What are the best builds for Vampire Nightblades in ESO?

If you think about it, Nightblades and Vampires are made for each other. Vampires feed on the blood and magicka of their prey, and Nightblades can siphon the blood of their enemies to conjure powerful blood magic.

This list will take us through some of the builds that take the most advantage out of this amazing combination of skill trees. Each of these builds is very unique and fit a different playstyle, with options for tanking, healing and damage dealing, so let's get started!

5. Shieldblade

Starting our list with a Stamina Nightblade Vampire build, this uses a very unusual setup that provides extreme survivability through damage shields. The synergy between Nightblade abilities, Vampire passives and strong damage shields, turns you into a nearly unkillable monster.

What Shieldblade Excels at:

• High sustain through self healing and damage shields;
• Very high damage output;
• Very durable with over 30k Armor and 5k Critical Resistance;
• High mobility, turning you into a very hard target for your enemies;
• Lots of Stamina Recovery.

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4. Ultimate Vampire

The Ultimate Vampire is an amazing build by Alcast that puts together the best of the Nightblade and the Vampire. This build can easily do solo and group content, keeping the enemies at bay through AoE stuns, melting their health bars with Magicka abilities, and staying alive at all times with its insane self healing.

What Ultimate Vampire excels at:

• High Crowd Control through AoE stuns;
• Lots of sustain through self healing abilities;
• Great for stealth, provided through a Vampire passive skill;
• Very high Spell Damage, providing huge damage output;
• Lots of Magicka Recovery.

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3. Blood Evoker

This is an amazing choice for PvE players. The Blood Evoker is a ranged build that deals insane amounts of DPS to enemies while healing you at the same time. It has a lot of Critical stats and the gear increases your damage to non player foes, such as regular mobs and bosses. Check out this one if you plan on doing Trials and other endgame PvE content.

What Blood Evoker excels at:

• Focus on PvE content, with increased damage to non player enemies;
• Very high Critical Chance provided through the Hunter’s stacks;
• Flexible playstyle, with high Spell and Weapon Damage;
• Very high Critical Damage;
• Good survivability through self healing.

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2. Combat Medic

We didn’t forget about all of you healers out there. This build is a powerful Combat Medic, able to dish out incredible amounts of group healing with the Restoration Staff, while also dealing damage using the Nightblade’s blood magic. The highlight of this setup is the use of Simmering Frenzy to further increase both damage and healing.

What Combat Medic excels at:

• Very high increase in damage and healing through the Simmering Frenzy;
• Lots of damage on the front bar skills;
• Huge amounts of group healing with the Restoration Staff;
• Amazing synergy between the Restoration Staff and the Siphoning skill line;
• The Swarming Scion ultimate ability guarantees your survivability.

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1. Blood Frenzy

Another build focused on the synergy between Siphoning and Vampire, this Magicka Nightblade setup will let you engage in even the hardest endgame contents, be it solo or in a group. It has a lot of Critical stats that increase both damage and healing, and the Spell Power Cure armor set puts your survivability on another level.

What Blood Frenzy excels at:

• Very high survivability provided through the Spell Power Cure armor set;
• Very high Critical Chance and Critical Damage;
• Overhealing yourself or an ally grants Major Courage, which greatly increases your Weapon and Spell Damage;
• Very high Maximum Magicka and reduced Magicka cost, allowing you to spam your abilities;
• High Maximum Health, making you tankier than most other Magblades.

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