Puncturing Strikes digivoles too......Wait, wrong, genre.

Ahem, allow me to change Puncturing Strikes/Sweeps/Biting Jabs to something else less channely and more tank friendly and still abides by a love of DPS. Mind you these numbers are from my current PS which deals 78 per hit on the tooltip, and with what I have in mind, bear with me.

Puncturing Strike - Deals 312 Damage to all targets in front of you, and deals 110% additional damage to the target nearest you, knocking it back 4 meters.

Blessed Strike - Deals 312 Damage to all targets in front of you, and deals 110% additional damage to the target nearest you, knocking it back 4 meters. Additionally heals the user for 20% of the damage done and all nearby allies within 10 meters for 40% of the damage done.

OR

Biting Assault - Deals 312 Damage to all targets in front of you and deals 110% additional damage to the target nearest you, knocking it back 4 meters. After using this attack, Spell and Weapon Critical Raiting is increased by 10% for 5 Seconds.

There, single attack AoE's, so they're no longer channels but also still use magicka. They'd also get an animation change too of course, and the big components is that now one will act as a group support tool or tank survival tool, and the other is a straight DPS choice that synergizes better with other skills.

Up next, Uppercut.

Uppercut- Original can stay as is, just ditch the cast time, that's it.

Wrecking Blow - Deals 50% additional damage but loses the knock back. Basically it's an instant cast super attack that will deal damage that's on par to what DW and Bows can do now. Something to make 2H looks awfully attractive to DPS users far and wide and not just a cosmetic choice anymore.

OR

Dizzying Swing - Deal Damage and knock target back 4 meters and stun them for 3.5 Seconds. Targets takes 20% Additional Damage for 5 Seconds and deals 20% less damage.

Next, Solar Flare! Which is such a simple fix I'm not even going to go in-depth with it. Simply put having a cast time is ok, but I'm going to have to ask that a built in option for Solar Flare and the Dark Flare morph that when using an ability, there's a 25% chance to make it an instant cast. That's it, maybe up the damage like 5 or 10%.

For Solar Barrage though, add on to the ability that it snares enemy targets for a whopping high amount as to aid Templar AoE tanking and group utility.

Spear Shards also has an idea in mind, with it doing everything that it does now but adding in a Talons effect where it traps enemy units for a short time and damages them. Blazing and Luminous Spear will do the same effect that they have now and the synergy will remain the same, which I think is what would keep the move balanced, since it'll lock enemy mobs in place but will go away if a player picks up the spear to restore their resources, and for blazing to keep hitting would also end for the same reason.

Both Cleave and Reverse Slash from 2H Skill Line could use a minor damage boost, say 15-20% and those abilities would be baller to use too.

Vampire's Bane hits rather decently but is still lack luster when compared to other moves, and a good way to make it really big is to have it explode after the DoT is finished. I think that's very anti-vampire, giant exploding balls of fire XD

For Backlash and it's morphs, simply make them Instant Cast, for there is no reason to have it so you can't do that instantly since casting it is just a waste of time that could be spent using a skill or two. Also, idk if it's still like but I think it is/wouldn't be surprised, but make it so there's no limit to using it, i.e if you have 5 templars in the group, 5 templars should be able to cast Backlash.

For Purifying Light, make it an instant heal that heals all allies within 15m of the target once the effect ends instead of a small healing puddle that reaches absolutely nobody.

Eclipse is ok I think?

Blinding Light - Make this actually work like a flash bang. Make it so when you use it, all targets near you miss their attacks for 3 seconds and take a small amount of magic fire damage. That should be a given automatically, and from there it's morphs should be:

Blinding Flashes - Once activated, all enemies will miss their attacks for 3 seconds, and for the next 6 seconds the player will pulsate, giving a 50% chance to make the enemies miss their attacks again.

Searing Light - All enemies within range of the attack suffer from 50% reduction in healing for 6 seconds.

Restoring Aura - Make it so it refills Magicka too, that's it. Everything else is beautiful about the Restoring Light tree. It's.....Perfect.

Passive Skills!

Burning Light - You want to make Templars amazing Melee DPS? Turn them into ESO-Ret Pallies. No seriously, do it. Take Burning Light as it is now, and make it so that it procs all melee weapon attacks but for a lesser amount of damage than it does now, like only 50%. For instance:

Burning Light - 50/100% chance on hit to deal 114 Magic Damage when Melee Weapon Attacks and 25% chance on hit to deal 230 Magic Damage when using Aedric Spear Abilities.

