For PvP? Magicka is great if you are a cloak then proxy bomber it is better for zerg bombing but stam with DB of smiting combined with steel tornado but the base class moves are better for single target ganking. Both are glass cannons. Magicka can easily double as a healer though.

I played magicka nightblade since forever, but I think stamina is better overall. medium armor shuffle and dodge roll are just too good. Also stam nightblade has better easier burst damage.

Stamina is far better. Magika NB gets crushed unless you cloak and fear everything away. For a stand and fight then stamina I'll happily get in anyone's face that isn't emp. My magika NB just doesn't hit anywhere near as hard.

Plus reverse slice makes for some good gang banging. Pick the weakest one and it'll. Pass on 25k ticks to anyone next to them pretty epic skill atm.

stamina nightblade dps isn't bad

The one you can handle best.

Proxy is no longer a thing unless you are getting prime zerg busting conditions which almost never happens.

The damage from magicka is obviously less & no real "viable animation canceling" like stamina heavy attack cancel to dizzying swing. (feel free to argue against this I would love to hear it)
Shuffle & dodge roll make it impossible to hit a stam user (lets not forget they have cloak too)
Magicka users can run mist form but are not able to heal while it's up, stam users can dodge & heal (basically) at the same time.
Double take just doesn't provide the miss chance that shuffle does & most people take the major expedition buff as magicka users because stamina users just use a bow & get major expedition. I don't even run double take any longer & have just removed it from my bar as a magicka user.
I now swap back & forth between magicka harness & teleport shade.
Lotus fan is a shoddy gap closer in comparison to crit rush/stampede/stamina morph of ambush giving an extra 20% dmg on next attack.

You won't find yourself getting 1 shot by a magicka user from stealth very often but stamina users this is a daily thing. (maybe not one shot but you will hear 1 clink & see 4 diffent attacks on your death recount after what you saw was only one attack)
This is due to poison inject & then they gap close, heavy attack cancel, reverse slice or dawn breaker & the arrow doesn't hit until something else hits first + animation cancel; the combo is too strong & magicka users don't have a combo near as good.

Sure we can soul harvest from stealth as a magicka user but if they are wearing impen, holding block, or have shuffle up it's not going to kill them "assuming" it hits.

I find the only thing I have going for killing stam users is running sap on main bar & hitting for fairly consistent 4k saps to pull them out of cloak.

Magicka is superior to stamina in PVE in my opinion due to the adds not being able to dodge your attacks & the adds are not wearing impenetrable gear so crit matters.

-kai

In PvE, Magblades are better for Single-Target DPS but for multi-target DPS Stamblades are much better.

yea that doesn't sound right to me either, magic can rotate proxies, sap, wall of elements, & twisting path
stam users have steel tornado & the stam version of sap

I am really debating if I should switch to magblade or stay Stamblade bc I am going to reset morphs and abilities to become a vampire but I love pvping but I just wanna kill ppl fast so would sticking with stam be better? @Stravokov

@Cameron991 People question you why you run stamina because Dark Elves passives are better for magicka builds. The max magicka and fire damage go well with a vicious death bomber. You can still be effective with stamina (overpowered) khajiit or redgaurd have much better passives. Both play styles are strong it goes down to what you want to play.

Ive played a stam NB since I started in january. I picked a woodelf for RP reasons and cant thank myself enough. My build is very balanced with 2k buffed regen, and around 3.3k buffed weapon damage while dual wielding. I run 5 marksman (3 jewelry 2 armor) and 5 hundings (1 weapon 4 armor) and kena helm. 260 champ points which is 86 per tree:
27 in precise strikes, 60 in mighty. 47 in tumbling and 39 in warlord. 30 in resistant, 39 in thick skinned and 18 in elemental defender. 6 divines 1 infused sharpened and precise on my weapons (precise daggers/sharpened 2h maul). 26k stam and 22k health with 7 stam enchants on armor 3 robust jewelry all 3 weapon damage enchants with orzogas health bonus + stam regen food.

My opinion on NBs is that it really depends on your playstyle, magicka NBs have lots of support roles (healing, if your really into magicka playstyles check out some of the Magicka NB destro staff builds). Their are also plenty of DPS focused builds for magicka NBs. The great thing is that they are great at both support and DPS.

Stamina NBs are mainly best at DPS. They can also tank/DPS if needed too in PvE.

PvP stam NBs are off to a good start this patch gaining a physical damage ultimate and the stam morph of their class execute fixed now too. Ive had lots of of fun with my build especially since I can use max level gear now after DB. I prefer DW/2h over 2h/bow because I feel like DW is better at sustained DPS over pure burst even though both choices are excellent at both. DW because its passives make its ranged and AoE abilities cheap and extremely effective against low health and CC'ed targets. The 12% weapon damage passive from DW is also nice.