Resto Staff - Cycle of Life Clarification

Hexador · April 2014

The Cycle of Life passive in the Restoration Staff skill line says that

"With a restoration staff equipped: Deals 1% damage for every 10% Health you have."

Does any one know if this is a flat damage bonus to all damage dealt, or just to your restoration staff attacks? I noticed that my Vampire's Bane skill (Templar) was getting ~10% more damage while using a restoration staff and just wanted to confirm my suspicions.

Also wondering if its working as intended.

SlasherZet · April 2014

Yeah, it should be worded as "You do 1% more damage for every 10% health you have."

Andy22 · April 2014

As far as i know yes, its a flat 10% damage increase to all your class skills and resto staff basic attacks, if u have full health.

Sarcen · April 2014

it gives 10% damage to everything! (as a negative side effect it also increases the damage caused by Equilibrium, so i do not have it on my resto staff bar but on my sword and board bar)

Zubba · May 2014

But on your sword bar you dont have a resto staff equipped.

"With a restoration staff equipped:...."

Ker.Rakb16_ESO · May 2014

He has Equilibrium on his S/B bar.

And I'm quite sure that the passive is working as intended, as the Resto staff has zero damage options otherwise; even the heavy attack deals less damage than usual.

The Resto staff is the best weapon for almost any magicka-based single target build, but only because the obvious alternative (Destro staff) is very weak in single target damage. And that's being changed in the patch.

xryanvb16_ESO · May 2014

the tool tip on this is so confusing if it's a flat rate why doesn't it just say gives 10% more dmg wtf is 1% for every 10% .... so stupid.

ThatHappyCat · May 2014

xryanvb16_ESO wrote: »

the tool tip on this is so confusing if it's a flat rate why doesn't it just say gives 10% more dmg wtf is 1% for every 10% .... so stupid.

Because if you lose health the damage boost is reduced.