Strange Scribing discrepancies

msetten

I was just experimenting with Scribing and noticed a very weird discrepancy: If I scribe the Soul Burst skill with Stamina Damage it does more damage and cost less (8544 damage and 2667 stamina) than if I were to scribe it with Magicka Damage (8210 damage and 3326 magicka cost). I am on a magicka sorcerer in case that would make a difference.

And also: why does it allow the use of Shock Damage for the focus script, but not Fire, Bleed etc?

Ezhh

Sorc has bonus physical damage from passives.

(Bonus shock too, but that doesn't seem to be displaying correctly when making scribed skills.)

Aelorin

And isn't it so that magicka skills are allways a bit more expensive then stamina skills?

tsaescishoeshiner

As far as cost, stam skills get a cost discount. Also, either skill will be reduced by whether you have medium or light armor on.

The 5% increase to Physical & Shock damage that sorcs get would add up to the 334 damage difference if the skill's damage (before other % increases) was a little under 7k.

The last thing I'd test for would be whether your build has points in the CP passives (not slotted ones) that give you some Weapon/Spell damage to only martial effects or only magical effects.

msetten

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

The 5% increase to Physical & Shock damage that sorcs get would add up to the 334 damage difference if the skill's damage (before other % increases) was a little under 7k.

This will probably be the reason for the difference in damage. Thanks.

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

The last thing I'd test for would be whether your build has points in the CP passives (not slotted ones) that give you some Weapon/Spell damage to only martial effects or only magical effects.

Don't think this is the reason, as I have all CP passives (CP 2536 right now), so both the weapons and spell passives.