Donny_Vito wrote: »

Right now, Nightblades are not the "meta" class. While the recent changes have helped out with damage mitigation and some extra heals, it came at the cost of some of their damage output which is why you'll see top raiding groups not really have a nightblade (or maybe just 1) in their group. Now, this doesn't mean your average trial groups can't clear content with them, but I'm just stating that they don't put up the DPS numbers that they once did (for better or worse). I can't really attest to Nightblades in PvP, though, so I'll leave that for someone else. In general, my PvE Nightblades (both Mag and Stam) are gather cobwebs right now.

The one reason nightblades aren't seen in top groups is that stamcros are there. Nothing else beats the Major vulnerability stacking. 1 stamblade (or NB tank) is still required is for the critical buff.

Less experienced players tend to perform worse on nightblades (both specs) because of their reliance on weaving and will perform the same or better on other classes.

Stamblades have lost no damage from the loss of Major fracture since it's already provided, while the minor berzerk is provided by healers. The main difference is that healers have to provide throughout the whole fight, instead of solely for execute.

If not for stamcros, we'd be stacking stamblades. Which is what we did before Elsweyr.