Hekx wrote: »

(Purely for PVE if it matters, I'll worry about PVP after I figure out how to play the game...)

Haha i also agree with this lol

So, if I chose stam, i would focus my damage on my stam abilities because the damage scales with max stam, and leave the supports to magic? and vice versa?

Try both and see which YOU like, it's easy enough to respec afterwards.

Chanman23 wrote: »

I have wondered this same thing with my dragon knight. If I put all stats into stam, then I have super powerful weapon and stam morphed stats (but only a few of those switch to stam in a morph) and if i dump all into magic, then my weapon skills are gimped, but I have good class skills. But If I do both, then Im just not good enough to compete with other players apparently. So is there no way to have weapon and class skills? Do I have to pick between the two?

Ehem ..Destruction staff and Restoration staff are also weapons ^^

Back in the days all class abilities were magicka based, and they changed that to some class skills for each class is now stamina based. The majority of skills is still magicka based though, for some reason this game has a heavy bias toward magicka builds.

If you prefer a stamina build, you will gain less from using class skills. Make sure you look up and find out which skills that morph into stamina based ones, and lvl those up

I'm a 'Stamina NB' and whilst some of the class skills start off as Magicka, they can be morphed to be run off Stamina and for my playstyle they're better suited than the corresponding Magicka morphs.

I use DW/2h and Bow (all Stamina) and only have 3 skills that run off Magicka (Cloak, Mark and Swallow Soul) but these are used so infrequently that I'm never short even when spamming SS when my Stamina runs out.

The only way that I can invisage putting more than 3 attribute points in to Magicka and still use DW is if you either:
A) want to use a Staff for range over Bow
B ) prefer to use the Magicka morphs over Stamina

In either case, you'd want either:
A) roughly 30/70 attribute points in Magicka/Stamina with Magicka glyphs
B ) 50/50 and Stamina glyphs

Hekx wrote: »

Or rather I do get what the difference is but..
I want to build a Nightblade, I want him to use dual wielding (maybe 2 handed) and a bow. Haze zero interest in using a staff. This would suggest I go Stamina
But if I put all my points into Stamina- aren't my NB skills pretty much all based off Magicka?

So if I follow the suggestions, and level up with all my points into Stamina and a few in health, aren't all those fun and cool NB skills (like the executes, heals etc) going to be pretty much useless?
Conversely if I go against all advice I can find, and put my skills into magicka , -from what I've read- it seems I'm gimping my Dual wielding/bow.
And it seems if I split the points between Sta and Mag, I'm gimping both skill lines...

Basically I guess I'm asking- if I put all my points into Sta, are the NB skills (assassination etc) going to still do enough damage to be worth using? Or not.
(Purely for PVE if it matters, I'll worry about PVP after I figure out how to play the game...)

Stamina NB: Put most if not all attributes into Stamina (maybe some health). Take all the stamina morphs available (Surprise Attack, Killers Blade, maybe Power Extraction even thou Sap essence is an ok magic dump when you have excess) Then use your support magicka abilities as needed but don't spam them excessively (Dark Cloak, Double Take, Grim Focus, Shadow Image, Crripling Grasp, Mark Target). All ultimates in class abilities scale to your max stat (Mag or Stam) so these are equally effective on a magicka or stam build and can be used effectively. The only ability that I can think of that just doesnt really have a use on a stamblade is funnel health/swallow soul and probably Refreshing Path since it will be very weak. The strength of a Stamina NB is the weapon skill trees. Steel Tornado on DW, Momentum and Wrecking Blow on 2H, Poison Injection and Lethal Arrow/Focused Aim on the Bow. Also another strength is the use of medium armor which gives better armor rating than light armor and has a ton of great stamina passives. Stamina NB weakness are healing, but this can be helped with Rally (Morph of Momentum) on 2H, or getting Vigor at assault rank 5 in PVP.

A Magicka NB has the luxury of using more of the class abilities, but does not have access to alot of the stronger weapon abilities. They also wear light armor to maximize magicka use, but have less armor. They get more healing out of the siphoning tree, and can also use a restoration staff effectively.