ESO One Bar Nightblade Ganker (no proc)

Introduction

Ganking in The Elder Scrolls Online can be considered a very controversial style of PvP gameplay. While I quite enjoy the playstyle for its potential to turn the tide of war by eliminating high value targets. I very much understand others negative opinion on ganking for their multiple different reasons. With that being said, this build guide is my attempt at the hardest hitting non-proc set gank build that will still be viable for the next few patches with little adjustment.

Bow Nightblade

The reason we chose the Nightblade for this guide is because of its accessibility to all players, it’s ability to do massive burst damage, mobility, and stealth built into the class. The bow allows timing the burst perfectly on top of the range kill potential. Feel free to use the quick links below to jump to different parts of the guide or follow in its entirety from beginning to end. This guide should have all the information needed to be able to get some of the hardest hitting ganks in ESO.

• Introduction
• Bow Nightblade
• Overview
• Gear
  • Gear Information
  • Sets
• Skills
• Rotation
• Champion Points
• Additional Information
• Video
  

Overview

Race: Khajiit (for more crit damage) or Dunmer/Dark Elf (for more weapon damage)
Food: Jewels of Misrule (the extra health helps with simmering frenzy ticks and not dying right away, and the recoveries help escape)
Mundus Stone: The Shadow (increase critical damage and healing by 11% full divines is 17%)
Vampire Stage: Vampire Stage 3 or 2 for the most additional damage
Consumables: Essence of Detection, Essence of Invisibility, Tri-Stat Potions
Attributes: 64 Stamina, 0 Health, 0 Magicka

Gear

The gear that we use for this build is important and a different set up than most current meta gank builds this patch. This is due to the fact that it does not use any proc sets for free damage. We are able to utilize the overpowered Oakensoul Ring while stacking damage with Balorgh and 4 pieces of the Witch Knight set. High Isle introduced one of the stronger 5 piece sets in the game Order’s Wrath buffing our critical damage even more. All of this gives us massive single target damage and great gank potential.

Gear Information:

• All armor in ‘Divines’ trait for max damage potential
• We wear 7 medium armor pieces for max damage potential
• Weapons in ‘Sharpened’ trait to help gank the high armor players
• Jewelry in ‘Infuse’ trait with weapon damage glyphs
• Bow is the weapon of choice with a shock glyph
• All stamina armor glyphs
• The higher the quality gear the more damage you can deal

Skills

Skill Bar

Skill Bar: Killer’s Blade, Crushing Weapon, Shadowy Disguise, Simmering Frenzy, Race Against Time, Incapacitating Strike

Duel Wield/2Hand: You an easily swap to duel wield or 2 hand instead of bow but you lose range potential for just a little more damage.

Rotation

Buff Rotation: Being a one bar build the buff rotation is very simple. Simmering Frenzy until 5 of 5 fully buffed, into Race Against Time for minor force. This gives us a 12 second buff window for a gank.
Damage Rotation: After we decided to commit to a gank start by casting Shadowy Disguise for guaranteed critical chance on the first strike. This gives us only a 3 second window to cast the rest of the skills and open the gank so better be quick after casting. After casting shadowy disguise immediately cast Crushing Weapon. Light attack the target from the flank. Cast Incapacitating Strike into another light attack crushing weapon combo. Finish the gank with Killer’s Blade when the target is at low health.
(rotations fully explained in build video)

Champion Points

Because everyone who is viewing this guide is at a different Champion Point level I will only be putting up the champion points I chose at the level I was at the time of making this guide, which is 810. Remember that Champion Point soft cap is around 1800 but you can easily achieve high value ganks with low cp.

• 50 Backstabber (slot)
• 50 Fighting Finesse (slot)
• 50 Wrathful Strikes (slot)
• 50 Deadly Aim (slot)
• 20 Piercing
• 20 Precision
• 20 Eldritch Insight

• 50 Boundless Vitality (slot)
• 50 Expert Evasion (slot)
• 50 Bastion (slot)
• 50 Survival Instincts (slot)
• 20 Hero’s Vigor
• 25 Tempered Soul
• 30 Piercing Gaze
• 30 Tumbling
• 10 Mystic Tenacity

• 50 Steed’s Blessing (slot)
• 50 Sustaining Shadow (slot)
• 40 Fleet Phantom
• 50 Breakfall
• 30 Out of Sight
• 55 Wanderer

Additional Information

• You WILL die. A lot. This build has no heal in the rotation at all so manage your health and know when to back out to reset
• Success rate 100% depends on critical hits. Not all ganks will hit hard be ready to bail out after a fail
• The more ultimate you have when you gank the more damage you will do due to Balorgh monster set
• TOM – Tamriel Online Messenger, is the best addon for saving hate whispers

Video

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