Magicka Nightblade Solo Build - ESO Guide

• Concealed Weapon - a strong spammable which will deal increased damage after leaving invisiblity, which will get triggered by Shadowy Disguise
• Impale - an execute you should switch to when enemy is below 25% HP
• Relentless Focus - an ability that will cause 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. It also grants you Major Savagery and Prophecy
• Traveling Knife (Poison, Lingering Torment, Berserk) - a Stamina skill which deals decent intial damage, applies a 20 second DoT and grants you Minor Berserk, increasing your damage done by 5%. It's extremely important because it can be used as a semi-spammable which will take pressure off your Magicka pool, allowing you to sustain Bi-Stat food
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Bleed, Lingering Torment, Force) - 22 second DoT which also grants you Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. This ability is also your AoE spammable.
• Soul Harvest - a cheap ultimate that increases target's damage taken from you by 20%. Having it slotted will also cause you to regain 10 Ultimate whenever you deal a final blow against an enemy
• Shadowy Disguise - an ability that will increase your damage done by 10% for 10 seconds after being cast. It will also passively grant you Minor Protection which reduces your damage taken by 5%. It will also trigger the Shadow Barrier passive which grants Major Resolve, increasing armor by 5948. When timed correctly, you can use this ability to dodge heavy attacks
• 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
• 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, and Ice Staff will be part of the Instanced gear setup. Minor Brittle increase Critical Damage taken by 10%. 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
• Dark Shade - an ability that deals constant AoE damage and applies Minor Maim, reducing enemies' damage done by 5%
• Shooting Star - an ultimate that deals damage in an AoE, leaves a ground DoT and grants you Ultimate for each enemy hit with the initial blast

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

• Swallow Soul - an alternative spammable which deals less damage but heals you and is ranged. It will also trigger the Magicka Flood passive.
• Resolving Vigor - use it for fights where there's a lot of damage happening in a short burst. The HoT from Resolving Vigor is short but very strong, so casting it at the right time can help you survive such mechanics. The Minor Resolve it provides will also reduce all of your damage taken. It can also be used in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order or Swallow Soul
• 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, 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%. It will also trigger the Magicka Aid passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%
• Race Against Time - snare removal which will be crucial for some fights. It replaces Ulfsild's Contingency because it also provides Minor Force
• Ambush - alternative to Traveling Knife which deals less damage but is a gap closer, so it can be used in fights where you have to move around a lot
• Barbed Trap - an alternative source of Minor Force which can replace Ulfsild's Contingency. It does more damage, but without Ulfsild you don't have an AoE spammable, so only use Barbed Trap in single target fights
• Soul Burst (Bleed, Lingering Torment, Courage) - a 20 second AoE DoT which grants you Minor Courage, which increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by 215. It becomes crucial in Ranged setup, because that setup cannot use Traveling Knife, so it needs another Stamina ability to reduce the strain on Magicka pool
• Consuming Trap - a very weak DoT which replenishes your resources when the affected target dies, it can provide you with a lot of sustain in fights which constantly spawn weak adds
• 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

Priority List

This is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh

Use Traveling Knife more often than once every 20 seconds. It's the only way to sustain your Magicka unless you have some additional sustain, for example from a racial. If in a certain fight you're getting additional sustain (for example from using Siphoning Spells in a fight with lots of adds or Sustained by Suffering in a fight with constant debuffs) then you can go back to refreshing Traveling Knife every 20 seconds.

Try to avoid refreshing DoTs while Soul Harvest is active. If a DoT has expired at the beginning of Soul Harvest it's usually worth it to recast it, but if it expired with 2 seconds left on Soul Harvest it's usually better to continue using direct hits and refresh the DoT after Soul Harvest has expired

Try to save up Relentless Focus stacks for Soul Harvest, but don't waste them by letting them go over 10

• 1. Shadowy Disguise
• 2. Elemental Susceptibility
• 3. Ulfsild's Contingency
• 4. Traveling Knife
• 5. Dark Shade
• 6. (if you're starting the fight with a lot of Ultimate stored up) Shooting Star
• 7. Soul Harvest
• 8. Elemental Blockade
• 9. (if enemy is below 25% Max HP) Impale
• 10. Relentless Focus
• 11. Concealed Weapon

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Shadowy Disguise
• Ulfsild's Contingency
• Dark Shade