ESO - 132-141K DPS Stamina Nightblade (Vamp Toggle) | Update 44

Did a few different setups here. The ~141K was with Simmering Frenzy (aka Vamp Toggle). In theory, the toggleblade may be doable in some high end groups pushing for score, like the vamp toggle meta in the Deadlands patch a few years ago.

Rosskag did an insane 143.9K without toggle. Check it out here:    • Stamina Nightblade - 143k - Golden Pu...  

I was too lazy to crit farm this time. All 4 of these parses were basically "best out of 3" for each setup. Some of the crits were quite lucky on these though.
 
Timestamps:
0:00 140.9K Toggleblade
3:24 135K Null Arca/Highland (No Toggle)
6:49 135K Toggleblade CMX (w/ Reaving Blows CP)
7:25 132K Null Arca/Aegis Caller CMX (No Toggle)

Relequen is still good on the nightblade, but is about 2-3K behind Null Arca with really fast weaving. I'm using Null Arca on my stamblade in a console vLC scorepush right now, and it seems to work really well. I really like it, but unfortunately I don't have logs/CMX to see exactly how it's doing.

Alduin got 140K ST DPS on Falgravn and 190-200K ST DPS on Yandir/Captain Vrol. Nightblades might be back 🗿.

On average I seem to only get a Null Arca multi-proc once per dummy parse, but faster weavers (0.01-0.02 weave avg) might get more. For those that don't know, Null Arca can proc multiple times if there were multiple crits in a very small window (20ms) on the 3rd stack of Sliver. With each Sliver proc critting for 80K+, multi-procs give a pretty big damage spike. This means Null Arca also has AoE potential, especially with an AoE spammable. In my vLC scorepush right now, I'd say Null is AoE proccing in trash about 80% of the time.

- - - - ⚠️ What's New ⚠️ - - - - -
1.) Shadowy Disguise Change
This cloak morph now gives 10% more damage to monsters for 10 seconds.

Because of this, we can also take advantage of one of the Vampire passives for Stage 2, "Strike from the Shadows", which gives us 300 weapon/spell damage for 6 seconds "when you leave Sneak, invisibility, or Mist Form." Unfortunately, spamming crouch in combat doesn't proc this passive.

Shadowy Disguise and Vampire Stage 2 will most likely be the new meta for nightblades.

2.) VMA 2H Change
"This set now increases your damage done with direct damage attacks by up to 12%, rather than by up to 560 flat damage. The maximum value now requires 6666 Weapon or Spell Damage, up from 6021."

This change nerfs Rapid Strikes builds by quite a lot (around 5K, potentially 8K+ for StamSorc using Rapid + Bound Armaments).

Surprisingly the new 12% doesn't seem as much of a buff as many of us thought. For the blade it looks to be either a small nerf or no change. Shadowy Disguise + Vampire passive does offset that though, and nightblade looks a bit stronger this patch because of them. The only class/build that seems to have a more obvious buff by the new VMA 2H is the Corpseburster cro with goliath bash.

- - - - 🔥 About The Parse 🔥 - - - - -

As always, this is a dynamic rotation, so I'm just spamming Surprise Attack/bow procs and refreshing DoTs when needed.

I recommend popping a potion and wait for potion cooldown to reach halfway or slightly past halfway before you start the parse. This way you'll have your 2nd Incap ready faster.

The following was pulled from Zweifass' U42 Stamblade but with a few adjustments.

⚠️ Prebuff and Opener:
Have 5x Merciless Resolve stacks ➤ Prebuff Dark Shade and Deadly Cloak ➤ Cast Shadowy Disguise while walking in ➤ Barbed Trap ➤ (Start Light Attacking now) Stampede ➤ Bow Proc (Merciless Resolve) ➤ Debilitate and Carve ➤ Incap ➤ Spam

💥 Skill Priorities:
Carve ➤ Merciless Resolve ➤ Incapacitating Strike ➤ Stampede ➤ Barbed Trap ➤ Debilitate ➤ Dark Shade ➤ Deadly Cloak ➤ Shadowy Disguise ➤ Spam

🗡️ Execute:
At 30% replace Surprise Attack with Killer's Blade
At 15% stop casting Merciless Resolve; cast Dark Shade, Debilitate, Carve and/or Deadly Cloak one last time if they're about to run out
At 10-15% cast Shadowy Disguise one last time
At 8-10% cast Stampede and/or Trap one last time if they're about to run out
At 8% or lower, just spam Killer's Blade

If you want, you could use Shooting Star to start the parse and quickly swap it off for Incap for a bit more DPS (about 1-2K more). DB prebuff would of course also add a little more.

Quick shoutout to Kortekk, Evael and Rosskag for our nightblade discussions.

By the way, Stamblade sustain is very bad if you plan to use bi-stat food in some content (assuming DW/2H). If you can sustain bi-stat, then great! Otherwise, I'd recommend Artaeum Takeaway Broth (thanks to TFAJOJO for reminding me that food exists lol).

Other Info:
🧬Race - Dark Elf
🧃Potion - Weapon Power Potions
✨️Mundus - Thief
🍲Food: Lava Foot Soup

Music:
Popeska - Heart Of Glass ft. Denny White (Champion Remix)
Annaland - Tokyo (Popeska Remix)
ISOxo - how2fly