Changes to Armor Skill Line Abilities

Thestephenmcraeub17_ESO

I welcome the change implemented in armor skill line abilities. I think it gives players more of a weighted choice when determining what kind of armor to wear for different situations (but mostly, I'm just glad heavy armor PvPers won't be popping shuffle every second). However, I don't think the change has done enough. Looking at the morph options of the skills (I'll use Annulment as my example, since I main a magicka DPS character), the morphs now don't really make sense. Since we are now required to wear 5 pieces of the armor to activate the skill, it seems to me that increasing the effect based on how many pieces you are wearing doesn't make sense. If anything, it boils your options down to one of two things - 1) 3-6% more of whatever the effect is (in this case, a 3-6% bigger damage shield), or 2) not that. The only difference is that I will either be wearing 5 pieces of light armor (to use the skill in the first place), 6 pieces, or 7 pieces. The latter two would be in most player's case, as near endgame, most people run undaunted passives and 5-1-1 armor setups for 6% more resource pools. And that leaves the morphs of the armor skills feeling underwhelming. By wearing 5 pieces, we've already made our choice of what skill will be available to us. Now there needs to be a payoff. I think the morphs need to be made more interesting, and utilize an aspect of our character design outside of wearing 5+ pieces of the required armor type.

Koolio

Agreed

SaintSubwayy

jeah was somehow kinda wierd anyways... I cannot use a DW ability on my Bow bar, so why should I be able to use Shuffle when in Heavy Armor. #NoSense xD

Good chance actually!

Koolio

SaintSubwayy wrote: »

jeah was somehow kinda wierd anyways... I cannot use a DW ability on my Bow bar, so why should I be able to use Shuffle when in Heavy Armor. #NoSense xD

Good chance actually!

The change isn't what he's talking about.

Dampen Magic "annulment morph"

Increase shield strength by 3% for each piece of light armor equipped.

I now have 5 light armor to use annulment. What the real benefit of Dampen over harness

Same goes for shuffle

Increase snare immunity for each piece of medium armor equipped.

I have to wear 5 for the move

Morphs should be readjusted for the change. Which I'm all for.