One Bar Magblade - Nightblade Build PvE - ESO

Ranged One Bar Magicka Nightblade with subclassing. Inspired by a build by Creative Excuses Gaming.

By tyrannicalducky   •  Updated 3 months ago

Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 2 PvE Magicka Damage Dealer Nightblade Has Subclassing Setups

Introduction

Ranged One Bar Magicka Nightblade with subclassing. Inspired by a build by Creative Excuses Gaming.

Armor Sets

All equipped armor sets
Equipped active Skills
The following skill lines from other classes are used : Warden -> Animal Companions , Arcanist -> Herald of the Tome
Learn more about subclassing here
Plan a skill bar with this build

Champion Points

All active and passive stars

Character

All about character setup

Attributes

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    Magicka
    64
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    Health
    0
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    Stamina
    0
Food, Drinks & Potions
Icon icon Solitude Salmon-Millet Soup
Increase Max Health by 5395 and Max Magicka by 4936 for 1 hour.
Fish (1)
Millet (1)
Tomato (1)
Icon icon Witchmother's Potent Brew
Increase Max Magicka by 2856, Max Health by 3094, and Magicka Recovery by 315 for 2 hours.
These effects are scaled based on your level.
Bervez Juice (1)
Nightshade (1)
Rice (1)
Small Game (1)
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Essence of Health
Restore 8536 Health immediately.
Grants Major Fortitude which increases your Health Recovery by 30% for 52.8 seconds.

Restore 7582 Magicka immediately.
Grants you Major Intellect which increases your Magicka Recovery by 30% for 47.6 seconds.

Restore 7582 Stamina immediately.
Grants Major Endurance which increases your Stamina Recovery by 30% for 47.6 seconds.

Passives

All passive Skills

Nightblade

Warden

Arcanist

Weapon

Armor

World

Guild

Racial

Craft

Addon Export

You can use this to import this build into the following addons: Caro's Skill Point Saver.

Buffs & Debuffs

Buffs granted from skills, items & potions
Major Brutality icon
Major Brutality
Increases Weapon Damage by 20%
Major Defile icon
Major Defile
Reduces Healing Received and Health Recovery by 12%
Major Maim icon
Major Maim
Reduces damage done by 10%
Major Prophecy icon
Major Prophecy
Increases Spell Critical chance by 12%
Major Savagery icon
Major Savagery
Increases Weapon Critical by 12%
Major Sorcery icon
Major Sorcery
Increases Spell Damage by 20%
Minor Breach icon
Minor Breach
Reduces Physical and Spell Resistance by 2974
Minor Expedition icon
Minor Expedition
Increases Movement Speed by 15%
Minor Force icon
Minor Force
Increases Critical Damage by 10%
Minor Savagery icon
Minor Savagery
Increases Weapon Critical by 6%

Guide

Build Explanation

I basically just edited this build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV37iNH60BM

I really liked his build, but I play a nightblade, so I wanted to change his up a little bit. I also wanted a different spammable for more AOE. And.. I didn't really want to use Oakensoul too much since I feel like we can get most of the buffs we want and still use a stronger mythic. I didn't take Dawn's Wrath because I have an execute in Impale, and I think Assassination's passives are stronger than Dawn's Wrath. 

So I replaced Oakensoul with Velothi's, dive with Destructive Clench, and added a few "while slotted on either bar" abilities to the back bar to cover some more buffs. I won't even switch to the back bar, so we're a one-bar build.. with two bars. This is nice because now we have 3 slots on the back bar that we can put abilities we want to level up (thanks U49!). Honestly, I suppose you could put a heal here too if you wanted to, but.. then you'd be a 2 bar build so really it's up to you.

In single target, I'd probably switch destructive clench with Screaming Cliff Racer (giving us more crit damage from Animal Companions passive), or maybe one of the Runeblades from Herald of the Tome (giving us more penetration instead). 

Rotation is basically: Activate Recuperative Treatise, cast Deep Fissure.. wait like .5s, then start casting Magical Explosion. Then start using your spam while keeping the other ones going off. The rotation of deep fissure (major breach) into magical explosion into a destructive clench.. HURTS. I haven't done a parse just because I'm pretty casual and I've never done a parse for anything.. but I am curious how this would perform so I'll look into HOW to do a parse right and try to get one done.

Updated 3 months ago