Twilight Matriarch balanced in a vacuum, now weaker than Summon Shade (PvE)
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kalunte✭✭✭✭✭biased op. the fact that matriarch does not have to be casted each time but is likely eternal should be listed.
matriarch can save your ass by taking your dmg
matriarch focus can be managed, shadow image cant.
matriach do things with a cost of 0 (called dmg and taking for you to stay alive)
matriach keeps on doing dmg, remember refreshings path doesnt anymore.
i didnt read all answers, just wanted to had those 2cents ^^3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭biased op. the fact that matriarch does not have to be casted each time but is likely eternal should be listed.
matriarch can save your ass by taking your dmg
matriarch focus can be managed, shadow image cant.
matriach do things with a cost of 0 (called dmg and taking for you to stay alive)
matriach keeps on doing dmg, remember refreshings path doesnt anymore.
i didnt read all answers, just wanted to had those 2cents ^^
Wanna bet no NB in the game would keep slotting the pts version of matriarch over shade + any other skill if they had the choice after testing the skill?<Noricum>
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msalvia✭✭✭✭As a sorc main, I am pumped about pet nerfs. Finally i can play a petless sorc without gimping myself, and other players can't call me trash anymore (lol, yeah right, still gonna get hate whispers in pvp).3 -
msalvia✭✭✭✭Betty_Booms wrote: »Yeah balance means nerf to the ground in this game.
Matriach needed changes... but got sledged instead...
Matriarch needed big changes and them. It's now working as the devs intended--as a low-damage, healer-focused morph. Now we have to pick between high damage or healing. That's balance working as intended.
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drummindrummer✭✭✭I'm pretty sure OP was talking about PVE. I understand most people on this forum are PVP'ers and you guys are the most vocal, obviously. But, not everyone cares about PVP. From a PVE dps perspective, these changes are bad. It takes 3 skill slots to do more damage than a 1 skill slot shade, while remaining some sort of a heal that is generally needed in PVE content (4 mans especially), and even more so after the healing nerfs coming next patch.
ZOS's inability to some way, shape or form separate PVE and PVP....that.....is the biggest problem with this game1 -
drummindrummer✭✭✭So..looking at OP's post in a PVE perspective makes all of his points entirely valid.
Only when looked at in a PVP perspective do some of them become invalid.
Which again brings us to the same conclusion as my previous post.0 -
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✭universal_wrath wrote: »
Even if you compare two heals, breath of life is still far superior to matriach. First, it only takes 1 bar and that is a big thing. Second, it's not a summon so it does not die. Third, if I'm not mistaken it scales on both max magicka and spell dmg, were as matraich heal only buffed by max magicka. Forth, breath of life heal increased as health decrease due to templar passives, matriach heal is not supported by any passives of sorcs. Last thing, Breath of life/ honor of the dead give you 2 different play style, first teamplay and other selfish and sustain suppoerted, while matriach is only teamplay even though most sorcs are solo.
Note: now matraich dmg has decreased significanly, there is no reason for the skills to stay as dauble bars skill and should be as such treated as 1 bad.
Hum, no.
That only for pvp, and even in pvp all is not like you said.
Maybe you've to use 2 slot for matriarch, and ?
Huge amount of free damage + burst heal : already worth 2 slot, but let continue :
It CAN'T die in pve DG/Trial, so no problem here.
Matriarch cost 2 time less mana than BoL, Heal for more (yeah, she heal 2 person for 2 time less than BoL)
No LoS required.
In which universe this skill is weaker than BoL ?
It's far superior to BoL, doesn't matter the morph, BoL is not selfish, it heal lower allies around not just you.
Even after the nerf it still far superior to BoL as an emergency heal.
My Sorc heal is my go-to for any 4 man content cuz it's so easy to build for heal + 25k dmg+
Sorc is gonna be weaker for heal cuz of the grand healing change, not cuz of the damage nerf..
