Originally posted by John:

Also know, that each new weapon has a higher stamina cost than the previous tier and while damage scales, the food clearly doesn't. 1 tier higher food of 2 food and 1 stamina is what, 14 extra stamina?, compared to the previous that means after 7 swings it feels off and this keeps going up and up. This is the reason i still use Frostner, i barely notice a difference compared to that mistwalker sword while it uses far less stamina.

The constant stamina cost increase needs to go away, it limits the combat so much. Just imagine 2 biomes later, 1h weapons will cost 20 stamina while we have a fraction of the stamina more, so we can hit a few times and we need to wait again. I tried that 2h sword which already is 20, i hit a few times and i need to walk around, can barely kill two freakin' draugr's before i need to regen again.

Seriously, why would an iron sword cost more stamina than a bronze sword. Last time i checked bronze was heavier than iron. Just have weapons types cost the same amount of stamina, make enemies more challenging so you need to dodge more so you need to use more stamina for that. Combat just becomes more and more tedious the further you get while no actual difference in combat happens

If you're rested and just swinging a weapon, you should not have any issues with stamina. Also, max stamina has very little effect on regen rate, so what food you eat is mostly irrelevant.

If you're near 0 stamina, base regen rate is 12/sec. Rested bonus makes it 24. I think the max stamina required for a sword is 16, and the 3-swing attack takes a bit under 3 seconds, so a bit less than 1 sec / swing, so you regen faster than you use it, not even counting skill bonus.

Of course, moving, jumping, dodging, blocking all add to that, but how often do you just swing your weapon constantly? The closest I come to that is the wolf event, where I pretty much stand around and swing my sword, but, even then, it's just a couple swings to kill the current group, and then wait a few seconds for the next.