1 Slot Pets

phaneub17_ESO

Is it a balance issue? Is it a technical issue? Do they think if pets could be single slotted, it would cause all Sorcs and Wardens to always have them out? We would like to know why pets need to be slotted on both bars. If it's a technical issue in pets persisting when swapping bars, it could be like Shadow Image where they are summoned with a finite duration. Could make them last 2 hours and when using their activation ability refreshes the duration back to 2 hours.

Namarkas

Probably a balance issue because they were designed to be double barred. Matriarch heal is as strong as the old Breath of Life (and that one was nerfed and nerfed and nerfed) and the scamp is probably the strongest (or at least a very strong) aoe damage skill that stuns on top of that. Both deal passive auto attack damage aswell. With the changes we got now I doubt they will make them single barred any time soon, because that would just be broken. The least of the nerfs we would get is probably the old costs, and that would be really lucky imo.

cpuScientist

Balance issue. They would have to be nerfed a good bit to be single barred.

twofaced

cpuScientist wrote: »

Balance issue. They would have to be nerfed a good bit to be single barred.

Is there any explanations of this bulls**t?

twofaced

For those who doesn't play petsorc and doesn't realize what an idiotic statement 'balance reason' is, let's count.

There are several must have abilities every casual sorc uses:
LL, Blockade, Shield (even after Nerfmire), Surge, also Inner light for main bar to get Major Sorcery.

Even if you doesn't use pets, Prey is pretty strong. And if you are pet sorc it's 3 more slots to use only with 1 pet.

8 slots are already occupied. If you are dedicated petsorc - all you could add is another pet, otherwise most likely Storm to protect yourself from oneshots and only one slot is left. GREAT VARIETY RIGHT? I've been playing petsorc for 2 years and my gameplay changes from "I'm using AOE roots" to "Maybe I need spammable to get SOME DPS" and vice versa.

Very poor gameplay experience.

Chilly-McFreeze

Namarkas wrote: »

Probably a balance issue because they were designed to be double barred.

Right... and that class was designed to cope with the 3 double slots by having a third bar and a huge shield. Guess what happened.

FrancisCrawford

twofaced wrote: »

For those who doesn't play petsorc and doesn't realize what an idiotic statement 'balance reason' is, let's count.

There are several must have abilities every casual sorc uses:
LL, Blockade, Shield (even after Nerfmire), Surge, also Inner light for main bar to get Major Sorcery.

Even if you doesn't use pets, Prey is pretty strong. And if you are pet sorc it's 3 more slots to use only with 1 pet.

8 slots are already occupied. If you are dedicated petsorc - all you could add is another pet, otherwise most likely Storm to protect yourself from oneshots and only one slot is left. GREAT VARIETY RIGHT? I've been playing petsorc for 2 years and my gameplay changes from "I'm using AOE roots" to "Maybe I need spammable to get SOME DPS" and vice versa.

Very poor gameplay experience.

And thus, after having my main characters (plural) be sorcerers since beta, I've shelved mine since Murkmire dropped. There simply isn't a lot right now for a pet sorcerer to do.

Ogou

twofaced wrote: »

For those who doesn't play petsorc and doesn't realize what an idiotic statement 'balance reason' is, let's count.

There are several must have abilities every casual sorc uses:
LL, Blockade, Shield (even after Nerfmire), Surge, also Inner light for main bar to get Major Sorcery.

Even if you doesn't use pets, Prey is pretty strong. And if you are pet sorc it's 3 more slots to use only with 1 pet.

8 slots are already occupied. If you are dedicated petsorc - all you could add is another pet, otherwise most likely Storm to protect yourself from oneshots and only one slot is left. GREAT VARIETY RIGHT? I've been playing petsorc for 2 years and my gameplay changes from "I'm using AOE roots" to "Maybe I need spammable to get SOME DPS" and vice versa.

Very poor gameplay experience.

What you're describing has nothing to do with balance though. It just shows that petsorc DDs don't have a lot of options. Though I agree with you I don't see ZOS rebalancing petsorcs just to make them fun to play.