If ZOS didn’t want spam...

Kawiikrocodile

...Why would they have PVE enemies spam their powers?

There are many mechanics in the game where as a mag user or even stamina you can no longer run or dodge an enemy or boss attack. What’s worse is that they spam it over and over, leading to almost mindless heal/shield spam

Take for example, the daedroth in vMA stage 9. It’s a constant stream of fire that you can barely run from, dodge for one second but when the evasion from dodge ends the attack continues!

It’s so damage heavy that even now when I run VMA shield spam is still the most effective thing for me!

There are so many examples of enemies throwing around high damage attacks with no regard to how actually fun and rewarding it may be to go through it


Falk vet is terrible at the end where spam and dodging is the only way to do it. I’m a 810+ vet player who’s done every vet dungeon, most vet trials, as every role

Without fail I tend to outlive my teammates and do the most damage, the former as all roles, the latter as a DPS


ZOS in the past and now has actively discouraged spamming 1-3 powers in favor of using more diverse power set

Yet they don’t adequately do the same to enemies. Low enemies, mini bosses, and major bosses all of some element of nonstop attacks and spam, most of which tend to be high


If they have to nerf player spam, at least do the same with enemies.

vovus69

zos cannot create smart battle mechanics, so they introduced a lot of one shot kill mechanics in the game to "entertain" the players. After that they removed shields from the players. We will find a way, but for now we have to deal with this brain fart from zos. I doubt that they will change almost all vet dung, trials, etc to remove all one shot kill mechaincs to accomodate smaller shields. Will see.

-vovus

Gundug

I find that running or dodging away from the daedroth in veteran maelstrom is what you do if you want to be killed. I beat them with no shields at all by just sidestepping around them right up close until they die. The damage you will take is minimal since their cone is so small at that point.

I can’t speak to other difficult mechanics, but that one is just a case of knowing how to beat it.

Kawiikrocodile

Gundug wrote: »

I find that running or dodging away from the daedroth in veteran maelstrom is what you do if you want to be killed. I beat them with no shields at all by just sidestepping around them right up close until they die. The damage you will take is minimal since their cone is so small at that point.

I can’t speak to other difficult mechanics, but that one is just a case of knowing how to beat it.

The daedroth for the 9th stage practically is an aimbot, which is the problem with every other enemy in the game

Like I said, they have too much damage heavy enemies in a short time span. What the hell else are we supposed to do?

Beardimus

Kawiikrocodile wrote: »

Gundug wrote: »

I find that running or dodging away from the daedroth in veteran maelstrom is what you do if you want to be killed. I beat them with no shields at all by just sidestepping around them right up close until they die. The damage you will take is minimal since their cone is so small at that point.

I can’t speak to other difficult mechanics, but that one is just a case of knowing how to beat it.

The daedroth for the 9th stage practically is an aimbot, which is the problem with every other enemy in the game

Like I said, they have too much damage heavy enemies in a short time span. What the hell else are we supposed to do?

As he said above, not run away and make it hard, but run rings around him, or negate him.

I get your sentiment tho, most mechanics aren't really that advanced