Magicka detionation

notyuu

After busting my ass off on my healer I was finally able to get alliance war to rank 7, and thus gained access t magicka detonation, and I've got only one thing to say

WHAT THE ***

it's the top end assault skill from the PvP tree [not counting the ulitmate] and yet it between the long cast, moderate cost, low damage, intriptubility and coutdown before detinating...I have to wonder...what is the point of this skill? even agsaint large groups it underproforms horribly

Akinos

Just wait till you morph it and get prox detonation. It's much better.

notyuu

Akinos wrote: »

Just wait till you morph it and get prox detonation. It's much better.

got it's morph...fun fact, the prox det morph does about 200 less damage than the normal version of the power...might not sound like much of a loss, but when the power caps out at 6.1K normally.. that's a sizeable chunk of the powers...well..power going kapoof

Waffennacht

It's cuz it got nerfed. The damage use to be double with less % per enemy in range.

Was at one point even PvE viable!

Oh nerfs, how they destroy diversity

Minno

Waffennacht wrote: »

It's cuz it got nerfed. The damage use to be double with less % per enemy in range.

Was at one point even PvE viable!

Oh nerfs, how they destroy diversity

It was nerfed because it was replacing single target burst skills. Look at all the videos when this skill came out. Everyone and their mother were using it in 1v1 fights lol.

But like classic zos, they also nerfed the AOE DMG hard and thus we have the skill today. The DMG on the target cap needs to be increased significantly to promote it being large scale combat ability.

Waffennacht

Minno wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

It's cuz it got nerfed. The damage use to be double with less % per enemy in range.

Was at one point even PvE viable!

Oh nerfs, how they destroy diversity

It was nerfed because it was replacing single target burst skills. Look at all the videos when this skill came out. Everyone and their mother were using it in 1v1 fights lol.

But like classic zos, they also nerfed the AOE DMG hard and thus we have the skill today. The DMG on the target cap needs to be increased significantly to promote it being large scale combat ability.

Lol I remember 20k 1v1 hits, but like you said, classic ZoS over nerfed.

CatchMeTrolling

It’ll be better next patch against bigger groups

bardx86

Thing is it was super fun skill to put in the PVP rotation. It had a cast time and when you got it off and ill quote worbel "it felt awesome",

Nemeliom

The skill alone may underperform. But time it with other skills/sets and you have a bomb.

techprince

Delay is too long.

notyuu

Nemeliom wrote: »

The skill alone may underperform. But time it with other skills/sets and you have a bomb.

that would be true IF it didn't have cast time AND a delay before dealing damage..one or the other would be fine..but both really puts it in the "needs uber damage to be consdered" boat..and of course, it lacks that..meaning the slow is better spent on other skills...hell, the damage morph on the flare skill does more than this piece of junk.

Minalan

They nerfed it to stop proxy det healer ball groups running around and hitting solo players with like 5-10 proxy dets simultaneously. Again and again.

They nerfed it. Good riddance. We were happy with people using just dawnbreaker and negate.

Then ZOS characteristically forgot everything they ever learned and introduced: the destruction staff ultimate. We WANTED a small, short burst AOE - basically a magical dawnbreaker. We got Proxy Det Zerg Meta 2.0.