Under identical conditions (same soul gem, same skill level, same perks, etc.) I get the following results:

Absorb Stamina, 25 points: 113 charges

Stamina Damage, 28 points: 112 charges

Stamina Damage is clearly inferior to Absorb Stamina. For the same number of charges (+1, actually), you do 10% less Stamina damage, but in exchange gain 25 Stamina per hit through absorption. Stamina being an important resource for any melee fighter or archer, that's pretty significant.

Also, I somehow have two Absorb Stamina enchantments memorized, meaning I can stack the same enchant twice on the same weapon. Has anyone else found any enchantment imbalances along similar lines?

Fortify SCHOOL & Regen is simply awful.

When you enchant it yourself, even with full skill, it's something like 20% fortify and 10% regen. You lose 5% fortify for that pitiful regen.

Jealous.

Absorb Stamina and another effect with 5% recharge on kill becomes extremely overpowered... it's a joke since nothing can stand up to you anymore. If you have a shield you can do near constant shield bash -> power attack -> shield bash since you run out of stamina so slowly.


Should be more then 5% difference, the base fortify school & regen is 5% where as the plain fortify effects are 8%, after doubling the effect with perks the former should be at 10% and the latter 16%; Skill if I am correct should also widen that gap. In my opinion it is the straight fortifies that're broken since you can just about make every spell in the game free with them, which is a lot harder to do with the fortify school & regen effects (tho you can still get pretty close to making some schools free). Regen effects are worthless when you aren't using any magicka (as mentioned before, free spells) and given how all regeneration effects do almost nothing in battle... yeah I have a total of 410 Magicka at level 19, Arch-Mage's Robes, Morokei and +25% magicka regeneration from restoration for a grand total of +225% magicka regeneration.. still takes a minute to regenerate all my magicka in battle, only 2 seconds outside of battle.

Ditto. I wish I could absorb stamina with my greatsword. I'm constantly out of stamina.