Pleased with NB skill tree being realigned

Sahidom · July 19

I am pleased about the NB skill tree being realigned. I made this suggestion back in October 2019.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6395699#Comment_6395699

It took them 5 years.

Sahidom · July 19

Ops. Ignore this reply. Clicked on reply by accident.

Finedaible · July 19

It does make sense thematically and was overdue, but the loss of Dark Vigor and Shadow Barrier on NB's main spammable is significant after years of design choices around it. Gaining 438 critical via Pressure Points doesn't quite make up for that loss in my opinion.

I hope they give NB's something more for PvE sake.

Sahidom · July 20

Finedaible wrote: »

It does make sense thematically and was overdue, but the loss of Dark Vigor and Shadow Barrier on NB's main spammable is significant after years of design choices around it. Gaining 438 critical via Pressure Points doesn't quite make up for that loss in my opinion.

I hope they give NB's something more for PvE sake.

One plausible idea would be to shift Path of Darkness into Siphoning to benefit from Soul Cleaver class set with the 18% damage bonus on the AoE Twisted Path. However, this may not be plausible because Siphoning has decent thematic skills.

Path of Darkness, in my opinion, needs some rework. The initial skill offers nothing substantial for the class since Major Expedition is accessible with other abilities. The team play benefit is lackluster and the initial skill offers no indication on pathing options into its morphs.

Maybe "Zone of Darkness" that has a radius surrounding the character that causes Sundering status effect on targets damaged while inside the radius effect of the ability. Later, abled to channel the morph into a directional AoE. This is one unique NB skill where the initial skill could be the "third" variant that offers the character player an alternative choice based on the needs of the character build e.g. Tanks would benefit from the Sundering status and other builds could always use the extra penetration equivalent when the target's resistances are reduced.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · July 21

Finedaible wrote: »

It does make sense thematically and was overdue, but the loss of Dark Vigor and Shadow Barrier on NB's main spammable is significant after years of design choices around it. Gaining 438 critical via Pressure Points doesn't quite make up for that loss in my opinion.

I hope they give NB's something more for PvE sake.

Well that does not affect me even in the slightest, My main does not even use the class spammable nor does he use Invisibility.

It is good the class skills though make sense now, Concealed Weapon/Suprise Attack summoned a spectral weapon just like the Assassination Skills do but was in the Shadow Skill tree for some reason, then you had Blur, a self-buff that had nothing to do with Assasination in the Assasination skill tree.