UPDATE for patch 1.6 (on PTS not final) Welcome to our ESO Nightblade Skills Guide. The Nightblade (NB) has some of the best and most powerful skills in Elder Scrolls Online and we’re here to show you how they work. This is part two in our Nightblade class guide, covering skills and morphs. We cover all the skills and morphs we feel are the best. Note, depending on your play-style, the best morph might be different than ours, regardless we’re going to explain each skill and how to use them. Let’s get started!
Assassination
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Shadow
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Siphoning
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It may be awesome to be a stam NB for PVP using ambush, surprise attack and killers blade. I may have to try it out.
Yeah can’t wait to get the stamina heal Vigor.
I can only think that this is part of the “blanket multiply by 10 rule”, as 100% of something means just that…every time. If I have 100% chance to crit then I will crit with every attack. If I have more than that (and on PTS I have almost 500% Spell Crit) then that must mean my enemies are attacking themselves and I can sit back and laugh at them.
More than 100% is a useless statistic on Zeni’s part and needs to be fixed soon.
I don’t really understand the passive Pressure Points – Increases critical strike rating by 2519 for each assassination ability slotted. does that increases your chance to crit?? by how much %??
It’s basically a couple of percent now that they changed the value of abilities.
Very curious to see a NB stam build for PvE purposes post 1.6. Seem to be respeccing every week and can’t find a DPS bow build for NB that makes sense. I liked your 1.5 build. Changed with 1.6?
Still working on it.
Yeah no problem.! Really appreciate what you do. And you’re amazing at this. Will donate to site as well.
deltia why does power extraction deal 453 magic damage if now the skill scales of staminia
No idea, did it say in FTC or where did you get the damage value from?
in the picture from the skill it said magic damage
Might have been a typo.
Hi Deltia, I’m a little fan of your playing and builds, th for your playing and sharing. I’m playing on EU server and after patch 6 got little problem get DPS bow single target over 11k. I’m imperial NB, using 4 peaces of Opthian set, 3 peace of Hunting rage + bow so 4 peaces, 2 rings of hawk eye, necklase not set, enchan jewelry – one reduce cost of time drinking, two + weapon Demage, armor enchant all in Stamina, attributes, 5m, 52h, 5s, champions all in poison Demage, all in regeneration stamina, all in block, 30 points each. Aspon Demage around 2400 without buff. Skills for bow single target, verdron arrow, leather arrow, reletness focus, evil hunter, repeats mark, ulti dawnbreaker +5% weapon buff. Think that I have little problems with rotation skills and use advantage of relentless focus. Still using your old rotation get target poison dot, spamming lethal arrow, but can’t get effectively use there relentless focus. Thx for your time. I would like to get DPS about 1800. White 🙂
is there a limit to the % if it goes beyond 100%?
you would not need one
Im looking to make a healer class endgame and was curious how effective funnel health would be, im an ol druid HoT healer from wow and love that heal style, is funnel health effective as a heal, is it spammable, and does the heal stack if targeting multiple enemies?
Templar…..nothing is comparable to Breath of Life, not even close.
I believe it’s good they changed the scaling attribute for some of the NB class abilities to stamina, in order to boost their effectiveness for all the stamina builds.
I’m still not sure about the governing attribute for the critical chance of those abilities. Let’s take Killer’s Blade for example, it now scales its damage over Stamina and Weapon Power, good, but does the probability for it to crit depend on Weapon Crit % or Spell Crit %?
And what about other class abilities? Is the crit probability of all magicka related class abilities related to Spell Crit % and all stamina related class abilities based on Weapon Crit % or is it a case by case dependancy?
It’s case specific. Generally crit scales off what is highest (weapon/spell).
Hey deltia, I was wondering if the ability double take’s speed buff can be used while on a mount. If no, can quick cloak (might be blade cloak idk) be used? Thanks for reading and for all the content!
Hi 🙂 I’m a level 13 dual wield dagger nightblade and im just wondering what are the best skills to have on .
Killers Blade and Steel Tornado.
Swallow Soul text has an extra “a” in it.
Hey Deltia, I was wondering if you had a skill build for the rest of the stuff on this build. Like passives, armor, and the rest… Thanks!
Nevermind I meant on the nightblade build page. Will repost there.
Hey there, was wondering why you choose poison over physical damage (bow) on your specter nightblade.
Is it possible to increase the leeching skrike healing effect by increasing perks that increases healing done by you?
