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Vigor cost based on highest resource

Yudo
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Vigor is perhaps the best self heal and cross heal in the game, but it is harder to incorporate in magicka builds.
It scale in a hybrid way, but it cost stamina to casts. It is under a shared skill line and game has already left the non-hybrid setting long time ago.

What about making it cost based on highest resource? I think this would allow more builds to pick it up.
Edited by Yudo on 20 July 2025 12:39

Vigor cost based on highest resource 45 votes

Yes, it should cost based on highest resource.
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No, it should cost stamina
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  • dark_hunterxmg
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    No, it should cost stamina
    There are enough sources of healing available already. If anything Vigor should cost more.
  • CameraBeardThePirate
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    No, it should cost stamina
    Vigor is one of the most overused skills in PvP, and you want to make it even easier to run?
  • AcadianPaladin
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    No, it should cost stamina
    I like having a few stam skills on a mag build to help manage resources. Similarly, my stam (bow) build prefers to use a mag heal for the same reason.
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  • Yudo
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    Yes, it should cost based on highest resource.
    There are enough sources of healing available already. If anything Vigor should cost more.

    What alternatives would you use on magicka builds? Just interested to find better sticky heal alternatives like vigor.
  • Yudo
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    Yes, it should cost based on highest resource.
    Vigor is one of the most overused skills in PvP, and you want to make it even easier to run?

    I assume that those who use it already find ways to use it, but maybe that is not correct.
  • tsaescishoeshiner
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    Yudo wrote: »
    There are enough sources of healing available already. If anything Vigor should cost more.

    What alternatives would you use on magicka builds? Just interested to find better sticky heal alternatives like vigor.

    The mag alternatives are typically damage shields, such as Annulment or class shields. But for some builds, there can be a lack of a self-targeted-exclusive burst heal/short HoT like vigor.
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  • Yudo
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    Yes, it should cost based on highest resource.
    I like having a few stam skills on a mag build to help manage resources. Similarly, my stam (bow) build prefers to use a mag heal for the same reason.

    Makes sense did not consider hybrid builds that want to take advantage of both resources. Though Echoing Vigor is so valuable as a multi target sticky heal, I thought hybrid cost could be good solution. I guess just need to increase sustain for now to use it.
  • CameraBeardThePirate
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    No, it should cost stamina
    Yudo wrote: »
    Vigor is one of the most overused skills in PvP, and you want to make it even easier to run?

    I assume that those who use it already find ways to use it, but maybe that is not correct.

    Yes, they find ways to use it - as in make sure they run enough off stat sustain. Thats still a sacrifice you have to make.

    If you make it cost magicka, that instantly makes it easier for mag-based builds to run it without having to worry about getting stam locked. It does not need that sort of buff.
  • Cooperharley
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    No, it should cost stamina
    There are so many sources of healing dude, there is no reason to change vigor to do this
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  • SolarRune
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    No, it should cost stamina
    There is no reason to change vigor, there are not that many stam heals in the game, and echoing ends up on alot of healers bars for that reason when there are not class stam heals available for all. If you are that desperate for a similar heal that is magicka look at scribed skills, you can make a heal that has an initial burst heal followed by a HOT (that together is probably better than the selfish vigor) and you can still have it provide minor resolve if you really want.
  • LunaFlora
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    Yudo wrote: »
    There are enough sources of healing available already. If anything Vigor should cost more.

    What alternatives would you use on magicka builds? Just interested to find better sticky heal alternatives like vigor.

    if you want a magicka costing alternative to Vigor there's Burst Soul with Healing Focus script and Sage's Remedy Signature script.

    Personally i like that Vigor costs stamina so i can use it even when i don't have enough magicka.
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  • mdjessup4906
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    No, it should cost stamina
    For stamina dps this would change nothing. And for mag dps and healers, since mag skills tend to be higher cost for some reason, I would think changing it to max resource would be unsustainable.

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    LunaFlora wrote: »
    Personally i like that Vigor costs stamina so i can use it even when i don't have enough magicka.

    Or if you're under a Negate Magic bubble and can't cast any magicka-based skills.
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  • Sluggy
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    No, it should cost stamina
    Yudo wrote: »
    I like having a few stam skills on a mag build to help manage resources. Similarly, my stam (bow) build prefers to use a mag heal for the same reason.

    Makes sense did not consider hybrid builds that want to take advantage of both resources. Though Echoing Vigor is so valuable as a multi target sticky heal, I thought hybrid cost could be good solution. I guess just need to increase sustain for now to use it.

    You don't need to increase sustain. The mere act of using it is the source of sustain. Hybrid isn't a theoretical possibility - it's the strongest option. In this case you can spit the use of your resource pools which puts less strain on either. This is why everyone in PvP can sustain indefinitely with something like 13k-15k max stats and just a little recovery in their preferred stat.
  • Iriidius
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    No, it should cost stamina
    I prefer Vigor costing stamina on my magbuilds,
    it is the only stamina skill on many magbuilds and with every other skill depleting magpool easier to pay vigor with stamina.

    Regeneration was Vigor for magicka builds before Hybridization und used even by many staminabuild in u33 and u34 as it was stronger than vigor before nerf in update 35. Now it is weaker than vigor and could need a buff but only if the multitarget morph is not buffed.
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