sabresandiego_ESO wrote: »Here is a good pvp pet build.
resto bar:
pet
pet
empowered ward
harness magicka
rapid regen
Destro bar:
pet
pet
daedric curse pet morph
force shock or endless fury or crystal frag or destructive touch for final skills
this type of build does insane dps in light armor with maxed out magicka and has great survivability due to shield stacking and hots.
Perhaps ZOS could tell us what build they were using when they said that pet sorcerers had high DPS. I'm willing to try anything!painsworth01 wrote: »Maybe i'm missing something about this "powerful pet build", but my low level vet sorc still does much more damage without a pet. i finally loaded both pets simultaneously and stood back to see how much damage they could do. Not much.
sabresandiego_ESO wrote: »Here is a good pvp pet build.
resto bar:
pet
pet
empowered ward
harness magicka
rapid regen
Destro bar:
pet
pet
daedric curse pet morph
force shock or endless fury or crystal frag or destructive touch for final skills
this type of build does insane dps in light armor with maxed out magicka and has great survivability due to shield stacking and hots.
lostavalon wrote: »@xherics, b4 jumping the gun read the top of it, he said PVP not PvE
we all no by now that pets are rather useless for the vet content!
Sabre does make one point with which I agree, having given it some thought: Perhaps we should stop thinking of Critical Surge as our class heal, and give that label to Hardened Ward. Hardened Ward is still pretty solid.
Hardened ward and the resulting shield stacking is frownend upon by most of the community. However its the way to play for a sorc atleast in pvp. Not much other choices left.
15000 points dmg shield is nice though. Have not seen a heal that high
15k damage shield? Enlighten me, mine is only 8k @Derra
Actually I can survive just fine. I can solo upper Craglorn groups on PTS with and without pets and without Crit Surge but that isn't the issue.tunepunk
If you can't survive without Old Crit surge you're playing wrong.
Just in case you or someone else wasn't aware, Regeneration and its morphs no longer work on pets. They were stealth nerfed in 1.5 If you're just using it for yourself then fine.sabresandiego_ESO wrote: »Here is a good pvp pet build.
resto bar:
pet
pet
empowered ward
harness magicka
rapid regen
As @Derra noted, the pet attack and pet back off commands have been in game for some time now.And do not mention, that the pets are still bugged and there is no option to command them to attack the specified target, they are running like a chickens..
Nightreaver wrote: »As @Derra noted, the pet attack and pet back off commands have been in game for some time now.
Nightreaver wrote: »Why have a base ability that is completely worthless for Magicka builds and yet require Magicka builds to assign points to it and spend time leveling it just to reach a morph they can use?
Something to share:
Curse is now blockable. Fine by me. Edit: By request of @mike.gaziotisb16_ESO it will still apply against a blocking opponent but the dmg will be mitigated by block.
However it is completely broken with purge:
If the cursed enemy purges and you reapply curse it will run out 50% faster and nothing will happen.
Purge makes you virtually immune to daedric curse dmg apart from its other benefits.
This also works if you purge preemptively and have the 4s 50% duration on hostile effects on you.
Degeneration ist the pick now for us mages.Entropy
Entropy now grants you the Major Sorcery buff for 20 seconds when cast.
Increased the damage over time component of this ability by 20%.
Something to share:
Curse is now blockable. Fine by me. Edit: By request of @mike.gaziotisb16_ESO it will still apply against a blocking opponent but the dmg will be mitigated by block.
However it is completely broken with purge:
If the cursed enemy purges and you reapply curse it will run out 50% faster and nothing will happen.
Purge makes you virtually immune to daedric curse dmg apart from its other benefits.
This also works if you purge preemptively and have the 4s 50% duration on hostile effects on you.
This is another buff to permblocking, and blocking in general, as if it needed it. Curse was one of the few spells that could be used on a permblocker to try and grind them down. It seems that with every patch zos releases they make the game mechanics just worse. Not to mention it makes perfect sense to be able to block a curse on yourself, even if it explodes behind your shield, lol.
If 1.6 sees live as it is now, im not keeping a sub after march.
There was a command pet hotkey added in 1.5 if you hold down and left click on a target all active pets will attack. Hold down and right click will return pets to you and they will not attack until commanded to. I believe the default key is "T" but I bound it to my mouse so I can engage it kind of like using bash.@xherics wrote:... And do not mention, that the pets are still bugged and there is no option to command them to attack the specified target, they are running like a chickens..
@Iselin
Overload is eating up way to much ult to use it efficiently now.
I am using Shooting Star along with Volatile Familiar (wich is still bugged) and Hardened Ward.
Not an excuse for the very poorly designed Surge though.
silentgecko wrote: »Forget about Surge. Use Entropy and later Degeneration. It gives the same Major Buff then Surge.
And gives you a little bit Healing:Degeneration ist the pick now for us mages.Entropy
Entropy now grants you the Major Sorcery buff for 20 seconds when cast.
Increased the damage over time component of this ability by 20%.
Also Degeneration gives you the Chance to heal you for 100% of your Weapon Damage. No Cooldown.