Sypher's Stamina Nightblade - 1vX PvP Video

Sypher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jucsLakZxrE

Thanks for watching!

Ysne58

You sure do enjoy this. I am really understanding the points @Attorneyatlawl is making about the addons vs. the UI. I don't pvp myself, but watching people have fun is nice.

halfbadger

please post more videos of you exploiting

Teargrants

halfbadger wrote: »

please post more videos of you exploiting

Were you perhaps...'featured' in this video?

Ysne58

What was he exploiting?

Haquor

Ysne58 wrote: »

What was he exploiting?

Halfbadger's weaknesses probably.

deepseamk20b14_ESO

So what's the build and stats? Less the skills since we can obviously see them lol. I see the guardian set but what's the rest?

Attorneyatlawl

Ysne58 wrote: »

You sure do enjoy this. I am really understanding the points @Attorneyatlawl is making about the addons vs. the UI. I don't pvp myself, but watching people have fun is nice.

Thanks for the tag @Ysne58, looks like a nice video to boot.

How are things going @Sypher?

And yeah, the UI fixes and improvements I've hammered on about for coming up on two years here in another couple of months, haven't just been because I'd like them personally. While I'd like to see the stuff, especially true buff/debuff tracking rather than addons having to guesstimate everything with little game-provided info to them, the honest truth is there are an incredible number of mechanics and gameplay nuances that are barely known about except to some of the heavy-duty theorycrafters and number crunchers because you simply can't nail it down without objective information of what's actually happening to learn them from and it's hard enough to even with the info add-ons can provide.

And the vast majority of this kind of information should just be visible as toggle options in the game itself, in the first place , for numerous reasons like I talk about in my newest thread (check my signature for the link) but also for broader accessibility to new players and even veteran players that don't use many addons, or just use a handful if they're on Minion from a third-party site if someone in their group randomly suggests one.

I actually had a discussion with a guildmate the other day when someone asked whether weapon damage rating was worth aiming for, and the guildmate answered that it was "basically one to one on your tooltip, so if you have 5000 damage on your attack throwing on a 50 weapon damage ring is worthless so just put on stamina instead for damage". While it was clarified, the truth of the matter is that weapon damage and spell damage ratings each contribute much, much more per point than stamina and magicka do to any given ability (the ratio varies by skill, but usually is in the 10-13x range or in other words if you have a 175 weapon damage set bonus you'd generally need around 1840 stamina to get the same damage boost... and if you then consider that you can get a 20% bonus to your weapon damage rating through things like potions or the two-handed skill Momentum/Rally, it becomes an even wider gap).

However, this longtime player, and a very frequent pvp'er in Cyrodiil that earns a lot of Alliance Points consistently, just didn't know. If people like that don't get this sort of, what should be basic but isn't with how ESO's UI exists and makes it ambiguous instead of basic, essential information to try to build out their characters how they want... imagine how much misinformation or just outright unknown is floating out there for your average player?

Snit

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

... (lots of good points about the UI)...

TESO's UI is designed for people who are uncomfortable with "all the numbers stuff," but played by a fair number of serious MMO'ers. It's a poor match.

Teargrants

Snit wrote: »

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

... (lots of good points about the UI)...

TESO's UI is designed for people who are uncomfortable with "all the numbers stuff," but played by a fair number of serious MMO'ers. It's a poor match.

Sometimes I feel like the devs are the ones who are "uncomfortable with all the numbers stuff". Things actually start making sense then.

Erock25

Very nice video sypher. I watch all the PVP videos that get posted and in many of them I see minor mistakes but rarely any in your videos. I was wondering if you felt you could comment on class balance. Does your stam NB do much better than your DK in magicka or stam spec? Do you feel stam NB is dominant right now? Do you have trouble with other top flight Sorcs/Templars/DKs?

AltusVenifus

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Germtrocity

At around the 4 minute mark I heard background noises, and I realized you were afking at flesh crawlers on another game I won't mention the name of, just gave me a good laugh
EDIT: Very noticeable at around 4:50, can hear the clank of your armor

Sypher

Germtrocity wrote: »

At around the 4 minute mark I heard background noises, and I realized you were afking at flesh crawlers on another game I won't mention the name of, just gave me a good laugh
EDIT: Very noticeable at around 4:50, can hear the clank of your armor

The grind never ends.

IxSTALKERxI

Sypher wrote: »

Germtrocity wrote: »

At around the 4 minute mark I heard background noises, and I realized you were afking at flesh crawlers on another game I won't mention the name of, just gave me a good laugh
EDIT: Very noticeable at around 4:50, can hear the clank of your armor

The grind never ends.

Oh god, I did that grind 7 years ago... never again.

Ysne58

Happy to help @Attorneyatlawl . I didn't know the difference in those either btw.

Sypher

Erock25 wrote: »

Very nice video sypher. I watch all the PVP videos that get posted and in many of them I see minor mistakes but rarely any in your videos. I was wondering if you felt you could comment on class balance. Does your stam NB do much better than your DK in magicka or stam spec? Do you feel stam NB is dominant right now? Do you have trouble with other top flight Sorcs/Templars/DKs?

