Beam

shadyjane62 · June 4

I named my first Grandchild, Beam.

francesinhalover · June 4

im confused. people disliked almost every spammable in the game outside of jabs, veiled strike and whip. we get offered a good spammable so logicaly people will use it?

it's like giving players the option to use a lightsaber in a medieval game.

yet people hate that lots want to use something that:

Requires no aim , requires no clicking on enemy so no misclicks, has good range, has aoe dmg , lasts a good ammount of time so players can rest a bit during combat , looks mega cool?

You serious? Why not hate other spammables instead because they all lackluster outside of jabs?

A bigger issue for me is the banner skill. It destroys my fps and gives people more dmg when honestly , more dmg isnt needed atm.

Like i get it beam does good dmg, but people have the right to use what ever they want, why would that bother me on a pve game?

Al_Ex_Andre · June 4

Those who don't like beam have quit already. Gotta be used to beam now. You need to be arcanist to get the best out of it, tooo bad.

MickeyBN · June 4

Brrrrrrrrr

Veinblood1965 · June 4

shadyjane62 wrote: »

I named my first Grandchild, Beam.

Is his first name Jim? I gave you the ever coveted Insightful for that one...

Vulkunne · June 4

Beam build go brrrrrr but also pew pew.

SkaiFaith · June 4

"Beam, beam, beam!
I slot it morning, noon, and eve.
I like it shielded and huge and powerful,
I'll soon be nerfed and that's quite probable"

As the nords in Windhelm would sing...

By the way, Beam fan here

BretonMage · June 4

francesinhalover wrote: »

it's like giving players the option to use a lightsaber in a medieval game.

It's exactly that, though. What the hell are lightsabers doing in Tamriel?

zaria · June 4

L_Nici wrote: »

The question would be now, which Beam? The Jesus Beam or the Arcanist Beam?

Well now we can have both.

EramTheLiar · June 4

Sorry my guy, but Emerald Green Death Ray of Radiant Death is still ridiculously fun for me and I'll use it even at 0 crux just because it makes me giggle like Sheogorath flinging cheese. Green cheese, of course. Glowing green cheese.

MasterSpatula · June 4

EramTheLiar wrote: »

Sorry my guy, but Emerald Green Death Ray of Radiant Death is still ridiculously fun for me and I'll use it even at 0 crux just because it makes me giggle like Sheogorath flinging cheese. Green cheese, of course. Glowing green cheese.

Fortunately for you, it is, in fact, quite green and complete cheese.

Solariken · June 5

Beam work makes the dream work.

moderatelyfatman · June 5

octograb wrote: »

Beam is dumb. Beam is boring. Beam was boring a year ago, beam is beyond boring now. Beam is on every dd build. Thank you for beam. Beam.

Beam is endgame. And now with subclassing and arcanist, you can have two beams!
Beam is so important that even the Late artist formerly known as Prince made a song about it!

LootAllTheStuff · June 5

What I find weird about it visually - apart from the nuclear green glow - is the sight of players running around holding this massive hard-cover book with their arms fully extended. That is very unrealistic!

Hmm.... Maybe beam should come with a massive movement speed penalty?

LadyGP · June 5

Beam causes noticable lag when you're around more than one person using it.

Beam needs to be changed.

Cazador · June 5

Now I kinda want to make a build that just uses as many beams as possible. I already know about fatecarver, the templar one and the soul magic ultimate, are there any I'm forgetting?

sarahthes · June 5

Cazador wrote: »

Now I kinda want to make a build that just uses as many beams as possible. I already know about fatecarver, the templar one and the soul magic ultimate, are there any I'm forgetting?

Vamp drain.

Vaqual · June 6

Cazador wrote: »

Now I kinda want to make a build that just uses as many beams as possible. I already know about fatecarver, the templar one and the soul magic ultimate, are there any I'm forgetting?

I suggest Zaan (or stonehusk or scourge harvester) + wrath of elements bb + force overflow fb, resto light attack, menders bond, guard, soul shred and necro tethers, giving you to extra beams while casting bigger beams.

(Don't do it)

randconfig · June 6

ok, but wat bout +8% beam?

moderatelyfatman · June 6

randconfig wrote: »

ok, but wat bout +8% beam?

