Volley's Scorched Earth Morph/Change To Poison?

MrTarkanian48

Bow has several decent physical damage morphs which have been used with the current CP system (i.e. Bombard, Focused Aim). Their poison morphs (Acid Spray, Lethal Arrow) have long since been forgotten since Poison had been buffed with Thaumaturge as opposed to Mighty.

Now with Poison falling under Mighty in the CP tree these morphs will be much more viable and provide people with useful alternatives.

The one outlier now will be Volley and its morphs. Arrow Barrage is Physical Damage with increased range and radius. Scorched Earth is shorter range/radius with Flame/Elemental damage.

It is unlikely that many stamina builds will have any reason to spec into Elemental Expert CP. Also Magicka users do not utilize bow. Wouldn't it make sense to change thismorph to Poison vs Flame. The only class that may benefit from the fire morph maybe a Dunmer Stam DK, otherwise this morph will most likely be neglected.

I know there are probably 50 skills in the game that don't synergize well on certain builds because they do "x" damage. But maybe this isn't to hard of a fix?

RoyJade

I love scorched earth animation, but it would be indeed better if it synergize with mighty instead of ele expert.

Emma_Overload

Just for the sake of variety, maybe they should make it disease based damage. You'd still get the buff from the Mighty CP that way.

Toc de Malsvi

I support this message, volley needs a change to bring it in line with the rest of the bow morphs and CP stars, as it stands virtually no one uses Scorched Earth beyond early game play as players can quickly see how un-beneficial Scorched Earth actually is.

I would like to add though that currently volley is only a PVE spell and does not have a very good radius regardless of morph. If they changed Arrow barrage to have a radius akin to Caltrop's it would be a much more attractive option even in PVP and they could change Scorched Earth to Desiccated Ground and make it disease damage with the current radius of Arrow Barrage.

Morphine

I really like the idea. So bumping the thread up.

Valrien

Nah, it makes it better for DKs (World in Fire). Every other class uses volley, do uses scorch. Would be fine if they change Stam dk to poison like they talked about.

AfkNinja

Valrien wrote: »

Nah, it makes it better for DKs (World in Fire). Every other class uses volley, do uses scorch. Would be fine if they change Stam dk to poison like they talked about.

In the context of the actual skill line poison makes much more sense. All the skills in Bow have poison components EXCEPT volley, makes no sense even if the fire looks cool.

Night_Child

Here's a thought: They could also change at least one (if not more than one) other bow abilities to do flame damage, i.e. Magnum Shot. Keep Scorched Earth as Fire damage and switch Arrow Barrage to do poison damage since it already does physical damage and both physical & poison scale off Mighty under the Mage's constellation. Aside from destruction staff and being a Dragonknight, what else provides a significant amount of flame damage? The element of fire is not as broad as many would like to think...unless I'm overlooking something. I see a lot of magic damage, physical damage, and even the bow skill line has a full poison arsenal as is. Destruction staff can actually go 3 ways (not just flame) and the game for some reason holds prejudice to flame and frost when it comes to the mage's pets. Even the pets that mages summon are magic/shock pets. Like I said though...it's just a thought.

Birdovic

Emma_Overload wrote: »

Just for the sake of variety, maybe they should make it disease based damage. You'd still get the buff from the Mighty CP that way.

I agree with this.

GreenSoup2HoT

Emma_Overload wrote: »

Just for the sake of variety, maybe they should make it disease based damage. You'd still get the buff from the Mighty CP that way.

Poison tipped arrows make more sense then Disease tipped one's. Also i hate them Bosmer's.

driosketch

I mean, flaming arrows are a thing. It just seems , especially since the the changes to the constellations a few updates back, they are dividing things more and more between two categories of resource+damage type. Style and flavor are being pushed aside in favor of mechanics.

MrTarkanian48

They fixed this issue with the DB patch. Scorched Earth has been changed to Endless Hail and does Physical Damage. Its not Poison or Disease, but it scales with Mighty CP now which is all I cared about.

Toc de Malsvi

driosketch wrote: »

I mean, flaming arrows are a thing. It just seems , especially since the the changes to the constellations a few updates back, they are dividing things more and more between two categories of resource+damage type. Style and flavor are being pushed aside in favor of mechanics.

It would be really cool if they used Igneous Weapons from the DK to somehow add a fire effect on weapons. The CP scaling issue is really taking away from the cool factor of fiery Arrows.