Path of darkness

Yasha

Path of darkness- what do you use it for?

Seems to be a very low damage aoe that lets me run faster in a very limited area, am I missing something?

merfpmerfinton

I know it can be morphed to have a leeching effect. When used in conjunction with leeching strike, swallow soul and entropy you're getting back a healthy return.

Psychic_Kitty

it does damage over time to things in its path....if you have a way to stop them from moving that's a point or two of damage the enemies might take.
I say might because if they have any armor they wont take any damage.


I have to be honest I am not sure what the power is for....I had thought it might have been for some form of escape power as some point....but the range is too small...energy cost is too much.

If I had a guess I would say it was originally an escape power/travel power...but someone decided that was too good and they wanted players to use horses or move slower....so they decreased the run speed and its range and duration and increased its energy cost. Just a guess though. Because it reminds me of a show I watched where people could make shadow paths they could use to run fast on to get places...cant do that with this one very well though.

Actually in a differing game they had these things called shadow paths that as long as you stayed on the path you where invisible to all who where not on it...also you could see weird stuff.

ah well....that other game had too many cool things in it.

Yasha

Yes, I thought it would be an escape/chasing/kiting tool, but unless I am missing something it is pretty useless for that. The damage seems really low so unless I am farming rabbits it doesn't seem useful in that regard. I guess the healing morph could help a warlock type health leeching build but I imagine it would have to scale awfully well to be useful for that either.

Maybe it is good if you have really high magicka at higher levels?

Driften

The skill is for closing gaps. Probably works bets in PVP for people who mainly use melee dmg. In the description it states "the play can only see the path" which means anyone you are PVPing against will not.

Yasha

Driften wrote: »

The skill is for closing gaps. Probably works bets in PVP for people who mainly use melee dmg. In the description it states "the play can only see the path" which means anyone you are PVPing against will not.

There are much, much better abilities for closing gaps, and it seems irrelevant whether others can see the "paths" (its just a rectangular shaped area of purplish mist).

Anoteros

Yasha wrote: »

Driften wrote: »

The skill is for closing gaps. Probably works bets in PVP for people who mainly use melee dmg. In the description it states "the play can only see the path" which means anyone you are PVPing against will not.

There are much, much better abilities for closing gaps, and it seems irrelevant whether others can see the "paths" (its just a rectangular shaped area of purplish mist).

Yet another of the poorly implemented abilities Nightblades have.
Bad enough our AOE absolutely sucks this is just terrible

Kyubi_3002b16_ESO

I think to use it as a healing spell as it heals for the SAME amount as healing spring for 3 time the duration

zamiel

It doesn't do that bad damage. It deals currently 31 damage for me while elemental blockade deals 69. It also heals what the blockade does not and gives me 50% speed boost to dance around the guys while spamming drain power. It also has 10s duration for less magicka than elemental blockade - it's extremely magicka efficient.

I don't know what your problem is with this spell - it gives mediocre damage, healing and great speed boost for low magicka cost. It's a solid spell.

jdandrews108b14_ESO

Its also great in PvP with the wide arc morph to be able to run through enemy ranks. Honestly, the battlefield looks just as hectic as it does to you, and being able to follow something moving this fast gets pretty difficult.
Path -> Stealth -> Veiled Strike next engagement and watch the enemies run around chasing a, dare I say, shadow

Yasha

jdandrews108b14_ESO wrote: »

Its also great in PvP with the wide arc morph to be able to run through enemy ranks. Honestly, the battlefield looks just as hectic as it does to you, and being able to follow something moving this fast gets pretty difficult.
Path -> Stealth -> Veiled Strike next engagement and watch the enemies run around chasing a, dare I say, shadow

That sounds good, although how is this better than a charge/teleport > stealth>veiled strike?

Kyubi_3002b16_ESO

Those skills calculator are kind of messed up tbh Healing spring heals for 3 time the amount but last for 1/3 of the duration so the heals are about the same cept for the fact path takes longuer to do its full healing and deals damage

Extremeties

I'm actually a little concerned with the Nightblades AoE capabilities or lack there of. Nightblades currently seem to be the least AoE efficient class. The other 3 have powerful AoE's while were forced to focus on the weapon lines for AoE. I think this is something that could use a little lovin.

Stx

Nightblade AE is fine. I learned that after respeccing my Leeching strikes to Siphoning strikes. If you are AEing packs of mobs anywhere from 4-8, not only will you deal more damage(power extraction boosts your weapon damage more per enemy, this boosts cleave, whirlwind, and impulse), but you will never run out of resources, because you have a 10% chance on all attacks(10% chance per mob you hit) to restore 15% magicka and stamina.

As far as Path of Darkness... it is weak that is for sure, but it isnt entirely useless. The healing you get when morphed isn't bad, I could see it being used in dungeons as a tankblade, or perhaps even when AE grinding as a bit of increased survival.

Definitely one of the weaker NB abilities.

Yasha

Stx wrote: »

Nightblade AE is fine. I learned that after respeccing my Leeching strikes to Siphoning strikes. If you are AEing packs of mobs anywhere from 4-8, not only will you deal more damage(power extraction boosts your weapon damage more per enemy, this boosts cleave, whirlwind, and impulse), but you will never run out of resources, because you have a 10% chance on all attacks(10% chance per mob you hit) to restore 15% magicka and stamina.

As far as Path of Darkness... it is weak that is for sure, but it isnt entirely useless. The healing you get when morphed isn't bad, I could see it being used in dungeons as a tankblade, or perhaps even when AE grinding as a bit of increased survival.

Definitely one of the weaker NB abilities.

Nice insight into how to synergize those skills, thanks!