New mag nb advice required.

Syiccal

for my skill set up im using
destro bar
swallow soul
mercilous resolve
flame reach
cripple
inner light
soul tether

resto bar
harness magika
healing ward
shade
degeneration
leeching strikes
lights champ
this is my dueling set up
how do ppl run the bars for pvp, do I include cloak or not?

ShadowMonarch

All of this is in BATTLEGROUNDS by the way.

Cloak is normal but if your vs a couple people using sloads or mark target then it becomes useless for the most part.

I myself am playing in light armor and its very hard to survive if you get caught in a fight, I have been getting hit with on the regular 8k beetles, 12k incaps, 8-9k suprise attacks, sometimes I will have 11-15 ticks of sloads on my recap or a 9k hit from a dawnbreaker, That dawnbreaker was while I was wearing Transmutation+riposte and im not even a vampire, and thats NOT including the dot from dawnbreaker!!! 6-7k mages furys, 6k+ executioners. The way I have been getting around it is to just play around Shadow image, drop it some where safe before every engagement and if you start to get focus'd or feel like you have become the new target of somebody then teleport back, cloak and reposition and set down another image. Then go back for some more damage. It apparently ***'s a lot of people off but lol its effective, I might even have to start making juke compilations of making entire teams just off ledges and stuff.

My bars right now are

Desto: SwallowSoul, Flame Reach, Flex spot, Merc resolve, structured entropy.
Resto: Healing ward, Dampen Magic, Cripple, Shadow Image, cloak.

I Alternate cripple between the back bar and the front bar flex spot, I find that its hard to sustain while maintaining strong burst damage in no cp, or bg's so you can run elemental drain or Siphon strikes for more sustain. If you end up in a game vs a bunch of nightblades you can slot mark target and Soul assault and use a flamereach into SA to try to pressure them. Or you can swap these skills in if there is a good nb on the other team that you know will give your team trouble.

I also am running Necropotence so thats why im running Dampen Magika, been trying a few different gear combinations and I have yet to find one im really comfortable with though. If you find something that is working really great then let me know!!! I have been tempted to try out a heavy armor build but been holding out hope I can make light armor work a little better. If I know im not going to be useful in a match I will put on Riposte, Transmutation, and Trollking and just throw heals and hots onto my team so they get 1250+crit resistance, the 1500 health recovery bonus, and enemies will be permanently getting minor maimed, pretty cancer but I think duroks would be better, I just don't have any to try it with.

This is all just my experience sense summerset patch hit, playing as a Light armor Magnb. I have tried out about 5 or 6 different sets in various combinations and the best so far has been one that a friend recommended, With the latest sustain nerf it is very hard to sustain I am finding, with 2k regen and 1 reduce cost glyph that siphonstrikes while helping do not sustain me fully, and elemental drain is close but not quiet enough, if I run neither then I have to make a effort to throw resto heavys constantly.

If you or anyone else has found a good gear/build combo please do share, this patch is been rough for higher teir BG's but its getting easier the more I refine the style I mentioned above but its not quiet there yet. I would be intrested to hear from magblades with a different playstyle and to hear about their success. almost every magblade I find plays a little different and it is really fun just to try different ways to play the class, the same old thing can get very boring.

kaithuzar

So I've been back & forth over wether or not I wanted to do a hybrid & decided against it when I found out 1 thing.
My previous/current build could be majorly enhanced due to changes this patch.
I was running 5 innate axiom, 5 wizards riposte & 1 pirate, 1 chudan (monster defense not really needed now due to shade kiting being better than its ever been)

I found out I can add one of the most powerful sets in game to this...willpower

Head: domi/kena/chokethorn, choice but heavy
Shoulder: axiom light
Chest: axiom heavy
Pants: axiom light
Gloves: axiom light
Sash: riposte light
Boots: axiom light
Neck: willpower - infused reduce cost enchant
Ring1: riposte - infused sp dmg
Ring2: riposte - arcane recovery
Weapon1: willpower 2h sword - sharpened
Weapon2: riposte staff - defending

All impen of course, 2 tri-stat enchants (head & chest)

Enjoy

SpiderCultist

ShadowMonarch wrote: »

I would be intrested to hear from magblades with a different playstyle and to hear about their success.

I play on non-CP and BGs.

In my opinion with Summerset sustain is not as relevant as it was with Dragon Bones since if you wear a damage and a sustain light set you'll be dead as soon as you step into enemy area. The only chance you have of not getting zerged down or Xv1 in 2 seconds is your shadow and you have to ridiculously good at posititioning and map awareness. So I ended up getting rid of the light armor old meta regardless I also tried different combos of defensive sets, namely: wizard's riposte, transmutation, troll king, pirate skeleton, blood spawn or impregnable. More often than not I put on 2 of those sets and a couple of times even 3. Didn't help much because I couldn't kill anyone competent but I lasted longer. This patch is the proc meta, embrace it and use Sload's, Caluurion, etc. there's no excuse.

Lexxypwns' build is a good start point for this patch, also for non-CP/BGs. I'm currently running durok's jewelry (2 x arcane, 1 x bloodthirsty), 2 heavy pieces (chest and legs), 2 troll king light, 3 sload's light, sload's inferno staff and vma resto which helps sustain a lot. I do run invisibility, shadow image and mutagen on my backbar and as you may have realized I'm still running 5 light / 2 heavy. The good thing about this setup is you can replace Sload's with Caluurion (if you happen to have a staff) and still kick ass OR you can go 5 heavy if you craft 3 Sload's heavy pieces. The downside is you still have to be really good at poisitioning and placing your shadow no matter what. There's another option if you notice your survavility/sustain is low: 5 durok's heavy, 3 WR jewelry and staves OR lich backbar + master's frontbar. Of couse, atronach mundus and gold food or witchmother's drink but STILL you'll have to play smart with your shadow. Heavy armor gives you tankiness but it's not God mode.

Anyway, try whatever you feel comfortable with, that's what I run and in solo queue BGs I make good scores, like 13-1, 15-2, 23-1 (last night), etc.

/Rant off