Stone Giant and Flames of Oblivion

MaxwellC

Stone Giant use to be a phyiscal damaging ability until it was changed to a Magicka. I had said before that instead of making it into a Magicka they could give it a stamina morph since it's counterpart is already magicka. I believe this ability would be better off as a stamina damaging ability and it should have been IMO.

Flames of Oblivion still costs Magicka which isn't the main problem but this ability is to cater to those who use weapons as it gives a weapon crit increase while slotted but why not make it back to what it used to be. It used to be an AoE DoT which was what you see now in the maelstrom arenas mini boss on the engine guardian round. I say it's time for that ability to come back and to scale off of max resource (so magicka can benefit from it slightly too). This ability has been an all time favorite of mine and was one of the main reasons I picked/stuck with the DragonKnight class.

Please @ZOS_Finn @Wrobel @ZOS_GinaBruno Consider my suggestions for the stamina re-balance, I believe these changes are reasonable.

Shadesofkin

MaxwellCrystal wrote: »

Stone Giant use to be a phyiscal damaging ability until it was changed to a Magicka. I had said before that instead of making it into a Magicka they could give it a stamina morph since it's counterpart is already magicka. I believe this ability would be better off as a stamina damaging ability and it should have been IMO.

Flames of Oblivion still costs Magicka which isn't the main problem but this ability is to cater to those who use weapons as it gives a weapon crit increase while slotted but why not make it back to what it used to be. It used to be an AoE DoT which was what you see now in the maelstrom arenas mini boss on the engine guardian round. I say it's time for that ability to come back and to scale off of max resource (so magicka can benefit from it slightly too). This ability has been an all time favorite of mine and was one of the main reasons I picked/stuck with the DragonKnight class.

Please @ZOS_Finn @Wrobel @ZOS_GinaBruno Consider my suggestions for the stamina re-balance, I believe these changes are reasonable.

Good god no.

As an AOE dot that slowly destroyed your magicka pool it was an awful ability, it gains far greater use now, just having it slotted does the work it needs to.

MaxwellC

Ok and that's the point it's slotted it provides exactly what it needs but when activated it damages enemies in an area + provides a DoT? This is a perfect alternative for caltrops imo.

Arthg

MaxwellCrystal wrote: »

Stone Giant use to be a phyiscal damaging ability until it was changed to a Magicka. I had said before that instead of making it into a Magicka they could give it a stamina morph since it's counterpart is already magicka. I believe this ability would be better off as a stamina damaging ability and it should have been IMO.

Please, no!

Stone giant is a cheap magicka dump and a cheap ranged CC that restores stamina.
As a stam DK, I strongly support NOT changing anything to this great ability.

MaxwellC

You do realize you need a target to use it to restore stamina right? Without light armor or cost reduction it's 2.9k which is literally close to fossilize.

There needs to be a ranged CC for this class that's stamina based. As a stam DK myself I don't see how this skill is viable to use especially when you're not in combat in terms of stamina return.