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PSA #3: Stamina Warden DPS Are Still Underperforming
Skjaldbjorn
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While I generally approve of this patch, I love the new trial, I feel the bulk of the changes were in a positive direction, etc...it troubles me that Zos seems to continue to ignore just how abysmal Stamdens are in PVE atm. While the parse releases right now are absolutely insane due to the overtooled Vamp skills, particularly frenzy which only some classes can reasonably sustain while others lack the meaningful self-heals to work with, even without those you see a Stamina DPS class trailing well beyond Mag DPS, including their own Magden counterparts. Stamdens haven't really been higher than #3 at any point in their history, but since Elsweyr have continued to get pummeled down into complete and total irrelevance.
If you cruise over to ESOLogs and look through Stamden parses, of what few there actually are, I am typically the only one that's even remotely competitive, and it's still incredibly bad. I've played this class since release and work very hard to try to excel, but look at raptors, as an example, from vHOF. My best parse this patch on Stamden is 94.9k overall, which isn't horrendous. However, compared to the field of current ESOlog parses for that fight, I am sitting at...216th. I'm not some random scrub who picked up Stamden this patch and decided to get froggy.
Stamden has consistently struggled to stay in the meta, and the constant nerfs and 'retools' which just end up being nerfs are exhausting. I'm not asking for Stamden to be broken in PVP (because I don't actually PVP) or take over as the top Stam DPS, simply be competitive in the field. That's it. There's a litany of ways this could be accomplished without breaking Stamden in PVE. For example, here's a change i've proposed repeatedly to address two issues that plague Stamden: too much burst in PVP, and poor sustained damage in PVE.
Subterranean Assault:
Stir a group of Shalk that attacks after 3 seconds, dealing x Poison Damage to enemies in front of you, and an additional x Poison Damage damage over 2 seconds.
Enemies damaged are afflicted with Major Fracture, reducing their Physical Resistance by 5280 for 6 seconds.
This directly reduces their burst in PVP, their "pain point", as a percentage of damage can be moved from the burst portion to the over-time portion, while also allowing you to increase the overall damage of the main Stamina Warden DPS skill. Or just move the damage and buff other areas. The point is, i've suggested at least thirty ideas of various ways to put power back into Stamden's kits after the repeated sledgehammer to the dome they've received for the past year or so, including filtering ideas through class reps, but it seems Zos is content to let the class be terrible. That makes me so, so sad.
C'mon, guys. Don't let another PTS cycle go without even attempting to give Stamden some desperately needed love.
If you cruise over to ESOLogs and look through Stamden parses, of what few there actually are, I am typically the only one that's even remotely competitive, and it's still incredibly bad. I've played this class since release and work very hard to try to excel, but look at raptors, as an example, from vHOF. My best parse this patch on Stamden is 94.9k overall, which isn't horrendous. However, compared to the field of current ESOlog parses for that fight, I am sitting at...216th. I'm not some random scrub who picked up Stamden this patch and decided to get froggy.
Stamden has consistently struggled to stay in the meta, and the constant nerfs and 'retools' which just end up being nerfs are exhausting. I'm not asking for Stamden to be broken in PVP (because I don't actually PVP) or take over as the top Stam DPS, simply be competitive in the field. That's it. There's a litany of ways this could be accomplished without breaking Stamden in PVE. For example, here's a change i've proposed repeatedly to address two issues that plague Stamden: too much burst in PVP, and poor sustained damage in PVE.
Subterranean Assault:
Stir a group of Shalk that attacks after 3 seconds, dealing x Poison Damage to enemies in front of you, and an additional x Poison Damage damage over 2 seconds.
Enemies damaged are afflicted with Major Fracture, reducing their Physical Resistance by 5280 for 6 seconds.
This directly reduces their burst in PVP, their "pain point", as a percentage of damage can be moved from the burst portion to the over-time portion, while also allowing you to increase the overall damage of the main Stamina Warden DPS skill. Or just move the damage and buff other areas. The point is, i've suggested at least thirty ideas of various ways to put power back into Stamden's kits after the repeated sledgehammer to the dome they've received for the past year or so, including filtering ideas through class reps, but it seems Zos is content to let the class be terrible. That makes me so, so sad.
C'mon, guys. Don't let another PTS cycle go without even attempting to give Stamden some desperately needed love.
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