I'm liking this patch so far because it definitely more balanced than anything since 1.5. Stamina may have been nerfed but it needed it. It was way to overpowered.
Don't get me wrong, it's not as good as 1.5. No where near as good. But I think of this a step in the right direction for the game.
However the patch was not ready to go live, that is obvious from all the bugs and glitches.
Yes nothing in my stam tree hits over 10k meanwhile in the magicka there are 20k shields, 10k+ magicka ability hits, let's not talk about detination everyone runs that, magicka has the strongest ultimates....
this is not balanced...
Nothing Stam hits for over 10k? I call BS based on the 14k snipe that I was hit by yesterday and the 11k wrecking blow.
As for 20k shields, that's a sorc thing not Magick as a whole.
I don't disagree on the detonation or ultimate points, something definitely needs to be done about those. Make one ultimate morph Stam based for example, like class skills are. But then again very few people had a problem with the ultimate situation before this patch, when Stam was capable of insane damage and with very few counters. And detonation is just too strong single target and when used by zergs. Zos really screwed up with this skill.
Four things that brought fun back to the game... As from a solo and occasionally smallman grouped Magicka Templar's standpoint I am having a blast in Cyro.
1) All charges on the same s**t level = we are all equal.
2) RD finally working as intended, bringing me some stamina tears because they cant dodge roll 15 times in a row with Vigor and Rally up.
3) Its no longer a 2.stamina.1 patch, cause you were only able to see either magicka sorcs or BoL bots lately.
4) SIEGE. I it. Literally. I no longer have to risk my poor solo Templar's life rushing the keep alone expecting to solo clean it and not die too quick in order to make AP. Siege now hurts, not too much, but it still hurts and even brings quite some kills. Haxus knows It since they tried to ballstack farm 2nd level of Ash milegate until I poured oil on top of them and instantly made almost 10k AP. Woah.
Fix the fps/crash issues and its going to be gooooooooooooood.