'War Bylat' | Magicka Nightblade Melee PVP Build | HotR Patch (/w Gameplay video!)

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crusnik91
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Build Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpI11UPNsZE

Gameplay & Tutorial video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-cLHHAqc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGJNL_QPdDA

1 Medium 1 Heavy 5 Light, dualwield + Resto Build

2xGrothdarr Monster Set (Max Magicka)
5xShacklebreaker Set (5 Body pieces)
5xWar Maiden Set (3 jewelery + 2 1h-sword + Resto staff)
Timeline of content in video:
Timeline:
Intro - 0:10
Item Setup - 1:23
Pots, Poisons, Mundus & Foodbuff - 4:28
Stat Sheet - 7:00
Skills & Detailed Explanation - 8:20
CP Setup - 14:05
Outro & Skill Tooltips - 15:35
INTRO:
This build is meant to play solo or in a small group (2 to 6)
PROs: High damage output + flexible skills rotation for high burst
CONs: War maiden set is expensive + A little squishy
FULL BUILD DETAIL:
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SETS
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WHY WAR MAIDEN SET? Pretty simple. Since most of magicka nightblade's skills are magicka damage based so it will work extremely well with war maiden. Spinners is another good set as well but it doesn't work well against shielded targets
WHY SHACKLEBREAKER SET? To be able to have a solid 14.5k stamina while using witchmother's brew, shacklebreaker set is essential. Besides that being a vampire + the stamina regen bonus on that set could give us up to 800/900 stamina recovery.
CP
Very straight forward and generic. Just make sure u have more points into Bastion and some into crit damage. Also, do remember to put up to 23% into Master-At-Arms CP and at least 20% into ironclad
SKILLS
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Some skills are interchangable.
Proxy det for AOE, degeneration instead of Sap essence, misform for more mobility or even siphoning for better sustain
Optional ultis are soul harvest/incap strike or soul assault
STATS SHEET
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Buffed stats:
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COMBACT GAMEPLAY
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Combos & Tips – Always try to keep up merciless buff during a fight because after every 5 light attacks u are able to deal a crazy burst
Remember that while being in cloak your gap closer will not break your invisibility so try to make use of that.
Basic damage combo = Cloak > Gap closer > Conceal Weapon > light attack > sap essence (for major sorcery buff)
Finisher combo = Cloak > Gap closer > Conceal Weapon or Soul tether for CC (against a blocking target use fear instead then continue with CW or ST) > Merciless > light attack + conceal weapon
Try to always keep shadow image up too since it is the best escape skill in the game.
LAST WORDS:
Thanks for reading until the end! Feel free to gimme some constructive feedback!
Edited by crusnik91 on September 26, 2017 4:32PM
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  • CavalryPK
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    Bylat as in Russian ?

    Whats you workaround when you get snared to oblivion by multiple ppl in. 1vX scenario ?
    Edited by CavalryPK on August 23, 2017 1:47AM
    THE CAVELRY HAS ARRIVED! Cav is a professional magblade, (in his not so professional opinion). He is immortal and is fighting for the Pact since 2E 572, amidst the turmoil of the Second Akaviri Invasion. He protects the provinces of Skyrim, Morrowind and Black Marsh.

    Check out his PVP YouTube channel !

    https://youtube.com/TheCavalryPK
  • kaithuzar
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    It's not bad, but a few critique points that would make it better:
    1) Save yourself the money for war maiden swords & just buy 1 instead of 2, you could've crafted yourself 1 shackle breaker sword & shackle breaker resto staff instead.

    2) Your spell penetration is a little low in my opinion; I would really try to get as much as possible by moving points completely out of thaumaturge & shattering blows and then a few points out of master at arms, to try & get spell erosion up to around 50 points or so. If they hadn't have nerfed sharpened this last patch, your cp setup would be fine, but since they did, having more spell penetration is even more important now in my opinion.

    3) Put mage light on your front bar so you can have better crit (I end up having to take out cripple, shade, or magicka harness but it's up to you)

    4) Get rid of the thief mundus & use spell penetration or spell damage mundus stone.

    5) If you're using 5 light then I would recommend using dampen magicka instead of harness magicka; your shield will be much bigger & the magicka return on harness is minimal in comparison.


    Enjoy,
    -Kai
    Edited by kaithuzar on August 23, 2017 6:41AM
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  • crusnik91
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    CavalryPK wrote: »
    Bylat as in Russian ?

    Whats you workaround when you get snared to oblivion by multiple ppl in. 1vX scenario ?

