anyone ever stop playing a class or style becuase it was giving you bad habits?

Wing

for me it was magicka NB, started crutching on cloak, especially as a vampire, whether it be pvp or pve. (on the plus side I got amazingly good at counting to 4 in my head over and over)

for pve it was just cloak spamming my way dungeons or more specifically anything thief related, who needs legit sneak skills when you can just spam cloak all over the place (the only annoyance being the lantern guards)

for pvp the reasons are obvious, I was nearly perma cloaked when I was not casting something else or attacking someone, and then when I got agro it was cloak away, if they managed to stick on me somehow I would mistform around terrain or whatever till I could expertly. . .enter cloak XD

eventually had to let it go, ended up deleting the character, I knew it was giving me bad habits that no other class could compete with.

to this day I play DK, no mobility (a trait shared by only templar), no awesome heal like warden or templar, no amazing burst, no cloak, no fear, no execute, no bad habits. just trying to perfect skills

I do feel it was the right choice all this time later, I feel I have gotten much better.

LordSemaj

yup

For me, it was the magicka nightblade that I had to quit.

Dark elf adds flame damage, Eye of Flame was known as Eye of Lame, and proxy det was added gravy to a pool of stealth and teleports and Sap Essence. It was such a cancerous build full of bad habits that I had to put it down.

Nightfall12

yup

I stopped playing my Dk way back cuz i was cursing audibly too loudly.

Wing

yup

Nightfall12 wrote: »

I stopped playing my Dk way back cuz i was cursing audibly too loudly.

LOL

witchdoctor

For me, it was stamsorc.

Don't get me wrong, I love the toon (still play it), and have no issues with the class.

But, damn, hurricane + crit surge was just too much of a crutch!!

VaranisArano

witchdoctor wrote: »

For me, it was stamsorc.

Don't get me wrong, I love the toon (still play it), and have no issues with the class.

But, damn, hurricane + crit surge was just too much of a crutch!!

This. I love my stam sorcs, but the ease of leveling them up through overland content thanks to crit surge + hurricane has just about ruined me for any other class.

GeorgeBlack

I stopped playing ESO for the following issues:

1)StamDK(my class) does not feel like a dragon knight in PvP. It feels like I am playing a ShieldKnight. Every other class feels unique.
MagSorc feels like a mage
Stamsorc feels like a Hurricane
MagNB feels like darkness
StamNB feels like a rogue
MagPlar feels like a divine power
Stamplar feels like a soldier of light
I dont want to talk about wardens for reasons.
All the above classes can to some extended make builds with varius weapons. StamDK is only viable with a shield.
The only skill that makes a stamDK feel like a DragonKnight is dragon leap, which is a very glitched and unreliable skill.

2)In addition to stamDK not feeling like a dragonknight, the class is totaly depentable on gear. Personally I dislike OP gear and I believe that armor should not deal damage at all. So any nerf or buff to gear affects stamDK, since they dont have any class mechanisms for survivability or burst or mobility.

3)Zos keeps overlooking that stamDK has no PvP tools, yet they keep reducing the usefulness of its abilities, which makes no sense.

4)I dislike the PvE ladderboard system which forces people to make certain builds to achieve maximum scores. There are a million ways to change PvE competition and people can still play the class they like. Im also tired of hearing that since stamDKs can utilize best this boring playstyle: stack DoT and heavy atk, they should be trash in PvP to even it out.

So instead of playing ESO in which there are only a handful viable builds (more like 1 for each class), which rely on stats and not actions, instead of playing a game in which the abilities and actions of our characters look glitched and our screens are full of Green and Red circles, instead of playing rotations and not actions and reactions I went back to a 2003 mmorpg with numerous distinctive classes with unique abilities and open world PvP and dungeons and Raid Bosses, not riding simulations crown stacking and maelstorm arenas.

My feedback to Zos for their next product.

ak_pvp

I occasionally play my MDK like a sorc, (pertsorc) despite not having my sorc anymore.

FOO as a curse replacement. Essence burst as the fury (generally finished people off since its got a decent range and is undodgable) whip+power whip as pulse and frags respectively.

DieAlteHexe

nope

I'm such a craptacular player that I'll take any advantage I can find.

Ep1kMalware

yup

Magdps. My raid awareness goes to poop when I can just cast my noob button and double my life with little consequence.

Morgul667

nope

Nop

Ch4mpTW

yup

It was Nightblades for me. Both magicka and stamina variants. It’s a class that has a ton going for it, and practically babies you in a lot of situations. Whether it be PvE or PvP. And it was enabling me to become too comfortable in a lot of situations that I should’ve been more cautious with. Then once I played a different class, those same situations felt abnormally difficult. When in fact it wasn’t the situations I was in that was hard, but rather I had developed bad habits from playing an “easy mode” class for far too long.

