This is, by far and above, the best build guide I've watched. Not just for the Nightblade, just in general. The amount of detail you go over and the different situational info you go over is extremely useful.
Wow. Incredible explanations. This is the first one of your videos I’ve seen. I don’t aspire to being an elite player, but this still gave me a lot of insight and things to consider for being just a good, solid player. Great job.
I find Selene’s to consistently do higher dps than any other monster set on my dummy parses. It’s really cool that Selene’s is still viable after all these years ❤
I appreciate your videos a lot, I’ve improved on parses and learned SO much everytime I watch. You’ve def made me a better player hands down. THANK YOU for doing what you do. You OP! 🔥🙏🏼
Great video. Just wanted to say thank you. Won 1500 crowns in a give away on stream. Bought the newest dungeons with them. You cross my mind every time I go into oathsworn pit.
Amazing as always. And man. I learned a massive parsing tip. U know how bad my internet is and i thought i was crazy for feeling like taking the shard synergy on parsing makes me lag spike for a sec or two until u said it here lol. Ill even notice i usually miss a rele LA as im taking the synergy and ive naturally learned to take it during instant cast abilities. Never rlly thought the lag was tied to taking it during channeled abilities lol. Thx.
Currently I'm running ansuul's on body, order's on front bar, 1pc slimecraw, velothi and maelstrom TH I'm hitting easily 90k, and while most meta stuff can do better, I'm feeling comfortable with this build since it matches my playstyle, and can do a lot of content with it, also hits like a truck on solo
for the two hand bar i just used the siphon skill that gives you hp and stem on an attack, and then the shadow thing for extra critrate passively,,, because i dont have maxed gear or build stuff yet.
id take the dps loss and not use rappid strike awful animation its like someone throwing a punch/throw with their none dominate hand with both hands being that way lol
Absolute quality guide. Well done 👍🏻 I’m trying to grow as an average solo player & don’t quite understand everything in this much detail yet. What would be the best gear & weapon set up for casual pve & dungeons. My goal is to complete all zone stories & eventually push to vet dungeons. Trial gear is out the question for me lol. Keep up the great work & thanks👍🏻
Amazingly detailed build guide! My question; for someone who is fairly new to the game and just getting into endgame I don't own any trial sets as of right now so I'm currently running Pillar of Nirn with Orders Wrath. Would it be more beneficial for me to swap out Nirn for Aegis? Still learning how to pair sets together. Thank you!
Hi I’m new to eso and I was wondering if the witch knights defiance set would be good option for a Vampire Stam build. I do have the Aegis Caller set and planning on getting Moras whispers
they also need to give orc the 1000 stamina back you have highelf with 2k mag and 250 wepond spell damage. yest no Equivalent for stam except for the hybrid race.
Perfect video thank you so much ! I Watch this vid many times 😂 I run a dark elf with Relequen (not perf)/ Nirm or Aegis / Maelstorm Great sword and Selene full gold but I hit between 101k & 104k dps max (for me is nearly the same aegis or nirm hit the same) What s your max dps with this setup ?
@@eigh1puppies really ? How is that possible I have the same rotation and I practice a lot I hit 108k dps but 131k appears to be impossible. I m only 1070 Cp maybe it’s for this reason ?
@@2010pitbull sorry, rele nirn will be a little lower but not more than a couple K. Hitting 130k + requires mastery and a bit of luck. I’m happy to take a look at the parse and offer some pointers! Join the discord and shoot me a dm :)
If your dot or aoes are not doing very much DPS, it’s likely because they are not being reapplied right as they expire. The goal is to keep those timer based skills up 100% of the time
Thank you for the video! And I just wanted to ask, what is the addon that shows the subsequence of skills you just used? (it appears in the left corner every time you cast a skill)
DPS numbers for a trial dummy might look good, but for mundane dungeon clears or just on a regular dummy numbers are kind of mediocre, got better results with an oakensoul build
Is the new "Traveling Knife" with Warrior's Opportunity plus Major Savagery and Prophecy better then Rapid strikes this Patch? Would allow you to run Heroism pots without losing Crit Chance. (Assuming you have a DK providing brutality and Sorcery in your group)
@@eigh1puppies It seemed to pull ahead on my tests. The 8% increase to all martial damage through Warrior's Opportunity is probably carrying the Skill. But then again. I'm not that consistent when it comes to parses. So might just have been easier to weave for me. Sustain is a lot tougher tho.