Can the healing effect of leeching strikes increase using perks that improves healing done by you such as the argonian passive ability
I don’t know
Got any ideas for a NB tank build? I have been thinking of resetting everything and trying it, it seems it would be fun with these ablities.
Have you considered making a tank build for NB with these skills? Due to low amount of tank players (on xb1), I found myself tanking as a NB Dps, surprisingly it worked with just a shield and a few taunting skills and siphoning.
Hey I was wondering if you could create a nightblade healer build. I am working my character towards that and would love to know how viable it would be when facing end game.
Hey mmm play this 3 mothes nightblade my can tip i dot what tip ross for ues bow and dueal sword
I’m interested in making a thief-build for the thieves’ guild DLC, and was wondering if the summoned shade from the Summon Shade power (and its morphs) is actually attacked by other NPCs such as guards or just attacks foes for you…
Pretty sure it just sits there unattackable though I’m not 100% sure.
Thanks so much for the timely feedback, Deltia!
I have an Dunmer V3 and wanted more to become more of a DPS presence. I stared changing my ability bar accord to information found here, but now I’m extremely squishy. Can I bring love for this character back without re-spec of all my skills to truly follow the guides found here?
Yes are you playing magicka or stamina? If magicka, you NEED swallow Soul. Try it out.
Stamina, but I’m finding it hard to let go of my heavy armor, dropped in game, because of the squishyness.
Hey,
ever thought about adding a personal ranking for each active skill? Maybe divide it into a PvP and a PvE score/mark or something like that!? Would be great for crafting builds since many people like me use your website as a valuable ressource anyway.
Cheers!
That’s a great idea it’s just super labor intensive because it always changed.
Hey DG, im kinda new to eso so i have a question. The dark brotherhood patch has changed a few things. I want to be able to switch between a stamina tank build and a dps build on a nightblade. And I Playing as an Imperial. Before I invest hours of gameplay onto this character i just want to know if this is a viable thing to do? I know imperial stamina dps is viable. Whats your take on a stamina nightblade tanking?
Yeah it’s possible. I much prefer mag NB tanking but stamina can be done.
I am using on my bow bar: Acid spray, Lethal arrow, Camouflaged Hunter, Reapers mark, Impale and Veil of blades. On my dual wield bar I have Blood craze, Rapid strikes, Whirlwind, Blade cloak, Ambush and Soul harvest. Please let me know any skills that should be changed.
Also to add I am a kajiit nightblade with a 62.5% crit chance and am champion level 30
I am using on my bow bar: Acid spray, Lethal arrow, Camouflaged Hunter, Reapers mark, Impale and Veil of blades. On my dual wield bar I have Blood craze, Rapid strikes, Whirlwind, Blade cloak, Ambush and Soul harvest. Please let me know any skills that should be changed. Also to add I am a kajiit nightblade with a 62.5% crit chance and am champion level 30
Do you happen to know if Sap is considered an area heal?
My second full armor set on my NB tank could be pretty much anything and I haven’t settled yet so I was thinking I might really like to work in a group set and I don’t like alkosh cause its really for stam builds and I’m not doing trials with that guy anyway (at least not yet ;D)… I’m less impressed with imperium cause the cool down bites, I hate lunar bastion but I was thinking maybe just maybe healing mage. Only prob is my big self heal is sap. Could rotate healing springs in but swapping bars can literally kill you so I’d rather not…
Area heals typically are ground based, like healing springs and sap is not that. But you could try it and see if it works.
I recently watched your most of your nightblade vma videos as I am planning to do it soon. As I am a cp 257 magblade I dont have the gear you listed however I do have some good gear with 3 agility jewelry, 5 piece hundings rage and 2 piece selenes. Any tips and advice will be appreciated.
It’ll be hard with low cp and no Vicious Ophidian. Use every sigil if you’re going for completes.
Many thanks for replying. After reading my previous comment again I realized a mistake, I am a stamblade not a magblade. Also I attempted vma yesterday and could not get past the first round (I managed to get the boss to 50% using all sigils). Any alternative suggestions since the correction would be appreciated as well as any tips to get past the boss round. Many thanks Deltia, your videos have helped me a lot.
So I’m new to ESO, can someone give me an example of the final abilites i should take from each class of skills? Also could someone explain generally how many i would want to take from each as well. (how many from assassination, how many from shadow, and how many from siphoning.). Im also new to MMO’s, i have had a hard time understanding things in this game. Skyrim was never a problem but i think since this is an mmo im having more of a difficult time with it. Anyways Thanks!
Each build list the skill line, morphs and unmorphed version which I assume what you want to know?