TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »doesn't swallow soul do more damage in general though?
Siphoning attacks, siphon spirit.. and Elemental Drain? Who even needs recovery anymore?
It is something to consider, though I love the siphoning power of the magblade
TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »doesn't swallow soul do more damage in general though?
really cause my swallow soul does 8k damage while my force pulse does 6k damage and I can cast swallow soul faster.hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »doesn't swallow soul do more damage in general though?
Unbuffed Swallow does around 4.44% more damage than Force Pulse, however Force Pulse gets buffed by the Altmer passive, making the difference a mere 0.44%, next the buff from the DK Burning Breath Makes Force Pulse deal 2.897% more damage than Swallow. Now this is without accounting for the extra chances to proc destro staff DoT's, the 10% increased penetration from the staff passives and most importantly this doesn't include the increased chance for Ele drain procs and Nerieneth procs making your DPS skyrocket.
I'll copy and paste my post. However, Force Pulse > Funnel for sure. I still believe using Neri over Kena is a big DPS loss, but to each his own. Force Pulse is not better because of more procs on neri, it's a better skill in general. Force Pulse does more damage than Funnel, not on tooltip, but on actual mobs.
Anyway, this is my post on tamriel foundry:
Tested Force Pulse in VMoL last night on all but the final boss. (I’m not confident enough in many things to make the switch). Things I noticed
1. Definitely felt like a lot more damage (with and without Scathing Mage)
2. Easily sustainable with siphoning attacks every other twisting application (around 32 seconds; so about a high 40ish% siphoning uptime). I had 75%+ resources at all times which was crazy. I’m thinking I may not even need siphoning attacks. I did use siphoning every add spawn 2+ on second boss though.
3. The ulti gen you miss from funnel every 4 seconds is kind of noticeable, but not noticeable enough. I had an ulti (even Kena’d most of the time) for every add spawn phase on Vashai and Skinrai, which is all the ulti gen you really need.
4. I noticed some of the damage I was taking, but it wasn’t anyting that would cause a death. Just not used to the health bar dropping much :P
From my assessments, Force Pulse > Funnel in 2 scenarios
1. If you use Swallow Soul
2. If your team is good AND comfortable enough to only trust the healers for heals.
joshdm2001_ESO wrote: »Lalala. If your using siphoning skills u shouldn't even be using nerieneth. You should be using malubeth or kena with double la. With your set up your not only losing self heals for yourself but for other group members too. There's no reason why you can't be both dps and heals.
TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »really cause my swallow soul does 8k damage while my force pulse does 6k damage and I can cast swallow soul faster.hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »doesn't swallow soul do more damage in general though?
Unbuffed Swallow does around 4.44% more damage than Force Pulse, however Force Pulse gets buffed by the Altmer passive, making the difference a mere 0.44%, next the buff from the DK Burning Breath Makes Force Pulse deal 2.897% more damage than Swallow. Now this is without accounting for the extra chances to proc destro staff DoT's, the 10% increased penetration from the staff passives and most importantly this doesn't include the increased chance for Ele drain procs and Nerieneth procs making your DPS skyrocket.
I'll copy and paste my post. However, Force Pulse > Funnel for sure. I still believe using Neri over Kena is a big DPS loss, but to each his own. Force Pulse is not better because of more procs on neri, it's a better skill in general. Force Pulse does more damage than Funnel, not on tooltip, but on actual mobs.
Anyway, this is my post on tamriel foundry:
Tested Force Pulse in VMoL last night on all but the final boss. (I’m not confident enough in many things to make the switch). Things I noticed
1. Definitely felt like a lot more damage (with and without Scathing Mage)
2. Easily sustainable with siphoning attacks every other twisting application (around 32 seconds; so about a high 40ish% siphoning uptime). I had 75%+ resources at all times which was crazy. I’m thinking I may not even need siphoning attacks. I did use siphoning every add spawn 2+ on second boss though.
3. The ulti gen you miss from funnel every 4 seconds is kind of noticeable, but not noticeable enough. I had an ulti (even Kena’d most of the time) for every add spawn phase on Vashai and Skinrai, which is all the ulti gen you really need.
4. I noticed some of the damage I was taking, but it wasn’t anyting that would cause a death. Just not used to the health bar dropping much :P
From my assessments, Force Pulse > Funnel in 2 scenarios
1. If you use Swallow Soul
2. If your team is good AND comfortable enough to only trust the healers for heals.
joshdm2001_ESO wrote: »Lalala. If your using siphoning skills u shouldn't even be using nerieneth. You should be using malubeth or kena with double la. With your set up your not only losing self heals for yourself but for other group members too. There's no reason why you can't be both dps and heals.
@hedna123b14_ESO prime examples why to post this on tamrielfoundry instead
@hedna123b14_ESO prime examples why to post this on tamrielfoundry instead
SienneYviete wrote: »Definitely noticed a huge improvement on my Dunmer magblade after swapping to force pulse, the lack of self heals worried me a little at first but tbh it's only really an issue when you're playing the pug lottery. Thanks for spending the time on testing this lads much appreciated.
