What sources of of "stamina-gain" is there in the game to gain and sustain stamina while blocking?

Qbiken · August 2017

As the question above states, this includes stuff as:
- Sets
- Passives
- Enchants
- Traits
- Champion point system
- Skills
- Others (If I forgot to mention anything)

Reason I´m asking this is because of 2 reasons: While in PvE on my tank I have some trouble to sustain my stamina (due to me not being very experienced with tanking)The second reason has to do with me having trouble to maintain/sustain magicka on my magicka DK in PvP. I´ve read some topics on how blockcost reduction is calculated and such and have some knowledge about that, but I always have trouble with sustaining stamina, even with 8 pieces of sturdy trait. So if someone out there have knowledge or more insight on how to sustain stamina better for PvP/PvE it would be really helpful

I hope it´s ok if I tag you @Asardes here, since I know you´re experience with tanking

Asmael · August 2017

Quite a few ways to help with this:

Reducing block cost:
- Sturdy (armor trait)
- Shield play enchant (jewelry enchant)
- Shadow ward (CP star)
- Alteration mastery (magicka set)
- Using SnB / frost staff (self explanatory. I mean, you're not using DW / Bow / ... to block, are you?)
Getting resource returns while blocking:
- Helping hands (DK passive) - usually Igneous shield
- Battle roar (DK passive) - Technically more return by stacking ultimate generation tools such as Tava / BS
- Bull netch (Warden active)
- Constitution (heavy armor passive)
- Stamina steal enchants / poisons
- Bloodthorn's Touch (magicka set)
- Stamina potions (honorable mention for Immovable potions to avoid CCs through block, which can save stamina as well)
Others:
- Spell Wall (ultimate) - Free block! And you can weave heavy attacks to return stamina as well
- Switching between frost staff / SnB - Altho I don't find it necessary in most cases
- Heavy attacks. They return plenty of resources, even more so in heavy armor, so use those.

All I got right meow. Probably missing something.

Liofa · August 2017

Best way to learn to sustain your resources is to learn fights .

Learning what to block and what not to block is crucial . If you are blocking a hit that barely does any damage will consume same amount of stamina as blocking a heavy hit .

Learning to avoid CCs so you don't have to CC break can also help .

Keeping your buffs and debuffs are less important than keeping yourself alive . If you are having issues sustaining stamina , don't use Heroic Slash until you are back up . This can apply to using Magicka abilities as well . For example , I use a Lightning Staff on my back bar for increasing Off-Balance uptime with Blockade . If my Healers are busy with something and won't be healing for some time , I stop using it and stay on my front bar where I keep my Green Dragon Blood for emergency heals .

Choosing correct traits can help a lot . In some fights , you won't be blocking at all . If you are using Atronach Mundus , using Divines items will help more compared to Sturdy items .

In certain fights , you will be away from boss and won't be able to debuff it . Using an Infused weapon for increasing Crusher effectiveness doesn't do any good in this situation . Best example for this is axes in AA . You can , and should , use a Decisive weapon to increase your ultimate regeneration . If you are a DK , I assume you are , it will increase your sustain due to faster ultimate usage . You still can keep an Infused weapon on your back bar for execute phase .

Ways to get stamina you can learn by reading tooltips in game . This kind of stuff is what you need to know in order to learn sustain properly . After some time and gaining enough experience , you will stop giving a **** about your sustain because it will stop being a concern . Hope you get there in no time

Good luck !

leepalmer95 · August 2017

Theres an enchant that deals magic dmg but returns stam
Theres a poison that steals stam

Igneous (helping hands) + battle roar for dk.

They've changed blocking to the point where in pvp you really can't perma block anymore unless you complete spec for blocking, full sturdy, cp, block cost reduction gylphs etc..

Theres are some useful sets like bloodthorn which work through block, tri pots are a must. In pvp you won't ever perma block you will drop block. You also regen stamina while in mist form

Jim_Pipp · August 2017

Hmm, well I'll get started with a few off the top of my head.

Absorb stamina weapon enchants
Warden - bull netch, free stam
Nightblade - the siphoning attacks stam morph returns stam on light attacks
Dk - battle roar, get stam from ultimate
Templar - repentance is stam from death.

Argonian - there potion passive is amazing
Redguard - get some sustain from melee attacks

Sets that restore stam include
Blackrose - increases the return from constitution
Witchman - stam back from ulti
Vengeance leech - resources back from kills

I'm sure there are loads more, but I thought I'd start things off.

IxskullzxI · August 2017

Engine guardian if it's a stam proc. Not the most reliable, though.

Izaki · August 2017

Y'all forgot the Master's Resto stamina return, that helps quite a lot too.

Sentinel of Rkugamz is also a great stamina sustain set.

Qbiken · August 2017

So many good answers, thanks a lot

Stannum · August 2017

As for PvP (and really for non-trial PvE tanking) I use non-common resource spread tactic. Stamina build with frost staff at least on one bar (usually i use frost/bow). It's pretty suitable for warden and somewhat for NB but other classes are not so suitable (cause off lack of class spammable stamina attack skills). So you use stamina for attack/rolldodge/break free/heal and you have not stam regen locked blocking with ice staff. That gives you good survival and sustain with avarage damage abilities.

FakeFox · August 2017

Skills:
- Repentance (Templar)
- Bullnetch (Warden)
- Syphoning Attacks (Nightblade)

Passives:
- DK gets stamina back for using ultimates and earthen heart abilities

Other:
- Stamina potions
- Synergies
- Sets

I may have forgotten things, since I don't play tank much.

That said, you don't have to block all the time. Learn when you can drop block to regenerate stamina.

Gan Xing · August 2017

There is also

Syrabane's Grip set

Undaunted passives help (restore resources when using a synergy

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What sources of of "stamina-gain" is there in the game to gain and sustain stamina while blocking?

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