Nightblade (WIP)

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Taken from A Beginner's Guide to Effectiveness:

If you are a Nightblade you should slot 1 Assassin's Blade (Assassination) and 2 Veiled Strike (Shadow) early on. Surprise Attack is a main single target damage tool and also reduces its resistance. Also disrupts a target by a stun effect when morphed and you attack from stealth. Veiled strike is your finisher. Do not use it until a mob is on 25% of its health or lower. As soon as it is, spam it, it will also heal you on a kill. There are Morphs for Stamina use for both skills, by the way.

1 Teleport Strike (later Ambush), Assassination tree, is your gap closer and makes you avoid bad stuff and even heavy attacks. It also stuns, and interrupts a target in the process.

4 Mark Target from the Assassination tree is a life saver especially when fighting alone. Just mark one target in a mob group, move in and as soon as it drops, you heal enough to go on killing. Mark another target if there are still too many on their feet.

5 Drain Power (later Power Extraction) from the Siphoning tree is a great AOE damage dispenser, and a real alternative to Steel Tornado. You should also use it at the start of any fight because it gives you a major buff on weapon damage.

Try the following: crouch, mark a target in a mob group, use Teleport Strike (Ambush) and then Assassin's Blade (Surprise Attack) in a quick succession on said target, then use  spam Whirlwind (Steel Tornado) or/and Drain Power (Power Extraction). You can sweeten that up with bow AOE before you jump in, but then you don't have that nice execution from stealth I wanted to show you here... Since your group won't find that too amazing, use bow AOE in the field before jumping into groups. ;)

Try around with the rest. Nightblades have many ways to kill people. And they look good while doing so.

Mundus Stone should be The Thief or The Shadow. People say, if your weapon crit is above 50% go for The Shadow for more crit damage, if it's below, go for The Thief for more crit chance.

This is a more advanced guide for a stamina nightblade build which I used