ADarklore wrote: »

Wrobel explained that the cost increase was a side-effect of how VR removal converted to CP. He further said that those with sustain problems should be running cost reduction enchants to off-set the increase.

That was one of the most cheesiest answers in that whole thread. Yes, we can put these enchants on our jewelry, but that usually means loosing spell damage. In my personal experience this is not that big a problem with stam builds. I rarely have resource problems with my Bosmer stamblade with Hundings/Agility (weapon power enchants) while my Altmer magsorc with Julianos/Willpower (spell damage) often runs into resource problems.

To me this shows that resource management for stamina/magica is currently very unbalanced.

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

..... wut ? Seriously ? You are really saying magicka users have no sustaining powers ? ......... Just wow...... Stamina users finally have good stuff going for them and magicka users act like the sky is falling.

Dude come on, you gotta admit, its a bit too much... On my stam sorc I get to 5k weapon damage with amazing sustain and that's really too much. As a sorc I can dump everything into damage because Dark Deal is finally a decent skill now.

Look if you run Dual Wield and Bow Maelstrom and Master weapons respectively in PvP => 3k Weapon damage on your next DoT + 350 Weapon Damage on an opponent affected with Poison Arrow. Thats pretty much a 10k Weapon damage (base stats + weapon buffs) Poison Injection right there. And I don't suffer any forms of sustain problems. Running Skirmisher 5 + Hundings 5. Thats some insane damage. On my magicka sorc or my magicka nightblade I can never get THAT kind of damage.

On a nightblade the story is pretty much the same => with siphoning attacks + the usual regen a nightblade has you can have kena procc'ed ALL THE TIME and still be fine with ressources. You're dealing sick damage as well.

On a templar you got repentance => kill to sustain.

I don't play DK so I have no idea about sustain there.

I think that Light Armor passives should get a buff. No nerfing Medium Armor at all. Just a nice buff to Light Armor. LA passives for spell cost reduction and regen are separated, if we bring those together we get one slot for a inscrease damage passive. The spell resistance is okay we can keep that one, but maybe give another function to this passive, something like magicka return when being hit or a flat increase to magicka for every LA piece equipped, or a buff to crit damage. Spell crit and Spell Pen should be in the same passive too. Just food for thought. I like my magicka characters as much I love my stamina ones, no I'm not biased but I find that in PvP stamina is hands down better in terms of damage dealing and keeping that damage sustained.

Survivability is different. Stam in more vulnerable in my opinion. You only got your 12k resists from armor and impen gear as base. But you are more mobile with dodges, break free and blocking. Magicka builds have their 21k health with a wide range of different healing abilities and shields. Shields give you around 10k more "health". Some builds can get their shields up to 18k which is crazy.