Vampire NB Destruct Staff - build advice

Jhayde

So, I've recently returned to ESO and made a new NB character. I'm wanting to try out a destruction staff build with the vampire skill-line as well. When I played before, I had just reached level 50 on my old character, who was a destruction staff NB as well. For whatever reason, starting at the beginning and leveling with vampire appeals to me rather than simply picking up that skill-line on my other character. I know it's a weird build but I really want to give it a shot.

I had issues figuring out what skills to use before, as well as where my stats should go- so I wanted to try and get a better picture of what this should look like as I level. Right now I'm using siphoning abilities- funnel health; and staff abilities elemental blockade, force pulse; and as vampire is level one I'm also using drain essence. I am thinking I will go destruction staff on my second bar, when I get it, so I can use alternate skills.

What other skills should I be looking to pick up? Any suggestions on where my stats should go- health/magicka? Planning on doing 5 light armor 2 heavy- is this the way to go? When I can I'm looking at vampire for my ultimate, in the meantime am going to slot either soul shred (siphoning) or soul strike (soul magic)- is this advisable?

I'd definitely appreciate any help you can offer- still somewhat of a "newbie" so any guidance would be great!

Masel

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/324665/twilight-force-magicka-templar-magicka-nightblade-ranged-vma-dd-build-homestead-ready

You can look into this if you want and adapt it to your pkaystyle. The core is the same as you indicated. The advantage of using the non-sharpened setup is that charged staffs ate very cheap and you get very easy dps. All you need to do with this to reach more than 20k dps is keep refreshing/twisting path and elemental blockade up and medium weave force pulse. Just replace infallible aether with julianos for starters and you're good to go.

And you can do veteran Maelstrom Arena with this too!

Jhayde

Awesome, thanks for the guide link! Looks like it addresses many of my questions.