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How do I make my shadow archer NB better?

david271749
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I'm a level 47 Bosmer. I'm focused more on a pve spec. Pvp doesn't interest me yet.

I use bow as primary and secondary weapons. One bar is set up for single target and the other for multiple target.

I have soul siphon for health and some skills I can swap out for situational purposes.

I use all medium armor. I don't have any sets yet and I don't repair yet.

My atributes are evenly spread between health, stamina, and magicka.

My primary craft is enchanting. Secondary is clothing.

One think I'd like to maintain is my foucs on shadow and bow.

Any advice is appreciated.





Edited by david271749 on June 5, 2014 6:31AM

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  • GrimCyclone
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    I use this for my Nightblade.
    1st Bar is the same as my 2nd Bar.
    1st Bar is duel daggers. 2nd Bar is Bow.

    Bar:
    Fire Rune morphed into Volcanic Rune
    Entropy morphed into Degeneration
    Drain Power morphed into Power Extraction
    Strife morphed into Swallow Soul
    Siphoning Strikes morphed into Leeching Strikes

    Duel daggers strategy:
    Volcanic Rune is a crowd control ability.
    Degeneration is a single target dot plus health leech.
    Power Extraction is a power leech and aoe damager.
    Swallow Soul is a nice single target damager plus health leech.
    Leeching Strikes is good for it's replenishing effects.

    Bow strategy:
    Basically the same it's just more defensive so, I just use Runes for CC
    Leeching Strikes is still good for this, but daggers hit faster.
    Hitting faster makes you replenish a bit faster.

    Attributes I put health to 49.
    Then I enchant my armor for health and magicka until softcap. (orange stat)

    My sign is the shadow. Extra crit damage. This is a crit build.
    My weapons have crit on them.
    My khajiit passives have crit.

    I'm VR7 now and with purple gear I'm owning.
    You just have to be a bit more careful in VR levels.
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  • aco5712
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    Well since you want to concentrate on shadow skill line and bow, here is what i would do.

    Multi Target
    1. Bombard
    2. Volley (probably morph to scorched)
    3. Twisting Path (you could do refreshing but your trying to stay away from the mobs)
    4. Shadow Image
    5. Up to you. You can run aspect of terror for OH **** moments. Run your siphon for health. Run cloak to save you. Up to you really. Maybe run killers blade here to give you a heal and a finisher.
    Ulti. Veil of blades.

    How i would run this rotation.
    Send out your shades to occupy them. Idk if they will aggro onto you as soon as you send the shades. If they did, maybe choose something else?
    You scorch earth them, and before it lands you need to bombard them to immobilize them and snare them. Its a amazing skill. And then get close and cast twisting path on them and then bombard lock them again. And basically just keep them bombard locked in the aoes to give you survivability while you cast a skill or 2 inbetween. Scorched earth is a aoe damage, so is twisting path. If you can keep this up, you shouldnt have too much of a problem i think.

    Side note: Really effective way of healing is to mark one of the mobs with mark target and then swap to your aoe bar and do this rotation and then when the marked mob gets to 25%, killers blade him. If you want the distance, maybe use impale. Regardless, you get a 40-55% of your health healed from killing 1 mob. This uses the assassination tree but its very effective since NBs are kinda squishy. If your not getting hit coz you can maintain the immbolize lock, then you dont need this but its just another suggestion :)

    Single target bar is probably the cloak+viel strike combo combined with DoTs like poison arrow, and maybe twisting path and maybe magnum shot to give you space. Other then that, good luck. Hope i could help
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  • david271749
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    This is what I've got so far. I did not include crafting or armor. The shadow and siphoning passives might be one or two off, because I'm unable to check the exact number. I'm not at home. I do plan on getting all of those passives as well as tge fighters guild passives. Thanks for helping me so far. Please keep the advice coming! I hope this link works.
    Edited by david271749 on June 5, 2014 10:13AM
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