Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is a video to showcase a Stamina Nightblade rotation for the Murkmire DLC.

The test included the following buffs/debuffs: Major Fracture (and Breach), Minor Berserk (in execute), Minor Vulnerability and Off-balanced. This allows us to compare fairly with other Stamina classes (and Magicka to an extent). Thanks, @stileanima for helping out for everything here.

For information about the rotation itself, please visit this link for somewhat detailed info as it's too long to fit here: http://txt.do/d727x

I didn't change much compared to Wolfhunter. Dual Wield enchants shown here are double infused on the daggers. This somewhat makes Rending Slashes a more potent ability than previously. The initial hit of Rending can proc both dual wield enchants if they are off cooldown. This makes Rending a useful ability to cast as one of the last abilities before switching to the backbar, to guarantee enchant proc cooldown to be reached by the time you reach backbar. Recasting rending slashes early seemingly is not a DPS loss and also helps sustain when casting this as a substitute over casting Surprise Attack. You'll see how I approach this here.

Combat Metrics Parse from the Video -- https://i.imgur.com/oC3vn9W.png

Build as seen -- https://i.imgur.com/8uiUdrI.png
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For those interested in how the 6th November Patch 4.2.7 changes things, here is just a quick example (where single target dots cannot proc enchants):

https://i.imgur.com/uJ57B1L.jpg - 39 poison weapon procs and 38 absorb stamina procs in 104.8 seconds from after the update

https://i.imgur.com/m6O9oK1.png - 39 poison procs and 36 absorb stamina procs in 103.6 seconds from last week before the update

The difference in enchant procs over these 6mil parses was only 2 procs of the absorb stamina enchant, so possibly a small dps loss but it doesn't change much.

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