.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
No. I did not run out of stamina because I am a stamblade. I don't need cloak. I cast manouvres and just run of. Because it is not cloak that makes the NB escape alone. It is a combination of skills.
Caltrops? Cast manouvres and run and only cloak once. works not on magicka NB because they don't have much stamina.
Magcika NB's are fast if in combination with Vampire+concealed weapon + cloak (and double take). But in caltrops they dont get far. Shadow image? Not everybody has this and also fails if to far out of range.
If people are upset NB's get away, then don't look at cloak. Because it can be countered and many NB use other skills to get away and cloak maybe once or twice. Nerfing it won't change a bit in NB's escaping. Because most don't spam it constantly.
.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
No. I did not run out of stamina because I am a stamblade. I don't need cloak. I cast manouvres and just run of. Because it is not cloak that makes the NB escape alone. It is a combination of skills.
Caltrops? Cast manouvres and run and only cloak once. works not on magicka NB because they don't have much stamina.
Magcika NB's are fast if in combination with Vampire+concealed weapon + cloak (and double take). But in caltrops they dont get far. Shadow image? Not everybody has this and also fails if to far out of range.
If people are upset NB's get away, then don't look at cloak. Because it can be countered and many NB use other skills to get away and cloak maybe once or twice. Nerfing it won't change a bit in NB's escaping. Because most don't spam it constantly.
Magica NBs don´t need vampire to get max speed while cloaked. Always nice to see NB not even familiar with basic mechanics of their class.
A NB not using shadowimage and not getting out of trouble is like a sorc complaining they can´t escape anyone without bolt escape but only using speedbuff + sprint. Sounds pretty simple minded huh? - It is.
Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
No. I did not run out of stamina because I am a stamblade. I don't need cloak. I cast manouvres and just run of. Because it is not cloak that makes the NB escape alone. It is a combination of skills.
Caltrops? Cast manouvres and run and only cloak once. works not on magicka NB because they don't have much stamina.
Magcika NB's are fast if in combination with Vampire+concealed weapon + cloak (and double take). But in caltrops they dont get far. Shadow image? Not everybody has this and also fails if to far out of range.
If people are upset NB's get away, then don't look at cloak. Because it can be countered and many NB use other skills to get away and cloak maybe once or twice. Nerfing it won't change a bit in NB's escaping. Because most don't spam it constantly.
Magica NBs don´t need vampire to get max speed while cloaked. Always nice to see NB not even familiar with basic mechanics of their class.
A NB not using shadowimage and not getting out of trouble is like a sorc complaining they can´t escape anyone without bolt escape but only using speedbuff + sprint. Sounds pretty simple minded huh? - It is.
Seems you are simple minded. So you say every NB MUST use shadow image. Because that is their escape tool, but then want cloak nerfed?
so it is not cloak that makes the NB go away, but shadow image.
and yes, I do use shadow image if I am magicka NB. But as I stated, I am stamblade and I don't need cloak or shadow image, I just pop charging manouvres.
.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.
.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.
Good players are flexible. That you come in here and say pvp is something you can always plan out is pretty sad, and very naive. When moving around the city do you plan to run into other players? I'm sorry that you're stuck in your blob mentality.
Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
No. I did not run out of stamina because I am a stamblade. I don't need cloak. I cast manouvres and just run of. Because it is not cloak that makes the NB escape alone. It is a combination of skills.
Caltrops? Cast manouvres and run and only cloak once. works not on magicka NB because they don't have much stamina.
Magcika NB's are fast if in combination with Vampire+concealed weapon + cloak (and double take). But in caltrops they dont get far. Shadow image? Not everybody has this and also fails if to far out of range.
If people are upset NB's get away, then don't look at cloak. Because it can be countered and many NB use other skills to get away and cloak maybe once or twice. Nerfing it won't change a bit in NB's escaping. Because most don't spam it constantly.
Magica NBs don´t need vampire to get max speed while cloaked. Always nice to see NB not even familiar with basic mechanics of their class.
A NB not using shadowimage and not getting out of trouble is like a sorc complaining they can´t escape anyone without bolt escape but only using speedbuff + sprint. Sounds pretty simple minded huh? - It is.
Seems you are simple minded. So you say every NB MUST use shadow image. Because that is their escape tool, but then want cloak nerfed?
so it is not cloak that makes the NB go away, but shadow image.
and yes, I do use shadow image if I am magicka NB. But as I stated, I am stamblade and I don't need cloak or shadow image, I just pop charging manouvres.