D0ntevenL1ft wrote: »This is slightly off topic but I know most mag blades now have merciless resolve on back bar and cast it less often for dps, I'm wondering how much of a dps loss it would be to morph to relentless focus. This is because I pvp aswell and the Stam regen is quite useful. Thanks magblades
hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »I'll copy and paste my post. However, Force Pulse > Funnel for sure. I still believe using Neri over Kena is a big DPS loss, but to each his own. Force Pulse is not better because of more procs on neri, it's a better skill in general. Force Pulse does more damage than Funnel, not on tooltip, but on actual mobs.
Anyway, this is my post on tamriel foundry:
Tested Force Pulse in VMoL last night on all but the final boss. (I’m not confident enough in many things to make the switch). Things I noticed
1. Definitely felt like a lot more damage (with and without Scathing Mage)
2. Easily sustainable with siphoning attacks every other twisting application (around 32 seconds; so about a high 40ish% siphoning uptime). I had 75%+ resources at all times which was crazy. I’m thinking I may not even need siphoning attacks. I did use siphoning every add spawn 2+ on second boss though.
3. The ulti gen you miss from funnel every 4 seconds is kind of noticeable, but not noticeable enough. I had an ulti (even Kena’d most of the time) for every add spawn phase on Vashai and Skinrai, which is all the ulti gen you really need.
4. I noticed some of the damage I was taking, but it wasn’t anyting that would cause a death. Just not used to the health bar dropping much :P
From my assessments, Force Pulse > Funnel in 2 scenarios
1. If you use Swallow Soul
2. If your team is good AND comfortable enough to only trust the healers for heals.joshdm2001_ESO wrote: »Lalala. If your using siphoning skills u shouldn't even be using nerieneth. You should be using malubeth or kena with double la. With your set up your not only losing self heals for yourself but for other group members too. There's no reason why you can't be both dps and heals.
Nerieneth is better than Kena silly:) it deals 5-9% of my overall damage AND i get to medium weave non stop...oh and my resources are full:)
D0ntevenL1ft wrote: »This is slightly off topic but I know most mag blades now have merciless resolve on back bar and cast it less often for dps, I'm wondering how much of a dps loss it would be to morph to relentless focus. This is because I pvp aswell and the Stam regen is quite useful. Thanks magblades
hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »I'll copy and paste my post. However, Force Pulse > Funnel for sure. I still believe using Neri over Kena is a big DPS loss, but to each his own. Force Pulse is not better because of more procs on neri, it's a better skill in general. Force Pulse does more damage than Funnel, not on tooltip, but on actual mobs.
Anyway, this is my post on tamriel foundry:
Tested Force Pulse in VMoL last night on all but the final boss. (I’m not confident enough in many things to make the switch). Things I noticed
1. Definitely felt like a lot more damage (with and without Scathing Mage)
2. Easily sustainable with siphoning attacks every other twisting application (around 32 seconds; so about a high 40ish% siphoning uptime). I had 75%+ resources at all times which was crazy. I’m thinking I may not even need siphoning attacks. I did use siphoning every add spawn 2+ on second boss though.
3. The ulti gen you miss from funnel every 4 seconds is kind of noticeable, but not noticeable enough. I had an ulti (even Kena’d most of the time) for every add spawn phase on Vashai and Skinrai, which is all the ulti gen you really need.
4. I noticed some of the damage I was taking, but it wasn’t anyting that would cause a death. Just not used to the health bar dropping much :P
From my assessments, Force Pulse > Funnel in 2 scenarios
1. If you use Swallow Soul
2. If your team is good AND comfortable enough to only trust the healers for heals.joshdm2001_ESO wrote: »Lalala. If your using siphoning skills u shouldn't even be using nerieneth. You should be using malubeth or kena with double la. With your set up your not only losing self heals for yourself but for other group members too. There's no reason why you can't be both dps and heals.
Nerieneth is better than Kena silly:) it deals 5-9% of my overall damage AND i get to medium weave non stop...oh and my resources are full:)
Kena is much better than Neri in ST fights. If not, show me some proof. Because it's general knowledge now that kena is BiS for most magic builds. Medium weaving is worse than Light Weaving from what I have seen, especially on a Magic NB. Less Merciless Resolve procs because it takes longer to medium weave than Light weave.
hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »I'll copy and paste my post. However, Force Pulse > Funnel for sure. I still believe using Neri over Kena is a big DPS loss, but to each his own. Force Pulse is not better because of more procs on neri, it's a better skill in general. Force Pulse does more damage than Funnel, not on tooltip, but on actual mobs.
Anyway, this is my post on tamriel foundry:
Tested Force Pulse in VMoL last night on all but the final boss. (I’m not confident enough in many things to make the switch). Things I noticed
1. Definitely felt like a lot more damage (with and without Scathing Mage)
2. Easily sustainable with siphoning attacks every other twisting application (around 32 seconds; so about a high 40ish% siphoning uptime). I had 75%+ resources at all times which was crazy. I’m thinking I may not even need siphoning attacks. I did use siphoning every add spawn 2+ on second boss though.
