For which skill should I replace my shield now?

Istyar

I'm not trolling or anything, but with the useless shields I'm now wondering which skill can I slot to keep my survivability on acceptable levels.
Should I drop one destruction staff and run a restoration staff?

What do you guys think?

oxygen_thief

go heavy use dark cloak

Istyar

oxygen_thief wrote: »

go heavy use dark cloak

Unfortuantelly, I'm a Sorcerer.

MJallday

3 options as far as i can see

1) stack sheilds
2) restoration staff
3) use offensive skills to return health so you dont need to shield up as much

pros and cons

1) - you loose a slot , potentially meaning lower dps
2) - you loose up to 5 slots, potentially meaning lower dps
3) - easier said than done

edit - see your a sorc. considered running power/crit surge?

oxygen_thief

Istyar wrote: »

oxygen_thief wrote: »

go heavy use dark cloak

Unfortuantelly, I'm a Sorcerer.

i know. change it to nb. its a best and easier solution

Istyar

oxygen_thief wrote: »

Istyar wrote: »

oxygen_thief wrote: »

go heavy use dark cloak

Unfortuantelly, I'm a Sorcerer.

i know. change it to nb. its a best and easier solution

Oh man... I really dont wanna change classes. It makes me sad

Skullstachio

Shame you aren’t using a stamina build, I find Brawler to be quite the move ideal for both dps and Damage shielding alongside rally for good Damage output.

susmitds

oxygen_thief wrote: »

Istyar wrote: »

oxygen_thief wrote: »

go heavy use dark cloak

Unfortuantelly, I'm a Sorcerer.

i know. change it to nb. its a best and easier solution

Dark Cloak is ridiculously bad heal on non-tank builds. You need 32k HP to get a 10k heal from it. Crit surge performs better.

Numerikuu

I wish I could tell you, but for me I've had to shelve my pet sorc. At least my magwarden has some company now.

Aethereal'Golden

Surge is not enough. Neither is Dark exchange... but you may try.
'Interesting decisions' devs said?
Well, honestly I barely feel any interest in this game after the Nerfmire. However, I wonder what can serve as a replacer for shields.

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO

Shields are in a good spot. Damage is up so you might consider redistributing some points into health for a bigger shield.

Iceheart monster set looks pretty good now. You can have 70%+ uptime on it in vAS+2 so you wont need to cast any shields in some trials.

oxygen_thief

susmitds wrote: »

oxygen_thief wrote: »

Istyar wrote: »

oxygen_thief wrote: »

go heavy use dark cloak

Unfortuantelly, I'm a Sorcerer.

i know. change it to nb. its a best and easier solution

Dark Cloak is ridiculously bad heal on non-tank builds. You need 32k HP to get a 10k heal from it. Crit surge performs better.

and? it also increases your resistances and decreases incoming damage. you have a vigor, leeching strikes and troll king for healing.

ThumbtackJake

Istyar wrote: »

oxygen_thief wrote: »

go heavy use dark cloak

Unfortuantelly, I'm a Sorcerer.

Switch to a new class. That's what I'm doing until this *** gets sorted.

BlackMadara

Understand how defensive mechanics work.

Unless you were hard stacking as much max magicka as you could, your shield isn't that much lower than before, for pvp. The real kicker is shields being crit. Run impen and, if CP, place points into resistant. Run an armor buff. Against anything but a night blade or temp running high crit damage, your shields will be stronger, and still stronger if they dont crit. Running protective will see even better returns on shield effective hp.

If you dont like that, play a hard kite style. Snare and root removal was reduced to no more than 4 seconds. Use that to your advantage with smart cc use, mines, and streak to reposition.

Sorcs could even, theoretically build for block but I dont think that would be the best go to.

This is if you are solo and not relying on teammates. Group dynamics add more options at your disposal.

zammo

Genuine question, how does a 5k shield with 25k resistances stand up against a 10k shield with no resistances? I'm using finger in the wind numbers there, but hope you get what i'm basically asking.

Jsmalls

I was not on PTS or PC for this update, but you can make your damage shields not useless by speccing into resistances and health.

25k health and 25k resistances will help your damage shields a great deal. Dual stat food, and 1 PC resistance monster sets are a good way to achieve these stats.

Also 40k Max magicka tops with higher spell damage now is better. Minor sorcerery and sustain poisons are a very good option now being 10% spell damage increase.

Look between the lines, and see where the game had fundamentally changed.

Regeneration + Surge may be a must now, idk.

Vahrokh

Jsmalls wrote: »

I was not on PTS or PC for this update, but you can make your damage shields not useless by speccing into resistances and health.

25k health and 25k resistances will help your damage shields a great deal. Dual stat food, and 1 PC resistance monster sets are a good way to achieve these stats.

Also 40k Max magicka tops with higher spell damage now is better. Minor sorcerery and sustain poisons are a very good option now being 10% spell damage increase.

Look between the lines, and see where the game had fundamentally changed.

Regeneration + Surge may be a must now, idk.

Surge is now healing me 1/3 of what it did 2 days ago.