Intresting thing about having lightning splash last 5 seconds

Hypertionb14_ESO

This is kind of long and very Theory crafty based on Current ability builds...

Those of you who have never tried Stam builds or even tried bow builds, You might not have heard of a skill called "Volley"

this ability lasts 5 seconds, and deals around 100 or so damage on crits every 0.5 second on a smallish AOE.... basically its what this picture depicts the changed Lightning Splash to be...



so what is so great about this?

its that it lasts 5 seconds and currently gives on average a DPS boost of 200-250 while its active...

I myself started weaving this skill into my rotations as a single Target DOT and saw wonderful results, enough that in my guild it has caught on with the many people who have in the past few weeks or so decided to also try out the stamina builds i have been using for months...

Simply put, Volley will boost your DPS by a very good margin.

now.... if Volley is such a nice DPS boost, why is Lightning splash, which does 300 extra DPS while active such a bad one?

It doesnt last long enough.

Untill Volley was upgraded to its current duration, the same problem was there... the base DPS was mostly fine, but as a DOT it was worthless as you had to recast it too often..

and constantly recasting a DOT has a MAJOR effect on DPS....

so with Lightning Splash lasting 5 seconds at rank 4 as in this pic, we now have a unique Class skill that can be used not only for AOE, but as a VERY powerful single target DOT. simply by sometimes adding it to our primary rotation..

this might seem like a minor buff... but for endgame content on mostly immobile bosses, the DPS buff that will be possible now that Lightning Splash lasts long enough to be used as single target DOT, Sorcs can expect around a 10-20% increase to their overall DPS...


assuming the base rotations are still similar of course