HEALING WARD LOST IT'S HEAL

Fiktius

NyassaV wrote: »

Fiktius wrote: »

RedRook wrote: »

This isn't fantastic for magblades in PVP, but it's even worse for LA sorcs. I wonder if they are intentionally trying to force everyone to PVP in heavy? I'm still blown away somebody thinks cast shields should be stronger on tanks. Yeah, those poor tanks. So squishy, no mitigation, always the first to die. ?

Maybe they want to kill solo play entirely and create even more zergs? To be honest, I don't know what kind of mushrooms they've been eating, but this is not healthy way to go.

What comes with these changes, healing ward burst heal is one of the most crucial changes to me as a solo PvP player.
And why is that so?
My main is mag NB and my ONLY fitting burst heal I had was from healing ward. However since shields won't last long under high pressure, they NEVER remain on for their whole duration, unless I cast the shield somewhere where nobody is near and try to wrek me into thousand pieces. I also used to slot Swallow Soul for getting that passive minor vitality to help my healing, but now that's gone too.
Not to mention that idiotic cast time on annulment shield. Earlier I had to rely on dampen magic shield combined with healing ward if I wanted to remain visible and actually fight without cloacking away.

It seems like I'll join to this new The Heavy Armor Online - meta and start theorycrafting complete new build.

TBH I'd honestly be all for more zergs if their servers could actually handle it. But since they can't I prefer small scale

I like small scale too, however solo has been always my favorite PvP type in Cyrodiil and when keeping an eye what kind of changes devs added to the game, it seems like they want to get rid of rest of us, who still loved solo PvP.

Konstant_Tel_Necris

Jeezye wrote: »

Actually not so bad, or actually in line with tuning down shield potency. Healing ward is insanely strong atm, arguebly the strongest shield at low health, and lossing upfront heal won't get you back out of execute range right away. I personally use healing ward on many pvp builds and think the change is justified.

Its bad, Healing Ward will not proc sets what depend from healing target, I use it with Combat Physician and Chokethorn as wardens dont have non target burst heal like BoL or twinlight, thats was useful for PUG when pesky DD roam into far points of map away from healing area.

LegacyDM

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MLGProPlayer

LegacyDM wrote: »

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We'll all be deleting our magicka characters.

dagonbeer

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

LegacyDM wrote: »

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We'll all be deleting our magicka characters.

Ha! Honestly though, this is something that I can see people taking an extended break over. I left ESO for about an year and a half since I was sick and tired of grinding for sharpened weapons (back when it was the only viable trait, despite the combat team's insistence to the contrary.) Skipped Morrowind entirely. When Summerset came out, I took a look at the changes since I left and I liked it -- transmutation and balanced weapon traits. Too bad. I thought PvP is actually pretty balanced right now and was enjoying my magblade (the heavy stam/speed/bleed meta is a little overtuned but tolerable.) I have geared stam toons to join the meta but will probably go through my steam backlog instead.

mb10

Mag NBs are in big trouble PVP wise next patch lol

Conduit0

The change to shields is so stupid because it won't have the result that ZOS wants and every body except ZOS knows it.
In pvp the result will be every magicka toon will be forced into running a resto staff. You think zergs are bad now, wait until half of every zerg is casting healing ward and mutugen. And in pve with block and dodge being the only useful active damage mitigation tools left stamina toons will end up with better survivability, combined with stamina's already better dps, magicka will simply become undesirable in end game content.

dagonbeer

mb10 wrote: »

Mag NBs are in big trouble PVP wise next patch lol

I think they got nerfed from good to middling. Probably still one of the better magicka classes in PvP, but it boggles the mind that ZOS would look at the current PvP situation and decide to nerf magicka instead of stamina. I can understand that some PvE changes are necessary, but you make targeted incisions or you adjust content, instead of swinging a bat in a china shop.