Weapon Enchantments vs Posion vs Jelwery glyphs which is better for sustain ?

Tasear · June 2017

I had this thought which provides the greatest benefit from sustain. I know regain happens ever 2 secs so regain glyphs are worth half as much as reduce cost glyphs. On other hand, I can't make judgement on Weapon Enchantments, nor Poison. How often to Weapon Enchantments occur? What's the the cooldown? How often is Poison used? What's the the cooldown?

GreenSoup2HoT · June 2017

Standard Enchant 4 seconds.
Increased Damage Enchant 5 seconds.
Poisons 10 seconds.

Poisons all share a global cooldown. You cant proc a poison on each bar.

Enchants of the same type share a cooldown. So different enchants on each bar is prefered.

Duel wield will proc one then the other with weapon skills or light and heavy attacks. Some abilities prefer the offhand over mainhand but thats a whole other topic in itself.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · June 2017

None of the above, use the regen food, the couple that give max health and regen, it is better then using regen glyphs on your jewelry, you loose to much weapon/spell damage if you give them up.

code65536 · June 2017

Of these three options, my recommendation would be jewelry glyphs.

The Absorb Magicka and Absorb Stamina enchants don't really return much and are not worth it.

Running a drain-magicka or drain-stamina poison will give you 238 back every second for 5.5s every 10s. This works out to 5 ticks every 10s (the half second doesn't tick) and is the equivalent to 238 buffed regeneration (regeneration ticks once every 2s). Now, by running a drain poison, you're giving up a berserker enchant on your weapon, which is 348 SD/WD with 50% uptime (equivalent to 174 SD/WD with 100% uptime).

Running a regeneration glyph will give you 169 unbuffed regeneration. But once you factor in various sources of regeneration buffs: CP, class passives, racial passives, armor passives, vampire, etc., this will typically result, in practice, in well over 200 buffed regeneration and is often similar to what you'd get from a drain poison. The opportunity cost of a regeneration glyph is 174 SD/WD on your jewelry.

So essentially, in both the poison and jewelry scenarios, you're losing an equivalent amount of SD/WD--one from the weapon enchant and the other from the jewelry enchant--to gain a roughly equivalent of sustain. The difference is that one of these methods involves managing an expensive consumable (the drain poisons compete for ingredients with spell/weapon power potions). The only time it'd make sense, really, is if you are unable to run the berserker enchant on your weapon (e.g., running dual vMA staves instead of vMA+MD or vMA+IA staves), but even then, the prohibitively high cost makes poisons a very impractical choice for resource sustain. I would never recommend them.