Category: Nightblade Skills
The Siphoning Skill Line is one of three class skill lines specific to the Nightblade Class in The Elder Scrolls Online. This class skill line is focused on damage and healing skills with a theme of siphoning the life from your enemies.
Nightblades also have access to the Assassination Skill Line and Shadow Skill Line.
Weaken your foes and grant them a slow death with lethal abilities that drain the enemy of their life while also healing you and your allies. This skill line will be ideal for Damage Dealers and Healers.
Nightblade Siphoning Skills
Siphoning Ultimate
Soul Shred | Ravage nearby enemies’ souls with a night rune, dealing 3197 Magic Damage and stunning them for 4 seconds. An ally can target a ravaged enemy and activate the Soul Leech synergy, dealing 2864 Magic Damage to them and healing for the damage caused. |
Soul Siphon | Sanctify your soul and the souls of nearby allies with a night rune, healing for 3303 Health and an additional 8608 Health over 4 seconds. You and your allies will also receive Major Vitality, increasing your healing received by 16% for 4 seconds. An ally can target a nearby enemy and activate the Soul Leech synergy, dealing 2864 Magic Damage to them and healing for the damage caused. Heals you and your allies instead of damaging and stunning enemies. |
Soul Tether | Ravage nearby enemies’ souls with a night rune, dealing 3303 Magic Damage, healing for half the damage, and stunning them for 4 seconds. Ravaged enemies are tethered to you for 8 seconds, and while they remain within 10 meters, you siphon 574 Health from them every second. An ally can target a ravaged enemy and activate the Soul Leech synergy, dealing 2864 Magic Damage to them and healing for the damage caused. You heal for half the initial damage caused, and enemies hit are tethered to you. You deal constant damage and heal while tethered. |
Siphoning Skills
Strife | Steal an enemy’s life force, dealing 513 Magic Damage and healing you or a nearby ally for 50% of the damage inflicted every 2 seconds for 10 seconds. |
Funnel Health | Steal an enemy’s life force, dealing 529 Magic Damage and healing you or 2 other nearby allies for 50% of the damage inflicted every 2 seconds for 10 seconds. Heals up to 2 targets instead of 1. |
Swallow Soul | Steal an enemy’s life force, dealing 763 Magic Damage and healing you for 35% of the damage inflicted every 2 seconds for 10 seconds. Drastically increases damage. Heal is decreased and only targets self. |
Malevolent Offering | Sacrifice your essence, healing an ally in front of you for 1232 Health but draining your own Health over 8 seconds. |
Healthy Offering | Sacrifice your essence, healing an ally in front of you for 1273 Health but draining your own Health over 8 seconds. While your Health is being drained you gain Minor Mending, increasing your healing done by 8%. Grants you Minor Mending after casting, increasing your healing done. |
Shrewd Offering | Sacrifice your essence, healing an ally in front of you for 1273 Health but draining your own Health over 8 seconds. Reduces the cost. |
Cripple | Sap an enemy’s agility and wrack them with pain, dealing 1224 Magic Damage over 10 seconds and reducing their movement speed by 30% for 4 seconds. |
Crippling Grasp | Sap an enemy’s agility and wrack them with pain, dealing 424 Magic Damage and an additional 1025 Magic Damage over 10 seconds, immobilizing them for 2 seconds, and reducing their movement speed by 30% for 4 seconds. Converts some of the damage over time into more up front damage, and immobilizes the enemy on impact. |
Debilitate | Sap an enemy’s agility and wrack them with pain, dealing 1266 Magic Damage over 10 seconds and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 4 seconds. Also inflicts the enemy with Minor Magickasteal for 10 seconds, causing you and your allies to restore 168 Magicka every 1 second when damaging them. Increases the snare potency and applies Minor Magickasteal to enemies hit. |
Siphoning Strikes | Imbue your weapons with soul-stealing power, causing your Light and Heavy Attacks to heal you for 1438 Health for 20 seconds. Fully charged Heavy Attacks restore twice the value. |
Leeching Strikes | Imbue your weapons with soul-stealing power, causing your Light and Heavy Attacks to heal you for 1452 Health and restore 106 Stamina for 20 seconds. Fully charged Heavy Attacks restore twice the value. You restore up to 4270 additional Stamina when the effect ends, based on the length of time Leeching Strikes was active. Converts into a Stamina ability. Restores Stamina when you Light and Heavy Attack and when the effect ends. |
Siphoning Attacks | Imbue your weapons with soul-stealing power, causing your Light and Heavy Attacks to heal you for 1452 Health and restore 106 Magicka for 20 seconds. Fully charged Heavy Attacks restore twice the value. You restore up to 4270 additional Magicka when the effect ends, based on the length of time Siphoning Attacks was active. Restores Magicka when you Light and Heavy Attack and when the effect ends. |
Drain Power | Siphon the vigor from your enemies’ blood, dealing 615 Magic Damage to all nearby enemies. If an enemy is hit, you gain Major Brutality and Sorcery, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20% for 20 seconds. |
Power Extraction | Siphon the vigor from your enemies’ blood, dealing 1598 Disease Damage to all nearby enemies. If an enemy is hit, you apply Minor Cowardice to them for 10 seconds, reducing their Weapon and Spell Damage by 215 and you gain Major Brutality and Sorcery, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20% for 20 seconds. Converts to a Stamina ability that deals Disease damage. Applies Minor Cowardice to enemies hit. |
Sap Essence | Siphon the vigor from your enemies’ blood, dealing 616 Magic Damage to all nearby enemies and healing you and your allies for 211 plus 20% more for each enemy hit. If an enemy is hit, you gain Major Brutality and Sorcery, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 20% for 20 seconds. Also heals you and your allies. Heal is stronger for each enemy hit. |
Siphoning Passives
Catalyst | After drinking a potion you gain 20 Ultimate. |
Magicka Flood | Increases your Max Magicka by 8% while a Siphoning ability is slotted. |
Soul Siphoner | Increases your healing done by 3% for each Siphoning ability slotted. |
Transfer | Casting a Siphoning ability while in combat generates 2 Ultimate. This effect can occur once every 4 seconds. |
