NB Passive Hemorrhage

ScruffyWhiskers · July 2020

All the NB passives are magicka and stamina agnostic except this one. Is there some way to throw magicka a bone for this one? Minor Prophecy maybe?

WITH AN ASSASSINATION ABILITY SLOTTED
Increases damage dealt by Critical Damage done by 10%.

Dealing Critical Damage grants you and your group Minor Savagery, increasing Weapon Critical Strike rating by 1320 for 20 seconds.

ManDraKE · July 2020

All classes have a minor buff that they can apply to teammates. In the case of the nighblade is Minor Savagery. Minor Prophecy is the sorcerer minor buff.

ExistingRug61 · July 2020

This passive is one of the class passives that give the unique minor buffs. The others being

Sorcerer - Exploitation - Minor Prophecy
Templar - Illuminate - Minor Sorcery
Dragonknight - Mountain's Blessing - Minor Brutality
Warden - Maturation - Minor Toughness

They are specifically set up so that there is only one source of each (outside of poisons) to promote class diversity and as such I would assume the addition of minor prophecy to this is off the table.

I also don't really see the need for the passives to all be mag/stam agnostic. There is certainly room for them to be stronger or weaker for Magicka/Stamina. A converse example is Magicka Flood, which while I guess is still helpful for a Stamina Nightblade, is definitely more impactful on a Magicka Nightblade.

Nightblade is better off than most other classes in this regard to begin with - just take a look at some of the other passives above - Exploitation and Illumination only give the minor buff, so are of almost no use to the stamina counterparts. Whereas at least Hemorrhage has the bonus critical damage that is universally useful.

(For reference, I am a Magblade main, so such an improvement be of benefit to me. However, while I do think maybe Magblade does need help, I don't think this passive in particular is where it needs it)

ScruffyWhiskers · July 2020

Ah, ok Thanks guys. I've played since the beginning of the game but I didn't notice that pattern since I only play NB. The asymmetry is a little annoying. Does a mag sorc need a lucky bonus? Should switch them around and let stam sorc and mag nb get the synergy for solo.

And I do think the class passives should be stam and magicka agnostic. Or at least even in terms of usefulness if you want to specialize them. I actually liked the game better before the great schism stamina was made its own separate skill pool but that's just me.

Strider__Roshin · July 2020

I must have missed the stamina bonus you get from Magicka Flood

Playboy_Shrek · July 2020

they just need to make it work without a assassination ability slotted so we can play NB WW.

ScruffyWhiskers · July 2020

Strider__Roshin wrote: »

I must have missed the stamina bonus you get from Magicka Flood

I'd have no problems with them making it grant 8% stamina too.

But yeah, I see your point. Guess I still have bad feelings about the old Khajiit passive not giving spell crit before they changed the passives a few years ago. Had to go to Dunmer and never got my tail back. Too lazy to change now.

Edit: Although to be honest, +8% magicka isn't exactly useless on a stam blade. +weapon crit and damage is useless on a mag blade.