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  • ESO Builds: Stamina Nightblade PvP – Scribes of Fate
    By Michel Z2023-03-17 00:00:00

    In The Elder Scrolls Online, Nightblades are a popular class for PvP content. In this guide, Soulgrot shares with you a powerful Stamina Nightblade PvP build, which deals insane burst damage, allowing you to delete your opponents from the battlefield instantly.

    Build Stats

    Maximum Magicka: 18517

    Maximum Health: 30024

    Maximum Stamina: 24582

    Magicka Recovery: 1267 (1716 when fully buffed)

    Health Recovery: 489 

    Stamina Recovery: 1461 (2418 when fully buffed)

    Spell Damage: 4043 

    Spell Critical: 17.4%

    Spell Penetration: 3674

    Weapon Damage: 4043 (5500 when fully buffed)

    Weapon Critical: 17.4% (35.4% when fully buffed)

    Physical Penetration: 3674

    Spell Resistance: 18403 (27K on Front Bar, 29K on Back Bar when fully buffed)

    Critical Resistance: 1701

    Physical Resistance: 18403 (27K on Front Bar, 29K on Back Bar when fully buffed)

    Attributes: 64 points into Stamina

    Mundus Stone: The Shadow

    Race: Khajiit

    Vampire: Stage 3

    Food: Smoked Bear Haunch or Jewels of Misrule 

    Potion: Essence of Weapon Critical

    Gear Setup

    Piece

    Set

    Type

    Trait

    Enchantment

    Head

    Engine Guardian

    Heavy

    Reinforced

    Multi-Effect

    Shoulders

    Engine Guardian

    Heavy

    Reinforced

    Multi-Effect

    Hands

    Wretched Vitality

    Medium

    Impenetrable

    Multi-Effect

    Legs

    Mechanical Acuity

    Heavy

    Reinforced

    Multi-Effect

    Chest

    Armor of the Trainee

    Heavy

    Reinforced

    Multi-Effect

    Waist

    Wretched Vitality

    Medium

    Impenetrable

    Multi-Effect

    Feet

    Wretched Vitality

    Medium

    Impenetrable

    Multi-Effect

    Necklace

    Sea-Serpent’s Coil

    Jewel

    Infused

    Multi-Effect

    Ring

    Mechanical Acuity

    Jewel

    Infused

    Multi-Effect

    Ring

    Mechanical Acuity

    Jewel

    Infused

    Multi-Effect

    Front Bar Main Hand Weapon

    Mechanical Acuity

    One-Handed Axe

    Nirnhoned

    Fiery Weapon

    Front Bar Off-Hand Weapon

    Mechanical Acuity

    One-Handed Axe

    Charged

    Befouled Weapon

    Back Bar Main Hand Weapon

    Wretched Vitality

    One-Handed Sword

    Powered

    Weapon Damage

    Back Bar Off-Hand Weapon

    Wretched Vitality

    Shield

    Sturdy

    Maximum Stamina

    Mechanical Acuity (Craftable set in ESO) has a 25-second cooldown. But it is very strong for damage, and you will get a Critical Strike chance from this skill, so you won’t get hit too hard during the cooldown. It also has a decent uptime, giving you a nice window for a big burst combo. Using two axes triggers the Twin Blade and Blunt passive effect (Dual Wield skill line), which increases your Critical Damage done by 6%. 

    Wretched Vitality adds Magicka and Stamina Recovery for applying a Minor and Major debuff proced by the skill of Pierce Armor.

    One-piece Armor of Trainee is slotted for the extra Maximum Health.

    Engine Guardian gives infinite sustain, making you Tankier.

    Sea-Serpent’s Coil (Mythic item) gives you Major Berserk and Major Courage, increasing your damage done by 10% and Weapon and Spell Damage by 430. Although you will get snared by 40% while at full Health in combat, this item is still very helpful, and there are ways to negate the snare.

    Skill Setup

     

    Front Bar

    Merciless Resolve allows you to do more damage.

    Power Extraction gives you Minor Courage, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage, and also reduces your enemies’ Weapon and Spell Damage. You will also gain Major Brutality from this skill.

    Ambush afflicts your enemies with Minor Vulnerability and grants you Empower and Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 10% overall. This skill can work as a gap-closer that gives you extra mobility, removing the snare penalty from Sea-Serpent’s Coil.

    Supprise Attack is your spammable.

    Shadow Image helps you negate the penalty from Sea-Serpent’s Coil because you can teleport around using this skill. It also inflicts Minor Maim on your enemies, reducing their damage done by 5% for 4 seconds.

    Incapacitating Strike (Ultimate) deals great disease damage and causes the enemies to take more damage from your attacks.

    Back Bar

    Health Offering is your main spammable Heal.

    Pierce Armor allows you to proc Wretched Vitality. It also inflicts Minor Breach and Major Breach on your enemies, reducing their Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance by nearly 9K for 15 seconds. Therefore, you should always keep this skill up.

    Resolving Vigor is another Healing ability.

    Dark Cloak grants a huge amount of Health and reduces your damage taken by 5%. Moreover, when you need a heal, you can teleport with Shadow Image, activate the Dark Cloak and stand still. In this way, you will get 5K Health per second with the effect of Resolving Vigor. If you then activate the Healthy Offering, you will get Health back immediately. Dark Cloak also synergizes well with the Sea-Serpent’s Coil: Since you get snared by the Sea-Serpent’s Coil, you can stand still and proc Dark Cloak to get a bunch of Health.

    Race Against Time grants Major Expedition and Minor Force, increasing your Movement Speed and Critical Damage. Although this skill removes all snares, it won’t remove the snare given by Sea Serpent’s Coil. But you can bunny hop to negate the effects of the snare.

    Spell Wall (Ultimate) is your defensive Ultimate skill. It blocks all damage and reflects projectiles.

    The flexible skill spot for this build is the Shadow Image skill. You can replace it with Camouflaged Hunter and use Tri-Stat potions.

    Champion Points

     

    Warfare

    Expoiter (Slot)

    Deadly Aim (Slot)

    Master-At-Arms(Slot)

    Ironclad (Slot)

    You can replace Ironclad with Backstabber or Fighting Finesse if you need more damage.

    Fitness

    Fortified (Slot)

    Survival Instincts (Slot)

    Pain’s Refuge (Slot)

    Sustained By Suffering (Slot)

    Crafting

    Gifted Rider

    War Mount

    Rationer

    Liquid Efficiency

    Rotation

    Make sure you always keep Pierce Armor up. Use Ambush to proc Minor Vulnerability and Minor Berserk. 

    Activate Incapacitating Strike and then the Merciless Resolve to deal damage.

    Using Light Attacks with Surprise Attack will poke the enemies down. The combo of Incapacitating Strike and Merciless Resolve will completely obliterate your enemies with a bunch of burst damage. 

    That is the Stamina Nightblade build for PvP content. If you like Soulgrot’s build, please leave a Like and subscribe to his channel.



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