Ever tried replacing Briarheart with Azureblight, in the trash setup? Would it be better or worse? Do you know what would be the loss in dps, if replacing coral with Whorl of the depths/ansuul?
It depends how fast your trash is dying. Usually, azure is not worth in trash but if you’re in a newer group with slower damage it could be worth! Coral vs Whorl is like 2-5% dps at most!
Look no further people. This mf is invited to every cookout. Cuz he seasoned this vid like grandma was right next to him with the wooden spoon. Bro cooked, ate, and left no crumbs.
I'm sorry, coming back to the game. When you say"For content..." what do you mean, like dungeons or overland or quest or arena, they all are content aren't they ? Thank you
Can someone explain why all of the skills he shows are ones that Magicka when this is a Stamblade? I haven’t played in 5 years and looking at coming back so I may have forgotten something
I don’t understand I have everything and even been getting the parse down to a point and yet I’m only sitting at 82k dps what’s going on? I’m on Xbox na
5:31 Alliance Battle Drot!?!? It is Droft, not Drot. Though the vowel is often pronounced as an A instead of an O. Like how you can have a draft beer, not a drot beer.
It's very tough. I messed around with certain prebuffs that barely gave me enough sustain with the Static Roto, I'd recommend giving that section a watch!
@eigh1puppies I'm used to the static rotation but I'm still only maxing out at like 63k. I'm wondering if it may be a weaving issue? I'm not using the comet on the opener either and I'm only 500 cp. I'm running nirn, zaan and hundings(in place of s trial set right now). Would orders wrath make a difference if I switch to that?
@@eigh1puppies Dude, I got a question. I do PvE and PvP casually, so I'm not sure whether to morph Grim Focus into Merciless Resolve or Relentless Focus, same goes for Siphoning Strikes morphing into Siphoning Attacks or Leeching Strikes. What do you think I should go with?
@@williammccowan364 riptide 5 pieces on body, aegis caller daggers on front bar + all jewelry, maelstrom greatsword backbar, and Selene head and shoulders
Weaving is what kills this game for me. This thing, "canceling animations" is a thing from fight games, not a MMO. I cannot play groups, I played Wow and FF14 for eons, done hundreds of raids way harder than any eso trials on both of them, but i refuse to play this trick minigame for beiing able to do dps on groups. I play ESO very very casual since its Beta, i have low CP, but i can do my quests, can solo Worldboss maps, can do normal dungeons sometimes, and thats it. Guess I will never touch endgame on ESO because of weaving.
This is, by far and above, the best build guide I've watched. Not just for the Nightblade, just in general. The amount of detail you go over and the different situational info you go over is extremely useful.
100% agree
In awe of your level of detail and reasoning behind each option. I learn so much watching your videos. Thank you!
Been playing a stam blade since forever ago. It's by far my favorite class. Love this video! Thank you ❤
@SpiritWeaver1122 I havnt been playing long but it is super fun. High skill threshold. Reminds me of ninja in ffxiv.
Much love bro, awesome video cant wait for the next one
Wow. Incredible explanations. This is the first one of your videos I’ve seen. I don’t aspire to being an elite player, but this still gave me a lot of insight and things to consider for being just a good, solid player. Great job.
I find Selene’s to consistently do higher dps than any other monster set on my dummy parses. It’s really cool that Selene’s is still viable after all these years ❤
I appreciate your videos a lot, I’ve improved on parses and learned SO much everytime I watch. You’ve def made me a better player hands down. THANK YOU for doing what you do. You OP! 🔥🙏🏼
Thanks, crazy good guide, and i saw a lot on Nightblades! Nothing to add, all general stuff in it!
Great video. Just wanted to say thank you. Won 1500 crowns in a give away on stream. Bought the newest dungeons with them. You cross my mind every time I go into oathsworn pit.