Sorc was lacking utility as trial healer, not power-heal or damage.
Tourmentor is what you LF if you want to compare to Shade, not Twilight..
Ofc Twilight was deserved a nerf and pet sorc in general due to how stupidly easy and effective they're.
Some people already tryed PTS change and it's nothing more than a general buff to magika DPS despite what ppl say here.
Yeah you will have to change some thing, that the purpose of this big patch : change thing.
As a healer I'll get hit way more than any DPS drama-queen here, and I don't complain, I'm already theory-crafting and farming to keep all class healer useful even if not easy ; do the same, most people here despite their whining know ZoS will not come back.[ PC EU ]
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Hum, no.
That only for pvp, and even in pvp all is not like you said.
Maybe you've to use 2 slot for matriarch, and ?
Huge amount of free damage + burst heal : already worth 2 slot, but let continue :
It CAN'T die in pve DG/Trial, so no problem here.
Matriarch cost 2 time less mana than BoL, Heal for more (yeah, she heal 2 person for 2 time less than BoL)
No LoS required.
In which universe this skill is weaker than BoL ?
It's far superior to BoL, doesn't matter the morph, BoL is not selfish, it heal lower allies around not just you.
Even after the nerf it still far superior to BoL as an emergency heal.
My Sorc heal is my go-to for any 4 man content cuz it's so easy to build for heal + 25k dmg+
Sorc is gonna be weaker for heal cuz of the grand healing change, not cuz of the damage nerf..
Sorc was lacking utility as trial healer, not power-heal or damage.
Tourmentor is what you LF if you want to compare to Shade, not Twilight..
Ofc Twilight was deserved a nerf and pet sorc in general due to how stupidly easy and effective they're.
Some people already tryed PTS change and it's nothing more than a general buff to magika DPS despite what ppl say here.
Yeah you will have to change some thing, that the purpose of this big patch : change thing.
As a healer I'll get hit way more than any DPS drama-queen here, and I don't complain, I'm already theory-crafting and farming to keep all class healer useful even if not easy ; do the same, most people here despite their whining know ZoS will not come back.
I think you are forgetting one big point. It takes TWO slots so it should have at least close to TWO functions. I'm not necessarily whining lol. Just stating facts.
I am actually one of those people that have been testing on PTS and was still able to get 90k with pet sorc on the trial dummy. But guess what, I had to drop the bird. Both morphs are a dps loss compared to other skills. Which means as a dps we lose our emergency heal.
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drummindrummer✭✭✭Was it hitting a little too hard before, probably yeah.
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✭drummindrummer wrote: »
I think you are forgetting one big point. It takes TWO slots so it should have at least close to TWO functions. I'm not necessarily whining lol. Just stating facts.
I am actually one of those people that have been testing on PTS and was still able to get 90k with pet sorc on the trial dummy. But guess what, I had to drop the bird. Both morphs are a dps loss compared to other skills. Which means as a dps we lose our emergency heal.
Quoting myself :Aznarb wrote:Yeah you will have to change some thing, that the purpose of this big patch : change thing.
Healing matri still good for healer.
You still have surge and shield, that already more than most, if not all other magika DPS.
You wanna be lazy and use pet for dmg and heal ? You'll lose dmg.
You wanna improve and do damage ? Take the new option.
I'm not the guy in charge, like you and ZoS have proven many time they don't care about.
Pet sorc deserve the nerf, but don't act like your class is the only one with skill nerf, most class got skill nerf and some no-class skill got buff to replace.
Do we like it ? Not so much. Can we do something ? Not really, that why my point is : move on.
You just prove yourself than you can pull 90k despite nerf, so all good.
You wont use matriarch ? And ? Was you using entropy or soul trap before buff ? No.
You lost one skill who take to slot you got 2 for replace, perfect, in fact you even use flame reach now, one more.
