[EDIT] Latest details from the PTS:
- The pull does NOT require a double cast—players are automatically pulled when hit
- Targets that are pulled are not granted CC immunity (although this is likely a bug and will be patched)
Fighters Guild
- Silver Leash (Silver Bolt morph): This ability will now fire a bolt that, upon hitting and damaging an enemy, will instantly pull them toward you and apply a snare on them.
Source (CC-immunity bug):
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/408257/silver-leash-changes
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Original post below:
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As listed on Alcast's website (he was one of the Summerset playtesters who was recently at ZOS HQ):
Silver Leash
- This now pulls targets to you (Like Chains do), still costs Stamina.
Basically, every single player in a zerg will now have the ability to completely nullify one of the most important tools when fighting outnumbered—positioning—pulling hapless solo players to an inevitable death at the hands of the 23 other group members huddled around them.
Sure, it takes-up a spot on their bars that could be used for another important skill... but as with all things zergy, any deficiencies in the individual's build gets compensated for by the multitude of allies around them. It disproportionately benefits the zerg playstyle.
I can understand this change in the PvE context—making non-DK tanks more competitive by giving them an alternative to chains (although this also increases homogeneity, so whether it's a net-positive change is undecided).
But it seems a really poorly though-out decision concerning PvP balance. Perhaps make it only work on NPCs, please?
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P.S.
It's been mentioned in the comments that DK chains currently fulfill this function. I believe everyone here is well aware of that fact, and that the nature of this problem is one of scale. When you take a skill from one class (that is under-represented in large scale PvP) and make it accessible to every snipe-spamming Nightblade and block-casting healbot in Cyrodiil, you are ostensibly going to see a substantial rise in its prevalence. Don't be disingenuous.
Edited by TheYKcid on April 20, 2018 9:26PM
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