How to Stamblade?

THEDKEXPERIENCE

I dusted off an alt stamblade last night for a run through Cyrodiil. Possibly the weakest CP 600 character imaginable because he got to level 50 simply by killing bears in Wrothgar, I have literally no idea what I'm doing.

Anyway, after equipping a fairly solid set, not BIS - my Magplar gets all the cool stuff - but good enough I did reasonably well enough in PVP. My problem though ... how the F do I heal? I'm still half a level from Vigor - only took like 2 hours to get to level 4.5 - but I'm thinking that I'm missing something.

Any tips would be appreciated. Bashing someone relentlessly with dizzying swing is fun and all, but man is it hard to play defense on this guy.

Runschei

vigor, 2handed skill momentum or mark from nightblades assassination skill line.


are you ganking or actually fighting open world?

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Runschei wrote: »

vigor, 2handed skill momentum or mark from nightblades assassination skill line.


are you ganking or actually fighting open world?

Ok good. I've got 2/3 of those down and I'll have vigor unlocked shortly. And no, I'm 90% open world. If I gank someone it's only because it just worked out that way.

I think I'm just suffering from breath of life withdrawal.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

You're free to use what you want but dizzying swing is usually a massive No on stamblade, you use surprise attack.

Dizzy is so easy to avoid, main heals are rally, vigour and use of dodge roll/cloak to negate incoming damage.

Runschei

Sadly I can't really help out that much with open world fighting as a stamina nightblade. I'm nothing but a troll ganker and scrollrunner, but I'm getting gear for open world atm.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Wrecking_Blow_Spam wrote: »

You're free to use what you want but dizzying swing is usually a massive No on stamblade, you use surprise attack.

Dizzy is so easy to avoid, main heals are rally, vigour and use of dodge roll/cloak to negate incoming damage.

Found out the dizzying swing is easy to avoid thing last night. Haha.