Weakness to Elements ......

Kingdinguhling

No Cost?

What's Duration?

Not a Very Descriptive Tooltip and what is this 117 Magicka back to User per attack?

I have 20k Magicka that would take Close to 200 Hits even if it is free to get full. and 117 Magicka back off of a spell that cost 3500 Magicka is ..... 3400

I understand its not meant to fill us up but come on.... this is an eye dropper in a bucket situation.


BTW LOVE THE NEW FORUM AND IM LOVIN' TEMPLAR ON THE PTS

Seraphyel

I tested it yesterday on live and PTS and I still have to say the skill is garbage.

It adds ~ 5% damage to your elemental attacks, that's nothing. The only thing is maybe the magicka recovery, but I am not even sure about that.

Dimillian

I still use it purely as mana recovery on 1.5. Having infinite magicka on long fight without using Equilibrium is cool. Now I'm not sure with 1.6. 5% damage is garbage, and 117 magicka back when I have 30K, WTF?

Sypher

I'm getting like ~500+ magicka back with all my points into mana. 40k magicka pool.

Force shock costs me 1300, I get back 1500 (counts as 3 hits, 4 if you light attack weave).

I still think the skill is really useful for sustain.

Kingdinguhling

Interesting you use it for mana recovery!?!?!

I wonder if this can be incorporated into a build on 1.6

Redguard (Stamina regen Maxed)

- Thunder armor - Movement speed
- Dark Exchange - Quick toggles on and off
- and weakness morphed with mana regen (if its Highly Effective)


Im just spit ballin but I think there is way to make Sorc move incredibly fast and Do decent single target DPS or AOE for PVE with possibly enhanced Armor.

Another thing I'm trying to do is Find a way to make Bar 2 - Hold "C" (keybind which ever key you want) cast a spell then it auto switches you back to Bar 1

i think it would be an awesome idea for back up spells on Bar 2 and All your Primarys on Bar 1


Also we aren't able to use the same weapons on both bars are we either? to me if we can put pets and spells like mage light on both Bars why cant we use the same weapons on both bars but i don't know

haven't tried it.

Like Bar 1 Sword and Board and Bar 2 Sword and Board?

pppontus

Ele drain is the only choice for group content as your tank will be putting Major Breach on the bosses anyway.

asteldian

On the other hand, if every caster is using this debuff, maybe tanks will consider going ransack

Merlin13KAGL

There are a few things to bear in mind here. I assume you referring to the Elemental Drain morph.

First, you can cast this on multiple targets now (1.5 it was one or replaced) and anyone dealing elemental damage to said target gets the benefit of the debuff. Caster will be the only one that gets the Magicka return.

You get return per elemental attack - this is not limited to weapon damage. DoT's should activate this as well as single target abilities. You should get 2 for 1 on LA/HA with elemental enchants, more yet if you have set gear that procs elemental damage.

The amount is not vast, but it does add up. It's similar in function to cost reduction enchants or Absorb Magicka enchants.

The two main things you'll get from this is slightly better resource management and a boss that will drop faster with than without.

The debuff makes a bigger difference than you might think. Less TTK, fewer resources burned, cheaper while you are still fighting.

It's not for every fight, but it can shine in the right ones.

Kingdinguhling

Thank you very informative ... is there any cost ? and can you apply it multiple times to a single target( I imagine not) and do we know the duration or how long it last?

Merlin13KAGL

Kingdinguhling wrote: »

Thank you very informative ... is there any cost ? and can you apply it multiple times to a single target( I imagine not) and do we know the duration or how long it last?

@Kingdinguhling , no cost, instant cast.

You can apply it to multiple targets, you cannot apply it multiple times to the same target.

Anyone casting again will simply refresh the timer. It's somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 seconds, I do not recall the exact time. It's long enough to be useful, yet short enough to have to watch to reapply.