Question about using stat points

Nyro87 · February 2016

How much should I invest in stamina if I am mostly using Shadow and Siphoning? Noticed they both use Magicka so I was wondering if I should even bother with stamina at all.

Johngo0036 · February 2016

you need to decide if you are going stamina or magicka and then pile the attribute points into that attribute..

Nyro87 · February 2016

Johngo0036 wrote: »

you need to decide if you are going stamina or magicka and then pile the attribute points into that attribute..

Well, that's what I was asking. Even though they are Nightblade trees the skills seem to use magicka. So I guess I should go magicka. Seemed weird Nightblade skills would use magicka.

Didgerion · February 2016

put 0 points into stamina if you are a magica player.

Nyro87 · February 2016

Didgerion wrote: »

put 0 points into stamina if you are a magica player.

Ok, I just wanted to make sure I don't mess up my build somehow out of lack of knowledge lol

Cuyler · February 2016

What race is your character?

Pvp or Pve?

lolo_01b16_ESO · February 2016

Nyro87 wrote: »

Johngo0036 wrote: »

you need to decide if you are going stamina or magicka and then pile the attribute points into that attribute..

Well, that's what I was asking. Even though they are Nightblade trees the skills seem to use magicka. So I guess I should go magicka. Seemed weird Nightblade skills would use magicka.

Well, there are different ways to play a nightblade.
You can play them as a kind of bloodmage, using manly siphoning skills, you can play them as a kind of illusionist, utilizing stealth and skills like shadow image, concealed weapon, lotus fan or fear, you can play them as rouge with dual wield and bow, relaying mainly on weapon skills and those class skills that can be morphed to a stamina version, you can play a tanky warrior that uses his class skills only for sustain and utillity, ...

Totalitarian · February 2016

Nyro87 wrote: »

Ok, I just wanted to make sure I don't mess up my build somehow out of lack of knowledge lol

You can always respec your attribute points when you get to the capital city of your faction. It's something you'll probably do when you get to a high level, so if you mess up, it's fixable.

Nestor · February 2016

Nyro87 wrote: »

Didgerion wrote: »

put 0 points into stamina if you are a magica player.

Ok, I just wanted to make sure I don't mess up my build somehow out of lack of knowledge lol

You can always respec.

Current meta is to put all attribute points into that which scales your damage. You pick what scales your damage with the skills and morphs you choose. Most skills have a Stamina or Magic morph, so be careful come Morph time. It's not terrible to put some points into your off Attribute, but you don't want to put too many in there to get the best bang for the point.

Shardaxx · February 2016

A lot of the NB skills in Assassin and Shadow can be morphed to scale off stamina instead of magicka.

Volkodav · February 2016

Nyro87 wrote: »

Johngo0036 wrote: »

you need to decide if you are going stamina or magicka and then pile the attribute points into that attribute..

Well, that's what I was asking. Even though they are Nightblade trees the skills seem to use magicka. So I guess I should go magicka. Seemed weird Nightblade skills would use magicka.

I use Stamina for my NB.Total Stamina.

failkiwib16_ESO · February 2016

Class skills are mainly magicka based. Each class has a few ..3-4 stamina morphs, but that is pretty much it.

Stamina based players use mainly weapon skills for damage, and class abilities as utility (shields, healing, invisbility, flee from battle, buffing etc.)
Magicka based players use class skill abilities to kill with and also as utilities.

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Aelthwyn · February 2016

You will need some stamina if you intend to sneak and for blocking/dodging physical attacks which can be vital when you’re up against the ones that send you flat on your back - they can pretty much prevent you from having a chance to do anything if you can’t block them.

But yeah, in the shadow and siphoning skills there are only a couple of Morphs that use stamina instead of magicka, so you probably won’t need it for those, unless they make more changes in the future. The question is whether you are also going to need it for weapon skills or if you’re going with staves instead.