Need some help with stamina management on Stam Sorc.

Soleya · September 2016

Having issues regarding stamina resource management.

Here is my build

Wood-Elf Sorc

All attributes and armor enchants in Stamina. Thief Mundus

5 Hundings Rage
2 Valkyn Skoria
Night Mothers Bow (no set bonus, just a CP160 gold bow I had) (absorb stamina enchant)
2 Night Mothers Daggers (enchants are increase weapon damage and absorb stamina)
3 Agility Jewelry All Weapon Damage Enchants (2 healthy 1 robust due to cost)
or...
3 Endurance Robust Jewelry with Weapon Dmg Enchants.

The build relies heavily on crit heals, and lots and lots of DOTs.

Stats with Endurance Jewerly on:

19182 Health
36867 Stamina 1302 Regen
3414 Weapon Dmg (with crit surge buff, goes higher with other buffs)

Stats with Agility Jewerly

19554 Health
36482 Stamina 956 Regen
3668 Weapon Dmg (with crit surge buff, goes higher with other buffs)

For CP (green tree), I have 92 in Warlord, and 80 in Mooncalf, 4 Tumbling, 1 Shadow Ward.

If I run with a group and Templar has shards/repentance, there's no issues. If not then I start having stam resource problems. Specifically in Maelstrom Arena. So far in the arena, I find that dying between rounds helps because I respawn back with full stats.

I'm also using Weapon Power (damage + crit + stam) Potions or Weapon Crit (crit + Stam + health). But I find taking these I see a small jump in stamina, then I run out very quickly as 20% more regen isn't much on 956/1302.

Only other thing, I have overload on one bar with Dark Deal, but I can cast that 2-3 times and I'm out of magicka, So I get back 14-15k stamina if I can cast it 3 times. But this means doing almost no dps while doing so.

I see a lot of builds with 900 or so regen (or even less) how is it possible to not run out of resources with those builds.

Any help would be appreciated.

Minute_Waltz · September 2016

Tbh i kinda struggle with sustain especially round 8 VMA even with 5 VO on my stam sorc and overload bar dark deal, although its managable. So I think that is what you are missing, number wise yours is about right.

WillhelmBlack · September 2016

Are you going for a speed run or something? Why not increase your Magicka recovery or use tri stat food? Do you have Vicious Ophidian? Why are you waiting til you're out of stamina before using Dark Deal? You'll get infinite casts off if using it correctly.

Soleya · September 2016

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

Are you going for a speed run or something? Why not increase your Magicka recovery or use tri stat food? Do you have Vicious Ophidian? Why are you waiting til you're out of stamina before using Dark Deal? You'll get infinite casts off if using it correctly.

Don't have VO. Just trying to get a complete, not a speed run.

Since Dark Deal is on my Overload ultimate bar, I have to cast that first to use it. Can't find room on my other bars for it.

Bar 1
Arrow Barrage, Poison Injection, Hurricane, Crit Surge, Bound Armaments, Overload
Bar2
Blood Craze, Bloodthirst, Steel Tornado, Vigor, Bound Armaments. Dawbreaker

Should I drop Bound Armaments for it. If so any suggestion on a good skill to put on the other bar.

DinOwned · September 2016

Bound Armaments gives you 20% health and stam recovery due to the daedric protection passive in addition to the minor resolve, increased heavy attack damage, and max stam. Not sure that will solve your problem if you're having issues with sustain. If you do drop it though maybe add dark deal like you mention and trap beast?

CasNation · September 2016

Go farm VO. It's relatively easy to get, and you should do it now before they change the nSO drops to blue instead of purple quality.

The other really easy way is to weave in a heavy attack with rapid strikes. You can charge a heavy attack while channeling rapid strikes, and the rapid strikes animation can truncate the second half of the animation of your heavy attack. The heavy attack will return about 7-8% of your stam each time. You will suffer a slight dps loss, but you will literally never run out of stam. Just make sure to avoid heavy weaving with other abilities if you can, since the animation cancelling doesn't work out quite so well.