I have made one or two regarding Khajiit passives and Khajiit vs. Redguard. Right now I think that everyone can agree that the two races are not really equal. While Mechanical Acuity is no longer meta, which is good for Khajiit, because that set made them irrelevant in end-game Raids, they are still behind Redguard, both in damage and sustain. Crit modifiers have been brutally nerfed over the pass of time (major force, shadow mundus, which is outcritted by warrior (lol) and minor force) and at the same time the morrowind sustain changes just made Redguard a more appealing race. And now with max stamina being more important than before, that disparity will get even bigger.

So something needs to be done. Either buff Khajiit by giving it some extra stamina or extra critical strike damage done in exchange for the stamina and health recovery, or bring some crit damage modifier bonuses back to their old state. But ZOS will have to be really careful about it.

And of course it is not just Khajiit. Other races, such as Nord and Breton, struggle as well. I think a whole race rebalance should be done.

The problem with this suggestion is that it doesn't look at the whole game. It's not Khajiit vs Redguard.
It's Khajiit vs Redguard vs Orc vs Bosmer vs Nord vs Imperial.

You can't just cherry pick one race to receive a buff, you need to take into account the impact it'll have on every other race in similar positions and adjust them all with equal regard. Of course, you can break this down further as Orc, Imperial and Nord also have tank capabilities and are often seen as the Tank Races but you're still left with adjusting them all so as they are all viable without being completely overshadowed, as is currently the case with Redguard being the supreme Stamina Race in almost every case. The easy solution would be to just nerf Redguard but I prefer a more agreeable solution than heavy handed nerfs.

To put it simply, Khajiit is a race that should be DPS focused. However, both direct and indirect nerfs have put Khajiit in a precarious spot as it's being out DPS by some of the other races. This wouldn't be a problem if Khajiit had more overall coverage to make up for its shortcomings but it doesn't. It doesn't PvP as well as a Bosmer, it can't Tank as well as Nord, Imperial or Orc and it can't out DPS Redguard (or Orcs in some cases). Khajiit is a DPS race that lacks DPS and that should be the focus of its potency. However, it has a slight snag with this in the form of Stealthy. Stealthy provides a DPS boost in sneak attacks, which are more or less useless in PvE content and while it has value in PvP, Bosmer have the selfsame passive and do so with more sustain and damage to boot.

The only way Khajiit will get any meaningful DPS buffs is if Stealthy, in general, is nerfed so that there can be room for improvement to its DPS performance without having it overshadow the other races involved. My suggestion would be to replace the Health Regen effect Khajiit's have with 6% max health, nerf Stealthy to increase Stealth Damage by 6% instead of the current 10% and have it add 3% Max Stamina while also upping Carnage from an 8% crit buff to a 9% instead. This would, theoretically, improve Khajiit's DPS performance in both PvP and PvE without making it a clear cut winner over the other Stamina races. The extra health allows for less health being supplemented elsewhere, such as with enchantments or attribute points but not overperform in a Tank role in comparison to Orc, Nords or Imperials, while also having higher DPS but lower sustain than Redguard or Bosmer (who would also benefit from the 3% Max Stamina change to Stealthy, lowering the DPS discrepancy between itself and Redguard). Of course the other stamina races would need to be adjusted accordingly so as they can perform on similar levels as well but that's getting off topic of Khajiit buffs so I'll save them for another discussion.

Edit: Just to help rationalize my suggestion, I'm going to list a couple of my suggested changes to the rest of the Stamina Races was well as my reasoning for the changes.

Noone play khaijiit for thoose hp regen cause other character have more sustain abillity.

I would really prefer a decoupling of combat passives from racials, or at least resource passives from racials, akin to the birthsigns/archetypes ideas that have been raised recently. This is the ultimate solution to this problem and will go a long way towards eliminating the angst attending many balance changes every three months or so.

Absent any more controversial changes, however, this idea of cost reduction would effectively increase khajiit DPS vis-a-vis their primary competitor without breaking the rest of the game's balance.

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These are all helpful comments.

I would however call to mind the fact that a sustain buff is a DPS buff. Certainly in PvE, sustain is essential for quality DPS.

waitwhat wrote: »

Absent any more controversial changes, however, this idea of cost reduction would effectively increase khajiit DPS vis-a-vis their primary competitor without breaking the rest of the game's balance.

Again, it does not consider the other races as far as balance goes. Giving Khajiit more sustain hurts Bosmer, which is already weaker DPS wise in PvE content than Khajiit with only its sustain and extra stamina there to lighten the blow somewhat but by weakening that gap, you weaken Bosmer as a whole by cheapening its sustain, which is already overshadowed by Redguard. Please, think of the Bosmer.

DPS is not a zero-sum game for placement. Assisting khajiit does not hurt Bosmer.