Nightblade Archer/Assassin questions

Izorpo

Helloes:)

So, I decided to start out my first ESO experience as a Wood Elf Night Blade Archer type, and had good fun so far.
But when I unlocked weapon swap and decided to delve a little in to dual wield assassination, questions started popping up in the back of my head.

Dual wield Assassination kicks a lot of ass compared to pew-pew from afar, however my survival is not much to brag about.
Things die faster, unless I die first^^
Of course with a bow/ranged attacks I have the kiting opportunity, but the whole dual wield stab-stab is sexy as hell.

My question is in regards to this: Armor.
I wear medium armor in all slots, specced 1/3/1 as far as Magica/Health/Stamina goes, but noticed most of my Medium armor gear is Stamina based, something I get some good perks from in my passive skills (Medium Armor passives and wood elf passives).
I have been looking at the heavy armor perks and wondering if I might be less squishy without losing to much oomph, by wearing a couple of heavy armor pieces and using some points in heavy Armor for the resist, armor and HP regen.

Input on this is highly appreciated

Abyzu ~Bosmer Ninja Tickler~

Chelo

2 words, Blur and Evasion... You need at least one of these if you are going to play the classic Rogue style...

Izorpo

Yup,I can see that is a must Still a little fuzzed around armor, if it`s most beneficial with full Medium or better with a couple of heavy in there. I Still use my bow a lot, as opener and in situations where ranged is better. But usually always finish off with my daggers. (It looks to me that the dw daggers paired with assa is a lot higher damage than bow as well). Thanks for your input:)

Chelo

Man you must use 5/2 or 5/1/1, using all 7 pieces of the same type of armor its pointless. I personaly use chest and legs heavy (the pieces that give most armor value) the other 5 medium...

I always recommend use 1 weapon for aoe/trash mobs and other for single target dmg/bosses in pve if you are going dps. In pvp do whatever you want.

n0x

Blur and evasion are awesome, I personally don't use them, if you pump up your magicka, you will be able to keep popping in and out of stealth gaining bonus dmg. I like marked for death and the ability ( don't recall name off hand ) that earns you life regen when u kill them with it. Those two in combo are nasty. There is enough CC as a DW assassin, and self healing with those two abilities to keep you alive. But, requires you to use your stealth a lot. But, you shuld be doing that already as an assassin.

WHile bow is an attractive, DW is way more dmg! Being able to drop someone in as little as 3-4 hits. And there is nothing they can do about it. Stealth, crouch, stun attack crits like crazy on initial attack, and then a solid hit while they are stunned = gg.

ryands60

The thing I have noticed is the lack? of synergy between DW and Bow. DW kicks some serious ass but is geared more towards using class skills and therefore stacking magicka while leaving stamina alone and getting it from gear and skills. I am still messing around with it, but at least from the PVP perspective so far, DW seems to like a ratio of 3/2/0 for magica/health/stamina, possibly increasing or decreasing the ratio depending if you want to focus on burst or survival. On the flip side, bow is geared towards having a 0/2/3 ratio focusing on the bow attack skills such as snipe and poison arrow and using magicka for support skills. This leaves you in an awkward position where you can try going 1/3/1 or 2/2/1 or 1/2/2, etc but either way your not doing the damage you could be doing on one end of the spectrum.

As for the armour side of things, Personally I am a fan of 5 medium, 2 light. You get 12% spell resist ignore among other benefits that out weigh more defense to me since your goal is maintaining good uptime on blur when you get into a sticky situation.

matt1029

i dont under stand what the x/x/x is for doe sthis represent your health mana stam? or ?

ryands60

matt1029 wrote: »

i dont under stand what the x/x/x is for doe sthis represent your health mana stam? or ?

It represents the ratio you use to distribute your ability points. 3 magicka for every 2 health for example.

Izorpo

@Chelo : Yes, that was exactly where my thinking went. Thank you for clearing it up for me:)
@Ryands60 : With the amount of stamina perks from racial and medium armor perks, it would seem I don`t really need to use a whole lot of points in Stamina and rather dump them in magica, or am I mistaken?

Thank you for your feedback, it`s very helpful

ryands60

@Izorpo‌ : essentially yes, you can completely ignore stamina ability point wise. There is also talk that once you hit endgame you should respec to pure health and get both stamina and magicka from gear. That said, this is from a PVP standpoint and if your doing PVE content a group I am not so sure you would want to give up your DPS for survivability when you will have a tank/heals/etc.

Mailmann

I personally go with 5 medium, 1 light, and 1 heavy for armor distribution. That way you can level all three armor types as you play, giving you more options at the later stages of the game. It's not quite as efficient, but it beats having to level an armor type from scratch if you want to focus on light or heavy for your 2 other slots later on.

Izorpo

Swapped 2 pieces for heavy Armor(chest and legs),dumped my points in health and magica and it works like a charm Thank you all again for your input, its most helpful