Yep this is another crock. I also play stam characters and my main achieve character is stam.
So this means I will have a very hard time completing vAS and vCR because stam is the red headed step child of the devs.
Both attributes should be able to complete all content in the game. They need to fix either the trials or stam characteristics.

I may just take a long hiatus from the game if we go back to the 8 mag dd meta. I refuse to wear a dress, have pointy ears and wave a oversized stick.

LF8M StamDK DD vAS+2

VaranisArano wrote: »

Because we have trials groups that exclude stam, plain and simple.

If you only ever want to run with the most optimal builds ever, you are always going to exclude certain builds that are somehow slightly less than optimal, even if those builds could complete the content.

Justifiying removal of half of the classes in end game content dont make sense.

I would offer some pushback on stamina having less survivability than mag, so that groups do not exclude stamina for that reason.

In many situations Blade Cloak is superior to shields, because 1) Blade Cloak mitigation increases as damage received scales up, and 2) the protections provided by shields drops to ZERO once those shields expire/break.

Blade Cloak can often mitigate more damage than shields. Almost all of the damage in trials is coded as AoE, which Blade Cloak reduces by 25%. The higher the damage, the more damage mitigated. If that AoE damage is a cleave from a boss, then most likely neither Blade Cloak nor Harness/Harden/Healing alone will save you, so the distinction may seem moot. It is not. We have to think of AoE DoTs like vSO mantikora bleeds/poisons, vMoL Zaj'hassa's shield phase, vHRC The Warrior's Shehai, and especially vMoL Suneater/Vashai negates. With AoE DoTs, Blade Cloak will provide constant mitigation for nearly twice the duration of most shields, regardless of the severity of the DoT. While a shield in theory provides 100% mitigation until expiry, the severity of the DoT hastens the end of the shield's already short duration, requiring recast else the mitigation drops to zero. As shield users will attest: Shield spam can't go on very long in a PvE context. Crucially, in the case of a negate or a hard CC, however, recast is not possible, and the shield mitigation will drop to 0%.

Prior to Morrowind, back when shields lasted 12 seconds, the Magician CP star reduced cost, the Arcanist star boosted recovery more greatly, and Blade Cloak only reduced damage by 20%, shield damage mitigation--and magicka survivability--was superior to those Blade Cloak and of stamina's. But we must recognize that the maxim "Stamina has less survivability" is outdated and does not comport with reality.

The real discrepancy in survavibility seems to be melee vs. ranged, a discrepancy that does not correspond to stamina vs. magicka. Magplars and Mag DKs pull their highest DPS parses at melee range, and magblades using Master Architect have to at least dart into melee range to get off a Soul Assault every 10-15 seconds. There should be viable ranged stamina builds, but in the meantime, magicka users who are satisfied with stamina being excluded from content on the basis of melee carrying more risk should have a care and think about their melee magicka bretheren, who surely have had it worse for some time.

Just give us a Stam scaling Bone Shield morph and we're good.

To balance in pvp, make major evasion unable to activate for Bone Shield's duration. That way we won't get shielded shuffle abusers.

And they just started another AS+2.

0 stamina DDs - 7 magicka DDs: 1 Sorcerer and 6x Nightblade.

Everything is all right, nothing to see .

Tasear wrote: »

Because we need trial group finder?

The objective is to to clear and quing for a random trial would most certainly ensure a long painful defeat. Im not just talking about vets either normal trials are too much for a large majority of the eso population. Vass plus 2 and vcr plus 3 at most have room for 1 stam player "at most" that have access to minor breach anything beyond that and your putting personal ambition before grp performance.