pick a skill tree and stick with it

oldspook619

"Keep in mind that you need to pick a skill tree and stick with it since most of the abilities in a given skill tree are only really effective when you stack them with other skills in that same tree."

For a Nightblade, is this true?

khele23eb17_ESO

No. Personally, Id suggest having a skill from every tree on your action bar for more efficient leveling.

Tarascon

I did that with my first character and it was a big mistake.
Have one ability from each class tree in your bar for general solo questing.
That gives you two free choice slots (equipped weapon earns some XP anyway, guild and world skill lines earn XP via special rules, not combat)
It's much harder to catch up at high levels. (although combat still levels quest lines at veteran ranks even though you don't gain levels from combat anymore)

The same isn't true for passive skills though - feel free to concentrate skill points there in a favoured skill line.
It's also OK to not buy all the active skills in a skill line, just have something equipped so you earn levels on the skill line.

And your "group" builds for dungeons etc can be more concentrated too.

KenCleanAirSystem

Well, though I agree somewhat with the above, for a Nightblade certain skill lines offer benefits from their passives based on the number slotted. Assassination, for example, offers +3% critical rating for each ability slotted with the Pressure Points passive. Shadow has a passive that increases health per ability slotted. So it may make sense to load a bar to get the most out of the passive.

Shizashane

i stuck with just deadric spear, 2h, and heavy armor, with fighters guild and Im beast, I do have however a healing ability from another tree but that's only because I have was having so many unspent skill points. so the answer is if your not crafting why not have multi skill trees when your gonna have the points for them anyways. Olay!!!

cuz_mike200

I would try mix up my hotbar with abilities from different skill lines to level up, for example while being a templar: I would have 1dawns wrath abilitie, 1 aedric spear ability and 1 restoring light ability and 2 abilities from a chosen weapon or a guild/world ability that way if I am VR 1 I have a lot of abilities to choose from because they are high level.

Shizashane

Another way to run your hotbars is to split you stamina and magicka abilities for each hotbar ex. on one hot bar use 3 stam, and 2 magic, and on the other use 3 magic and 2 stamina. This is especially usefull if you use bolth magikca and stamina almost equally. So far ive had nothing but good results doing it this way and hardly never find myself to low on either one because im switching back and forth when the situation calls for one or the other.

williams226

trying to picture a NB with just assassination..... your gonna go wild impaling everything hundreds of times or teleporting all over the place!

KenCleanAirSystem

Not all assassination, but a few useful ones. I have 3 on my 1st bar to get +9% critical. One of them is the ultimate morphed to soul harvest for extra Ultimate regen.

I actually maxed Bow, Shadow and Siphoning through 1-50 content. I didn't actually start putting any points into Assassination until Cadwell's Silver.