Magicka sustain

spacebandit

I did a few tests with my sorc with both a mag and stamina setup.
for mag i was using spell strat and medusa rings and weapon with a monster set. witchmothers drink for testing
for stam i was using relequin and Briarhart with a monster set. with camoran drink for testing

race Dark Elf
dummy was atronach

for stamina there was no problem whatsoever i didn't even need to use synergy to keep up 0 heavy attacking
for magicka it was like i was constantly running dry had to heavy attack several times just to keep up magicka.

on live it seems that both magicka and stamina have about even problem keeping resources.

Am i doing something wrong or are other people experiencing this same problem?

WrathOfInnos

Players generally use Ghastly Eyebowl when testing on a dummy with Magicka builds. I do agree that sustain seems bad on the latest PTS patch. The 25% reduction to intellect made it much harder to sustain. We can compensate by wearing 7 Light Armor now, but if sustain stays this bad then 5-1-1, 5-0-2 and 6-0-1 armor weights are going to be off the table. This would really be a shame, since build diversity and armor combinations were looking great on early PTS patches. No reason to kill this with arbitrary recovery nerfs.

spacebandit

i could not remember the name of the magicka parsing food and got tired of looking through my bag so i gave up and used the drink for both.

i though i might have done something wrong but it tested it again and same result even with 7 light armor.

unless i am missing something this is going to be a terrible experience for mag builds.
Stam sustain races are now gonna be in the trash bin as well.

VoidCommander

Did you use stam recovery glyphs on your stamina parse?

spacebandit

one of my rings had recovery on it (they only gave me 2) and backbar stam absorb on bow. for stamina
none of my mag has recovery on it backbar mag absorb.
i should probably try it without that one stam recovery ring.

i fixxed my ring and redid my tests this time with no recovery on ring, but i used lava foot and still no trouble with stamina.

i substituted ghastly eye bowl for fish eye rye for magicka cause i guess i got no eye bowl. it has 529 recovey. it was a lot better but still leagues behind stamina.

stamina i used like every other synergy and stayed maxed out mag i used every synergy and had to heavy attack a few times.

same recovery around 1700 for both.