Nightblade Madness

Stumkrav · August 2015

So the new meta will be Magblade, Sorc, stamblade >> everyone else??

IKilled007 · August 2015

You can tell which people were around during beta and the first year of the game and which people came later. NBs were absolutely brutal to play for the longest time. So many broken skills (some still broken), so many bizarre builds we were forced into to be remotely competitive... It's about time NBs got some love.

Mawgusta · August 2015

I've tested on the pts. There are ridiculous play styles for each class. Here's the truth. If you're not the best most geared out guy in the world that lives your life to be awesome in this game. Their is a build for every class to harass you if they're a min/maxer uber superstar.

Techlisp · August 2015

My kitty stam NB, first group dungeon with randoms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM5gdlzSeyY

I just ran up to dungeon entrance and got invited to group and off we went.

I agree standing back firing spells can get boring, and I did have dual weld as my second hotbar on my sorc for a long while . But i did go bow for PvP wall defending for my Kitty NB.

KiraTsukasa · August 2015

It's Nightblade madness! Ooooh yeah! Snap into a Slim Jim, brother!

Bananko · August 2015

I typically like to a play a male human ranger in just about any fantasy-based game I play (MMO or otherwise). For whatever reason, it's just my thing.

Though this game's Nightblade is probably closer to a thief-class than a ranger-class when compared to most such games, it's the closest thing to a ranger that this game has and is the easiest of this game's professions to build like one (even without the combat-useful pet).

Yakidafi · August 2015

JWT wrote: »

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

Nightblades will only be a problem in IC for those who don't know how to counter them. All I need is one person in my group to have the Sentry set + Radiant Magelight + Flare + detect pots and we can see you coming from a mile away, your stealth attacks won't stun, your stealth attacks will get reduced by 50%, and there's nowhere you can hide.

except detect pots won't work on clock in the coming patch
we're coming for youuuuuuuu
lol

Except they will work on stealth and cloak, but will be 12.5s instead of infinite.

Farorin · August 2015

I have noticed AD more than other factions seems to have a lot of NBs anyway, just like EP has a lot of Templars and DKs.

waterfairy · August 2015

RizaHawkeye wrote: »

Back on the Bethesda forum, it seemed the vast majority of the players who played Skyrim and even Oblivion played stealth-based characters such as Thieves, Assassins, Witchunters and ... oh yeah ... Nightblades. (Yes, before you type it, I KNOW Skyrim didn't have any classes.) There are dozens of mods in both games to enhance the shadow-lurking, sniper style of game play.

In Oblivion you didn't need to be stealthy, all you needed was 4 chameleon enchantments and you can cheese everything.
I didn't play that character type in either game and my NB in ESO doesn't utilize the stealthy approach as I play PvE and don't really have to.

Mawgusta · August 2015

You guys know that you make this game horrible right? I have 1 of each class. Add on the fact the developers are dry and lack creativity. You guys are dark mad whining beasts causing this company the loss of any hope. The devs continuously ruin any hopes that they can pull themselves out of this UNSUCCESSFULL hole I call failure.. Elder scroll online.

You wont be whining for long

J2JMC · August 2015

CheeseDivinity wrote: »

J2JMC wrote: »

On another note, I find it kind of funny that OP felt the need to mention how NB's are fotm while he's a sorc.

I never said they were fotm. Just wanted to know why there were so many..
I've been playing sorc since I started this game in July, so I'm not sure what your last comment means.

The same reason there are so many sorcs: Fotm @CheeseDivinity

Just because you picked a class of your own accord doesn't mean the class in itself isn't fotm. Just like I picked nb's and it just so happens that everyone rocks nb's. Only difference in 1.7 is that everyone is going to be a magicka nb now.

TheBull · August 2015

CheeseDivinity wrote: »

So, I felt like a change. I play only 2 chars in DC. Created myself the only class I have yet to play, a Nightblade, and I chose AD this time round. First area, I was like wow, 4 Nightblades, ok then. Got the to the beach - 8 nightblades running around. On my way to Mistral I saw 2 on a bridge. At this point I logged out, deleted the new level 7 Nightblade I had created and went back to my DC sorc.
What the hell is with all the NB's? Do people find the other classes so unappealing?

