Radiant Destruction AKA PVP/tamriel destruction

yvesfouquet4 · July 2016

After Dark Brotherhood patch the PVP experience lately turned into a templar patch. All i see lately is templar groups stacking up, casting Radiant destruction from 100% - 0% health constantly, rotating from target to target. Since the skill has an absolutely ridiculous long range, high damage (and if it werent enough yet)& isn't dodgeable, you are dead before you ever tried to think about countering it.

Theres many strong skills from the different classes that always can be countered in any situation, but radiant destruction rips everything up whenever you are in the open witout a wall to hide behind.Pvp has been totally boring, not diverse and absolutely not balanced since a few months due to overpowered templar (groups). On top of radiant destruction they also posess ridiculous healing aka The Breath of Life. It has absolutely no cooldown or punishing effect as it should (hence streak -+50% cost increase if spammed within 4 sec // dodgeroll also has a cooldown ). So you can literally spam ur health up forever and tank whatever u like untill the enemy starts running out of resources, then you go radiant spamming till finish since it cant be dodged and outhealing is quite difficult if you dont have Breath of Life yourself! (which stamchars absolutely dont have). And yes, i have tried to burst any decent templar player down, with 6K spell dmg or weap dmg, its literally not possible to outdps the BoL heal.

Isnt it time to reconsider the mechanics/cooldowns behind these skills? I dont ask for the skills to be nerfed or to be changed, but add a certain cooldown on the BoL spam? And make radiant dodgeable? These 2 changes would balance things at least in a certain way and make open field pvp more enjoyable.

I think the goal after all in ESO is create character diversity, avoid zergs (so dont motivate ppl to roll the same builds and stack up to spam 1 skill till everything drops)

So i would like to hear some feedback about this, if you agree with my opinion, share your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. If you dont, counter my rant here in a polite way please :-D

@Wrobel @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GinaBruno

danno8 · July 2016

Eclipse0990 · July 2016

I play a Templar DPS. Yesterday multiple times I was hit with radiant destruction. And that too from multiple sources. I'll tell you this-i didn't die from them. I just either moved around an obstacle or out of range. It's easy, no?

Oxwood · July 2016

I play a Templar, and honestly I don't even slot radiant destruction because it's too risky to use, and doesn't really apply that much pressure until 20-30% health, so your point about getting nuked at full health might just mean you need to work on your build for better mitigation. Also a Templar won't be damaging you if their spamming breath of life, so once they start playing offense you can CC them, then land your burst, and it will usually finish them off. The previous point also proves that any stamina build is a better self healer than a magic Templar,(complain about stamina instead please) because they can get big heals while playing offense, not to mention dodge roles and shuffle, making any competent stamina user un killable.

Oxwood · July 2016

NVM I think its just shuffle that's op. Sorry stamina people.

Superschwizer · July 2016

Its the people... everybody is suddenly using all the same stuff.... no own ideas. All FOTM.
Sad

Sandman929 · July 2016

I have a Templar character, and other classes. The RD hype is really overblown. You know when I die from RD? When I'm in execute range. If you're standing at the wall dancing around during a siege and 3 or 4 beams take you out, you earned those beams, back the f*** up.

ZOS_JohanaB · July 2016

As stated above, this conversation is happening in several places already. Per our Community Rules we do not allow duplicate threads. Therefore this thread is being closed please continue the conversation in one of the threads above.