Asardes wrote: »

Skills like cloak have no place in PvE besides heists and dark sacraments.

Assuming you mean Blade Cloak, why doesn't it have a place?

Key to leveling stamblade - I've leveled about 12 of them.

1. Dress for Success
Get yourself good armor in the beginning and upgrade it every 10 levels, at least. I like 5 piece training and 5 piece spriggans for leveling, unless you can get someone to make you twice born star. Both Training and TBS armor sets boost your stats, which honestly is better at lower levels than most of the other benefits in PvE since until you get certain morphs, you're still depending on magicka to some degree. You can also go with front loaded sets that do direct damage - if you can get them at lower levels, like Viper and Red Mountain. It helps with burst damage.

2. Physician Heal Thyself
Get yourself to Cyrodil at level 10 and stay there until you get Vigor. It's one of the best stamina heals still, despite the increase in stam cost with Morrowfail. Also, choose healing morphs on abilities like Blood Thirst and Bloodcraze. These are good low level heals you can get fairly quickly. Also remember to use POTs. Tri-pots are best, for obviuos reasons, but if you're not leveling up alchemy, then stick with found healing potions when you're in a jam. And don't forget to end the engagement with Assassin's Blade morph - Killer's Blade so you get the heal from the execute.

3. Everything in it's Place
Play with different order of skills until you get a good rotation and then rinse and repeat. Personally, I like to attack from stealth, Teleport Strike->Ambush to stun, then Veiled Strike->Surprise Attack for the armor debuff, then either spam Surprise attack like twice more for normal mob death, or if stronger mob, do one Blood Craze to start the dot/heal and then blood thirst until I need to refresh Blood crazy and Surprise Attack. You can also throw in a second bar attack, bow or whatever for extra dps on bosses, etc. If you want to stealth and then surprise attack, you get the extra stun to get a little slack, but it's not going to work on more powerful mobs/bosses.

4. Mr. Miyagi say, best defense... no be there.
Unlike some classes, who can take hits and either mitigate or heal through it, NB can't do that easily. So, get used to blocking and dodging. If you see red on the ground, move.

I know... it's basic stuff but I've leveled up tons of toons using those tactics. NB's aren't easy and stamina NB's are probably the hardest class to really master but it can be done.

Well my CP 325 Stamblade can do ~27K DPS on a target dummy with mediocre gear... and I can run any trials just fine. Stamblades just aren't OP like Sorcs.

kratier wrote: »

we need self heal, better survivability , better skills for solo PVE and questing, because the option of "go do PVP for 5 hours and acquire vigor" isn't a solution here, can you give us a heal that doesnt suck?

Zerg up, you'll have vigor in no time. It's only fair, PvPers have to do undaunted dailies for those skills too...

Also it's Midyear Mayhem, you can probably get vigor by spamming light attacks in a zerg in like 30 minutes to an hour

NICE NECRO. the guy that open thread about necromancer class would be jealous of you.