This Vision is what Monolith of Storms Should Have Been

acastanza_ESO · August 23

ZhuJiuyin · August 23

This shows that the creators really know what fun and interesting skills/abilities are.
But Sorc doesn't seem to deserve it, so we have Beacon of Oblivion.

By the way, Undead Avatar is also very interesting, it is definitely an ability that Necromancer has always wanted to have to summon the undead army.

Pelanora · August 23

Is it that the dungeon people aren't the set people??? The set people aren't the dungeon people? Is it just that?

Tommy_The_Gun · August 23

I have heard that in IA once you accumulated enough power-ups you can play as Werewolf Behemoth (Better looking werewolf with different skills).

Imagine if we got something like this (2nd WW Ultimate with different stats) as a Scribing WW ability, and of course we could customize it. Now that would be amazing, when it comes to IA buffs & Scribing.

But knowing ZOS, if WW will ever receive any other skill (which for 99% it wont) it would be something that they already have animation for. Like some WW Mobs have some jump & slap attack animation.

Firstmep · August 23

A lot of IA monster skills and visions and verses could be turned into class skills.
Btw for monolith of storm the tempest verse would be better imho than the vision op showed.

robpr · August 23

The verse that summons the Storm Caller on synergy would be better

JaxontheUnfortunate · August 23

Yeah the ww behemoth vision is a lot of fun and visions them selves work well with running the archive as a ww.

but having something that powerful outside of the archive would likely be problematic.

Turtle_Bot · August 23

acastanza_ESO wrote: »

This would have been such a cool 5th piece bonus on the class set for the storm calling skill line.

thematic with the classes elemental damage type (shock damage)
gives the class some AoE that fits thematically (lightning jumping to nearby targets)
easy/simple to use (clear/obvious use case/design)
synergizes properly proccing off direct damage (which is majority of sorcs abilities from that skill line)

It seems like there are a lot of the versus/visions that would fit so well as class sets, even the older ones. One I like is the flame aura versus on my DK.

BXR_Lonestar · August 23

ZhuJiuyin wrote: »

This shows that the creators really know what fun and interesting skills/abilities are.
But Sorc doesn't seem to deserve it, so we have Beacon of Oblivion.

By the way, Undead Avatar is also very interesting, it is definitely an ability that Necromancer has always wanted to have to summon the undead army.

I think that this is more because the archive isn't a competive place - meaning you aren't really playing or competing against other players, and you are getting power in small doses. They don't have to worry about one verse/vision breaking dungeons, trials, or PVP or having any negative effects on other areas of the game because it is a limited time/scope perk that they can't use outside of the arena.

acastanza_ESO · August 23

Firstmep wrote: »

A lot of IA monster skills and visions and verses could be turned into class skills.
Btw for monolith of storm the tempest verse would be better imho than the vision op showed.

robpr wrote: »

The verse that summons the Storm Caller on synergy would be better

Strongly disagree here, the Storm Caller is cool but has the same fundamental problems of being a stationary proc that the current Monolith of Storms has. It simply doesn't mesh with the Sorc Playstyle. This one does.

BixenteN7Akantor · August 23

I saw for the first time someone use Monolith of Storms since it came out... :x
"Sounds good, doesn't work"

BasP · August 23

That was my first thought when I saw the Vision as well.

Firstmep wrote: »

A lot of IA monster skills and visions and verses could be turned into class skills.

Yeah, the Grasping Limbs Verse could be turned into an excellent, reliable single target Stun for Necromancers for example (instead of Grave Grasp).

Sarannah · August 23

Well, to be fair, ZOS could create an entire new class with just all the visions and verses alone.

But most of the visions and verses are quite overpowered, due to them being created to rely on in the archive. If they were to be used outside of the archive, ZOS would probably cut down their damage by atleast 75%.

JaxontheUnfortunate · August 23

But imagine a pack of behemoths coming to knock down a keep door in cyro.