DK Mastery: I welcome the toning down of the pyrebrand wildfire interaction, as this was way too oppressive in pvp. However, in pve pure DK channel build is now underpowered compared to U49, leaving subclassing the only viable way to play DK channel in U50. This is particularly bad since DK is the only reworked class and is expected to be in a good place.

Backtracking a little bit, I'll remind people of the balance efforts for the DK channel. First the winding up was nerfed from 20% to 5%, and this was compensated for by the general 15% passive damage done to whip (U49). This was to balance channel and dot pve builds. Now this 15% is gone, and the claim is we get similar power back from class mastery. This claim does not hold: while the landslide buff gives something back, wildfire/pyrebrand doesn't give much back to channel builds. Honestly even if it did, it would be bad design if the only way we get the same power is by using one particular set.

So please give channel pure DK some of that power back. It's such a cool thematic build and it's a shame if it's only viable via subclass.


Sorc Mastery: For context, magSorc was my main and only char for my first 2 years playing eso. Since then I completely gave up on it for pve because of the extreme lack of cleave. It's just hopeless for me. MagSorc is still my pvp main and I'm very excited for the sorc masteries to hit live! I agree with the general feedback here though that conservation of energy needs looking at! At the very least the heal should not be triggered by core skills and it should not scale with max HP. Perhaps it can have it's own heal that can be tuned independently from Blood Magic. I think activating only from sorc skills would be too much of a nerf though, as magsorc have to use a lot of non sorc skills (including the spammable lol). You can also completely change it to give crit instead, which would synergies with crit surge and would be useful defensively and offensively. On that note, kudos to main sorcs here leading the charge calling for a self nerf. We all know too well that if sorc hits live like this it will be nerfed to the ground in U51.

As for pve, I wasn't expecting masteries to suddenly make sorc useful for pve, but I'm definitely expecting the sorc rework at the end of this year to do that! Please zos my sorc hasn't seen any pve in 3 years!


Necro Mastery: This is only from pve dps (solo or unorganised groups). My corpseburster build is now parsing about the same for pure necro (with cycle unending and malevolent promise) and subclass necro (aedric and assassination). This is a huge improvement already! Malevolent allows me to Blastbones-Siphoning-Siphoning which is really cool and thematic on corpseburster and is basically infinite sustain. The problem though is that it doesn't have any healing as you do damage, which completely kills the build out of organised groups with a dedicated healer. It's no go for solo. It's particularly bad because neither blastbones nor the proc from corpseburster trigger reaving blows, only the direct damage portion of siphoning does, which is definitely not enough. My subclass necro rotation goes blastbones-puncturing sweep-siphoning, so I get a heal every 3 seconds as I'm doing my dps rotation without stopping to heal. My other pve solo builds often rely on reaving blows to fill that role. I think pure necro would be viable only if blastbones or corpseburster (or both, ideally) triggered reaving blows, which shouldn't be too much of an ask to be honest.

This is the summary of my feedback after I was able to try my builds after the EU character copy. Sorry for the long post