Gear Review
The Gaze of Sithis is a powerful Mythic that allows you to
gain more mitigation at the cost of not being able to gain Block
mitigation. If you're playing outnumbered, Blocking usually isn't what
saves you most of the time as line of sighting and playing well with
positioning and prioritizing which target to focus contribute more to
your success. With this build, this is even more powerful as you can afford to Roll Dodge more and also use Shadow Image to kite incoming pursuers or damage.
You can still block stuns despite not gaining Block mitigation.
The one piece bonus of Molag Kena will offer an additional Weapon Damage for this build.
The Pariah set is amazing for 1vX fights as it makes it much harder for your opponents to get you down further in terms of Health towards your execute range. You ideally want Pariah in two heavy pieces (Chest and Legs) on body as you don't want to forgo any more Medium armor pieces as you will lose more damage.
Your secondary set on the backbar will be Clever Alchemist which
offers a massive Weapon Damage boost. Having it on one bar allows you to
control when to consume a Potion to trigger its 5x effects in order to
gain the burst damage on demand. Your Infused backbar Bow will need a Berserker enchantment on it to increase your Weapon Damage as much as possible.
The Vateshran Hollows two hander is amazing for its burst potential and when lined up well with an Incapacitating Strike/Surprise Attack/Relentless Focus bow proc, it will completely devastate an enemy player's healthbar. This may take some practice to do. You will want to have the Poisons equipped on the two hander bar.
Skills Review
Camouflaged Hunter will be a great passive skill to slot for gaining Minor Berserk as you always want to flank your opponents to gain benefits from Surprise Attack's flanking stun along with the armor Penetration from Master Assassin passive as a Nightblade. Furthermore as an active skill you can pull out others from Stealth.
Surprise Attack is your main spammable to use as a Stamina Nightblade. Not only does it have an innate stun built into flanking an opponent but also Off Balances them while afflicting the Sundered status effect which gives Minor Breach, even more armor Penetration on your targets.
Executioner is your skill to use once your enemies are at a low enough threshold typically anywhere between 1% to 30% Health.
Relentless Focus is your burst skill to activate once you've built up five stacks to charge up a bow proc. Not only is it a ranged option but also afflicts Disease Damage while healing you for about one-third of the damage done.
Rally is going to be your burst heal that you always want to keep up as it also offers Major Brutality for additional Weapon Damage.
Your Ultimate on the frontbar will be Incapacitating Strike which can stun an enemy player if you've stored up to 120 Ultimate or you can freely use it at 70 Ultimate (incredibly cheap Ultimate cost) for more burst damage. When your Incapacitating Strike applies on target, you deal 20% more damage to that target for 6 seconds with any skills or source of damage. Furthermore this deadly Ultimate is Disease Damage which will provide Minor Defile (8% healing debuff) that debuffs your opponent's healing done to themselves.
Ultimate alternatives depending on your situation will usually include Dawnbreaker or even Soul Tether.
Leeching Strikes is your sustain skill you will need to recast and keep up at all times.
Piercing Mark is a skill you can use to apply Major Breach on an enemy player while also giving the benefit of being able to see them if they're other Nightblades or sneaky specs that are trying to go Invisible or into Stealth away from you.
Shadow Image is an incredibly useful skill to have especially when you need to use it and teleport to the resulting image to get away from people chasing after you to take a breather or to reposition yourself during a fight. The Shadow Image also applies Minor Maim to any target it's light attacking.
Resolving Vigor is your main burst Heal-over-Time skill you will need to cast in conjunction with any Roll Dodge or other actions you may need to carry out. Many players tend to use Resolving Vigor as a reactionary skill but it's best to use it most of the time in an anticipatory manner.
Dark Cloak is the non-Invisible morph counterpart of Shadowy Disguise and the healing from it is immense enough that it allows you to go face to face with even the hardest hitting opponents. Note that while it offers a Heal-over-Time every second for six seconds, it also gives Minor Protection on demand.
The backbar Ultimate is of preference, but Temporal Guard for its Minor Protection passive helps fill in the time gaps during when Dark Cloak isn't up or if you need to refresh the Dark Cloak while it gives a shield from the Psijic Guild skill tree passive Concentrated Barrier. As an active Ultimate, it's great to reset your resources and positioning or to juke players trying to chase and finish you off.
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Champion Points Review
To see what each Champion Point does, hover over or tap each one shown in the allocation chart.
Depending on how far you want to go with offensive capabilities, alternatives can include Backstabber or Master-at-Arms for the Warfare Slottables as both can mesh very well with the Nightblade build and class toolkit.
The Slippery Slottable is very nice to have as it's a free Break Free roughly every 20 seconds which will help you when outnumbered or in lag-heavy scenarios.
Expert Evasion is also nice to have for similar reasons as it's a free Roll Dodge every 30 seconds. Alternatives can include Juggernaut if you feel you need more mitigation or Survival Instincts should you feel your sustain is too rough in regards to Roll Dodging or Breaking Free.
Introduction (Update 30, Blackwood)
The Scourge Stamina Nightblade PvP build enables you to fight in open world Cyrodiil PvP outnumbered or with friends efficiently. The combination of specific gearsets with the Nightblade class toolkit allows Scourge to kite multiple players or brawl against them in open field. This build that can yield up to 6400 Weapon Damage can be used for Imperial City PvP and also for Battlegrounds.
It's recommended that you take this to Champion Points enabled PvP environments although it should still perform well in non-CP environments.
You will definitely need to practice with this build as a large part of the build's damage is heavily reliant on timing your burst damage especially against tankier opponents.
Recommended race for this build is Bosmer.
Recommended Mundus Stone is The Lover.
Recommended potions for this build will usually be "Tri-stat" potions.
Recommended poisons for this build to use will be Damage Health Poison IX or the Crown Store Lethal Poisons.
Recommended food for this build is Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch.