NMG Is Back - U42 Hybrid Nightblade PVP Build & Mechanics

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Thanks for checking out my build video! This setup has been very enjoyable for me to play, and scribing overall has been a welcome addition to the game. Feel free to leave any questions or feedback down in the comment section.
Intro - 00:10
Gear - 00:40
CP - 3:48
Race/Mundus/Food/Attributes - 5:19
Potions - 7:00
Skills - 7:41
Contingency Explanation - 13:06
Contingency Example 1 - 14:37
Contingency Example 2 - 18:23
Contingency Example 3 - 19:32
Siphoning Attacks Explanation - 20:26
Saint & Seducer Explanation - 22:31
Outro - 25:07

[@ReactFaster]

Intro - 00:10 Gear - 00:40 CP - 3:48 Race/Mundus/Food/Attributes - 5:19 Potions - 7:00 Skills - 7:41 Contingency Explanation - 13:06 Contingency Example 1 - 14:37 Contingency Example 2 - 18:23 Contingency Example 3 - 19:32 Siphoning Attacks Explanation - 20:26 Saint & Seducer Explanation - 22:31 Outro - 25:07

[@VVARCRYER]

Poor Lucacash 😝

[@ulopi9114]

Most crucial part of the build is the wizard hat though. Scientifically proven 15% dmg increase

[@ReactFaster]

@@ulopi9114 wizards rise up

[@prismatic162]

This is true I was born in one n the doctor died when I was delivered

[@joblesse]

Once again, thank you so much for the very detailed explanations. Especially the part where you explaining combos while watching gameplay footage is really helpful. I'm looking forward to seeing your Warden build as well!

[@PelicanESO]

The best console transfer NA back at it again

[@zBeeKing]

Great video, great build, great player. I miss the streams. Was really fun watching what nightblade is capable of in the right hands.

[@OG_Xsjado]

Was just asking about this the other day when I saw you in cyrodiil. Great stuff, thank you!

[@steelbanging1452]

Thanks for the build video! The healing soul is skill is great. It gives so much stam sustain I dropped some well fitted for divines. As a kahjiit, I am using the atro mundus so I could keep my weapon damage up and it’s plenty mag sustain.

[@tillymanbambino8115]

I could watch ur gameplay all day… its so clean

[@Believaball]

crazy to see after all these years your still godly lol nice build

[@Scissores]

Well done.

[@RaphX13]

Had a feeling u did the recall to nmg nice spec keep it up

[@danielwinn9658]

Thank you, great vid

[@NotYourFriend19]

Speaking of that.. can we get a skin/eye/outfit check? What are each?

[@mikeysullivan408]

Don’t even have to play to know these new skills are the strongest game mechanics ever introduced. Hopefully the pvp population doesn’t take another dip for the huge power creep

[@kalafoose8966]

hey i downloaded bandits ui but its not showing cooldown time on saints and seducers any pointers?

[@seancolemancoledog7890]

geesh, absolute beast

[@Vllain.]

The BLICKSTER 3000 COPIOUS DAMAGE! Yep NMG drip been going crazy especially with new scribing skills opens up bar slots a bit. Ggs bro

[@BugsyTheGod]

NMG Stocks through the roof after this

[@TheOriginalSilverback]

The man the myth the legend

[@headahhlildude]

W mans for the boys❤

[@fredeso7844]

Always interesting to see someone else's personal build. I would only point out that Healing Soul uses Area targeting, whereas Offering uses Cone targeting. Offering allows you to turn away from friendly players and guarantee a self heal. Healing Soul will heal you or a nearby ally, whoever has the lowest health. It works that way regardless of whether you are grouped and even if they are 180 degrees behind you. I find it too unreliable as a self heal.

[@ReactFaster]

@@fredeso7844 fair point, but this is a 1vX/solo PVP build. Ideally you won't be anywhere near friendly players :)

[@jackmid5368]

Hey @reactfaster , with the U43 changes to concealed weapons not proccing shadow barrier anymore and other things from the patchnote, do you think the build will need some tweaking to compensate for lower shadow barrier uptime or do you think it'll still be fine as it is ? Thanks you

[@ReactFaster]

@@jackmid5368 with 3 pieces of heavy armor, shadow barrier will last 18 seconds next patch. Between cloak, path, and phantasmal escape, which is being moved to the shadow skill line, you should not have any issues maintaining shadow barrier.

[@terminalspeakers]

What was that inventory mod again? I couldn’t find it under the abbreviation you gave in the video.

