Dont know what to choose

Elfhunter194 · December 2016

Since im very new to the game at the very start i use to apply my points in all of magicka, health and stamina so they where all even, but since im a high elf sorcerer using a destruction staff, i was told to apply them all to magicka by a friend whos max level, but im getting tires of using a DS, im more interested in changing to a bow, can i use a bow? To so high damage? PVE only if so what skills woukd be recommended?

AverageJo3Gam3r · December 2016

What do you want to do? General questing and exploring in PvE? Anything including naked boxing will work. You'll be more powerful if you put all your points into stamina for bow, though. In PvP? As a high elf you won't get much help from your racial bonuses, but you can overcome through player skill

4 player group content? This requires a more focused build, so if you want to use a bow, lookup some stam sorc builds to use. Alcast has good ones on YouTube, or check out tamriel foundry.

12 player trials? You'll want to race change to a stamina race for these. You *can* do it as a high elf stam sorc but it's selfish. You be doing at least 10% less damage compared to a red guard or khajiit. You're asking your teammates to compensate for your lack of an optimized build.

dem0n1k · December 2016

Bow damage is matched to weapon damage which is linked to Stamina. So as a Magicka Sorcerer you will won't do high damage with a bow.

You _could_ put your attribute points into Stamina (to raise Bow damage) but as a High Elf sorcerer that would not be ideal.

Nerouyn · December 2016

Ok first off, don't worry too much about racial passives. The game's PVE is generally easy enough that they make very little to no difference.

If you want to switch to stamina and bow, do it. It's a game. You want to have fun. That doesn't mean you have to squeeze every last statistical advantage out of your chosen race and class.

Also sorcerers are unique amongst the classes in having an ability (dark exchange) to convert stamina to magicka, and one of the morphs makes it convert magicka to stamina. So your high elf magicka regen bonus can effectively be used to regen more stamina and health. Hooray!

For some gold you can respec both stats (i.e. magicka, stamina, health) and skills. So you can try out different things without worrying about permanently screwing anything up.

Long way off perhaps for you but eventually there is a crafted set bonus which raises the lower of your weapon or magic damage stat to the higher's value. That potentially makes hybrid magicka / stamina gameplay a bit more viable.