Equilibrium Nerf

Minalan

Looks like Sorcs won't be using this anymore to sustain and proc pirate skeleton.

Mages Guild
Equilibrium:
This ability and its morphs’ Health to Magicka trade value is now determined by your character level, instead of scaling with your Max Health; it restores 3000 Magicka for 6000 Health at Rank IV.
This ability and its morphs now reduce all of your healing done and damage shields you create by 50% for 4 seconds, instead of preventing you from healing yourself.

Not unless you like half shields. Nerf sorc again? Challenge accepted!

Waffennacht

I blame @lexxypwns

THEDKEXPERIENCE

I still really don't understand why anyone uses this. It's basically a suicide button as far as I can tell.

rusila22

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

I still really don't understand why anyone uses this. It's basically a suicide button as far as I can tell.

yes in solo but not in party/raid

THEDKEXPERIENCE

rusila22 wrote: »

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

I still really don't understand why anyone uses this. It's basically a suicide button as far as I can tell.

yes in solo but not in party/raid

Ok cool, that I get. I'm mostly a soloer. Even as someone with a clinical Magicka addiction I could never go with it. The 2% extra Magicka wasn't worth killing my toon when I meant to hit breath of life or something. Haha.

Minalan

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

I still really don't understand why anyone uses this. It's basically a suicide button as far as I can tell.

Because
1. You used to get much more Magicka for shields, and the health comes back with degeneration, blood magic, or surge. A few K health doesn't matter if your shields are up.

2. The health damage proc'ed pirate skeleton.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Minalan wrote: »

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

I still really don't understand why anyone uses this. It's basically a suicide button as far as I can tell.

Because
1. You used to get much more Magicka for shields, and the health comes back with degeneration, blood magic, or surge. A few K health doesn't matter if your shields are up.

2. The health damage proc'ed pirate skeleton.

Gotcha! That actually makes a reasonable amount of sense. Thanks!

Lexxypwns

RIP

br0steen

You can now self heal after using it though? So it's a very very slight buff for stamsorcs lol.

Ashamray

This time pvp was nerfed due to pve
maxHP DK in trial gave too strong shields.

Anti_Virus

I thought it was nerfed because of HP stacking DKs.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

Minalan wrote: »

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

I still really don't understand why anyone uses this. It's basically a suicide button as far as I can tell.

Because
1. You used to get much more Magicka for shields, and the health comes back with degeneration, blood magic, or surge. A few K health doesn't matter if your shields are up.

2. The health damage proc'ed pirate skeleton.

Gotcha! That actually makes a reasonable amount of sense. Thanks!

You can't kill yourself, the skill won't work if you have less then the amount of health it says, ie now 6k without​ passives​ and 5.1k health with the passives, the tooltip is wrong and has always been wrong. I use it all the time on my magdk and magnb, balance on my magdk and spell sym on my magnb, don't need it on my magsorc cuase of dark conversion. great skill to keep the magic coming in between trash fights and while you need it boss fights.

I see this in PvP part of the forums, PvP use would be quite limited, I suppose you could use it to death port easy.

kkravaritieb17_ESO

It is so funny though after some testing yesterday we realized that the new equilibrium reduces 50% healing received of the caster and not 50% healing done. Zenimax at its best again

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

Minalan wrote: »

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

I still really don't understand why anyone uses this. It's basically a suicide button as far as I can tell.

Because
1. You used to get much more Magicka for shields, and the health comes back with degeneration, blood magic, or surge. A few K health doesn't matter if your shields are up.

2. The health damage proc'ed pirate skeleton.

Gotcha! That actually makes a reasonable amount of sense. Thanks!

You can't kill yourself, the skill won't work if you have less then the amount of health it says, ie now 6k without​ passives​ and 5.1k health with the passives, the tooltip is wrong and has always been wrong. I use it all the time on my magdk and magnb, balance on my magdk and spell sym on my magnb, don't need it on my magsorc cuase of dark conversion. great skill to keep the magic coming in between trash fights and while you need it boss fights.

I see this in PvP part of the forums, PvP use would be quite limited, I suppose you could use it to death port easy.

How about "assisted suicide button"? The only time I ever used it I hit it at the wrong time and instantly put myself into execution range. Haha.

NightbladeMechanics

Yea this is a PvE DK tank nerf more than a PvP nerf. Apparently ZOS doesn't think Equilibrium > Igneous Shield > Equilibrium > Igneous Shield > Equilibrium > ... is very engaging gameplay.

Waffennacht

NightbladeMechanics wrote: »

Yea this is a PvE DK tank nerf more than a PvP nerf. Apparently ZOS doesn't think Equilibrium > Igneous Shield > Equilibrium > Igneous Shield > Equilibrium > ... is very engaging gameplay.

But ironically has been in game for years, only the nerfs provided the motivation to discover it. So a logical assertion could be made that the nerfs actually deteriorated DK tank game play into equilibrium igneous combo

Father_X_Zombie

I didn't know people used this lol

IxSTALKERxI

NightbladeMechanics wrote: »

Yea this is a PvE DK tank nerf more than a PvP nerf. Apparently ZOS doesn't think Equilibrium > Igneous Shield > Equilibrium > Igneous Shield > Equilibrium > ... is very engaging gameplay.

Had players running this build in pvp groups for over 2 years, about time zos caught on.

Gorthax

Troll king.......nuff said lololol wonder how it plays with that