MagBlade vs Bow Blade

TheMightyKnight

i wanna know in terms of damage, Sustain and skirmishes, which is better, magicka NB or a snipe stam NB? and what would be the skills and sets i am looking for (craft-able if possible).

raistin87

Magblade hands down. Been playing stamina sniper or and or more or less since launch. Recently switched to ranged magblade and would never go back.

arkansas_ESO

Ranged magblade is probably better, but melee stam NB is stronger than both.

For a pure crafted set-up, go something like:
5pc Julianos/Seducer/Fortified Brass
3pc Innate Axiom (2 body pieces+inferno and resto)
3pc Willpower (jewelry, can be bought for super cheap, make sure to get it in Arcane)

5 light, 2 heavy (make sure it's a heavy chestpiece and heavy legs or helmet since they give the most armor)

Witchmother's Brew

All magicka enchants on gear, as many spell damage enchants on jewelry as you can sustain (I run 3)

There's much stronger set-ups but you'll need to either buy or farm dungeons for the gear.

lazerlaz

People get bowblade setups all wrong. Ive run a bowblade for a year and a half now. You need to put surprise attack, ambush, poison inject, lethal arrow and cloak on bow bar. 2h back bar and only for buffs.

If you're really good with that setup you don't need fear and can put shuffle, relentless, vigor, rally, and mark on 2h bar. (I'll take a marked nightblade over fear any day)

This setup takes a lot of practice and the majority of people I share it with stop running it because they don't understand the learning curve...

But believe me, it's strong as hell and extremely fast. It's amazing in open world and 1vX. However, not in duels since the majority of duel try hards actually build for duels. This build strives in a non restricted combat area.

I'd go into more detail but I've said enough

Subversus

5 shackle 3 willpower 2 skoria master's fire destro frontbar and a random resto backbar. Is what I'd go with. You can swap pieces around while you farm theme but I believe you get the gist.

Now since you want an easy to get setup, you can go with 5 shackle 5 necro 1 domihaus. You can buy necro cheap at guild stores, shackle is craftable and 1 domihaus can be achieved easily from the middle chest with undaunted keys - any piece works, you can just trait swap it.

TheMightyKnight

lazerlaz wrote: »

People get bowblade setups all wrong. Ive run a bowblade for a year and a half now. You need to put surprise attack, ambush, poison inject, lethal arrow and cloak on bow bar. 2h back bar and only for buffs.

If you're really good with that setup you don't need fear and can put shuffle, relentless, vigor, rally, and mark on 2h bar. (I'll take a marked nightblade over fear any day)

This setup takes a lot of practice and the majority of people I share it with stop running it because they don't understand the learning curve...

But believe me, it's strong as hell and extremely fast. It's amazing in open world and 1vX. However, not in duels since the majority of duel try hards actually build for duels. This build strives in a non restricted combat area.

I'd go into more detail but I've said enough

what sets would u be using , and how do you play it? what rotation and so on?

TheMightyKnight

arkansas_ESO wrote: »

Ranged magblade is probably better, but melee stam NB is stronger than both.

For a pure crafted set-up, go something like:
5pc Julianos/Seducer/Fortified Brass
3pc Innate Axiom (2 body pieces+inferno and resto)
3pc Willpower (jewelry, can be bought for super cheap, make sure to get it in Arcane)

5 light, 2 heavy (make sure it's a heavy chestpiece and heavy legs or helmet since they give the most armor)

Witchmother's Brew

All magicka enchants on gear, as many spell damage enchants on jewelry as you can sustain (I run 3)

There's much stronger set-ups but you'll need to either buy or farm dungeons for the gear.

melee as in 2handed frontbar and a bow?
what if i wanna go melee stamblade? what gear/ weapons and skills should i use?