stam is stronger
magic is sneaky
both very fun. i'd go mag but i like mag builds

I have both and play both. It all comes down to playstyle.
Stam: a lot higher 1v1 dmg, like every stam + still the fun of sneakyness from time to time.
Mag: a lot of options. High regen in your face build, limitless cloaking. Super high burst ranged build. Bombing.

Pick what you like. Stam is a lot quicker and easier to learn, but once mastered magica is very different than anything else in this game.

Well OnyxProphet, the title says, "mainly for PVP" and you sound like you're taking about a PVE build. The high burst can come from a fully charged heavy attack followed by an Assassin's Will and then an ult. It has potential but my RNG vs shuffle is terrible.

I too have both stam and mag and play them very differently. My stam is a brawler, close range knock your face off with muh muscles, whereas my magicka is some mix of sneaky ranged wear-and-tear or a Zerg harassment build (VD) depending on how the PVP is going.

So you have to know what playstyle you're aiming for, stam is good for in your face or bow, gank or worse proc gank, and magicka is good at sneaky and ranged or messing up balls of players, these aren't exclusive, but are the easiest to build and play for. One of the nice things I notice when playing my NBs is that you have far more options than most classes.

bigmanebiggu wrote: »

thank you everyone

so my main question now is for single target pvp what is better, stamina or magicka?

Stamina, without a doubt.

Stoopid_Nwah wrote: »

I only play magicka and love it; there are tons of different build options out there. I personally play my ganking build 90% of the time I'm pvping. I will say though that stam is ruling right now so it may feel like an uphill battle sometimes if you go the magicka route.

Some builds off the top of my head-
Magicka: bomb-build, sap-tank, staff resource/sustain build, ganking with a staff (on average my opening combo hits for 32k total-higher for light armor users, lower for heavy armor or anyone who has radiant magelight slotted).
Stam: proc-sets, tanky s&b setup, bow ganking, rolly-polly build...

Would you mind sharing a Bomb Build?

Stoopid_Nwah wrote: »

OnyxProphet wrote: »

Stoopid_Nwah wrote: »

I only play magicka and love it; there are tons of different build options out there. I personally play my ganking build 90% of the time I'm pvping. I will say though that stam is ruling right now so it may feel like an uphill battle sometimes if you go the magicka route.

Some builds off the top of my head-
Magicka: bomb-build, sap-tank, staff resource/sustain build, ganking with a staff (on average my opening combo hits for 32k total-higher for light armor users, lower for heavy armor or anyone who has radiant magelight slotted).
Stam: proc-sets, tanky s&b setup, bow ganking, rolly-polly build...

Would you mind sharing a Bomb Build?

Sure!
5 pieces of vicious death (3 jewelry, 2 body)
5 pieces of clever alchemist (1 back bar resto staff, 4 body)
1 kena piece
2 sharpened torugs swords front bar
I'd go armour weights 5 light 1 medium 1 heavy if you have undaunted maxed.
Tri stat or bi stat max health/magicka food.

Front dw bar-cloak, lotus fan, mages light, sap essence, concealed weapon ultimate soul tether
Back bar-healing ward, shadow image, grim focus/merciless, proxy det, mass hysteria ultimate barrier or the healing ultimate

Basically pop a spell power potion on your resto bar to activate clever alchemist (before this have your grim focus buff activated and drop a shade if you want to teleport out after bombing) then activate proxy det switch to your front bar and cloak towards the group counting the seconds you have before proxy goes off, activate mages light to empower soul tether and then tether inside the target group. Sap essence spam and watch people blow up.

Timing is key so practice counting out proxy to time it with soul tether. Then sap essence to finish people off.

After the initial bomb it's time to get out so cloak out or teleport to your shade if you dropped it.

Is it possible to use a destro staff for a bomb build?

Stamblade does not have a "built in" heal so you have to account for that. Lots of people slot vigor but I prefer other sources of healing as well. Magica NB has some very good NB healing skills.

Another problem with stamblade is that if you are trying to be a sneaky-sneak stamblade, you are using your primary damage dealing resource every time you sneak. If you want to sneak a lot you will have to either go vampire and mitigate fire damage somehow or use a 5-piece set bounus to help you sneak (which will reduce your DPS).

A third problem with stamblade is that heavy armor has resistance and light armor has a magic shield available, but medium armor has no no real damage mitigation except shuffle and medium armor stamblades are squishier than light armored magblades with annulment. So even though you will cause greater damage with medium armor, if you don't want to be the squishiest person in Cyrodil you will have to wear heavy and do less damage.

I've played stamblade in PvP and my play style was very much "hit and run". Usually the running part didn't work all that well Basically if I didn't kill the person in 5 seconds and escape I was roadkill. My next NB is going to be Magika for sure.