Ep1kMalware

yup

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

It was Nightblades for me. Both magicka and stamina variants. It’s a class that has a ton going for it, and practically babies you in a lot of situations. Whether it be PvE or PvP. And it was enabling me to become too comfortable in a lot of situations that I should’ve been more cautious with. Then once I played a different class, those same situations felt abnormally difficult. When in fact it wasn’t the situations I was in that was hard, but rather I had developed bad habits from playing an “easy mode” class for far too long.

That's me with templars as soon as I log into my stamdk/sorc I become a floor magnet.

Slick_007

yup

i kept using blade of woe on the neighbours so i had to quit

RaddlemanNumber7

yup

Whenever any of my toons have turned into one-button wonders. The worst was with Bombard spam against trash mobs. My claymore man gravitated towards Brawler spam. I rebuilt those toons. Took away the offending skill.

Ragnarock41

I stopped playing stamDK for a few months after destroying 3 keyboards.

Friendly advice: don't play it. total garbage.

D0PAMINE

nope

Ragnarock41 wrote: »

I stopped playing stamDK for a few months after destroying 3 keyboards.

Friendly advice: don't play it. total garbage.

Ya that DK was the source of all your problems

Kram8ion

yup

In a sense yes playing stamblade for a couple of years(one toon) I switched to magblade and had to change the way I played totally and focus more on supporting in group environments

DRAGON_KILLER_HUNTER

Used to play a stygian/clever alchemist heavy attack inferno magblade back when heavies did 15-30k on players...it was so nasty

Vapirko

yup

Same with me, mag NB is heckin easy to crutch on. Soul assault, cloak, ranged play. Although I didn’t delete it, just went back to stam sorc and now play it occasionally just to mix things up. It’s still a very fun playstyle. I just did away with soul assault and try to use cc and snares to keep distance instead of cloaking all the time.

Ch4mpTW

yup

Seems to me that it’s becoming quite clear that Nightblades are in fact the crutch; easy mode class of ESO. Figured as much, as it is literally the go-to class for cheesing in PvE and PvP. Damn shame the devs have a major bias for such a low-ceiling class regarding skill.

Wing

yup

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Seems to me that it’s becoming quite clear that Nightblades are in fact the crutch; easy mode class of ESO. Figured as much, as it is literally the go-to class for cheesing in PvE and PvP. Damn shame the devs have a major bias for such a low-ceiling class regarding skill.

the reason there not known as bigger offenders is because they lack any source of end game presence like trials (many a graph puts them WAY behind other classes as far as participation goes)

but don't worry the devs are actively and confirmed to be working on how to make their sneaky playstyle work in end game activities like trials

badmojo

nope

I started at launch playing a stamina nb, so everything after that seems like easy mode.Stamina nb might sound okay now, but at launch it was like playing naked.

Ragnarock41

badmojo wrote: »

I started at launch playing a stamina nb, so everything after that seems like easy mode.Stamina nb might sound okay now, but at launch it was like playing naked.

launch stamblade was really playing on hard mode. I remember making one and getting destroyed in PvP by god mode Dks.

Funny how its the opposite now.

SirAndy

nope

Wing wrote: »

... NB ... cloak ... cloak ... cloak ... cloaked ... cloak ... cloak ... cloak

Maybe this could have been avoided if you had thought about not using cloak on your NB.

My Stambalde has never used cloak once (!) and i started that character a few weeks after PC launch as my 4th main ...

Mettaricana

nope

Stam sorc is my main and fave class drawback to it is it ruined every other dps class due to lack of synergy passives lack of self heals lack of damage etc everything else needed vigor or pots to crutch them. Kinda what killed me on wardens aside from them being terrible anyway they get lotus and it just sucks its like it wants to be crit surge but fails at it.

Dk i to this day cannot play the lousy costly dragon blood heals on a stamina dk and the grond to get vigor and caltrops to fill the dot and self heals hole is just aggrivating.

Same issue with my templar and nb it just doesnt compare its like dmg biff and crit heal rolled into one skill and dot def buff aoe also look at say warden need lotus netch just to get a half way crit surge, and no one else has that def buff dot aoe

Reverb

yup

Wardens, both mag and stam. Both rotations gave me really bad habits that started sneaking into other characters. And they don't do enough damage to be worth it, so they had to be shelved.

zyk

PVE.

Whenever I've focused on PVE content for different reasons and improve my rotations, I find I become more stationary and less focused and reactive. My mind wanders. It really hurts my PVP playstyle which is usually far more dynamic and requires constant focus in combat situations.

Silver_Strider

yup

I stopped playing my DK because I was always tanking on them and I just had to break that tanking habit.

davey1107

My magsorc has a spell that lets me know when someone is writing a post to be more of a sanctimonious jerk than to actually inform. But I wouldn’t give him up over that...it’s an essential class skill and so I embrace his individuality.

Wing

yup

badmojo wrote: »

I started at launch playing a stamina nb, so everything after that seems like easy mode.Stamina nb might sound okay now, but at launch it was like playing naked.

totally agree, up till 1.5-1.6 stamina was garbage for the most part, and stamina NB had NO heal, this was pre vigor days. agree that it was garbage.