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New Pet Sorcerer meta. ;)
SmalltalkJava
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I can see lots of fun with the pets now that their abilities are functional and controllable.
-Pets Now heal themselves for 3% of their life every 2 seconds ** Does this get enhanced by blessed or quick recovery cp passives? Probably not**
Shield: Empowered Ward – Damage shield with Minor Intellect (10% Magicka regen)
Now for the good stuff…
Healing Based Pets
Summon Unstable Familiar: Melee Based Pet + Active Ability Heal - Heals sorcerer and itself for 35% of your Max Health
Summon Winged Twilight: Caster Long Range Pet + Active spell ability – Heals itself and 2 friendly Targets for 20% of your Magicka.
Damage Based Pets
Summon Twilight Tormentor: Caster Long range Pet + Twilight Empower – increases Twilights Attack by 50% for 15 Seconds against targets with > 50% health.
Summon Volatile Familiar: Melee Based Pet + Activate Ability PBAOE damage pulse – Each pulse deals 5% of Max Magica damage. Pulses every 2 seconds for 4 seconds. With a 3 Second stun on final pulse ** I am guess it pulses 3 times. 1st on activation, 2nd at 2 second mark, 3rd at 4 second mark(with stun) **
For a pet build
1. Summon Winged Twilight – long range damage with castable heal (20% magick heal)
2. Summon volatile Familiar – melee pet with pbaoe pulse for 5% of max Magicka per tick and stun.
3. (optional, but if you’re a pet build, why not!) Daedric Curse – increases pet damage by 50%
4. Empowered Ward – shield your pets and gives Magicka regen
5th slot – Up to you, but Crystal Shart for proc. Since you will be casting the heal, pbaoe pulse, and your shield. Crystal Shart should proc quite a bit.
5th Slot – Bound Aegis, more magick for pet scaling abilities, but you’d lose crystal shart damage and stun.
For Bar 2. Remove Daedric Curse, and Empowered Ward and replace with what skills you like… impulse for pbaoe, power surge for self damage.
You can have a PBAOE caster. Lightening Form + Pbaoe pet + Impulse + your shield and twilight heal, or use Daedric Mines or new Daedric tomb. You can also do sword and board for block on alternate bar.
I am seeing tons of possibilities, in theory I am really liking the way they broke down the active abilities for sorc pets. Now you can use the pets and still have active abilities. They aren’t just cast and forget damage over time spells. Tons of PVE options, just tons!!!
PVP: Now we just need them to stealth with us in pvp. That way we don't have to wait 3 seconds to cast them after every fight. If you run with a group/army like I do with BFTP, then you know that stealth is used very very often.
-- sorry for post messiness' I had to copy and past on my mobile phone to post this
Edited by SmalltalkJava on February 4, 2016 6:07PM -Pets Now heal themselves for 3% of their life every 2 seconds ** Does this get enhanced by blessed or quick recovery cp passives? Probably not**
Shield: Empowered Ward – Damage shield with Minor Intellect (10% Magicka regen)
Now for the good stuff…
Healing Based Pets
Summon Unstable Familiar: Melee Based Pet + Active Ability Heal - Heals sorcerer and itself for 35% of your Max Health
Summon Winged Twilight: Caster Long Range Pet + Active spell ability – Heals itself and 2 friendly Targets for 20% of your Magicka.
Damage Based Pets
Summon Twilight Tormentor: Caster Long range Pet + Twilight Empower – increases Twilights Attack by 50% for 15 Seconds against targets with > 50% health.
Summon Volatile Familiar: Melee Based Pet + Activate Ability PBAOE damage pulse – Each pulse deals 5% of Max Magica damage. Pulses every 2 seconds for 4 seconds. With a 3 Second stun on final pulse ** I am guess it pulses 3 times. 1st on activation, 2nd at 2 second mark, 3rd at 4 second mark(with stun) **
For a pet build
1. Summon Winged Twilight – long range damage with castable heal (20% magick heal)
2. Summon volatile Familiar – melee pet with pbaoe pulse for 5% of max Magicka per tick and stun.
3. (optional, but if you’re a pet build, why not!) Daedric Curse – increases pet damage by 50%
4. Empowered Ward – shield your pets and gives Magicka regen
5th slot – Up to you, but Crystal Shart for proc. Since you will be casting the heal, pbaoe pulse, and your shield. Crystal Shart should proc quite a bit.
5th Slot – Bound Aegis, more magick for pet scaling abilities, but you’d lose crystal shart damage and stun.
For Bar 2. Remove Daedric Curse, and Empowered Ward and replace with what skills you like… impulse for pbaoe, power surge for self damage.
You can have a PBAOE caster. Lightening Form + Pbaoe pet + Impulse + your shield and twilight heal, or use Daedric Mines or new Daedric tomb. You can also do sword and board for block on alternate bar.
I am seeing tons of possibilities, in theory I am really liking the way they broke down the active abilities for sorc pets. Now you can use the pets and still have active abilities. They aren’t just cast and forget damage over time spells. Tons of PVE options, just tons!!!
PVP: Now we just need them to stealth with us in pvp. That way we don't have to wait 3 seconds to cast them after every fight. If you run with a group/army like I do with BFTP, then you know that stealth is used very very often.
-- sorry for post messiness' I had to copy and past on my mobile phone to post this
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Tiphis✭✭✭✭Didn't get on PTS yet, what exactly are the pet active abilities, like do they use your resources with no cooldown or do they have a cooldown but use no resources? I would presume the former but then the some of the abilities would have to have a pretty high resource cost. And does the actual skill slot change appearance between summoning and using the active ability?Edited by Tiphis on February 4, 2016 7:57PM0 -
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✭✭hmm hmm mhm hmm......... yet one squirt from a spray bottle will defeat them. Not META just a bunch of bad pets.
Off the table.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vP8RbfSgZtw
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wskill✭✭nothing beats my pet pig tho, and im not even a summoner built mage but a storm. xDserver: EU. platform: PS4. psn: Calamaistr (empty FR will be deleted)
Wskill: Breton, as nb, bow, alchemy, tailor, woodsman. pec: hooded.
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Ipos: Redguard, strm sor, mace & shield, enchanter. pec: beard and mohawk.
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Friend: Altmer, siph nb, healstaff, sage. pec: slim.0 -
SmalltalkJava✭✭✭Didn't get on PTS yet, what exactly are the pet active abilities, like do they use your resources with no cooldown or do they have a cooldown but use no resources? I would presume the former but then the some of the abilities would have to have a pretty high resource cost. And does the actual skill slot change appearance between summoning and using the active ability?
I haven't tested it. Just theorycraft. from what I read the active pet abilities are insta casts for the sorc. So the new abilities are insta but from what I hear take a bit of magic to cast. So they aren't free. But they do give you something to do while herding.
They could be very powerful if you use them as one of your main power usages. Granted as usual with the pets they are not uber dos, or even medium dps. But utility. sorcs got a lot of utility in this pts release.
It will definitely require thinking outside of the box and seeing synergy and situational adaptability.
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✭✭✭✭✭I can't even post it again.
Just test it out and report.
And please don't do anything less than v160
