czar wrote: »

I think the mix of nerfs to Khajiit, food/DCT nerf, and now Nightblade nerf (stamblade especially) has hit my character really badly. My single-target damage is laughable until the mobs get to 25% health, AOE damage is better thanks to Power Extraction (though it seriously drains my stamina which is no fun at all, and besides, only trash mobs show up in large numbers), my health stooped to a whooping 16.0k even with food buff and 1x heavy piece, and my sustain is absolutely horrendous. I didn't have to heavy attack at all before, now I have to heavy attack through 2/3 of my rotation even with lots of synergies being thrown around just to be able to cast skills that actually do some damage. It's no fun at all.

I'm clueless how to fix my build. I've tried lots of different combinations already, but I figure I need to farm gear which is going to take more time than I have to play. Am I supposed to run healthy jewelry now? 3x stam recovery glyphs? Put some points into health? Run 2x heavy? And then watch as my DPS goes further down the drain? For the first time in years I feel like a liability in vet dungeons. If anyone has any suggestions besides race-change, I'm all ears.

I don't play other classes and rarely do PvP, so I don't know nor care how other classes are performing, but playing my stamblade has never been as dreadful as it is right now. And yes, I've been here since launch when NB's were super squishy and behind every other class damage-wise.

Whatever, I guess I'll just do quests until things change. Maybe I'll find a solution along the way, and if not, maybe I'll have my first break from ESO. I'm not even trying to be dramatic, but if the game stops being fun, why should I even bother lol.

Victor_Blade wrote: »

Magblade just feels so slow and stuff. I get there is the option of running rat but what if i don't have the bar space or I don't have summerset? The loss of major expedition from cripple hit the class too hard tbh. It used to work as a gap closer or opener to maintain pressure while me slowly building up my bow and getting to melee range.

Melee magblades can still use lotus fan and stuff I guess but ranged magblade? We have 11 ability skills to slot and only 10 slot space.

Rat
Fear
Cripple
Ele drain
Shade
Cloak
Swallow soul
Healing ward
Siphoning attacks
Harness
And merciless.

Now tell me what I should drop.

We already had so much pain with the class. Then you nerf our damage and then nerfed our survivability?
The changes doesn't make sense. I'm still against the merciless changes but the cripple nerf is just too much.

We most certainly need an actual class rep now. One who mains and has played nightblade in all roles.

master_vanargand wrote: »

lorto777 wrote: »

All the other changes I know lessen the burst damage which is fine, but for me the 1 second timer for Shadow cloak needs to be left where it was before for lower levels so we can get the feel and this was not an "over power" issue. Please put the timer back for lower levels as it was before. And for those that say level to 50 and play in that campaign, I like the below 50 and want to stay there with my guild.

It's time to stop kill to low-level Noobs.
I think your guild should fight in other rules.

czar wrote: »

I think the mix of nerfs to Khajiit, food/DCT nerf, and now Nightblade nerf (stamblade especially) has hit my character really badly. My single-target damage is laughable until the mobs get to 25% health, AOE damage is better thanks to Power Extraction (though it seriously drains my stamina which is no fun at all, and besides, only trash mobs show up in large numbers), my health stooped to a whooping 16.0k even with food buff and 1x heavy piece, and my sustain is absolutely horrendous. I didn't have to heavy attack at all before, now I have to heavy attack through 2/3 of my rotation even with lots of synergies being thrown around just to be able to cast skills that actually do some damage. It's no fun at all.

I'm clueless how to fix my build. I've tried lots of different combinations already, but I figure I need to farm gear which is going to take more time than I have to play. Am I supposed to run healthy jewelry now? 3x stam recovery glyphs? Put some points into health? Run 2x heavy? And then watch as my DPS goes further down the drain? For the first time in years I feel like a liability in vet dungeons. If anyone has any suggestions besides race-change, I'm all ears.

I don't play other classes and rarely do PvP, so I don't know nor care how other classes are performing, but playing my stamblade has never been as dreadful as it is right now. And yes, I've been here since launch when NB's were super squishy and behind every other class damage-wise.

Whatever, I guess I'll just do quests until things change. Maybe I'll find a solution along the way, and if not, maybe I'll have my first break from ESO. I'm not even trying to be dramatic, but if the game stops being fun, why should I even bother lol.

Wytch wrote: »

So here's my 2 cents just in case the devs ever check this thread anymore. I already did a thread on nerfs in general and how they cripple all the players EXCEPT the ones they are aimed at, so no point in rehashing that here.

I'm a "filthy casual." I don't do trials. I don't do vet stuff. I've never set foot in vMA or any arena for that matter. I avoid PvP like it's the plague. I like to play the game mostly solo, occasionally with some friends, I like the fantasy of the game and seeing what other people do with this "play how you like" mentality of the game. I'm a bosmer b/c I like both elves and bows, I'm a NB b/c I think any decent tracker/hunter should be sneaky. So, ignore my opinion like I'm sure everyone will.

You felt the need to change race passives because.... i don't know.. whatever, so my bosi stealth got nerfed to the point of needing special gear to be as sneaky as i was. Fine, if I try to be the squeaky wheel I'll just get ignored anyway.

Now you've gone and nerfed NB so far into the ground they might as well be a dwemer. Whatever.

But for $#!7s sake WHY would you change something like the focus/morphs... which fires a shot from a spectral BOW (which, hey, cool, more fantasy immersion and fun for me) and change it's ability to a heal (which also, I don't mind that for the most part) but then limit that heal to only a freaking 7 meter range!?!?!?

I wanna know what was being smoked at that meeting. "Look, we all know this nerf is gonna annoy a lot of people, so let's try to make up for it at least a little bit by adding something different to this ability. I KNOW! Let's give it seven meter heal too!"

"But, 7 meters, for something that's supposed to shoot out of a basically a conjured bow? What about people that like to play ranged?"

"Oh, don't worry about them, they can use draining shot or something." ---

Except, draining shot only heals you if the target WAS STUNNED! It's basically useless on the more powerful mobs out in the world, never mind world bosses or delve/public dungeon event bosses.

Sorry for the rant. it's 6am and i've been up for 24 hours. I'm just salty that a few pvp desynch-glitch-gankers caused my fun solo Jaqspur/Ranger play to be rendered next to useless now.

goodnight all.

Sarjako wrote: »

PVP StamNB

I main a StamNB. I have a few other maxed characters; Magplar, StamDK and Stamsorc. Now as of the last patch my StamNB is nearly unplayable. I've tried different set combinations ( granted no new item sets, just Hundings, Spriggans, etc ) and the class just hits like a wet noodle. I'm considering trying another heavy build but I'm really tired of coming back from hiatuses and having to completely RELEARN and furthermore rebuild the class that I felt most comfortable with. I'm not going to go into each skill and how it's "hurt me". It's obvious what changes were made in the patch notes. What I'm saying is, when I queue in to a BG or into Cyrodiil with 2x dmg sets or 1x dmg and 1x sustain set... it's garbage. The class is ruined. Hits like a wet noodle and it feels like all its good for now is roll dodging around and cloak spamming.