Spell damage or Weapon Damage for Bow Gank?

Narvuntien

Bosmer StamNB, Bow Ganker, just casual atm, playing through the story/exploring basically. (Skyrim veteran)

I am new to MMOs so I get confused by Stamina spells.
If I want to do more damage with say Focused Aim or Poison injection. Does Rally help that? or is something like Magelight better?

Weapon critical does that affect these weapon spells? Camo hunter and the Shadow stone.

I can't work out if I do more damage firing off Snipe until my enemy gets into melee range or if I should just be weapon attacking from stealth. I can't seem to stay cloaked long enough to fire off a heavy attack (Basic attacks are so slow in this game)

You can tell I did some googling for builds but I am. There appears to be three Poision injection/focused Aim spam, Fighters Guild Weapon damage, and Basic attack/Siphoning Strikes/Crit build.

I currently have no intention of doing PVP, I don't even think it is possible with 250-300 Ping.

Dagoth_Rac

If a skill uses stamina, it gets stronger via more weapon damage and more max stamina and crits at the weapon crit percentage. If a skill uses magicka, it gets stronger via more spell damage and more max magicka and crits at the spell crit percentage.

FriedEggSandwich

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

If a skill uses stamina, it gets stronger via more weapon damage and more max stamina and crits at the weapon crit percentage. If a skill uses magicka, it gets stronger via more spell damage and more max magicka and crits at the spell crit percentage.

This ^ Also if you see a stamblade ganker using magelight it's for either detection radius or to empower an attack, or both. The mages guild skill line has a passive that increases the damage of your next attack by 20% after activating a mages guild ability, and it doesn't matter if your next attack is stam or mag based. Magelight can be activated without breaking stealth so it's the perfect skill for this.

Narvuntien

Thanks for your help.

Ah its the mage passives of course.

It could get so confusing when you are reading things and don't quite understand the build.

So stamina is not just Green magic then haha

Minalan

Mage light should only empower spell abilities (blue pool skills) and nothing else.

Stamina can already stack 5000 weapon damage, they really don't need it for weapon skills and probably shouldn't be using it.

In fact, I'm pretty sure this is a bug, can someone at ZOS confirm?

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

UppGRAYxDD

magelight will boost snipes, absolutely

Izaki

Minalan wrote: »

Mage light should only empower spell abilities (blue pool skills) and nothing else.

Stamina can already stack 5000 weapon damage, they really don't need it for weapon skills and probably shouldn't be using it.

In fact, I'm pretty sure this is a bug, can someone at ZOS confirm?

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

@Minalan Really? That bitter about stamina builds?.. I mean I know you main a magicka sorc and you know that I do too, but seriously I think you're taking the whole situation in Cyrodiil a bit too close to the heart. Its only a game and personally I don't have too many issues with stamina builds or gank builds (the heavy+proc meta is getting pretty old though). After all its their purpose to catch you off guard and pretty much one-shot you.

Sorry I did go off topic.

threefarms

wat?