Nos's Scathing MagBlade Build (Morrowind DLC ready)

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EDIT:

05/24/2017 – Updated for Morrowind DLC

05/27/2017 – Updated rotation to 3 Assasin’s Wills.

Race:

Dunmer

Attributes:

All in Magicka

Food:

Health and Magicka

or

Health, Magicka and Magicka Regen (if you use this, adjust your health via gear enchants accordingly)

Mundus:

Thief

Champion Point Distribution:

Blue tree:

48 Elfborn, 56 Elemental Expert, 61 Master at Arms, 9 Staff Expert, 28 Thaum, 8 Spell Erosion

Red tree:

Trial dependent

Green tree:

Max Regen and Tenacity, with the rest in Tumbling

Gear Setup:

5 Light/1 Medium/1 Heavy

5 Scathing Mage Armor full divines with Magicka enchants

3 Piece Moondancer Jewelry Arcane with full Spell Damage enchants

2 Piece Ilambris Divines with Magicka enchants

1 Sharpened Maelstrom Inferno Staff (Main bar)

1 Sharpened Moondancer Lightning Destro Staff

Bar setup

Main bar (vMA Staff): Inner Light, Cripple, Swallow Soul, Merciless Resolve, Elemental Blockade. Ultimate – Shooting Star.

Execute bar/AoE (Off Bar Staff): Inner Light (Shield replaces this if you need it), Twisting Path, Impale, Shock Clench, Siphoning Attacks. Ultimate – Soul Harvest

Rotation (Safe = 2 Assasin’s Wills):

Siphoning Attacks>Merciless Resolve>Meteor

Step 1: LA>Elemental Blockade>LA>Cripple>Bar Swap Cancel
Step 2: LA>Twisting Path>LA>Shock Clench>Bar Swap Cancel
Step 3: LA>Assasin’s Will>LA>Swallow Soul>LA>Swallow Soul>LA>Swallow Soul(If Shooting Star is up replace 1 swallow with it)
Step 4: LA>Elemental Blockade>LA>Cripple>Bar Swap Cancel

Step 5: LA>Twisting Path>LA>Shock Clench>LA>Siphoning Attacks>Bar Swap Cancel

Step 6: LA>Assasin’s Will>LA>Merciless Resolve>LA>Swallow Soul>LA Swallow Soul

Restart Step 1

When the target reaches 25% Keep your Merciless Resolve, Blockade, Cripple and Twisting Path Up and do LA>Impale.

Rotation (OP = 3 Assasin’s Wills):

Siphoning Attacks>Meteor>Merciless Resolve

Step 1: LA>Elemental Blockade>LA>Cripple>Bar Swap Cancel
Step 2: LA>Twisting Path>LA>Shock Clench>Bar Swap Cancel
Step 3: LA>Assasin’s Will>LA>Swallow Soul>LA>Swallow Soul>LA>Swallow (If Shooting Star is up replace 1 swallow with it)
Step 4: LA>Elemental Blockade>LA>Cripple>LA>Assasin’s Will>Bar Swap Cancel
Step 5: LA>Twisting Path>LA>Shock Clench>LA>Siphoning Attacks>Bar Swap Cancel>LA Swallow Soul>LA>Assasin’s Will>LA>Merciless Resolve

Restart at Step 1

When the target reaches 25% Keep your Merciless Resolve, Blockade, Cripple and Twisting Path Up and do LA>Impale.

Reasoning:

1. Why Ilambris?

With dual staves it gives the best damage out of all of the monster sets.

2. Why do we reapply DoT’s early?
With this rotation you end up losing 3 ticks off of your Twisting Path and 1 tick off of the shock clench DoT. This loss is morre than mitigated by a clear rotation that is static and allows you to have 2 Assasin Will procs within each rotation.

3. Why only 2 Assasin’s wills?

While on a target dummy 3 Assasin’s Wills is not only possible, but fairly easy to accomplish, the same thing could not be said in a trial setting. One little missed weave and you lose your buff. Also by using 3 Assasin’s Wills in one Merrciless proc we are faced with a non-static rotation which makes things difficult.

4. Why Swallow Soul?

For sustain.

5  Why not 75 in thaum?

Magblade is the inly magicka class (not sure about wardens) that should not have 75 points into thaum. Why not you ask? Because it is a giant dps loss. When you run a no CP analysis on your rotation  your dots deal only around 30% of your dps (+/- 3), so the CO calculator suggests a 28 point value into thaum and a whole lot more into Master at Arms. By taking nearly 50 points out of other trees to accomodate off balance CP you are severely lowering your dps, since most of it vones from firect damage attacks  suffice it to say changing CP to the one I listed in my guide  automatically added ne 4k dps…

6. Rotation video

Coming Soon

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