my opinion:
Stamina needs to be fixed yesterday

Cogo wrote: »

As a tank, I use stamina alot. You can say its my life blood. My taunt, my stun, my charge and most importantly for me as a tank, My block depends on my stamina. If my stamina is gone, my block is useless.

I also use my stamina alot a lot.

I called him Greg. I ride him into battle!

Well, I think this is fairly common knowledge. My opinion is that it really really sucks. Here are some suggestions that might improve stamina weapon builds:

Increase all Stamina - Increase the baseline value, the amount from glyphs, the amount from attributes, the softcap, the amount recovered from potions, the amount on jewelry, etc. If stamina is going to be used to sprint, block & avoid CC, we need to have MORE of that stat than magicka. The other option would be to reduce the cost of stamina-based abilities.

Add Weapon Ultimates - For the stamina build players out there, add Ultimates for each weapon that use the Stamina stat for damage.

Toggled Weapon Crit - Magicka build users have access to Inner Light IV from the Mage Guild line that gives them another 20% crit chance. My VR1 DK caster has 45% Crit Chance while this is up with a blue quality Precise staff. A stamina/weapon build user can achieve 21% from wearing 7 medium armor pieces, 5% if he or she chooses the lackluster Night's Silence 5-piece set, and another 5% from a blue quality Precise weapon, totaling 31%. I acknowledge that there is a tradeoff here already since you don't waste a skill slot, but you're ability to crit is significantly less than any magicka build Inner Light user.

Improve Craftable Gear Sets - It occurred to me today that there are 3 craftable sets which increase Spell Crit, but only 1 craftable set that increases Weapon Crit. Unfortunately, the one Weapon Crit bonus is the 5-piece set bonus on a 2-trait set, with a rather subpar situational 3-piece bonus. There are no 3-piece bonuses that provide Weapon Crit, such as Willow's Path does for Spell Crit. Compare Night's Silence with Willow's Path, Twililght's Embrace or Night Mother's Gaze.

I am trying to block out the stamina haters & test it for myself on an alt though, just to see how it goes. I've gone all-in with 7 medium armor on my Redguard Swordmaster (2H Greatsword/DK build). He's level 32 right now and is slightly over the softcap in Stamina & pushes well past the Weapon Dmg softcap with both Rally & Molten Armaments up. He does a fantastic job in PvE...but as we all know, you're not running down enemies in PvE, nor are you dodge-rolling out of CC.

I was testing it for a while, then got kind of frustrated after considering stamina builds. I thought about the tank again, and the answer on tank yet was that though it takes stamina, a tank should be more focused on HP rather than stamina. Its kind of hard for me to tell anyone that plans on doing dps to use anything but magic at the moment. PVP - most people do not have all defenses for most types of magic. Try to block a thunderstorm and watch it hit you for a lot. Not saying that I want magic to suffer terribly, but that they need to upgrade stamina or tweak it to where stamina works with the ability.

The best thing would be for a character to be able to select whether they want the move to be stamina or magica based. That would possibly fix the issue.