Wrecking Blow ☑ Rekt

IcyDeadPeople

Uppercut: This ability and the Wrecking Blow morph no longer knockback and stun enemies hit.
Note: Wrecking Blow will continue to add the Major Empower buff to your next attack as a morph effect.
Dizzying Swing will no longer apply the Minor Maim debuff to enemies hit; instead, it will add a knockback and stun to the ability.

What do you think about this change to Uppercut / Wrecking Blow?

Seems like a positive thing overall, should lead to a bit more variety among stamina builds, no?

Firerock2

About time.

susmitds

That makes Surprise Attack probably the absolute best stamina attack.

Forestd16b14_ESO

Uh well they nerf WB which was longer over do but now every one will just use DS cause it has the knock back and stun.

ADarklore

Well, how I play with my Stamina builds... and since I only solo PvE... I typically only spam WB against bosses and they are immune to CC anyway, but I will definitely miss the animation of sending people flying!

D0ntevenL1ft

Hard for some builds to run other abilities because they simply have no choice. Wont see much change considering a lot of the stam builds HAVE to use wrecking blow not simply because they want too.

Ahzek

Why do they ruin my dizzying swing now ? I was special ...

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

I knew after all the whining about it on the forums they would nerf wrecking blow. So I switched to dual wield months ago.

Bigevilpeter

Yeah so all those nerds would stop spamming WB and start using other skills!!

A much needed change!!

mb10

FINALLY!

WILL SOME OF YOU BE ABLE TO USE SKILL NOW IN PVP?


WE WILL SOON FIND OUT

UltimaJoe777

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Uh well they nerf WB which was longer over do but now every one will just use DS cause it has the knock back and stun.

But without the Empower.

Forestd16b14_ESO

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Uh well they nerf WB which was longer over do but now every one will just use DS cause it has the knock back and stun.

But without the Empower.

And ??? I think most players preferred the CC over the boost to next attack power.

ADarklore

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Uh well they nerf WB which was longer over do but now every one will just use DS cause it has the knock back and stun.

But without the Empower.

And ??? I think most players preferred the CC over the boost to next attack power.

I don't know... spamming WB with Empower... and for PvE, bosses have CC immunity anyway... so DS would be less attractive to those who only use WB primarily for boss battles.

Forestd16b14_ESO

ADarklore wrote: »

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Uh well they nerf WB which was longer over do but now every one will just use DS cause it has the knock back and stun.

But without the Empower.

And ??? I think most players preferred the CC over the boost to next attack power.

I don't know... spamming WB with Empower... and for PvE, bosses have CC immunity anyway... so DS would be less attractive to those who only use WB primarily for boss battles.

Eh all I know is if there's less WB spam then the nerf gun job is done.

jcasini222ub17_ESO

I think its more a tacit admission that the cc system is easier to fix by removing cc's from abilities. I suggested this awhile ago.

Cinbri

Broken staff finally getting attention.

IcyDeadPeople

jcasini222ub17_ESO wrote: »

I think its more a tacit admission that the cc system is easier to fix by removing cc's from abilities. I suggested this awhile ago.

Are you talking about the occasional unbreakable CC?

Didn't notice this happening with WB, compared to Fear.

zZzleepyhead

Fab-u-taste.

TheRubiksCube

Seems fair to me that it won't have a knockback, but this change won't make stam DKs or Stam sorcs stop using WB.

Yusuf

just gonna change the morph to dizzying swing then

Suru

It was a loaded ability. Empower itself, buggy CC and proc's I believe exploite cpr passive which increases damage by 10% to CC'd, immobilized and snared targets. Now two of those are gone.

Van_0S

Reverse slice + dizzling swing is the new WD. No! better than WD!

Necrelios

Yeah, well honestly this comes as no surprise. I rarely used this ability on my TH bar anyways other than for PvE. The wind-up time made it too unpredictable in lagrodiil but when you did finally connect with somebody -- seeing them go flying through the air did somewhat add to that undeserved sense of accomplishment, I'll admit.

UltimaJoe777

Necrelios wrote: »

Yeah, well honestly this comes as no surprise. I rarely used this ability on my TH bar anyways other than for PvE. The wind-up time made it too unpredictable in lagrodiil but when you did finally connect with somebody -- seeing them go flying through the air did somewhat add to that undeserved sense of accomplishment, I'll admit.

Don't beat around the bush, just admit you found it hilarious

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

Ill still use wrecking blow in PVE. I can still sneak up and one shot almost anything with it as far as trash mobs.

waterfairy

Now I hate the PvP people who have whined about this to the point of them changing it, this was my favorite attack skill with 2 handers and I have 3 of them.

This patch is going to greatly kill my joy with this game....thanks for sucking against other players and ruining my fun.

jcasini222ub17_ESO

@IcyDeadPeople I would just call it more weird cc. I've noticed it with both wb and fear, really anything that cc's or breaks cc can go haywire in lag methinks. I've been honestly wondering for awhile now since the tg bugs thread that if lag was eliminated the majority of skill complaints would go radically down.

Also by elminating the knock through air they just stopped wb from procing fdu which was always hilarious. There were times I sprinted off hills around wb users just to avoid the fall damage unicorn, funniest death recaps in cyrodiil.

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

Am I the only one against all these nerfs?

People singing to the heavens for this yet no offence to you but if you're getting killed by a WB spammer then: "git gud scrub"

clayandaudrey_ESO

I'd like to buy an lol button please.

daswahnsinn

I'll still use WB but I'll use it like I did before, cast the ability and have the other player dodge it or lag out which ever happens first. I don't think any meta will change too much, so stam builds will still have it in the rotation.

Recremen

So now there's the PvE morph which gives Major Empower and a PvP morph which gives most stamina users their only in-resource hard CC. I thought they specifically weren't going to have separate PvE and PvP abilities? Either way, I don't like this change one bit. It would have been better to give the other morph something useful, now it's a blanket nerf in a patch where stamina was supposed to be brought back in line with Magicka. At least I have all the Ancestor Silk I'll need to reroll Magicka, and all in my convenient Crafting Bag! (no, really, gods bless the Crafting Bag, it holds many mysteries)