Infused vs. Divines

ThePonzzz

Odd (or perhaps newb) question. I'm currently using the Shadow for my Mundis stone, but I'm trying to up my stamina and weapon damage. So I've been trying for infused drops on the Briarheart set to replace my divines I already have. This morning, I finally got some V16 boots to replace my current ones and I noticed that nothing related to my stamina went up, other than my stamina (by about 20). My crit went down by .1% is the only noticeable change. Does the character screen just not give me the right numbers outside combat?

ostrapz

I dnt think divines does much unless u rock the twiceborn star. I got divines on some boots with the weapon damage mundus... It gave me 9 extra weapon damage lol. Divines just isnt great it seems

Waffennacht

http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Mundus+Stones?responseToken=0ba626b9a61c99cc345782a3bb2baf403

Shows you the effects of a totaled divines set, it says for let's say the shadow, at all divines gold you get a total of 18.3% divide that by 7 (number of divine traits) you get less than 3% per legendary divine trait.

So one peice will not have a noticeable effect, it's when you combine all the small amounts you get big effects.

leepalmer95

ThePonzzz wrote: »

Odd (or perhaps newb) question. I'm currently using the Shadow for my Mundis stone, but I'm trying to up my stamina and weapon damage. So I've been trying for infused drops on the Briarheart set to replace my divines I already have. This morning, I finally got some V16 boots to replace my current ones and I noticed that nothing related to my stamina went up, other than my stamina (by about 20). My crit went down by .1% is the only noticeable change. Does the character screen just not give me the right numbers outside combat?

Your best getting infused on the big pieces (helm, legs + chest) because they have the biggest resource enchantments and then getting divines on the rest

silky_soft

Are you going from yellow divines to purple infused?

Going infused over divines is for the 1-3 large pieces with tristat glyphs. With shadow it's only going to affect your burst damage.

Divines is best when you stack 5 or more pieces. Use impen for pvp or infuse everything for pve

ADarklore

There have been several threads out there with actual numbers showing when Divines is better than Infused, too lazy to search for it right now. If I remember correctly, they said- as with anything- it depends on your build and what you're aiming for. Going Thief mundus, a set of full Divines was better over mixed Divines/Infused.

code65536

It's covered in extensive detail here:
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/pts-2-1-2-sorcerer-arithmagic/

Short version: If using thief or shadow, go all divines. Otherwise, divines on small, infused on large, or even all infused. This is for PvE. For PvP, consider impen.

ThePonzzz

Thanks everyone.

I certainly love the damage mods in PvP, and haven't tried the whole impen build yet. I mostly PvP these days because I just don't have the time to find a group for any group dungeon content.

I guess I'll need to start making a secondary PvP gear set moving forward.

Nifty2g

ostrapz wrote: »

I dnt think divines does much unless u rock the twiceborn star. I got divines on some boots with the weapon damage mundus... It gave me 9 extra weapon damage lol. Divines just isnt great it seems

errr divines is probably the best trait, as a dps you typically don't want to use warrior stone of apprentice stone, you should thief as magicka and shadow as stamina. those are percentage increases and with divines it's quite large easily the strongest stones.

i believe it was the imperial city update, mundus stones got a large buff to them making divines trait stronger than infused for all pieces mainly

kaithuzar

Shadow effects how much critical damage you do. This information is not on the character sheet. The only thing that is on the character sheet is your "percent chance of a crit". If you want to increase the damage of those crit's stay with shadow, if you want to increase your chance to crit then go to thief mundus stone.
If you want to know how much it increased your crit damage you have to have other addon's which show you how much damage an ability does a critical hit for. You have to compare the old boots with the new & attack the same target's each time to test.

Personally, I use all infused because I use prismatic enchants on all pieces except head, chest, legs (main pieces)
I've been going back & forth between the thief & atro stone (i'm a magic build) testing what I like better.

Barlthump

Maybe there is an issue with the build you are running. I had the same issue with low dps in a pve setting till I changed my build so that I am better suited for pve dps. I'm now pulling 60k dps on aoe and 19-24k dps on single target boss fights. What class are you using. I'll be glad to give some pointers