Massive problems against Pet Class / Sorc

Prodigy1971 · September 2015

Hi folks.

I plkay a Stam NB on the PS4 and have a big issue with Sorcs and their Pets. I cannot target the Sorc himself, i always have the 2-3 Pets in my face and as long as I cannot target lock the sorc, a lot of my pressure (CC, Damage) goes into the pets.

Sorcs usually summon their pets run around in circles between the pets and spam AOE attacks.

With no chance in target locking the sorc, how do you manage to hit the sorc, not the pets?

Derra · September 2015

I guess pets are good for something on the consoles then? Do you know if the sorc can command them to attack you or not?

On PC you just targetlock the sorc and kill it.

Also try to kill the twilight. It´s basically a free kill since the sorc can not refresh the shields on the pet so it´s bound to take HP dmg.

Prodigy1971 · September 2015

Had a fight with a sorc yesterday (5 times!!!). Because there is no target lock mechanism on the consoles its almost impossible to ignore the pets an focus on the sorc.

I think i´ll have to kill the pets and hope there is no way to summon it again.

Thats a huge problem. Sorcs are mean enough for me as a NB...

WE NEED A TARGET LOCK ON CONSOLES ASAP!

Forestd16b14_ESO · September 2015

Hmm guess pets are useful after all. Here that Sorcs you can use pets in PvP as meat shields your dead skill tree is useful after all.

Saint314Louis1985 · September 2015

Pet sorcs give me trouble too. I have thought that it is because as a DK, i choose to use 2H + SnB and dont have any AOE attacks slotted (but I could be wrong). I just try to use fossilize on the mage as a setup for wrecking blow. Seems to work ok. Talons might work better. Im not sure about NB tactics.

Waffennacht · September 2015

Im a Sorc Tank Pet build. Yes, I do that on purpose. I've been advocating Pet use for sorcs forever. Always falls on Deaf ears though.

When you said 5 times... you weren't on skeleton key were you?

Yeah we're bamfs btw

Edit: its not that I "run around" my pets fyi, it's that we all move during combat and the pets always get inbetween. It's been an advantage for Summoning builds since all rpgs.

Derra · September 2015

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Hmm guess pets are useful after all. Here that Sorcs you can use pets in PvP as meat shields your dead skill tree is useful after all.

Not on PC where you can lock your target

Waffennacht · September 2015

They could on console make down or right on d pad a lock on and/or control for pets... an idea

Tankqull · September 2015

Prodigy1971 wrote: »

Had a fight with a sorc yesterday (5 times!!!). Because there is no target lock mechanism on the consoles its almost impossible to ignore the pets an focus on the sorc.

I think i´ll have to kill the pets and hope there is no way to summon it again.

Thats a huge problem. Sorcs are mean enough for me as a NB...

WE NEED A TARGET LOCK ON CONSOLES ASAP!

mouse and keyboard is the way to play this game - especially when facing a target with multiple pets the ability to adjust jour camera position on the fly instantly enables you to kill the sorc with out a problem with the awefully slow controller gameplay thats compleatly impossible though and for me the reason to no longer play eso on consoles.

NordJitsu · September 2015

This sounds like its working as intended.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work on the PC so pets are completely useless.

I'm not sure why you're asking them to change this. Sounds like a good tactical play mechanic.

zornyan · September 2015

NordJitsu wrote: »

This sounds like its working as intended.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work on the PC so pets are completely useless.

I'm not sure why you're asking them to change this. Sounds like a good tactical play mechanic.

Not really, pc is the full 'working as intendrd' version, we console players have a watered-down version that's just a basic port.

Basically one of the games features was to be able to target an enemy (quite a basic necessity in any game like this really.)

The console version lacks this.

This gives the sorcs this ability to avoid some damage. Far as I'm aware they will hopefully be adding in these features soon.

OP easy option? Just kill the pets and watch the sorcs run out of magika pretty soon, pets do no damage really and are easy kills in 1-2 hits at best.

Or just quickly switch to first person view to kill the sorc, never have an issue targeting when in first person.

NordJitsu · September 2015

It's a pretty outlandish statement to say that Soft-lock is "needed" in a game like this. There are plenty of MMOs and tons of multiplayer PVP games that don't have soft locking. The alternative is that you just hit what you're aiming at and body blocking becomes a thing.

Would actually add a lot of tactics as body blocking would be a thing for squishies and tanks would be more useful in PVP (as well as pets.)

Xeniph · September 2015

Don't worry. Soft lock on the PC doesn't work properly since the update. So even if you had it on consoles, you would be in the same boat.

Hyssia · September 2015

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Hmm guess pets are useful after all. Here that Sorcs you can use pets in PvP as meat shields your dead skill tree is useful after all.

Meat shield build (Exploding imp, healing twilight, greater storm atronach and daedroth) was very effective and fun last patch. Except against sorcerers, pretty impossible to proc the daedroth.