Kena's Crystal Blast rework thread -- now with a second simple idea! :D -- Y DIS NO HAPPEN YET?

Emma_Overload · May 2016

americansteel wrote: »

KenaPKK wrote: »

Crystal Slash - morph of Crystal Shard

Cast time: 1s
Target: enemy
Range: 5m
Cost: 3591 stamina

Conjure a blade of dark crystals from one hand to slash a nearby enemy, dealing X physical damage and knocking them down for 2 seconds.

Fully charged heavy attacks and casting other stamina abilities has a 35% chance to make your next Crystal Slash instant, deal 50% more damage, and cost 50% less stamina.

What a simple change -- a melee range, physical damage variation on the ever-reliable and beloved Crystal Frags. Plus it'd be cool as fak to have dark shards spin around your forearm, snap together into a ragged blade, and then smack your enemy silly, knocking them to the ground in bloody pile of their insides.

Stam sorcs would have a new and reliable stamina based single target cc -- meaning they could go back to using Wrecking Blow for the empower perhaps -- as well as an additional attack to add to their burst combos.

Crystal Blast is useless. Just replace it with this. Thoughts?

tool tip damage?

Needs to be comparable to the magicka version for Frags, otherwise what's the point?

Xsorus · May 2016

KenaPKK wrote: »

Xsorus wrote: »

So, I can go 1hd/shield as a Stamina Sorc, and do Lightattack/Ransack/bash combo and weave in a high damage instant cast equiv of Wrecking Blow basically?

Yup, just like you could do with old Reverb, and just like 2h people can do with heavies and the current WB / upcoming Dizzing Swing.

Except this wouldn't empower.

It's also just like what magicka sorcs do at range with frags.

Old reverb didn't do anywhere near this damage; and you're asking for basically an instant cast wb; you can do wb into heavy and maybe weave some bashes in but light attack/ransack/bash is far faster and a lot harder to avoid then wb and its cast time. Also magicka sorcs can do it at range and its not exactly balanced either... But giving one class this would instantly make it superior to every other stamina class.

Skitttles · May 2016

I play a stam sorc and approve this idea. So many possibilities with a stam frag.

KenaPKK · May 2016

Added another idea to the OP. Would love to hear thoughts. I've been getting to know lots of stam sorcs, have watched all the best play for a good amount of time, and I'm quite intrigued at what we could add to the stam sorc kit to get it just right where it wants to be in terms of balance, fun, uniqueness, and badassery.

Grao · May 2016

In the interest of expedience I limited my idea for this skill to things they could accomplish without needing to considerably change animations and spell effects.

Crystal Strike: Conjure dark crystals to cut an enemy, dealing X Physical Damage and weakening them.
Weakened enemies are afflicted with Major Breach and Major Fracture for Y seconds.

Comments: Originally I meant to suggest a Stamina Morph for this ability that worked very similarly to Crystal Fragments, but after considering how this might play in PvP, I decided against. I doubt anyone wants bow users with a ability alike Crystal Fragments bursting people from the distance. I went on another direction this time and suggest the ability remains a hard cast with no procs and medium damage, but that provides debuffs Sorcerers currently don't have in their kit. I believe this ability should be an instant cast and while the cost of it might make so that it is not the ability to spam, it could easily replace your main weapon attack for a single rotation every 20 or so seconds to maintain the enemy debuffed.