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If you know 100% that you do not want to ever tank with the character, then I'd say redguard.

If you want tanking to be a possibility then you would benefit from the Imperial racials way more from tanking, and the redguard racials are only moderately better for dps.

Imperial dps does not have to invest as much into health to hit a 'minimum' health barrier if you feel one is needed (generally pve content requires at least a certain amount of health so they are not too squishy.) Therefore, imperial dps would have potential for higher max stamina at the minimum health level, while Redguard melee dps has much more regeneration.

The Highest DPS goes to Khajiit.

1) Stamina scaling DPS - Stamina scales with 1 dmg per at least 8 stamina for highest scaling direct attack types (0.128 scale) and usually like 1 dmg per 12 stamina for average direct attack types (0.084 scale). For DoTs it is the same for the highest scaling ones (0.128). But for the rest it is 1 per 16 stamina (0.064 scale).
Now consider a character without racial passives at 36k stamina. With Imperial/Redguard extra stamina of 10%, he gets 3600 extra stamina. With it he will get 3600/12 or 300 extra damage if he uses low scaling direct attacks and 3600/8 or 450 extra damage if he uses high scaling direct attacks. Now consider he is running 2 high scaling DoTs (like Poison Injection) and 1 weak DoT, and 1 DoT that is unaffected by stamina (like Poison status effect and enchantment procs). He gets 3600/8*2 + 3600/16 or 900 extra total damage on high scaling DoTs and 225 on low scaling DoTs. Now most high scaling DoTs have durations of 9 secs and most low scaling DoTs have durations of around 5 sec. Then you get total of 900/9 + 225/5 or 145 DoT damage per second.

Average DPS of maxed Stamina DK without any racial bonus to DPS- 33k per second

Bonus DPS from max stamina increase passives of Imperial/Redguard = 300+125 to 450+125 = 425 to 575 depending on relative scaling of skills in his rotations

Bonus in percentage increase of DPS = 425/33000*100 to 575/33000*100 = 1.29% to 1.75%

Now if someone uses all high scaling direct attacks and DoTs, then they can get a 2.2% increase at max

Increase in DPS by Imperial/Redguard = 1.28-2.20%

2) Scaling of DPS by critical hit chance - Critical hits can increase the damage of DPS by a flat 50% on top of all other damage increase mechanics. The increase percent of the damage can also be boosted. This is a linear mechanic and affects the final damage of the hit, essentially overriding all other mechanics.

So minimum DPS increase by 8% extra crit chance of Khajiit = 8*50% = 4%

Now maximum critical damage bonus percentage for DKs = 50(base) + 19(7 legendary divides Shadow Mundus) + 25(Max Precise Strikes CP) + 30(Major Force) + 10(Minor Force) = 134%

So maximum DPS increase by 8% extra crit chance of Khajiit = 8*134% = 10.72%

Increase in DPS by Khajiit = 4-10.72%.

The Highest sustain goes to Redguard.
The Highest survivability goes to Imperial.

Jaronking wrote: »

Man Redguard the best race for stamina hands down adrenaline rush is just to good of a passive.With 36k stamina your getting about 800 stamina back every 3 seconds that's pretty good especially in Open world PVP and duels sustains beats everything.

Actually in duels passive stamina regen is better than active stamina regen. For that reason, for PvP Bosmer sustain is better than Redguard sustain.

Redguard. Stamina management in PvP is the most important aspect. Without stamina you are dead. Imperial is great for the HP bonus, yet that's easily obtainable with food.

Redguard actually has better stamina management than Bosmer, which gets a 21% stamina regen passive.

Pick Redguard.

I don't really know, I've never played a redguard (and barely played imperial lol) but I prefer to be a bit tanky.

Nord.

Always Nord.

Redguard. *** easy to use for stam dps or tank with.

Mr.Hmm wrote: »

Nord.

Always Nord.

*sneaks close to you*

*whispers*...Imperial master race!


*hides*...

@KingYogi415 if your aiming for pvp then 100% redguard you could focus more on damage bcuz the redguard passive feeds you stamina resources back when using melee

The stamina return is just too good to ignore, the stamina recovery for PVP? Even better.. With extra cost of abilities next patch this is too important.

Imperial's little heal from its final passive is near worthless in PVP as heals are nerfed. You already get a health buff from battle roar?? And I don't think that extra 5,000 gets buffed by the imperial passive either. I could be wrong though on that account.