Archer Nightblade or Melee DPS?

Darkshadow1911 · April 2014

Trying to decide between Melee DPS and NightBlade Archer. I was thinking about being a Sorc but my god there is about 20 for every 1 dps of another type. Whats your thoughts about NightBlade vs Melee? And what should I focus on first on Stam or Endurance?

Azzuria · April 2014

My Bosmer Nightblade, level 11, is focused on the Bow and Syphon tree. Good DPS, a knock-back, CC spell and the self-heal can be morphed into an AoE heal. At 15 I will be dual-weilding to provide for more combat options but will probably stay mainly focused on the Bow.

As for which stat you should focus on, that depends entirely upon which abilities you slot.

Darkshadow1911 · April 2014

if I go Archer, I will at some point do like you in my lvl 15 to 20 will start to pick up a weapon. I pick how my skills play out by thinking about the toon in a rpg way. Like a NightBlade with archery will be a stalker that is an assassin, will sneak in flow target until its in the perfect type and from a distance will Rain arrows down on it. But will need to pick up duel at some point for those targets that I cant get in a good line of sight for the perfect shot, and have to get them up close and personal. anyways. But If I go Melee I probley go 2h or duel.

I just dont want there to be 700 of Nightblades like me and only be 100 of a Sorc (which there isnt, I see them more then anything else) or Melee DPS.

Uncle_Bob · April 2014

Play which ever play style you like. I've tried a bunch of different class/race combos and I finally settled on Woodelf Bow Nightblade. I wouldn't count on playing the combo least chosen as a reason to play a certain combo. Most combos have range and melee abilities anyway.

I picked my Woodelf Bow Nightblade because it has a strong ranged opener using stamina, self healing with siphon and the ability to jump in and start melee with magic based abilities.

Azzuria · April 2014

I picked Bosmer Nightbow because... well, because Bosmer Nightbow.