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Threyann
Threyann
I've recemtly tried pvp and noticed a huge diffeerence when is about facing nightblades over every other class I found around. Those are pretty much immortal, even compared with tanks, ive doscussed about it with the ones I usually play with and got mainly the same kind of amswers and complaints about the same issue. Dear Gina Bruno, id like to know if you guys will fix any soon what seems to be this unballance between classes issue, ive been improving my char for a while and still cant take down nightblades properly, and honestly, its very frustrating.
  • RavenSworn
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    NightBlades have pretty much next to no self healing spells. Their damage mitigation is based on random numbers, dodging and basically being elusive.

    I dont see how that is being immortal as compared to sorc shieldspam and streak. Or a Dk outlasting every hit and reflecting a meteor lolzbuild.
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  • ghostwise
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    NightBlades have pretty much next to no self healing spells. Their damage mitigation is based on random numbers, dodging and basically being elusive.

    I dont see how that is being immortal as compared to sorc shieldspam and streak. Or a Dk outlasting every hit and reflecting a meteor lolzbuild.

    The siphon skill line is basically all self heals and crowd control. :*
  • Mojmir
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    ghostwise wrote: »
    NightBlades have pretty much next to no self healing spells. Their damage mitigation is based on random numbers, dodging and basically being elusive.

    I dont see how that is being immortal as compared to sorc shieldspam and streak. Or a Dk outlasting every hit and reflecting a meteor lolzbuild.

    The siphon skill line is basically all self heals and crowd control. :*

    if by siphon u means sucks, yes that skill line sucks...its sucks in a bad way
  • ghostwise
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    Mojmir wrote: »
    ghostwise wrote: »
    NightBlades have pretty much next to no self healing spells. Their damage mitigation is based on random numbers, dodging and basically being elusive.

    I dont see how that is being immortal as compared to sorc shieldspam and streak. Or a Dk outlasting every hit and reflecting a meteor lolzbuild.

    The siphon skill line is basically all self heals and crowd control. :*

    if by siphon u means sucks, yes that skill line sucks...its sucks in a bad way

    Perhaps for a traditional nb but my vampire, healer nb will disagree as he can run vet dungeons and pull 15 mobs at once and take them all out. It's beast mode if you know how to use it. :)
  • Gilvoth
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    cant believe this thread is even exist.
    in PvP stamina nightblades are the weakest damage dealers and the easiest class to kill.
    we dont have any self heal and cannot tank anything in PvP.
  • Threyann
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    Dwemer, go your self to pvp and try to face them.
  • zornyan
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    cant believe this thread is even exist.
    in PvP stamina nightblades are the weakest damage dealers and the easiest class to kill.
    we dont have any self heal and cannot tank anything in PvP.

    Actually stam nightblades have some of the highest dps, I'm wrecking stuff with my new Nb in cyrodil since switching from my dk.

    Just mark target, ambush, stealth, then spam surprise attack and any target is dead in a second or so, or using snipe to open to deal some damage then jumping in.

    Ambush is easily spammable and roots, or use mass hysteria to keep them feared.
  • chevalierknight
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    zornyan wrote: »
    cant believe this thread is even exist.
    in PvP stamina nightblades are the weakest damage dealers and the easiest class to kill.
    we dont have any self heal and cannot tank anything in PvP.

    Actually stam nightblades have some of the highest dps, I'm wrecking stuff with my new Nb in cyrodil since switching from my dk.

    Just mark target, ambush, stealth, then spam surprise attack and any target is dead in a second or so, or using snipe to open to deal some damage then jumping in.

    Ambush is easily spammable and roots, or use mass hysteria to keep them feared.

    You spam ambush on me or try to cast fear two times and ill kill you in 2seconds i allways lol at the fail nightblades who spam ambush
  • Threyann
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    Ambush also follows teleport when done in the right moment, but yeah, in general defeating Nb's is most of the time a matter of impossible. It is true that rogues are the best choice if stealth and causing critics is what we'd be looking for, but in this case is excessive and unfair.
  • Mojmir
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    ghostwise wrote: »
    Mojmir wrote: »
    ghostwise wrote: »
    NightBlades have pretty much next to no self healing spells. Their damage mitigation is based on random numbers, dodging and basically being elusive.

    I dont see how that is being immortal as compared to sorc shieldspam and streak. Or a Dk outlasting every hit and reflecting a meteor lolzbuild.

