Nightblade Sneak Attack Huge Nerf? (not only to death stroke)(V10)

damfatcow · May 2014

Anyone notice this? I used to sneak attack crit for 1.4k with my heavy charge bow from stealth now it only hits for 600-800 at most (veteran 10). Is there something I'm missing here from patch notes that I overlooked?

frwinters_ESO · May 2014

May be something specific with bows. I use melee from stealth and im doing the same damage.

Vuron · May 2014

I've posted in other threads that my Soul Tether ult no longer receives any bonus from stealth. It used to open for over 2400 and now only does 500 whether I'm in stealth, invis, or face tanking the mob. Also VR10.

damfatcow · May 2014

Yeah i can confirm i lost about 200-400 damage from my heavy bow sneak. ( from sides and back damage and frontal as well sometimes doesnt crit even when im in stealth)

damfatcow · May 2014

I'm guessing they stealthed nerfed sneak attacks for all classes but this actually effects night blades the most because we are the "stealthy class and supposed to do the most damage from stealth." I could be wrong but I didn't see any posts of sneak attack damage being nerfed other than the incapacitating strike sneak attack. Bow was my single target dps bar and I used this sneak attack damage in pvp and pve very often to open up on my enemy This is actually a huge nerf to my play style and seriously disappointing.

Sheneria · May 2014

I used to be able to crit for over 1700 from heavy bow attack on low level mobs. not any more. lost a good 600 dmg. thanks for breaking my nb

Liquid_Time · May 2014

Well darn.. I used bow a lot too...

nerevarine1138 · May 2014

I'm not seeing any sneak attack nerfs. Seems like VR mobs got a boost to health, but I still do insane damage with my Surprise Attack.

Jowrik · May 2014

LOL there goes my build even more now.

- Nightblade
- Vampire (got fixed yay!)
- Build works with Haste + Reaper's mark + Siphoning attacks
- Crit maxed out
- Bow user only

I'm focked.

Sheneria · May 2014

looks like the Mundus Stones are bugged (used the shadow one) and prob some other passives too. gota check some

SaibotLiu · May 2014

Yep that's it for me. I loved this game at launch. I was content playing a broke ass nightblade until you decided to fix things, because I could make it work for me. But you keep moving the target around. Im always the first to sign up for a challenge, I took a lot of personal satisfaction in getting my build to work with the weakest of the classes you've given us, the redheaded *** step child of ESO that is nightblade. But that's not enough, you have to take away 1. crit damage from stealth, which I relied on to PVE. 2. Shield bash DMG which was great for PVE. 3. make my build useless and give me back a whole 2 SP, thanks a lot. Ok so now I sneak up on stuff and hit it, first strike, and do about half the damage I used to do in a lot of cases. Keep in mind Im not even talking about the ultimate, just Surprise strike. I played your broke ass PVP, are sorcerers still teleporting around everwhere, are DK's still destroying groups of 5 at a time? If so, why the fluck did you nerf the hell out of nightblade, you ignorant monkeys?

Now that my rant is over with, I can PVP just fine, if I could be bothered. But Im not even going to bother with your infantile Vet rank content, with a stupidly broken class.

This game is a joke at this point.