PvP-centric Assassin - Orc or Breton?

Heskey

Hi all,

I have a main character that I'm enjoying, but I'd like to make a character that's specifically tailored towards PvP; a new venture for me in MMOs, really.

I'm looking at the sneaky rogue assassin archetype; something I can sneak around solo with and pick 1v1 fights. Not really looking to maximize raid utility in a zerg or keep siege; but still able to sneak in and pick people off the walls. I know that Class skill lines are secondary considerations, and that whilst I haven't looked at it in any depth, I imagine Nightblade is the class to go for this, with dual-wielding and bows?

I'm not a min-maxer by any stretch; I'd rather have a character that looks and feels good rather than is good. In DAoC I played a Frostalf Shadowblade etc... The most bizarre race/class combinations. But, I don't want to gimp myself. My race choice has come down to 2 options:

Not an option:

Any elf race (3) - I really don't like elves.
Khajit/Argonian (2) - Just not for me.
Imperial - I don't have Imperial Edition.
Redguard - They strike me as more a blademaster type race rather than assassins
Nord - Don't seem the assassin type.

This brings my options to two:

Breton - Whilst I appreciate all their racials relate to magicka, I read somewhere that dual wield skills use magicka? And if that's wrong, certainly their Class skills will use magicka? The idea here was like a Breton Infiltrator from DAoC; a human spy and saboteur.

Orc - Good racials for bow and sprinting I hear, so I can pick people off at range and cover distances in short time. Looking at sort of, your LOTR-style sneaky-bugger assassin here, quite hunched and gangly.

What are your thoughts on either choice, guys?

disexistencenub19_ESO

I don't believe you can go wrong with either. Each has there own advantages and such. However, it's pretty easy to cap things like magicka and stamina at end game, or so I keep hearing, so race shouldn't matter much in those regards.

Nightblade does use quite a bit of magicka for the class skills, but the weapon skills of dual wielding do not, they use stamina. I'd probably go Orc for pvp, as mobility is always very important in open world pvp, especially the type you are seeking to do.

Heskey

Thanks for the input.

Any thoughts from anyone else?

Urnbak

Orc...just for the extra sprinting, and the look on other players faces when they see a big green killing machine teleporting to them and he's not a DK,
everything soft caps so easy so just go for looks.
In fact i might roll one also just coz there aint many of them and i like to be different.