Magicka Nightblade Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Concealed Weapon - a strong spammable which will deal increased damage after leaving invisibility, which will get triggered by Shadowy Disguise
• Traveling Knife ( Poison Damage , Assassin's Misery , Berserk ) - a Stamina skill that increases enemies' chance to be affected by Status Effects by 100% for 10 seconds and grants Minor Berserk for 20 seconds. Recast it every 10 seconds.
• Relentless Focus - an ability that grants you Major Savagery and Major Prophecy and causes your Light Attacks to generate stacks. You can spend 4 stacks to fire a powerful arrow that also heals you if you're in Melee range.
• Power Extraction - grants Major Brutality , Major Sorcery and Minor Courage . It also applies Minor Cowardice to enemies hit, reducing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 215
• Shadowy Disguise - an ability that will increase your damage by 15% for 10 seconds after being cast. It also grants Minor Protection , reducing your damage taken by 5%. It will also grant you Major Resolve thanks to the Shadow Barrier passive. When timed correctly, you can use this ability to dodge heavy attacks
• Soul Harvest - a cheap ultimate that increases target's damage taken from you by 20%. This is the ultimate you should use in Single Target fights. Having it slotted will also cause you to regain 10 Ultimate whenever you deal a final blow against an enemy
• Ulfsild's Contingency ( Bleed Damage , Lingering Torment , Force ) - deals damage in an AoE, applies a 22 second DoT and grants Minor Force . It is delayed until the next ability with a cost. This is also your AoE spammable.
• Dark Shade - an ability that deals constant AoE damage and applies Minor Maim , reducing enemies' damage done by 5%
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely strong ability that does a multitude of things. It's completely free to cast so it'll help you sustain. It applies Major Breach , which reduces enemies' armor by 5948 which is a massive damage increase. It also applies Burning , Chilled and Concussed status effects at the beginning and then every 7.5 seconds. All of these Status Effects deal decent damage, but Concussed will also apply Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing enemies' damage taken by 5%. Chilled will also apply Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing enemies' damage done by 5% and it will also apply Minor Brittle for 4 seconds if you were on your Ice Staff bar while the Chilled effect procced. Minor Brittle increases Critical Damage taken by 10%. If you're using Ice Staff, the Chilled proc will also synergise with our Elemental Blockade
• Elemental Blockade - this ability will constantly apply your Weapon Damage enchantment. If it's the Ice version, it will also constantly apply Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled , and they'll be Chilled thanks to Elemental Susceptibility
• Siphoning Attacks - this ability will passively heal you and improve your sustain. It can also be used to trade Health for a burst of Stamina and Magicka
• Shooting Star - a 185 Ultimate cost AoE that leaves a ground DoT and grants you Ultimate for each enemy hit with the initial blast. Use it in AoE fights or when you start fights with high amount of Ultimate stored up

Dark Shade and Traveling Knife are the first skills that have to go when you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else

• Swallow Soul - an alternative spammable which deals less damage but heals you and is ranged. Use it instead of Concealed Weapon in more difficult fights
• Resolving Vigor - use it for more difficult fights where the pressure is constant. It can also be used as your main source of healing before you obtain the Ring of the Pale Order Mythic or in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Razor Caltrops - a source of AoE Major Breach which can be used instead of Elemental Susceptibility in AoE fights
• Ulfsild's Contingency ( Bleed Damage , Gladiator's Tenacity , Force ) - a different script combination which trades the DoT from Lingering Torment for the mitigation from Gladiator's Tenacity . Use it in fights where you need more damage mitigation.
• Revealing Flare - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants Major Protection , reducing your damage taken by 10%.
• Race Against Time - snare removal which will be crucial for some fights
• Precognition - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight

Pre-buff

• Shadowy Disguise
• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Dark Shade