Getting annoyed by snipe... -__-

Mariiana

Its not that i really think Snipe and its morphs are super OP or anything, but the fact that soooo many people are using it now really says something. id say nearly 50% or more of the times that i die is due to some sniper just sitting off the the side "ganking" me while im fighting someone else. Now don't get me wrong i think there is a place , even a need, to have "snipers" , Buuuut how snipe is now, it allows any terrible player ( by terrible i mean the players who cant design theyre own build to actually get into the action and not die instantly) the ability to just sit back and spam one button and get kills, which annoys me greatly.

-Rant over

Teargrants

Heavy armor + Purge.

Rylana

Teargrants wrote: »

Heavy armor + Purge.

I see your purge, and raise you one unstable wall of elements.

Your move.

Sypher

I'm not going to comment about the whole balance issue and what should be changed, because at this point I don't know what the best solution is.

All I can say is, when I'm running around doing my thing and I notice someone sniping me, they automatically become priority #1 on the "MUST KILL RIGHT NOW" list, no matter what the situation, if I don't focus them and kill them, then I'll have a hard time.

Oh that also applies to any templars stacking dark flares on me (which is WAY worse than snipe, just not as popular because it's a class based skill).

Teargrants

Rylana wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Heavy armor + Purge.

I see your purge, and raise you one unstable wall of elements.

Your move.

I see your walls, blinky out and purge anyway. Sit back and watch the rest of my group die from my purge.

Your move. #SorcLyfe

Rylana

Teargrants wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Heavy armor + Purge.

I see your purge, and raise you one unstable wall of elements.

Your move.

I see your walls, blinky out and purge anyway. Sit back and watch the rest of my group die from my purge.

Your move.

I collect my AP, nod in your direction, and go my merry way.

Teargrants

Rylana wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Heavy armor + Purge.

I see your purge, and raise you one unstable wall of elements.

Your move.

I see your walls, blinky out and purge anyway. Sit back and watch the rest of my group die from my purge.

Your move.

I collect my AP, nod in your direction, and go my merry way.

Come back in 5 min w/ another EP zerg. We know your weakness.

Rylana

Teargrants wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Heavy armor + Purge.

I see your purge, and raise you one unstable wall of elements.

Your move.

I see your walls, blinky out and purge anyway. Sit back and watch the rest of my group die from my purge.

Your move.

I collect my AP, nod in your direction, and go my merry way.

Come back in 5 min w/ another EP zerg. We know your weakness.

Tactic is OP, plz nerf.

Columba

lol l2dodge and block.

kijima

So, this guy took your advice of blocking and dodging as did 300 of his best mates...

Grim13

Fire ring, fire ring, talons / streak, batswarm, fire ring.

If that sounds at all familiar...

Let the stamina builds have their day in the sun.

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Rude and Insulting Comments]

Roechacca

These threads are so much fun to read in between snipes

Grim13

roechacca wrote: »

These threads are so much fun to read in between snipes

lol ikr...

PS- if you want to get sniped by me... I'm waiting at Ash. ;P

heng14rwb17_ESO

kijima wrote: »

So, this guy took your advice of blocking and dodging as did 300 of his best mates...

Lol
Lmao
Poor guy with the shield !
Lucky i can flap my wing !

Tripwyr

Crushing Shock.

murtugo

S & B, Sticks, bows.... so what else should be nerfed?

ToRelax

murtugo wrote: »

S & B, Sticks, bows.... so what else should be nerfed?

Dualwield? It can be really annoying having 2 of those stamina NBs on you, rapid striking you all the time...

Andferne

I just slap on Hardened Ward and laugh.

murtugo

ToRelax wrote: »

murtugo wrote: »

S & B, Sticks, bows.... so what else should be nerfed?

Dualwield? It can be really annoying having 2 of those stamina NBs on you, rapid striking you all the time...

Not DW... i love those flying blades.

Nacario

murtugo wrote: »

S & B, Sticks, bows.... so what else should be nerfed?

Reflective scales, I just picked up bow and this is a party killer

Cody

so you wish to face me in glorious battle??? Have my snipes annoyed you? My sparks/fear DW bar would annoy you even more, AND I would likely still kill you:D

Just let me know:)

Cody

Rylana wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Heavy armor + Purge.

I see your purge, and raise you one unstable wall of elements.

Your move.

Roll dodge

Cody

kijima wrote: »

So, this guy took your advice of blocking and dodging as did 300 of his best mates...

that was almost dozens of archers.... lol. one cant dodge or block dozens of arrows

Yusuf

Grim13 wrote: »

Fire ring, fire ring, talons / streak, batswarm, fire ring.

If that sounds at all familiar... then go f yourselves.

Let the stamina builds have their day in the sun.

I have nothing against stamina-builds.
But i firmly believe archers should crawl back into that hole they came from...
If they ever even left it, i honestly can't tell 'cause they're so far away from the actual fighting you barely see who shot you.

Lava_Croft

Woosh, woosh, woosh
Plonk, plonk plonk
I may be weak
But my bow is (too) stronk

JackDaniell

We all know Greatsword is to OP, 1k crit rush + works as stam resty!

KBKB

Snipe takes skill and is defs not OP - Any bow user on the forums.

Lord_Bidr

kijima wrote: »

So, this guy took your advice of blocking and dodging as did 300 of his best mates...

OMG! I knew bows were OP...I was right all along.

Rylana

KBKB wrote: »

Snipe takes skill and is defs not OP - Any bow user on the forums.

Kailiana, my nightblade bow spec, disagrees.

Snipe is completely and totally OP, but then again, I was using bow back when it was "garbage"

The FOTM people out there just jumped on what got good. Ill be the first to tell you that besides a flappy DK very little can escape my spike. Thats fine by me, because if my spike fails and i cant get away, i will die. Period. No defense.

The sheer amount of investment into that massive burst negates any and all survivability outside of running.

kijima

Cody wrote: »

kijima wrote: »

So, this guy took your advice of blocking and dodging as did 300 of his best mates...

that was almost dozens of archers.... lol. one cant dodge or block dozens of arrows

And dozens of archers is what you have in PvP

DDuke

What I'm getting annoyed by is the horde of QQers here on the forums.

Not a lot of people seem to realize, but Snipe (and stealth gameplay as a whole) actually got a pretty significant nerf in 1.5 when sneak attack damage was reduced.
In fact, I couldn't even care if they nerfed it more, since it's such a bad skill these days I'm probably going to replace it with something else anyway.

Another thing not many people seem to realize is that popular/=/good.

Why bows are popular, there's multiple reasons, such as:

• ZOS advertising buffs for stamina builds (while in fact stealth focused builds were nerfed instead, but it's not like these new found snipers know that)
• Removal of forward camps & relative safety of the bow range.

I'd like to know how someone can even die to a single archer spamming snipe, I did the math, and you'd need reaction time of 3-4 seconds to lose against a snipe spammer (human average is 0,25 seconds).

I'd also like to know why dying against multiple archers (or other opponents) is such a bad thing? Did you expect to tank 20 archers & kill them all, like you do againt non-archers with certain magicka builds?

And lastly, I still see more magicka builds (especially flapflap tank everything DKs) than archers in Cyrodiil...