I'm kinda curious if anyone has tried this or not...make a build where the only skills you use are Class Skills that use Magicka, and the only use for Stamina is to Block/Dodge/Sprint? I've been trying it out with my Warden and its been WAY more fun to level with than any other build with any class.
Basically everyone either goes all into Magicka or all into Stamina. If you run a magWarden, you'll use all skills that use magicka either from your skill lines or from the Destro/Resto staff skill lines. The more max resources you have, the more damage done by those types of skills, so it doesn't usually make sense to do a hybrid.
Don't neglect your Destro staff skills, particularly Wall of Elements. You also don't need both Shalk and Dive on both bars. That's just wasting skill slots. Add Wall of Elements (back bar) and Inner Light (front bar), moving Winter's Revenge to the back bar with Wall of Elements. That way you can drop Winter's Revenge and Wall when you initiate combat and then swap to your front bar.
Not running a staff for magic allows you to dual wield. Running 2 swords for the extra damage or a dagger for crit was really common before weapon ultimatea were introduced.
Running dual wield aslo allows you to run a monster set along with 2, 5 piece sets. But for magic builds this forces you to use only class abilities (or mages/fighters guild etc). It is a viable build for even medium levels of play. Maybe a few builds are viable endgame but not most (PvE at least).
But if you are just here to have fun you do you man, and enjoy yourself.
Played for about 2 years on Xbox and did everything you can do (-emp).
Still pretty new to PC-NA.