Alternative to twilight tormentor

Selenya555

Hello, I am a dps sorcerer (new player) and I find twilight tormentor wing flapping very annoying especially when i play in 3rd person. Did anyone find a valid alternative to that? In my action bar I have Shock reach 4, Crystal blast 4, Daedric prey 4, Dark conversion 3 and Greater storm atronach as ultimate. Any suggestions?

Trinity_Is_My_Name

Volatile Familiar if you still want to run a Pet. Come Monday you should take a look at your build and perhaps make some adjustments.

There are quite a few changes coming that affect Sorcs. If I remember correctly the Pets are being nerfed by 69%.

Selenya555

Thanks. You mean this Monday there will be a new patch? Where do I see upcoming patch notes?

WrathOfInnos

Yes 2 days from now major changes are coming. Nothing is official until they release the patch notes for 5.1.5 on Monday, but you can get an idea what is coming by reading the PTS patch notes for 5.1.0 through 5.1.4 here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/categories/pts

Selenya555

I like to have a pet as long as it doesn't flap its wings on my face and blocks my view. I use the other available pet (clannfear, which is a ground pet) for questing, but unfortunaltely it's not good for instances because it's a tank and it doesn't do as much damage as twilight. I'm glad there will be changes tomorrow with the patch, looking forward to it! I hope to find a solution for this

SammyFable

Selenya555 wrote: »

I like to have a pet as long as it doesn't flap its wings on my face and blocks my view. I use the other available pet (clannfear, which is a ground pet) for questing, but unfortunaltely it's not good for instances because it's a tank and it doesn't do as much damage as twilight. I'm glad there will be changes tomorrow with the patch, looking forward to it! I hope to find a solution for this

Remorph the Clannfear to the volatile familiar and you have an ok DPS pet.

Selenya555

SammyFable, I went to the shrine to remorph clannfear back to volatile familiar and what I'm reading is that it does significantly less damage than twilight tormentor, like way less than half the damage. Am I doing something wrong? It doesnt seem really convenient to use volatile instead of twilight

MashmalloMan

Selenya555 wrote: »

SammyFable, I went to the shrine to remorph clannfear back to volatile familiar and what I'm reading is that it does significantly less damage than twilight tormentor, like way less than half the damage. Am I doing something wrong? It doesnt seem really convenient to use volatile instead of twilight

Patch will come out tomorrow, but so far, Volatile does more dps + it's aoe compared to Tormentor being single target and it's active is only useful for 50-100% hp targets.

Volatile Familiar you need to be using the active ability, the passive damage isn't it's strong side, so make sure you work it in to your rotation..

After a month on the PTS, nothing was changed from the first patch notes which means it will most likely hit live.

PTS Patch 5.1.0

• Summon Unstable Familiar:
  • Decreased the special ability of Summon Unstable Familiar(base) and the Summon Volatile Familiar(morph) to 2808 from 3510.
  • Increased the damage per tick by approximately 8% of the base ability, but reduced the damage per tick of Volatile by approximately 3% since it was using the wrong rank up.
    • Summon Unstable Clannfear (morph): Reduced the healing granted from the special activation of this ability by approximately 14% to ensure it’s in line with other burst heal abilities, such as Rushed Ceremony or Dragon’s Blood. (30% instead of 35% max hp)

• Summon Winged Twilight:
  • The Zap and Kick attack from the Twilight and its morphs will now do the same damage, to help reduce volatility in performance.
  • Reduced the damage of the Winged Twilight and Twilight Matriarch (morph) by approximately 69% per hit.
    • Summon Twilight Tormentor (morph): Reduced the damage dealt by the Twilight’s Zap and Kick by approximately 35%. These attacks will now rank up in 1.1% damage per rank, rather than 5%.

Selenya555

I went to remorph clannfear to volatile familiar and yes, in dungeons it's pretty good, it does damage and most of all, doesn't have any wings. But as a new player I have to say that clannfear was very useful while questing because he tanks and heals. So I guess I'll have to go back to clannfear because I quest way more than I do instances, and I will have to find an alternative skill to twilight in dungeon, or go back to the wing-flapping on my face. Also I didn't notice any changes to the skills, is the patch out yet for Xbox US server?

Celestro

Nah the patch was for PC first. I believe a few weeks after it'll come to PS4 and Xbox.