Fatecarver 8% damage BUFF

Stx · April 14

Why?

This is probably the #1 skill talked about that every single class will subclass into for damage.

The cost increase and 6 target cap doesn’t make this skill less meta. Why a damage buff!!?? If anything it needed an 8% nerf.

Navaac223 · April 14

THE *** ???

sarahthes · April 14

Stx wrote: »

Why?

This is probably the #1 skill talked about that every single class will subclass into for damage.

The cost increase and 6 target cap doesn’t make this skill less meta. Why a damage buff!!?? If anything it needed an 8% nerf.

With sustain nerfed across the board and all the other body blows taken by arcanist in this patch I do not think you need to worry about it.

Renato90085 · April 14

I think because they big nerf azureblight so now need something help in Aoe combat

Shagreth · April 14

Never mind that, I like how I could melt every enemy on screen, now it can only hit up to 6 targets, that will feel junky as hell.

madmufffin · April 14

40% cost increase + hit cap is a big nerf

Kartalin · April 14

It’s probably to make up for the cost increase

TempestM · April 14

Groups were having less and less sustain options for DDs because Arcanists were trying to have as little stamina as possible for Coral Riptide. With this they'll just roll back on that, maybe switch to sustain food, more potions, etc. Or switch to something like Ansuul/Null Arca and not care about low stamina at all. I'm worried this might be a not needed damage buff overall

Dagoth_Rac · April 14

There will likely need to be sacrifices made to sustain a 40% cost increase, either from the Arcanist personally or from support roles. And those sacrifices will probably result in an 8% or more DPS loss.

sarahthes · April 14

Nvm I just saw a 145K arc with relentless focus and GLS backbarred, banner, and all arc skills otherwise. Oh and incap FB.

Soarora · April 14

My thought with fatecarver is that it should not be buffed, no sustain increase, but make it do 100% of the damage to one enemy and half damage to everything else.

Malyore · April 14

ZOS, pls raise the target cap for PvE!

robpr · April 14

With that kind of dps we getting, we might get U35 all over again. Unless they decide to raise hp of everything.

sarahthes · April 14

robpr wrote: »

With that kind of dps we getting, we might get U35 all over again. Unless they decide to raise hp of everything.

Some of the high DPS is due to bugs. It won't be 300K parses on live.

alpha_synuclein · April 14

Green beam from your right hand, yellow beam from your left hand.
Yay, build diversity...

Malyore · April 14

alpha_synuclein wrote: »

Green beam from your right hand, yellow beam from your left hand.
Yay, build diversity...

"For I have crushed a world with my left hand, but in my right hand is how it could have won against me."
-Vivec

Shagreth · April 15

Seriously I keep thinking about it, with every other class feeling like a**, my only joy coming back was melting everything on the screen with the laser. Please rethink this @ZOS_Kevin It's not about killing or having a hard time (you know I advocate for harder content) but limiting this ability to 6 targets will feel extremely bad.

Major_Mangle · April 15

Renato90085 wrote: »

I think because they big nerf azureblight so now need something help in Aoe combat

ZOS really hate this set for some reason...

RealLoveBVB · April 15

Malyore wrote: »

ZOS, pls raise the target cap for PvE!

It was probably nerfed because of PVE.
Beam is useless in PvP.

Jestir · April 15

Even ignoring the bugged solar barrage, people using Arcanist are getting legitimate 170k parses using NB and Necro DPS lines

While I am for subclassing that is ridiculous q

ApoAlaia · April 15

Jestir wrote: »

Even ignoring the bugged solar barrage, people using Arcanist are getting legitimate 170k parses using NB and Necro DPS lines

While I am for subclassing that is ridiculous q

idk, you write 'ridiculous' I read 'fun'.

Ultimately for many of us the parse dummy is not the be-all/end-all because when we are doing HMs (specially post KA) is the mechanics that hold us back, not the DPS.

You could give me 300k DPS in the dummy and Bahsei HM would still be **** for me.

So I'm all up for having a bit of fun for a change. Yet to be seen if they will actually allow us to have it.

Is week 1, by week 4 it could be all upside down.

Stx · April 15

I mean we knew dps was going to go up a lot when you add two additional dps lines to any class.

The issue is Fatecarver and that it got a buff even though we knew it would be a standout ability along with Jesus beam!

RealLoveBVB · April 15

ApoAlaia wrote: »

You could give me 300k DPS in the dummy and Bahsei HM would still be **** for me.

It wouldn't. You can easily burn her and skip all portals. Even now groups managed to skip all but 2 portals.

You just have to take care for curses, everything else is just parsing then.

Suna_Ye_Sunnabe · April 15

Arcanist still needs balancing to be more in line with the other classes. I would like to see endgame not dominated only by green beams some day

ApoAlaia · April 15

Suna_Ye_Sunnabe wrote: »

Arcanist still needs balancing to be more in line with the other classes. I would like to see endgame not dominated only by green beams some day

ZOS already did something about that.

We have blue (da ba di da ba da) beams now.

spartaxoxo · April 15

It also got ultra nerfed with a huge cost increase and cap on targets. It needed the compensation buffs.

sarahthes · April 15

Having done the new trial last night I'm requiring prag fatecarver for all my runs at least until we get the trial HMs figured out a bit more. It's buffed by scholarship, grim focus, and gravelord's sacrifice so it's hitting really hard.

Nerfs on paper (banner etc changes) did not translate to live. I had some sustain issues but that's because I kept forgetting to use my pot.

Major_Mangle · April 15

spartaxoxo wrote: »

It also got ultra nerfed with a huge cost increase and cap on targets. It needed the compensation buffs.

It absolutely did not.

SaffronCitrusflower · April 15

This is the kind of change that appears to be not thought out at all. These kinds of changes are why I get so jumpy when I hear about ZOS making any kinds of major changes to the game these days. I'm scared for the future of ESO in both PvP and PvE modes now. Please just don't make some of these radical changes that are making the game unrecognizable from what it was at release.

Stx · April 15

spartaxoxo wrote: »

It also got ultra nerfed with a huge cost increase and cap on targets. It needed the compensation buffs.

No it didn’t. The cost increase isn’t enough as the cost was already very low and sustain isn’t really an issue in general. It needed nerfs.

CalamityCat · April 15

I think it would have been better to just add the extra cost and target limit without buffing the damage. The buff is just not necessary given that the "nerfs" are barely an inconvenience. My arc won't have to change a thing to adapt to this change. Having to use more than a single beam for larger groups is completely fair.