I'm a DW/Bow Nightblade and I see no reason to nerf Volcanic Rune. That's the silliest argument in here. It's easy to see for starters.... it doesn't do much damage... it's aoe crowd control so to speak that any class can have access to. There is nothing OP about it. Also it doesn't work against most boss enemies, but it does against standard mobs.

Vyshan wrote: »

Imo, one of the best things ZOS could do to settle balance issues is to implement real classes and get rid of this "pick and choose whatever skills you want" nonsense.
It's way too easy to pick the "wrong" skills and "wrong" playstyle. More so with the vague tooltips that largely leaving you guessing and what does what.

It's substantially easier to balance a class/content when you know all the variables that define it. This freeform concept creates too much design uncertainty and situations where X may be overpowered for X class, but changing it breaks Y class, for whom it was fairly well balanced.

This would open an even larger can of worms.
Also questing != group PvE != large scale PvP != small scale PvP.
Have fun balancing all aspects without having the tool chest we have now.

enough with the pvp nerfs already. your *** up my pve game

Truth be said, I played as a heavy armour S&B dragonknight up until I hit veteran, which was where I realised my build was absolute garbage against mobs/npcs and simply not practical anymore. First off I wasn't dealing enough damage, and by the time I have, my stamina/magicka would have been drained to hell, which usually means death. I switched some abilities/spells around that would conserve my magicka/stamina pool which didn't do an awful lot.

So because of that I ended up respecting and taking the light robes and the ultimate spamming stick of destruction just to keep progressing. And I don't even like playing as a mage. So I hope I'll be able to go back to melee one day while I still play.