Catalyst – Stamina Nightblade PvE (HotR)
Class: NIGHTBLADE
Race: Altmer (High Elf)
Main Role: Damage
Health, Magicka, Stamina
| HEALTH | MAGICKA | STAMINA |
| (0) 11000 - 19000 | (0) 8000 - 11000 | (64) 30000 - 40000 |
Skills
Bar 1
Weapon 1: Dual Wield
Nightblade Skill
Killer's Blade
Dual Wield Skill
Rending Slashes
Nightblade Skill
Relentless Focus
Nightblade Skill
Surprise Attack
Dual Wield Skill
Deadly Cloak
Nightblade Skill
Incapacitating Strike
Bar 2
Weapon 2: Bow
Fighters Guild Skill
Rearming Trap
Bow Skill
Endless Hail
Assault Skill
Razor Caltrops
Bow Skill
Poison Injection
Nightblade Skill
Leeching Strikes
Fighters Guild Skill
Flawless Dawnbreaker
Armor Types
| Light Armor | Medium Armor | Heavy Armor |
| 1 | 5 | 1 |
Gear and Item Set Info
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RECOMMENDED:
More Resources and Health: 5/1/1 Armor Setup: 1 Heavy, 1 Light, 5 Medium
Helmet can be Heavy or Light and Shoulders aswell, aslong as you have 1 Heavy, 1 Light, 5 Medium. You will have more health, stamina and slightly more damage resistances.
ALTERNATIVE:
More Sustain: 7/0/0 Armor Setup: 0 Heavy, 7 Medium, 0 Light
All armor medium for increased effects in medium armor passives, granting slightly more stamina recovery, weapon critical and ability cost reduction. You will have less health, stamina and lower damage resistances.
Best In Slot Gear:
| Armor Type | Armor & Weapons | Trait | Enchant |
| Head/Heavy/Medium | Velidreth's | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Shoulders/Light/Medium | Velidreth's | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Chest/Medium | Two Fanged Snake/Night Mother's Gaze | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Waist/Medium | Two Fanged Snake/Night Mother's Gaze | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Feet/Medium | Two Fanged Snake/Night Mother's Gaze | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Legs/Medium | Two Fanged Snake/Night Mother's Gaze | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Hands/Medium | Two Fanged Snake/Night Mother's Gaze | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Necklace | Vicious Ophidian | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 1 | Vicious Ophidian | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 2 | Vicious Ophidian | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Bar 1: Dagger | Vicious Ophidian | Infused | Poison Damage |
| Off Hand: Dagger | Vicious Ophidian | Precise | Weapon Damage |
| Bar 2: Bow | Maelstrom/Vicious Ophidian | Infused | Base/Disease Damage |
Easy To Get Gear:
| Armor Type | Armor & Weapons | Trait | Enchant |
| Head/Heavy/Medium | Velidreth's/Kra'gh's/Selene's | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Shoulders/Light/Medium | Velidreth's/Kra'gh's/Selene's | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Chest/Medium | Hunding's Rage | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Waist/Medium | Hunding's Rage | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Feet/Medium | Hunding's Rage | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Legs/Medium | Spriggan's | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Hands/Medium | Spriggan's | Divines | Max Stamina |
| Necklace | Spriggan's | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 1 | Spriggan's | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Ring 2 | Spriggan's | Robust | Weapon Damage |
| Bar 1: Dagger | Hunding's Rage | Infused | Poison Damage |
| Off Hand: Dagger | Hunding's Rage | Precise | Weapon Damage |
| Bar 2: Bow | Hunding's Rage | Infused | Disease Damage |
Don't have weapons in suggested traits?
No problem, most of the traits are now more in-line with each other. The difference between them in terms of DPS is small and it's all situational. However just keep in mind, I recommend reaching around/over 45 - 60% weapon critical without any mundus stone's. Also what come's to amount of penetration, Id recommend reaching around 10000 - 11000 so keep that in mind when deciding what traits/mundus stone you're gonna be using. Nightblades have Major Fracture (+5280 Penetration) from themselves as Dragonknights do so keep that in mind aswell. Anyway usually tanks apply this debuff to the enemy.
Item Info:
General Info
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+High single target damage
+Great sustain
+Fast in movement
+Who doesnt like Assassin type characters?
-Bad survivability
-Lack of group utility
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Race: 1# Khajiit, 2# Redguard, 3# Bosmer, 4# Orc
Attributes: 0 Magicka, 0 Health, 64 Stamina
Other Stats: Weapon Damage: 2200 - 3600, Weapon Critical: 50% - 70%, Stamina Recovery: 700 - 1000
Mundus Stone: Warrior/Thief/Lover
Food: Max Health & Stamina Food: BRAISED-RABBIT-WITH-SPRING-VEGETABLES
Potions: Essence Of Stamina, Weapon Power Potions
Swappable abilities and items: Rending Slashes to Steel Tornado for AOE situations. Rearming Trap to Resolving Vigor for situations you need a self heal.
