Was having iussues with my stamblade

BozzyTheDrummer · April 2018

The last week or so I have been having issues with my stamblade. i'm cp220 and my all 64 in stamina. Stamina was sitting at 25k and stam recovery was sitting at 1038. Wasn't enough stam to carry out attacks before having to down stam pots or wait for my stam to recover.

I have been using the leviathin set (5 /5 pieces) for the weapon critical (sitting at 66%).

Well...I tell ya Hwhat!

I looked up different medium sets. Found a set I wanted, Hircine's Veneer from Selene's Web. Did that with my buddies and got five pieces (some being jewelry). I am still running the 5-1-1 (5 medium, 1 heavy and 1 light.) I also have purple food that boosts stamina, health and magicka.

Stam is now 28-29k with the armor set and stam recovery is about 2300. With the food, my stamina is in the 32-33k range and my stam recovery jumps to 2800.

What a difference this all make with mow much more damage I can put out without having to rely on my stam pots and running away to let my stamina recover. And my survivability is more as well.

Before this armor set, I couldn't get past Seht's Balcony is normal MA. After I put the set on, I got all the way to Vault of Umbrage.

imnotanother · April 2018

Keep it up!

geonsocal · April 2018

very cool...both in pve and pvp, running around in 5 medium can be challenging...

it feels good though to be able to thump stuff

which race did you chose for this character?

what kind of weapons and rotations are you using?

BozzyTheDrummer · April 2018

geonsocal wrote: »

very cool...both in pve and pvp, running around in 5 medium can be challenging...

it feels good though to be able to thump stuff

which race did you chose for this character?

what kind of weapons and rotations are you using?

It does feel good and I went into some more dungeons with my buddies, and i was doing decent damage before, but was dying when i was recovering stamina as I had none to attack, but now I am actually running with them, dying a lot more, and dealing out way more damage and not really running out of stamina.

For my stamblade, i chose redguard. I had read that redguards are a top choice for stamblade's for their stamina and also, because I haven't played as a redguard since Oblivion.

I am currently 2h/Bow. I have my Bow on my main bar and my 2h on my back bar only because I am too laxy to switch the weapons and skill so that bow is on back and 2h is on main. But I have recently been starting off with my buffs on 2h, then switch to bow for endless hail and caltrops, then go back to 2h to start dealing more damage, and it's been working great the last couple nights.

geonsocal · April 2018

ha...our stamblades could be twins

I also went redguard, 2H/bow...ugh, before I really knew what I was doing was trying to use him as a magblade, and, my breton nightbalde as a magblade - which, wasn't working out that well...

I've read about the whole front/main bar and back bar thing...to be honest - i weapon swap so much it doesn't really mean much to me...

buffs/debuffs/shields/heals/different attacks are spread across both bars...

so, it seems you're on a journey to continue enhancing your build and skills...

what do you think is the next step for you in refining those things...

BozzyTheDrummer · April 2018

geonsocal wrote: »

ha...our stamblades could be twins

I also went redguard, 2H/bow...ugh, before I really knew what I was doing was trying to use him as a magblade, and, my breton nightbalde as a magblade - which, wasn't working out that well...

I've read about the whole front/main bar and back bar thing...to be honest - i weapon swap so much it doesn't really mean much to me...

buffs/debuffs/shields/heals/different attacks are spread across both bars...

so, it seems you're on a journey to continue enhancing your build and skills...

what do you think is the next step for you in refining those things...

I am the same, I switch between bars so frequently a front and back bar just doesn't matter lol

Yea, my build, with this set now, seems to be promising. At first I was getting frustrated and was going to re-spec him. But now that I took the time to hunt for a new set, it's working out.

My next project for this build is to level up my skills that I neglected from 0-50 that can help me progress in PvP and learn how to properly utilize him effectively in PvP to where I can actually kill, survive, gank, you name it and actually be of some help in the alliance war.

grkkll · April 2018

Lev & NMG work well together. NMG is craftable so you can have 1 hvy & 1 light. After Summerset I'll be adding monster head & sholdaz

shadowofnarsil · April 2018

grkkll wrote: »

Lev & NMG work well together. NMG is craftable so you can have 1 hvy & 1 light. After Summerset I'll be adding monster head & sholdaz

They do indeed, or Spriggans/Lev as well. (EDIT: I was referring to PVE here, don’t believe they would necessarily be optimized for PVP. Maybe.)

