For stamina builds good races are imperial, redgard, orcimers, bosmers
For magika - bretons, altmers, dunmers

I think it all depends on what you want to do. If you want to be more "rogue-ish", then go stamina--your weapons will hit harder and some of your class morphs can become stamina based as well. I'm currently running a level 30 redguard stamina NB. My weapons are bow and 2H/DW. I can't make up my mind which one I like the most, but I have the DW skills I want (rapid strikes and steel tornado) so I'm using the 2H too). I really like the char a alot. What's funny is that EVERY time I do Waywrest sewers with him, I snipe the big alligator mini-boss from the top of the stairs and he ALWAYS comes after ME! Not the guys beating on him in his face. Anyways, if you prefer to be magicka based, possibly use a resto staff for healing as second weapon and have good DPS with your class abilities-go magicka based. If you go this route, have dual wiled swords as your magicka spells will hit harder.

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

For stamina builds good races are imperial, redgard, orcimers, bosmers
For magika - bretons, altmers, dunmers

Spot on here in my opinion.

Ayrs wrote: »

I was thinking maybe i would try a Dunmer Stam/Magicka hybrid with bow/dw thoughts?

Hybrids are unfortunately not very viable in endgame as your sacrificing alot to maintain even mediocre damage. It's either all into stamina or magicka. However even as as stamina user you'll be using some magicka to buff and cloak etc or as a magicka user you'll still use stamina to dodge roll and breakfree. Damage wise focus on one main stat only.

As a generalization though stamina nightblades do more damage and magicka nightblades have more utility.
For race choice I agree that this:

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

For stamina builds good races are imperial, redgard, orcimers, bosmers
For magika - bretons, altmers, dunmers

is spot on.
Though an argument can be made for imperial swinging either way.

First you need to understand differences between magicka and stamina NB.
You can't spam stealth / heal / resto-abilities, and be effective burst-killer, or vice versa.

Stamina is more of a one-shot-willy and burst build, taking out victims lost from horde, or the weakest players.

Magicka is more oriented in draining opponent's resources and vanishing away, if not succeeded.

Then there is some individuals, that have succeeded to build viable NB tank, but i'm only testing it yet, so let's not talk about that.

Think about your style of play and then decide.

For stamina NB, with a burst, i think there's no better than Khajiit. They get awesome crit bonus and bonus for doing damage from stealth.

Other good stamina choices are bosmer, redguard and imperial.

For magicka, there's good choices between Breton and Altmer. Both have hefty pool of mana. Difference is bretons reduced mana cost and spell resistance and Altmers mana recovery and flame damage.

Ofc, if you're not a min/maxer, go with the race you like most.

Ayrs wrote: »

I was thinking maybe i would try a Dunmer Stam/Magicka hybrid with bow/dw thoughts?

Dunmer works with stamina based nightblade and the extra magic from racial passive is helpful with feeling like a hybrid. Do not split resources to actually be a hybrid because you will only gimp your damage output.

Stamina as Redguard