So like the other commenter said, altmer are intended to be magic characters. HOWEVER...you can go against the racial passives and have plenty of fun playing a stamina altmer. You will be able to do 98% of the content in the game just fine...maybe not trials, and maybe you’ll suffer a little in PvP, but don’t feel you have to respec or re-really if you don’t want to. You’ll be fine. But to answer your questions either way.

- I don’t think wardens have any special features that make a frost damage enchantment any better than Anything else. They do have various frost damage abilities...but weapon enchantments kinda do the same for every class. But it’s as good as any other damage enchant and goes with the them, so bam.

- the damage formulas in ESO are a bit complex. The power of an attack is determined by looking at:

1. The damage value of the weapon you’re holding. For this part it doesn’t matter if it’s a physical or magical weapon. If I cast a magic based attack holding a staff with a damage rating of 2,000 and then the same attack holding a bow with 2,000, the computer treats this the same.

2. Your maximum pool of the resource the attack uses. How much stamina you have in total makes physical damage, disease and poison damage hit harder. The more magic you have, magic damage, fire frost and lightning hits harder.

3. Then the computer looks at either your characters spell damage or weapon damage...same deal, depending on what the ability cost and what sort of damage it does.

4. The. It considers all buffs and enchantments in effect. But let’s skip that, it’s complicated and we’ve answered your main question.

Therefore, if you had a magic character who could call down terror with their magical lightning attacks, but you gave them a bow and had them do the same lightning attack, they’d still hit hard. It ofmyou had them snipe, they’d do teeny amounts of damage because snipe does physical damage. So usually you want to use stamina abilities for stam characters and vice versa.

- on any character ever, you can put all attribute points into your fighting resource. They make a tiny differenceh, and you can use armor enchantments to add health if you ever needed to. It’s just easier to dump them all into one thing.

In any of the three capital cities (and I assume vvardenfell somewhere) you will find three shrines. Elden Root is the easiest, they’re twenty feet south of the wayshrine. One will respec attribute points. Another allows you to respec either ALL skill points or just morph skill points at a price of $50 per point. So on my vet characters the cost tends to be like $1500 for morphs and $10,000 for all...on a new character you won’t have to spend much.


Skills advisor

If you didn’t notice, there’s a skills advisor built in now that will try to help you pick,and choose your skills and morphs. You may need to adjust it to build your high elf stam warden...the computer might not understand you’re doing that. Go into the skill advisor menu, and then there’s a prompt to change the build it’s guiding you toward. On PS4 I think you push r3...it says in the lower right hand but it’s a bit hidden.

Once you decide if you want to be magic or stam and then set that as the build in the skills advisor, the system will guide you to the best skills and appropriate morphs.

As others have already said, as you are making a stam-based Warden (or Stamden, as folks are calling it), you want to go with a higher stamina-base class as Imperial or Redguard. Even a Nord can work. High Elf, Breton and Dark Elf are good if you're into the magicka-based Magden, as folks are referring the magicka warden as. Bow with whatever weapon skill class is definitely a stam-base toon, and you will short yourself of damage and dps with a magicka-base High Elf. Since you're still low level, I would suggest to go ahead and delete your current High Elf and create a new Imperial or Redguard one, or Orc, or Argonian; whatever the preference. I prefer the Imperial, though. On the latter, you can keep the High Elf, respect the attributes and make it a Magden with inferno and lightning staffs, or ice and lightning; whatever the preference. As far as attributes, yeah, you can respec at one of the 3 shrines at the capital of any class zone, as in Mounhold, Elden Root and Wayrest. Same with respec of skills and skill morphs.

If staying with a Stamden.. then, as for weapons.. for stam with a bow, you can go with 2H or DW. I have a DW/bow Stamden. Certain warden skills are based on frost, but not all, and you can always use other skillsets. For my Stamden, for example. The only frost-base skill I use is the Ice Fortress; the one that gives you phys/spell resist buff. The other warden skills I use which aren't frost-base are the Green Lotus, Bird of Prey and the Subterranean thingies. Otherwise, I use Rapid Strikes, Subterranean thingies, Shrouded Dagger, Razor Caltrops and Resolving Vigor (unfortunately, for Caltrops and Vigor, you have to bang your head and endure PvPing to gain the AP to unlock) to include with my front DW bar. On the bow back bar, it's the standard Poison Injection (or Venow Arrow), Green Lotus, Endless Hail, Bird of Prey and the Ice Fortress. For my ult, it's always Flawless Dawnbreaker for the front primary weapon bar, and I'll switch between the Ice Comet and Healing Thicker on the back; depends on if I'm in a solo situation or in a group effort. I don't use the Green Betty, due to slot availability, and I get Major Brutality with the Shrouded Daggers and added damages from the Bird of Prey.

Well, this is PvE-base and for PvP, have to switch up the skills a bit. I understand you still low level. You want to throw it on all stamina and find 5-piece set gears along the way that offer something on the line of increases max stamina, max weapon damage and crit. There are some good craftable sets, even for low level. Join a guild or find someone who can craft you the likes of Shacklebreaker, Mechanical Acuity, Hunding's Rage or Axiom Innate. I create new toon all the time, and since I have a main is the crafter with all traits researched, I would craft different sets (as those I have mentioned) for every 5-10 levels while leveling to max.

My current Stamden, which is max CP, I use Shacklebreaker and Red Mountains. It is nice to get the extra increases of mag and stam resources with the Shackle (more than other crafted sets) and you also get increase weapon/spell damages as well as extra mag and stam recovery. Other prefers the MA, but I like the Shackle for this one. I use MA for other toons of mine. With the Red Mountains, I just like the proc of the lava splash; that's about 10k or so extra damages like every few seconds. I also use the 2-piece Validreth .

Yeah, my Stamden is quite brutal. Ha ha. I understand you are still low level, but get some crafted set, as I have mentioned, if you can. If not, still find pieces of weapons and armors from whatever (chests; drops) that offers increase in stam, weapon dam and crit or stam, stam and weapon damages as those Spriggin sets. Same with jewelry.. as you may not find, readily, a 5-piece set. Still, ensure those necklace and rings are Robust/stamina. Don't focus too much on the frost, though.