Would love to get some heal to replace the lost me too, but I don't have them, and I'm not making thread complaining all day long.Edited by Aznarb on July 18, 2019 4:29AM[ PC EU ]
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Transairion✭✭✭✭✭So you are QQing about a healing morph doing less damage than a DPS morph? Lol
Yep what's next breath of life is weaker than summon shade too? 😉
In the context of the damage morph being really bad, Matriarch being nerfed that hard on top of Tormentor is a hard pill to swallow. Remember, Twilight Tormentor has no active ability if the target goes below 50% HP, you spend Magicka for no effect. Higher base damage is meaningless without any utility at all and a broken active component, so post-nerf Matriarch is STILL more appealing.
The second Twilight Matriarch becomes weaker than any DPS skill + any heal skill (two skills for two slots) it becomes really hard to justify using it is the problem.4 -
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Quoting myself :
Healing matri still good for healer.
You still have surge and shield, that already more than most, if not all other magika DPS.
You wanna be lazy and use pet for dmg and heal ? You'll lose dmg.
You wanna improve and do damage ? Take the new option.
I'm not the guy in charge, like you and ZoS have proven many time they don't care about.
Pet sorc deserve the nerf, but don't act like your class is the only one with skill nerf, most class got skill nerf and some no-class skill got buff to replace.
Do we like it ? Not so much. Can we do something ? Not really, that why my point is : move on.
You just prove yourself than you can pull 90k despite nerf, so all good.
You wont use matriarch ? And ? Was you using entropy or soul trap before buff ? No.
You lost one skill who take to slot you got 2 for replace, perfect, in fact you even use flame reach now, one more.
Would love to get some heal to replace the lost me too, but I don't have them, and I'm not making thread complaining all day long.
lol bro, i do like "near" top dps on multiple classes. im just stating my opinions, along with some facts lol0 -
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drummindrummer✭✭✭its the point that is takes two skill slots and so should do more damage than it does. can i change it, hell yeah i can. and i did, look at my parse. im just stating that they nerfed the damage too much....simple2
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drummindrummer✭✭✭just because someone decides to share their opinions and concerns, does not always mean they are "whining" or "crying".
they are legitimate concerns due to ZOS's inability to balance, especially when it comes to pve. i understand, with pvp its usually crying lolEdited by drummindrummer on July 18, 2019 5:27AM3 -
Transairion✭✭✭✭✭So, not only did he pick a healing morp vs a damage morp. (bad judgement call)
Matriarch is a morph with lower tooltip than a un-morphed utility pet... yes I think the comparison is valid. Until ELSWEYR patch Summon Shade was for utility only which is why it has so much of it and had bottom-of-the-barrel DPS.
Doing less damage than Shade does means the damage is really, really bad.He picked an ability that has been broken for an eternity, without any acknowledgement from the devs.
As far as I know only the Shade teleport morph is broken when attempting to teleport between uneven terrain (IE up and down Keep walls in PvP), and in PvE it usually works due to flat playing fields. If the other morph and base skill and broken too, how so?And this patch when the devs finally address shade, they simply nerf it with a huge increase in cost. lolELSWEYR patch:
This ability now scales with the caster's Max Magicka and Spell Damage, or Stamina and Weapon Damage.
Given it scales better than all Sorceror pets now (no Spell Damage scaling on them apart from Volatile pulse?), a cost increase is a slap on the wrist.2 -
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✭drummindrummer wrote: »
lol bro, i do like "near" top dps on multiple classes. I'm just stating my opinions, along with some facts lol
So I do, I'm not blaming you or anything, just stating fact about new and totally competitive option, that all.
Like I said, any class/role (except tank maybe), got impacted in play style, no choice to adapt.[ PC EU ]
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So I do, I'm not blaming you or anything, just stating fact about new and totally competitive option, that all.