    The siphon skill line is basically all self heals and crowd control. :*

    if by siphon u means sucks, yes that skill line sucks...its sucks in a bad way

    Perhaps for a traditional nb but my vampire, healer nb will disagree as he can run vet dungeons and pull 15 mobs at once and take them all out. It's beast mode if you know how to use it. :)

    In pve yes
  • zornyan
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    zornyan wrote: »
    cant believe this thread is even exist.
    in PvP stamina nightblades are the weakest damage dealers and the easiest class to kill.
    we dont have any self heal and cannot tank anything in PvP.

    Actually stam nightblades have some of the highest dps, I'm wrecking stuff with my new Nb in cyrodil since switching from my dk.

    Just mark target, ambush, stealth, then spam surprise attack and any target is dead in a second or so, or using snipe to open to deal some damage then jumping in.

    Ambush is easily spammable and roots, or use mass hysteria to keep them feared.

    You spam ambush on me or try to cast fear two times and ill kill you in 2seconds i allways lol at the fail nightblades who spam ambush

    I don't normally need to spam it, it's normally mark target, snipe (buffed up with rally in stealth), poison arrow, ambush, clock, surprise attack and maybe one more surprise attack if it's a tank.

    Can pull that off from stealth in a couple seconds, hell most people literially don't even have the time to turn around before they're dead, let alone defend themselves.

    Anyone causing a problem, or zergs incoming I just spam clock and leg it.
  • Vizier
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    ghostwise wrote: »
    NightBlades have pretty much next to no self healing spells. Their damage mitigation is based on random numbers, dodging and basically being elusive.

    I dont see how that is being immortal as compared to sorc shieldspam and streak. Or a Dk outlasting every hit and reflecting a meteor lolzbuild.

    The siphon skill line is basically all self heals and crowd control. :*

    Technically they are not "self heals." A Self heal doesn't require an enemy to be present. They do have Refreshing Path but it's use is pretty limited comparably to other classes.
  • Orange_The_Spy
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    Hello I usually email zos with my concerns about pvp then they always tell me to come to the forums. So here I am, Coming from a very experienced 1.6 magic nightblade I do not care about any other 1.7 change to nightblades combat expirience if it isn't changing detect potions- I should say fix actually. Before all you other classes accuse NBs of playing cheaply by using cloak there are numerous ways to pull a nb out of stealth and its the way the class is meant to be, your no where near as strong out of stealth as a magic nb. (By the way you shield stacking sorcs have no room to talk) Now people there is a difference from a counter like daedric curse to a cloaking NB than a counter like a detect potion to a cloaking NB. I can duel a person and beat him every time but if you give him a detect potion all of a sudden he is killing me??? I can handle piercing mark you can purge it or just not get marked, but you cant counter detect pots, stay 20 meters away from the person running detect pots?? no. nightblades should not have to do that. Detect pots should have never been able to be the way they are in 1.6- seeing NBs while invisible. No matter how good you are at getting out of talons (also broken, give me a cc immunity!) as a magic NB your opponent can just gap close you because they can see you up to 20 meters!! Zos what were you thinking?? That your alchemy skill determines if you can effectively kill NBs? Is that what you want your PvP to be like? It angers me to no end that I can only think of one counter like detect pots -which is detect pots there's no counters like them to other classes, um..
    news flash any type type of damage will pull a cloaked NB out of invisibility making it not overpowered like everyone tries to make it out to be-(usually non nightblades). Huge counters like these that the best players cant counter aren't healthy for pvp there just cheap. I want to have a pvp environment that is equal and fair where fights are decided by who plays their class more effectively not if you are using a game breaking counter to a certain class. So you have my consent to dumb down some of the NBs other cloak buffs if it will further ensure keep maximum equilibrium between the classes in ESO's 1.7 pvp so
    when detect potions are fixed people wont feel like NBs are to powerful- Im saying just make it all equal. I am aware however that zos is already planning on fixing detect pots in 1.7 , I just have to make sure they fix detect pots before doing anything else. Make countering people mean using your skills in a fight in a smart way to out play your opponent not having a high enough alchemy skill because it isn't a one for one comparison. Don't make these game breaking counters an option in the game because it does just that: breaks the game! Another place you find a similar situation to the cloak/detect pot dilemma is the sorcs shield know they must be tweaked to not be so overpowered because a good sorc has ZERO solid counters- which isn't healthy for the balance of pvp. All the while NBs get screwed, 1.6 really makes my blood boil NO, not because Im a vamp but because 1.6 is a screwed up pvp balance against NBs. But I digress back to sorcerers they should have a "straight up" nerf to their shields- not have a set put in the game to were it counters shields almost as worse as 1.6 detect pots do to cloak (im talking about "the shield breaker set") these kinds of counters should not be the counters people use to fight sorcs or nightblade A RANDOM DROP YOU GET OUT OF AN UNDAUNTED CHEST IN !!!PVE!!! should not consider if you can or cant defeat an opponent in !!!PVP!!! in a 1v1 for example. Am I making sense?? if we want pvp to be a truly balanced test of how well you can play your chosen class then things like detect pots and the "shield breaker" set are NOT the answer. (THEME COMING UP)- Address the skill itself (cloak/hardened ward) instead of giving us overpowered counters (detect pots/"shield breaker" set) that instead of just countering the skill- breaks it entirely.
    The magic nightblade.
  • Asmael
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    *Orange_The_Spy uses Wall of Text*

    *It's super effective!*
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  • Farorin
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    As someone who mains a NB and a Templar...

