Nirn honed and spell penetration

preevious · April 2015

Hi, everyone !

I have a little question regarding that ninth trait, nirn honed ..

On a weapon, the trait says "+ XX % spell resistance and + XX % spell penetration",

The question is : does "spell" means that only the magicka based skills would benefit from this trait? That would be unfair for all those stamina builds out there ..
Or does stamina-using skills benefits from it as well?

For a stam build, is sharpened supérior to nirn-honed?

Thanks for any insight on that matter.

preevious · April 2015

No idea, anyone?

heystreethawk · April 2015

I'm not a hundo percent convinced you have any right to call anything unfair to stam builds at the mo.

Spell penetration refers to how much spell resistance your spells penetrate. Armor penetration refers to how much armor your physical attacks penetrate. Use sharpened.

RoyJade · April 2015

And remember that nirnhoned armor trait give a lot of spell resistance, much more than reinforced for armor.

preevious · April 2015

woah, heystreethawk, calm down, geez .. that was just a question -_-'..

And I am a "hundo" conviced I have every rights to have any opinion I want on what is fair or unfair.

Anyway, thanks for the info, I've been wondering about this for a while.

And Royjade, yes, you are right, the added spell resistance is certainly usefull, thanks.