Magicka Nightblades

Strider_Roshin · March 2016

Okay so I should probably go into my background before I get into the point of this thread. I have created a stamina sorc, stamina nightblade, stamina templar, stamina dragonknight, and a magicka sorc. Out of all of these experiences the magicka sorc was by far the easiest and naturally most powerful play style out of all of the play styles mentioned. The stamina sorc was the most difficult, and least naturally powerful play style out of the ones mentioned. However after leveling up a magicka nightblade I've got to admit that they take the cake. It is so easy playing this game as a magicka nightblade, and honestly they're just as powerful as a magicka sorc; if not more powerful due to their flexibility. As a console player, I can only imagine how much more powerful they've gotten next update.

AOECAPS · March 2016

That's why most "leet" console players don't run with Templars or DKs anymore. Why do you need tanks or designated healers when you have 2 people rolling with 20k plus shields and 2 Magic Nbs doing damage and healing at the same time. Hell I can heal dungeons just by throwing on rapid regen and doing damage its really silly

Strider_Roshin · March 2016

AOECAPS wrote: »

That's why most "leet" console players don't run with Templars or DKs anymore. Why do you need tanks or designated healers when you have 2 people rolling with 20k plus shields and 2 Magic Nbs doing damage and healing at the same time. Hell I can heal dungeons just by throwing on rapid regen and doing damage its really silly

It really is. The Rapid Regen + Healing Ward combination makes it nearly impossible to die; and you need to make zero sacrifices on your damage in order to have such amazing survivability. Plus not to mention resource management is so stupid easy that you don't even need regen; therefore you can go with max stat food and spell damage for your mundus stone and have zero resource management issues. I don't even have this good of resource management with my stamina nightblade when using a stam regen mundus stone with regen drinks. I don't get it.

makreth · March 2016

I know right? Can't wait for Zos to give us a race reroll even through crown store. My khajiit needs it..

Ampnode · March 2016

Magicka NBs have way more utility than a magicka sorc; therefore, making them better than them. It's very difficult for a sorc to kill 10+ people at once. Honestly, magicka classes required more "skill" to play before prox det was introduced. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again. Magicka Detonation needs to be removed. This is a huge factor that plays into magicka classes being over the top in PvP, and soft caps being removed in general.

GreenSoup2HoT · March 2016

Ampnode wrote: »

Magicka NBs have way more utility than a magicka sorc; therefore, making them better than them. It's very difficult for a sorc to kill 10+ people at once. Honestly, magicka classes required more "skill" to play before prox det was introduced. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again. Magicka Detonation needs to be removed. This is a huge factor that plays into magicka classes being over the top in PvP, and soft caps being removed in general.

Proxi is plaguing good group play. Who need's coordinated ult bomb's when proxi det is all you need. I completely agree.

Another alternative would be to make proxi a skill that requires activation like grim focus. Once you start proxi, after 8 second's you have to activate it again to blow it up. This way you will not see people timing up burst with ultimates at the same time. It will be one after the other kind of thing. You will also be susceptible to cc and miss your chance to use it proxi.

Overall the move to buff proxi was a big mistake. Stamina build's are loosing value in a huge way.

Thing's need to be addressed fast or else everyone will be a proxi nobody...

Lenikus · March 2016

Ampnode wrote: »

Magicka NBs have way more utility than a magicka sorc; therefore, making them better than them. It's very difficult for a sorc to kill 10+ people at once. Honestly, magicka classes required more "skill" to play before prox det was introduced. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again. Magicka Detonation needs to be removed. This is a huge factor that plays into magicka classes being over the top in PvP, and soft caps being removed in general.

*cough cough * Vigor *Cough Cough*

Lexxypwns · March 2016

ITT people try to say magblade is better than mag sorc, when mag sorc effectively hard counters magblade.

OP, you're constantly spewing propaganda on these forums. I've played stam dk, mag dk, mag blade, stam blade, stam sorc, mag sorc, and mag templar in the current patch that's live on console (orsinium), stam DK is by FAR the strongest and easiest to play.
Following stam DK the order is Stam NB, Mag sorc, mag blade, stam sorc, magplar, mag dk. My guess is that you likely aren't running a meta stamblade build if you find it even remotely difficult, since they can just face roll dps 99.99% of builds in pvp. Your silly arguments about stam being weak this patch are laughable. I guess you don't understand that this game is based on math and the math by far favors stam builds pre-TG.

Now, in TG patch, magblade STILL isn't better than mag sorc, because, mag sorcs are getting buffed strongly through CP changes while the only buff magblade received was to cripple, while the magelight buff provides a hard counter to cloak

WreckfulAbandon · March 2016

^ Nailed it.

Unless you're running around naked, levelling in this game is cake. MagSorc counters MagBlade 9/10 times if the skill level is the same.