some gear advice please.

Steel_Brightblade

Hi I'm working on a magika nightblade mostly for pvp but viable for pve. The twist is I don't want to be one of these horrible gankers and I don't intend to use magic detonation. My build revolves around elemental blockade and ice damage. I was intending on one set up but when I saw icp difficulty is being reduced I thought it might be worth the time farming it for gear so here are the 2 set ups I'm considering, please let me know your thoughts.

Set one: 5pc winterborn, 3pc willpower and 2pc valkyn Scotia.

Set two: 5pc winterborn, 5pc scathing mage.

I have omitted weapons as I'm hoping for a maelstrom ice staff front bar and undecided on back bar atm.

CaptainPocky

Normally I would also recommend Julianos or Twice-born for a PvP NB, but winterborn can be fun to goof around with. Skoria and willpower would give about the same DPS as Scathing in PvP, but are definitely 1,000,000x easier to get.

Nerien'eth would likely do more damage than Skoria for a PvP NB, assuming people don't roll out of your spikes haha. Also note that if you want to run Twice-born, you will need divines monster pieces.

Mush55

I would go 5 julianous or twice born star over the winterborn , and Nerieth over Skoria , Personal choice but flame staff seems ahead in dps compared to the ice staff.

Americanfunguy

Elemental blockade is not viable in pvp. It sounds like what you want is a good flow of damage from a distance, in that case your build would still be 5 juli, 3 willpower, torugs. Practically your build would be the same as this NB gankers you hate so much, but your skills would be different

Steel_Brightblade

I'm doing something similar though not exactly the same as "blobs ice ice baby" build. Watch the video and I think you'll be supposed just how effective it is, though I must admit his actual skill level is considerably higher than mine right now. He does wonders in 1vX. Plus with the DB changes I'm trying to break away from the bog standard attack dps and hope set ups that are the current meta, already have that with my magic sorcerer, the same meta that has so many magic based characters crying right now that they can't cope rather than trying to adapt.

Rohamad_Ali

Tamriel Foundry is a website with all the most approved gear set ups for all classes along with number charts and point distribution advice to maximize the gear set . If you have time I really recommend visiting that web page as you will get more detailed answers then some can take the time to repost here on the forums .

Steel_Brightblade

Thanks but that site doesn't work well at all on my phone, guess I shall have to pull out the pen and paper and do some maths:)

KingWhyteboi

check on blob on twitch he kills it with permafrost

Steel_Brightblade

Thanks, I came to the same conclusion, both are similar with the main difference being I already have the skoria and willpower gear as soon as this character ticks over to rank 16.