Storm Atronach feels weak sauce compared to 1.5

cozmon3c_ESO

Ok, ive used Greater Storm Atronach a lot in 1.5, it gave an alright damage when dropped on your enemies head (nothing to special) and a nice lightening laser that actually did some decent dps (kinda like an ugly step child to soul assault).

So in 1.6 i try and use the GSA again and it feels considerably weaker, i drop it on peoples heads and dont even see there health bar even move at all anymore. And that nice laser that actually did some decent dps, well no more. My Atro just goes around trying to tickle people with some static electricity now.

As im soloing around cyrodiil this just makes this ultimate pretty much useless, if someone has to trigger the synergy to get this baby to put out some deeps, thats not really acceptable, imo. As i am not able to synergize with my own ultimate.

Ways to fix this to be a better ultimate.
-one way is to make it have the damage it would have with the berserk buff to begin with, and if someone synergizes with it they get a berserk buff (but not the atro because they already have it). doing this will make the ultimate usable for soloing and give a benefit while using it in a group setting.
-another way is to let the sorcerer synergize with his own Atro, to activate the Berserk buff for the attro (plus nice benifit for the sorc lol as he gets berserk buff too, but hell why not, dk's standard gives them a 20% damage increase while standing in it, would only be fair right).
-Make Atro not stunnable, i mean really what the hell!!! sorc has the only ultimate in the game that can be mitigated by normal players stuns and interrupts. this ultimate better be putting out some mad deeps if someone can just negate all it does while its out. just saying.

Basically sorc Storm Atronach is not what it used to be, and eric said he wanted you to feel like you were still comparable to your 1.5 characters, well this ability falls short imo.

Let me know what you think on the matter, i would like to get more feedback on this ability before it gets pushed up the chain.

Kragorn

cozmon3c_ESO wrote: »

eric said he wanted you to feel like you were still comparable to your 1.5 characters, well this ability falls short imo.

Sadly several things ZOS have said are going to happen, haven't, I guess this is nothing new really .. with all the nerfs he's been implementing entirely designed to weaken skills, feeling in 1.6 like in 1.5 is just not going to happen.

cozmon3c_ESO

Kragorn wrote: »

cozmon3c_ESO wrote: »

eric said he wanted you to feel like you were still comparable to your 1.5 characters, well this ability falls short imo.

Sadly several things ZOS have said are going to happen, haven't, I guess this is nothing new really .. with all the nerfs he's been implementing entirely designed to weaken skills, feeling in 1.6 like in 1.5 is just not going to happen.

oh i forgot to mention this was with maxed champion points as well, so this ultimate should have felt even stronger, not weaker, correct.

ToRelax

Maybe it's just blockable or they all shied stacked, idk, but having fought against it as well as using it I think it still feels pretty strong (until CC'ed).
I couldn't tell wether it is weaker than in 1.5 but still wouldn't advice anyone to stay in it's range...

Nestor

I quit using the GSA back when they stopped it from Taunting. Having to kite the boss back to your Ultimate is kind of silly. It use to be a Boss Killer, now it's like the Burning Man Effigy, big, loud and ultimately pointless.


All because of the 3 trials dungeons. Something about the GSA Taunt caused them to lose precious seconds on their completion times so the rest of us got stuck with a pretty useless ultimate.

In case you were wondering I am still bitter about this Nerf that was not needed.

Gyudan

Thanks for the feedback. It's annoying that the tooltip doesn't display the atronach's damage like it does for other pets.

Snit

Meteor.

Yeah, it's not a class ability, but it at least fits thematically with a spellcasting sorc. It's pretty good now

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Does the caster (you) get major berserk just for dropping the atronarc? Or is that buff only available to people around you who can activate the synergy.

Gyudan

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Does the caster (you) get major berserk just for dropping the atronarc? Or is that buff only available to people around you who can activate the synergy.

Activating the synergy triggers major berserk on the player who activated it and the atronach, but not on the atronach's owner.

Teargrants

Gyudan wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Does the caster (you) get major berserk just for dropping the atronarc? Or is that buff only available to people around you who can activate the synergy.

Activating the synergy triggers major berserk on the player who activated it and the atronach, but not on the atronach's owner.

Our purpose in life is to buff our DK masters - the changes to atronach, negate & exploitation...

Aimelin

Teargrants wrote: »

Gyudan wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Does the caster (you) get major berserk just for dropping the atronarc? Or is that buff only available to people around you who can activate the synergy.

Activating the synergy triggers major berserk on the player who activated it and the atronach, but not on the atronach's owner.

Our purpose in life is to buff our DK masters - the changes to atronach, negate & exploitation...

We're going to login at 1.6 launch to see the ninja class change, surprise we're all DKs ! class balance fixed, have fun flapping silly wings at eachother & spamming GDB, TTK issues fixed, everyones happy !

XEVENEX

Aimelin wrote: »

Teargrants wrote: »

Gyudan wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Does the caster (you) get major berserk just for dropping the atronarc? Or is that buff only available to people around you who can activate the synergy.

Activating the synergy triggers major berserk on the player who activated it and the atronach, but not on the atronach's owner.

Our purpose in life is to buff our DK masters - the changes to atronach, negate & exploitation...

We're going to login at 1.6 launch to see the ninja class change, surprise we're all DKs ! class balance fixed, have fun flapping silly wings at eachother & spamming GDB, TTK issues fixed, everyones happy !

What happens if you reflect a reflect of a reflect? Isn't that like crossing the streams in ghost busters? Would it not rip a hole in space time and suck us all into the 12th dimension?

Oh wait no, that would just be Pong.