    Yup :D best russian word ever
    I rely A LOT on cloak and shadow image to get away. If I am playing in a group with 4+ players I slot in misform instead.

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  • crusnik91
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGJNL_QPdDA
    GAMEPLAY TUTORIAL VID OUT!
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  • crusnik91
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    kaithuzar wrote: »
    It's not bad, but a few critique points that would make it better:
    1) Save yourself the money for war maiden swords & just buy 1 instead of 2, you could've crafted yourself 1 shackle breaker sword & shackle breaker resto staff instead.

    2) Your spell penetration is a little low in my opinion; I would really try to get as much as possible by moving points completely out of thaumaturge & shattering blows and then a few points out of master at arms, to try & get spell erosion up to around 50 points or so. If they hadn't have nerfed sharpened this last patch, your cp setup would be fine, but since they did, having more spell penetration is even more important now in my opinion.

    3) Put mage light on your front bar so you can have better crit (I end up having to take out cripple, shade, or magicka harness but it's up to you)

    4) Get rid of the thief mundus & use spell penetration or spell damage mundus stone.

    5) If you're using 5 light then I would recommend using dampen magicka instead of harness magicka; your shield will be much bigger & the magicka return on harness is minimal in comparison.


    Enjoy,
    -Kai

    1. I got them both from my magicka templar build so I dont really need to craft any of the shacklebreaker
    2. Penetration really a interesting one because some people prefer to have a really high pen and others not so much. I usually try to get until 10k before putting points into others. I personally really rate shattering blows because for 23 points only u will deal 8% more damage against shielded targets
    3. my unbuff crit is at 47% so I dont think mage light is really that good plus I do sometimes use pots to receive major prophecy
    4. I mentioned in the video as well. mundus stones are in a balance spot now I switch it around often on this build and atm I am leaning towards atro mundus
    5. Harness in fact does help you a lot with sustaining because with 3 different ticks of magicka return. You will be able to obtain more than 50% magicka cost of harness. However dampen is pretty awesome too against stamina toon. So all in all both morphs has pros and cons
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  • Neloth
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    Damn, I'm russian and currently playing exactly the same build.

    Coincidence? I don't think so

    *kiselev meme here*


    On topic:

    - the point of haveing shacklbreaker intead of warmaiden sword is good, since you can run nirn trait on it, and it significantly boosts your spell dmg. Also, I think 1 nirn + 1 sharp approach is the best, since 2 nirn scale not that good?

    - also, I don't get why you run cloak back bar, when you can pair it with concealed for that nice speed boost. Yes, of course you can bar swap, but doing that twice every 3 second sucks, imho, and you still lose some speed while sit on back bar. Also, you clearly have bar space for it - you can drop sap to back bar(and maybe cange for entropy), since you have soul thether as main ult for that 8% max mag bonus. If you like sap (i liek it too, it counter dodge-rollers and other NBs) - fear can be place on back bar too, since you can cast it even faster with bar-swap animation cancel.

    - I'm completly agree on your choice not to run magelight - I feel that cripple, shade and harness are much more important than crit chance, which can be aquired from pots if needed.

    - I really can't decide how much mag regen you need to sustain melee mNB build. In my opinion, 2k regen in CP is required when you face stam build (no mag return from harness), but I wonder how much recovery other people run.

    - penetration is really a bit low here, especially in BGs (noCP), and idk what to do with it.



    Overall, really good build, curently it's my favourite for melee magNB.
  • CatchMeTrolling
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    I was going to ask why shacklebreaker but you answered, albeit did you try to use tri glyphs to reach a certain amount of stam?
  • Cowars
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    Like ur build...
    Edited by Cowars on September 6, 2017 4:09AM
  • kaithuzar
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    I like to have around 2.2k regen if possible but I can do with just 2k if I have a reduce cost enchant.
    You could always just put CP into Spell Erosion for increased penetration. The OP only has 18 points into it, I recommend at least 43 if not 51~ish
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  • Vizier
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    Smart play. Excellent communication and teamwork. Nice video.
  • crusnik91
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    Vizier wrote: »
    Smart play. Excellent communication and teamwork. Nice video.

    thx. yea comms are sooo important in this game
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  • Bam_Bam
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    Love your builds/vids Jayren - thanks for sharing mate. Seen you guys (Astrum Tomatoes) quite a lot recently. :)
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  • thedude33
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    Good player is a good player. You make it look so easy. Very jealous :s
    1v1 Win/Loss Record in PvP.
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  • elfantasmo
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    Nice build Jayren and good commentary, just been watching your vids... you're a funny guy :smiley:
  • Trashs1
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    im asking probably a noob question but ... i allways though mag nb (my main is stamblade) use funel health or swallow soul because the heal is so good (?) and concealed is grap/buggy?

