Is my damage linear in my mana pool?

aenax · July 2020

I understand that my damage is a combination of various parameters such as spell damage, penetration, critcal rate etc ....

But i m only wondering how it varies according to my manapool all the other parameters being fixed, ie if all other things are equal.

I have like 32500 mana and around 21 000 hp, i can easily swap 1000 or even 2000 hp toward mana.

Assuming i transfert 1000, this is about 1/32 of my current manapool. Will i get roughly 3% more damage or more ?

I prefer to have quite some hps to solo World Bosses or group delves.

zvavi · July 2020

It is combination of magicka and spell dmg. Long story short, if you have 2k spell dmg, and 32.5 k magicka, it is equivalent to 5.1k spell dmg, or 43.5k magicka, so adding 2k magicka will higher your damage by ~5% from your abilities that scale from those parameters (not enchantments or proc sets, yes light attacks and skills)

(100 spell dmg = 1050 max magicka)

Luckylancer · July 2020

You can buff your spell damage but not your mana pool so that is why spell damage is better for damage than mag. Mag gives a sustain untill you run out of it for first time, it makes you last longer. You can transfer some mana to spell damage and transfer hp to mana.

Onefrkncrzypope · July 2020

If the only variable is your mag yes. Though some skills rely only on max resource for damage. If you want to do a deep dive. Uesp has the formulas for all the skills morphs in the game. I don't know how up to date but it's there.

Nestor · July 2020

Short answer, yes as you increase or decrease Magic, your damage goes up and down in a directly proportional amount.

However, there is a lot to the Damage Equation....

See this

https://tamrielfoundry.com/articles/introduction-to-pve-damage-calculation-homestead/