Skills and how they scale

Insurrektion · October 2014

I'm currently under the impression that all skills with a magicka cost get more powerful based upon your max magicka pool, and all skills with a stamina cost get more powerful based on your max stamina pool.

Are there any skills that scale off other attributes? Yes I understand that weapon crit probably will increase stamina dps based on that skill's ability to critically strike, and magicka dps based off spell crit. For the base damage of the skill though, are there any other means of increasing it's damage?

Nestor · October 2014

First, see these two threads

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/91037/does-magicka-affect-spell-damage

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/121899/

To sum up, if it comes from a weapon skill it is almost always scaled from Weapon Damage. Skills like Surge and Igneious Weapons have a nice affect on what those skills do against a mob. Note, Impulse and Wall of Elements from the Destruction Staff look like magic spells and use your magic pool but scale from Weapon Damage. Wall might be magic based, not sure I don't use that much anymore.

If you wave your hands around before the skill releases, then it is probably magic based. There are rings and crafted/dropped sets that increase your weapon and or magic damage. Since these are base numbers in a calculation, even though they look like small changes, they have a larger impact than the raw numbers would leave you to believe.

An add on like Foundry Tactical Combat or Combat Log (I think it's called that) can tell you exactly what damage your doing. I don't use them myself, I just take a rough estimate of how much time it takes me to kill a mob, and if it's less, I am doing more damage and the change I made was a good one.