That will go a LONG way to buffing Templar Damage without it being freakishly OP in PvP (because I am well aware of the fear of a class that can heal and kill things at the same time)

Arcane Fighter - Increases chances of applying elemental weapon effects such as burning, chilling, etc by 100%. Also increases weapon enchant effect by 25/50%.

Heavy Weapons -
Ax - Increases Crit Rating by 1/2%, enemy bleeds for 75% of weapon damage when struck by a 2H Ax.
Mace - All attacks ignore 10% of the enemy's armor, and ignores 10% of damage when enemy blocks weapon attacks.
Sword - Weapon Damage and 2H Weapon Abilities Increased by 5%.

I think the 2 handed skill line needs an ability that just out right breaks peoples blocks. It makes no sense that a giant mace, which was made, to get thru a heavy defense, can be blocked by everything.

Heavy armor - Berserker

Rank I
Increases weapon critical by 1% and weapon damage by 1% per piece of heavy armor worn.
Rank II
Increase weapon critical by 2% and weapon damage by 2% per piece of heavy armor worn.
Rank III
Increase weapon critical by 3% and weapon damage by 3% per piece of heavy armor worn.
Chance on hit to increase Stamina regen by 75% for 10 seconds.

*** Taking Berserker causes the Heavy armor passive Resolve to become unavailable, sacrificing armor increases and spell resistance by up to 21% to compensate for additional dps

Numbers would need tweaking as this should only make heavy armor dps comparable, not superior.

I don't want the team to work on anything except fixes.
Just fixes for now, once the game performs properly then worry about other things.

Khivas_Carrick wrote: »

KenjiJU wrote: »

Radiant Aura - Slotted - Add 10-15% magicka regen for the player, no changes to Activation portion

Spear Shards (and Morphs) - Add small DoT
Already exists within Blazing Spear, new idea is needed.

Sparks - Add some mitigation for spells for the duration
Plausible.

Ember Explosion
- Add some reduced mitigation for spells for the duration. Increase damage. Change physical to fire.
Ehhh.

Flurry (and Morphs) - Slightly reduce channel time and damage. Change 'Target Enemy' to Cone.
Might be on to something with this one.

Bleeds - Remove monster immunity. Disable bleeding animations for selected monsters/skeletons, but allow bleed damage and effects to work. Can frontload bleed damage to initial hit, or backload it to end of bleed duration.
Hmm.

Stamina - Reduce defensive ability and sprint cost by a small amount based on total stamina. There should be a noticeable difference between heavy armor users and light armor magicka users in melee/defensive setups. The recent changes are mainly geared toward medium armor users, but heavy armor users are likely to be melee as well.
This, this is actually a good idea. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they're working on it right now but are taking their time in making sure the numbers are right.

Heavy Attacks (melee only) - Allow melee Heavy Attacks to hit in a small cone, reduced damage on non-targeted enemies. Change Forceful to increase radius and damage on non-targeted enemies for 2 Handed Weapons.
This is also a good idea, great one in fact.

Werewolf Heavy Attacks - Add stamina and health gain similar to recent change for all weapon types

I got nothing for that last one.

I don't understand?
(Edit: Whoops, didn't realize you wrote under each point. My bad. Also my bad not knowing about Blazing Spear.. shows what I know. Hardly ever used the base spell tbh because it seemed unattractive to me to begin with.)

Also thanks for the reply.

Came up with this thanks to another thread:

Balanced Warrior - Passive - Adds 2%/4% Magicka Return on melee heavy attacks. (Other bonuses remain the same.)

I think thematically it makes sense, but you can probably tell I'm biased in favor of melee.

Blur for Nightblade:
All opponent attacks are missed for the next X seconds. You cannot attack or cast for the duration.

Morph 1:
Mirage
Every time an opponent misses you they have a chance to be knocked down

Morph 2:
Riposte:
Every time an opponent's melee attack misses you they get hit for Y amount of damage.

Ranks increase duration and damage.

Marthenil wrote: »

Blur for Nightblade:
All opponent attacks are missed for the next X seconds. You cannot attack or cast for the duration.

Morph 1:
Mirage
Every time an opponent misses you they have a chance to be knocked down

Morph 2:
Riposte:
Every time an opponent's melee attack misses you they get hit for Y amount of damage.

Ranks increase duration and damage.

interesting.

would make it worth using.

oh, and just for knowledge's sake, does blur stack with evasion?