imbue weapons

hakan

When Summerset released this skill was on every stam pve dps' bar but sometime later people quit using it. Since i coulndt play the game at summerset launch due to some issues, i dont know what made it good back then and why noone wants it now.

Did it got nerfed or changed? Cant find info on skills backstory.

El_Borracho

It was good at first, but if I remember correctly, something was done to Rending Slashes that made them a spamable. Ended up you could get more damage from that and it would cost less than Imbue Weapon.

GhostofDatthaw

El_Borracho wrote: »

It was good at first, but if I remember correctly, something was done to Rending Slashes that made them a spamable. Ended up you could get more damage from that and it would cost less than Imbue Weapon.

It's just bleeds at the time were like Oblivion damage in the past there were some heavy armor bleed based builds that were a little overtuned. Now they are still ok but effected by resistances.

Edit. I'm coming from a PvP perspective. IDK if you were talking that or pve

tsaescishoeshiner

In the current PvE trends, most people don't even run a spammable at all, since there are so many DoTs to choose from, which deal more damage per-cast and per-magicka spent

Some people also don't like weaving Imbue Weapon. If there were nerfs, I don't recall them

UntilValhalla13

I don't recall any stam build ever using it at all, honestly. It's clunky to use.

El_Borracho

UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

I don't recall any stam build ever using it at all, honestly. It's clunky to use.

It was very short lived and maybe there for about a month or so. I remember because that was the first time I ran that god-awful Psijic line quest to get Imbue Weapons for Crusher. And you're right, once I got it, it was clunky, expensive, and wasn't worth it

@GhostofDatthaw I was talking more about PVE, but come to think of it, Imbue was a PVP skill too. Had a much longer life over there

AcadianPaladin

Agree with 'clunky'. I find 'clunky' to use skills more of a distraction than a dps addition. That includes the Psijic one in question, NB spectral bow and Sorc's frags.