Templar Burning Light Change- WHY?

BigBossFest

Been PLaying since 2015 with a year long break. never posted, until now...
Why the cooldown? The Jabs change alone is bad enoguh... with it still needing 4 ticks, and Jabs only having 3 ticks of dmg at once, it still can't trigger once or more every second, like before, but now the damage of this passive alone got nerfed by 40% to 50%...
Apart from the looks of Puncturing sweeps, we already have an aedric spear on shards and the sweep, why do we have a new model now for just one skill? Also in my opinion the old model looks better, since it's more mystic than the new one, which looks just like it came from a shelf in walmart...

Necrotech_Master

im not entirely sure on this either, with the way the cooldown is done it can add stacks 2 times per second (dealing dmg every 2 seconds)

the plus is that any dmg triggers it, the bad thing is that it either A) is going to really need weaving to be useful or B ) will need to use a lot more dots in the build to ensure it adds stacks twice per second

K9002

It doesn't deal damage every 2 seconds because no skills available to us can be set up to tick exactly every 500ms. In practice it takes closer to 3 seconds to stack and detonate BL.

deleted221205-002626

It was adjusted to align with the new jabs 3 strikes instead of 4

Firstmep

sinnereso wrote: »

It was adjusted to align with the new jabs 3 strikes instead of 4

It doesnt line up with the new jabs, but with a couple of dots it's possible to get on every 2 seconds.
Still the 500 ms cooldown is kinda weird, it's really easy to deal dmg too fast and miss a stack if you dont have a ton of dots rolling.
I wish they just made it no cd on stacks but a 2 sec cooldown for the damage proc.
Would make it much easier to manage, and would make it eermm, more accesible.

rexagamemnon

Not just burning light, all the changes to templar are bad

BigBossFest

rexagamemnon wrote: »

Not just burning light, all the changes to templar are bad

I completely aggree...
There are still 4 skills with the same old looks of the *same* aedric spear, that the jabs are aswell... but now it's some different spear? Also it being a wet noodle is just horrible. the most class defining skill of eso loosing out to some aoe-DoT (shards) is kinda bad...

FrancisCrawford

What actually procs Burning Light now?

E.g., do ticks of the Burning status effect?

Vahndamme

rexagamemnon wrote: »

Not just burning light, all the changes to templar are bad

Just this.