StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »They are much needed buffs!!!
Idk if you’re being sarcastic, but NB does not need this change lol.
Having to slot Camo Hunter is one of the few trade-offs left preventing NB from having almost everything. NBs next patch would have access to everything on their build and will be the fotm class 🤣
Are you implying all Nightblades use Invisibility because I use Dark Cloak.
The vast majority of NBs use Shadowy Disguise, as it’s the most straightforward and easy defensive mechanism in the game. Can’t see you = can’t kill you.
Good players who use Shadowy Disguise often need to trade something for slotting Camo Hunter. Usually, it’s Major Breach. Now they can slot Major Breach on their bar, which btw provides far more damage than Minor Berserk, while also having Major Savagery.
You are aware most people worth their salt were probably using weakness to elements which already grants major breach.
No, you don’t want to use Ice Staff on a Cloak Blade because a Bow is needed for Major Expedition, as Path is replaced by Shadow Image.
People who use Ice Staff back bar are brawler blades, but even they have to drop something to fit Ele Sus.
Currently on brawler NB you have to slot these abilities:
Front: Concealed, Merciless, Camo Hunter, Drain Power, Execute
Back: Healthy, Vigor, Siphon Strikes, Phantasmal Escape, Path
There is no room for Breach unless you drop Phantasmal Escape, which is a no no for openworld PvP. Most brawlerblades use Night Mother’s Gaze for Breach.
Night Mother’s Gaze will continue to be used as it’s far better than Ele Sus in terms of practicality, so NBs will have Phantasmal Escape AND Shadowy Disguise, making them even stronger defensively.
TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »They are much needed buffs!!!
Idk if you’re being sarcastic, but NB does not need this change lol.
Having to slot Camo Hunter is one of the few trade-offs left preventing NB from having almost everything. NBs next patch would have access to everything on their build and will be the fotm class 🤣
Are you implying all Nightblades use Invisibility because I use Dark Cloak.
The vast majority of NBs use Shadowy Disguise, as it’s the most straightforward and easy defensive mechanism in the game. Can’t see you = can’t kill you.
Good players who use Shadowy Disguise often need to trade something for slotting Camo Hunter. Usually, it’s Major Breach. Now they can slot Major Breach on their bar, which btw provides far more damage than Minor Berserk, while also having Major Savagery.
You are aware most people worth their salt were probably using weakness to elements which already grants major breach.
No, you don’t want to use Ice Staff on a Cloak Blade because a Bow is needed for Major Expedition, as Path is replaced by Shadow Image.
People who use Ice Staff back bar are brawler blades, but even they have to drop something to fit Ele Sus.
Currently on brawler NB you have to slot these abilities:
Front: Concealed, Merciless, Camo Hunter, Drain Power, Execute
Back: Healthy, Vigor, Siphon Strikes, Phantasmal Escape, Path
There is no room for Breach unless you drop Phantasmal Escape, which is a no no for openworld PvP. Most brawlerblades use Night Mother’s Gaze for Breach.
Night Mother’s Gaze will continue to be used as it’s far better than Ele Sus in terms of practicality, so NBs will have Phantasmal Escape AND Shadowy Disguise, making them even stronger defensively.
Ice Staff? Major Expedition? Night Mothers Gaze? isn't that a Beginners set?.
Weakness to Elements can be used with Inferno and Lighting Staves, a lot of players use a certain Vateshran Weapon alongside it.
StaticWave wrote: »So NB’s gonna have even more efficient bar space next patch as they can drop Camo Hunter and run another offensive/defensive ability, as if NB isn’t already one of the strongest specs for PvP.
Wanting to make NB more useful outside of PvP yet accidentally buffing NB even more in PvP has got to be meme worthy at this point lol.
boi_anachronism_ wrote: »Ugg. As a nb main i shudder to think of how huge the backswing nerf is gonna be. It was fine. Why couldnt they just leave it alone. They should have nerfed ctwisting/concealed so it no longer applies from stealth and they should have given shadowy Disguise a ramping cost. Thats it. God. Why. Literally a nb main sitting here going there was no need to buff this class like that. If anything give us a group buff so we werent bottom of the barrel in 12 man besides vas...omg
TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »They are much needed buffs!!!
Idk if you’re being sarcastic, but NB does not need this change lol.
