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Nightblade brawler help

Tigeracer
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Hey all,

Could anyone give me some advice on how to make a nightblade brawler for battlegrounds? I'm just sick of playing with shadowy disguise and getting pulled out of stealth all the time.

I'm currently running the following:

Khajiit (can't change this, since I like being a tiger)
Shadow mundas
2 x velidreth
Both medium, impen.

5 x night mother's gaze
1 x medium, impen
1 x swift neck
1 x infused ring
1 x sharpened axe
1 x precise axe

5 x wretched vitality
1 x heavy, reinforced
1 x heavy, impen
1 x light, divines
1 x powered great sword

1 x Markyn ring of majesty, bloodthirsty

1 x trainee
Heavy, impen

All weapon damage glyphs on jewelry, prismatic on chest and legs, the rest stamina, disease and shock on axes, weakening on great sword.

Current skills are as follows:

Relentless focus
Surprise attack
Power extraction
Killers blade
Ambush
Soul tether

Race against time
Refreshing path
Healthy offering
Resolving vigor
Leeching strikes
Temporal guard

I feel like I still deal decent damage, but I'm still really squishy.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best Answers

  • Amerises
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    Personally I’d get rid of axes, your crit is very low and without stealthy-stealth, you’re not getting any guaranteed crits. If you’re squishy, I think you could change your monster set to a more defensive. You’re also not using any 2h abilities, so I’d prefer s&b or frost staff. I think your skill layout looks fine to me. How is your sustain? Maybe your squishy for using a lot of mag for survival while relying on stam for damage? Personally I like mag blade for that reason, but if it sustain is not an issue, you’re fine. Change Mundus from shadow as well, either sustain, dmg (for better heals as well as dmg), or I like Lover for pen.

    If none of that is helpful: You’re playing the most OP class and getting more buffs next patch, stfu git gud.
    -Plar-main
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  • Udrath
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    You’re a khajiit so take advantage of crit damage passive. I’d keep wretched vitality - then go with back alley gourmand or orders wrath or even forest wraith since you use a lot class skills. I usually keep both sets active and just slot 1 slimcraw with whatever mythic I want instead of doing front bar/back bar sets, buts it’s up to you if you want a monster set too.

    Get your crit chance to like 40% buffed and have a least 10k pen with major breach, you get extra 2k from passive…your crit damage will make up for having less pen and you’ll have more crit heals which give you strong healing, and better survivability.


    You can easily get the pen with sharpened maces. Nirnhon 1 if you DW. Consider trying 5 heavy as well for some healing increase and resistance, but remember to heavy attack often and try to slot dark cloak, and mark instead of refreshing path and siphoning strikes.

    Give the crafted sets above a try before investing into gourmand, cause it’s kind of expensive. Try tri-food with wretched and tri-pots, keep immovable for when you need it though.

    For skill set up I personally like doing something like this.
    Front bar: surprise attack, rending slash, race against time, vigor, camo hunter. Whatever ultimate. Double dot poison.

    Back bar: execute, assassins will, healthy offering, forward momentum, dark cloak(or disguise) - incap.

    This way I don’t get stuck on a defensive bar. And use my back bar 2h with heavy attack into incap>assassins will>execute then heal or forward momentum after the kill. Front bar is my pressure bar and speed, back bar is survivable and burst. Be fast and sprint often.

    Hope this helps
    Edited by Udrath on 21 July 2023 01:00
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  • Tigeracer
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    Thanks for the advice, guys. Really appreciate your input.
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