Ouch... DKs took it hard!

UltimaJoe777

In my opinion anyway.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Obsidian Shield: Reduced the duration of this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 20 seconds.

Of course I could be mistaken and this won't matter at all, but we'll see...

Praeficere

Because a 6k shield is going to last longer than 6 seconds in combat

IcyDeadPeople

Ah, I was just planning to make a DK healer using the Trinimac's Valor set.

Ampnode

It's an unnecessary change, but it won't affect much. Most of us who used this ability only used it for the Major Mending. The shield itself is poop.

MikeB

Welcome to Templar shields. Sorc Ward also got this treatment.

Tryxus

I actually nicknamed Obsidian Shield "The Shield of Paper"

psychotic13

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

In my opinion anyway.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Obsidian Shield: Reduced the duration of this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 20 seconds.

Of course I could be mistaken and this won't matter at all, but we'll see...

Yeah sorcs hardened ward got nerfed to 6 seconds too, and they've basically turned annulment into hardened ward aswell cause now it prevents physical and magic damage but that's also been dropped to 6 seconds.

Me no like these changes.

tpanisiakb16_ESO

If you're a tank, you're usually running shield for the group buff, healing buff, and the magicka to stamina conversion. Obsidian Shield as a "shield" to ward ally's was never used for it since it was small potatoes to begin with. You ran it for utility, everything should be good still.

UltimaJoe777

psychotic13 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

In my opinion anyway.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Obsidian Shield: Reduced the duration of this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 20 seconds.

Of course I could be mistaken and this won't matter at all, but we'll see...

Yeah sorcs hardened ward got nerfed to 6 seconds too, and they've basically turned annulment into hardened ward aswell cause now it prevents physical and magic damage but that's also been dropped to 6 seconds.

Me no like these changes.

Actually this is good for me. Means I did good to stick with putting Annulment AND Conjured Ward on my mage

psychotic13

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

psychotic13 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

In my opinion anyway.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Obsidian Shield: Reduced the duration of this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 20 seconds.

Of course I could be mistaken and this won't matter at all, but we'll see...

Yeah sorcs hardened ward got nerfed to 6 seconds too, and they've basically turned annulment into hardened ward aswell cause now it prevents physical and magic damage but that's also been dropped to 6 seconds.

Me no like these changes.

Actually this is good for me. Means I did good to stick with putting Annulment AND Conjured Ward on my mage

Meh not really, they're going to have to be reapplied a lot, and that means a lot more bar swapping and lowering your dps.

UltimaJoe777

psychotic13 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

psychotic13 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

In my opinion anyway.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Obsidian Shield: Reduced the duration of this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 20 seconds.

Of course I could be mistaken and this won't matter at all, but we'll see...

Yeah sorcs hardened ward got nerfed to 6 seconds too, and they've basically turned annulment into hardened ward aswell cause now it prevents physical and magic damage but that's also been dropped to 6 seconds.

Me no like these changes.

Actually this is good for me. Means I did good to stick with putting Annulment AND Conjured Ward on my mage

Meh not really, they're going to have to be reapplied a lot, and that means a lot more bar swapping and lowering your dps.

I use them as need be, and I'm not astranged to backing down to swap bars for a moment.

psychotic13

But you must understand that having to swap 3 times instead of 1 is going to lower your damage also.

sparafucilsarwb17_ESO

psychotic13 wrote: »

But you must understand that having to swap 3 times instead of 1 is going to lower your damage also.

Playing with a higher latency will cause problems with all the swapping back and forth. I already try to avoid doing that too much as weapon swap is really clunky for me.

Glaiceana

Well that's a shame I'd just put a bunch of points into Bastion to help this work better for me, but I guess I've got a while yet before this goes live

Tryxus

Glaiceana wrote: »

Well that's a shame I'd just put a bunch of points into Bastion to help this work better for me, but I guess I've got a while yet before this goes live

Guess Hardy's a bit more tempting now, eh?

Tylersoh

I only use it for the heal

EdmundTowers

I have this on my fighting bar. Leap into the zerg and swing away while topping myself of with this and vigor every few seconds. It already did its job in less than 6 seconds so it really doesnt affect my DK much.

If you had it on your backbar. Well this will suck.

Mojmir

obsidian shield was waste to begin with,never used it compared to spiked armor

NewBlacksmurf

Seems all shields dropped to 6 secs....right?
But my big observation is why are they still dragon Knights. Poison changes seem to make them some other name.....I've not read of poison born in TES lore so I felt the dragon Knights related to dragon born (fire of akatosh) and that type of lore.

I'm no lore master tho by any stretch....just seems dragon should be replaced with "X" Knight.
X could be:
-Disease
-Poinson
-Venom
-Snake

UltimaJoe777

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Seems all shields dropped to 6 secs....right?

Class-based yeah.

NewBlacksmurf

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Seems all shields dropped to 6 secs....right?

Class-based yeah.

See my edit too

UltimaJoe777

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Seems all shields dropped to 6 secs....right?

Class-based yeah.

See my edit too

I see it

Brrrofski

Surely people only use it for major mending and stam regen?

The shield itself is kinda useless

Necrelios

Honestly you probably won't even notice this change because the shield was only good for around 5400 damage or something like that anyways. Of course you can cut that by 50% if you're in Cyrodiil. The odds of this shield ever lasting 20 seconds in the first place? Highly improbable.

DKsUnite

not many of you noticed frag shield change.... 30% damage increase on something that already tooltips like 3.6-4k and isnt effected by the 50% cyrodiil damage debuff. Means its going to like 5k damage when you spam a defensive ability. Its going to be pretty nice.

UltimaJoe777

DKsUnite wrote: »

not many of you noticed frag shield change.... 30% damage increase on something that already tooltips like 3.6-4k and isnt effected by the 50% cyrodiil damage debuff. Means its going to like 5k damage when you spam a defensive ability. Its going to be pretty nice.

Well we were thinking more along the lines of Obsidian Shield used for its base purpose but then again the duration loss doesn't really impact Frag if you can just spam it to trigger the explosion.

NewBlacksmurf

DKsUnite wrote: »

not many of you noticed frag shield change.... 30% damage increase on something that already tooltips like 3.6-4k and isnt effected by the 50% cyrodiil damage debuff. Means its going to like 5k damage when you spam a defensive ability. Its going to be pretty nice.

But....it doesn't work (on console at least) so we don't use it at all anymore.

waterfairy

psychotic13 wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

In my opinion anyway.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Obsidian Shield: Reduced the duration of this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 20 seconds.

Of course I could be mistaken and this won't matter at all, but we'll see...

Yeah sorcs hardened ward got nerfed to 6 seconds too, and they've basically turned annulment into hardened ward aswell cause now it prevents physical and magic damage but that's also been dropped to 6 seconds.

Me no like these changes.

I'm so sick of these nerfs, they really need to have PvP only skill adjustments and leave my PvE builds alone.

zZzleepyhead

I'm hoping this thread is all sarcasm, but I'm assuming that isn't the case.

I need to take a forum hiatus

Pirhana7_ESO

over all Dks got some love, poison dots will hit alot harder than fire

DKsUnite

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

DKsUnite wrote: »

not many of you noticed frag shield change.... 30% damage increase on something that already tooltips like 3.6-4k and isnt effected by the 50% cyrodiil damage debuff. Means its going to like 5k damage when you spam a defensive ability. Its going to be pretty nice.

But....it doesn't work (on console at least) so we don't use it at all anymore.

it works on PC just fine?