Resist Frost could use a bit of love

Celenaro

There isn't enough cold damage for it to be useful and the 3% max health that goes along with it is negligible. It would be nice to see it tweaked a little bit. What if the increase to max health was merged with Robust and an increase to cold damage were added to Resist Frost? No class has cold magic skills but spell crafting is coming in the near future and an increase to cold damage would give Nords a small advantage in crafted frost elemental spells. Maybe the name of the passive could be changed to Blood of Atmora or something like that to reflect the change.

Robust: Increase health regeneration in combat by 10/20/30% and increase max health by 1/2/3%.

Rugged: Reduce incoming damage by 2/4/6%

Blood of Atmora: Increase cold resistance and increase cold damage by 4/7/10%.

Arsenic_Touch

It would make zero sense to give nords a spell increase with frost just because they're resistance to frost. It's part of the lore.

Nords already have a flat damage reduction advantage. They don't need anything else. Also, 3% max health is not negligible.

Celenaro

There is precedent, however flimsy, for Nordic frost mages. Namely, Hrormir and Shalidor.

There is no precedent for Dunmer to have an increase to fire spell damage, and yet they do.

3% to max health is very much negligible compared to Orcs (who have 6% to health and 6% to stamina in addition to 30% to health regeneration) and Imperials (who have 12% to health and 10% to stamina).

A single racial passive that reduces damage taken by up to 6% does not make up for one lackluster racial shared with Orcs and Khajiit and one terrible racial that isn't worth taking.

Edit: Besides that was only one idea to improve Resist Frost. Increasing the max health boost to 2/4/6% would also be nice, if a little bland.

whsprwind

I'll be happy with frost resistance. Just fix it so it works

Right now it adds nothing

PBpsy

Walk_Brass wrote: »

There is precedent, however flimsy, for Nordic frost mages. Namely, Hrormir and Shalidor.

There is no precedent for Dunmer to have an increase to fire spell damage, and yet they do.

Dunmer always had a bonus to Destruction Magic which includes fire based spells. The change in this one is that we don't also get frost and lightning bonus,