Difference between Recovery and Regeneration?

slipHAZARD

Just wondering what is the difference between Recovery and Regeneration and which one is technically "better".

For example the Wood Elves passive is "Increases stamina regeneration while in combat" while the Redguards passive reads "Increases stamina recovery while in combat".

I'm guessing that Stamina Recovery is the amount of Stamina restored to you via Potions or Skills while in combat. And Stamina Regeneration is the amount of Stamina restored naturally?

Rev Rielle

Stamina Recovery is the amount of stamina restored to your character every 2 seconds in combat.
So I would suggest they both mean the same thing (though have never played a wood-elf to be completely sure), just they - development - have been a little lazy in the terms used.

DeanTheCat

Those two are technically the same thing. ZoS has still yet to learn how to write clear tooltips. No matter though, they will learn. Eventually.

Moonshadow66

I guess they are the same thing (like the others wrote before already)

But I have a similar question myself: is there a difference between spell penetration and spell damage? English is not my language, so sometimes I'm not 100% sure when there's a small difference between things/words.

BurtFreeman

slipHAZARD wrote: »

Just wondering what is the difference between Recovery and Regeneration and which one is technically "better".

For example the Wood Elves passive is "Increases stamina regeneration while in combat" while the Redguards passive reads "Increases stamina recovery while in combat".

I'm guessing that Stamina Recovery is the amount of Stamina restored to you via Potions or Skills while in combat. And Stamina Regeneration is the amount of Stamina restored naturally?

for what i have understood, regeneration is over time, recovery is at once.

example:
- recovery: with healing potion you are going recovery x amount of healt while assume it *
- regeneration: nord race passives have healt regeneration in combat. this is applyed over time
- recovery and regeneration: an heling potion may have both.

PBpsy

One should not read the tooltips. In order to get what the mechanics of the game are I recommend the ancient art of haruspicy mixed with a fair dose o heavy experimentation, addon use testing and science. This will allow you to get a basic idea of how things work and is very immersive.

slipHAZARD

oh ok lol, well thanks for the replies

slipHAZARD

PBpsy wrote: »

One should not read the tooltips. In order to get what the mechanics of the game are I recommend the ancient art of haruspicy mixed with a fair dose o heavy experimentation, addon use testing and science. This will allow you to get a basic idea of how things work and is very immersive.

On the PS4 so unfortunately no real numbers to test

DeanTheCat

Moonshadow66 wrote: »

I guess they are the same thing (like the others wrote before already)

But I have a similar question myself: is there a difference between spell penetration and spell damage? English is not my language, so sometimes I'm not 100% sure when there's a small difference between things/words.

Spell Damage is the raw damage multiplier of your spells. Increasing this value (Along with maximum magicka) will increase the tooltip damage of spells.

Spell Penetration on the other hand is the amount spell resistance on the target that you ignore. Example, if you have 20k Spell Penetration and your target has 20k Spell Resistance, you effectively negate his entire spell resist, as 20k - 20k = 0.

slipHAZARD wrote: »

PBpsy wrote: »

One should not read the tooltips. In order to get what the mechanics of the game are I recommend the ancient art of haruspicy mixed with a fair dose o heavy experimentation, addon use testing and science. This will allow you to get a basic idea of how things work and is very immersive.

On the PS4 so unfortunately no real numbers to test

Don't worry. I'm sure we PC players will do a ton of testing. You guys will just be behind the meta. That's all.

Moonshadow66

DeanTheCat wrote: »

Moonshadow66 wrote: »

I guess they are the same thing (like the others wrote before already)

But I have a similar question myself: is there a difference between spell penetration and spell damage? English is not my language, so sometimes I'm not 100% sure when there's a small difference between things/words.

Spell Damage is the raw damage multiplier of your spells. Increasing this value (Along with maximum magicka) will increase the tooltip damage of spells.

Spell Penetration on the other hand is the amount spell resistance on the target that you ignore. Example, if you have 20k Spell Penetration and your target has 20k Spell Resistance, you effectively negate his entire spell resist, as 20k - 20k = 0.

slipHAZARD wrote: »

PBpsy wrote: »

One should not read the tooltips. In order to get what the mechanics of the game are I recommend the ancient art of haruspicy mixed with a fair dose o heavy experimentation, addon use testing and science. This will allow you to get a basic idea of how things work and is very immersive.

On the PS4 so unfortunately no real numbers to test

Don't worry. I'm sure we PC players will do a ton of testing. You guys will just be behind the meta. That's all.

Oh, now I understand this, thank you very much for the explanation