Curse being blockable, aswell as Inevitable Detonation, is a farse, how can a curse be blockable? Its not like its coming at you, it surrounds your very being eventually exploding around you, its both stupid and unbalanced that everything sorcs/spellcasters have at their disposal (save for aoe) is completely blockable wich basicly makes the dmg useless.

You may think "oh but it will drain their stamina"....no it will not, ive withnessed players permblocking 5 other players emptying their mana/stamina on the target for a full 5 minutes before the fight ended or was interrupted. This...is utterly stupid.

I see this screenshot so often I wonder who Drolgonite is and what he thinks about it

That being said, I do think the screenshot does raise a point. I think that certain skills should not be blockable and velocious curse stands front and center.

Are DoTs blockable? I was under (the perhaps mistaken) impression that they were not. I hear from my NB friends that if Cripple is blocked, the skill does not damage. This is patently bad. I agree the initial damage from a block skill that does obvious impact damage (unstable flame, cripple, venom arrow and the like) should be reduced but the aftereffects should not be. I also believe that this design should be consistent so as to avoid confusion.

In an ESO Live episode, to the question as to why don't sorcs have a DoT it was countered that velocious curse is in fact their DoT; it just happens that all the damage is inflicted at one time. Fair enough, but:

• If this is the intended theory, velocious curse fails to meet the norm of DoTs being low cost spells.
• If this is the intended theory, velocious curse fails to meet the norm of DoTs being solid positive contributors in a DPS rotation.
• If this is the intended theory, velocious curse fails to meet the norm of DoTs not being blockable (if this is in fact now the case).

The problem with the 25% damage increase to blockable trade is that the damage was already so low, the 25% increase is not a fair trade off. As is stands right now, even if an opponent does *not* block, this spell is nether good DPS nor cost efficient to cast. In essence the spell falls between two stools of direct damage and damage over time and fails at both as it lacks the DPS punch of direct damage spells and the efficiency of DoTs.

I think it is silly that a curse can be blocked. I read my fair share of fantasy epics and never did the hero or a victim raise their shield and mitigate a hex placed on them by an evil hag, witch, or wizard. I might buy an argument that a fraction of the damage can be mitigated to keep it consistent with the initial hit of other DoTs being blocked (and can be justified by some appeal to the victim's constitution withstanding said curse), but the fact that a perma-blocker can shake off this spell (and cripple) is both silly and unbalancing.

As for mage's wrath being blockable, if we play a game where executes and AoEs are blockable, then this skill probably should be as well. I do agree with Ezerath that because the skill is more expensive to cast, it should get a commensurate boost in its effect.

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Good to see Sorcerer class has joined the rest of the classes with blockable skills.


This is a pretty entertaining thread. I think I'll subscribe.

cozmon3c_ESO wrote: »

mages wrath execute hits for way less then it used to, i have to hit people many times 2-3 times before they die without sheild spam involved.

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Wrath execute has always been weak IMO.

cozmon3c_ESO wrote: »

mages wrath execute hits for way less then it used to, i have to hit people many times 2-3 times before they die without sheild spam involved.

Same.

I dont even use endless fury/mages wrath, its blockable and a weak execute at that. It needs something.