If you've got magicka and stamina split then Pelinal's isn't much use - it'll simply mean you get the highest of no weapon or no magicka damage. If you put most of the attributes into one of the two then it has rather more uses. It'll stick suck - but less if you stack everything into one (ie char magicka, magicka damage sets, pelinals, or char stamina. stamina damage sets and pelinals). There are a few sets (eg Noble duelist) that are kind of dual boosts but nothing particularly great I can think of. Also as Pelinals only affects damage (not penetration or crit) you'll have a bunch of other problems with CP assignment.

If your damage output is going to suck anyway you might as well stack proc sets instead (mad tinkerer, defiler, venomous smite etc) but that might not be your theme,

The game hates magicka/stamina hybrids for damage purposes. As tanks they can work but because almost everything scales off one of the two pools and there are no sets that meaningfully combine the two a hybrid is going to mostly suck.

You can build a toon optimized heavily one way that still makes use of the other type of weapon and skills. You have a base magicka and stamina pool and you can do a lot with that pool, especially if you slot rejuvenation and/or are careful about the jewellery enchantments. In a sense that is how the tank setup often works. You don't need a lot of magicka to switch to staff and wall of elements for the debuffs, or to cast the odd magicka based self heal or other skill. In fact I generally keep magicka based heals on stam toons even when there are other options because the point I need a panic self heal is usually when stamina runs out.

You can try 1 piece Slimecraw for the crit and 1 piece Domihaus for the 1k Stam and Mag, new moon acolyte 5 pcs, and a stam 5 pcs of your choice. Then slot radiant aura on the offensive bar u stay on more, slot barrier from support on ur stam bar with the support passive +10% mag recovery so that after you cast your mag skills and swap it recovers mag quicker for u to cast when u swap back.

Check out https://eso-sets.com/, here you can see all the in-game sets.

Morgha_Kul wrote: »

Perhaps I'm not being clear. I'm not concerned about optimizing the character's armour. All I really need to know is whether to get weapons with a 2 part set bonus that:
-Increases Max Stamina or Magicka
-Increases Weapon or Spell Damage
-Increases Critical Chance
-or increases some other stat or attribute that will increase damage that I don't know about.

Ok that makes a lot more sense with the extra background.

Two parts trainee is a decent health and magicka buff (about 1400 each) and short of monster helms probably the best two piece option for magicka (the 3rd part gives stamina). Some of the monster helm/shoulder sets will give you more valuable effects probably.

For monster shoulders you can get keys from easy non-veteran dungeon undaunted runs, and the helms and shoulders are available on and off for lots of gold from the golden vendor not just vet dungeons. If you are in a guild a lot of guilds have people who will happily do a partial carry on one of the easier vet dungeons (and some vet ones are easier than normal DLC dungeons) to get you a first monster helm.

Dungeon sets are also account bound if you have another character more suited to such things.

For damage you'd also be better in all medium or all light armour with the right choice of passive skills on those skill lines. Medium passives boost weapon damage and crit a fair bit if you have them all and the pieces. Light similarly for spell crit and damage.

And there are skills you can slot depending upon your class and stam/magicka that give you further damage boosts - slotting expert hunter (or one of the morphs) gives you major savagery and optionally minor beserk from flank attacks. On the magicka bar slotting magelight works kind of the same way. As a templar biting jabs can also provide major savagery (stam morph),

Basically you want to try and get major sorcery + major prophecy up when possible on magicka and major savagery/berserk on the stamina side.They stack with the minor ones and you can get some of those on templar from things like the illuminate passive.