Like I said, any class/role (except tank maybe), got impacted in play style, no choice to adapt.
oh yeah i totally agree. i just was making a comment on a post someone made about a class i like.0 -
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After playing pet magsorcs since open beta, I'd say this is the ONLY fix you can ever hope to get.Vaerah, Dark Elf Magicka Sorceress
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I mean calling them already weak in PvE is wrong. They’re stronger than every mag toon except Magplars in PvE and at least they provide conduit synergies.
I call huge BS on this.
Every single of our stamblades can reliably do > 80k DPS on trials. Pet magsorcs can't even dream that.Vaerah, Dark Elf Magicka Sorceress
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Royalthought✭✭✭✭✭Transairion wrote: »
Matriarch is a morph with lower tooltip than a un-morphed utility pet... yes I think the comparison is valid. Until ELSWEYR patch Summon Shade was for utility only which is why it has so much of it and had bottom-of-the-barrel DPS.
Doing less damage than Shade does means the damage is really, really bad.
As far as I know only the Shade teleport morph is broken when attempting to teleport between uneven terrain (IE up and down Keep walls in PvP), and in PvE it usually works due to flat playing fields. If the other morph and base skill and broken too, how so?
Given it scales better than all Sorceror pets now (no Spell Damage scaling on them apart from Volatile pulse?), a cost increase is a slap on the wrist.
1. How much healing does shade do?
2. Nightblades utilities got nerfed too. Go look at refeshing path. Does path do more damage than matriarch?
3. Jump off a rock, you can shade port up. Jump down a few steps in a keep and it wont work = broken.
4. At 4k the cost increase is huge, especially considering #3 when it may be wasted due to not working, forcing a recast, if even possible.
And to reiterate, if you see ways to improve the class or even matriarch, I'm all for it. You get that? I support it.
But the point still stands that how the OP went about it was wrong. We could've judged the skill based on its own merits and that would've been perfectly fine. Instead the OP chose to compare skills and used the "vacuum" approach to ignore all context and better comparisons.
We are complaining about a healing skill that does free damage, not doing as much damage as a more expensive skill, that must be recast and does no healing. On a class that was once known for healing from damage yet had the damage nerfed or removed completely. lol. Irony much?
How about we look at Feral Guardian for a better comparison? Not only does it take up two slots, but two ULTIMATE'S! It's MELEE range only and does NO healing.
But that would make matriarch look like it was too good. Perhaps we should judge a unique skill on its own merits...2 -
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Matriarch needed big changes and them. It's now working as the devs intended--as a low-damage, healer-focused morph. Now we have to pick between high damage or healing. That's balance working as intended.
How is nerfing an ability to the point that you´re objectively better of replacing with two other abilities balanced in any way?
Both twilight morphs are dead on pts. How can people enjoy abilities being entirely useless for the class they alledgedly main?
Did people actually enjoy when every sorc in cyro was just a carbon copy of one another because there was literally 0 build variety for the class? That the state you wish for sorc to be in?<Noricum>
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Undefwun✭✭✭✭✭Blame premade system instead. Its the worst part about battleground. Just wait two/three months post patch and you will see "X COMBO IS RUINING BG's" since thats how arena style games work, you find a mechanic and exploit it. Banning premades would fix much of the issues surrounding class balance as no class could systemically have set + class combo's favoring their team over randoms.
That or just make BG's 6/8 V 6/8 and make them more casual style because lets be honest. ESO isn't a competitive game, and certainly no PvP one.
Agreed on both points.
1) Premades are an issue as the system is now
2) Yes alot of ppl are garbage. they see something broken and exploit it. and the excuse? "other ppl are doing it.. zos put it in the game". Nope you are still a PoS and yes a lot of them will now migrate to the next broken thing, because heaven forbid they play a non broken class.Purple flying crutch chicken
That actually made me laughThe pet loses effectivity the more opponents are involved in a fight.
So you are saying it gets harder to fight multiple opponents? Wow pretty sure that goes for any class....
