Nord for Stam pvp?

jhall03

I recently rolled a Nord warden for pvp based on this build
https://youtu.be/fKQ9aprQmRQ

Now I read a thread about how the Nord damage reduction isn’t what the tooltip actually says because of other damage mitigation effects (which I don’t understand completely).
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/410155/nords-are-underperforming/p1

Can any seasoned pvp’ers attest to the Nord’s viability in pvp? Is that YouTube build as tanky as the guy says it is? Thanks in advance.

Checkmath

nords passives grants you 6% damage mitigation, so in the end you take 6% less damage than an other class. but if you look at the whole picture and the whole damage before mitigation is calculated, you will not find a 6% decrease in damage, because all those percentage numbers from various sources of mitigation result in diminishing returns.
small example is you mitigate 15% damage with minor maim and 6% as a nord.
so you got 100*0.85=85 as a non nord character
with the passives from the nord its 0.85*0.94=79.9
you see that the nords passive only mitigated 5.1% overall and not 6%, because there are other sources of mitigations. if you stack them each value gets smaller and smaller.

but in the end nord isnt that bad of a choice for pvp, surely not the best, but also not the worst. still people want a change to the nords passives, since nords suck in PvE.

TheBonesXXX

jhall03 wrote: »

I recently rolled a Nord warden for pvp based on this build
https://youtu.be/fKQ9aprQmRQ

Now I read a thread about how the Nord damage reduction isn’t what the tooltip actually says because of other damage mitigation effects (which I don’t understand completely).
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/410155/nords-are-underperforming/p1

Can any seasoned pvp’ers attest to the Nord’s viability in pvp? Is that YouTube build as tanky as the guy says it is? Thanks in advance.

I'm switching to an Orc from a Nord, I've ran Khajit and Wood Elf. Orc, Redguard, Khajit, Wood Elf, but if I really wanted to have all balls and no sustain I'd roll Imperial.

I made a switch from medium to heavy so 4% to weapon damage abilities and 8% incoming health increase will make a small benefit from my heavy passives.

bu really I'm doin it for the sprint speed.

Otherwise the next race is Imperial.

jhall03

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jhall03 wrote: »

I recently rolled a Nord warden for pvp based on this build
https://youtu.be/fKQ9aprQmRQ

Now I read a thread about how the Nord damage reduction isn’t what the tooltip actually says because of other damage mitigation effects (which I don’t understand completely).
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/410155/nords-are-underperforming/p1

Can any seasoned pvp’ers attest to the Nord’s viability in pvp? Is that YouTube build as tanky as the guy says it is? Thanks in advance.

bu really I'm doin it for the sprint speed.

Otherwise the next race is Imperial.

Yeah my main was an orc stamplar that I’ve ran hundreds of hours on in cyrodiil. I recently came back to the game and switched him to magicka and argonian. I don’t really regret that decision but I can’t get into a magplar. Hence the reason I’m rolling this Nord Stam warden. I’m sure I’m going to miss that orc speed but I’m going to give it a go.

TheBonesXXX

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TheBonesXXX wrote: »

jhall03 wrote: »

I recently rolled a Nord warden for pvp based on this build
https://youtu.be/fKQ9aprQmRQ

Now I read a thread about how the Nord damage reduction isn’t what the tooltip actually says because of other damage mitigation effects (which I don’t understand completely).
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/410155/nords-are-underperforming/p1

Can any seasoned pvp’ers attest to the Nord’s viability in pvp? Is that YouTube build as tanky as the guy says it is? Thanks in advance.

bu really I'm doin it for the sprint speed.

Otherwise the next race is Imperial.

Yeah my main was an orc stamplar that I’ve ran hundreds of hours on in cyrodiil. I recently came back to the game and switched him to magicka and argonian. I don’t really regret that decision but I can’t get into a magplar. Hence the reason I’m rolling this Nord Stam warden. I’m sure I’m going to miss that orc speed but I’m going to give it a go.

Nord is a great race, I made my night blade a Nord and make him look like the Undertaker. I can't have two Nords, drives me nutts.

Toast_STS