Stamsorc and stamplar have good survivability

Stamblade not so much

Thanks! So it sounds like there is generally not much between them in terms of survivability.

Will I experience that much difference in play style between them, as from what I've seen it looks like StamSorc and StamDK rely mainly on weapon skills and StamBlade and Stamplar have a few more class abilities to use

I've looked at a couple of videos of the StamWarden and I'm not sure how long I could stand the animations used for its class abilities

Stam sorc. Crit surge and hurricane. You heal non-stop. Can't be topped.

Stamsorc is often considered as easiest, since they have a high reliable heal in form of crit surge. Paired with hurricane and some dots it'll make you very survivable. Add vigor on top and you're good to go.

Stam sorc for sure, hurricane gives huge defense buff along with crit surge for heals and damage

Other stam classes can survive decently well with vigor and if they use class specific abilities for more durability

Stam sorc for both pve and pvp. Besides crit surge you also have an aoe stun in streak and the ability to convert magicka to Stam and get a burst heal out of it with dark deal.

Great thanks! How would you set your bars up at 50? Something like:

2H: Brawler/Forward Momentum (or Rally?), Wrecking Blow, Reverse Slice, Hurricane, Bound Armaments/Streak/Vigour
Bow: Endless Hail, Poison Injection, Razor Caltrops/Rearming Trap, Dark Deal, Critical Surge

Anoregon wrote: »

Iziquiel wrote: »

Great thanks! How would you set your bars up at 50? Something like:

2H: Brawler/Forward Momentum (or Rally?), Wrecking Blow, Reverse Slice, Hurricane, Bound Armaments/Streak/Vigour
Bow: Endless Hail, Poison Injection, Razor Caltrops/Rearming Trap, Dark Deal, Critical Surge

You'd get even more survivability if you pick up Crushing Weapon from the psijic line and use that instead of Wrecking Blow. It has a 25% heal, and slotting it gives you access to the 5k shield while blocking passive if you go far enough in the psijic line.

OK great, I will look to get that as well!

Another question, out of Forward Momentum and Rally, which is likely to be of more use to me? Would I see much benefit from the immunity to snares from Forward Momentum in PvE, or is this more use in PvP?

Survivability =/= Sustain

I'm lol'ing at the people saying Stamsorc and Stamplar but saying Stamblade can't.

Class is somewhat irrelevant when it comes to stamina. Very few class abilities even have a stamina morph.

But for the record, here are my stamina characters, all of them pretty good at staying alive.

- Bosmer nightblade thief.

Build around awesome stealth, she can sneak past pretty much everything and only hit selected target... Or everyone if the hallway is really tight. Uses a bow, a two handed weapon, and dual wield. Yeah, I switch bars and gear situationaly, but that's mostly for diversity. For strict survival, you'll want 2-handed and dual wield.

Use Rally's morph, Momentum, to get minor berserk and a HoT. Keep it up at all time. Morph Flurry to Bloodthirst and Twin Slashes to Bloodcraze. All those skills will provide you with some decent healing over time, and help keeping the damage decent. For the class skills, Teleport Strike's morph Ambush provides mobility, which can be useful to get in or out of the fight (out implies you can target something away, like some random 1HP critter, or a weaker mob somewhere). If you really need, Dark Cloak will provide some healing and costs magicka, so you can heal somewhat with your secondary ressource, should stamina be depleted. Siphoning's ultimate, Soul Tether, is also a pretty cool survival tool that deals some damage.

With this, my medium armor wearing, less than 20k HP with food character can decently take some world boss without too much fuss. Not all of them, the really heavy hitters or those who summon a zillion adds are not really an option, but she's able to survive your average world boss. Takes a while to whittle them down, though, emphasis is on a balance between survival and damage, not on damage.

With the next update, stealth won't be an option anymore for her, so... Might want to go khajiit if you want to try this one.

- Imperial stamina warden

Not much detail needed there. Warden has more stamina skills than most classes. Animal line provides a heal each time one of your pet is unsummoned, and you even get the only stamina heal of the whole game (that doesn't require PvP to get, that is). Imperial means she regains some HP when attacking, which isn't bad either

- Nord stamsorc

Built as a brick wall, with more bricks around. Capped on the resists when Hurricane is up, Nord racial passive (soon to become useless in his case) adding more mitigation, werewolf (want more resists, here, have some), fighter's guild protection circle, hatchling's shell and shield charge providing damage shields, Psijiic skill line providing additional damage shield when blocking... You can't make them any tougher than that, really. Nothing gets through. I don't think he's ever died of anything but lag or my own stupidity. Now, it's best we don't talk about his damage... You probably deal more damage when scratching your own butt.

Stam warden. Easily

Personally for general PVE I think:
1. StamSorc/Warden
2. Stam DK
3. Stam NB
4. Stam Templar

For PVP its more tricky as there are a variety of different builds to do different things.