Wall of Elements

dcincali

Anyone else finding this skill doing absurd amounts of damage more then the tool tip and in less than the 2.5 second aoe? Just curious. Seeing some super fishy damage in cyro lately.

Domander

I haven't... but it can be stacked like grand healing.

Braidas

yep noticed it tonight too - two 500+ ticks on my death recap almost instantly

dcincali

A group member of mine had a 2k instant pop

Asgari

I'll just post here to see if and when zos posts in here. I know something

dcincali

Also, I am not talking about the sorc passive with a lightning staff, this was damage from a DK, but we have seen the numbers from sorcs as well.

Domander

did they bug another ability?

serenenightmare

Domander wrote: »

did they bug another ability?

Wouldn't be the first time and wouldn't surprise me.

Huntler

Braidas wrote: »

yep noticed it tonight too - two 500+ ticks on my death recap almost instantly

Had a couple of your guild mates do the same but near 800-1000 on me yesterday ... I was like O.o thats new.... people are running it a lot more for some reason.. methinks someone has found some good combo or synergy I imagine. I don't run a destro staff so I haven't heard about it or thought about it.

Lettigall

Biggest damage I've taken is 3.1k. Seems every skill can be exploited...

MormondPayne_EP

I think I am the won who popularized the use of this skill, I use it for keep defences because it's lasts for 3.5 (elemental blockade morph) seconds and you can lay multiple casts on top if each other while it lasts. I started using it few weeks back and now see it used by others.

I'm not sure how it appears on the death recap but would it not show up just like bat swarm does with multiple ticks displayed as one rolled up figure? 5 ticks @ ~ 100 dmg = 500 dmg on the recap?

Also, I will use the lightning staff version because as a sorc it has a chance to proc the disintegration passive.

Lettigall

MormondPayne_EP wrote: »

I think I am the won who popularized the use of this skill, I use it for keep defences because it's lasts for 3.5 (elemental blockade morph) seconds and you can lay multiple casts on top if each other while it lasts. I started using it few weeks back and now see it used by others.

I'm not sure how it appears on the death recap but would it not show up just like bat swarm does with multiple ticks displayed as one rolled up figure? 5 ticks @ ~ 100 dmg = 500 dmg on the recap?

Also, I will use the lightning staff version because as a sorc it has a chance to proc the disintegration passive.

I think each damage from blockade is from different cast, If 3130 damage was combined dmg from multiple casts there wouldn't be other 2 entries in death recap.

Tintinabula

I asked my friend tonight "whats with all these fire blockades?" after seeing all the "skillful" emps and former emp groups using this..LOL..should have known..another bugged skill to aid in their AP farming.

MormondPayne_EP

Lettigall wrote: »

MormondPayne_EP wrote: »

I think I am the won who popularized the use of this skill, I use it for keep defences because it's lasts for 3.5 (elemental blockade morph) seconds and you can lay multiple casts on top if each other while it lasts. I started using it few weeks back and now see it used by others.

I'm not sure how it appears on the death recap but would it not show up just like bat swarm does with multiple ticks displayed as one rolled up figure? 5 ticks @ ~ 100 dmg = 500 dmg on the recap?

Also, I will use the lightning staff version because as a sorc it has a chance to proc the disintegration passive.

I think each damage from blockade is from different cast, If 3130 damage was combined dmg from multiple casts there wouldn't be other 2 entries in death recap.

Woah, I've never seen mine do that amount of dmg, mine ticks for about 130 each time.

On the order 3k for a tick surely is a bug, it has to be...

Lettigall

Woah, I've never seen mine do that amount of dmg, mine ticks for about 130 each time.

On the order 3k for a tick surely is a bug, it has to be...

Very high damage from this skill I have taken from few players only. It's not widespread atm so reporting it to devs is useless.

When more people find out that there are another skill to exploit and forums will be full of complains about that, only then devs will look into it.

Rylana

Was telling people months ago this skill was strong, no one ever listens. "ermagerd it only fires forward, thats no good"

Yeah okay, it does more damage than fire ring ever will, nothing new to see here.

However I am seeing a crapton more of it being used lately, and since it scales with weapon damage.... I can actually see it doing 800+ damage per tick.

Asgari

There is this one place near AD that it can be used to build ults in a second and keep dropping them on AD faces. I love this skill.

Tintinabula

The skill can be used from any high keep or outpost wall.Its obviously broken in that regard..no telling how many other ways.

Arowe_eso

Tintinabula wrote: »

The skill can be used from any high keep or outpost wall.Its obviously broken in that regard..no telling how many other ways.

Most ground casted abilities can work like that if you do it right

Domander

Arowe_eso wrote: »

Tintinabula wrote: »

The skill can be used from any high keep or outpost wall.Its obviously broken in that regard..no telling how many other ways.

Most ground casted abilities can work like that if you do it right

It's true, they fall to the ground.

Domander

Why so many use Elemental blockade over unstable wall?

I guess bigger area is better

Maulkin

Wow, I've never seen such high damage from it. That's new to me.

I normally rotate into my bar for keep fights. One of the advantages is it travels down from wherever you're casting it, so if you use it through the mesh for example at outposts, it hits the people below.

Also yeah, it stacks so it does a lot of damage. 4/5 people laying down Elemental Blockade on a flag, can deal a crap-ton of damage to whoever's standing on it. Great for defending flags and great for breaches

Glantris

elemental wall sucks. do not use it. it is bad and do not use it, never use this skill. do not spec into this skill please

Maulkin

Glantris wrote: »

elemental wall sucks. do not use it. it is bad and do not use it, never use this skill. do not spec into this skill please

I guess you say that cause you're a healer?

Glantris

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

Glantris wrote: »

elemental wall sucks. do not use it. it is bad and do not use it, never use this skill. do not spec into this skill please

I guess you say that cause you're a healer?

do not use this skill

jkirchner71ub17_ESO2

Yes it is an "exploit" per se and needs to be fixed. There are some well-knowns or so-called PvP "celebrities" even one well-known guild leader who is exploiting this glitch to one-shot players. This isn't new either just being more widely employed as word spread on how to do it. Won't mention names but blueberries do taste fine with waffles.

Huntler

edited.

Ifthir_ESO

was getting hit for 1k on this tonight even with a full suit of impen

Ezareth

Ifthir, Impen doesn't reduce crit damage, it only subtracts from the critical strike chance of your opponent. a Full set of crit gear at legendary quality and 700 impen will full mitigate the crit chance of your opponent up to 70% crit which means without modifiers like stealth, pots and passive synergies a player with 70% crit will not be able to crit you.

Beega

Been receiving 2500 - 3500 damage from blockage as a vampire of cause

Ifthir_ESO

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

Ifthir, Impen doesn't reduce crit damage, it only subtracts from the critical strike chance of your opponent. a Full set of crit gear at legendary quality and 700 impen will full mitigate the crit chance of your opponent up to 70% crit which means without modifiers like stealth, pots and passive synergies a player with 70% crit will not be able to crit you.

I'm aware of what it does, I was representing that these weren't crits where I took that damage.