3. The ulti gen you miss from funnel every 4 seconds is kind of noticeable, but not noticeable enough. I had an ulti (even Kena’d most of the time) for every add spawn phase on Vashai and Skinrai, which is all the ulti gen you really need.
4. I noticed some of the damage I was taking, but it wasn’t anyting that would cause a death. Just not used to the health bar dropping much :P
From my assessments, Force Pulse > Funnel in 2 scenarios
1. If you use Swallow Soul
2. If your team is good AND comfortable enough to only trust the healers for heals.joshdm2001_ESO wrote: »Lalala. If your using siphoning skills u shouldn't even be using nerieneth. You should be using malubeth or kena with double la. With your set up your not only losing self heals for yourself but for other group members too. There's no reason why you can't be both dps and heals.
Nerieneth is better than Kena silly:) it deals 5-9% of my overall damage AND i get to medium weave non stop...oh and my resources are full:)
Kena is much better than Neri in ST fights. If not, show me some proof. Because it's general knowledge now that kena is BiS for most magic builds. Medium weaving is worse than Light Weaving from what I have seen, especially on a Magic NB. Less Merciless Resolve procs because it takes longer to medium weave than Light weave.
hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »I'll copy and paste my post. However, Force Pulse > Funnel for sure. I still believe using Neri over Kena is a big DPS loss, but to each his own. Force Pulse is not better because of more procs on neri, it's a better skill in general. Force Pulse does more damage than Funnel, not on tooltip, but on actual mobs.
Anyway, this is my post on tamriel foundry:
Tested Force Pulse in VMoL last night on all but the final boss. (I’m not confident enough in many things to make the switch). Things I noticed
1. Definitely felt like a lot more damage (with and without Scathing Mage)
2. Easily sustainable with siphoning attacks every other twisting application (around 32 seconds; so about a high 40ish% siphoning uptime). I had 75%+ resources at all times which was crazy. I’m thinking I may not even need siphoning attacks. I did use siphoning every add spawn 2+ on second boss though.
3. The ulti gen you miss from funnel every 4 seconds is kind of noticeable, but not noticeable enough. I had an ulti (even Kena’d most of the time) for every add spawn phase on Vashai and Skinrai, which is all the ulti gen you really need.
4. I noticed some of the damage I was taking, but it wasn’t anyting that would cause a death. Just not used to the health bar dropping much :P
From my assessments, Force Pulse > Funnel in 2 scenarios
1. If you use Swallow Soul
2. If your team is good AND comfortable enough to only trust the healers for heals.joshdm2001_ESO wrote: »Lalala. If your using siphoning skills u shouldn't even be using nerieneth. You should be using malubeth or kena with double la. With your set up your not only losing self heals for yourself but for other group members too. There's no reason why you can't be both dps and heals.
Nerieneth is better than Kena silly:) it deals 5-9% of my overall damage AND i get to medium weave non stop...oh and my resources are full:)
Kena is much better than Neri in ST fights. If not, show me some proof. Because it's general knowledge now that kena is BiS for most magic builds. Medium weaving is worse than Light Weaving from what I have seen, especially on a Magic NB. Less Merciless Resolve procs because it takes longer to medium weave than Light weave.
And yet, you have not posted any numbers. I don't think you actually read what people are writing. No, Kena is a DPS loss for those of us who use multiple DoT's in their rotation. You waste time trying to proc it. Your assertion that Kena is BiS is so unfounded and misguided. Please actually do some testing before making claims and stop quoting people who use different builds/rotations. It has no bearing in the above mentioned post I linked or here.
Now I'll start screen shotting all of my parses, I was able to get a few last night in Vet Maw. Keep in mind these parses have deaths in between (thankfully our raid had some on point rezzers) so I lost some DPS. I only screen shotted if I knew that my parse was going to reset. Anyways as you'll see below my Lich Crystals account for 3-5% of my dps consistently.
(also excuse quality, was on le laptop again)
I also want to point out on these that we had not gotten to the crazy amount of adds yet, where I would be seeing an exponential growth in my dps. Again I will be screen shotting more parses on different fights for future reference. @Vezuls I encourage you to do the same and come back with actual parses/videos and builds/rotations for your supposed BiS gear.
kendellking_chaosb14_ESO wrote: »This would be very power till you fight a DK or Sword and Shield Nightblade with mark and reflect then it's game over but damn good research.
I also cant see molag kena is so much better. Yes it is better in many situations. But only because of a bug...
Force pulse i will test in our next raid.
I also cant see molag kena is so much better. Yes it is better in many situations. But only because of a bug...
Force pulse i will test in our next raid.
Awesome DPS. I assume this was a completion and so you got the crazy add phase so your DPS is pretty consistent with what a lot of great end game players are pulling. Also keep in mind that Force Pulse acts as an AoE if they any mob has a destro DoT on them so essentially more free DPS.