Stam Sorcerers: Thinking outside of the suggestion box.

Cathexis

It occurs to me that perhaps stamina sorcerers might need a morph skill that is not just a variant of its current abilities.
I thought it might be prudent to create a suggestion thread of stamina abilities that would go beyond the current game designs as a means to potentially define the play style along a different, defining dimension.

While sitting and thinking, two interesting skill ideas occurred to me.

(1) A large radius short duration low cost stealth detection spell

(2) A cone shaped aoe that blasts anyone inside the radius back 50 yards and applies a knockdown effect.

Please feel free to post any other original spell ideas that might benefit stam sorcerers.

hammayolettuce

Cathexis wrote: »

It occurs to me that perhaps stamina sorcerers might need a morph skill that is not just a variant of its current abilities.
I thought it might be prudent to create a suggestion thread of stamina abilities that would go beyond the current game designs as a means to potentially define the play style along a different, defining dimension.

While sitting and thinking, two interesting skill ideas occurred to me.

(1) A large stealth radius short duration low cost stealth detection spell

(2) A cone shaped aoe that blasts anyone inside the radius back 50 yards and applies a knockdown effect.

Please feel free to post any other original spell ideas that might benefit stam sorcerers.

While your ideas are interesting, where do you suppose they add these skills as the both dont fit into any morph of any current skills and they have already said they wont be adding any extra skills to the skill tree.

Cathexis

hammayolettuce wrote: »

Cathexis wrote: »

It occurs to me that perhaps stamina sorcerers might need a morph skill that is not just a variant of its current abilities.
I thought it might be prudent to create a suggestion thread of stamina abilities that would go beyond the current game designs as a means to potentially define the play style along a different, defining dimension.

While sitting and thinking, two interesting skill ideas occurred to me.

(1) A large stealth radius short duration low cost stealth detection spell

(2) A cone shaped aoe that blasts anyone inside the radius back 50 yards and applies a knockdown effect.

Please feel free to post any other original spell ideas that might benefit stam sorcerers.

While your ideas are interesting, where do you suppose they add these skills as the both dont fit into any morph of any current skills and they have already said they wont be adding any extra skills to the skill tree.

The latter could be an encase morph like "shockwave" or something to that effect.

Jar_Ek

Give one of the summons a detection ability.

Xael

Cathexis wrote: »

It occurs to me that perhaps stamina sorcerers might need a morph skill that is not just a variant of its current abilities.
I thought it might be prudent to create a suggestion thread of stamina abilities that would go beyond the current game designs as a means to potentially define the play style along a different, defining dimension.

While sitting and thinking, two interesting skill ideas occurred to me.

(1) A large radius short duration low cost stealth detection spell

(2) A cone shaped aoe that blasts anyone inside the radius back 50 yards and applies a knockdown effect.

Please feel free to post any other original spell ideas that might benefit stam sorcerers.

We already have Radiant Magelight.
I can already tell by your first suggestion you are under sway of the "NB are too op" myth.

The last thing we need is stealth detection. We can already see up to 12m with Radiant Magelight and we still have detect potions. This is not an issue... at all... let alone something Stamina Sorcerers need in PvP. What we need is a ranged skill dump that scales off Stamina instead of Magicka.

As for your second suggestion... 50 yards? Do you mean 50m? 50m is huge and longer than any spell range players have. No thanks. This would be more of a hindrance as the target would be out of range for gap closing abilities and could escape easily. This is way too much distance. Something that is less than stealth detection radius would be better as NB would be able to cloak right after and not be subject to detection unless the Sorc uses a gap closer immediately (which is allegedly being fixed) or uses Bolt Escape.

Honestly, keeping it simple is much easier and probably better. Just take Crystal Blast and convert it to Stamina and give it the same effect the Magicka Frag version has. Doing damage with an ability has a chance to proc 20% increased damage instant cast at 50% Stamina reduction and keep it ranged.

Most Stamina Sorcerers will keep using Boundless Storm as the Thundering Presence morph is horrible for PvP. Plus we will need a Magicka dump. Having the on-proc method to a Stamina frag would keep the gameplay much more interesting than being a class neutral weapon spec.