How to choose skills for stamina build early game?

Bookslinger · March 2022

I'm completely new--still making one of each class to see what I like--and am confused about what skills to use. (For instance, finally realized health is more important for a tank build.)

I want to try a stamina build. Everyone says to take the 3 class skill lines, but aren't those all magicka based? Should stamina builds concentrate more on the weapons skills as I progress instead of the class lines?

This applies to all stamina classes since I'm making one of each. Do I take the weapons skills instead of the class lines? Or only class lines that use stamina? I'm so confused I can't even ask the question properly! I know it hardly matters between 1-20 and that I can respect easily, but I like to understand the why of doing things. I also can't really decide if I "like" a style if I'm concentrating on the wrong skills.

ixthUA · March 2022

Many skills can morph into stamina variants at lv5, both class and world. https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info489-HarvensImprovedSkillsWindow.html this addon can show both morphs of every skill.

El_Borracho · March 2022

Just mess around with the game for a while. When you feel like doing group PVE endgame content (vet trials, vet DLC dungeons) then check out sites that have build ideas. You will likely have to respec everything in your build at that point anyway.

FYI, when you reach the CP levels after Level 50 on on character, all of you alternates will immediately bump up to that level once they hit Level 50. And they get the CP points along with it. So you might consider just levelling one for a while until you get to CP 160. Once you hit CP 160, all the gear below that level is worthless

mocap · March 2022

1) get or ask to craft Heartland Conqueror with 2h training sword, so you get +16% exp gain (best set for leveling atm)
2) get Stamped skill from 2h tree
3) spam Stamped
4) WIN!

Bookslinger · March 2022

Thanks, all. I think I understand now. Some of the skills that currently require magicka will eventually morph into stamina, or I will be offered the chance to morph them. You know, I remember someone mentioning morphing in a video ("don't worry about that just yet") but I thought they meant morph to next level of power! I really was wondering how I could sustain skills if they all used magicka but I was pouring attributes into stamina.

@mocap I will keep that in mind. Currently, my charaters are 6, 7, 8 and 10, so I mainly have white items and green if lucky. @ixthUA I will check out that addon. So far I'm liking my StamDK the best, which is strange since I usually play sneaky stealthy in SP games and thought the NB would appeal more. I still have classes to try, though!

Bookslinger · March 2022

El_Borracho ! I did not know that about the alts. See? Said I was a complete beginner. I'll continue to try classes, settle on the one I like the best as a main and not worry about doing everything at once for all of them. You saved me so much time and (probably by the 8th time) boredom!

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How to choose skills for stamina build early game?

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