What makes sorc good in escaping is the combination of bolt escape and shields (and speedbuff + sprint). If you don´t use one or the other you won´t be as effective when trying to survive.
It´s the same for NB.
Both sorc abilities can be spammed both got their hit with the nerfhammer. For the nightblade only one ability is spammable which is why you can only nerf one of the two abilities.
If you get away as a stam NB that´s fine by me. I can see where you´re going and react accordingly. Against magica you can´t do that. Cloak is only problematic for magica builds so there is no point in arguing from the point of view of a stam NB. Just because your build does not get to use an ability to it´s fullest potential it does not mean the ability is balanced for builds doing so.
Knootewoot wrote: »Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.Knootewoot wrote: ».Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
No. I did not run out of stamina because I am a stamblade. I don't need cloak. I cast manouvres and just run of. Because it is not cloak that makes the NB escape alone. It is a combination of skills.
Caltrops? Cast manouvres and run and only cloak once. works not on magicka NB because they don't have much stamina.
Magcika NB's are fast if in combination with Vampire+concealed weapon + cloak (and double take). But in caltrops they dont get far. Shadow image? Not everybody has this and also fails if to far out of range.
If people are upset NB's get away, then don't look at cloak. Because it can be countered and many NB use other skills to get away and cloak maybe once or twice. Nerfing it won't change a bit in NB's escaping. Because most don't spam it constantly.
Magica NBs don´t need vampire to get max speed while cloaked. Always nice to see NB not even familiar with basic mechanics of their class.
A NB not using shadowimage and not getting out of trouble is like a sorc complaining they can´t escape anyone without bolt escape but only using speedbuff + sprint. Sounds pretty simple minded huh? - It is.
Seems you are simple minded. So you say every NB MUST use shadow image. Because that is their escape tool, but then want cloak nerfed?
so it is not cloak that makes the NB go away, but shadow image.
and yes, I do use shadow image if I am magicka NB. But as I stated, I am stamblade and I don't need cloak or shadow image, I just pop charging manouvres.
What makes sorc good in escaping is the combination of bolt escape and shields (and speedbuff + sprint). If you don´t use one or the other you won´t be as effective when trying to survive.
It´s the same for NB.
Both sorc abilities can be spammed both got their hit with the nerfhammer. For the nightblade only one ability is spammable which is why you can only nerf one of the two abilities.
If you get away as a stam NB that´s fine by me. I can see where you´re going and react accordingly. Against magica you can´t do that. Cloak is only problematic for magica builds so there is no point in arguing from the point of view of a stam NB. Just because your build does not get to use an ability to it´s fullest potential it does not mean the ability is balanced for builds doing so.
I understand your argument. Cloak is indeed spamable but most NB's don't spam it.
For magicka NB, they use shadow image, cloak once and they are gone
For stamina NB, they use manouvres for cc immunity then when clear, cloak once and change direction while still having the speed buff and they are gone
So nerfing cloak in cast time, magicka cost or whatever will not change the fact a NB will get away if it is a good player. Bad NB never get away, whether they spam cloak or not. Most NB's I know cloak once or twice depending in situation.
Also when you run around as NB, there is always a chance you run into enemies, stealhed or not. And most of the times there is not a good opportunity to cast shadow image. In an open field, the shadow image can be clearly seen and I always cast some caltrop on the shadow image while keeping an eye on it. In IC it is for most NB harder to cast a good position for shadow image because most hallways are so tiny, even teleporting back won't stop a zerg for running over you since the distance between you and the shadow image is limited.
Nerf cloak for all I care. I doubt there will be a descrease in NB's that escape.
.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.
Good players are flexible. That you come in here and say pvp is something you can always plan out is pretty sad, and very naive. When moving around the city do you plan to run into other players? I'm sorry that you're stuck in your blob mentality.
You pretty much shot yourself in the knee there - I´ve been playing with 3 to 4 people in 1.6 and am still playing in grps of maximum 6 ppl in 1.7.
A good leader will always try to plan for every situation the grp will encounter regardless of grpsize.
.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.
Good players are flexible. That you come in here and say pvp is something you can always plan out is pretty sad, and very naive. When moving around the city do you plan to run into other players? I'm sorry that you're stuck in your blob mentality.
You pretty much shot yourself in the knee there - I´ve been playing with 3 to 4 people in 1.6 and am still playing in grps of maximum 6 ppl in 1.7.
A good leader will always try to plan for every situation the grp will encounter regardless of grpsize.
