Cost Reduction vs Magicka Recovery?

RyuHyabusa427 · October 2016

I'm running an heavy armor magicka dk

I'll be wearing 5-1-1 (5 Heavy 1 med 1 light)

My question is, is it better to go for cost reduction or magicka recovery?

This is also for PvP.

Vaoh · October 2016

Flat sources of Magicka/Stamina do not scale. These grow significantly in strength depending on how much you invest into Cost reduction.

Percentage bonuses to your regeneration are dependant on your Recovery stat. These grow significantly more effective based on how much raw Regen you have stacked.

As a Heavy Armor user, your regen will come from flat sources such as your Heavy Armor passives, which will seem negligent if you instead invest in Regeration.

In short..... as a Heavy Armor user, stack as much as possible in a sensible way into Cost Reduction

kaithuzar · October 2016

If you are wearing blackrose then stick with more cost reduction
if wearing seducer or worm cult then go with more regen

if wearing anything else it's pretty close to 50/50; tweak it to your liking

Minno · October 2016

Percentage based reduction performs better than the flat costs do. Youll get better returns if you pick items/stats that give you a percent (seducer's set, Champion points, Breton cost reduction passive, etc.)

Jewel enchants are best to be used for things like spell dmg unless you need the recovery/cost/block reduction.

incite · October 2016

I'd say both, that's what I do

Bryanonymous · October 2016

I've noticed that in PvE, cost reduction is far more helpful. Too bad I had to allocate 75cp into regen first to get the 50% harvest time reduction. Also, I only find it more helpful because as a Sorc, I keep Dark Exchange on my overload bar, so when I run low, I just convert stamina. Other classes might experience different hardships. :P

Sirvandal · October 2016

Approx. 60% in cost reduction and 40% in regen. Then try to figger out what your best balance is for the build you have (62% vs 38% or 58% vs 42% etc.) Balancing only cost a few gold...*cough* :O/

RyuHyabusa427 · October 2016

Thank you all for the responses.

RyuHyabusa427 · October 2016

Also, would cost reduction be more favorable with light armor or is recovery the way to go?

Methariorn · October 2016

Light armor, imho, don't need cost reduction at all: the armor passive provvide enough reduction coupled with some champion points. Recovery is a lot better if you play light armor.

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