I too have a stamina based nb around your level (mines at 16). What I've found to be the most effective are the class skills. The only weapon skills I'm relying on right now are bow. While I do have some dw and 2h skills on my bars, they just sit there unused as I'm simply leveling up those weapon categories.

My typical melee combo consists of using ambush from stealth, then hitting with surprise attack and then finishing with a killer's blade as needed. If there's more enemies in the mob pack or if I'm fighting a boss, I'll pop shadowy disguise after my initial surprise attack and then hit them with another SA from stealth. This usually stuns them so I can follow up with a heavy attack and then either repeat or spam killer's blade for the finish. I honestly don't need much more than that.

If my hp is draining too much, I'll pop strife or a potion, but that doesn't happen too often. Tbh, your class skills really work well and until I get some better buff skills, I'll be relying on that rotation or my bow bar to get me through anything.

I saw that you took 2h. The morph of cleave (brawler) has a nice damage shield that works great if you're facing multiple enemies. I hardly touched a great sword and now I've got that skill on my bar and I'm leveling it up. I'm still focused on dw right now, but I want to keep 2h in my back pocket until I can grab rally--that HoT/damage buff.

At lvl 22 my Orc stamina NB was destroying VR14's in Cyrodiil. Just class skills apart from Wrecking Blow. At VR1 he's seriously OP and I don't use WB or even Fear anymore.

Get the warrior Mundus. Stack Stamina, stay hidden at all times. Practice cloak, ambush, cloak, surprise attack, keep hitting surprise attack and stay cloaked. When they're low health, incapacitating strike then killers blade or executioner.

As you level you'll be spamming less because you'll be able to stack more weapon power. My VR1...2.5k buffed.

charliex2 wrote: »

Hi I have a low level stamina nb and I was wondering were all this amazing burst is supposed to come from, my nb is only level 15 but it just doesn't seem that powerful.

I have a level 40 magika dk and if seemed more powerfull all the way through. What I really want to know is a good high damage levelling build that makes me feel powerfull, at the moment I'm levelling both 2h and DW which class skills and weapon skills should I be levelling and what is the highest damage dealing rotation both single target and aoe.

Any answers would be appreciated thanks.

Whatever you pick will seem underpowered unless you gear for weapon damage. Weapon damage is worth ~10.4 damage, about 10x stamina. At level 15, try making/buying a full set of Hundig's Rage and 3 pieces of Ashen Grip with stamina glyphs.