Dual Wield note typo?

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Could you clarify on the notes:

Twin Blade and Blunt: Reworked this passive to grant the following bonuses:
Axes now increases your Critical Damage and Healing Done by 2/4% per axe, rather than having a chance to apply a Bleed.
Daggers now grant 1.7/3.4% Critical Chance per dagger, rather than 2.5/5% Weapon Critical Chance.
Maces now grant 825/1650 Armor Penetration per mace, rather than ignoring 5/10% of the target’s Physical Resistance.
Swords now grant 71/142 Weapon Damage per sword, rather than increasing Damage Done by 3/6%

Is this actually Weapon and Spell Damage similar to the 2H changes or is Dualwield focused more for just stam builds?

Also are you planning to give any free race change tokens considering the changes to their passives this time around?

ealdwin

I’d assume (or hope) it’s a typo, especially considering the note about aiding hybrids.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

ealdwin wrote: »

I’d assume (or hope) it’s a typo, especially considering the note about aiding hybrids.

Hopefully yeh, they could have been referring to the other weapon based changes though.

AyeshaBelladonna

could be typo, or could be we're moving mag dw toons to daggers now for crit chance increase now that it is generalized, over dmg increase. which may not be bad due to several other critical reductions found in other areas with this update.

MashmalloMan

It's a typo. Common sense (I know it's ZOS, but I think this one is obvious).

Look at the same notes for 2 Hander where Swords show spell damage and in the developer notes where they state making weapons support hybrid playstyles.

Antrox41

AyeshaBelladonna wrote: »

could be typo, or could be we're moving mag dw toons to daggers now for crit chance increase now that it is generalized, over dmg increase. which may not be bad due to several other critical reductions found in other areas with this update.

Crit is not nearly as effective as having a flat increase in dmg. Especially when the majority (as of right now) still run impen traits. If it is infact a typo then it would make a lot more sense, you can choose whether to run two swords or sword and axe for the crit damage and flat increase in spell damage.

Imo it would not make sense for them to implement the weapon and spell damage increase to swords for 2h and not have the dw passive be similar.

Ronin37

Do the 2h and duel wield swords also scale off of magica stat?

MashmalloMan

Ronin37 wrote: »

Do the 2h and duel wield swords also scale off of magica stat?

Skills: no
Light/Heavy attacks: yes

Dynamic scaling was introduced last update, this update they're fixing the passives to also support hybrids.

AyeshaBelladonna

Ronin37 wrote: »

Do the 2h and duel wield swords also scale off of magica stat?

scale off mag, no. except L/H attack damage. The weapon skills are not what we use them for though. currently (prior to this coming update) swords give 6% damage to any damage you do while DW'ing under that Twin Blade & Blunt. So many of us run them on characters with heavy class skill front bars. mag blade, magplar even, most popular. It's nice for mag melee and characters built around the block-casting to have a ready source of stam regeneration that isn't a potion. it's not as common as it once was but there are still quite a few fun builds that use it.

The passive change, if typo, moves to a flat spell dmg/weapon dmg increase rather than % buff across the board. If not a typo swords become useless to mag main toons. However, the change from weapon crit to flat crit chance on daggers makes those now a viable options instead. it's not a 6% dmg increase but with other crit nerfs in the notes might be a good work around for some builds to recover a bit of it.

DT-ARR

I'd like confirmation on this one way or another as well

DT-ARR

Can anyone with pts access confirm this one way or another?

Please and thank you!

ealdwin

Yes, it is a typo. On PTS it adds both Weapon and Spell Damage.