1h & shield stamina NB

Tapap · July 2016

Hello. My first post and I wanted to start with my stam NB PvP build

Woodelf

5 eternal hunt
4 morkoldin
3 agility
1h & shield front bar
2h back bar
Sharpened weapon
5 impenetrable
3 well fitted

1h & shield bar:
Surprise attack
Shield charge
Shadow image
Defensive posture
Vigor (relentless focus of you want deps)
Incapacitating strike

2h bar:
Caltrops (flex spot)
Mirage or shuffle
Dark cloak
Relentless focus (if vigor is on front)
Rally
Soul tether

Without counting weapon damage enchant proc these are my stats .

10k mag
22k hp
29k stam
2700 stam regain
3200 weapon power
20k armor and spell resist with the passive from the shadow tree

I use hp/stam/crit potions

The enemy stays CC'd with either shield charge, reflected spells, or incapacitating strike. -15% damage with shadow image and ability to move around more.

CP:
Blue
100 mighty, 67 to armor pen

Red.
55 hardy, 55 els defender, 10 to reduce dot damage, all the rest into resistant. Might move the points from resistant to reduce dot damage with this meta.
Green.
100 stam regain
30 reduce stam cost
37 to reduce dodge and break frees.

Any ideas ?

susmitds · July 2016

Drop shield charge for Ambush

Tapap · July 2016

susmitds wrote: »

Drop shield charge for Ambush

Then I would have to drop defensive posture for fear. I was thinking i could gap close and CC all at once.

OdinForge · July 2016

Damage is so high this patch that it's kind of hard for NB to compete with 2H and DW users with a 1H. There are other issues such as cloak being unreliable, and NB magicka utility costs being so high, and poisons that drain stat on top of it all. Not to mention that you will lack crit and good mobility as well. I don't see 1H being worth it currently with NB, but who knows.

I used to run a 40K stam 1H NB setup, and either 2700 regen/3K buffed weapon damage or 2200 regen/3500 weapon damage. The first was decent in duels, but duels would drag out so long. The second was good in groups or open world where you need more burst.

Tapap · July 2016

OdinForge wrote: »

Damage is so high this patch that it's kind of hard for NB to compete with 2H and DW users with a 1H. There are other issues such as cloak being unreliable, and NB magicka utility costs being so high, and poisons that drain stat on top of it all. Not to mention that you will lack crit and good mobility as well. I don't see 1H being worth it currently with NB, but who knows.

I used to run a 40K stam 1H NB setup, and either 2700 regen/3K buffed weapon damage or 2200 regen/3500 weapon damage. The first was decent in duels, but duels would drag out so long. The second was good in groups or open world where you need more burst.

Hmm. That makes sense too. I don't die much but you're right about the fight dragging on. I wonder how would a duel wield with 2h buff work out?

Metemsycosis · July 2016

Nice ideas, op. I like the orsinium food that gives hp and stam regen, but find that id like a cc that doesnt cost magicka. Id work in reverb and keep ambush in situations im not worried about ranged attacks. Remember that fear also reduces damage by the exact same as the shade.