MagDK and the dodgeable lash - 1vX / 2vX clip

NirnStorm · March 2019

Hello everyone!
Here's my latest 1vX/2vX video:

Veg · March 2019

I see you are enjoying your Magic DK™. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and we at the combat team have decided to make some"adjustments" to the Dragon Knight™ class in order help maintain balance in ESO™.

New improvements are as follows

-Flame lash now heals your target instead of you. Increased cost by 2000%

-Reflective Scales now shoots reflected projectiles at your teammates instead of your enemies

-Changed Iron Skin passive to increase block cost instead of increasing damage blocked (This is a buff)

We look forward to seeing your feedback!

NirnStorm · March 2019

@Veg

Jjitsuboy98 · March 2019

I used to run a light DK like that. But let’s be honest man you can 1v1 1v2 1v3 or maybe four depending on skill levels......but ur taking over resources and dealing with what comes and getting a few battles here and there. There is absolutely no way to escape getting zerged down all day. The curse of Magicka DK.

Now that mobility pots have been nerfed it’s even harder (krathos did have a good mobility build for Magicka DK don’t work anymore though.) At least Stam DK can run quick cloak but they are sad too. It’s easy to get highlights when playing a lot but no one needs to be convinced that a build like this is viable in solo open world Cyrodil. No offense though. It is a good mag DK build. But mag DK still sucks open world Cyrodil.

casparian · March 2019

> let’s be honest man you can 1v1 1v2 1v3 or maybe four depending on skill levels

That's about as good as it gets these days, unless you run into a group of PVE players.

Jjitsuboy98 · March 2019

casparian wrote: »

> let’s be honest man you can 1v1 1v2 1v3 or maybe four depending on skill levels

That's about as good as it gets these days, unless you run into a group of PVE players.

The point is that it’s specific and if it is not your dead. Where as a stam blade can get away. Stam classes in general can move about in such ways.

zyk · March 2019

Jjitsuboy98 wrote: »

The point is that it’s specific and if it is not your dead. Where as a stam blade can get away. Stam classes in general can move about in such ways.

I don't get this attitude in ESO at all. DK is obviously the class that's predispositioned towards tanking and standing their ground. They are very good at those things. NB is obviously designed to have great escape potential.

Further, whether a class is good at fighting outnumbered or not is not really a measure of balance. You obviously can't have a PVP game designed around fighting outnumbered. If you can pull it off, great, but it should not be an expectation.

manny254 · March 2019

Jjitsuboy98 wrote: »

I used to run a light DK like that. But let’s be honest man you can 1v1 1v2 1v3 or maybe four depending on skill levels......but ur taking over resources and dealing with what comes and getting a few battles here and there. There is absolutely no way to escape getting zerged down all day. The curse of Magicka DK.

Now that mobility pots have been nerfed it’s even harder (krathos did have a good mobility build for Magicka DK don’t work anymore though.) At least Stam DK can run quick cloak but they are sad too. It’s easy to get highlights when playing a lot but no one needs to be convinced that a build like this is viable in solo open world Cyrodil. No offense though. It is a good mag DK build. But mag DK still sucks open world Cyrodil.

So what if you get zerged lol? If you want that type of mobility play a class that has it, but mDK has one of the most fully developed toolkits in the entire game.

mDK feels like one of the easiest classes I have ever played, and feels overpowered compared to other classes I have tried this patch. Wings give mDK some of the best practical mobility in the game, and if you are tying to stack movement speed you are playing the wrong class.

NirnStorm · March 2019

@Jjitsuboy98 I absolutely disagree.
While I do think stam is currently more powerful than mag (thanks to enabler sets like fury and seventh that give you the highest weapon damage you can achieve through sets with heavy armor); and while I do think magdk is rather low in the food chain with the current meta (due to bleeds and dots that mdks have no reliable way of removing being the meta, mainly) - a good player can make even a worse class work.

You said those are just highlight clips but no way this build is viable in openworld and that most fights look like this.
You're wrong.

Yes, if I get zerged by 16 players I tend to die. But if I fight 4-5 many times I am able to kite and eventually kill them. I welcome you to hop on my stream sometime and check it out live- if you need proof.
Just don't go ahead and say a build isn't viable because *you* can't play it.

Jjitsuboy98 · March 2019

NirnStorm wrote: »

@Jjitsuboy98 I absolutely disagree.
While I do think stam is currently more powerful than mag (thanks to enabler sets like fury and seventh that give you the highest weapon damage you can achieve through sets with heavy armor); and while I do think magdk is rather low in the food chain with the current meta (due to bleeds and dots that mdks have no reliable way of removing being the meta, mainly) - a good player can make even a worse class work.

You said those are just highlight clips but no way this build is viable in openworld and that most fights look like this.
You're wrong.

Yes, if I get zerged by 16 players I tend to die. But if I fight 4-5 many times I am able to kite and eventually kill them. I welcome you to hop on my stream sometime and check it out live- if you need proof.
Just don't go ahead and say a build isn't viable because *you* can't play it.

You pretty much agreed with me in your first paragraph. Sure you can take on multiple less skilled opponents but my point is if just one person comes along that is past your max 1vX abilities the mag DKs mobility will not help him. Mag DK has always been like that.

NirnStorm · March 2019

You could say about any class that if it has too many people attacking it, it will die. Being a DK or not is not relevant, every character has its limitations based on build, players skills and environment.