    why grohtarr monster set and not bloodspawn or skoria? i thought grotharr got nerved quite a bit?

    i watched now all 3 vids and i came to the strange idea to put a heal staff backbar on my stamblade. ults are scaled allways from both stam and mag right? why no stamblade use this than^^?

    anyways really nice vids, i love your comunication and how u guys play (reds are usually only destro trains atm)

    idea for no cp maybe change into precice war maiden swords, use dampen magic and atro mundus? could be working?

    last but not least, i really though u are german not russian xD
    Edited by Trashs1 on September 28, 2017 4:37AM
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  • shinikaze
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    Nice build! being chequing all your videos because i'm seriously thinking to go the way of magic(ka)
    Would it be ok to wear spriggan + war maiden (?)
  • crusnik91
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    shinikaze wrote: »
    Nice build! being chequing all your videos because i'm seriously thinking to go the way of magic(ka)
    Would it be ok to wear spriggan + war maiden (?)

    Spriggan is for stamina builds. Spinners is the set u should be wearing.
    Back to topic. yea it could surely work but ur sustain will be a bit low considering you are using 2 damage magicka sets.
    A little ALL-IN into damage in my opinion.
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  • crusnik91
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    Trashs1 wrote: »
    im asking probably a noob question but ... i allways though mag nb (my main is stamblade) use funel health or swallow soul because the heal is so good (?) and concealed is grap/buggy?

    why grohtarr monster set and not bloodspawn or skoria? i thought grotharr got nerved quite a bit?

    i watched now all 3 vids and i came to the strange idea to put a heal staff backbar on my stamblade. ults are scaled allways from both stam and mag right? why no stamblade use this than^^?

    anyways really nice vids, i love your comunication and how u guys play (reds are usually only destro trains atm)

    idea for no cp maybe change into precice war maiden swords, use dampen magic and atro mundus? could be working?

    last but not least, i really though u are german not russian xD

    1. concealed weapon has a 10.5k tooltip for me which is really powerful considering the fact that I do have extremely high penetration as well since this is a ligth armor build. I get my healing via sap essence, resto ulti, healing ward & potions
    2. Grothdar, BS and skoria all are really really good monster helms. I do switch it around like for example solo-ing BS and skoria could be a little better. But in a small group with friends the AOE from grothdarr is really nice since it is visually there and u can time it with soul tether into some bigger burst
    3. If u are using precise swords just put more points into 'Crit CP tree' focus on getting more from the crit damage since u have higher crit precentage
    4. I neither of them ;))

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  • crusnik91
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    thedude33 wrote: »
    Good player is a good player. You make it look so easy. Very jealous :s
    Get a small group up! Then practice with them! Try to analyse every defeat. for example u can look at death recap, damage received or even video record fights to go back and watch what ur opponent did
    Baranthus wrote: »
    Love your builds/vids Jayren - thanks for sharing mate. Seen you guys (Astrum Tomatoes) quite a lot recently. :)
    Yup! guild is going strong atm :)
    elfantasmo wrote: »
    Nice build Jayren and good commentary, just been watching your vids... you're a funny guy :smiley:
    thx! more to come as well
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  • Gan Xing
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    CavalryPK wrote: »
    Bylat as in Russian ?

    Whats you workaround when you get snared to oblivion by multiple ppl in. 1vX scenario ?

    LOLOLOL I was just about to see if you had seen this video
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  • Trashs1
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    thx for your answers.

    i have now my lizzard mageblade on lvl 30

    what build would u sugest to start of with? i have a lot experience on stamblade and i asume this build plays kinda similar

    or is it easyer to learn mageblade with destro restro staff?

    and i could swear i saw in one of your videos someone pm u in german langauge. well there is still austria and swiss :)
    Edited by Trashs1 on October 2, 2017 6:15AM
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  • crusnik91
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    Trashs1 wrote: »
    thx for your answers.

    i have now my lizzard mageblade on lvl 30

    what build would u sugest to start of with? i have a lot experience on stamblade and i asume this build plays kinda similar

    or is it easyer to learn mageblade with destro restro staff?

    and i could swear i saw in one of your videos someone pm u in german langauge. well there is still austria and swiss :)

    just get some craftable sets if u really wanna get into lowbie pvp. shacklebreaker, kags, julianos and seducer all are good. I think melee magNB is slightly easier compare to destro resto.
    yea I do speak german that's why I sometimes get pm in german
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