To the OP: On your original build, I'm curious, were you mixing in heavy attacks as well?

xbobx · April 2018

grkkll wrote: »

Lev & NMG work well together. NMG is craftable so you can have 1 hvy & 1 light. After Summerset I'll be adding monster head & sholdaz

i really wish people would stop using short form for everything. I swear in 20 years all our laws will be nothing but abbreviations.

geonsocal · April 2018

i am by no stretch of the imagination a top tier pvper...

I play 10 different characters: each race, stam/mag version of each class...

so i'm comfortable with each, but, far from an expert with any...

i have put a bunch of time in cyrodiil, and, researching and asking questions on the forums...

here's a look at my current rotation:

2H: rally, shadowy disguise, ambush, surprise attack, executioner, and incapacitating strike...

Bow: relentless focus, mirage, lethal arrow, poison arrow, vigor, and soul tether...

he's a vamp, so occasionally I'll use devour instead of soul tether...

I have him in 5pc spriggans (2H bar), 5pc markmans (bow bar), and 2pc velidreth...using 5 medium/2 heavy...

can't wait for two hand weapons to count as two slots

normally, I'll switch up gear and rotations every 6 months or so with each character...

SHADOW2KK · April 2018

Well done OP, stamblades can be difficult to master, but once you do, then heads roll

BozzyTheDrummer · April 2018

shadowofnarsil wrote: »

grkkll wrote: »

Lev & NMG work well together. NMG is craftable so you can have 1 hvy & 1 light. After Summerset I'll be adding monster head & sholdaz

They do indeed, or Spriggans/Lev as well. (EDIT: I was referring to PVE here, don’t believe they would necessarily be optimized for PVP. Maybe.)

To the OP: On your original build, I'm curious, were you mixing in heavy attacks as well?

To be honest, no, I wasn't incorporating heavy attacks, especially with 2h, until more recently when I saw other's talk about how weaving in heavy attacks can help.

BozzyTheDrummer · April 2018

geonsocal wrote: »

i am by no stretch of the imagination a top tier pvper...

I play 10 different characters: each race, stam/mag version of each class...

so i'm comfortable with each, but, far from an expert with any...

i have put a bunch of time in cyrodiil, and, researching and asking questions on the forums...

here's a look at my current rotation:

2H: rally, shadowy disguise, ambush, surprise attack, executioner, and incapacitating strike...

Bow: relentless focus, mirage, lethal arrow, poison arrow, vigor, and soul tether...

he's a vamp, so occasionally I'll use devour instead of soul tether...

I have him in 5pc spriggans (2H bar), 5pc markmans (bow bar), and 2pc velidreth...using 5 medium/2 heavy...

can't wait for two hand weapons to count as two slots

normally, I'll switch up gear and rotations every 6 months or so with each character...

my bow bar currently consists of: Poison Injection, Endless Hail, Surprise Attack, Caltrops and Reapers Mark (for PvE) fpr PvP i'll throw in Shadow Disguise on either the front or back bar. Have also started using vigor on here as well.

by 2h bar consists of: Executioner, Ambush, Dizzying Swing, Rally and Relentless Focus.

This current Bow/2h set up actually really helped me out in Maelstrom Arena last night on normal.

I literally could not get past the second stage. I'm cp220 and have been trying to beat that level since level 41. Tried again last night with this skill/weapon set up and got all the way to stage 7 before I had to eventually log off for the night.

BozzyTheDrummer · April 2018

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Well done OP, stamblades can be difficult to master, but once you do, then heads roll

It's the one class I hadn't tried out yet, from what I have read in the past, mastering it seemed pretty intimidating so I just avoided it. Until recently, after I joined PvP with my magDK and had no idea what I kept getting ganked by, and my friend was like "gotta love stam and mag blades". So I gave it a shot. I'm liking how it's turning out. Especially when I have a healer with me in a gorup so I don't have to worry as much about keeping myself alive.

SHADOW2KK · April 2018

BozzyTheDrummer wrote: »

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Well done OP, stamblades can be difficult to master, but once you do, then heads roll

It's the one class I hadn't tried out yet, from what I have read in the past, mastering it seemed pretty intimidating so I just avoided it. Until recently, after I joined PvP with my magDK and had no idea what I kept getting ganked by, and my friend was like "gotta love stam and mag blades". So I gave it a shot. I'm liking how it's turning out. Especially when I have a healer with me in a gorup so I don't have to worry as much about keeping myself alive.

Heheh, go for it, you will know when you are doing well, the hate whispers will come thick and fast.