?How do you stamina?

Cathexis · January 2015

As a sorc. I can't figure out for the life of me how to get a half decent stamina build going. Stamina regen is too low, and i can only find two skills that regen stamina

>> Consuming trap (9% on kill)
>> Vamp Drain (150% of damage, once per target, horrible combat mechanics)

There is nothing else I can find that regens stamina enough to make block builds or melee oriented builds sustainable.

Please educate me.

Valen_Byte · January 2015

Med. armor, rings, necklace and glyphs

sKorcheD · January 2015

go WW instead of vamp, you'll get 15% stamina regen plus no weakness.

Teargrants · January 2015

Sorc has no stam sustain in its class lines. The other three classes all do though. Have fun.

Cathexis · January 2015

is ***, could have at least put stamina sustain in the crap summon tree

but I have come up with some interesting hypothetical builds so we will see when I get the chance to do a respec how it plays out

s7732425ub17_ESO · January 2015

Sorc has absolutely no synergy with stamina builds. You have to rely completely on armor sets, enchants, and pots for sustain. Don't do a stamina Sorc in PVP- it's extremely weak.

ToRelax · January 2015

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

Sorc has absolutely no synergy with stamina builds. You have to rely completely on armor sets, enchants, and pots for sustain. Don't do a stamina Sorc in PVP- it's extremely weak.

Maybe due to this it is that there are some strong synergies with stamina builds for sorcs wich don't make them strong in general though.

- Critical Surge will heal with Critical Rush and push it's damage, in 1.6 it wil not stack with rally anymore though (as far as we can say yet).

- Casting one Bolt Escape is no problem for a stamina Sorc and if you choose Ball of Lighting you get the same effect as with a magicka build. The extra defense is often underestimated.

- Shrouded Armor will heal for every time to activate (toggle on) Overload, giving you a relatively strong selfheal "for free". If you rely on it you can't use other ultimates though or you almost certainly die for it.

- In a 1v1 a Clannfear can be really annoying to drain Stamina.

That is what I can think if right now. Don't get me wrong though, Sorcerer stamina builds are indeed very weak.

Mojomonkeyman · January 2015

Cathexis wrote: »

As a sorc. I can't figure out for the life of me how to get a half decent stamina build going. Stamina regen is too low, and i can only find two skills that regen stamina

>> Consuming trap (9% on kill)
>> Vamp Drain (150% of damage, once per target, horrible combat mechanics)

There is nothing else I can find that regens stamina enough to make block builds or melee oriented builds sustainable.

Please educate me.

To make stamina viable with sorc you have to "heavily" utilize heavy attacks into your rotations. This will make stamina problems a non issue, but is usually a change of playstyle (not a bad one, heavies hurt a lot, but to time them appropriately).

With 2h i.e. you would try to place a heavy after every wrecking blow which works very well in general.

KBKB · January 2015

Ask Skaffa that guy rocks an awesome 2h/stam/magic build his HP is squishy at around 2.2k but he really makes it work with skill I guess.

Mumyo · January 2015

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

Sorc has absolutely no synergy with stamina builds. You have to rely completely on armor sets, enchants, and pots for sustain. Don't do a stamina Sorc in PVP- it's extremely weak.

I met a few sorcs on the field that did pretty well actually. Im sure there is a way.

Dazin93 · January 2015

You can build a very solid stamina sorc by focusing mainly on weapon skills and supplementing with a few class skills. The stamina regen isn't even an issue with the right gear; the real downside to a stamina sorc is the lack of a reliable self heal.
Nonetheless, you can have good burst dps and decent survivability, just don't expect to be making many 1vX videos or be engaged in long fights and expect to win many of them.

Sanct16 · January 2015

Teargrants wrote: »

Sorc has no stam sustain in its class lines. The other three classes all do though. Have fun.

Unholy Knowledge reduces Stamina costs by 5%. As it stacks with the Medium armor reduction, it should help sustain Stamina.

Teargrants · January 2015

Sanct16 wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Sorc has no stam sustain in its class lines. The other three classes all do though. Have fun.

Unholy Knowledge reduces Stamina costs by 5%. As it stacks with the Medium armor reduction, it should help sustain Stamina.

That's only cost reduction, not comparable actual sustain that other classes get.

NBs have Leeching Strikes + Refreshing Shadows.
DKs have Battle Roar + Helping Hands.
Templars have Radient Aura/Repentance + Restoring Spirit.

Jahosefat · January 2015

Teargrants wrote: »

Sorc has no stam sustain in its class lines. The other three classes all do though. Have fun.

One of the great inequalities of our time.

Erock25 · January 2015

Jahosefat wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Sorc has no stam sustain in its class lines. The other three classes all do though. Have fun.

One of the great inequalities of our time.

Quoted for the truthiness.

Cathexis · January 2015

I used to run 2h charge off of overload into the fighters guild vamp fear (button mash!) until they took it away. Since then I haven't been able to pull out a good stamina build.