Gotta understand something about attribute points

amirgelman

I need to understand something.

So, I'm a Ardent DK. Using one handed + shield.
So, having more attribute points in Magika improves my Ardent skill's power? And stamina will impact the power of my One Handed and Shield skill's power?
Or is it both somehow?

Quite frankly I feel silly because I'm level 43, full stamina. But all my skill slots are basically Ardent skills. Shouldn't I've gone almost full Magika?

Thanks in advance

Tamanous

The only class skills that scale off of Stamina are the specific morphs that then say they scale from that stat. Typically the base ability and the morph that uses magicka scale from magicka (or health in the case of some scaling buffs).

If you are a stam build you will want to take the stamina morphs which there are few. I would not suggest even using a magicka based class ability unless it is a utility ability. Your damage will not scale.

I play a stam DK and actually use very few class abilities. Only molten armaments and ultimates typically but if going fire based there are some Ardent morphs for stam.

If you want to use far more class abilities I would suggest going full magicka and be a melee mage variant. In this case however your main weapon damage wouldn't be as high (as it scales off of stamina) but your magicka base class abilities would be far more potent and gain the additional damage from carrying a melee weapon over staff (staff actually makes your core abilities weaker. A not so well thought out balance because staff offers range ... and why bow is weaker than melee. The balance seems to need adjusting is all I am saying because players are basically just exploiting this instead of benefiting from true balance).

Waffennacht

To go a bit more in depth: Each ability scales differently according to stamina and/or weapon damage (or magicka/spell damage)

For example: the amount Vigor will heal for increases when you increase your stamina pool and/or weapon damage. However the amount of the increase will be different than, let's say, the amount of damage that would be increased on Wrecking Blow. Each ability scales differently, each has a seperate equation.

These equations are practically impossible to find each equation for each ability. Which is unfortunate.