    NBs are one of the easiest classes to kill on both my mains. (Even more so in PTS, I don't know what it is but killing NBs on the PTS is like slicing butter with a hot knife)

    Playing as my NB in Cyrodiil, I have to be so much more reactive and aware than on my Temp, because if I take even a little bit of damage, or if I don't kill my target within about 10 seconds, you can be sure I will need to get out of there or die very very quickly and horribly.

    Maybe you just haven't hit on the ways to kill NBs yet, or maybe your build is weak against them in particular? (like how my NB is weak against sorcs but can kill other classes relatively fine)
  • Threyann
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    I havent seen anyone killing nb's on pvp that easily as what I read here yet, but okay, I find those pretty much the cheapest cheater char designed in this game, oh.. by the way, does anyone knows what kind of character/class is the pvp emperor on pc? Take the easiest guess ever >.>
  • Scorpio_Alik'ri
    Here's my lvl 40 dragonkight taking on a lvl 44 nightblade who ganked me on the road ;)


  • Reeko
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    Haha that NB was a noob. Using killers blade when you were'nt even in execute range. I facepalm everytime i see a NB do that.
  • GreenSoup2HoT
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    In none vet pvp the game play seem's so balanced.

    Once you get to v14 vet pvp you will notice the flaw's with balance and things that are broken.
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    I can tell you this, in v14 vet pvp with my v14 stamina nb. I die if i get hit lol.
    Edited by GreenSoup2HoT on August 18, 2015 2:47AM
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  • chevalierknight
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    Asmael wrote: »
    *Orange_The_Spy uses Wall of Text*

    *It's super effective!*

    Chevalierknight uses didnt read


    Its super effective!
  • Xvorg
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    Threyann wrote: »
    I havent seen anyone killing nb's on pvp that easily as what I read here yet, but okay, I find those pretty much the cheapest cheater char designed in this game, oh.. by the way, does anyone knows what kind of character/class is the pvp emperor on pc? Take the easiest guess ever >.>


    Have you tried a NB? Is a pain in... somewhere...

    Although I like pain...

    Maybe NB you are facing are the good ones, because the bad ones die every time they go out a keep.

    Or simply your build cannot endure the criticals they deliver... since they are crit spammers.

    You should go and try to face a Sorcerer with thei super armors, health and shards... I hate those shards =(
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  • Threyann
    Threyann
    My character is an imperial dragon knight stamina dps and wears a hundings rage six traits armor, not a tank but neither weak, either ways if who uses nightblade likes it or not, their class -must be- redone/fixed/patched/whatever it takes, I've been playing rpg's for quite a while and never seen such nonsense, rogues facing tanks and dps and killing them with no trouble in a matter of seconds. I am not spending time nor money on anything else if I dont see this trash fixed.
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    In this game, I meant to type.
  • Xvorg
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    ooooook

    so you have come to play TESO with some other MMORPG in mind? I suggest you to get rid of that idea.

    Here there are not class associated to roles. DKs can be tanks, dmg dealers or even healers. You can be an effective healer with a NB too and even a tank.

    What happens is that your build is countered by most of the NB in the game. It doesn't mean the class is broken, it only means that they feed on DKs like you.

    Put the same NB against a shard spawner sorcerer and you will see how badly he does it. Againts templars and their Jesus Beam, they suffer a lot.