Having to slot Camo Hunter is one of the few trade-offs left preventing NB from having almost everything. NBs next patch would have access to everything on their build and will be the fotm class 🤣
Are you implying all Nightblades use Invisibility because I use Dark Cloak.
The vast majority of NBs use Shadowy Disguise, as it’s the most straightforward and easy defensive mechanism in the game. Can’t see you = can’t kill you.
Good players who use Shadowy Disguise often need to trade something for slotting Camo Hunter. Usually, it’s Major Breach. Now they can slot Major Breach on their bar, which btw provides far more damage than Minor Berserk, while also having Major Savagery.
You are aware most people worth their salt were probably using weakness to elements which already grants major breach.
No, you don’t want to use Ice Staff on a Cloak Blade because a Bow is needed for Major Expedition, as Path is replaced by Shadow Image.
People who use Ice Staff back bar are brawler blades, but even they have to drop something to fit Ele Sus.
Currently on brawler NB you have to slot these abilities:
Front: Concealed, Merciless, Camo Hunter, Drain Power, Execute
Back: Healthy, Vigor, Siphon Strikes, Phantasmal Escape, Path
There is no room for Breach unless you drop Phantasmal Escape, which is a no no for openworld PvP. Most brawlerblades use Night Mother’s Gaze for Breach.
Night Mother’s Gaze will continue to be used as it’s far better than Ele Sus in terms of practicality, so NBs will have Phantasmal Escape AND Shadowy Disguise, making them even stronger defensively.
Ice Staff? Major Expedition? Night Mothers Gaze? isn't that a Beginners set?.
Weakness to Elements can be used with Inferno and Lighting Staves, a lot of players use a certain Vateshran Weapon alongside it.
DrNukenstein wrote: »No decent nightblade in pvp is going to drop the incredible value of camo hunter to take advantage of this change. Ya'll are over reacting and have a strong dislike for a particular class.
And like others have said, it looks a lot more impactful than it actually is and will probably be grounds for a brutal nerf in the future.
StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »StaticWave wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »They are much needed buffs!!!
Idk if you’re being sarcastic, but NB does not need this change lol.
Having to slot Camo Hunter is one of the few trade-offs left preventing NB from having almost everything. NBs next patch would have access to everything on their build and will be the fotm class 🤣
Are you implying all Nightblades use Invisibility because I use Dark Cloak.
The vast majority of NBs use Shadowy Disguise, as it’s the most straightforward and easy defensive mechanism in the game. Can’t see you = can’t kill you.
Good players who use Shadowy Disguise often need to trade something for slotting Camo Hunter. Usually, it’s Major Breach. Now they can slot Major Breach on their bar, which btw provides far more damage than Minor Berserk, while also having Major Savagery.
You are aware most people worth their salt were probably using weakness to elements which already grants major breach.
No, you don’t want to use Ice Staff on a Cloak Blade because a Bow is needed for Major Expedition, as Path is replaced by Shadow Image.
People who use Ice Staff back bar are brawler blades, but even they have to drop something to fit Ele Sus.
Currently on brawler NB you have to slot these abilities:
Front: Concealed, Merciless, Camo Hunter, Drain Power, Execute
Back: Healthy, Vigor, Siphon Strikes, Phantasmal Escape, Path
There is no room for Breach unless you drop Phantasmal Escape, which is a no no for openworld PvP. Most brawlerblades use Night Mother’s Gaze for Breach.
Night Mother’s Gaze will continue to be used as it’s far better than Ele Sus in terms of practicality, so NBs will have Phantasmal Escape AND Shadowy Disguise, making them even stronger defensively.
StaticWave wrote: »Most average NBs fail to realize that Camo Hunter is used by necessity, not because it’s actually a strong skill on NB.
While Camo Hunter’s Minor Berserk is pretty decent on other classes, it isn’t a necessity on NB. NB already has a ton of damage multipliers, making 5% Minor Berserk not actually 5%, but rather 3% as it’s multiplicative.
What Camo Hunter is mainly used for is Major Savagery, and that’s exactly what Shadowy Disguise gives next patch. You can drop Camo for much better abilities like Shadow Image or Phantasmal Escape.
Plenty of top tier NBs have already started making builds without Camo as we speak. You’d be at a disadvantage if you still keep it on your bar.
MetallicMonk wrote: »All of this isn't even mentioning that the crit % is going to be on both bars when you slot it making your backbar heals crit much more often too.
