Nightblades dont need buffs lol.... play one you'll see

This should have been made a poll. Then we would have easily seen exactly how much Nightblades don't need a buff.

I play a stealthy Nightblade. I made a thread in "Alliance war" about how I racked up 50 consecutive kill-streak In Cyro.
I'm NOT a pro.
I was just playing carefully. People are complaining about how NBs suck once their thrown in a keep against 100 other people? You're not a spartan facing 100 enemies on your own, chances are you've got a 100 on your side and you have no reason to complain - as long as you play with care.

Nightblade is a class choice, but it's also a gameplay choice. You can't recklessly jump into a fight - that's not how the devs designed it. You have to be sneaky, clever, pick your fights. That's exactly how a nightblade should be: it's a sneaky rogue, not a tank. And fortunately, it's exactly how the nightblade currently is. If you're playing it with the intent of walking into a zerg and succeeding like a DK, than you're playing it a little wrong.

You can be super successful with a Nightblade, just ask the people who have been taken down in less than 5 seconds by one.


(That said, I've recently tried building a Nightblade tank and found it near impossible to come up with something equal to Temp/Sorc/DK tanks. If there was one thing I would asked changed in NBs it would be that Sap Essence could be the NB equivalent of Draw Essence in DKs… That alone would make NB tanking a little more viable.)

Nihili wrote: »

This should have been made a poll. Then we would have easily seen exactly how much Nightblades don't need a buff.

I play a stealthy Nightblade. I made a thread in "Alliance war" about how I racked up 50 consecutive kill-streak In Cyro.
I'm NOT a pro.
I was just playing carefully. People are complaining about how NBs suck once their thrown in a keep against 100 other people? You're not a spartan facing 100 enemies on your own, chances are you've got a 100 on your side and you have no reason to complain - as long as you play with care.

Nightblade is a class choice, but it's also a gameplay choice. You can't recklessly jump into a fight - that's not how the devs designed it. You have to be sneaky, clever, pick your fights. That's exactly how a nightblade should be: it's a sneaky rogue, not a tank. And fortunately, it's exactly how the nightblade currently is. If you're playing it with the intent of walking into a zerg and succeeding like a DK, than you're playing it a little wrong.

You can be super successful with a Nightblade, just ask the people who have been taken down in less than 5 seconds by one.


(That said, I've recently tried building a Nightblade tank and found it near impossible to come up with something equal to Temp/Sorc/DK tanks. If there was one thing I would asked changed in NBs it would be that Sap Essence could be the NB equivalent of Draw Essence in DKs… That alone would make NB tanking a little more viable.)

My nightblade killed your nightblade the other night.

Artemis wrote: »

I just wanted to create a usual warrior. Or something similar to WoW warrior-dk-paladin. And maybe sometimes spec into something like a hunter. So I read all 4 classes descriptions, I read their skill lines. And "on paper" a nightblade was a class for me as the one that is the least connected to magic out of all 4.

You wanted to play a warrior-dk-paladin and didn't choose a DragonKnight/Templar? Look, everyone makes mistakes but this one…

For real though, I'll just say that if you wanted to make a warrior and thought of picking a Nightblade I'm at a loss as to what your reasoning was. The physical-damage synergy is there: the majority of the Nightblade skills are melee/close range attacks lending itself to melee weapon damage rather than range. The synergy is however more DPS orientated than Tankish.

And further I might have been vague about NBs in my previous point, but my point concerning a NB being a rogue character is that sneaking and rogue gameplay is what it lends itself to the most, purely from a design perspective, and is thus the one you'll probably have the most success with. You can choose to break from the archetype: ESO encourages it. But the majority of DKs aren't bow-users are they? Probably not, and that's probably because the DK design doesn't lend itself to bow DPS as well as to tanking. So why are you expecting NBs to magically be able to tank so well if rogue comes to it the most naturally? Every class has something it lends itself to really well. Templars = Healers. DragonKnight = Tank. That doesn't meant you can't have a Tank Templar or a Healer DK. It might not be as successful as the other one but hey. Pick your poison mate.

All I know is last night I chased "supermad" across the map. My hits barely hurt him, he heals...bolt escapes....undefeatable.