Everything about the sorc changes since the announcement of subclassing has been disastrous and it's clearly not going to get any better. The sorc lines really do nothing well for their intended role, especially in pve, and by 'spreading the strength' you just make them more ambiguously useless. Consolidate the 3 lines into something resembling traditional roles and build off that. Adding an unreliable proc to one of the worst skill lines in the game at the expense of the only used line for the class (in PVE) makes no sense. It's not good enough to make Dark Magic be attractive and comes at the expense of making Daedric Summoning worse. It's just a horrible approach.

General

• Based on player feedback earlier in this PTS cycle, we are reverting the week 1 adjustments to class ultimate generation passives. They now all generate a unique form of Ultimate again – however these effects put all similar passives on cooldown, so they cannot be stacked.
  • Affects the following: Prism, Transfer, Mountain's Blessing, Savage Beast, Implacable Outcome, and Corpse Consumption.
  • This cooldown works by taking the first effect to activate and using the cooldown of that effect to prevent any of these other effects (including itself) from activating for the listed duration. If you have Corpse Consumption and Prism and trigger Corpse Consumption first – you will not be able to trigger either for 16 seconds. If you trigger Prism after that cooldown window, the next cooldown would be 6 seconds.
• Fixed an issue where sprint could fail to deactivate if you had a combination of settings that changed behaviors of sprint toggle and walk toggle.

Class Abilities

• Nightblade
  • Siphoning
    • Catalyst: Reduced the Ultimate generated by this passive to 11/22, down from 15/30.
• Sorcerer
  • Daedric Summoning
    • Bound Armor: This ability and its morphs have been partially reverted to grant Minor Protection rather than Major Resolve. Bound Armor and Aegis' duration are now based on your combined Physical and Spell Resistance - 1 second for every 10000 rating. Minimum duration of 3 seconds, maximum duration of 15 seconds (if you for some reason decide to stack that insane amount of Resistances).
      • Bound Aegis: This morph now increases your block mitigation by 50% at rank IV, up from 40%. This morph no longer passively increases in duration directly, as it does indirectly from the Minor Resolve granted.
  • Dark Magic
    • Blood Magic: This passive now only heals you if you are not at full Health. If you are at full Health, it now increases the higher of your Max Magicka or Stamina by 5/10% for 10 seconds.
      
      [Developer Comment]
      We’re taking the passive slot effect from Bound Armor and its morphs and placing it here to ensure base Sorcerer classes can retain the effects (and get a small boost in some cases), while also moving it to a less utilized skill line. We know this isn’t a silver bullet to making Dark Magic a desired skill line – but we’re using this as an experiment to see if this sort of shuffling of power is seen as a good thing or not in the brave new subclassing world. Definitely give us your feedback on this.

• Storm Calling
  • Lightning Form: This ability and its morphs have been reverted to grant Major Resolve, rather than Minor Force.

Scribing
Grimoires

• Banner Bearer: The Class Mastery script when paired with this Grimoire as an Arcanist now generates 3 Ultimate if the effect did not generate a Crux. This is in an effort to offer a universal/role agnostic reward in cases where you already have a Crux.
  
  [Developer Comment]
  Our original goal of limiting passive Crux generation remains, as we’ve seen the significant power gains and simplification of an already simple gameplay experience from having too much of it.

Joy_Division wrote: »

I'm not sure the "shuffling power experiment" will work out as intended.

If a good/strong class line has some of its power shuffled to a weak/unpopular line, the result will be two average lines. Each line is competing against 20 other alternatives. We've already ditched class identity with sub-classing. Why would I hand onto a nerfed/shuffled line rather than just replacing it with something stronger?

Indeed. Shuffling power only works if there was sufficient power in a class to begin with. Which definitely is not the case currently.