Please revert the Dark Cloak nerfs!

Have it scale off of combined Armor rating as well so that PvE tanks are best able to leverage it.

This current kludge of move/no move and block/no block is simply NOT IT.

3 second duration is way too short to justify the cost.

Tonturri wrote: »

madmufffin wrote: »

Northern storm giving ele rage levels of damage for 200 less ult would be nice. The archetype desperately needs some love.

It'd be nice to see NB's veil of blades also get some love.

Either morph of Consuming Darkness being worth casting ever would be a welcome change. There are a lot of very lackluster "ultimate" abilities in the game, unfortunately.

Can we do this instead?

1. Assuming pure Sorc's even exist anymore with subclassing, why are we making Hardened Ward Sorc's gambling on their most important defensive tool when they need it most at low health? Without a defensive hot or purge, what are the odds that a Sorc meets 3 conditions of requiring full hp, casting a Dark Magic skill, and having that still be active by the time they need it 10s later?
2. NB's Assassination line gives Minor Savagery and 10% crit damage in 1 passive.
3. DK's Earthen Heart line gives Minor Brutality and 3 ult gen every 6s in 1 passive.
4. When we initially read the teaser, no one was complaining it would of been overpowered so why are we adding conditions to a necessary buff in the line as if it would of been? What exactly does this solve other than being unfun to engage with?
5. While Dark Magic and Daedric Summoning needed improvements, no one thought you would shift the power from a weak line to another weak line. Why can't we just improve both at the same time? Why are we knocking 1 down to prop the other up?

I appreciate the passive power of Bound Armor being hybridized and shifted into a passive which keeps the overall power budget of Sorcerer the same, while opening up opportunities for more diverse builds, in theory this was a great balancing decision...

However, shifting it from Daedric Summoning to Dark Magic is a mistake that further seperates Sorc's lines, forcing an identity crisis by either forcing all 3 lines or 1 where you avoid the idea entirely.

Surge asks the player to crit, so you need to take Dark Magic and Daedric Summoning for the Major/MInor Prophecy buffs. Hardened Ward asks the player to stack mag, so you need to take Dark Magic now, and Storm Calling so all your class skills actually provide something for being slotted.

My suggestion in this post is to fix the issue the new change caused, but in the future, I hope you find a way to give Dark Magic something more unique, then shift this same Max Magicka/Stamina power BACK to Daedric Summoning where it belongs.

Spellshreader should be 5%, 2% too mediocre. But on topic, 100% agree.

Here is a basic test with charged + cp + destro staff to test the status effect chance against Relentless Focus, as well as compare the damage ratios with their status effects.

For those not aware; on live, BA has a 3% status effect chance, on PTS it appears to be 15% (x5), so with +395%, the new value should be 74.25%. My test got 75.6%, so I think my theory is correct. Why it was initially treated as 3% (single target + dot) despite being a single target direct damage skill (10%) is beyond my understanding, but moving on..

This is without many things likes sets/passives to reduce variables, so focus on the ratio between Bound Armaments and Relentless Focus and their respective status effects.

• BA is 24.4%, RF is 28.7% - RF had 1 less cast by mistake than BA and deals 21% more damage, but BA got better crit RNG, so they're about 20% apart regardless which was to be expected.
• BA + Sundered = 32.2%
• RF + Diseased = 30.4%
• Due to the way I did the rotation and the nature of status effects, RF did not have as much uptime from Minor Breach (Sundered) or the +100 w/s damage it gives, so the 32% vs 30% above is close enough to be considered relatively equal.

TLDR: BA and RF are so close in damage that your build should determine which comes out ahead instead of BA just being inferior 100% of the time. This solves the damage gap they had fortunately, but doesn't solve everything else RF does better:

• Costs 270 less.
• Stacks up to 10 instead of 8.
• Stack duration is infinite instead of 10s.
• Burst heals in melee range.
• Assassination skills and passives are just infinitely better than Daedric Summoning.
• Deals damage in 1 hit instead of 4 over 1.2s, making it harder to dodge.

Relentless Focus should be the same cost, not cheaper. It should stack up to 8, not 10.

Bound Armaments stack duration should be infinite and provide some sort of auxillary effect to compete with the burst heal. For example, why not give this ability Minor Force since you randomly removed it from the entire class kit after the past few weeks?

Also, I'm not complaining about the damage gap that this has mostly solved, but why is Bound Armaments treated as a single target dot for status effect chance (3%) when it scales as direct + single target for damage, it should have a base chance of 10%, not 3%. You've done this exact same thing with Rapid Strikes with 0 clarification as to if this is a bug or a balancing choice. The fact that it starts at 3% and you multiplied it by 5x looks impressive, but it puts it at 15% instead of the 50% it should have...

50% is overkill, but pick a lane and stick with it, this makes your game very confusing for people who aren't willing to test every little thing. I had no idea BA on live only had 3% till today, further cementing how bad it is in comparison to Grim Focus. Maybe fix the problem to put it at 10%, then give it 3x as a unique effect putting the total to 30%. This would allow non status effect builds to still get something out of it, while guarantee it for builds that fully go all into status effect cahnce.

In comparison to something like Jabs which you buffed in U46 to have a higher status effect chance too.. it started at 5% for aoe + direct, and is now at 15%, so also 3x like my suggestion. BA having the same 15% as Jabs, despite only being usuable every 4s, requiring a minigame, and only being single target, makes absolutely no sense at all. If it hit 30%, double that of Jabs, the dynamic between them would make much more sense.