The beauty of pvp is that you can't plan for everything. Planning to go here and then here and do this is what a blob does, which is why I made that comment. The mentality doesn't require a large group. I'm also not saying that's a bad way to play, (planning) but it's not going to work all the time. If you plan everything, what do you do when the plan doesn't work? you just die? You can plan a retreat, but what happens when it's cut off? The same goes for that ability, it doesn't always work that well.
Small group pvp is my favorite as well, but the best pvp is always flexible and reactive.
.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.
Good players are flexible. That you come in here and say pvp is something you can always plan out is pretty sad, and very naive. When moving around the city do you plan to run into other players? I'm sorry that you're stuck in your blob mentality.
You pretty much shot yourself in the knee there - I´ve been playing with 3 to 4 people in 1.6 and am still playing in grps of maximum 6 ppl in 1.7.
A good leader will always try to plan for every situation the grp will encounter regardless of grpsize.
The beauty of pvp is that you can't plan for everything. Planning to go here and then here and do this is what a blob does, which is why I made that comment. The mentality doesn't require a large group. I'm also not saying that's a bad way to play, (planning) but it's not going to work all the time. If you plan everything, what do you do when the plan doesn't work? you just die? You can plan a retreat, but what happens when it's cut off? The same goes for that ability, it doesn't always work that well.
Small group pvp is my favorite as well, but the best pvp is always flexible and reactive.
Ofc it´s flexible and reactive. But considering different classes and different players in the grp who all react differently in a situation I´ve made the best experience in trying to lay out one or two exit strategies before the encounter of a fight. When saying planning i did not mean one possible outcome or error.
I view it as something like a starcraft match with the added layer of someone putting up enemy figures that were not on the map before. For me that leaves still some kind of predictability of the fight especially in terms of our own grp movement as i know what the different players and classes / skilllayouts are capable off. Same goes for enemy movements.
Playing only reactive is in the same way restrictive as only playing to according one plan. Flexibility does not rule out proper planning.
GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »Literally what are we suppose to do? I can't roll, blocking stops my regen so i try to avoid that. I had to spec into magicka regen so i could cloak instead of dodge roll but now your going to throw that out to?
ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Hi everyone, thanks for all your feedback. We are looking at several options to limit the number of times Shadow Cloak can be cast in a row. However, unlike Bolt Escape, there are multiple ways of countering Shadow Cloak so we want to be very careful with any change we ultimately make. One of the possibilities we're exploring is reducing your Magicka regeneration while Shadow Cloak is active.
Any change we make will be in a future update, though we don't have a solid time frame at this time.
I play a Sorc and I can safely say that shadow cloak does NOT need a nerf. There are detect pots, binds and DoT's that all solve the problem. The actual problem is the people, like the OP, who want 1 build that counters everything in the game. If you continually go around nerfing everything, you'll eventually ruin the game. As you said, there are already ways to counter shadow cloak, if people prefer to use health/Stamina/Magicka pots, that's their decision and they sacrifice a way to detect cloaked NB's, or stealthed enemies...
GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »Literally what are we suppose to do? I can't roll, blocking stops my regen so i try to avoid that. I had to spec into magicka regen so i could cloak instead of dodge roll but now your going to throw that out to?
Welcome to every other class in the game.
.Knootewoot wrote: »Meh, after some testing yesterday with some NB's and some other people we found:
In IC if you are pure magicka NB and you attack someone. One time caltrops is dropped, NB=dead (outa stamina and cloak no worky)
If stamblade: Casts retreating or charging manouvres for cc immunity and runs of. Cloaks maybe once and mosty not at all.
Really, I serious doubt cloak is OP in IC. There might be NB's escaping but just a few. With our caltrop nets we caught almost all magicka NB's. Due to the tight corners and small rooms there was no escape. Caltrops + silence is even more fun since it rendered the magicka NB useless.
Even if they got away cloaking they where not near enough to attack or gank so who cares.
Only stamblades could attack and escape and only because of their stamina pool. retreating manouvres or shuffle, or (limited) dodge roll.
Really @ZOS.. be carefull with the nerf. You might end up in a downwards spiral of nerfing after every forum whine.
Nerf Sorc, Buff bows
You ran out of stamina and didn't get away with Shadow Image? I am pretty sure there are more than a few NBs who would have survived that. Further, who cares wether they can attack me, unless they use shieldbreaker, most likely I survive anyway. That they can get away is what upsets so many players.
Do you really think nightblades keep shadow image up all the time, and in range, and in a proper place to escape? Not to mention it bugging out while CC'd.
