Lynx7386 wrote: »

Utility effects like sprinting, sneaking, dodging, blocking, bashing, and CC break

Since these would all require PHYSICAL effort in real life they should be stamina based. Try putting a magicka based utilitiy on your action bar. You can use this while your stamina regenerates.

Failing that, a seperate resource bar for these mechanics is necessary, and there's still going to be a need to reduce stamina costs and increase stamina ability damage just to bring stamina in line with magicka as an offensive resource.

Stamina and Magicka should have different softcaps. Give stamina a 50% higher stoftcap to compensate for needing that resource for more things.

Stamina and Magicka should have different softcaps. Give stamina a 50% higher stoftcap to compensate for needing that resource for more things.

Changing the softcap wont make a difference if both stamina and magicka still get the same +10 from attribute points.

Now it's too late and their game is built on an imbalanced foundation and they have no clue how to change it.

I dont think it's too late to change things for the better, it just takes some creativity and number tweaking.

I think that on average, any particular stamina ability should cost roughly 25% less than an equivalent magicka ability, and do the same damage or have similar utility effect.

It probably wouldnt hurt either if they made one of the passives (maybe even the final/highest level passive) in each melee weapon tree (and bow tree) reduce the cost of blocking, dodging, bashing, cc break, etc. by a significant amount - that way melee users get the reduction but anyone wielding a staff doesnt.

Another possible tweak is to add reduced stamina costs to the medium armor line, just like the light armor line has reduced magicka costs. The real imbalance here is that the magicka cost reduction applies to -all- magicka abilities (even mage's guild and class abilities), while the stamina cost reduction passives in the weapon skill trees only apply to that particular weapon type, and not things like the fighter's guild abilities or alliance war abilities.

What if the passives in each weapon skill tree that say something to the effect of "reduces stamina costs of weapon abilities in this tree by 20%" were changed to "reduces the cost of all stamina abilities by 20%", effectively making up for the lack of a light armor magicka reduction equivalent as long as you have one of those weapons equipped?



Further, the armor cap for medium and heavy armor needs to be raised, I'd say 50% for medium and 100% for heavy. That way you dont have light armor wearers reaching the same effective armor level as heavy armor wearers, while receiving MUCH higher offensive bonuses from light armor passives.

Also, abilities like annulment, evasion, and immovable need to require that you have a majority (4 pieces) of the respective armor type equipped, this way you dont have someone in 7/7 light armor activating immovable from the heavy armor tree to become immune to CC.