What does Restoration Staff scale off of?

chimneyswift_ESO · January 2015

Hey everyone,

So I'm currently working on a really fun Nightblade Healer build, but I'm having some trouble pinpointing what exactly the Restoration Staff abilities and heals scale off of.
I'm currently running 2 handed on my first bar, and Resto Staff on my second. 2H is so I can dps and get through solo content. Having a high damage weapon has helped me figure out that Restoration Staff abilities scale off of weapon damage (When my 2H is out, it tells me those skills heal for more). What I'm really confused about tho is the crit. Below are my questions:

Knowing Restoration Staff healing abilities scale off weapon damage:
1. Are resto staff abilities able to crit with spell crit or weapon crit?
2. Should I enchant my jewelry towards Weapon Damage to increase my overall heals or just stick with something like mana regen?

If anyone could help answer these for me that would be amazing! If Resto Staff abilities DO scale off weapon crit, then that means I won't have to have stupid Inner Light eating up 1 spot on each of my bars to buff my spell crit (tho I assume that'll affect skills like funnel health which I assume use spell crit right?)

-Chim

Lynx7386 · January 2015

Restoration staff ABILITIES (any of the skills in the line that you put on your skill bar) scale off of spell critical, spell power, and magicka. Currently, the restoration staff light/heavy attacks (using the weapon to actually attack an opponent) scales off of melee critical, weapon damage, and stamina.

However, after the 1.6 update, restoration and destruction staff light/heavy attacks will instead scale off of spell critical, spell power, and magicka.

chimneyswift_ESO · January 2015

I'm more concerned with what the abilities scale off of rather than the light/heavy attacks. I had a friend test this today using an add-on and the resto staff abilities do scale off spell damage, but they scale EVEN more off of weapon damage. So much more so that it's better to just stack weapon damage rather than spell damage if you use a lot of resto abilities. He also found out that the resto abilities crit off of spell crit and not weapon crit. Surely all this will change in 1.6 but for now it looks like Resto Staff abilities scale off of weapon damage and spell crit.

Celless · January 2015

From my observations during 1.5, Restoration Staff abilities scale off of Max Magicka, Weapon Damage, and Spell Crit. Abilities such as Sap Essence will boost the potency of your staff healing.

I suspect it will be far easier to plan in 1.6 when the staff abilities have been slated to scale off of Magicka, Spell Damage, and Spell Crit.

chimneyswift_ESO · January 2015

Celless wrote: »

From my observations during 1.5, Restoration Staff abilities scale off of Max Magicka, Weapon Damage, and Spell Crit. Abilities such as Sap Essence will boost the potency of your staff healing.

I suspect it will be far easier to plan in 1.6 when the staff abilities have been slated to scale off of Magicka, Spell Damage, and Spell Crit.

Awesome, super helpful post. Thank you

I'm really looking forward to 1.6's hopefully super clear tool tips lol