Online:Nightblade

This article is about the player class. For the NPC class, see Nightblade (NPC class).

Nightblade is a class in Elder Scrolls Online. Nightblade is tailored to benefit assassins and players who prefer a stealthy approach. There are three known skills governed by Nightblade: Assassination, Shadow, and Siphoning.

In-Game Description: Nightblades are adventurers and opportunists with a gift for getting in and out of trouble. Relying variously on stealth, blades, and speed, Nightblades thrive on conflict and misfortune, trusting to their luck and cunning to survive.

Skills

Assassination

The Assassination skill is oriented towards melee attackers, particularly dual-wielding, with abilities ranging from increasing your attack speed to teleporting to and damaging a target.

Shadow

The Shadow skill is orientated towards self-preservation, with abilities ranging from inflicting fear on nearby enemies to becoming invisible and some crowd-control.

Siphoning

The Siphoning skill is oriented towards spell-casting assassins, with abilities that de-buff and damage enemies and provide healing and positive buffs to you. These abilities range from decreasing nearby enemies' attack power to casting a damage-over-time spell on a target that casts a healing spell on you for the same duration.

Builds

Build	Role	Description	Primary Stat
Nightblade Initiate	New Players	Grasp the sinister art of assassination by heeding the call of the Nightblade.	Magicka
Deathweaver	Damage	Sap the life-force from unsuspecting victims and use shadows to cast deadly spells.	Magicka
Umbral Assassin	Damage	Blindside your enemies with a flurry of poisonous strikes, then disappear without a trace.	Stamina
Living Shadow	Tank	Become one with the darkness, drawing your foes close, then crippling them with shadow and steel.	Health
Blood Magus	Healer	Siphon away your foe's vitality to fuel powerful healing spells, shielding you and your allies from death's embrace.	Magicka

Compatible Builds

It is possible to build a character which meets or mostly meets the recommendations of multiple builds simultaneously. The chart below shows skill morphs which conflict between different builds.

	Nightblade Initiate	Deathweaver	Umbral Assassin	Living Shadow	Blood Magus
Nightblade Initiate		Assassin's Blade	Death Stroke Assassin's Blade Veiled Strike Siphoning Strikes	no conflicts	Soul Shred Strife
Death- weaver	Assassin's Blade		Siphoning Strikes	no conflicts	Path of Darkness
Umbral Assassin	Death Stroke Assassin's Blade Veiled Strike Siphoning Strikes	Siphoning Strikes		no conflicts	Siphoning Strikes
Living Shadow	no conflicts	no conflicts	no conflicts		Strife
Blood Magus	Soul Shred Strife	Path of Darkness	Siphoning Strikes	Strife

While it is not possible to make a triple-build without some incompatible morphs, there are a few that come very close. Living Shadow is compatible with three other builds, but none of them are compatible with each other. There are three triple-builds with only 1 conflicting morph, however, using Deathweaver, Living Shadow, and any one of the other three builds.

Gallery

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  A Nightblade

See Also

• For more information, see the lore article.

Books

• Advances in Lockpicking — An experienced thief summarizes the intricacies of lockpicking
• Shadow Draining: A Hypothesis by the Glimmering Foxbat — On the magical effect of absorbing another's life force
• Stepping through Shadows by the Glimmering Foxbat — On teleportation magic
• Wulfmare's Guide to Better Thieving by Wulfmare Shadow-Cloak — A boastful thief discusses the tricks of the trade