I started playing maybe 5 or 6 months ago. I did notice many of these players who have broken away from the norm. I guess they have been playing a lot longer but they sure are a lot easier to kill. Magika nightblade, stam sourc, stam Templar. All a lot weaker than playing the strengths of the class. Variety is always good but maybe what would be better is more classes rather then adding or changing morphs and skills for these existing ones.
@Destruent Actually I tank pledges with my stamina sorcerer, so face tanking a boss is kinda important sometimes... and yes better survivability ultimates would certainly help. When not doing that I agree in pve a decent healer and a lot of crit will ser me through most things... in PvP not so much.
AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »Usually I'm against stam morphs for sorcs because it's supposed to be a magic class.
News flash, there is a stamina variant of all classes. This is INTENDED by ZOS or they wouldn't have made stamina morphs.
I started playing maybe 5 or 6 months ago. I did notice many of these players who have broken away from the norm. I guess they have been playing a lot longer but they sure are a lot easier to kill. Magika nightblade, stam sourc, stam Templar. All a lot weaker than playing the strengths of the class. Variety is always good but maybe what would be better is more classes rather then adding or changing morphs and skills for these existing ones.
Btw dragon knight dps builds are my worst nightmare as a sourc. 16k taking flight damage and reflective scales + wrecking blow etc. usually I just streak away. So yeah would prefer they just tank and hold the block key. Thanks
Please don't give me that flack about Thundering Presence. The AOE dot on that is laughable, the major expedition for 4 seconds is a joke and all for a high stamina cost. I don't know any stam sorcs who won't use Boundless Storm, the magicka version. So yeah, thanks for that cool utility ZOS. Much appreciated. Really blew our socks off.
So what would be nice?
As I said, if you can't/won't remove the passive restrictions, I'd really like to see some more DPS utilities for us to use, to help keep the pressure on our targets.
Here's some suggestions Magicka sorcs are going to QQ about, but at this point, I really don't care.
1. A stamina morph of Lightning Splash OR Mages Fury
2. A stamina morph of Daedric Curse. Must be within melee range to cast so they can't just stand back shooting at people, which wouldn't make any sense. It would obviously scale off weapon damage and max stamina.
3. Turn Crystal Blast into a stam version. Can only be cast within melee range and scales off weapon damage/max stamina.
I started playing maybe 5 or 6 months ago. I did notice many of these players who have broken away from the norm. I guess they have been playing a lot longer but they sure are a lot easier to kill. Magika nightblade, stam sourc, stam Templar. All a lot weaker than playing the strengths of the class.
Doncellius wrote: »I like all of these ideas... except for Daedric Curse. Right now, one morph cuts the time it takes to detonate, while the other is a vital morph for pet builds to do dps (from what it sounds like, maybe a magicka pet build sorc could speak on this). They're both important. Not sure how you could add a stamina morph without having three morphs for this ability!
I would give stam sorcs the execute and crystal slash for sure though with the improved passives!
I started playing maybe 5 or 6 months ago. I did notice many of these players who have broken away from the norm. I guess they have been playing a lot longer but they sure are a lot easier to kill. Magika nightblade, stam sourc, stam Templar. All a lot weaker than playing the strengths of the class. Variety is always good but maybe what would be better is more classes rather then adding or changing morphs and skills for these existing ones.
Btw dragon knight dps builds are my worst nightmare as a sourc. 16k taking flight damage and reflective scales + wrecking blow etc. usually I just streak away. So yeah would prefer they just tank and hold the block key. Thanks
I started playing maybe 5 or 6 months ago. I did notice many of these players who have broken away from the norm. I guess they have been playing a lot longer but they sure are a lot easier to kill. Magika nightblade, stam sourc, stam Templar. All a lot weaker than playing the strengths of the class. Variety is always good but maybe what would be better is more classes rather then adding or changing morphs and skills for these existing ones.
Btw dragon knight dps builds are my worst nightmare as a sourc. 16k taking flight damage and reflective scales + wrecking blow etc. usually I just streak away. So yeah would prefer they just tank and hold the block key. Thanks
If you've run into magicka NBs, Stam Sorcs, and Stamplars that were so bad it resulted in considering the entire population who runs those builds as "weak," then you did not play against someone worth playing to begin with. I've seen (and played) magicka NBs and Stam Sorcs that could tear you apart before you even knew they were there, and even in a prolonged 1v1 they both have incredible sustain and mitigation, plus self-healing potential. Don't even get me started on Stamplars - if you can avoid their CC it can usually go either way. They have very high damage potential, class mitigation and self-heals (no, I'm not talking about BoL) and mobility. I think you're just going up against the wrong people.
What are you talking about? Rally/Vigor at baseline? None of our healing passives work with non-templar skills. All Stamplar heals will be weaker than DK/NB. Sorc also has more healing with Rally/Vigor/Crit Surge. Are you talking about Repentance? LOL
Magika nb can be a good 1v1. But they always seem to spam healing Ward or try cloak evade when you get their health a bit low and they aren't pumping any dps at all at that point so yeah that does make them difficult to kill. Magika nb prob does good in group pvp also.
