New player, Nightblade, need some advice

[EQ]

Hi all I am new to ESO, loving it so far and chosen to play a Nightblade as I love that sneaky peaky assassin style gameplay.

I am torn between stam or mag, right now I am stam level 24 and got the Dark Brotherhood DLC which I am loving.

I use the cloak skill a lot because its fun to go invisible and blade of woe my targets, I have done a few dungeons and apprehensive to reset my skills and abilities to try out the magblade but I feel like im probably missing out, with the invisibility spells being magicka I cant keep it up for long and the siphoning skills to get health from the enemy is magicka based too.

I have a wood elf, prefer using daggers and bow though the bow I hardly use, its just there because it is and just sits on my second bar.
I dont mind playing solo but I also have friends who are also new that I can play with.

All of the youtube videos and google searches are outdated or just confuse it more.

What are the pros and cons of each?

If I should stay stamina is there anything I can do to keep myself healed other than using Blood Craze II?

TIA.

[Zakor]

I can't recommends any NB builds since I am a noob. But I can recommend a way for you to test as many builds as you like. Get a player house, you can get free inn room with quest, and place the free armory furniture from the crown store, that will give you unlimited free respects by activating a blank build with it. So you could save your current build on one of the slots and then activate a blank one to test other stuff, you will be limited to those 2 slots tho but I don't see any reason that justifies the price of extra slots lol.

[ChipGoblin]

yeah, sorry all the good content creators left. NB is in a really bad spot anyways I suggest different class.

[Midas]

1) All your abilities scale to your highest resource, either stamina or magicka. This means that even though you're a stamina build, you can still carry a mage staff to recover magicka with heavy attacks, or use magicka-based spells. This also works in reverse, you can be a magicka nightblade and still make use of stamina abilities.

2) Siphoning Strikes heals you when you do damage passively, and and can be activated to restore stamina/magicka as needed.

3) The Siphoning skill line has stamina morphs for various abilities, like Drain Power, which allows you to heal yourself by damaging enemies.

4) Assassin's Blade has a morph to heal if an enemy dies close to being hit by it. Mark Target also heals you to full when a target dies.

5) The Assault line from Cyrodiil has Vigor, an AoE heal over time ability that is cast with stamina instead of magicka if you need a stamina-based heal spell.

Overall: Pick Stamina or Magicka depending on which you want to use most, but you can mix up both. A Stamina NB isn't going to be able to sustain Cloak as well as a Magicka NB out of combat, but in combat you can use leeching strikes to recover magicka. NB has a lot of health recovery tools whether you are stamina-based or magicka-based.

Don't feel restricted to just using stamina or magicka just because one is your primary stat.