NB stamina + magika

Jbugz97

i see alot of NB / that went stamina build & a few that stayed magika after 1.6 im still trying both but im wondering why i don't see more of ppl saying or trying a build with both stamina and magika equally is this not possible to build . wont work ?

AlnilamE

I'm working on it. My NB is DW/resto or DW/bow and I'm not ready to give up on my class skills.

But I'm nowhere near figuring this out yet.

pitdemon_ESO

Haven't played in a long time, went to go respec my NB last night and realized that all of the abilities I had been using were turned into stam abilities. So now I have the choice of either picking sub-par morphs/abilities for my build or going full stam.

Would also like to add that I LIKED using both stam and magicka abilities as I always had stam for block/dodge and mana for emergency stealth-mode, at the cost of ~5-7% damage output (from previous tests). I realize that the changes were something that had been asked for by the majority, however.

Xeniph

You can build that way if you like. However with the loss of softcaps in 1.6, focusing on one pool is much more effective.

You *can* hybrid, but it's much more effective to focus one area for your damage and the other for utility.

Pirhana7_ESO

Your abilities damage is based off of how much you have in eigther stamina or magika.

You could split them and have your abilities hit for "medium" damage or you could go full in one resource and have those abilities hit for "high" damage.

When you go full in one resource you also raise that pool so you can use it more times.

The staminia build idea is that you are maxing out the damage of stamina abilities while being able to use them more. You use base line magika pool for support abilities that are uneffected by raising magika. Things like buffs like Blur, using cloak for escaping, and things like fear, and shades for their target debuffs

Jbugz97

Xeniph wrote: »

You can build that way if you like. However with the loss of softcaps in 1.6, focusing on one pool is much more effective.

You *can* hybrid, but it's much more effective to focus one area for your damage and the other for utility.

thats why i ask i havent seen any video or any of the big 1v1 guys ever mention of their hybrid build or even try

Desdemonte

The problem I am seeing is that Stamina does better damage than Magicka, but NBs get their bonuses from stealth and if you want to play a stealthy NB, you have no resources to attack a lot of the time due to running around in stealth. Break Free and Dodge Roll being tied to your damage pool also sux. I'd like to see Sorcs need to use magicka for those things lol.

JacksonCarter13

Dude go check out Araxleon and Syphers magica nb build! They both kick ass have some choices on abilities but both those guys are top notch who have developed a magica 1.6 nb for a reason and that is once you figure the new play style out they freaking rock! And I'll just say it straight up hybrid is not viable trust me I don't need to do anymore theory crafting to find that one out

Lava_Croft

Farm more Champion Points and hybrid builds might become viable again.

Araxleon

your weapons damage will be based on certain things like (spell power/weapon power/max stamina/max magicka)
so you do lose out when you split these stats, BUT it will be viable once people get higher the champion tree (I have already tested duel wield/destro build) but I cant really find it viable until i get more points ^_^

a ton of builds will open up down the line (the OG magicka melee NB will work once you get more champ points also)

Jbugz97

Araxleon wrote: »

your weapons damage will be based on certain things like (spell power/weapon power/max stamina/max magicka)
so you do lose out when you split these stats, BUT it will be viable once people get higher the champion tree (I have already tested duel wield/destro build) but I cant really find it viable until i get more points ^_^

a ton of builds will open up down the line (the OG magicka melee NB will work once you get more champ points also)

(I have already tested duel wield/destro build) i havent seen this yet sound fun