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Medium needs OS ability not a casted buff
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The problem with making the medium armor skill give AOE damage reduction is;
1) that it is redundant for DW. Redundancy is fine when it comes to class/weapon skills or class/armor as the idea is that if you're class doesn't have it then weapon or armor skill lines do. But the same doesn't need to apply to weapon and armor skills. For example the NB ability could get the AOE reduction but the medium armor skill should be different. Plus if medium armor's problems could be this easily solved then everyone would be running blade cloak already and it would be on par with heavy and light.
2) disproportionately affects certain classes in pvp. Such as Jabs/sweeps of templars and shalks of wardens while leaving the already cancerous heroic strike/suprise attack and bleed meta alone.
3) it doesn't give medium armor a reactive counter to mechanics or burst. Shields give Mag/light armor this ability and blocking does for tanky block builds.
So yes make major evasion function differently than it does now but make it reactive, worth the cast, not rng based, and useful in more situations. I think something like 2-3 sec where you only receive glancing blows from attacks caping damage at a certain percentage of your health per attack. High cost so it's not spammable and the duration is just speculation. Long enough to be effective as an OS button but too short to weave mindlessly in a rotation.
1) that it is redundant for DW. Redundancy is fine when it comes to class/weapon skills or class/armor as the idea is that if you're class doesn't have it then weapon or armor skill lines do. But the same doesn't need to apply to weapon and armor skills. For example the NB ability could get the AOE reduction but the medium armor skill should be different. Plus if medium armor's problems could be this easily solved then everyone would be running blade cloak already and it would be on par with heavy and light.
2) disproportionately affects certain classes in pvp. Such as Jabs/sweeps of templars and shalks of wardens while leaving the already cancerous heroic strike/suprise attack and bleed meta alone.
3) it doesn't give medium armor a reactive counter to mechanics or burst. Shields give Mag/light armor this ability and blocking does for tanky block builds.
So yes make major evasion function differently than it does now but make it reactive, worth the cast, not rng based, and useful in more situations. I think something like 2-3 sec where you only receive glancing blows from attacks caping damage at a certain percentage of your health per attack. High cost so it's not spammable and the duration is just speculation. Long enough to be effective as an OS button but too short to weave mindlessly in a rotation.
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Nox_Noir✭✭✭✭OS = "Oh, Sh**" ?Edited by Nox_Noir on September 20, 2018 7:21PMSorc Tank build "Conduit" - https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/427944/conduit-sorc-tank-non-pet-build0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭The doesn’t help stam in PvE as it is. Stam isn’t challenged in the lord recenf trials because of the damage they take. They’re challenged he said the fights he suit favor range due to lots of movement. How just does not cut it.
These changes show the disconnect between the developers and the game they oversee.1 -
PathwayM✭✭✭✭I prefer the new shuffle personally
coming from someone that has been running blade cloak on medium armor builds through the last patch 0 -
NuarBlack✭✭✭✭The doesn’t help stam in PvE as it is. Stam isn’t challenged in the lord recenf trials because of the damage they take. They’re challenged he said the fights he suit favor range due to lots of movement. How just does not cut it.
These changes show the disconnect between the developers and the game they oversee.
True, but that is more to do to fight mechanics and weapon/class skills than something that can be fixed by an armor skill. PvP, vMA, and content going forward could be though. And AOE reduction is nice cause people definitely ran blade cloak for that reason in the past, so I get the impulse, but it's similar to annulment only shielding elemental damage in the past, too situational.0