    Now, from a DK point of view, what a NB hates the most is CC. Talons and petrify are your best friends in that area. If you are half a tank/half a dmg dealer you have no chance against an always-in-movement NB, unless you root him for 1 or 2 seconds. A stopped NB is a dead NB because most of its strenght is put in the dmg dealer area (using cloack and fear as last resource) and not in the dmg mitigation zone (it is supposed that Vigor should solve that but you know, you have to lose something for that)
    Edited by Xvorg on August 18, 2015 8:26PM
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    On the wrong day of the wrong week
    Used the wrong method with the wrong technique
  • Cyrediath
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    Hello I usually email zos with my concerns about pvp then they always tell me to come to the forums. So here I am, Coming from a very experienced 1.6 magic nightblade I do not care about any other 1.7 change to nightblades combat expirience if it isn't changing detect potions- I should say fix actually. Before all you other classes accuse NBs of playing cheaply by using cloak there are numerous ways to pull a nb out of stealth and its the way the class is meant to be, your no where near as strong out of stealth as a magic nb. (By the way you shield stacking sorcs have no room to talk) Now people there is a difference from a counter like daedric curse to a cloaking NB than a counter like a detect potion to a cloaking NB. I can duel a person and beat him every time but if you give him a detect potion all of a sudden he is killing me??? I can handle piercing mark you can purge it or just not get marked, but you cant counter detect pots, stay 20 meters away from the person running detect pots?? no. nightblades should not have to do that. Detect pots should have never been able to be the way they are in 1.6- seeing NBs while invisible. No matter how good you are at getting out of talons (also broken, give me a cc immunity!) as a magic NB your opponent can just gap close you because they can see you up to 20 meters!! Zos what were you thinking?? That your alchemy skill determines if you can effectively kill NBs? Is that what you want your PvP to be like? It angers me to no end that I can only think of one counter like detect pots -which is detect pots there's no counters like them to other classes, um..
    news flash any type type of damage will pull a cloaked NB out of invisibility making it not overpowered like everyone tries to make it out to be-(usually non nightblades). Huge counters like these that the best players cant counter aren't healthy for pvp there just cheap. I want to have a pvp environment that is equal and fair where fights are decided by who plays their class more effectively not if you are using a game breaking counter to a certain class. So you have my consent to dumb down some of the NBs other cloak buffs if it will further ensure keep maximum equilibrium between the classes in ESO's 1.7 pvp so
    when detect potions are fixed people wont feel like NBs are to powerful- Im saying just make it all equal. I am aware however that zos is already planning on fixing detect pots in 1.7 , I just have to make sure they fix detect pots before doing anything else. Make countering people mean using your skills in a fight in a smart way to out play your opponent not having a high enough alchemy skill because it isn't a one for one comparison. Don't make these game breaking counters an option in the game because it does just that: breaks the game! Another place you find a similar situation to the cloak/detect pot dilemma is the sorcs shield know they must be tweaked to not be so overpowered because a good sorc has ZERO solid counters- which isn't healthy for the balance of pvp. All the while NBs get screwed, 1.6 really makes my blood boil NO, not because Im a vamp but because 1.6 is a screwed up pvp balance against NBs. But I digress back to sorcerers they should have a "straight up" nerf to their shields- not have a set put in the game to were it counters shields almost as worse as 1.6 detect pots do to cloak (im talking about "the shield breaker set") these kinds of counters should not be the counters people use to fight sorcs or nightblade A RANDOM DROP YOU GET OUT OF AN UNDAUNTED CHEST IN !!!PVE!!! should not consider if you can or cant defeat an opponent in !!!PVP!!! in a 1v1 for example. Am I making sense?? if we want pvp to be a truly balanced test of how well you can play your chosen class then things like detect pots and the "shield breaker" set are NOT the answer. (THEME COMING UP)- Address the skill itself (cloak/hardened ward) instead of giving us overpowered counters (detect pots/"shield breaker" set) that instead of just countering the skill- breaks it entirely.

    I agree. It's like puting a potion that removes sorcerer's shields or removes dk's cc. What is detection potion? If I can't use invisibility whats the point of playing nb? I die with 2 hits anyway.. Templars have great healing. Dks have great shields and healing. Sorcerers have really great shield stacking and nb's have NOTHING. (Asume that all are DD) Templar,DK,Sorcerer DD's can heal themselves or have great shields but DD NB Has nothing. Use detonation + curse nigtblade dies.
  • MrGrimey
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    Maybe you should pvp more before running to the forums and crying that a NB killed you?
  • Cody
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    back when I played this game, NBs were the hardest class to use:/ I played one since beta, and was actually pretty decent at it, so I know what I am talking about when I say the following:

    Once I was caught, I usually had to dodge and mix in cloak/fear to kill my enemy,(I was a stamina NB, so I could only use fear/cloak a few times) and that had to be done without taking so much as a scratch. Meanwhile:

    Sorcerers had the best damage shields in the game and could outlast me.

    Templars could just out heal me

    DKs could perma root me and tear me apart. If I let my enemies get their hands on me, or if I tried to fight a sorc or a templar once they started using their heals/shields, I was usually dead(not all the time, but usually, again, I was a decent NB and was able to break thru every now and then)

    have NBs received some kind of reliable and effective self heal the past three months? is this why you are calling them OP? someone enlighten me!
    Edited by Cody on August 19, 2015 5:37AM
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