As per thread title, I'll keep it short. This simple change would resolve how overly useful, and meta, the Assassination skill line from Nightblade is.

Pure Nightblades wouldn't be really affected, and subclassing builds would have to carefully pick between Assassination's many useful skills & strong passives, or the infamous Grim Focus one-shot. Besides, "Blur" used to be part of the Assassination tree before Update 43, so it wouldn't be that out of theme; and the spectral bow could be argued to be made of shadows.

This would be an effective hit towards a few cheesy subclassing combinations such as Power Overload (Storm Calling) + Grim Focus (Assassination) combined with the very useful passives of both skill lines. I'd say that Shadow doesn't have nearly as strong passives as Assassination, thus it would slightly reel the power creep back in.

randconfig wrote: »

hoangdz wrote: »

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ZOS_Amy wrote: »

Finally, we'll be looking at our Sorcerer adjustments and reiterating and reverting some of the adjustments based on your feedback:

• Lightning Form will again grant Major Resolve instead of Minor Force to retain its unique damage/defensive hybrid effect.
• Bound Armor will again grant Minor Protection at base rather than Major Resolve. Additionally, the active effect of the abilities will now scale in duration with your Armor, rather than a flat amount.
  • The max Magicka and Stamina increase from the ability and its morphs have been moved to Dark Magic, which will exist on the Blood Magic passive.
  • Bound Armaments will have a higher chance of applying Sundered, so it reaches a closer power level to the Grim Focus morphs.

So you completely left out the fact that the Max Magicka/Stamina you shifted is hidden behind 3 conditional states. Why is this so convoluted?!

1. Cast a Dark Magic skill.
2. Be at full health.
3. Lasts only 10 seconds.

You also left out the fact that Minor Force has been completely removed from all 3 Sorcerer skill lines. Why?

Bound Armaments starting at 3% status effect chance and going to 15% is hardly a buff, 5% more than what it should be at 10% is negligible at best.

I feel like U47 was just a bunch of neutral/horisontal changes that somehow resulted in nerfs despite acting like they're buffs. Reality is, no one is going to use Dark Magic or Daedric Summoning so you didn't really accomplish what you set out to do.

Basically Sorc lost damage, and now has to juggle more stuff than before lol

To be fair, pre-subclassing Sorc was overpowered and needed nerfed, post-subclassing everyone and their uncle runs Storm Calling skill line. The class is still strong and arguably the overall nerf was needed (at least for PvP).

You should really preface those posts by "in PvP, ...'.

Because PvE exists, too, and sorc aren't really OP, there ..