, even gap closers and single target attacks pull you out of cloak right now. What other skill in the game can you literally turn off for a quarter of a minute just by drinking a potion? If you don't take advantage of the literally dozens of hard counters available to you, that's your problem & you deserve to lose.

    So back to you accidentally proving my point: if cloak is "practically the whole GD formula for NB" while also being indisputably the easiest skill in the game to counter, how in the world can it make the class as a whole "OP"? You really think it makes up for poor mitigation, crappy healing, and unreliable burst? The answer is no — it can't and it doesn't. You just either don't understand how to counter it or you refuse to do so & just want to complain about it.
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    Langeston wrote: »
    Fawn4287 wrote: »
    I definitely know how to play stamblade,
    I said you don't know how to play against one — which seems pretty obvious considering the fact that you think the class is "godlike" and you're authoring threads like "Cloak needs to loose invisibility" as recently as a month ago. I felt the same way in the beginning, but I learned how to play against the class & now they're free AP for the most part.
    I find it boring how easy it is in bgs how you can spam light attacks until bow proc, cloak, heavy attack, surprise attack relentless 99/100 players.
    So instead you play stamplar? Lol, yeah — everyone knows how complicated the burst combo is on that class. If you die to NB burst that's either a build problem or you need to learn how to roll dodge. I play literally the squishiest magblade you've ever seen and I rarely die to stamblades.
    You don’t even need to run the shade as about the only damage build with a decent change of killing you is a magdk proc cheese or a warden, which after shuffle and a tri pot is still easily dealt with.
    Then why am I able to kill pretty much all of them at will on my [relatively] low powered magblade? The only issue I have is that literally all of my burst is dodgeable, (something you don't have to worry about on your Stamplar) but since every stam class is capable of perma roll-dodging, that point is moot.


    "Take cloak out of the equation..."

    Wth? Thats stupid. You dont take cloak out of the equation because its in the equation. Its practically the whole GD formula for NB.

    Smh

    You just accidentally proved my point. Let me see if I can make it clearer for you:

    If every class in the game had cloak or something like it, nobody would consider NB to be even be close to the top of the list with regard to "best solo class," because every other class in the game has an overall stronger & more cohesive toolkit. Can you name a class with worse mitigation than NB? How about a class with worse healing? More telegraphed & easily defeated bust combo? No, you cannot. Because NBs are at the bottom of the list in every regard. So that reduces our argument to one morph of a single skill — and it just so happens to be the most easily defeated skill in the game.

    As far as you being incredulous over me saying "take cloak out of the equation," what is so absurd about that? Literally every time I fight a NB I do exactly that with a detect pot, Magelight/Camo Hunter, an AOE ability, etc. — ZOS has gone out if it's way to make sure that every player on every class in the game has multiple options to make it trivially easy to 100% defeat this supposed "godlike" ability. Hell, even gap closers and single target attacks pull you out of cloak right now. What other skill in the game can you literally turn off for a quarter of a minute just by drinking a potion? If you don't take advantage of the literally dozens of hard counters available to you, that's your problem & you deserve to lose.

    So back to you accidentally proving my point: if cloak is "practically the whole GD formula for NB" while also being indisputably the easiest skill in the game to counter, how in the world can it make the class as a whole "OP"? You really think it makes up for poor mitigation, crappy healing, and unreliable burst? The answer is no — it can't and it doesn't. You just either don't understand how to counter it or you refuse to do so & just want to complain about it.

    You speak as if you are facing a lone NB.

    Its not a duel, its a BG or OW, either way you cannot focus the NB when they cloak because they move behind their allies.

    Id love to watch you use a detect pot and focus down the NB while trying to ignore the DK, Warden, or Necro between the two of you

    Edit: so yes cloak is better than any heal, block, mitigation etc in game if used by a competent player
    Edited by Waffennacht on 24 September 2020 03:32
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  • FirmamentOfStars
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    Guess this thread gets more and more ridiculous every day...

    Cloak the only thing keeping nightblades decent? nice joke. Nightblades got rated very high on tier lists this patch while cloak performs very badly (gap closers and light attacks pulling you out etc). Meaning cloak is only of the things making nbs strong this patch. Shade for example is pretty much a counter to every melee enemy and is comparable to streak (nothing more frustrating than a magsorc streaking over you and once more as soon as you get close to him on a slow ass melee class). Oh you got in my face, lets shade 20 meters and go into cloak again. Or lets shade to another level of a building in IC or resource tower.

    Nbs have very strong skills and passives and should not have anything to complain about: neither offensive not defensive wise. If you think nbs are weak and you are playing one, then you are not good enough. If you think nbs are weak and you play against it, then you must be facing noobs.
    A competent nb player wont get hit much, because he knows how to move, when and how. And he will dish out huge burst damage pretty much unparalleled by other classes.
  • evoniee
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    neither great nor the worst. stamblades clapped easily by magdk, stamplar, magblade.
    other spec has more bullsheet than stamnb to care about.
  • Ariades_swe
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    evoniee wrote: »
    neither great nor the worst. stamblades clapped easily by magdk, stamplar, magblade.
    other spec has more bullsheet than stamnb to care about.

    lololol
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