I personally think magicka sorcs and stamina nightblades are the easiest and most powerful solo roaming classes to play

Templar and DK have to specifically build for mobility to escape/move around efficiently without any real big benifets for not having the same type of solo survivability.


This is speaking from a purely solo outnumbered perspective.

TagaParti

im 1% convinced.

Ezareth

Sypher wrote: »

Thanks for watching!

One of my favorite NB vids yet Sypher. Can't wait to get fear on Ezareth Ali ( =

Perma-rolling most the damage and fluid targeting. The one thing you always notice on a good 1vXer is they never stick to the same target for long if they show themselves to be capable at defending. Always kill the soft targets first.

I think that kill on Velconn had to be a bugged fear because it takes like 5 of us to bring that *** down without it.

Nice work!

Soulac

Wonder what happened if someone would have marked you in the first clip..

Anyway nice targeting and ressource management!

Sypher

Soulac wrote: »

Wonder what happened if someone would have marked you in the first clip..

Anyway nice targeting and ressource management!

Getting marked can be a pain but this what I usually do to deal/counter it.

1. Go into cloak and pay very close attention to which NB pulls you out of cloak (the one who hits you is the one who marked you) no one else should be able to see you (unless detect pot or mage light)

2. Once you've identified the person who marked you. Mark him back, and he becomes priority #1 on your kill list.

3. If said target is an easy kill you kill him and remove the mark, if they are a hard kill you should focus on line of sighting that particular target because he will be the only one capable of pulling you out of cloak assuming no detect pots / mage light is used.

krim

Teargrants wrote: »

Snit wrote: »

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

... (lots of good points about the UI)...

TESO's UI is designed for people who are uncomfortable with "all the numbers stuff," but played by a fair number of serious MMO'ers. It's a poor match.

Sometimes I feel like the devs are the ones who are "uncomfortable with all the numbers stuff". Things actually start making sense then.

They told my guild they didnt want to many numbers and things that might confuse people even though not having any information makes things even more confusing in the end. This was in a ZOS meeting right before the game was going live where we tried to give feedback. They told us they didnt want people number crunching and all sorts of things that dont make sense in a MMO.

JacksonCarter13

Nice dude what did you exchange for the Engine Guardian set? Did you drop ashens and add master weapons? or is it a variation of some more shadow walker? Obviously the Skirmisher Buff is still in use im very curious to know what you dropped?

babanovac

Stupid question, i guess, but how do you get 97 FPS? I thought ESO is capped at 60 FPS. I never see mine going above 60.

Attorneyatlawl

babanovac wrote: »

Stupid question, i guess, but how do you get 97 FPS? I thought ESO is capped at 60 FPS. I never see mine going above 60.

It's capped at 100 by default (60 is probably a result of your computer applying vsync either by in-game options or your control panel ). You can raise that limit further by adjusting a line in the usersettings.ini if you have a 120hz or 144hz monitor for example by lowering the "minframetime" setting (meaning it can render more per second if able).

Sypher

JacksonCarter13 wrote: »

Nice dude what did you exchange for the Engine Guardian set? Did you drop ashens and add master weapons? or is it a variation of some more shadow walker? Obviously the Skirmisher Buff is still in use im very curious to know what you dropped?

I dropped 2 peice ashen and I'm still using the ashen weapons (no set bonus) until I get my hands on some master weapons.

Seth_Black

@Sypher
Just one stupid question ...how many hours in total did you spend in PvP?
Looks like a lot...

Nice crowd control and picking targets
I'm doing same thing in huge groups solo PvE

They COULD kill him IF they would STACK
Key to success in here is in not only skills but the way fight goes on
...notice he doesn't allow them to jump on him more than one at a time

LegendaryMage

@Sypher I gave you a bit of moral support there in the intro, not much I could else unfortunately.

TheBucket

Sypher wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Wonder what happened if someone would have marked you in the first clip..

Anyway nice targeting and ressource management!

Getting marked can be a pain but this what I usually do to deal/counter it.

1. Go into cloak and pay very close attention to which NB pulls you out of cloak (the one who hits you is the one who marked you) no one else should be able to see you (unless detect pot or mage light)

2. Once you've identified the person who marked you. Mark him back, and he becomes priority #1 on your kill list.

3. If said target is an easy kill you kill him and remove the mark, if they are a hard kill you should focus on line of sighting that particular target because he will be the only one capable of pulling you out of cloak assuming no detect pots / mage light is used.

I'll normally just LoS the marker and drop him quick when he follows me around.

cozmon3c_ESO

Seth_Black wrote: »

@Sypher
Just one stupid question ...how many hours in total did you spend in PvP?
Looks like a lot...

Nice crowd control and picking targets
I'm doing same thing in huge groups solo PvE

They COULD kill him IF they would STACK
Key to success in here is in not only skills but the way fight goes on
...notice he doesn't allow them to jump on him more than one at a time

if they stacked im sure sypher would put a nicely placed meteor on the one that doesnt reflect stuff and blow them all up in a few moves. atleast thats what i would do if they all decided to stack.

Zhoyzu

Damn these vids are good.