KIller's Blade: How does it work?

CarlosTheBrave · June 2015

I'm new to this game (Xbox One player) and i'm still trying to understand how all the mechanics work.

I have some questions about the ability Killer's Blade.

The character I am leveling is a Nightblade (ofc) with all his points dumped into Stamina.

Killers Blade morph (http://www.esohead.com/skills/34843-killers-blade) makes the skill scale off Stamina and Weapon damage. As apposed to Magicka and Weapon damage I suppose?

1. My understanding is that it will continue to do magic damage however the amount of damage is now based on how much stamina and weapon damage I have. is this true?
2. The tooltip says it still uses Magicka to cast it. Is this true or is this an error and it now uses stamina to activate the ability?
3. What else increases this ability's damage? Spell penetration or Armor penetration?
4. How do enemies mitigate the damage? Spell resist or Armor?
5. Do all Nightblade abilities that have this type morph work in the same way?

lolo_01b16_ESO · June 2015

1. Yes
2. It should use stamina as soon as you morph it. If thats not the case, you should write a bug report.
3. Armour penetration and champion points in increased magic damage.
4. Armour
5. No, surprise attack will do physical damage if you choose the stamin morph.

Edit: Just checked it, applying major fracture to a target (armour debuff) increases the damage of Killers Blade.

Alcast · June 2015

1. True (ZOS forgot to change the damage type of the skill)
2.Killersblade uses Stamina and the other morph Impale uses Magicka. Unmoprhed skill uses Magicka.
3. CP points into Thaumaturge increase the damage. Not sure if it uses Spellpen or Armor pen. But it is Magicka Type damage so my guess is spellpenetration.
4. dunno.
5. 5. Not all, Killersblade and Soulharvest ulti and its morphs are only magicka based damage type although they scale of Stam/Weapn dmg.

Basically, when the game started, ALL class skills/Ultis were magicka based. People started QQing to boost Stamina classes. so ZOS did the following:
Ultis started scaling of the higher stats.
And in 1.6 they added some stamina morphs.

Problem: ZOS forgot to change the damage types of some skills + Ultis.

If you are Stamina at. Your ultis scale of Stamina and Weapon damage. BUT to get higher damage you need to put points into Elemental expert because 90% of ultis are Fire, 3% Frost, 3% Shock, 4ç magic damage type.

Also Ultis work ONLY with Spellpenetration and NOT armor penetration which is a hit in the face for Stamina users.

ZOS yet has to fix a lot of those things...they are slow...but they are getting there....slowly.

It might help if Console guys send feedback about that thing because ZOS doesnt listen to PC players.