How important is this for damage? I do have a bsw sharpened lightning staff and will use it up until a boss fight. Summerset indirectly weakened nirnhoned when it made your max magicka a bigger component of your light/heavy attack damage, so that it's in line with ability damage. This video (and written guide) just covers my personal opinion on some of the different points and in what … Does this mean that spell damage is worth “less” than max magic? In this case its effectively better to just run 3 infal pieces and a staff of no set. You want the 5-piece BSW up 100% of the time. This was with a stamina build and a while ago. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. On a sorc since your damage is pretty evenly split between AoE and single target using fire/fire or fire/lightning won't make much of a difference. However, you make a valid point should try to farm a trial for the IA staff instead. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. Precise is also up there and preferred for some situations where fights are short and Warhorn uptime is high, but this is a niche situation for most groups. Sharpened adds penetration. So Sharpened is better in most situations. I'd recommend using IA/moondancer jewelry, 5 bsw armor, 2 ilambris, and a legendary lightning front bar/fire back bar. I have farmed City of Ash 1 for days! 5 BSW- 4 armor & 1 inferno staff (precise) 4 Infallible aether - 3 jewelry & 1 armor. Please see the pinned post for the actual formulation. If your staff's damage is 1335, nirnhoned will add 15%, or about 200. just wish it wasnt taking 10 days to research. Spell penetration will almost always add more damage output than the ~150 weapon damage from nirnhoned. It can be crafted into an armor piece or weapon only at its creation, but can also be transmuted for (see below). This ESO Stamina Warden Build Guide, for a Stamden in Elder Scrolls Online will provide you with a Dual Wield build capable of all content in the game. Resource Management 3. Where does the 12% come from? New effect I've read mix threads, on it. It can be crafted into a weapon piece at, and only at, its creation. Skill description Launch across the earth and smash an enemy, dealing 963 Physical Damage to them and all nearby enemies. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. In the past I did some math and found that if a character had over 10k resistance it was better to use a maul, nirnhoned (for the 10%armor ignore) rather than use a sword, sharpened( for the 6%damage increase). It seems like it shouldn't matter whether it's jewelry or armor as the effect would be same. Sharpened vs Precise I'm currently do 39k DPS self buffed with just Ele Drain on my MagSorc, I use a Precise Moondancer Lightning staff and a Nirnhoned vMA staff. I have the burning spellweave (BSW) set in divines. This brings up sooo many more questions I have now lol. Llambris monster set: (head & shoulder) My question is this: how big is the difference between sharpened & precise? Precise is a Weapon Trait in Elder Scrolls Online. A thread on tamrielfoundry calculated the difference between the two at about a 3.5% increase in damage for precise versus a 12% increase in damage for sharpened assuming you're not over penetrating. The Elder Scrolls Online > English > Topic Details. Llambris monster set: (head & shoulder). Is it worth it to keep farming COA for the sharp inferno staff? I haven't test this to see if it'll work or not. User Info: Sera67. Random Sharpened Lightning staff (front bar), Maelstrom inferno (back bar, *Nirnhoned, Precise, or Sharpened will do ... if not then a random Sharpened inferno staff). Since they are nerfing warhorn, I think I'm going to wear this in lieu the TBS set. Not running 5 bsw pieces is a big mistake as you will lose the most important spellweave effect on your backbar.