Managing Health, Stamina, and Magic In A Battle?

RatsnevE

Health, Stamina, and Magic do not recover instantly in battle. I think you have to be well versed in holding the 'Q' key down, selecting the potion you need, releasing the 'Q' key, and finally taping it again to drink the potion. I have never practiced this during fights with my previous character reaching level 10 with many unsuccessful quests.

This seems like a difficult thing to manage successfully during battle, but is this correct or unnecessary or is there a better way?

Thanks.

Eris

I've found that having a balance of stamina and magicka powers helps to keep in a fight. Then having increased magicka, stamina and health regeneration in items is helpful as well.

The Q key is really clunky and requires far to much effort in the middle of combat, they really should have allowed you to hotkey items like that.

jesterstear

I quite fortunate, on my main, as my Templar has the Honour the Dead instant cast, no cooldown heal skill, so Magika and Health are essentially interchangeable. I just slot magika potions and be done with it.

Lazarus_Long

I tend to use potions I have crafted myself instead of the potions I get as drops. By investing a few skill points in Alchemy you can make a single potion that restores health, magicka, and stamina. No matter what class I play I almost always have at least one "off skill" on my bar. These "off skills" use the resource pool that the other skills don't. So like when my sorcerer is out of magicka I can pop a potion, shoot some Silver Bolts (uses stamina), and in a few seconds start nuking again.

Edit: If you are over level 15 and are having a hard time with magicka you could try the Restoration staff. Finishing a heavy attack with it restores 10% of your max magicka.

Xithian

I'm an alchemist. I make potions that heal all 3 at once. Look into it.

RatsnevE

Xithian wrote: »

I'm an alchemist. I make potions that heal all 3 at once. Look into it.

I'm reviewing and think I've asked this of you in a private message to you but is this alchemist part of your lvl 50 Khajiit NB or a different PC you are working on? Thanks.

gimmethecreepsb14_ESO

At level 10 you shouldn't have major issues managing stamina, Magicka and health. Check your gear and see what stata they're giving you. If youre building a character that utilizes Stam and magicka you'll want a balance of Stam and magicka, as well as stamina and magicka regen. You may be overcharging a stat and that hurts a bit more at low levels. Armor selection may be hurting you too. A lot of people are going heavy armor on melee DPS characters and seeing this issue. Balance out your regen passives and enchantments accordingly. If you're putting all your trait points in health, and wearing 5 piece medium armor for the Stam recovery, stack some magicka recovery enchants to cover the difference. Alternate between Stam and magicka powers to stretch out and sustain your resource pools, and look for powers that provide resource recovery. Hard to help without knowing your race, class, armor and weapon selections though.

tengri

Potions handling is... terrible. And I hate the Q key radial menu. With passion.
But you need potions especially later on, so better get used to it.

Luckily there are addons with allow switching the selected item with additional hot-keys; you would still have to press your "key to switch to health potion slot" and then Q to activate it but it's a start... anything but radial menu, yes?
You might want to look into that if you go down the potion road.

KanedaSyndrome

As someone else wrote, it is indeed a good idea to focus on a nice split between stamina and magicka consuming abilities so you get the most bang for your buck, so to say.

kitchenguy65_ESO

tengri wrote: »

Potions handling is... terrible. And I hate the Q key radial menu. With passion.
But you need potions especially later on, so better get used to it.

Luckily there are addons with allow switching the selected item with additional hot-keys; you would still have to press your "key to switch to health potion slot" and then Q to activate it but it's a start... anything but radial menu, yes?
You might want to look into that if you go down the potion road.

The add on is called greymind quickslot bar and it works just like tengri explained. It's slightly less cumbersome than the radial wheel. After getting used to it, it becomes much easier to quickly and reliably use your potions in combat.