Why Is My Spell Damage Less Than Weapon Damage of Another Toon?

mr_wazzabi

My templar is in full purple vr16. 4 pc elf bane, 5 pc julianos, 3pc willpower, apprentice stone. Spell power: 2239

My nightblade is in full vr16 stamina gear. Weapon and chest are gold, the rest purple. 3pc sentry, 5pc hundings rage, 3pc agility. Warrior stone. Weapon damage: 2669.

Why is the weapon damage on my nb so much higher than the spell damage of my templar?
I do admit, my templar only has 2pc divines gear and purple swords, while my nb has gold maul and 4-5 divines, but it shouldn't give almost 400 more weapon damage.

Elf bane has 2 spell damage buffs. Sentry only has 1 wpn damage buff.

Is it the medium armour 12% bonus?

Can somebody explain?

cossamaximus

What's the damage of your selected weapon on your Templar compared to your NB.

for example...a NB with dual wield swords with certain passives gives 5% additional damage. and if your Templar is for example sword and board then you are already down on your off hand by at least 3.5%

Weapon selection alone can make a big difference

mr_wazzabi

cossamaximus wrote: »

What's the damage of your selected weapon on your Templar compared to your NB.

for example...a NB with dual wield swords with certain passives gives 5% additional damage. and if your Templar is for example sword and board then you are already down on your off hand by at least 3.5%

Weapon selection alone can make a big difference

Templar is dw swords. Nb is 2h maul. I'm not home right now, so i can't check my stats.

Springt-Über-Zwerge

I guess your nb is in medium armor thats another 12% weapon damage

lolo_01b16_ESO

Upgrading your weapon from purple to gold will provide about 200 weapon / spell damage.
12% of 2000 is 240.

Put that together and you have the difference.

Jeckll

You're comparing apples with bananas.

Weapon Damage scales with 5pc Medium Armor as well as Flawless Dawnbreaker.
The difference between a purple and a yellow weapon is already huge.
We're talking about ~200 Weapon Damage one a 1h.

mr_wazzabi

So the 12% medium armour affects weapon damage directly and not damage overall?
Interesting.
So lets say you have a stam nb with medium armour, no bonus set hitting with ambush, will it hit harder than a magicka nb with light armour hitting with lotus fan?

Does the 12% damage bonus from medium net more damage than the spell penetration bonus from light armour?

lolo_01b16_ESO

You can't answer that question in general, as many other factors determine the damage you deal.

Vangy

mr_wazzabi wrote: »

So the 12% medium armour affects weapon damage directly and not damage overall?
Interesting.
So lets say you have a stam nb with medium armour, no bonus set hitting with ambush, will it hit harder than a magicka nb with light armour hitting with lotus fan?

Does the 12% damage bonus from medium net more damage than the spell penetration bonus from light armour?

As mentioned above you can't just look at weapon vs spell damage. You have to consider crit, max resource pool, nirnhoned vs sharpened/precise etc etc.