SeventhCelestial wrote: »For those who really hate Nightblades, and say they are broken: Have you ever played one?
This isn't meant to be like an extra salty type of question. This is just what I want to know. A few of the people I know and hate NB's have never played one, but want to say we are broken as a class. Why?
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Who needs regen when your target is already dead before she or he had a chance to react thanks to bad gameplay design and horribly latency? Stop fooling yourself, it's not doing the Nightblade class nor the game as a whole any good.
Septimus_Magna wrote: »Lava_Croft wrote: »It would help the game a lot more if people would just be honest and admit that Nightblades now are the Dragon Knights of 2014. There's a reason all the tryhards and scrubs run Nightblades these days.
Only if they're played by decent skilled players.
Most NBs die so easily that I get the "kill 20 Enemy Nightblades" quest almost as fast as kill enemy players.
MADshadowmans_Ghost wrote: »Yep, played a lot of nightblade pvp. Magicka and stamina.
Stamina is broken. Hate stam nbs more than anything else.
I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
Wow! Whyever would you play a class that has all those bonuses and hate them? Heck,I'd keep playing them to win.If they however,were extremely squishy,like a Templar,I wouldnt want anything to do with them.
I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
my main problem with nbs is just the fact they play like wimps there dmg is really good and there healing its really good yet they dont dare come out of stealth i dont get it
arcantonias wrote: »You have still never given any facts about another class to change my mind about nightblades having an advantage. I mean basically everyone else in this thread plays nightblades including myself and they all just say things like "its so easy its silly, ambush sa sa fear sa." I am only giving facts about how the class works and is designed so if you can do a better job or give any of the other classes justice by comparing them to nightblades I would suggest doing that, not just lumping me into the nerf callers and theorycrafting a bunch of stuff that has't happened yet. It seems to me that nightblades and sorcs are definitely going to get balanced and you just don't like it.
Knootewoot wrote: »I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
1. yes, for 2.9 seconds. And it can be countered. Invisibility potions last 15 seconds and you can get 40% speed with those potions extra
2. Not true. It does not give speed. Only if a magblade uses concealed weapon and that is a minor passive speedbuff and not a very fast speed. I think 25%. But cloak itself gives NO speed.
3. Yes, for up to 2 DOTS.
4. Maybe to much for an already brutal stamblade. But it's necessary for magblades
5. yes, thank god. A magblade with light armor needs it. It's much less armor then a sorc shield
Potions have a 45s cooldown, cloak has the default internal cooldown all skills do. NB's have 25% bonus movement speed from concealed weapon, but also 3 sources of the 40% speed buff, 165% move speed while invisible. Cloak purges up to 4 dots, i've seen many NB's who don't seem to have looked at the tooltips of their skills recently as it gains 1 dot purge per rank. As for the armor from using any shadow skill, shields provide 0 armor, just a barrier to take damage.
Septimus_Magna wrote: »Lava_Croft wrote: »It would help the game a lot more if people would just be honest and admit that Nightblades now are the Dragon Knights of 2014. There's a reason all the tryhards and scrubs run Nightblades these days.
Only if they're played by decent skilled players.
Most NBs die so easily that I get the "kill 20 Enemy Nightblades" quest almost as fast as kill enemy players.
Nothing to do with how good or bad a nb player is...it's more that everybody and their mom plays a nightblade. So chances are that when you manage to get the jump on an enemy zerg, most of them are probably going to be nightblades.
How often do you get ganked by 4-8 templars, sorcs or dk's in stealth? Never... Getting ganked by 4-8 nightblades all at once in the most random of places? I feel like its starting to become an almost hourly occurrence.
Lava_Croft wrote: »The problem is that while Nightblades might be designed to do the high damage bursting and sneaking about, they are also second to none in every other role. No other class even comes remotely close.
ZOS should take the design of the Nightblade class as a guideline to buff the other classes to the same level of versatility. Then we might get closer to the 'play as you want' mantra.
Knootewoot wrote: »I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
1. yes, for 2.9 seconds. And it can be countered. Invisibility potions last 15 seconds and you can get 40% speed with those potions extra
2. Not true. It does not give speed. Only if a magblade uses concealed weapon and that is a minor passive speedbuff and not a very fast speed. I think 25%. But cloak itself gives NO speed.
3. Yes, for up to 2 DOTS.
4. Maybe to much for an already brutal stamblade. But it's necessary for magblades
5. yes, thank god. A magblade with light armor needs it. It's much less armor then a sorc shield
Potions have a 45s cooldown, cloak has the default internal cooldown all skills do. NB's have 25% bonus movement speed from concealed weapon, but also 3 sources of the 40% speed buff, 165% move speed while invisible. Cloak purges up to 4 dots, i've seen many NB's who don't seem to have looked at the tooltips of their skills recently as it gains 1 dot purge per rank. As for the armor from using any shadow skill, shields provide 0 armor, just a barrier to take damage.
a 19-27K damage shield is far more effective than an increase in armor for 4 seconds. in fact any damage shield is more effective than a 4 second increase in armor that requires a shadow ability to be used and will not even be used for most of that time if cloak is the ability used.
