Old Combat Mechanics You Miss

Holycannoli

Luigi_Vampa wrote: »

Doshia

and that clannfear, but Doshia was worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvW8DDD4QOk

Still have nightmares

WeylandLabs

Hopefully there would be an ESO classic in the future 👍

Solariken

Holding bow heavy attacks

Major Protection on Empowering Sweep

Pre-nerf Coward's Gear
Pre-nerf Black Rose (and Constitution passive)

Knockback on Binding Javelin

ccfeeling

Epic NB mechanics

HASTE

Focused Attacks
For 20 seconds increase your attack speed with light and heavy attacks by 30%. Recover stamina while the ability is in effect.
Incapacitate
For 20 seconds increase your attack speed with light and heavy attacks by 30%. Every 10th weapon attack immobilises the target for 2 seconds.

Siphoning Strikes

Leeching Strikes
While toggled on, your basic weapon attacks will restore 4% of your magicka and stamina but deal 17% less damage. There is a 10% chance basic weapon attacks restore 15% magicka and stamina. Your attacks will now restore health in addition to magicka and stamina.
Siphoning Attacks
While toggled on, your basic weapon attacks will restore 4% of your magicka and stamina but deal 25% less damage. There is a 10% chance basic weapon attacks restore 15% magicka and stamina. All attacks have a chance to restore magicka and stamina even when this is toggled off.

Kuratius

Being able to use repentance on corpses from item sets.

Ozazz

crystal frags should of never lost cc, promotes skill and is one of the highest skill gaps in game! the class has struggled ever since and hasn't had one stable viable stun with out it getting nerfed. rune cage clench etc

_Ahala_

Medium Attack Weaving
20% Ability Empower
Fissure Stun
Incap Stun
Frag Stun
Animal Companions Combo
Performance
Overload Bar
Mobility

Haquor

Dynamic ulti gen.

Can you imagine the uproar if a sorc could drop three atros at once these days.

Hilarious.

Vapirko

I miss the entire concept of stamina sorc as it was in PvP. What a *** fun class that was when it was still really good. The days when you could run black rose and agility jewelry and you had room on your bars for tons of skills and didn’t need every defensive ability known to man just to be viable. When dizzy swing was slow but somehow way more reliable. When shuffle was one of the best skills in PvP.

And my biggest regret, when I was new and stupid to PvP and I joined in with those calling for the grates above keeps to be fixed so you couldn’t be knocked through them. And then just before they “fixed” it I started to realize why some people enjoyed it so much.

Sanctum74

I could easily list a dozen or so mechanics that I miss, but ultimately what I miss most is people caring and investing in the game. I miss the days when people actually looked forward to a new patch and were out farming new motifs and gear.

The past few patch cycles have been the opposite, instead of being able to enjoy the new content people have to spend their time relearning their class or changing to a new class entirely and/or farming new gear because of nerfs.

Seriously, Zos we just want to enjoy the game, how can you expect anyone to want to invest in this game with such drastic changes and broken performance.

technohic

Being able to mount between fights

Berenhir

When Remembrance gave an unnamed 30% mitigation buff to all targets healed.

When Repentance restored Stamina to all allies.

When Funnel Health healed 2 additional targets and cost 920 magicka.

When Siphoning Strikes restored 1k Magicka and Stamina with a percentual chance on any direct damage done.

When light attack weaving was more a stylish fighting technique and not a mandatory DPS thing.

When resto staves were the best magicka weapons.

When 30k health was actually a fasalla tank (old fasalla) and not a light armoured magblade with 50k magicka.

When malefic wrath disoriented people on horses for 30s without the option to break free and I could /danceargonian for 28 seconds.

When frags stunned, refreshing path had damage, crippling grasp had speed, ambush didn't break cloak, radiant magelight was a mandatory support skill and rapids had a 30km range.

When lag made your client slide show but your input still reached the server, when there was that split second when ball groups clashed in which you didn't know who would make it because laaaaag while you were still casting your rotation and buffs hoping for your group to make it.

Tower doors, people actually falling for house farming, undestroyable milegates and bridges, destroyable towers.

Actually the game is utter trash now.

NBrookus

Some more good stuff here I forgot about. RIP old Repentance.

Vapirko wrote: »

...you had room on your bars for tons of skills and didn’t need every defensive ability known to man just to be viable.