Let’s go!!!!!
Amazing as always. And man. I learned a massive parsing tip. U know how bad my internet is and i thought i was crazy for feeling like taking the shard synergy on parsing makes me lag spike for a sec or two until u said it here lol. Ill even notice i usually miss a rele LA as im taking the synergy and ive naturally learned to take it during instant cast abilities. Never rlly thought the lag was tied to taking it during channeled abilities lol. Thx.
Literally perfect time to drop this , ive been waiting for a good nb vid and im on a long haul drive rn 😂🎉
Currently I'm running ansuul's on body, order's on front bar, 1pc slimecraw, velothi and maelstrom TH
I'm hitting easily 90k, and while most meta stuff can do better, I'm feeling comfortable with this build since it matches my playstyle, and can do a lot of content with it, also hits like a truck on solo
Bruh. This is so awesome. I need this.
Well done my friend. 😊
Hi Eigh1 Puppies! Great vid. Thanks for sharing
for the two hand bar i just used the siphon skill that gives you hp and stem on an attack, and then the shadow thing for extra critrate passively,,, because i dont have maxed gear or build stuff yet.
Good choices!
id take the dps loss and not use rappid strike awful animation its like someone throwing a punch/throw with their none dominate hand with both hands being that way lol
Hey man, thanks for your effort
Absolute quality guide. Well done 👍🏻
I’m trying to grow as an average solo player & don’t quite understand everything in this much detail yet. What would be the best gear & weapon set up for casual pve & dungeons. My goal is to complete all zone stories & eventually push to vet dungeons. Trial gear is out the question for me lol. Keep up the great work & thanks👍🏻
I’d do something like orders wrath + back alley gourmand or mothers sorrow, until you can eventually get a set like aegis caller!
Awesome. Thanks for the reply
Amazingly detailed build guide! My question; for someone who is fairly new to the game and just getting into endgame I don't own any trial sets as of right now so I'm currently running Pillar of Nirn with Orders Wrath. Would it be more beneficial for me to swap out Nirn for Aegis? Still learning how to pair sets together. Thank you!
Orders wrath will be really good for content, but on the dummy I would guess you’d get more out of Pillar + Aegis Caller!
@@eigh1puppies okay awesome! thank you for the help :D
Great vid but where are the champion points?, I’m a returning player and they changed the whole champion system since I last played
At the end of the Basic Build Info section, also linked in the description!
@@eigh1puppiesahh ok thanks
Hi I’m new to eso and I was wondering if the witch knights defiance set would be good option for a Vampire Stam build. I do have the Aegis Caller set and planning on getting Moras whispers
Yeah it doesn’t look like a bad option, though I feel the sets discussed in the video will all be a bit stronger :)
@@eigh1puppies Okie Dokie Thank you so much!!!
they also need to give orc the 1000 stamina back you have highelf with 2k mag and 250 wepond spell damage. yest no Equivalent for stam except for the hybrid race.
Bro made a masters thesis fr tho just wow 👌 👏
Perfect video thank you so much ! I Watch this vid many times 😂
I run a dark elf with Relequen (not perf)/ Nirm or Aegis / Maelstorm Great sword and Selene full gold but I hit between 101k & 104k dps max
(for me is nearly the same aegis or nirm hit the same)
What s your max dps with this setup ?
We can get up to 131k with this setup!
@@eigh1puppies really ? How is that possible I have the same rotation and I practice a lot I hit 108k dps but 131k appears to be impossible.
I m only 1070 Cp maybe it’s for this reason ?
@@2010pitbull sorry, rele nirn will be a little lower but not more than a couple K. Hitting 130k + requires mastery and a bit of luck. I’m happy to take a look at the parse and offer some pointers! Join the discord and shoot me a dm :)
nice video its a shame no one will be using it. The need to buff the clas for pve
just tried out a version of it and my twisted path and deadly cloak are only doing like 500dps why (im new to game)
If your dot or aoes are not doing very much DPS, it’s likely because they are not being reapplied right as they expire. The goal is to keep those timer based skills up 100% of the time
If NB has issues with sustain would being a Redguard help? I’m not too worried about the max max dps and would like to play something unique.