[@MechDaf]

What would you recommend to change the scibe skills to if I don't have gold road chapter? Thx for the indepth vid

[@ReactFaster]

@@MechDaf use healthy offering backbar instead of healing soul, and then use killers blade frontbar instead of ulfsilds

[@saliciakeyz]

Wicked build, G! Hope you keep making build videos with the new updates. Do you think you’ll make builds for some other classes, or just specialize in the NB?

[@ReactFaster]

Depends on how the game is next patch and what PVP content they announce for Q4. Game is in a rough spot and has been for awhile, so it's hard to justify putting my time into it/content creation unless I'm having fun 😅

[@dann1cus631]

Beast

[@r0bsf0]

@ReactFaster What are you planning for Healing Soul next patch with the Druid's Resurgence change? - Leave it as-is? - Class Mastery? - Sage's Remedy HoT? - Switch back to Healthy Offering? Have you done any testing with these yet?

[@ReactFaster]

I haven't tested yet - I typically wait until week 3 of the PTS since that is when the majority of the combat changes come. I think I will likely still use healing soul though, as even at 600 stam per cast it's an enormous boost to stam sustain. I don't think I'd use healing soul without druids on it at all even next patch, as it would be quite expensive and at that point it may be better to use offering again.

[@lightningfactions4762]

FIRE BUILD! but is it really that bad using khajiit on this build? how bad is it going to be for sustain? can some recovery mag recovery enchants solve it?

[@ReactFaster]

@@lightningfactions4762 I mentioned in the video, if you go khajiit you'll probably need 1 infused mag recovery glyph minimum, and you'll be noticeably squishier - at that point it really is better to just be a Breton.

[@oguzhan-bt3vn]

What do you think about imperial on this one? :)

[@John-je7xi]

If I wanted to swap ironclad in also. Would you drop maa or fighting finesse?

[@ReactFaster]

@@John-je7xi if you're looking for more survivability, the first thing I'd do is swap the 4 well fitted to impen, and the 2 heavy balorgh to reinforced (or just use 6 impen). If that isn't enough you could try swapping focused mending for ironclad.

[@hatefulflame9986]

I was almost there with guessing it, Weird that you are doing one charged mace instead of double axes and also 3 med instead of light but I guess the sustain is just better 3 light is the idea of it?

[@ReactFaster]

The sustain and damage is better with the 3 light. I find that my stamina sustain is completely fine with the new soul heal and new siphoning attacks.

[@yettichu]

🤘

[@skywardyep4769]

Love the build! Thank you for the video. Would you do any changes to it if you played BGs only?

[@ReactFaster]

If you're playing with other people, you probably would want to have somebody else use rallying cry and major breach, then you would use wretched vitality + tarnished nightmare or a similar damage set. If you're playing alone you'd probably just swap rallying to wretched vitality, and go all impen rather than 4 well fitted.

[@alessio896]

Hi, why infused ring? I mean if you're running dmg gliph on both, and not recovery or tristats, wouldn't be better to use bloodthirsty?

[@ReactFaster]

Infused is for the healing. BT ends up being more damage at 60% hp, so you can go that route if you'd like - I just preferred the infused.

[@kozy_eu]

I've been using NMG since a very long time was always BiS or "close to be" in my opinion, nice to see you love this set aswell :DD nice vid

[@AKZL76]

Is shattered fate not better than night mothers, if the target already has major breach applied

[@ReactFaster]

Yeah if your target already has major breach on them, nightmothers does nothing whatsoever. If you're playing in a group where the other person is giving you breach, you can swap to shattered, tarnished, gourmand, kynmarcher, essence, or any other set you want on the frontbar.

[@AKZL76]

@@ReactFaster I'm just trying to weigh up having no major breach vs having no front bar set. Shattered would give pen so I don't hit like a noodle vs the 2-4 piece that night mother's gives? Or am I undervaluing it

[@Ethdawg]

Does this build work past 30 wild?

[@ReactFaster]

@@Ethdawg too much risk

[@MrMedicinita]

i love u mr react

[@slayxkid7738]

what is that addon wich counts mercilles resolve stacks?

[@ReactFaster]

@@slayxkid7738 grim focus counter

[@oKeldeo]

Don’t you like the 2000 dmg on the next direct dmg attack?

[@ReactFaster]

@@oKeldeo I've played with both of them quite a bit. The 2000 direct damage is really good, but damage is so high Xv1 right now I just feel like the 8% mitigation is far more valuable.

[@ITSALOB]

The 2k also is consumed with light attacks. Little unreliable at times

[@oKeldeo]

@@ITSALOB it isn’t consumed with LA, tested it

[@LilBoosieFade]

@@ITSALOB false

[@strat9379]

Best in the game

[@hectorh4474]

Been bingeing your videos lately, and youre a beast! Your camera seems to move kind of quickly for playing on controller. Is there a mod that uncaps the sensitivity or something similar?

