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Why give Magicka skills Stamina morphs?

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GrimMauKin
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I'd struggling to get my head around some of the alterations to whether certain skills are powered by Magicka or Stamina. For example, Assassin's Blade is a magical blade and is powered by Magicka, its Impale morph is also powered by Magicka but the Killer's Blade morph (still a magical blade) for some reason is powered by Stamina.

Similarly Teleport Strike and its Lotus Fan morph are Magicka based, but the Ambush morph is feeds from Stamina.


In the Shadow skills line Veiled Strike and its Concealed Weapon morph are Magicka based but the Surprise Attack morph is a Stamina based Skill.

(taken from http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Class+Skills)

My Nightblade uses Killer's Blade, Surprise Attack and Ambush a great deal; previously they were all Magicka based and I tended to weave them in with Stamina based dual wield skills meaning I could keep up a sustained attack (with high Stamina and Magica regen.) whilst one set of skills allowed the other to regen. before swapping back. With the current situation I'm running out of Stamina really quickly even with a lot more attribute points given to Stamina and it's rather ruined my experience.

I can't throw everything into Stamina as the vast majority of Assassination, Shadow and Siphoning skills draw on Magicka.
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  • Eldarth
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    Mid skill tree base attribute changes is really, really odd. Im hoping it's just a "minor" bug that'll get patched soon.
    It just doesn't make any sense.
  • UPrime
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    It allows Stamina builds to use class abilities and is not a bug. This means that if you focus on mostly stam, the class abilities that not use stam will scale off max stam rather the max magic resulting in better dmg.
  • Vanchatron
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-01qzYptec
  • Kragorn
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    UPrime wrote: »
    It allows Stamina builds to use class abilities and is not a bug. This means that if you focus on mostly stam, the class abilities that not use stam will scale off max stam rather the max magic resulting in better dmg.
    But if he focuses on STAMINA then he won't have the MAGICKA to use many MAGICKA based skills, so what they scale their damage off is pretty irrelevant really, isn't it?
  • GrimMauKin
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    It's pretty much ruined my 50/50 hybrid Night blade.

    Another issues seems to be that the Magicka based skills no longer get a stealth attack bonus.
    Edited by GrimMauKin on 9 March 2015 08:44
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  • Zsymon
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    GrimMauKin wrote: »
    It's pretty much ruined my 50/50 hybrid Night blade.

    Another issues seems to be that the Magicka based skills no longer get a stealth attack bonus.

    Yeah I made a ticket about Concealed Weapon no longer having a sneak attack, but the answer I received
    had nothing to do with the question I asked. That's happened to me a few times now, I've no idea whether
    they didn't read my question or just picked out key words to give some automated response.
    Edited by Zsymon on 9 March 2015 09:47
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