Seems like a lot of builds are like that now. A bunch of buffs, heals, a debuff, and 2-3 damage skills. Power creep.

Vapirko

technohic wrote: »

Being able to mount between fights

Oh damn, yeah this was nice lol. And change out siege and skills and whatever. Honestly how many people were exploiting this? I’d rather have that back then getting stuck for however long or not being able to pull out siege in a keep fight because you got hit by some NPC or player on the way in.

Hexys

• When Proximity Detenation didn't scale yet
• Magicka Dawnbreaker
• Momentum while streaking as you said
• Also old Alessia Bridge
• Ambush not breaking cloak
• Destro ultimate when it came out
• When sieging a keep didn't take 5 minutes and required full guilds to siege 50/50 then 0/0
• When character building was about max stats rather than OP 5-piece bonus
• Destructive reach knocking enemies properly, including the grid at keeps/outposts
• 7- and 14 day campaign was populated and a valid option for PvP outside of the laggy main-campaign

kypranb14_ESO

Maelfic Wreath - Nightblade's instant unblockable/undodgeable 28M ranged CC that allowed us to garuntee Meteor/Spectral Bow procs to hit, as well as having it's own, albeit small delayed burst.

Dojohoda

Champion Points in Black Water Blade. Man I miss that so much. *cries*


I'm actually lying. I'll just say Ditto to everything mentioned above that benefited Magicka Nightblades. Every thing else -- good riddance!!

Kram8ion

Viper bow proccs

TrinityBreaker

Old DK wings.
Reflecting Meteor.
Templar shard stun.
NB cloak Purge.
When stam DK had a bit of flavor and not forced into 7th/Fury.
Viable med sDK.
VR14.
Repentance when it restored stamina to all friendly targets and when bodies could only be repented once. This was a cool denial tactic for enemy templars.<---This right here is why I loved playing stamplar

TrinityBreaker

ccfeeling wrote: »

Epic NB mechanics

HASTE

Focused Attacks
For 20 seconds increase your attack speed with light and heavy attacks by 30%. Recover stamina while the ability is in effect.
Incapacitate
For 20 seconds increase your attack speed with light and heavy attacks by 30%. Every 10th weapon attack immobilises the target for 2 seconds.

Siphoning Strikes

Leeching Strikes
While toggled on, your basic weapon attacks will restore 4% of your magicka and stamina but deal 17% less damage. There is a 10% chance basic weapon attacks restore 15% magicka and stamina. Your attacks will now restore health in addition to magicka and stamina.
Siphoning Attacks
While toggled on, your basic weapon attacks will restore 4% of your magicka and stamina but deal 25% less damage. There is a 10% chance basic weapon attacks restore 15% magicka and stamina. All attacks have a chance to restore magicka and stamina even when this is toggled off.

Oof those actually sound pretty cool. Would you happen to know the old old mechanics for DK? Asking because I started in 2015 on Xbox.

Tommy_The_Gun

NBrookus wrote: »

• NB sap tanks

Tyrion87

Anything pre-Morrowind was better and more fun for me than what we have right now. From the sustain point of view.

FakeFox

The good old days where you could change skills while in combat.

BNOC

Proxy det and reflecting meteors.

technohic

Reflecting meteors and unlimited reflect was hilarious.

Emma_Overload

Surge heals that scaled with critical damage and had NO COOLDOWN.

psypanda

ground oils :^)

Starlock

The top ones -

• The artificer’s crossbow causing certain creatures to exlode in blue fire and get knocked back
• The artificer’s spear of light causing knockback and subsequent maniacal laughter
• The lightning mage’s shield lasting twenty seconds and actually covering his entire health bar
• The bad cat’s leap actually stunning things
• The bad cat using dual daggers being effective
• Upcomming - the lightning mage getting major sorcery from his lightning surge
• Upcomming - the lightning mage stunning foes with his lightning staff
• Upcomming - the artificer’s maul having a reliable heal over time ability
• Upcomming - the artificer engaging in hammer time execute with the 2-handed ultimate on trash mobs

Yeah, unhappy with a lot of things that are coming next patch.

Jodynn

MagDK before venom claw was a thing and it was fire damage.

Toggle abilities like FoO

_Salty_

Sap tanks. My first class. Those were the days......