mark target would help you solo pretty much all overland content.

Caltrop is great for min/max

You can do fine without it, but it is better with it

Does very high damage (usually in first 5 DPS skills in a parse) , can be used from range and AOE . Why not .

Fear, LW Beast Trap, Blur morph or Shuffle, Relentless Focus, Drop bone shield. Shadow Image for maim and teleport. You have too many bow skills, drop all but hail and acid spray. Hail-Acid-Trap-shade-rinse repeat while spamming light attacks.

Caltrops is amazing.

My bow/bow stamblade doesn't have it yet and I feel the lack.

buttaface wrote: »

Fear, LW Beast Trap, Blur morph or Shuffle, Relentless Focus, Drop bone shield. Shadow Image for maim and teleport. You have too many bow skills, drop all but hail and acid spray. Hail-Acid-Trap-shade-rinse repeat while spamming light attacks.

LW trap beast is a must have. Grab that.

I'm using shade as well. I'm not certain that's the right call yet, but it seems good. Will probably swap it out with caltrops.

Keep poison inject, it's amazing.
I'm also using focused aim as my spammable.

I'm not using the execute.

Wait? Where is relentless focus??? Put that on your bar.

caltrops is amazing. I'm not really a minmaxer per se, but my god, that ability is worth pvping for. there are other options you can use, but if you can get caltrops? HIGHLY recommend (Caltrops and vigor actualy, 2 of the stam pvp skills that are just.. so worth it)

You need cultrops, rele focus and i think hunter, you do not need snipe and cloak.

At least for PvE group dps it's one of the best dot skills you can use as a Stamblade. It's an essential part of any stamblade PvE rota. Not sure if this skill is such essential for a solo PvE build, but useful nevertheless. No idea if the TO meant a PvP build, most people who ask for something seem to forget to mention the (pretty important) difference between PvE/PvP.

To be honest most stuff I encounter in public dungeon and overland questing stuff I try to AoE down as fast as possible and it works with every class be it magicka or stamina. Power Extraction + Endless Hail + Caltrops -> win. I your case maybe add even Bombard / Acid Spray.

Relentless focus is a must-have for any dps-build as NB.

Huyen wrote: »

Relentless focus is a must-have for any dps-build as NB.

Yup, just realized. Even on a bow / bow build, this skill is important. besides the extra dps from the Assassin's Will it gives 8% more dps overall. Get rid of Bone Shield.

Well, caltrops give a decent dps boost, and it seems like you already have vigor (why not the green morph, though?), so it wont take long to get them.

vpy wrote: »

I am trying a solo overland content build for my Stam NB that is Bow/Bow.

I currently have one spot empty as seen below (2)



Folks have suggested me to go for Caltrops saying it is good damage for Stam.

Is this true ?

The reason I ask I need to do again quite lot of PVP to get that and if that spell sucks then thats too bad

Caltrops would be a good skill to have, it's not remotely necessary. It's also not hard to get with just a little time in Cyrodiil. Just que in to a campaign where your faction has the most or close to the most people and look for big fights with your alliance, then just try and stay with the big groups. You can get it in one day with several hours of play or a few days of you want to space it out a bit.

As someone who runs Bow/Bow on everything(even flawless VMA on two different classes), I would recommend you stick with acid spray. The Root from Bomard does not last nearly long enough and you can't root the targets again until they are no longer slowed which is around 6 seconds if you are solo. The additional damage from Acid Spray isn't exciting but it's definitively noticeable compared with bombard.

However that said, Acid Spray is a weird skill in that it is not a set it and forget it DoT, nor is it a full functioning spammable. It works best in group play where you can set your AOE DoTs then heavy attack weave Acid Spray for damage while also getting resources back. Personally I run Acid Spray in the same spot as Snipe and swap it out for Snipe as needed.

You should slot Relentless Focus for sure.

Bone Shield should be dropped, it scales poorly. It may feel like it's helping you, but you will expend more stam trying to keep it up than you would if you just healed and avoided/mitigated damage with block/dodge roll.

Personally I would drop cloak and the execute, although you could slot Ambush and keep the execute then ambush into the execute. This is only very helpful for single targets, although in solo PVE overland it provides steady healing without needing to actively cast a heal.

When it comes to fighting multiple opponents you need to make a choice, either attempting to quickly burst one at a time, or damage the whole group stacking up AOE effects to burn them together. Good players will have a mix of both, but trying to mix the two without experience leads to deaths or slow fights that are drawn out.

For single target burst you can put Surpise attack on one of your bars with Snipe, Poison Injection, Relentless Focus, Ambush, Endless Hail, and killers blade. Choose your first target, healer or caster preferred, Snipe>medium weave>Poison Injection>Ambush>Killers blade(if necessary). Then Either cloak to set up next burst or Endless Hail>Poison Injection(to primary kill target)>Surprise Attack Spam>Killers blade when low.

For AOE max, drop Snipe for Acid Spray, open with Endless Hail(this takes a second before dealing damage)>Razor caltrops(for 70% snare)>Acid Spray>dodge roll(into group)>Vigor>Power Extraction spam. The Vigor is cast with the dodge roll to get a HoT going before you go into your AOE spam, but after your AOE DoTs have been set so that you have maximum time for Power Extraction Spam before needing to heal or reset DoTs.

Relentless Focus should be cast before engaging and kept up 24/7 while in combat.

I'm a bow/bow guy and I prefer bombard over poison injection for PvE. I'm cp 552 So it might not work as well for lower level char's.

If I have lower level baddies in a group 29k to 42k, Bombard will root them long enough that I can kill all of them, with 4 or 5 shots, before they can move. The one or two spells the spell casters can get off, before they die, do very little damage. No chance of dying.

My favorite is in the public dungeon in Vvardenfel. Go to the Old Baily (I think that's the name), go down several flights of stairs. At the bottom is a group of 8 or 9 NPC's, all tightly packed. Stealth up and hit Bombard. In a matter of seconds, they're all dead.

Was awesome.

Oh and drop bone shield, its absolutely useless. Use Relentless Focus there instead. Overland things don't hit hard anyway.