But to see just how effective it really could be, please open your browser to youtube and type "pelican outnumbered sorcerer" and look at the vids from the last couple patches. The LoS breaking, the burst setup and the survivability.Edited by Undefwun on July 18, 2019 1:39PMDrank Sinatra Sr - PvP Magblade - DC
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Hum, no.
That only for pvp, and even in pvp all is not like you said.
Maybe you've to use 2 slot for matriarch, and ?
Huge amount of free damage + burst heal : already worth 2 slot, but let continue :
It CAN'T die in pve DG/Trial, so no problem here.
Matriarch cost 2 time less mana than BoL, Heal for more (yeah, she heal 2 person for 2 time less than BoL)
No LoS required.
In which universe this skill is weaker than BoL ?
It's far superior to BoL, doesn't matter the morph, BoL is not selfish, it heal lower allies around not just you.
Even after the nerf it still far superior to BoL as an emergency heal.
My Sorc heal is my go-to for any 4 man content cuz it's so easy to build for heal + 25k dmg+
Sorc is gonna be weaker for heal cuz of the grand healing change, not cuz of the damage nerf..
Sorc was lacking utility as trial healer, not power-heal or damage.
Tourmentor is what you LF if you want to compare to Shade, not Twilight..
Ofc Twilight was deserved a nerf and pet sorc in general due to how stupidly easy and effective they're.
Some people already tryed PTS change and it's nothing more than a general buff to magika DPS despite what ppl say here.
Yeah you will have to change some thing, that the purpose of this big patch : change thing.
As a healer I'll get hit way more than any DPS drama-queen here, and I don't complain, I'm already theory-crafting and farming to keep all class healer useful even if not easy ; do the same, most people here despite their whining know ZoS will not come back.
I think you're forgetting it costs two slots, when compared to two alternatives it's more reasonable to agree with statements.
I still gave you an insightful because I agree with you points, it's just the way you've worded it is a bit subjective.Edited by SirMewser on July 18, 2019 4:43PM2 -
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So you are saying it gets harder to fight multiple opponents? Wow pretty sure that goes for any class....
But to see just how effective it really could be, please open your browser to youtube and type "pelican outnumbered sorcerer" and look at the vids from the last couple patches. The LoS breaking, the burst setup and the survivability.
Any comment that starts with so you are saying is 100% sure to turn into a strawman argument right after that phrase. No this is not what i´m saying. You need to learn to read and understand what is written.
The pet loses effectivity the more opponents are involved.
A normal skill does not. It acts the same way mostly regardless of how many opponents are there. An aoe skill will gain effectivity with more opponents in a fight.
Pets are the only skill that scales inverse to this. Massively op vs a single opponent and get weaker with opponent number rising.
I don´t need to google a petsorc with harness + hardened stack. Nobody is arguing that the pet or harness are hardcore carry mechanics in the current live version of the game for a solo sorc.
My comment was about group use of the pet. I even excluded soloing because of the bugs boosting pet survivability - one line below the comment you quoted and then proceeded to talk about a solo sorc video. Congratulations.
This topic is about the pts version which is useless crap.Edited by Derra on July 18, 2019 4:57PM<Noricum>
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✭Matriach cost 2 slots and does 2 things :
Healing and damage.
The damage dots newly standards have several secondary effect (major sorcery, regen or heal, Aoe or ressource back)
The damage of healing matriarch should be the same as other standards, aka entropy damage, the matriarch secondary effects is that it's free cost for the damage.
The tormentor also costing 2 slots but only dealing damage should do more damage than 2 entropy, more damage because it have no secondary effect and because you need to activate the skill (have a cost)
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✭Royalthought wrote: »2. Nightblades utilities got nerfed too. Go look at refeshing path. Does path do more damage than matriarch?
What? Refreshing path is a strongest AOE HOT for magicka builds in 5.1.1 and it gives you speed buff. It only takes 1 slot unlike the flappy bird.
Definitely not the skill to complain about.2