Bye Bye Stamina DDs

DenMoria · June 2018

[/quote]Not everyone wants to wear a dress and wave a stick in trials and if your stam domination argument is true, not everyone wants to wear plate and swing an axe or 2 around[/quote]
Could have fooled me. It's either that or spam lightning bolts while being followed around by weird blowing critters.

Danksta · June 2018

JobooAGS wrote: »

Danksta wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

DenMoria wrote: »

Probably because it takes the brains of a rock to do melee while it takes finesse to use magicka.

DanteYoda wrote: »

Obviously Zos has some fetish with magic users.. Even their trailers have the mages as super overpowered gods compared to melee..

No idea why Zos cannot just balance the physical to the magicka users but they don't seem to want to.

At least look on the bright side wardens are weak at both..

Stamina requires brains to survive in while mag just needs to pop wards

I think it's easier to survive on stam. Your defense (deadly cloak) is in your rotation while mag needs to reactively use their defense (shield).

Many stam dps builds are dropping blade cloak due to advancing yokeda and back bar uptime

That's true, and I do on my stamblade but I wouldn't recommend it for people that don't feel comfortable with their survivablilty. Besides you could still keep up AY with trap on your back bar, it would just require some extra bar swapping.

DenMoria · June 2018

Uhm... sorry... "glowing critters" not "blowing critters"... what was I thinking!

DenMoria wrote: »

Not everyone wants to wear a dress and wave a stick in trials and if your stam domination argument is true, not everyone wants to wear plate and swing an axe or 2 around[/quote]
Could have fooled me. It's either that or spam lightning bolts while being followed around by weird blowing critters.

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Bladerunner1 · June 2018

ResTandRespeC wrote: »

Bladerunner1 wrote: »

Maelstrom Bow > Maelstrom Staff
Relequen > Siroria
Crafted poisons > nothing
Weapon Crit and Power Potion > Spell Power Potion

Take away maelstrom weapons, trial sets and costly alchemy ingredients and is PVE still balanced? People new to the game and filthy casuals may as well go with magicka.

What are talking about?? None of that made much sense. Both are equal in "cost". Spell power pots cost lile 2x more then weapon power pots, which makes up for the fact that you also should run double health damage posions as stam. That being said i do usually recommend mag for new players (usually sorc) because they are easier to play, though have lower damage then stam. Nightblades are usually seen as the outlier in this situation, but stamblades are still doing more damage then magblades. What really matters is that trial mechanics are pushing away stam classes because of mechanics.

I'm talking about balance at all levels of game play, what are you talking about? Some people think PVE is currently balanced at the meta level, but take away trial sets, maelstrom sets, crafted potions and poisons and suddenly Magblade outperforms Stamblade.

DenMoria · June 2018

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"at the meta level"[/quote]
You had me until... now I hate you.

Khivas_Carrick · June 2018

.........And here I was thinking that apart from MagBlades, Stamina was actually at least equal to Magicka in terms of actual DPS.

Survivability, super debatable.

Actually killing things, pretty sure I see way more competent Stam DDs than Magicka ones in PvE.

hedna123b14_ESO · June 2018

Any trial other than vAS and vCR still has the 5 stam meta...if you arent doing 5 stam in those trials you're doing it wrong. vAS is easiest with all mag, and vCR is too new to figure out an ideal composition, but it's definitely more melee friendly than vAS...