Also, @Swen_von_Walhallion the main point of my argument was DPS abilities, not utilities. We don't have anything to keep pressure on our targets like other classes do. All we have is toggle effects, passives and a useless version of boundless storm.
Not sure if you're just attempting to troll or legitimately asking what heals stamplars can use? You can run around in cyro as a bow or melee stamplar with only purify aoe HoT, and still come out on top. You can supplement purify by throwing on a single rally or vigor, and then focus almost entirely on damaging and CCing your opponent.What are you talking about? Rally/Vigor at baseline? None of our healing passives work with non-templar skills. All Stamplar heals will be weaker than DK/NB. Sorc also has more healing with Rally/Vigor/Crit Surge. Are you talking about Repentance? LOL
Also, not sure why you're comparing stamplar heals to stam sorcs and NBs - I never said they were better self heals. Typically stamplars are going to outpace stam sorc damage potential anyway, so it seems a fair tradeoff to me. That being said, I don't really see a huge difference in self-heal potential for any of the three.
My point was that if you think they all suck because you went up against one that got squished, you are incorrectly generalizing. And yes, I have seen purify work for a stamplar - amazing huh? It must be magic, or broken.
dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »Also, @Swen_von_Walhallion the main point of my argument was DPS abilities, not utilities. We don't have anything to keep pressure on our targets like other classes do. All we have is toggle effects, passives and a useless version of boundless storm.
There is one other skill I think you're missing out on and that's Overload. I realize it can get reflected back at you, but everyone has to deal with that. It also does lightning damage so I realize that throws a kink in your CP allotment but all classes currently have issues with that in one way shape or form right now. I've done the same thing as you by chucking my atronach in one ultimate slot and overload in the other, but I've also gone Overload/Flawless. Overload is no joke being a spammable ultimate that you can use to either recharge your magicka or create a big swath of damage.
In PVE Stamplar is fine and does well comparatively however Stamplar in PVP is absolutely not a powerhouse and suffers from bad passives and broken skills. Does this mean you can never win as a Stamplar? NO NO NO NO, ultimately it always comes down to player skill but Stampar adds the least amount of bonuses to a Stamina build period. Currently.
Overload actually IS a joke on a Stamsorc compared to overload on magicka sorc. i can hit a maximum of about 20...22k DPS with overload on Stamsorc, which is extremely low
But i agree, Overload has nice Utility, I used it for ranged-DPS in vMSA
Stamplar is probably the lowest PvE-DPS possible...so it's everything but fine!
Overload actually IS a joke on a Stamsorc compared to overload on magicka sorc. i can hit a maximum of about 20...22k DPS with overload on Stamsorc, which is extremely low
But i agree, Overload has nice Utility, I used it for ranged-DPS in vMSA
I agree with this. Overload is fun but is simply not as cohesive with stam sorc abilities relative to their magicka counterparts.Stamplar is probably the lowest PvE-DPS possible...so it's everything but fine!
I've seen some stamplars pull incredibly high numbers (30k+) which is at the very least comparable to the damage potential of many other "hot" builds atm. I'm not going to outright disagree with you, because I'm sure if we discussed it further we'd find common ground on a variety of specific points regarding stamplar damage potential. But as a general statement, I think stamplars have very high damage potential IN PVE.
I've seen some stamplars pull incredibly high numbers (30k+) which is at the very least comparable to the damage potential of many other "hot" builds atm. I'm not going to outright disagree with you, because I'm sure if we discussed it further we'd find common ground on a variety of specific points regarding stamplar damage potential. But as a general statement, I think stamplars have very high damage potential IN PVE.
Fixed that for you.
dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »Also, @Swen_von_Walhallion the main point of my argument was DPS abilities, not utilities. We don't have anything to keep pressure on our targets like other classes do. All we have is toggle effects, passives and a useless version of boundless storm.
There is one other skill I think you're missing out on and that's Overload. I realize it can get reflected back at you, but everyone has to deal with that. It also does lightning damage so I realize that throws a kink in your CP allotment but all classes currently have issues with that in one way shape or form right now. I've done the same thing as you by chucking my atronach in one ultimate slot and overload in the other, but I've also gone Overload/Flawless. Overload is no joke being a spammable ultimate that you can use to either recharge your magicka or create a big swath of damage.
Overload actually IS a joke on a Stamsorc compared to overload on magicka sorc. i can hit a maximum of about 20...22k DPS with overload on Stamsorc, which is extremely low
But i agree, Overload has nice Utility, I used it for ranged-DPS in vMSAIn PVE Stamplar is fine and does well comparatively however Stamplar in PVP is absolutely not a powerhouse and suffers from bad passives and broken skills. Does this mean you can never win as a Stamplar? NO NO NO NO, ultimately it always comes down to player skill but Stampar adds the least amount of bonuses to a Stamina build period. Currently.
Stamplar is probably the lowest PvE-DPS possible...so it's everything but fine!
I'm actually noticing almost the opposite problem. I can't get away from rally and 2 hand.
If surge had the same heal over time, I could use it and drop 2 hand.