Nightblade Stamina build?

Tykune

I was looking over the passives for the nightblade class trees, and.. it didn't seem like there was much room to create a pure stamina build for a nightblade. Is there something I am missing? Or is a stamina build just not possible? I plan on taking dual wield with medium armour, which is the classic setup for any type of thief class.

Cinna

Stamina based class skills come up when you get them to the morphing stage. So pure stamina NB is possible. But, of course, in ESO you rarely make a build where you'd never use the other resource at all - good stamina builds use magicka for a few utilities.

Tykune

I guess I was being too hopeful of having a pure stamina build without having to utilize magicka.. oh well. I guess I can try to make the best of it.

lolo_01b16_ESO

Don't lose hope, you don't need that many magicka based skills to be a good stamina nightblade.
In trials when tank and healers apply the neccessary buffs / debuffs i just use one magicka based skill that increases my stamina recovery.

nick0429

For my stamina build I use magicka for cloak, mark target, the siphon where you get health and assassins blade(I like the range morph better even though it's magika) everything else is stamina. I don't put anything in magicka and I rarley drop below 50% magicka. Everything else is stamina. But yeah at first until you get to the morphs it's hard to get an "all" stamina build

snowmanflvb14_ESO

Magika is mostly used for your untilities/buffs. I run a stam build for my NB I have no points in magika nor are any of my glyphs magika nor do I wear or use any magika buffing armor or weapons. I rarely have an issue with a lack of magika for my buffs or untility skills.

Tykune

what should my stats look like?

Govalon

I am dual wielding NB with medium armor and it works really well. I use stamina to make damage but nobody should use only stamina or only magicka. You will lose out full bar of resources if you don't utilise it somehow and that seems like a big waste to me. I use magicka for buffs and debuffs so I have all of stamina to be used on damage.

For example, last skill in Assasination tree has a skill named Rentless Focus(after the morph), it gives 10% stamina regen and 8% more damage boost for 20 seconds! Why not use magicka for that if you are not doing anything else with it?

Another good example is Piercing Mark which uses magicka too and reduces a big chunk of oponents armor and lets your future attacks deal more damage. Really good skill in PVP.

Using Cloak also uses magicka and it turns you into invisible! A class defining ability in my opinion and a really good one too. Not using any magicka would surely gimp you a lot so I suggest you don't leave it out completely. You don't need to use any points in magicka or enchance it at all. The base magicka is enough to sustain some nice boosts while you deal damage using stamina.

Jeckll

This is my Stamina build. Maybe you want to take a look at it:
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/nb-dual-wieldbow-pve-dps-build-1-6-6/

Govalon

Jeckll wrote: »

This is my Stamina build. Maybe you want to take a look at it:
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/nb-dual-wieldbow-pve-dps-build-1-6-6/

This is the guide I actually used for my build when I created it yesterday! Awesome work by the way.
The gear I use is a lot different though but guide still works for me, atleast acording to some DPS testing

Tykune

Jeckll wrote: »

This is my Stamina build. Maybe you want to take a look at it:
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/nb-dual-wieldbow-pve-dps-build-1-6-6/

I looked at it for a moment, but then I decided against it. Anything that you need or suggest wearing light or heavy armour is outside of my playstyle. I like to focus on crit and crit chance, and having 2 heavy armour cuts it down too much to be worth it.

Govalon

Tykune wrote: »

Jeckll wrote: »

This is my Stamina build. Maybe you want to take a look at it:
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/nb-dual-wieldbow-pve-dps-build-1-6-6/

I looked at it for a moment, but then I decided against it. Anything that you need or suggest wearing light or heavy armour is outside of my playstyle. I like to focus on crit and crit chance, and having 2 heavy armour cuts it down too much to be worth it.

I believe those pieces are only for Undaunted passives. they are not critical to the build and you can do without them just fine. I use a gear that is a lot different compared to those in guide but I get 10k dps just the same with little effort.