Uh...no.tinythinker wrote: »Not the best suggestion, but it might spark some better ideas: What if Lotus Fan ignored 30-35% of a damage shield on the primary target?
Or just have the DoT ticks ignore damage shield altogether?
tinythinker wrote: »Not the best suggestion, but it might spark some better ideas: What if Lotus Fan ignored 30-35% of a damage shield on the primary target?
Or just have the DoT ticks ignore damage shield altogether?
Yep, Lotus fan is trashed.
If you're Magicka NB you're actually better off not morphing Ambush.
Also, please fix:
- Agony - useless skill in PvP PvE. I don't know any NB that slot this... ever
- Grim Focus - replaced a decent skill "Focused Attacks/Haste" with something that very few NB use.
In the full version linked above the DoT eats damage absorbing shields over time and if the DoTs ignored the shield same difference -- if a shield goes up before or during the effect the damage gets through. If they put a shield up the DoT eats it and if the DoT has ended/the effect is purged a new Lotus Fan could be applied. Lotus was never going to give the same impact as Ambush, it was more of something intended to work in the background during combat and to act as a form of crowd control while something like Refreshing Path+Sap Essence was applied. This idea just adds a little more to help with shield stackers.tinythinker wrote: »Not the best suggestion, but it might spark some better ideas: What if Lotus Fan ignored 30-35% of a damage shield on the primary target?
Or just have the DoT ticks ignore damage shield altogether?
Ignoring damage shields wouldn't work most of the time as they normally don't have damage shields up when you are activating ambush. I might like the idea of the DoT ticking for me, perhaps a total amount of damage greater than that of ambush + it's damage applied to the next attack. So say Ambush does 5k damage, and boosts the next attack by 20%, or 1,000 damage on a 5k damage ability, that would mean Ambush is essentially doing 6k damage. Make the magicka morph do 2.5k damage up front, plus an additional 4.5k over time. So the damage potential is greater, but not guaranteed as the DoT could be purged. I dkn if that would be too strong, but something along those lines.
Yep, Lotus fan is trashed.
If you're Magicka NB you're actually better off not morphing Ambush.
Also, please fix:
- Agony - useless skill in PvP PvE. I don't know any NB that slot this... ever
Joy_Division wrote: »Not sure how this morph ever past the pre-1.6 inspection ZoS did with every skill.
Oh great teleporting, shadowcloaking, dodge roll spamming forum blades, I is in your thread disagreeing with your postz.
Nerf NB.
darkknightfkb16_ESO wrote: »Oh great teleporting, shadowcloaking, dodge roll spamming forum blades, I is in your thread disagreeing with your postz.
Nerf NB.
MAGIKA NBs cant spam dodge roll, try again.
I say remove the DoT altogether, I'd rather have a single target gap closer with an AoE splash effect like templar can morph theirs to (though nobody actually uses that morph) than the waste of a skill point lotus is.
lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »I like lotus fan as it is. But you shouldn't look at lotus fan as a damage skill. It is an aoe cc to keep enemies near you.
lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »I like lotus fan as it is. But you shouldn't look at lotus fan as a damage skill. It is an aoe cc to keep enemies near you.
Magicka Melee NB has no real burst damage skill... sure concealed weapon is alright for sustain, but nothing to nuke the enemy... that is what ambush was
lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »I like lotus fan as it is. But you shouldn't look at lotus fan as a damage skill. It is an aoe cc to keep enemies near you.
Magicka Melee NB has no real burst damage skill... sure concealed weapon is alright for sustain, but nothing to nuke the enemy... that is what ambush was
I can understand that you miss your ambush -> soul harvest -> impale. But I'd prefer leaving lotus fan as cc and change agony to a damage skill. (Or do it the other way round, make agony an aoe cc and lotus fan a magicka version of ambush).
What if Lotus Fan's dmg will be scale from distanse, like a Critical Charge? It's negate it as spam-ability and doing great for gank/pursuit.
What if Lotus Fan's dmg will be scale from distanse, like a Critical Charge? It's negate it as spam-ability and doing great for gank/pursuit.
I've got my biases, but stam NB is very strong on the burst front- it is much more interesting to push magicka NB away from burst and more towards making our DoTs stronger, better access to heal debuffs, and other utility type effects.
What if Lotus Fan's dmg will be scale from distanse, like a Critical Charge? It's negate it as spam-ability and doing great for gank/pursuit.
I've got my biases, but stam NB is very strong on the burst front- it is much more interesting to push magicka NB away from burst and more towards making our DoTs stronger, better access to heal debuffs, and other utility type effects.
The thing is that this is supposed to be a game that lets me play how I want to play. I want to be a magicka melee burst NB, why... because I suck at sustain damage over a long fight. If a fight goes over about 30 seconds, I have already lost.
What if Lotus Fan's dmg will be scale from distanse, like a Critical Charge? It's negate it as spam-ability and doing great for gank/pursuit.
I've got my biases, but stam NB is very strong on the burst front- it is much more interesting to push magicka NB away from burst and more towards making our DoTs stronger, better access to heal debuffs, and other utility type effects.
The thing is that this is supposed to be a game that lets me play how I want to play. I want to be a magicka melee burst NB, why... because I suck at sustain damage over a long fight. If a fight goes over about 30 seconds, I have already lost.
Fair enough, but my point being that burst magicka already has the tools needed to be successful. Look at Sypher's build. Works very well.