Is elemental blockade magic damage?

Starlight_Whisper

Is magic damage the same as say shock damage in consideration of things

SidraWillowsky

Starlight_Whisper wrote: »

Is magic damage the same as say shock damage in consideration of things

EDIT: Elemental Blockade is elemental damage.

Nope, shock damage isn't the same as magic damage. It's elemental damage. So shock, flame, frost, and magic damage are all separate damage types.

Magic damage generally = "any damage dealt by magicka skills/staves that ISN'T flame/frost/shock"

(Same with physical damage vs. poison/disease/bleed damage for stam + melee weaps)

lolo_01b16_ESO

No, Elemental Blockade doesn't deal magic damage. Similar to Elemental Storm, Destructive Touch and Impulse it will deal damage of the same type as the staff you have equipped. So it will be fire damage with an inferno staff, shock damage with a lightning staff and frost damage with an ice staff.

SidraWillowsky

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

No, Elemental Blockade doesn't deal magic damage. Similar to Elemental Storm, Destructive Touch and Impulse it will deal damage of the same type as the staff you have equipped. So it will be fire damage with an inferno staff, shock damage with a lightning staff and frost damage with an ice staff.

. You are right, sorry

Starlight_Whisper

That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the answers

Larcomar

It does raise the question of why there isn't a magic stave. Is resto magic damage? - My nb's running war maiden for casual content. Works well, but obviously drops some dps on woe.

Jim_Pipp

Larcomar wrote: »

It does raise the question of why there isn't a magic stave. Is resto magic damage? - My nb's running war maiden for casual content. Works well, but obviously drops some dps on woe.

The resto staff does do magic damage, so is buffed by War Maiden - but... Resto staff doesn't have any passives to increase damage, and destruction staff, dual-wield, and 2-hander passives are more impactful than the extra damage your resto staff light attacks get from war maidens. Dual wield and 2 hander now potentially scale with spell damage, but not from the bonus war maiden magic damage. War maiden is still a good set if you do mostly magic damage, it's like a more consistent but less good siroria.

Larcomar

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Larcomar wrote: »

It does raise the question of why there isn't a magic stave. Is resto magic damage? - My nb's running war maiden for casual content. Works well, but obviously drops some dps on woe.

The resto staff does do magic damage, so is buffed by War Maiden - but... Resto staff doesn't have any passives to increase damage, and destruction staff, dual-wield, and 2-hander passives are more impactful than the extra damage your resto staff light attacks get from war maidens. Dual wield and 2 hander now potentially scale with spell damage, but not from the bonus war maiden magic damage. War maiden is still a good set if you do mostly magic damage, it's like a more consistent but less good siroria.

Thanks that's helpful. I only use WM for tooling around overland - I tested it with his group dps set up and it was a noticeable drop because of all the non magic damage you end up with. Overland though I run a funky little spell sword build (he's dressed up like a samurai, wields a katana and uses stuff like concealed wpn, impale, lotus fan, stealth and mass hysteria). It's a lot of fun, but if Im taking on a WB he needs the backbar. I think that's currently an inferno staff but I was pondering putting a resto there for a bit more survivability. If WM buffs that... hmmm Illl try it out. got one somewhere I think

Jim_Pipp

Larcomar wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Larcomar wrote: »

It does raise the question of why there isn't a magic stave. Is resto magic damage? - My nb's running war maiden for casual content. Works well, but obviously drops some dps on woe.

The resto staff does do magic damage, so is buffed by War Maiden - but... Resto staff doesn't have any passives to increase damage, and destruction staff, dual-wield, and 2-hander passives are more impactful than the extra damage your resto staff light attacks get from war maidens. Dual wield and 2 hander now potentially scale with spell damage, but not from the bonus war maiden magic damage. War maiden is still a good set if you do mostly magic damage, it's like a more consistent but less good siroria.

Thanks that's helpful. I only use WM for tooling around overland - I tested it with his group dps set up and it was a noticeable drop because of all the non magic damage you end up with. Overland though I run a funky little spell sword build (he's dressed up like a samurai, wields a katana and uses stuff like concealed wpn, impale, lotus fan, stealth and mass hysteria). It's a lot of fun, but if Im taking on a WB he needs the backbar. I think that's currently an inferno staff but I was pondering putting a resto there for a bit more survivability. If WM buffs that... hmmm Illl try it out. got one somewhere I think

The NB class abilities look fantastic - the hardest part of playing that class is choosing what skills you won't use! I run War Maiden on 2 builds currently, a Magplar DPS vampire that is pretty unkillable, and a really-just-for-fun NB damage/tank with a resto staff back-bar. War Maiden does not buff resto staff abilities, just the light/heavy attack (but the "ward ally" damage shield is so useful in panic moments!)