Blazing shield will be so bad lol. Most people have 20-25K health as templars. so thats like..3-4K Blazing? RIP Templar

*double post*

Templar probably gets hit hardest by this change, though some would have you presume it were Sorcs.

The fact that damage is also being reduced by 50% across the board balances out most Damage Shields against the reduction.

Blazing Shield however is less about having a huge portion of Damage Mitigation and more about keeping pressure on Melee targets when the shield explodes.

Blazing Shield gets nerfed by the 50% reduction to shields, though this is counterbalanced in terms of shield effectiveness, this value reduction will also reduce the damage of Blazing Shield's explosion (which is based on the damage done to the shield).
Blazing Shield also gets nerfed by the 50% reduction in damage making the explosion even less powerful.

Outlook not good.

Samadhi wrote: »

Templar probably gets hit hardest by this change, though some would have you presume it were Sorcs.

The fact that damage is also being reduced by 50% across the board balances out most Damage Shields against the reduction.

Blazing Shield however is less about having a huge portion of Damage Mitigation and more about keeping pressure on Melee targets when the shield explodes.

Blazing Shield gets nerfed by the 50% reduction to shields, though this is counterbalanced in terms of shield effectiveness, this value reduction will also reduce the damage of Blazing Shield's explosion (which is based on the damage done to the shield).
Blazing Shield also gets nerfed by the 50% reduction in damage making the explosion even less powerful.

Outlook not good.

You make an excellent point. If this nerf is applied to Blazing Shield, it reduces the survivability aspect of Templars (less shields) but also the DPS of Templars (less damage from Blazing shield).

*ouch*

Blazing Shield isn't nerfed by 50%.. compared to the damage you'll be taking, it will be exactly the same as before.

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Players still gonna use it like sorcs still gonna use BE cause that's all they know how to do.

I agree. The older players will use it out of habit. The newer players will see no reason to use such a small shield.

NotSo wrote: »

Look at it this way, blazing shield was holding off 1-2 attacks before shield nerf, it will still hold off 1-2 attacks after shield nerf. Everybody who was spamming bubbles to stay alive in the first place will be spamming them just as often, you will just have twice as much hp to fall back on, i.e. you won't be dying to wierd lag combos as often.

Finally, someone who gets it lol. Been reading page after page of all these knee jerk responses.

I didn't know anybody was using it exclusively for damage, I always looked at it as an added bonus. I mean, it's really there to help HoT effects anyways. And since it scales with max hp, stamina builds can use it just as well as magicka builds. Which is not true for hardened ward.

@Vynist I don't have a templar, but wouldn't the damage output be halved from it as well? I would imagine the 50% is taken off of the tooltip shield and damage, halfing both. If it doesn't half the damage but does less, could you please explain?

So the shield will be 50% less, so the damage it does will also be halved
And then their also reducing all damage by 50%

So it will be double nerfed or what?

NotSo wrote: »

Look at it this way, blazing shield was holding off 1-2 attacks before shield nerf, it will still hold off 1-2 attacks after shield nerf. Everybody who was spamming bubbles to stay alive in the first place will be spamming them just as often, you will just have twice as much hp to fall back on, i.e. you won't be dying to wierd lag combos as often.

Blazing Shield doesn't even hold of 1attacker in 1.6 (unless you're the emperor or something with 40k health).

The explosion is like 2k on nirnhoned. Terrifying dmg right. You can ignore Blazing Shield on your average templar and burn him down anyway. Any mediocre HoT will outheal it.

So imagine the explosion after a 50% overall dmg reduction and a 35% weaker shield, next patch. There will be nothing offensive about Blazing Shield what so ever.

Majority of templars aren't even using Blazing Shield offensively in PvP, because focusing that much on health turns you into a vegetable. They use it as only option defensively to absorbs physical dmg/prevent crits from physical dmg and snipers etc, since Annulment only helps against spell dmg.

But I'm not going to drama queen about it being useless next patch or anything. Because who knows, maybe a 3k baby shield that explodes for same amount of dmg as a light attack, will be useful somehow. Not being sarcastic or anything, I truly have no clue lol.

I do think with this change, if they're going to make the Templar shield weaker than it already is, they might consider upping the duration on it, or lowering its magicka cost. All other class shields last significantly longer than the Templar shield, presumably because it is scaled off of health. Since the actual value of the Shield is worth a light attack, may as well let it linger or drop the cost.

other classes have abities that on paper would get a double nerf hopefully they looked into this. funnel health being an example

So you do reaLize there will be a corresponding reduction to both damage and healing as well? That means that everything will be just as useful as before on the scale. It also means the fights will take longer, You will have to actually manage when you use these skills especially since there were no words on cost reduction.
And I am pretty certain this is exclusive to Cyrodil.
The only real problem may be when a player interacts with NPC camps.