Lava_Croft wrote: »Who needs regen when your target is already dead before she or he had a chance to react thanks to bad gameplay design and horribly latency? Stop fooling yourself, it's not doing the Nightblade class nor the game as a whole any good.
Lava_Croft wrote: »It would help the game a lot more if people would just be honest and admit that Nightblades now are the Dragon Knights of 2014. There's a reason all the tryhards and scrubs run Nightblades these days.
Lava_Croft wrote: »It would help the game a lot more if people would just be honest and admit that Nightblades now are the Dragon Knights of 2014. There's a reason all the tryhards and scrubs run Nightblades these days.
Have yet to see a NB run into a group of 24 enemies and wipe every single one of them with only 3 skills. Ever. "Dragon Knights of 2014" could do that with ease. You're exaggerating quite a bit.
arcantonias wrote: »thelordoffelines wrote: »I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
This sounds like a person who clearly never played as a Nightblade, or you want to distort facts to ruin a class.
What is he distorting? Does dark cloak not have the ability to provide all of those things?
It doesn't grant speed or purge or extra damage from multiple sources. It grants invisibility and one morph removes DoTs and the other guarantees a crit. Read the skill description. You guys exaggerate to help your argument, but it does the opposite because it just shows that you have an agenda. You can't just lump a bunch of combinations together and call it one skill. It's a combination of skills, not just one. So stop the BS.
if you are using concealed weapon and dark cloak it does indeed grant all 5 of those effects, every magblade pvp setup has these 2 skills. also slotting these 2 skills grants a 6% max health bonus and using dark cloak increases stun durations of skills like surprise attack by 100%. the only difference between that setup and basic stam setup is surprise attack doesnt grant you the movement speed. so dark cloak itself doesnt grant the movement speed bonus but it does do everything else including the max health bonus. most of us understand that these effects come from passives but 1 skill activating 7 passives including ones associated with other active skills is kinda over the top compared to every other class. you could even take it 1 step further adding passives like duel wield ruffian which benefit from the cloak-surprise attack stun increasing your damage by 15% or even just a duel wield heavy attack stun from stealth. From stealth surprise attack also sets enemies off balance, increasing your damage by 10% from the exploiter passive in the cp tree. these kinds of combos can be replicated by other classes, but only once then they are engaged in combat, nb can cloak and repeatedly receive these buffs everytime they engage with a target, even if they were already in combat. there is not another spammer in the game that even comes close to these kinds of benefits. not too mention it has been shown many times by well known streamers that can duel wield heavy attack-surprise attack and not be revealed until the surprise attack hits. same with ambush-surprise attack.
You need to reread your post. It's not cloak that does all of that. It's cloak along with concealed weapon and passives. So it's not just the one ability. Again, you're exaggerating and pinning it all on one ability when it's a combination of passives and other abilities. You can't just lump an entire build into one ability. That's exactly what all you nerf cloak people do. You take an entire build and misrepresent it as one ability.
How can you react if nb can stun you with unbreakable bugged stun from stealth and then proceed with two-three shot you? You need to get feeble magelight morph just to counter them spambush you which is stupid.If you can't react against a NB attack, is not problem of the bad gameplay or latency....is a serious L2P issue....
How can you react if nb can stun you with unbreakable bugged stun from stealth and then proceed with two-three shot you? You need to get feeble magelight morph just to counter them spambush you which is stupid.If you can't react against a NB attack, is not problem of the bad gameplay or latency....is a serious L2P issue....
MormondPayne_EP wrote: »arcantonias wrote: »thelordoffelines wrote: »I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
This sounds like a person who clearly never played as a Nightblade, or you want to distort facts to ruin a class.
What is he distorting? Does dark cloak not have the ability to provide all of those things?