Yes kinda, A soc was my first reroll. There was only one way to play successfully. I made subpar stam builds, and even came up with a pretty cool Tank/CC support build, but they both paled to the typical sorc build.

I then rerolled a Temp. Although there was way more variety than what a sorc had it seemed it was all or nothing. Pure glass cannon or pure survive. I spent 100ks of gold trying to make a build that balanced killing with surviving so I could kill a decent sorc. My temp is naked on the loading screen atm.

The way I see it is Sorc and DKs are on the extremes with not many ways to play. Temps and NBs are in the middle with lots of ways to play. NBs are just more fun than temps imo. Soooo I rolled another NB

Sithisvoid · August 2015

Hail Sithis

starkerealm · August 2015

Bananko wrote: »

I typically like to a play a male human ranger in just about any fantasy-based game I play (MMO or otherwise). For whatever reason, it's just my thing.

Though this game's Nightblade is probably closer to a thief-class than a ranger-class when compared to most such games, it's the closest thing to a ranger that this game has and is the easiest of this game's professions to build like one (even without the combat-useful pet).

Sorc with Daedric Summoning and Dark Magic would strike me as more of a Ranger playstyle. I mean, maybe that's just me, but the traps and holds combined with the pets? Sounds like a ranger.

starkerealm · August 2015

Vigarr wrote: »

RizaHawkeye wrote: »

Back on the Bethesda forum, it seemed the vast majority of the players who played Skyrim and even Oblivion played stealth-based characters such as Thieves, Assassins, Witchunters and ... oh yeah ... Nightblades. (Yes, before you type it, I KNOW Skyrim didn't have any classes.) There are dozens of mods in both games to enhance the shadow-lurking, sniper style of game play.

In Oblivion you didn't need to be stealthy, all you needed was 4 chameleon enchantments and you can cheese everything.
I didn't play that character type in either game and my NB in ESO doesn't utilize the stealthy approach as I play PvE and don't really have to.

The single player games tend to have very abusible mechanics. Morrowind actually had a theme of Apotheosis through Magic, and Oblivion didn't really manage to fully scrub the systems that supported that. Skyrim did, and magic was woefully underpowered. But, here, you can't really afford to risk a player making off with 100% cost discounts for a spell type or 100% chameleon.

CapnPhoton · August 2015

Farorin wrote: »

I have noticed AD more than other factions seems to have a lot of NBs anyway, just like EP has a lot of Templars and DKs.

Perhaps its just me, but in AD, the quests, environment, etc seems to be geared toward NB. My only character so far is AD/NB and it has been a lot of fun. I tried my son's NB he has in Ebonheart and it just isn't the same.

Avonna · August 2015

when i started playing this game, i made a sorc. and like said way above here, it did get little boring casting from a distance all the time , and it did seem like the SAME few spells were effective...

i even tried sorc with a bow, i felt like the mines plus pet would give me that ranger feel .... but i was doing it wrong.

made a nightblade to TRY it out ............. well my sorc is vet 1 when is topped and my nightblade is vet 6 ( i took a few months off because i was pissed at the game , broken stuff , memory leak )

i am having so much fun on my nightblade ! , between magicka build which i have been running for a few months , very fun and slippery.

or if i get bored i can do the stamina thing, and honestly they both feel effective . so for me its a class that has honestly won me over and i will def be sticking to it.

xox
avonna

Techlisp · August 2015

I know IC it is NB magicka going to be top dog over stam NB. But I'll be sticking with stamina build. Just for the change up to my magic Sorc.

It works both ways though. When i go back to my Sorc after stam NB, it feels more refreshing.

The way RNG works, I wish I had a stam and magicka class levelling up at the same time. As my magicka class gets all the stam drops, and my stam class gets all the magicka drops.

Avonna · August 2015

oh dont start me on the drops lol

it makes me sooooo mad , i NEVER get cloth drops unless i am wearing a full set of heavy.

so if i want my sorc ( mostly magicka) to get clothies, i throw on some heavy and boom cloth drops , it drives me nuts , and since ive been playing magicka nightblade for months, the leather that i have in the bank from decon is insane...

Kavatchian · August 2015

MaKTaiL wrote: »

AD has Khajiits and Wood Elves, so there, now you have your answer.

So in your opinion which character makes the best Nightblade? Personally I think the Khajiit, but many people believe bosmer's are the best choice.