Class Mastery: Above and Beyond, Eye for Exploitation.
Macabre Rotation:
- Toggle Leeching Strikes before the fight begins to ensure infinite stamina sustain.
- Summon Dark Shade to actively lower incoming enemy damage by 5%.
- Toss Razor Caltrops into the center of the room to strip 5,948 points of physical armor from the enemies.
- Cast your Scribed Soul Burst skill right in the middle of the group. (After 2 seconds, it will yank all ranged and melee enemies into a tight, 1-pixel stack).
- Hit that tight pile with Brawler to get a maximum-capacity damage shield and immediately trigger your Pillar of Nirn bleed fissure under everyone.
- Swap to your Front Bar (Dual Wield Daggers) while safely protected behind your heavy Brawler shield.
- Target the single enemy in the pile with the absolute lowest health bar.
- Spam Killer's Blade on that weak target until they die, detonating the Macabre Vintage blood bomb to vaporize the entire room.
- Drop Incapacitating Strike (Ultimate) and weave Bloodthirst if a heavy boss or elite monster survives the initial explosion.
- Swap back to Step 3 if your defensive shields or armor debuffs run out during a long boss fight.
Boss-Only Adjustments
When fighting a single boss with no small minions around, skip the pull skill. Instead, just keep Razor Caltrops on the ground, hit the boss with Brawler once every 5 seconds to keep your shield up, and swap to your front bar to cycle between Bloodcraze, Bloodthirst, and Killer's Blade once the boss drops below 25% health.
BloodDrinker rotation:
- Toggle Leeching Strikes before the fight begins to guarantee infinite stamina recovery and passive background healing.
- Toss Razor Caltrops into the center of the crowd to immediately strip 5,948 points of physical armor from the enemies.
- Hit the enemies with your Scribed Smash to instantly lay down your heavily buffed cone bleed and ticking Lingering Torment bleed.
- Swing Brawler directly into the pile to establish a massive defensive damage shield and automatically trigger your Pillar of Nirn bleed fissure.
- Swap to your Front Bar (Dual Wield Daggers) while safely standing behind your Brawler shield.
- Apply Blood Craze to the primary target or boss to layer on your main single-target weapon bleed.
- Drop Barbed Trap right at their feet to lock down your Minor Force critical damage buff and apply another ticking bleed.
- Drop your Rend ultimate (when fully charged) to slice a massive 8-meter cone that heavily bleeds enemies and siphons health back to you.
- Weave Light Attacks and Blood Craze as your main single-target attack cycle while targets remain above 50% health.
- Spam Whirling Blades exclusively to effortlessly execute the remaining targets the exact second their health bars drop below 50%.
- Swap back to Step 2 if your defensive shields or armor debuffs run out during a prolonged elite or boss encounter.
Group/Trial rotation:
- Activate Merciless Resolve before combat starts so you can begin building your spectral bow stacks.
- Summon Dark Shade to provide steady, automated background single-target damage on the boss.
- Drop Barbed Trap at the boss’s feet to activate Minor Force, boosting your critical damage by 10%.
- Charge in with Stampede (Two-Handed) to lay down your physical area-of-effect ground damage.
- Hit the boss with Carve to start building your physical bleed effect up to its maximum 3-stack ceiling.
- Swap to your Front Bar (Dual Wield Daggers) immediately.
- Apply Blood Craze to establish your primary, ticking single-target weapon bleed.
- Loop your main spammable by weaving a Light Attack followed immediately by Rapid Strikes.
- Fire your Merciless Resolve spectral arrow the exact second your combat tracker hits 5 stacks, then go right back to looping Rapid Strikes.
- Drop Incapacitating Strike (Ultimate) whenever it is fully charged to boost all damage you deal to the boss by 20% for 6 seconds.
- Swap back to Step 4 every 10–12 seconds to refresh Stampede, Carve, and Barbed Trap.
- Abandon all single-target skills and spam Whirling Blades exclusively once the boss falls below 50% health to spin them down to zero.