Please change Restoring Focus and Leeching Strikes cost to magicka

Solariken

IMO it makes zero sense that these skills costs stamina - they are obviously spells. Please change the cost to magicka just like the Warden's Green Lotus and Nature's Embrace. None of the effects need to change, just the resource used to cast.

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tomofhyrule

Those skills (and other similar ones) are specifically designed to be stamina morphs for stamina characters. The alternate morph is still the magicka version which does the same thing with the other resource.

While the animation itself my be a cast, there are plenty of examples of casting spells from stamina in the game (Vigor, Rapids, Momentum, Defensive Posture, a fair number of the Necro and Warden abilities). It's so a character who's focused on stamina (and therefore doesn't have much magicka) can still make use of these skills.

Solariken

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Those skills (and other similar ones) are specifically designed to be stamina morphs for stamina characters. The alternate morph is still the magicka version which does the same thing with the other resource.

While the animation itself my be a cast, there are plenty of examples of casting spells from stamina in the game (Vigor, Rapids, Momentum, Defensive Posture, a fair number of the Necro and Warden abilities). It's so a character who's focused on stamina (and therefore doesn't have much magicka) can still make use of these skills.

The cost (amount) is not a barrier to making these cost magicka, they are pretty cheap and stamina specs actually benefit more from buff skills costing magicka, aka "magicka dump"

I'm not advocating for any other skills, just these two for combat sustain reasons. Again, look at Wardens where design was executed properly.

honey_badger82

As much as I would love to see Restoring Focus cost magicka it will likely never happen. As a primarily stamina player I do love it when utility skills cost magicka instead of stamina. Extended ritual and Radiant Ward are among my stamplar tanks toolkit otherwise all that magicka would go to waste.
Magicka users get to use their stamina pool so it only makes sense to have some magicka utility abilities for stamina users. I mean they could always have a perk that augments your core combat skills like block, dodge roll, sprint and break free with like a 25% of their drain be diverted to your magicka pool. The PvP players would screaming against that though, nothing dies in cyrodiil now, how can I prove my manly gamer skills now? Waaaah!