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Passives Abilities:
Racial: All Passives
Class: All Passives from: Assassination, Shadow, Siphoning
Dual Wielding: All Passives
Bow: All Passives
Medium Armor: All Passives
Heavy Armor: Juggernaut
Fighters Guild: All Passives
Undaunted: All Passives
Vampirism: Supernatural Recovery, Undeath
Alchemy: Medicinal Use
Combat:
Rotation: Apply Buffs: Relentless Focus, Leeching Strikes and Deadly Cloak before entering combat. Light/Heavy attack between EVERY ability you cast to maximize DPS. Remember to keep your buffs up while in combat. When you get the Assassin's Will Bow from Relentless Focus ability, shoot it instantly from your front bar and continue rotation. When some of your buffs run out, reapply them on your rotation. For example: Heavy/Light Attack, Deadly Cloak, Heavy/Light Attack, Relentless Focus etc...
Combat: Rearming Trap, Light Attack, Endless Hail, Light Attack, Razor Caltrops, Light Attack, Poison Injection, Light Attack, Bar Swap, Heavy Attack, Surprise Attack, Light Attack, Surprise Attack, Heavy Attack, Bar Swap, Repeat.
Execute: Same as above, but use Killer's Blade instead of Surprise Attack
If you're new to the game or Nightblade class in general, I suggest you to read carefully what the different abilities do, how much they cost, whats their duration, cast time etc. so you understand how you should rotate your abilities and how they work.
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Champion Point Tips
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This is only an example of how you should approach the point allocation.
Total Points: 660 CP
The Lord:
The Lady: 49 Hardy, 49 Elemental Defender, 48 Thick Skinned
The Steed: 48 Ironclad 24 Spell Shield
The Ritual: 40 Thaumaturge, 49 Mighty, 56 Precise Strikes, 41 Piercing
The Atronach: 34 Master At Arms
The Apprentice:
The Shadow:
The Lower: 100 Mooncalf 76 Tenacity
The Tower: 44 Warlord
300 CP Template:
The Lord:
The Lady: 27 Hardy, 27 Elemental Defender, 23 Thick Skinned
The Steed: 23 Ironclad
The Ritual: 23 Thaumaturge, 23 Mighty, 23 Precise Strikes, 29 Piercing
The Atronach: 2 Master At Arms
The Apprentice:
The Shadow:
The Lower: 64 Mooncalf 36 Tenacity
The Tower:
Build Updated: 29/08/2017
Removed the Two Handed Set-up since I dont find it that viable next patch on end-game content.
CHECK OUT MY OTHER BUILDS:
SpellBlade - Magicka Nightblade
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I was waiting for this after falling in love with your other builds. Thank you! Thank you! 100 times thank you!
Thanks alot! One more coming sometimes soon, then I’ll only keep updating these as new patches come.
Very interesting indeed. I’m going to test it out, or at least my take on it. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Hope you’ll like it.
So I’ve spent a few days feeling out this build and I have to say, it’s a very forgiving build.
You can play it lazy (sticking to one weapon) and stupid (ignore proper rotations) and still put out and stay alive. Granted, even if you play it lazy and stupid, you still have to know your skills and know how to work yourself out of a jam, but it gives you enough tools to do just that while still keeping your DPS strong.
This is a hard feat to accomplish for Nightblades. A very hard feat. But this build does it well.
Thanks alot for the feedback, thats pretty much my goal here. Stamblades sustain is in very weak spot especially to newer people, so heres a build that you can do mistakes with but still provide great amount of DPS.
Is it me or is it squishy
I don’t know if i should make a NB using this build or your magika NB build. I typically prefer melee combat over magic so im thinking this one. What do you think is a better one to try?
Well try them both but stamina nightblade is doing a little bit better this patch than magicka.
That’s probably what I’ll try first then, plus i like Khajits racials
Another question have you played dragonknight? I was wondering since you didn’t have a build for one and between nightblade and sorcer which do you prefer?
I used to play dragonknight but not anymore, so thats the reason I dont have any build for that.
If youre a new player, I recommend going with stamsorc because better survivability and very good DPS aswell and irs easier to play!
Ugh i hate trying to decide played a little of both i like both of them, not sure which to go with
Hi, I would like to thank you for your work, very good guide. I have one question, some people say that Kraghs are more useful in the new patch than Velidreth, what you think about this?
Thanks!
It depends on the amount of penetration you already have. If you’re low on penetration, then yes Kragh’s will win, but if not Velidreth’s takes the win out of all.
Hi, what about your build CATALYST – STAMINA NIGHTBLADE? That build not has been updated and moved
Sorry for the delay, build coming this weekend.
Is this good for a redguard?
hey man, why is your website down? Ive been working off this build for a long time now but I cant access your site anymore.
Your website link is not working