Well that´s exactly what good players do? You don´t go in if you don´t have a plan out?
Hell the first thing i do when leading our grp into an encounter is explain how and where we retreat if something goes wrong. That you even come here and say you can approach things with your simple mindset as a nightblade shows how broken cloak is.
"I´ve got one of the best escape abilities in the game but because cloak is pulling myself out of trouble anyway 90% of the time why would i even bother to use it hurrr durrr" - random NB probably.
Good players are flexible. That you come in here and say pvp is something you can always plan out is pretty sad, and very naive. When moving around the city do you plan to run into other players? I'm sorry that you're stuck in your blob mentality.
You pretty much shot yourself in the knee there - I´ve been playing with 3 to 4 people in 1.6 and am still playing in grps of maximum 6 ppl in 1.7.
A good leader will always try to plan for every situation the grp will encounter regardless of grpsize.
The beauty of pvp is that you can't plan for everything. Planning to go here and then here and do this is what a blob does, which is why I made that comment. The mentality doesn't require a large group. I'm also not saying that's a bad way to play, (planning) but it's not going to work all the time. If you plan everything, what do you do when the plan doesn't work? you just die? You can plan a retreat, but what happens when it's cut off? The same goes for that ability, it doesn't always work that well.
Small group pvp is my favorite as well, but the best pvp is always flexible and reactive.
Ofc it´s flexible and reactive. But considering different classes and different players in the grp who all react differently in a situation I´ve made the best experience in trying to lay out one or two exit strategies before the encounter of a fight. When saying planning i did not mean one possible outcome or error.
I view it as something like a starcraft match with the added layer of someone putting up enemy figures that were not on the map before. For me that leaves still some kind of predictability of the fight especially in terms of our own grp movement as i know what the different players and classes / skilllayouts are capable off. Same goes for enemy movements.
Playing only reactive is in the same way restrictive as only playing to according one plan. Flexibility does not rule out proper planning.
One reason for not using shadow image is in fact thinking ahead, a nightblade using it loses the element of surprise... which is a pretty big deal for stealth based characters.
Ah, the same guy wanting Mark Target nerfed. Welcome!CrowsDescend wrote: »Brilliant topic, agreed. It needs nerfed.
GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »So many people running caltrops and mark in Imperial City cloak is already useless. If you turn off magicka regen now all nightblades have no defense mechanism.
Literally what are we suppose to do? I can't roll, blocking stops my regen so i try to avoid that. I had to spec into magicka regen so i could cloak instead of dodge roll but now your going to throw that out to?
Damn zos you really no how to mess up a game.
KundaliniHero wrote: »GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »So many people running caltrops and mark in Imperial City cloak is already useless. If you turn off magicka regen now all nightblades have no defense mechanism.
Literally what are we suppose to do? I can't roll, blocking stops my regen so i try to avoid that. I had to spec into magicka regen so i could cloak instead of dodge roll but now your going to throw that out to?
Damn zos you really no how to mess up a game.
This is exactly my point.
Notice how most of these conversations revolve around the NB escaping....
thats because if they didnt escape they would be dead.
Besides shadow cloak and fear, they have no other real defenses that are innate to their class.
I get how frustrating it can be sometimes but gimping a class because you cant easily kill them is pathetic.
KundaliniHero wrote: »GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »So many people running caltrops and mark in Imperial City cloak is already useless. If you turn off magicka regen now all nightblades have no defense mechanism.
Literally what are we suppose to do? I can't roll, blocking stops my regen so i try to avoid that. I had to spec into magicka regen so i could cloak instead of dodge roll but now your going to throw that out to?
Damn zos you really no how to mess up a game.
This is exactly my point.
Notice how most of these conversations revolve around the NB escaping....
thats because if they didnt escape they would be dead.
Besides shadow cloak and fear, they have no other real defenses that are innate to their class.
I get how frustrating it can be sometimes but gimping a class because you cant easily kill them is pathetic.
Need to keep in mind though that if people ONLY used things innate to their class, it would be a whole different story. However, that simply isn't the case. You cannot balance an ability based purely on class abilities.Besides shadow cloak and fear, they have no other real defenses that are innate to their class.
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http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/219654/to-those-who-think-dark-cloak-needs-a-nerf/p1
Lava_Croft wrote: »Ah, the same guy wanting Mark Target nerfed. Welcome!CrowsDescend wrote: »Brilliant topic, agreed. It needs nerfed.