Dexterity (medium armor passive) and destruction staffs

HebrewHatchet · September 2015

Does the crit bonus given by the "Dexterity" passive skill in the medium armor skill line affect light/medium/heavy staff attacks?

(I can't test this easily because I'm on PS4)

Thanks

DeanTheCat · September 2015

They used to, but no longer ever since 1.6 Weapon/Spell Power normalization.

You want Spell Crit for Staves, and Weapon Crit for everything else. In general, if an ability costs Magicka to activate, it will scale off Spell Power/Crit. If the ability costs Stamina, it will scale off Weapon Damage/Crit.

HebrewHatchet · September 2015

But, regular attacks don't cost magicka or stamina as far as I know. Also, it makes sense that regular attacks with a staff are considered weapon attacks. Can you please clarify?

DeanTheCat · September 2015

In general, if it looks like a spell, it goes off Spell Crit/Spell Damage. Otherwise, it's Weapon Crit/Weapon Damage. Stave light/heavy attacks fall under the catagory of "Looks like a spell", so ZoS made then scale of Spell Damage/Spell Crit.

Staves used to scale off Spell Crit/Weapon Damage back in pre-1.6, but that confused a lot of people, so it got normalised in 1.6.