[@ReactFaster]

@@hectorh4474 glad you enjoy! Yes, you can uncap your camera speed on PC. Open the usersettings.txt notepad file, find the line that says "gamepad sensitivity 3rd person". There will be a value in quotations next to this which will be "1.00" if you have the setting all the way up in game. Simply change that value to whatever you'd like, save the document, close it and start eso. 1.5 = 50% more speed, 2.00 = double, etc

[@hectorh4474]

@@ReactFaster wow thats huge! Thank you very much! What do you have yours set to?

[@ReactFaster]

@@hectorh4474 I play on 1.75!

[@ipurepain_9976]

What would u switch out for executioner ?

[@ReactFaster]

@@ipurepain_9976 you mean killers blade? You'd swap contingency out if you wanted to run that.

[@Chasw312]

Giga build for giga nukage

[@Eso_lags]

ive swapped a lot of my characters to breton now. i just think its the best case scenario at this point with how much damage is in the game, and mag sustain for heals/utility. great video

[@Monkkey-31]

Thanks I farm new Mythic and I try it !!! Gg nice video and yes eso console is bad :((

[@PapyRickySpanish]

Nmg always been strong

[@LilBoosieFade]

in a dueling scenario wouldn't dropping nmg be better for elemental?

[@ReactFaster]

@@LilBoosieFade definitely, because in duels you don't need phantasmal escape so you're not choosing between fitting susc or fitting ulfsilds.

[@Joshua-px8ox]

@@ReactFaster which set front bar and bar setup would you use dueling? thanks React

[@ReactFaster]

@@Joshua-px8ox I haven't spent time dueling in a while, not sure what is meta these days honestly. Probably crit damage set or essence thief. For the bars you'd just take off phantasmal for ele susc probably. Maybe use the 2k damage script on ulfsilds instead of the 8% mitigation.

[@Joshua-px8ox]

@@ReactFaster yea problem is running into crit cap and pen diminishing returns. trying to decide on another set with ele sus but essence can be tricky ow

[@ReactFaster]

@@Joshua-px8ox yeah I'm speaking strictly about dueling here. Crit damage cap isn't really a thing in pvp because of impen. The base impen value that people have is like 20 or 25% (I forget exactly), so assuming they're using 0 additional impen and no rallying cry you'd need roughly 145% crit damage to hit the actual "cap" against them.

[@kolofqux]

React at it again carrying me and I've been tryna tell ppl Breton is the move for hybrid

[@woo450]

nmg? why not shattered fate or oakfather?

[@ReactFaster]

@@woo450 shattered is only marginally more damage than NMG while losing a signifcant amount of crit and a bit of weapon damage. You can hit slightly harder with shattered, but you'll have worse healing and less consistent damage with the lower crit. I haven't actually tested oakenfather, but I checked the numbers and decided it would be far less consistent than NMG.

[@kisovalley7234]

Decent.

[@LilBoosieFade]

why not double axes for more crit

[@ReactFaster]

You can do double axes if you want, I've got the mace to make up for the lost pen on the charged. Axe/Mace, double mace, double axe are all fine and pretty close in value.

[@meganaxeliar]

thanks having to look into other classes since my stamden is dead again after the upcoming arctic blast nerf😭. id rather not play than become one of those 40k+ hp polar wind stamdens with noodle damage

[@ReactFaster]

@@meganaxeliar meta will probably be 29.9k hp warden with 30k+ backbar to take full advantage of that passive, but definitely a huge nerf to that class that wasn't even what needed to be adjusted.

[@kbmoore65]

Any changes for BGs?

[@ReactFaster]

Probably swap rallying to wretched, and go impen over well fitted

[@HikNx]

Yo m8 why you say the Skill more healing then offering Offering heals you like 15/16k tooltip

[@ReactFaster]

@@HikNx I show in the video, offering had roughly a 900 higher TT just standing unbuffed in this build. Offering deals 1,080 damage to you though. Offering gives you 8% mending and then 3% healing done on your back bar, but healing soul gives you 12% healing received on both bars. So overall, when considering the bonus healing received on wield soul as well as the self damage on Offering, you will net more healing using wield soul. Also, you get an absurd amount of stam sustain from it.

[@HikNx]

@@ReactFaster ok nice Brother I will farm the skill and try it out :)

[@Iliumi.]

🔥🔥🔥

[@grooviedrewbie3843]

I be getting shit on by this dude too often 😭

[@mozay9374]

You should drop a warden build

[@ReactFaster]

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[@guybeahmiv932]

!WARDEN ??????

[@XaeXi-]

RIP Be carried 💀