Magicka Nightblade Bomb Build PvP for Elder Scrolls Online

“Bomb”

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Resource Management
• Cyrodiil Setup
  • Gear
  • Skills
  • Champion Points
  • Important Info (Food, Mundus, Race, Potions, Passives, Attributes)
• Update Log

Introduction

Welcome to the Magicka Nightblade Build PvP “Bomb” for Elder Scrolls Online. Make sure to bookmark the link as I will keep updating the build for each new Update of ESO.

The Magicka Nightblade PvP Build „Bomb” is optimized for Cyrodiil. The build is used to blow up stacked groups, for example on flags on an outpost or in a keep. The more people the better! The chances are high that you won’t make it out in time, but that doesn’t matter!

To make this work we are stacking a lot of offensive sets like Balorgh, which is a set that drops in one of the Wolfhunter DLC Dungeons that adds an insane amount of Spell Damage and Spell Penetration to you. The Balorgh proc also boosts your actual Ultimate damage, often people seem to forget that.

The second set is the all famous bomber set Vicious Death which makes people explode once they die, causing a huge chain reaction, especially vicious on stacked enemies! The last set we use is New Moon Acolyte to amp up our Spell Damage even further.

• Bomber Build
• Insane AoE Burst Combo
• Light Armor
• Dual Wield/Resto Staves
• Optimized for Cyrodiil
• Strong vs stacked enemies

Resource Management

As this is a bomb build you really don’t need that much sustain. However, you still should be careful and manage your resources. You can use Siphoning Attacks to increase your resource return, only use this when you really feel like your sustain is too low. In addition, you want to make sure to use the Spell Power potions to give you an additional boost. Choosing a buff food with Magicka Recovery can also help, such as the Clockwork Citrus Filet or Witchmother’s Potent Brew.

• Siphoning Attacks
• Clockwork Citrus Filet (or Witchmother’s Potent Brew)
• Magicka Potions

Cyrodiil Setup

Gear

• Balorgh: Damage also applies to the Ultimate you activated it with. At 500 Ultimate, you gain 500 Spell Damage and 11500 Spell Penetration.
• We are using Swords because it gives us overall more spell damage compared to a Staff and therefore increases our impact hit.
• War Maiden: You can also use War Maiden instead of New Moon.

Where can I get the gear?

New Moon Acolyte: Craftable
Vicious Death: Rewards of the Worthy, Guildstore
Balorgh: March of Sacrifices
Precise Regeneration: Maelstrom Arena
Perfected Precise Regeneration: vMaelstrom Arena

Skills

• Concealed Weapon: This ability is here to get increased movement speed while in stealth.

Champion Points

Below you can find the Champion Points setup for this build. Work your way from top to bottom in your allocation. For more information on Champion Points, please visit the Champion Points Overview Page on ESO-Hub.com.

Important:

• Warfare Tree: This tree gives you a mix between damage, healing and damage mitigation.
• Fitness Tree: This tree gives you extra health, sustain and defensive buffs.
• Craft Tree: This tree is mostly optional, nothing really “impacts” combat, therefore you can pick whatever you prefer, or use the preset below.
• Perks: Hovering over each perk will give you insights on what it does. Presets are also provided for each of the allocations below.

Click the tab below to open the allocation.

Important Info for Magicka Nightblade Bomb Build PvP

Here you can find information about what race, buff-food, potions & poisons you want to use. I also do list all the passives that you need for this setup.

Buff-food

Depending on how trouble you have with sustain, I recommend two different buff foods. If you have sustain issues go with the Clockwork Citrus Filet, if you don’t have sustain issues go with the Solitude Salmon-Millet Soup to gain more max stats..

Solitude Salmon-Millet Sauce (Max Health+Max Magicka)
or
Clockwork Citrus Filet (or Witchmoter’s Potent Brew)

Mundus Stone

We want to stack as much Spell Damage as possible, there The Apprentice Mundus Stone will be best for our choice.

The Apprentice (Increased Spell Damage)

Race

All Magicka based races work for this setup.

Breton
High Elf
Dark Elf
Khajiit
Argonian
Orc

Potions

You can use various Potions, I recommend running the Spell Power Potions as you get Spell Crit, Spell Damage and Magicka.

Spell-Crit Potions
(Spell-crit, Spell Damage, Magicka)
(Cornflower, Ladys Smock, Water Hyacinth)

Passives

• Assassination: Master Assassin, Executioner, Pressure Points, Hemorrhage
• Shadow: Refreshing Shadows, Shadow Barrier, Dark Vigor, Dark Veil
• Siphoning: Catalyst, Magicka Flood, Soul Siphoner, Transfer
• Dual Wield: Slaughter, Dual Wield Expert, Controlled Fury, Ruffian, Twin Blade and Blunt
• Restoration Staff: Essence Drain, Restoration Expert, Cycle of Life, Absorb, Restoration Master
• Light Armor: Grace, Evocation, Spell Warding, Prodigy, Concentration
• Mages Guild: Mage Adept, Everlasting Magic, Magicka Controller, Might of the Guild
• Undaunted: Undaunted Command, Undaunted Mettle
• Vampire: Stage 2
• Psijic Order: Clairvoyance, Spell Orb, Concentrated Barrier, Deliberation
• Assault: Continuous Attack, Reach, Combat Frenzy
• Support: Magicka Aid, Combat Medic, Battle Resurrection
• Alchemy: Medicinal Use
• Racial: All

Attributes

All into Magicka

Vampire

For this build we want to be a Vampire in stage 2 because we want to get the Strike from the Shadows and the Dark Stalker (already active in stage 1) passive which removes the movement penalty we get in sneak. That way we can pretty much sneak around at normal speed which will make it easier to coordinate our attack and we won’t sneak like a snail.

When we go out of stealth we also benefit from the Strike from the Shadows passive, which boosts our damage even further.

Another option that you have is that we can also make use of the Blood Frenzy ability, to boost our Spell Damage for a short duration even further! But this is tricky and risky to use, therefore it is not included in the base setup, but just food for thought.

Update Log