It's not working because the radius on light blows

It's been a long time since it was viable anti-stealth mechanic

Now you should try a PbAoE or WoE

Edit: the only tell there is for someone sneaking around you is that the music goes into combat music. I dunno if Miats still does anything or not, I'm console so I never had access to such cheesey add ons

Magelight is really only useful for two things:

1) Uncloaking those buttholes who like to hide inside keeps so they can retake them after the enemy leaves (well-played nightblades...well played).

2) Keeping the aforementioned buttholes from ganking you into oblivion if you're caught in there alone with them. It prevents the stun from anyone attacking from stealth, and it reduces their dmg done to you. It's a more defensive ability than anything in this regard, but incredibly useful in my experience.

Cyrodil is currently run by a combination of invisible NB gankers and the huge slobbering hoards most like to call zergs. While RML won't help with the second (there is no cure for that, barring their mom's calling them to dinner), it'll definitely help protect you from the first.

This is probably not the answer you're looking for but Magelight is useless for stealth detection. All the stealth detection skills are trash. At least detection pots used to be effective against cloak spammers but now that they give you a giant red warning sign for enemies to see when you pop it anyone with a functioning brain can just run away from you.

Just accept that ZOS doesn't want there to be any viable counter against cloak for the time being.

Steel tornado is just a straight up better version of magelight. Just sayin'.

Almost any AOE in the game is a better counter to cloak than magelight. This is not because of magelights cost or its range. It's because you are wasting a GCD without really doing anything. You are not applying pressure, you are not defending, you are not buffing. All you are really doing is prevent your opponent from using cloak for a few seconds which isn't all that impactful unless you are Xv1ing.

Most likely ZOS forgot the one in front of the two when coding the skill.. so in effect it is a 2m range (maybe)

I saw a nb hiding in IC last night and ran over to the corner that he/she was in... cast evil hunter right on top of them (they were slightly higher in elevation) and nothing.. no reveal ball at all, I did reveal them but just because I was standing on top of them.

One word for the usefulness of these skills... ***!

6000 Crowns is ridiculous. One motif for more than the cost of the entire Summerset chapter, that I played for about a month? No thanks. I'm not sure I could ever bring myself to buy one cosmetic item in a game for anything even close to $60.

I use inner light on my sorc. I have been finding it very useful in Battlegrounds. Went up against quite a few nightblades who stealth and flee when I get them near death. Pop inner light and there they are, and I'm able to kill them rather then them flee from me. I'm quite liking it.

Does anyone have a Youtube video demonstrating how it should look when they're revealed?

If you ever was caught by lantern guard in some DLC area while sneaking, you will see blue orb floating around you for few seconds (it reminds me of Wisp creature). It looks the same if you manage to reveal the enemy player with Magelight - this blue orb floats around them for a bit

World or Warcraft has a very iconic "fade" sound effect to let you know a stealth character is nearby and I'm wondering if there is something more subtle in ESO that I am missing.

I can't say for sure, cause I didn't test if for at least two recent updates, but you could hear enemy player casting Magelight while he's in stealth. He could also hear your cast if you're in stealth What is for sure - I hear how enemy shouts when he's buffing himself in stealth - but it might be only if the stealth is caused by cloak, cause I hear it only when some nightblade uses cloak around me and activates some buffs while cloaked. I never noticed it if the player is actually hidden in sneak mode

Shraar wrote: »

Hello, I am having a problem. I think I am doing something wrong and would like to learn from helpful experienced players in the community.

I don't know how to properly use the "Radiant Magelight" spell in PvP.

I have come across many Nightblades who are very strong and very elusive. I thought Magelight would put an end to them, but no!

When I use it, they are not revealed. I cannot see them. It does not seem to work. They go invisible anyways. How is that possible!?

Even when I stick to them like nirnroot glue they still fade from magesight. That doesn't seem right. That moment of invisibility is enough to slip away in a fight.

What am I doing wrong? Does anyone have a Youtube video demonstrating how it should look when they're revealed?

World or Warcraft has a very iconic "fade" sound effect to let you know a stealth character is nearby and I'm wondering if there is something more subtle in ESO that I am missing.

Please Share Your Knowledge! Thank You In Advance.

The problem you are having is one part https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Swift+(Trait) with a dash of vampire https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Dark+Stalker. Add a healthy heaping of "we've made detection abilities more noticeable" (read as they break stealth when cast now) and avoiding you isn't all that hard.

I've found that the best way to reveal nightblades is radiant magelight followed by major expedition and sprinting in the general vicinity I saw them at.

The only instance that won't be easily detected is any nightblade using double take or expedition pots and concealed weapon + swift. They move at 85% increased movement speed while stealthed or invis...

Additionally, all forms of detection do stack. So using a detection pot + radiant magelight will reveal *most* stealthers/cloakers. (detection pot is +20m detection, radiant is +12m detection) Those can both be augmented by sentry set (if it's that big an issue to you, it turns that 32m range into 48 meters). So you understand, "cloaking" (in essense shadowy disguising now) turns your stealth detection "bubble" ranges to 0.

So... "cloaked Bosmer nightblade"
Forward, Side and back detection ranges are all set to 0 while cloaking (normally 20, 10, 5)
0+20+12=32meters*.65(7 medium armor)=20.8 meters-3 (bosmer stealth reduction) for 17.8 meters detection.

That's the reasonable way of catching them using radiant + detect pot.

SugaComa wrote: »

Magelighg is only really useful against bombers pick the antistun option n keep up at all time ... It's not much cop for stealth detection if you're hunting them but it's a great stealth protection if you are the hunted

Most detection works perfectly fine for detecting stealth.

It's cloaked and invisible where it pretty much fails and becomes somewhat useless or too burdensome to pull off.