Different patch but same sad story for Nightblade in PvE. Seems like every couple of months I post a video and say the same thing in the caption. Zos continues to flat out butcher blade on the pve side of things patch after patch....and just when you think it cant get any worse, they take the largest chunk of power out of it's kit without giving anything back.

I was puzzled in u38 when they took the passive bonus out of concealed weapon and instead required you to cast it every 10 seconds to maintain the buff. This basically made sustaining mag on a stamblade impossible without running tri/ulti pots (which blade cannot run without sacrificing 3 skill slots). I was again baffled in update 39 when the unique 10% damage bonus provided by concealed weapon was replaced by major berserk, thus massively nerfing the damage output of nightblade within content. This was all topped off by u41's patch notes. The damage bonus is now gone completely. Without it, nightblade is significantly behind the other classes in terms of damage within content.

On another note, reave is now gone from incapacitating strike. Reave provided 100 mag and stam back whenever you landed a light attack. This seems small but has made sustaining both pools much more difficult then before. In order to maintain stam, you now have to run parse food on the dummy. On the mag side of things, if you dont take your synergies on time, you will bottom out of mag as well when using the magicka bow morph. The sustain profile is now just as difficult as it was before when having to cast concealed every 10 seconds. It seems like they want to force you into using the new version of siphoning attacks/leeching strikes to sustain. Yes, please make me put a dead damage skill on my bar and make the DPS output EVEN WORSE. I'm not sure if the intention of this whole process was to make the rotation easier, but if it was it was not successful. Nightblade as a whole needs a LOT of love on the pve side of things.

BTW werewolf builds can do more damage then magblades now let that sink in.

Nightblade was the first class i played on ESO and remains my favorite class to play. It truly saddens me to say that I recommend that if you are thinking about playing blade in pve, dont. You are much better off looking elsewhere.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk. Appreciate you checking out the video.

1 million gold to whomever first tells me where the thumbnail screenshot was taken. [ Ссылка ]

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Race: Dark Elf
Mundus: Thief
Food: Lava foot soup and saltrice
Pots: Essence of weapon power

Build info: [ Ссылка ]
CMX: [ Ссылка ]

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Rapid strikes is very difficult to weave, but is the spammable of choice when using the maelstrom greatsword. You cant really bar swap off of it, so you need to time your rotation around bar swapping on bow procs and dot refreshes. The one really nice thing about rapid strikes is that it pretty much automatically procs aegis caller. If you need to proc aegis during the cast of another skill, then bashweave to increase your chance of a proc. I had pretty poor aegis uptime in this parse. 130k is definitely doable. Swap from strikes to killers blade at 30%. Drop your bow procs at 20%. Keep all your dots up as long as possible but dont cast anything sub 10%. With the new incap, you can save your ult on the last to make the buff in execute last longer. As always, try and line up burst windows inside your incaps. Try not to cast more then a dot or two and its often better to let them fall off slightly and use an extra spammable depending on the dot.

Thank you for watching! Let me know if you have any questions.

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