spells vs physical damage defense imbalance

Domander

I'd like to know why spell damage has many more ways to defend against and reduce vs physical damage.

Through the champion system you can reduce... flame frost shock, poison disease magic, you can also increase spell resistance, but the only way to reduce physical damage is with the armor focus points.. which I believe also increases spell resistance.

When you look at pvp, there are more ways to reduce/absorb/negate magic, such as annulment.

It just seems like it's been overlooked.

Tankqull

add on top that nearly all spells are treated as projectiles in regards of blocking wich cripples them even more against shield users (the on tied to your chars arm )

Domander

Tankqull wrote: »

add on top that nearly all spells are treated as projectiles in regards of blocking wich cripples them even more against shield users (the on tied to your chars arm )

A lot of them are, I don't think I would say nearly all.


There are physical projectiles too


also... I don't know who Drolgonite is, or how it's relevent.

Vizier

Umm. Block, shield spells, dodge, armor....just saying.

I would, however, love to see Defensive Posture reflect also work for physical projectiles but other then that I'm pretty cool with the mitigation being where it is.

lolo_01b16_ESO

So you can mitigate magickal aoe damage by blocking since the patch?

Otherwise your agruments are invalid as blocking is the best mitigation in game.

Domander

Vizier wrote: »

Umm. Block, shield spells, dodge, armor....just saying.

I would, however, love to see Defensive Posture reflect also work for physical projectiles but other then that I'm pretty cool with the mitigation being where it is.

All of those affect spells also

Domander

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

So you can mitigate magickal aoe damage by blocking since the patch?

Otherwise your agruments are invalid as blocking is the best mitigation in game.

Yes, magic aoe can be blocked now.

timidobserver

Apparently the OP didn't get it. Magicka was the enemy and the whole point of the 1.6 balance changes was to slay it. Magicka took nerfs all over the place in 1.6.