BLOOD KNIGHT

Hybrid Nightblade Sword And Shield Build

The BLOOD KNIGHT is a POWERFUL Solo Build for the Nightblade class that uses the One Hand And Shield skill line in combination with the Nightblade’s Shadow and Blood Magic skills for a truly amazing combo.

Primary Sets

Knight-Errant’s Mail is our main damage set and healing set on this build, providing a powerful buff to our main damage skill, Power Slam, as well as a nice supplemental heal any time we do damage with it.

New Moon Acolyte is another extremely powerful damage set for all builds, adding even more Critical Chance, Offensive Penetration and Weapon Damage. The 5% cost increase is also very sustainable.

The Magma Incarnate Monster Set is an amazing option for all builds in ESO as this provides lots of recovery, Weapon and Spell Damage as well as Armor.

Of course the Thunderous Volley set is another great option to add greater DPS while utilizing the Volley skill on the back up skill bar.

New Moon Acolyte

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 657 Critical Chance
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(5 items) Adds 401 Weapon and Spell Damage. Increases the cost of your active abilities by 5%.

Magma Incarnate

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(1 item) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(2 items) When you use an Ultimate ability, you gain Weapon Damage and Spell Damage equal to the amount of total Ultimate consumed, and Physical and Spell Penetration equal to 23 times the amount for 12 seconds.

Thunderous Volley

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Increases the damage Volley deals by 430 each tick. This bonus increases by 143 every time Volley ticks, up to a maximum of 8 times.

Alternative Sets

Both of the main 5 piece sets on this build can be replaced with other damage-oriented sets like Briarheart or Rattlecage.

Rattlecage

LVL 50 – CP 160

SET BONUS
(2 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage
(5 items) Adds 171 Weapon Damage and Spell Damage, Gain Major Brutality and Sorcery at all times, increasing your Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 20%.

Gear Setup

Weapon/Armor	Set	Trait	Weight	Glyph
Main Hand	New Moon Acolyte Sword And Shield	Precise / Divines	NA	Damage Poisons / Stamina
Backup	The Maelstrom Bow	Infused	NA	Weapon Damage
Head	Magma Incarnate	Divines	Heavy	Health
Shoulder	Magma Incarnate	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Chest	Knight-Errant’s Mail	Divines	Heavy	Stamina
Waist	New Moon Acolyte	Divines	Light	Stamina
Gloves	New Moon Acolyte	Divines	Light	Stamina
Legs	Knight-Errant’s Mail	Divines	Heavy	Stamina
Feet	New Moon Acolyte	Divines	Medium	Stamina
Necklace	Knight-Errant’s Mail	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 1	Knight-Errant’s Mail	Bloodthirsty	NA	Weapon Damage
Ring 2	Knight-Errant’s Mail	Infused	NA	Weapon Damage

Consumables, Race, Mundus

Race

For the best balance of damage and health, I recommend the Orc race for this build. The best defensive option will be Nord and for pure offense Khajiit.

For more details on all ESO Races and passive bonuses be sure to check out our Full ESO Race Guide.

Mundus

The Thief

Increases the Critical Strike rating by 1333

With 7 Divines armor pieces
Increases the Critical Strike rating by 2167

Food/Drink Buff

Artaeum Takeaway Broth

Increase Max Health by 3326 and Health Recovery by 406 and Max Stamina by 3080 and Stamina Recovery by 338 for 2 hours.

These effects are scaled based on your level.

Potions

Weapon Power Potions

Skills

Main Weapon: ONE HAND AND SHIELD – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

Backup Weapon: BOW – Click on a Skill Name to learn more

Skills Discussion & Rotation

Rotation

Buff with Relentless Focus and your potion then Debuff any boss with Piercing Mark and cast Leeching Strikes Then cast:

Endless Hail -> Refreshing Path -> Bar Swap

Ambush -> Swallow Soul -> Power Slam x4 -> Bar Swap

Notes

You MUST light attack between each ability in order to charge up the Bow Proc from Relentless Focus. Make sure to cast Incapacitating Strike first before any offensive abilities on your front bar if it is ready.

When the enemy enters Execute Range (less than 25% Health) switch to spamming Killer’s Blade instead of Power Slam.

Passive Skills

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Undaunted Mettle

Racial

All Racial Passives

Other

Medicinal Use

Companions

If you like playing Solo, this build can benefit greatly from using Companions! This Solo build will benefit the most from the additional healing and buff options a healer-focused Companion can offer, so if you are going to use a Companion I would suggest a full healer build for them. I recommend Mirri Elendis for Companion on this build with the setup below. More information on Companions Builds and Skills can be found in our detailed Companion Guides section.

Recommended Gear

All Light Armor – Quickened Traits
Restoration Staff

Recommended Skills

Additional Skills

The skills below may also be helpful in other situations such as trash pulls.

Full Companion Build

Featured: INFUSOR

The INFUSOR Build is an easy Healing Set Up for Mirri Elendis, one of the new Companions available to ESO players starting in the Blackwood Chapter. The theme of this build is focused around Blood Magic Healing, as Mirri’s own class skills are very similar to that of a Nightblade.

Champion Points

Below you will find the recommended Active and Passive Champion Point Stars for this build, broken down into 300, 600, 900, and 1200 CP ranges.

For more information on Champion Points click on a Star name below or browse our detailed Champion Points Guides.

Constellation Descriptions:

Craft

The Green Craft Constellation is focused on crafting and utility-centered upgrades.

Warfare

The Blue Warfare Constellation focuses primarily on increasing player damage, healing and defenses

Fitness

The Red Fitness Constellation is focused on character survival and sustain.

– 300 Champion Points –

GREEN

50 Steed’s Blessing (Slot)
50 Gilded Fingers

BLUE

RED

– 600 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 900 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

– 1200 Champion Points –

GREEN

BLUE

RED

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