Need advice magblade sustain issues

abzdeman · November 2018

Hi, if anyone could help me clarify a few things.

I can't finish a 3 mill dummy without loosing sustain. This never used to be a problem.

I'm using 5 burning spell weave. 5 siroria and zaans. Dark elf, atronach mundus witch mothers brew.

Could anyone suggest better gear? Is there something im doing wrong?
I main stam sorc but I have a semi decent mag blade rotation at 46k

THE_BIG_BOSS · November 2018

You need to do heavy attacks like every other class now because zos likes to nerf sustain every patch.

getemshauna · November 2018

You don't need to heavy attack. Do you apply elemental drain? Witchmother's + magicka drain weapon enchant should be enough to sustain every PvE content without issues.

Capsaica · November 2018

You could go vamp to get an extra 10% regen.

The question is are you having issues sustaining in dungeons and trials? If not, then sustaining on a dummy isn't really a problem. Just ask someone to provide you some orbs for a parse occasionally.

Are you putting ele drain on the dummy? Just swap out your shield if you run one with elemental drain and you will improve your sustain that way.

I assume that you are running siphoning strikes and potions too.

Vermethys · November 2018

Are you keeping up Siphoning Strikes and Elemental Drain for the full duration? I use Mother's Sorrow instead of Burning Spellweave and with the Thief as my mundus stone, otherwise same gear. Front bar enchantment is Absorb Magicka and I'm a vampire for the 10% mag recovery.

I usually finish a 3mil dummy with around 30% magicka left (full light-attack rotation). My MagNB is a Breton though, so sustain is probably better than Dark Elf I guess.

abzdeman · November 2018

getemshauna wrote: »

You don't need to heavy attack. Do you apply elemental drain? Witchmother's + magicka drain weapon enchant should be enough to sustain every PvE content without issues.

Magicka drain enchant is probably what i'm missing

abzdeman · November 2018

Capsaica wrote: »

You could go vamp to get an extra 10% regen.

The question is are you having issues sustaining in dungeons and trials? If not, then sustaining on a dummy isn't really a problem. Just ask someone to provide you some orbs for a parse occasionally.

Are you putting ele drain on the dummy? Just swap out your shield if you run one with elemental drain and you will improve your sustain that way.

I assume that you are running siphoning strikes and potions too.

Hi I'm vamp stage 4. I just wanted to test dps. No problem in trials as I have support with orbs etc Siphoning strikes is slotted and using spell power pots etc

abzdeman · November 2018

vermillion2077 wrote: »

Are you keeping up Siphoning Strikes and Elemental Drain for the full duration? I use Mother's Sorrow instead of Burning Spellweave and with the Thief as my mundus stone, otherwise same gear. Front bar enchantment is Absorb Magicka and I'm a vampire for the 10% mag recovery.

I usually finish a 3mil dummy with around 30% magicka left (full light-attack rotation). My MagNB is a Breton though, so sustain is probably better than Dark Elf I guess.

Good advice. I'll try mother sorrow just for the dummy and also absorb magicka enchantment is what I'm missing. Thank you

Lifemocker · November 2018

Absorb magicka helps a lot, with it the sustain is pretty much as it was before the patch

SoLooney · November 2018

Nightblade sustain was nerfed thanks to bow procs not being free along with execute costing more as well

Sparr0w · November 2018

Sustain got nerfed about by about 300-400 extra drain per second since last patch (based of my 3m tests).

Witchmothers adds an extra 160 (+ modifiers) and an absorb mag enchant adds between 150-200 depending on uptime which is more than enough to counter this at the loss of a little dps.

Swap the atro back to thief, if anything run 1x magicka regen glyph if you still struggle.