Stamblade doesn't get bad if you pay attention to your skills and use them. You are not a templar who can level with your one button aoe dps/heal.

But you do have several skills that heal on kill. So the key is finding those skills in the trees and using them. They are usually if so and so dies while affected or within so long you get blah health back. Or finding a weapon that has healing attacks. Or both.

You can also spend some time in pvp and get vigor which can be useful.

vpy wrote: »

I am currently leveling a bosmer stamblade (lvl 9) with bow.
So far leveling/questing is a breeze.
Most of the mobs die before they even reach me.
But I have heard stam NB is one of the worst classes to level in ESO.
So I am just curious at what range does it become painful to level and what do folks usually do ?.
The reason why I ask (instead of actually finding it out by myself) because I can start building the weapon/skill tree earlier.

To quickly answer the damage and survivability question: It kind of gets progressively worse as you level but MUCH better when you hit around 40 and higher. (Then drops again for a while at around 100 CP till 160 CP)

There are a loooooooooooooot of very very very bad spoonfed people who REFUSE to put enough time into their stamblades and work to actually get good. And those are the ones describing Stamblades as THE worst. Most of the time anyway.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THOSE PEOPLE! The way the game currently works makes this worse as everyone uses the logic of MAX DAMAGE > EVERYTHING.

I mean....

Yes, you can't make the top 1% as a stamblade, yes you can't top the charts, yes you will NOT be the most amazing player in the game. BUT, you'll still make the top of the 99%! If you try hard enough.

Stamina NBs are, imo, the most enjoyable and versatile out of all (except self healing until you get Vigor). As a stamblade you'll have access to so many things and be always having fun. (Just gotta survive the horrible leveling lol). It's just a difficult class to master. However, If you spend a lot of time and focus learning your class and survive the horrible pain of going through this process, I can promise you that you WILL LOVE this class. It's not even difficult once you master it, it's actually pretty easy.

I've seen people do wonders with them and I'm slowly progressing to that point myself.

Also, word of advice: DO NOT ASK PEOPLE FOR COOKIE CUTTER BUILDS OR SKILLSETS (Or anything in that sense in particular.) Always ask questions that discuss things in general, not directly and specifically. Build your own class, do your own reserach, trust me you'll have a lot more fun that way. Now, don't take it wrong, getting help from others is great, and copying other people's builds/skillsets to get started is great as well! Just don't stick to 1 build you've seen somewhere and be done with it.

PS: We are one of the most annoying and hated classes in PVP if played right. People will rage for hours if ganked properly. We just aren't warriors, we're stealthy rogues in PVP.

PPS: Send me your ingame name in a PM if you need a stamblade buddy (Note that I'm on NA)

Shadzilla wrote: »

vpy wrote: »

I am currently leveling a bosmer stamblade (lvl 9) with bow.
So far leveling/questing is a breeze.
Most of the mobs die before they even reach me.
But I have heard stam NB is one of the worst classes to level in ESO.
So I am just curious at what range does it become painful to level and what do folks usually do ?.
The reason why I ask (instead of actually finding it out by myself) because I can start building the weapon/skill tree earlier.

If you wanna be the best at anything in this game roll magicka, stamina gets circumsized further into the ground every patch.

Don't discourage him, it's not even true. Why do you people always judge based on max damage or best performance is beyond me It should be fun in the first place.