Crystal Blast Thought

Sauce_Revolution

So I think Crystal Blast is a really cool looking spell, it's just a shame it's objectively worse than Fragments, so I had a thought on a potential way to make it more useful since taking the stun from Fragments hasn't really done much for it since sorcs have plenty of other places to get stuns from anyway.

What if instead of fragments getting the damage buff it did normal damage but with either a higher proc chance or a bigger cost reduction, then gave crystal blast the damage bonus instead? Maybe take away the splash damage and make it a decent single target spell instead, that way fragments could be a cheap, quick to cast spell but blast could be slower but stronger.

Just my two cents

dpencil1

There were lots of good suggestions offered on the PTS forum when the change to Frags/Blast was announced. Almost universally, it was agreed that the main draw-back of Blast is the cast time, or rather that it doesn't also have a chance to proc for an instant cast. Until that feature is part of the base skill, I don't see serious players using Blast no matter what ZOS does.

RebornV3x

They need to change the ability completely or make it a stam ability

Zer0oo

It is still useless and they can nerf cfrag all the way it will NOT make a garbage skill morph any better.

It does to little for having a cast time and cost too much. The cc is useless in pve and depending on the skill for the cc in pvp is not good either since it has a cast time, cost a lot and can very easy be dodged.

They should have left the cfrag morph as it was and give cblast the same proc mechanic and remove maybe the cc from the cblast morph.

Valykc

Frags should be single target, blast should be used for AoE splash damage and both should have a proc. Once they do that C.Blast will be viable if the overall AoE Damage is on par with the single target damage of frags.

Pinja

dpencil1 wrote: »

There were lots of good suggestions offered on the PTS forum when the change to Frags/Blast was announced. Almost universally, it was agreed that the main draw-back of Blast is the cast time, or rather that it doesn't also have a chance to proc for an instant cast. Until that feature is part of the base skill, I don't see serious players using Blast no matter what ZOS does.

Dude suggestions don't even matter any how u make anything individually viable on a sorcerer rat pixxie elfs are going to complain & we're going to get nerfed again both stam & magic.
Right now sorcs are either crafters or zerglings getting milked for their crystals.
Besides being used as an excuse to screw us over, the viability buff/excuse intentions for the morph were never made clear by them. Only the amount of problems made clear by the community. In sense they never had a working vision for it.

SoLooney

like what ppl are saying, c blast should also have a instant proc chance and deal aoe dmg.

but of course zos logic, instead of buffing a poor skill, they nerf the other morph. congrats, you now have 2 bad skills

Betsararie

Blast is complete and utter garbage. One of the worst morphs out there.

Revert frags and turn blast into something more viable.

Lexxypwns

How come blast isn’t the stam morph?

potirondb16_ESO

Sauce_Revolution wrote: »

So I think Crystal Blast is a really cool looking spell, it's just a shame it's objectively worse than Fragments, so I had a thought on a potential way to make it more useful since taking the stun from Fragments hasn't really done much for it since sorcs have plenty of other places to get stuns from anyway.

What if instead of fragments getting the damage buff it did normal damage but with either a higher proc chance or a bigger cost reduction, then gave crystal blast the damage bonus instead? Maybe take away the splash damage and make it a decent single target spell instead, that way fragments could be a cheap, quick to cast spell but blast could be slower but stronger.

Just my two cents

It could have work the same way simply by making frag cost lower if it procs and make blast cost increase if it did.

Apache_Kid

Pinja wrote: »

dpencil1 wrote: »

There were lots of good suggestions offered on the PTS forum when the change to Frags/Blast was announced. Almost universally, it was agreed that the main draw-back of Blast is the cast time, or rather that it doesn't also have a chance to proc for an instant cast. Until that feature is part of the base skill, I don't see serious players using Blast no matter what ZOS does.

Dude suggestions don't even matter any how u make anything individually viable on a sorcerer rat pixxie elfs are going to complain & we're going to get nerfed again both stam & magic.
Right now sorcs are either crafters or zerglings getting milked for their crystals.
Besides being used as an excuse to screw us over, the viability buff/excuse intentions for the morph were never made clear by them. Only the amount of problems made clear by the community. In sense they never had a working vision for it.

LOL

What???

pieratsos

So you want to nerf frags again to make blast look a little less useless?
Hmm, this looks familiar. Where have i seen this before.

GimpyPorcupine

Add Empower to C-Blast, so it behaves like Dark Flare but with aoe and lower primary target damage.