Different play style.

Check out Sypher's builds then go from there.
It will give you a baseline to then adapt to yourself and how you want to play.

Never called....it wants it's thread title back.

I'm surprised at this post, actually. I switched to magicka nightblade after Orsinium and have been playing her fairly regularly and I actually feel she's more powerful now after TG than she was before, and I haven't really made any changes to her set up or gear/CP yet.

bigted209 wrote: »

Love my mageblade...hits like a freight train! Only issue with them is inherent lack of shields(use bone shield/healing ward/light armor skill) and notoriously low resistances/survivability issues. Unless I've missed something along the way of course... To sum up a Mage blade quickly, Glass Cannon build. Very high damage output, very low ability to take/sustain damage.

What build are you using?

Magblades can be good but the learning curve is pretty high and there are a couple different ways you can go about building and using them you need to figure out what you're trying to do and play around or make up for difficencies in the class. Mag blades are the worst at standing and fighting so you need to figure out how to get around this deficiency.

bigted209 wrote: »

Love my mageblade...hits like a freight train! Only issue with them is inherent lack of shields(use bone shield/healing ward/light armor skill) and notoriously low resistances/survivability issues. Unless I've missed something along the way of course... To sum up a Mage blade quickly, Glass Cannon build. Very high damage output, very low ability to take/sustain damage.

Why do people keep saying magblades have no survivability? This is simply not true at all. In PvE they have the most survivability considering their damage output and continuous self heals. I can tank a lot more with my magblade than I could with my Templar spamming puncturing sweeps while killing it faster. I can do all of this while keep magicka full with siphon and pot.

In PvP that's another ballpark. You basically have a sorc with only harness magicka/healing ward as shields and cloak for everything else. Depending on your playstyle some magblades are in fact just glass cannons hoping to kill you before they run out of resources or are discovered... or like my personal build I can stand and fight without the use of cloak and sustain with the best of them. It's just a matter of knowing in game mechanics and being comfortable and familiar with your build and skills/tactics being used against you.

Oh Max cp.with all points toward damage and Regen.