Which increases damage more Magicka or Spell Penetration (Mundus Stones) (PVP)?

Kammakazi · July 2015

I'm in a dilemma whether to choose the Mage or the Apprentice because I don't know which is better.

Any help?

Zsymon · July 2015

I suspect you'll get more damage from the Apprentice, since max magicka has two purposes (casting spells and spell damage), where as spell pen only has one purpose.

PBpsy · July 2015

More magicka since it helps both sustain and damage and does not depend on the actuall resist of the target.In the current state of the game Spell penetration can be actually completly useless when facing some guy with so much nirn that you can`t reduce his resist to the hardcap.

Kammakazi · July 2015

Anybody have more insight on this?

Akinos · July 2015

Spell pen imo. I tested the 2 stones...but that test was on mobs though lol.

However, I've got over 16k spell pen with light, nirn weapons and the apprentice mundus and my damage on most players is pretty high. 15k+ Dark Flares and 19k+ Prox Detonation crits.

kaithuzar · July 2015

DEPENDS on your class, if sorc use max magic, if anything else use spell pen

glavius · July 2015

Assuming you also use gold nirnhoned staff or dual wield, and 5 light armor: if target resists is above 50k apprentice is useless. If target resists are around 25k to 45k, apprentice is best option by far. Below 25k i'm unsure whats best.

glavius · July 2015

Anyway atronach best option by far!