Hircine's Hammer - Nightblade Werewolf PVP Build

Sick of facing those shield stackers in Cyrodiil and wondered how the HELL you are supposed to break through the shields at the same time? 

Let’s face it, hardened ward, harness magicka, and healing ward stackers are broken, and some even throw in a barrier to add even more cheese. well not anymore!

This build will not only tear through some of the strongest tanky set-ups out there but also will destroy those shield stacking magicka sorcs from INSIDE their shields!

The actual on-foot setup is very strong, you can run around killing stuff with it as standard OR use that form to stay active as possible in big fights and build up the ultimate for the werewolf transformation. You deal nice damage, have good sustain and if you play well, you can take a LOT of damage too especially with the high stam pool to block with on the sword and board bar.

Remember however to keep an eye on your buffs. Pace Rally and Siphoning Strikes to be sure you reactivate them at the most useful time.

The reason for the sword and board essentially is for debuffs, defiles, and above all, the extra 1x piece of impen and stamina so you are tanky as hell in werewolf:)

The main thing you must remember in this build while in the think of it is “don’t panic”…be sure to take full advantage of your heavies (lights and heavies hurt no matter if you are a werewolf or not) to keep up your sustain and for goodness sake make sure you “defile” the target! If you don’t lessen their heals they can be a nightmare to kill, especially lich packing templars.

The lower the target’s health the more damage you will do with your light and heavy attacks and this is key to the build. Pressure your target into slapping shields on. And when they do, let rip with lights and heavies, they will NOT survive. The key point of the shield breaker is to go through their shields…when this happens they will panic and shield spam…which will NOT help them because the set goes through their shield.

This will in turn, of course, waste their resources meaning they will no longer be able to shield…by this point their hp will be so low that your Kena and Gladiator sets can kick in executing them with simple light attack spamming.

Using your primary attacks was NEVER this much fun:) 

• High damage output especially at low hp (25% or less)

• 2x light attacks push Kena over the edge, and light attacks are so strong on the werewolf this is perfect

• 20% increase cost to skills while Kena is active BUT pace your werewolf skills, you will be mostly light attacking anyway, which costs NOTHING

• Tanky as hell, lots and lots of impen and decent resists as the werewolf means you can really pressure your target.

• Doing damage keeps you in werewolf form for longer, HIT STUFF!

• HUNT AS A PACK! Werewolves are limited to timing, the more people you have in your pack transformed as werewolves, the longer you can stay as a werewolf. Almost infinite so long as you hit, kill, and eat!

• Finally…activate your buffs BEFORE you go werewolf, it is quite nasty if you have your buffs running for a few seconds during werewolf and when rally and leeching strikes finish, even in werewolf, you gain from it!