Stam Char, but 1 Magika attack on the bar (or vice-versa)

Tomg999 · May 2015

I have been doing this with a char (PVE), and it seems to work really well; I just want to see if anyone else does this. I have a Stamina based character (Templar), with everything focused there and health, but I keep 1 Magika-based AOE skill on my bar. That way when my stamina runs low, a zap mobs with it and get a seemingly "free" hit in and a little time for stam recovery. I have found this helpful. Am I crazy or stipid?

driosketch · May 2015

That works for a stamina build, in fact before 1.6 there were no stamina morphs of class skills. So you pretty much needed at least a few magicka skills. Plus the magicka pool is just sitting there, not being used for anything else.

The reverse is a little harder to pull off especially since stamina is used for your dodge roll, block, break free, ect. already, and if you focus more on your other attributes it'll leave you lacking for a stamina attack. In that case a stamina skill that provides a buff or utility is better than a spare attack.

glak · May 2015

Utilities that work well for either magicka/stamina are health-scaling abilities that use the opposite resource. This is why bone shield can be better than or good stacked onto magicka-using shields.

A good utility for non-fighters-vulnerable creatures & humanoids is a ranged knockdown. However, as @driosketch pointed out, such offensive utility would be more expensive than any defensive maneuver.