You can have that but only if they nerf Jabs by another 8% and replace the spear in the animation with a large pillow.

Oblivion_Protocol · June 6

I mean, this was literally the case when Arcanist first came out. Every dungeon, trial, and BG looked like a Grinch-themed rave with green lasers spewing everywhere. I don’t know why anyone is surprised.

moderatelyfatman · June 6

Oblivion_Protocol wrote: »

I mean, this was literally the case when Arcanist first came out. Every dungeon, trial, and BG looked like a Grinch-themed rave with green lasers spewing everywhere. I don’t know why anyone is surprised.

Just you wait until the new class comes out that has a AOE spammable pink mushroom cloud with a 50 metre radius that can parse 100k dps by clicking a single button.

Joy_Division · June 6

Twohothardware wrote: »

Applying a half a dozen low damage dots is more fun and not boring? At least Beam looks cool

No, It isn't fun. But that's a ZOS Update 35 issue. We should have fun, different, and competitive options to choose from.

randconfig · June 6

Joy_Division wrote: »

Twohothardware wrote: »

Applying a half a dozen low damage dots is more fun and not boring? At least Beam looks cool

No, It isn't fun. But that's a ZOS Update 35 issue. We should have fun, different, and competitive options to choose from.

I missed the U35 controversy, what happened?

JJBoomer · June 6

I will never understand the "I don't like this thing so it should be taken away from everyone else" kind of thinking. Especially in a game.

Veinblood1965 · June 6

randconfig wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

Twohothardware wrote: »

Applying a half a dozen low damage dots is more fun and not boring? At least Beam looks cool

No, It isn't fun. But that's a ZOS Update 35 issue. We should have fun, different, and competitive options to choose from.

I missed the U35 controversy, what happened?

That was a fiasco. ZOS introduced a change to Nightblade Shadowy Disguise where when you crouch and go into stealth when you get within five feet of another enemy player loud sirens go off, flares fly in the air and a moldy piece of cheese hits the enemy in the back of the head and also adds a health buff to said enemy. It was stated on PTS for weeks prior to launch this causes problems as nobody likes to be hit in the head with a moldy piece of cheese but it went live anyway. We refer to it as Cheesegate in NB meetings.

MasterSpatula · June 6

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

randconfig wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

Twohothardware wrote: »

Applying a half a dozen low damage dots is more fun and not boring? At least Beam looks cool

No, It isn't fun. But that's a ZOS Update 35 issue. We should have fun, different, and competitive options to choose from.

I missed the U35 controversy, what happened?

That was a fiasco. ZOS introduced a change to Nightblade Shadowy Disguise where when you crouch and go into stealth when you get within five feet of another enemy player loud sirens go off, flares fly in the air and a moldy piece of cheese hits the enemy in the back of the head and also adds a health buff to said enemy. It was stated on PTS for weeks prior to launch this causes problems as nobody likes to be hit in the head with a moldy piece of cheese but it went live anyway. We refer to it as Cheesegate in NB meetings.

This is a joke, but closer to the truth than it sounds.

Navaac223 · June 8

randconfig wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

Twohothardware wrote: »

Applying a half a dozen low damage dots is more fun and not boring? At least Beam looks cool

No, It isn't fun. But that's a ZOS Update 35 issue. We should have fun, different, and competitive options to choose from.

I missed the U35 controversy, what happened?

Jabs got a new animation and we're all mad about it. No like, seriously, not a single player liked this change yet zos doesn't want to give us back the old animation >:(

moderatelyfatman · June 8

Navaac223 wrote: »

randconfig wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

Twohothardware wrote: »

Applying a half a dozen low damage dots is more fun and not boring? At least Beam looks cool

No, It isn't fun. But that's a ZOS Update 35 issue. We should have fun, different, and competitive options to choose from.

I missed the U35 controversy, what happened?

Jabs got a new animation and we're all mad about it. No like, seriously, not a single player liked this change yet zos doesn't want to give us back the old animation >:(

If you think the animation changes to jabs were bad in patch 35, just wait until you see patch 47 where they replace it with a beam.