It for sure would!
With Whorl of depths being light would it be better to have it on weapons and jewelry?
Yes
Thank you for the video! And I just wanted to ask, what is the addon that shows the subsequence of skills you just used? (it appears in the left corner every time you cast a skill)
Weave delays! It lets you know how fast/slow your weaving is :)
@@eigh1puppies Thank you!)
DPS numbers for a trial dummy might look good, but for mundane dungeon clears or just on a regular dummy numbers are kind of mediocre, got better results with an oakensoul build
You shouldn’t get “better” results with Oakensoul in terms of damage ceiling. You will definitely get good results much easier though!
@@eigh1puppies yeah you’re absolutely right
hey man, whats the add on you use on the left with all the skills lined up. thanks man
That’s weave delays, it just you if you performed a weave quickly and well or not!
Is the new "Traveling Knife" with Warrior's Opportunity plus Major Savagery and Prophecy better then Rapid strikes this Patch? Would allow you to run Heroism pots without losing Crit Chance. (Assuming you have a DK providing brutality and Sorcery in your group)
I haven't tested it directly, but I don't think it's quite as strong
@@eigh1puppies It seemed to pull ahead on my tests. The 8% increase to all martial damage through Warrior's Opportunity is probably carrying the Skill. But then again. I'm not that consistent when it comes to parses. So might just have been easier to weave for me. Sustain is a lot tougher tho.
Ever tried replacing Briarheart with Azureblight, in the trash setup? Would it be better or worse? Do you know what would be the loss in dps, if replacing coral with Whorl of the depths/ansuul?
It depends how fast your trash is dying. Usually, azure is not worth in trash but if you’re in a newer group with slower damage it could be worth! Coral vs Whorl is like 2-5% dps at most!
Look no further people. This mf is invited to every cookout. Cuz he seasoned this vid like grandma was right next to him with the wooden spoon. Bro cooked, ate, and left no crumbs.
Haha thank you 😆
Heyy great video someone new to ESO currently playing stamdk. Is stamblade somewhat easier to play?
Nah blade is one of the tougher classes
I'm sorry, coming back to the game. When you say"For content..." what do you mean, like dungeons or overland or quest or arena, they all are content aren't they ?
Thank you
Yeah sorry so “content” refers to pve dungeons and trials, but mostly trials!
Have you checked out the new dps pric set from bedlam? It seems like it might be a new meta set
I tested them on pts and they were within about 5k of meta proc sets in overall dps output but still just a tad weak. Unless they’ve been changed!
Can someone explain why all of the skills he shows are ones that Magicka when this is a Stamblade? I haven’t played in 5 years and looking at coming back so I may have forgotten something
The tldr is that abilities aren’t mag or Stam specific anymore, so we just run the strongest skills assuming we can sustain them!
dat intro
I don’t understand I have everything and even been getting the parse down to a point and yet I’m only sitting at 82k dps what’s going on? I’m on Xbox na
Join the discord and post the parse for some parse help :)
Is the written guide already posted on discord? I only see the older one from 9/10/22.
On it rn sorry for the delay!
5:31 Alliance Battle Drot!?!? It is Droft, not Drot. Though the vowel is often pronounced as an A instead of an O. Like how you can have a draft beer, not a drot beer.
I thought I had corrected that by this vid but I guess not 😅
Currently im pairing relequen with pillar and kilt. I was wondering if it’s a decent build. Should i use Pillar+Coral instead?
Rele/Pillar is good, but I think coral will get a bit more!
Who hits harder stamblade or magblade for update 41?
Stamblade
only had one toon and it's a magblade, now it's dead 😭 rip!
Unfortunate but I’m sure it won’t be for long!
should i go for a stamblade meanwhile?
I'd suggest that!
How the hell do you sustain magicka with this setup without siphoning attacks?
It's very tough. I messed around with certain prebuffs that barely gave me enough sustain with the Static Roto, I'd recommend giving that section a watch!
Is this rotation still viable right now for this most recent patch?
should be!
@@eigh1puppies thank you.
