I will give you my personal opinion, which (disclaimer) is by no means gospel or general consensus.

First off I will point out a couple statements you made that may pose certain challenges to maximizing your potential.
- Wearing plate armor is generally reserved for tanks or improved survivability in PvP situations, but has a direct, negative impact on your ability to do damage. Passive skills in the medium and light armor skill lines offer substantial boosts to stamina- and magic-based skills respectively. So for stamina-focused characters you'll want to wear medium armor to maximize your damage output if that is your goal. If you want to be a tank and stand there and absorb damage, but not be able to dole out much, then by all means, wear heavy (plate) armor.
- Choosing a race that will be viable for both stamina and magicka if you get the notion to switch play style during the life of the character is a tough one. Again, passive skills tied to each race tend to benefit one particular function (stamina DPS, Magicka DPS, Stam Tank, Mag Tank, or Mag healer) Dunmer (Dark Elf) is probably the closest thing to a true hybrid race, based on passives.

To the crux of the matter, what race and class combination would I recommend? Again, we'll focus on a few things you stated above.
- You'd like to be able to: switch between DD and tank, use melee skills, and have some ability to switch between stam and magicka. To answer the call to this, my top suggestion would be to create a dragonknight class, with the race being a little tougher decision. Dunmer make the best magicka DK because most of the magicka skills are fire based and that race gets a nice fire damage bonus. The few stamina morphs for DK skills deal poison damage which won't be affected by any racial passives, which makes this race pretty much standard for Mag DK DPS characters, and still relevant to stam DK. Getting a race that excels at stamina but also works for magicka is the bigger issue. Nords and Orcs make for good options that can be either stam DD or tanks.
- For a stam sorc I run Redguard, although Bosmer (wood elf) might not be a bad choice either. Unfortunately, you'll be mostly using weapon-line skills for damage as nearly all sorcerer skills are magic-based, even morphs. Although Hurricane and Dark Conversion are nice stamina morphs. Sorcerers are mainly DPS characters, but I have seen some effective tanks that utilize shielding really well.

I think stamina DK's are in a really good spot right now for DPS, and have always been the go-to standard for tanking. So I would look at that if it were up to me. The race decision I'll leave up to you, however.

Stamina dragonknight if you want to be able to switch between being a tank and being a damage dealer. You can train them in sword and shield to be a tank, and dual wield (or 2-handed) so you can switch them to DD with just a simple change of armor.

Otherwise, I'd recommend stamina sorceror, just because they're fun. They heal themselves nicely and do excellent damage.

Redguards and Wood Elves (Bosmer) will be able to maintain their stamina the best, so they won't run out of stamina as fast as other races.
Imperials and Orcs can make great tanks too, though. My dragonknight tank is an Orc, just because Orcs are awesome.

Race doesn't matter too much, obviously you'll have your top dogs but the difference isn't really noticable for the most part. The only class that would benefit mag/stam in a big way is Dark Elf, you could also run vampire on this race.

You'd ideally want to pour all points into Stam or Mag but a 50/50 split should work fine so long as you orient your armour/buff food around what you want to run.

Class choice is major depending on the role you wish to take, you can for the most part do anything with any class, however certain classes excel at certain things. Also this is the only thing you cannot currently change about your character so research these a little.

I see you mention melee mag character, I've see a couple mag characters running duel wield, and a couple playing up close and personal with a staff so you're easy with what you want to run.

Also you can tank with S&B or a Frost staff so again whether you go melee or staff you're fine to switch

Ive been playing my magicka nb lately and for pvp i use light armor and i don't re-spec or anything and switch to heavy armor for tanking for pve. you just need to build up some skill points so you you dont need to redo skill points or anything. just swap gear and a few skills

Im a dark elf. imperial is good for if you want to switch from stam to magicka periodically because magicka classes need stamina and health ( i mostly PvP ) but as long as your not on a hardcore trial team the extra few percent from just doing endgame dungeons and stuff means nothing. so i would recommend imperial unless you just wanna go from damage to tank, then pic something specific to damage like high elf

Priyasekarssk wrote: »

Stamina redguard nightblade.
Front bar :- 2 Hander,
back Bar : - Bow.

75K DPS in PVE . Extremly broken class in PVP. Don't listen to anyone.

NB never seen a nerf. I think NB will only get buffed. Stamina seen huge buff in recent. you need skill adjustments for PVE & PVP.
You wont regret it.

75k in pve with a 2hander.... you should specify...75k dps while standing in a group of 10 low health enemies spamming reverse slice.... that is the only situation for which your comment is accurate.