Deathlord92 wrote: »

So can’t wait to test it myself anyone who knows me knows I main stamblade. So how’s stamblade in graymoor pc players? What’s it like with stuhns favour and as a vampire both things I’m eager to try?

not running vampire or stuhns on stam NB there are a few other sets and older sets that are currently fun to play on

Stamblade is and always will be for players who know the game or noobs who snipe. Being a mediocre stamblade means you can't cover the weaknesses good enough and you might as well run a class with more survivability.

I've found vampire to be very good for non-cp stamnb. Start off in sneak and use bow light attack for wd enchant proc. You get 900 wd for 6 seconds just by doing that (if you wear med armour of course)! I tried Stuhn in non-cp and it just seems really awkward to use. I'd recommend trying a different set. I use nma and acuity myself. The 10% skill cost increase isn't so bad because I just stacked regen. The base crit res is good too. I swapped out 5 traits for well fitted and don't see much difference in surviveability. I wear snow treaders too to get rid of snares/roots that could get me burst down. With bow roll and channeled accel mobility really isn't a problem.

EtTuBrutus wrote: »

Deathlord92 wrote: »

EtTuBrutus wrote: »

Stamblade is and always will be for players who know the game or noobs who snipe. Being a mediocre stamblade means you can't cover the weaknesses good enough and you might as well run a class with more survivability.

After testing I’m actually really liking stamblade in graymoor the healing nerf is painful for stamblade but our healing isn’t suppose to be good anyways but our burst ohhh man I’m loving it feels a lot better imo.

I actually like the healing. Dark cloak is an excellent magicka dump imo. I think of it like this- it takes 2 gcds to make my stam dks vigor strong. With those same 2 gcds i can cast dark cloak and vigor and heal for 3k per second before crits. Sure it's not a vigor with major mending, but it's not like the healing is abysmal.

I don't think stealth is fun in small group play as it forces your opponent to attack someone else. Almost of my builds are meant to stand and fight instead of run and gun.

I personally love playing with shadow disguise i play solo and I love the option of getting in and out of the fight if I can’t x the group I’m fighting I will just use hit and run tactics really enjoying this patch.

OBJnoob wrote: »

Night cap Zerg -v- snipeblades that won’t even go down with the ship. Lol. Under the circumstances you’re probably justified. If snipe didn’t desync so much I personally wouldn’t have a problem with it at all. It’s not a nightblade skill... got nothin to do with nothin.

Not sure sniping 3 people from a wall demonstrates a lot of skill or knowledge in the way your character plays though. No more than pouring oils on rams anyway. It’s certainly a sorta game savvy but when combat is all flow and no ebb I don’t think we can talk about skill. They can’t hit you back.

Bugs me to hear about snipe theories and “rotations” as if anything at all would ever mess up the three buttons you gotta hit first.

Heh, well - always fighting to the point that end result is obvious: 50 zerglings running in to inner keep and on flags, last kills and then i tactically retreat from the top floor.. or stay and hide for ganks inside the keep. Depends on mood. But yeah, not gonna give those zerglings the satisfaction of running over me with 50 and thinking they are great. They do not earn that AP, they can keep hitting npcs and feel awesome about their pvdoor map conquering without much resistance.

So.. i use all the most salty tricks then and Snipe is the Salt Arrow from a far.. like a blow kiss i send to them with my Bow, to show i care. Gives me nice AP ticks often, that underdog bonus is nice.

But yeah, it is funny when someone mentions using Snipe every now and then, some assume they must be noobs. Like spamming Dizzy is the only REAL WARRIORS skill (on all classes) and anyone using anything else is a potato. Trust me, i play melee most times on all my characters and i spam Dizzy so much that i have become one with Dizzy.

I play melee Magblade with all the most complicated burst minigame on a glass cannon setup that on what even 1 second of lag means trouble, so trust me.. i know my NB class lol.

Sniping with Stamblade feels good when against so big groups that no point in going yolo in middle of it (why would i give them free AP?), and not because of desync, most times i play (outside of primetime) it functions normally. Only when it lags it has increased chances on doing that, same as what Shock damage does. When i play my Magsorc i end up accidentally desyncing others health way more than with my Stamblade. Facts.

Also, trying to use Snipe on primetime, it takes 3 seconds to cast and often not even launch after cast time.. same as Dizzy.

Atleast on StamNB the Surprise Attack "spam" works just nicely.