Ability scaling

MrGrim · April 2015

Ok could someone explain to me how the abilities scale... At launch it was class abilities magicka. weapon abilities stamina. or something like that. now i understand lots has changed and when i finally thought i figured it out. a guild member told me that class abilities scale of weapon damage as well? could someone just properly explain it XD thanks in advance.

Rune_Relic · April 2015

Class skills can have magicak or stamina morphs.
Stamina morphs work of stamina + weapon damage
Magicka morphs work of magicka + spell damage.

The exception is with weapons.
Staffs [and only staffs] work off magicka and increase spell damage.
At least the was the concept....reality is slightly different.

So yes
1. magicka builds should be using class magicka morphs + magicka + staffs
2. stamina builds should be using class stamina morphs + stamina + other weapons.
At least that was the intent

You can mix and match at the price of spell/weapon damage....but it can often help being able to burn through one resource and then switch enabling better resource management as you always have at least a 2:1 resource ratio and not using that is diminishing you overall damage.

Stamina and magicka have far less an effect on actual weapon damage now as I believe weapon power to resource is now a 11:1 ratio. So attributes are more about spammability then damage.