It doesn't grant speed or purge or extra damage from multiple sources. It grants invisibility and one morph removes DoTs and the other guarantees a crit. Read the skill description. You guys exaggerate to help your argument, but it does the opposite because it just shows that you have an agenda. You can't just lump a bunch of combinations together and call it one skill. It's a combination of skills, not just one. So stop the BS.
if you are using concealed weapon and dark cloak it does indeed grant all 5 of those effects, every magblade pvp setup has these 2 skills. also slotting these 2 skills grants a 6% max health bonus and using dark cloak increases stun durations of skills like surprise attack by 100%. the only difference between that setup and basic stam setup is surprise attack doesnt grant you the movement speed. so dark cloak itself doesnt grant the movement speed bonus but it does do everything else including the max health bonus. most of us understand that these effects come from passives but 1 skill activating 7 passives including ones associated with other active skills is kinda over the top compared to every other class. you could even take it 1 step further adding passives like duel wield ruffian which benefit from the cloak-surprise attack stun increasing your damage by 15% or even just a duel wield heavy attack stun from stealth. From stealth surprise attack also sets enemies off balance, increasing your damage by 10% from the exploiter passive in the cp tree. these kinds of combos can be replicated by other classes, but only once then they are engaged in combat, nb can cloak and repeatedly receive these buffs everytime they engage with a target, even if they were already in combat. there is not another spammer in the game that even comes close to these kinds of benefits. not too mention it has been shown many times by well known streamers that can duel wield heavy attack-surprise attack and not be revealed until the surprise attack hits. same with ambush-surprise attack.
You need to reread your post. It's not cloak that does all of that. It's cloak along with concealed weapon and passives. So it's not just the one ability. Again, you're exaggerating and pinning it all on one ability when it's a combination of passives and other abilities. You can't just lump an entire build into one ability. That's exactly what all you nerf cloak people do. You take an entire build and misrepresent it as one ability.
Sounds like someone is scared that their over powered combo is being scrutinized...
An L2P issue is not recognizing the overpowered status of the Nightblade in it's current form, compared to every other class.Lava_Croft wrote: »Who needs regen when your target is already dead before she or he had a chance to react thanks to bad gameplay design and horribly latency? Stop fooling yourself, it's not doing the Nightblade class nor the game as a whole any good.
If you can't react against a NB attack, is not problem of the bad gameplay or latency....is a serious L2P issue....
That's surely not related to the fact that the game has been moving in a zerg-or-die direction ever since release. Or to the fact that back in 2014 the PvE scrubs only knew how to use Impulse.Lava_Croft wrote: »It would help the game a lot more if people would just be honest and admit that Nightblades now are the Dragon Knights of 2014. There's a reason all the tryhards and scrubs run Nightblades these days.
Have yet to see a NB run into a group of 24 enemies and wipe every single one of them with only 3 skills. Ever. "Dragon Knights of 2014" could do that with ease. You're exaggerating quite a bit.
arcantonias wrote: »thelordoffelines wrote: »I have two nightblades.
I dislike them even more since I´ve played them both in pve and pvp (stam and mag).
Cloak + Shade is undoubtly the strongest ability combination in the game. Also the only real counter to cloak is a NB specific skill (pots never were an issue when i´ve played mine).
Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Here is the list of buffs that Cloak gives you:
1. Invisibility
2. Speed
3. Purge
4. Bonus damage from multiple sources
5. EDIT: bonus armor
What even comes close?
This sounds like a person who clearly never played as a Nightblade, or you want to distort facts to ruin a class.
What is he distorting? Does dark cloak not have the ability to provide all of those things?
It doesn't grant speed or purge or extra damage from multiple sources. It grants invisibility and one morph removes DoTs and the other guarantees a crit. Read the skill description. You guys exaggerate to help your argument, but it does the opposite because it just shows that you have an agenda. You can't just lump a bunch of combinations together and call it one skill. It's a combination of skills, not just one. So stop the BS.
if you are using concealed weapon and dark cloak it does indeed grant all 5 of those effects, every magblade pvp setup has these 2 skills. also slotting these 2 skills grants a 6% max health bonus and using dark cloak increases stun durations of skills like surprise attack by 100%.
Lava_Croft wrote: »An L2P issue is not recognizing the overpowered status of the Nightblade in it's current form, compared to every other class.Lava_Croft wrote: »Who needs regen when your target is already dead before she or he had a chance to react thanks to bad gameplay design and horribly latency? Stop fooling yourself, it's not doing the Nightblade class nor the game as a whole any good.
If you can't react against a NB attack, is not problem of the bad gameplay or latency....is a serious L2P issue....That's surely not related to the fact that the game has been moving in a zerg-or-die direction ever since release. Or to the fact that back in 2014 the PvE scrubs only knew how to use Impulse.Lava_Croft wrote: »It would help the game a lot more if people would just be honest and admit that Nightblades now are the Dragon Knights of 2014. There's a reason all the tryhards and scrubs run Nightblades these days.
Have yet to see a NB run into a group of 24 enemies and wipe every single one of them with only 3 skills. Ever. "Dragon Knights of 2014" could do that with ease. You're exaggerating quite a bit.
The comment was more about the number of Nightblades, just like the number of Dragon Knights back in 2014.