GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

Dragonknights and Sorcerers have out of combat skills that can be cast to grant them Major Brutality and Major Sorcery. You don't have to hit enemies for the buff to activate and can drop some significant damage on your initial hit from stealth.. Yet, Nightblades, who are the class who are supposed to be able to deal the most damage from stealth, must slot 2H (to cast Momentum) as their backup and weapon swap to their desired weapon if they want to maximize their initial damage from stealth.

Why?

Can't we just remove the requirement that makes Drain Power have to hit an enemy to activate Major Brutality and Major Sorcery? The lack of an out-of-combat buff for Nightblades does not make sense to me.

borchan wrote: »

Major brutality should be activated when using cloak. It only make sense

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

NB's also have a 8% damage buff that can be stacked with that.

Edit: And since you are seemingly talking about from stealth, NB's also get the damage buff while in stealth. Plenty of damage already, using what is arguably the best melee weapon to do more damage isn't that much of a drawback.

Are you referring to the Grim Focus skill that grants Minor Brutality?

Grim focus grants minor berserk, which is almost as strong as major brutality and only avilable to nbs and restro staff. Minor brutality can only be applied by dks.

And to be honest, I personally never felt my nb wouldn't do enough damage from stealth, even without using rally.

It's not that Nightblades don't do enough damage from stealth, it's that Dragonknight, to me, seems just as appealing for stealth combat as the supposed assassin, the Nightblade.

The new changes to Igneous Weapons will give Dragonknights a single slot, out-of-combat casting skill that grants both Major Brutality (20% weapon damage) and Minor Brutality (8% weapon damage) and can be applied to any weapon without the user being forced to use 2H.

Did Dragonknights just become the most versatile stealth-based damage class?

- Only need one slotted skill (Igneous Weapons) to gain +28% weapon damage and it can be cast outside of combat.
- The user can use any two weapons that they desire, which gives them more options.
- Buffs to all other nearby allies with the +28% weapon damage (which makes team ganking that much stronger).

Edit: I forgot to mention the Corrosive Armor ultimate to ignore 100% of enemy armor.

revonine wrote: »

NB can get their brutality from a pot before they go in for a strike. That siphoning passive that grants ultimate (which is now buffed considerably in the TG patch) isn't there for nothing.