@eigh1puppies I'm used to the static rotation but I'm still only maxing out at like 63k. I'm wondering if it may be a weaving issue? I'm not using the comet on the opener either and I'm only 500 cp. I'm running nirn, zaan and hundings(in place of s trial set right now). Would orders wrath make a difference if I switch to that?
Why not use surprise attack as a spammable instead of rapid strikes?
Rapid Strikes + Maelstrom Greatsword is just stronger. vMA Greatsword buffs all 4 ticks of Rapid Strikes which is what makes the spam so strong.
@@eigh1puppies Dude, I got a question. I do PvE and PvP casually, so I'm not sure whether to morph Grim Focus into Merciless Resolve or Relentless Focus, same goes for Siphoning Strikes morphing into Siphoning Attacks or Leeching Strikes. What do you think I should go with?
I'd go Merciless Resolve and Siphoning Attacks
So relequen dont work with ageis caller cuz thats what i have on my orc blade
yeah that works just fine!
@@eigh1puppies phew thx God for that
Are relequen n pillar setup able to hit the 130k or should o change to the coral setup if id like to deal that much ?
130 is really really really hard to hit on this class, if everything isn't fully optimized and perfect you likely will miss that target sadly
ik im new to eso but what weapon choices would you go for on this build or is it just armors that matter
Daggers front bar is the main thing. Greatsword backbar is my go to for this class but this one matters a bit less
@@eigh1puppies do you know how i would pair armors? is it like five ripetide and the rest aegis coller?
@@williammccowan364 riptide 5 pieces on body, aegis caller daggers on front bar + all jewelry, maelstrom greatsword backbar, and Selene head and shoulders
Does surprise attack deals less damage than rapid strike as a spammable?
Yes sadly
Why merciless resolve over the stam version
It's just stronger
Written build pls
It’s in discord!
I wish u had a website !
me toooooo
Hey, which armor weight is best for stamina knight blade?
Medium
What type of armor should we use?
6 Medium 1 Light
thank you@@eigh1puppies
Love the explanation but the rotation part messed my brain up hard
the roto can be a bit tricky
@@eigh1puppies little bit lol I was sitting like a ? Mark but to simply it's bonk bonk bow proc
So who better now stam or magica nb for pve and pvp?
Stam for PvE not positive for PvP
Does aegis caller get proked when you use stampede?
It sure does
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if i dont have a trials set but have aegis can i run like deadly or pillar of nirn umtil i get a full trails set??
Pillar/Aegis wouldn’t be a bad setup at all in the meantime
Magblade soon?
Hopefully not too far out :)
Is this a pve or PvP build video?
PvE
How about bow/bow setup?
You’d probably run snipe front bar + masters bow and endless hail/poison injection over stampede/carve bavkbar
Will there be one for Magblade?
Eventually but magblade is in the worst shape I’ve ever seen, likely hoping for improvements next patch first
Can you pair briarheart with pillar
You can, I’d just suggest orders wrath over briarheart
Right, I'll start working on that so I can get more meta gear. Thank you for answering.
And people said PvE blade got a nerf
Technically did get nerfed, especially the magblade :/
A 6k dps loss and a massive sustain loss is not a nerf?
I fell asleep…
Probably should’ve watched something different dawg 🤣
🎉 Nb
Weaving is what kills this game for me. This thing, "canceling animations" is a thing from fight games, not a MMO. I cannot play groups, I played Wow and FF14 for eons, done hundreds of raids way harder than any eso trials on both of them, but i refuse to play this trick minigame for beiing able to do dps on groups. I play ESO very very casual since its Beta, i have low CP, but i can do my quests, can solo Worldboss maps, can do normal dungeons sometimes, and thats it. Guess I will never touch endgame on ESO because of weaving.
Then… don’t?
2:40 how you get 2167 with 7 divines?? i just get 1982 crit rating...
Are your pieces gold?
Yeah it's probably wrong information there. It's also 1982 for me with 7 gold divines.
@@zastrixarundell2527 I’ll double check the graphic is could be from before the thief nerf
@@eigh1puppies it's fine, I think "normal" ppl do not double check like me 😂