I made my NB a redguard as I hadn't planned to mage on this toon but screw leveling all the weapon skills again. The 3rd tier racial is semi useless but a little extra max Stam and regen makes me feel better about using the mag regen drink.

I haven't had a good mag build since MORROWIND dropped on my NB I've fallen back to Stam.

What I can say is though,

Impen isn't everything if you're spending 98% of the fight invisible something you're probably going to be crotching if you're in mostly light armor.

Concealed weapon's movement speed bonus stacks with major expedition which when you're vamp stealth/cloaked is pretty effin quick for an invisible player.

Nothing is funnier than cloaking through a zerg chilling on their outpost balcony dropping a couple of concealed stuns then cloaking back to safety while 20 players are taken off the map searching/waiting for you while you're back on objectives.

Soul assault is the bane of your stamina brethren, you should rarely lose a 1v1if you can land this on a Cannon Stam user intelligently/as a mid range execute not an opener. It's also cheap af.

One of the most enjoyable classes to play mag it just needs a little more ooomph, passives are pretty dece though. You have options to be a melee mag user, a casting mag user or a mix of the two which is highlighted by their skill set.

I like to think of Mag NBS as warlocks/drainers with a little panache.

Opening would be stealth > cloak for 100%> heavy attack-funnel>crippling grasp>cloak>land a concealed stuns>soul harvest or soul assault (which ever applicable) and then you dance with heavies/funnels/cloak-concealeds if they aren't dead.


If you're in trouble you can literally reset the fight, dodge roll >cloak only a select few will get you through that whilst you ward breifly out of LOS before planning your next move.

Gear wise

Can't go past Kena and I actually quite liked 2 piece Skoria if you're keeping dots up but it's better for magdk. Grothdar dece too anything that ups damage really.

I really like the look of War Maiden as a lot of the mag nb damage is infact magic damage not poison/elemental. The lead up bonuses all perfectly suitable too. But as I said been rolling Stam since Mozza dropped so haven't rolled it.

Clever Alchemist - controlled burst so that's lovely hp too I didn't warm to this set however on paper it's certainly a viable option as is Krags/Stygian (not actually sure anymore)/Rattlecage all depending on how YOU want to play this magNB I would recommend going for a damage set up and making up regen elsewhere vamp/drink/champ points (before diminishing returns reks you)/jewelry if you really have to.

If you're not playing cloak up time you'll want some heavy once again passive wins for PvP and dat undaunted tier 2 passive % to max stats.