Max stamina/max magicka racial passives & DPS

MrGrimey · August 2015

first off I want to start by saying how much I love how this game lets every class fill 3 roles and 2 ways to dps though magicka and stamina. I also want to say how much I hate that this game's racial passives pigeonholed your class into one particular way to play depending if you are a magicka or stamina race.

So my question, at end game, how much of a dps loss is it to run with an un-optimal race and miss out on those +10% max stat passives? For example, a redguard magicka sorc or a Breton stamina NB

Prospering · August 2015

you can go dark elf, it gives 9% max magicka and 6% max stamina along with fire resist

Jeckll · August 2015

MrGrimey wrote: »

first off I want to start by saying how much I love how this game lets every class fill 3 roles and 2 ways to dps though magicka and stamina. I also want to say how much I hate that this game's racial passives pigeonholed your class into one particular way to play depending if you are a magicka or stamina race.

So my question, at end game, how much of a dps loss is it to run with an un-optimal race and miss out on those +10% max stat passives? For example, a redguard magicka sorc or a Breton stamina NB

It's noticable and it's getting bigger with every Champion Point you get. Take that as a rough rule of the thump: 1k Stamina = 3% DPS. Without Racials, getting 30k Stamina is quite doable, so I get 3k extra Stamina as Redguard/Imperial which is ~9% raw Damage plus the extra resources obviously.

But it doesnt matter in ANY content except when you try to run for first places in Leaderboards where every little thing helps.

drzycki_ESO · August 2015

I am a Breton stamina Dragonknight. I leveled to VR14 using magicka but decided to give stamina a try and it's more my style. At first, I was bothered that my racial passives were geared towards a magicka user but since as a DK, I still have to use magicka for some spells, it has worked out. HOWEVER, if we were given a chance to change races, I would.

To answer your question about damage, I did a bit more damage when I was using magicka than I do using stamina but not enough to make me level another character as I have too much invested in this one.