It's a no brainer, and a pretty noticeable buff.
I still will slot camo hunter for minor berserk, fg passives, and reveal. My builds would not change with this... maybe some back bar crits on healing this is all these changes would ultimately do for the most part...
StaticWave wrote: »So NB’s gonna have even more efficient bar space next patch as they can drop Camo Hunter and run another offensive/defensive ability, as if NB isn’t already one of the strongest specs for PvP.
Wanting to make NB more useful outside of PvP yet accidentally buffing NB even more in PvP has got to be meme worthy at this point lol.
Finally the class that build around crit now have its own source of major crit buff.StaticWave wrote: »So NB’s gonna have even more efficient bar space next patch as they can drop Camo Hunter and run another offensive/defensive ability, as if NB isn’t already one of the strongest specs for PvP.
Wanting to make NB more useful outside of PvP yet accidentally buffing NB even more in PvP has got to be meme worthy at this point lol.
Finally the class that was build around crit now have its own source of major crit buff.
but I personaly wont drop camo hunter, 5% damage +100 wd and detection is too good.
Turtle_Bot wrote: »Hmm, I can now take off camo hunter and slot shade instead, lets see the gains and losses of this switch.
Losses:
- 3% weapon/spell damage (FG passive)
- Minor berserk (unreliable due to positional desync)
- an unreliable (and very costly) reveal (oh no, I'll have to use the more reliable detect pots like everyone else)
- 3 ultimate when I kill an enemy (very unreliable in the current tank meta)
Gains:
- Major prophecy/savagery on both bars while only having to slot cloak on 1 bar (don't even have to activate it).
- A free DoT
- +5% mitigation from minor maim
- a FREE teleport that goes through walls/floors/impassable terrain
- an additional +25% to the duration of major resolve due to another shadow ability being slotted
- an additional +3% max health for having an additional shadow ability slotted
- burst heals and HoTs crit more often (i.e. more healing) thanks to crit chance being granted on both bars
Yeah, I'll take this trade off any day of the week and this is just from slotting shade, you can slot any other ability here instead for other gains.
That's just shade: I could instead slot:
- Fear instead for a reliable stun that goes through block, that also inflicts MAJOR cowardice (-430 weapon/spell damage)
- FG fear to keep FG passives but gain a reliable AoE stun that also grants minor protection and minor endurance
- Crippling grasp for a DoT + immobilize + snare
- Mist form for a BoL teleport that absorbs projectiles and grants an AoE DoT that heals you (you already have evasion from blur and expedition from refreshing path, so elusive mist is useless on NB).
- Caltrops for AoE major breach + 50% snare + DoT
- Flare for 10% mitigation from major protection (+10% mag recovery from support passive)
- Twin slashes (with arena weapon) for a strong DoT + secondary spammable that's stamina based
This buff to cloak is absurd, if this goes through without any balancing done to it, NB will be S+ tier in PvP.
Tbh @StaticWave with the recent changes to Sorc they became very strong in PvP again. Every good Sorc will kill a NB in 1v1, sorry but might be a skill issue... better focus on the real unbalanced classes atm like DK/Arcanists
Tbh @StaticWave with the recent changes to Sorc they became very strong in PvP again. Every good Sorc will kill a NB in 1v1, sorry but might be a skill issue... better focus on the real unbalanced classes atm like DK/Arcanists
Turtle_Bot wrote: »Tbh @StaticWave with the recent changes to Sorc they became very strong in PvP again. Every good Sorc will kill a NB in 1v1, sorry but might be a skill issue... better focus on the real unbalanced classes atm like DK/Arcanists
Very strong? Stamsorcs are decent and it's purely from masters DW + vate destro being stacked with 2 other proc sets (way of fire and relequen), something that any other class could pull off (well maybe except arcanist) if they really put their minds to it, but other classes have other and better options to run so they don't bother.
Meanwhile magsorc still sitting there in the corner because they can't get a meaningful buff outside of "you will be a zookeeper and you will like it". Might as well call magsorc the summoner class now, magicka sorcerer as a mage is all but extinct and despite ZOS's promises, it looks like that won't ever change.
Basing a class's strength on procs is a meaningless argument. What happens when those procs get nerfed lol? I know. They just disappear into oblivion again and hop on a better class. That's what all the fotm stamsorcs did when their procs got nerfed lol.