Pet sorcs officially extinct

wbernardo24

20% decrease from deaddric curse now lmao!! If ur a double pet sorc that’s really a rippp

Vapirko

Eh.

Moloch1514

Finally time to stop hoping these folks knew what they were doing. Massive cost increases with nerfed damage was enough, but now there is no chance to keep my 2 pet build. Thanks for making it so easy to go to FFXIV full time ZOS.

RebornV3x

yeah what a shame I was just getting used to being a pet sorc then these 2 patch just ruined it

FearlessOne_2014

RIP Pet Sorc. Why ZOS just don't remove pets from Sorc and replace them with direct damage skills?

Daedric_NB_187

I am truly not surprised by the nerf. I'm more surprised that there wasn't more. Not just to pet sorcs. But to everyone. You would think the nerf hammer would be full by now with how much they've been feeding it this past year.

wbernardo24

Sorcs just don’t even feel like sorcs ...

Pets are dead

For me to hit 50k I’m using flame don’t use lighting splash it’s to weak it’s nuts no electric lol they need a whole new character identity

I thought zos was focusing on character identity next !! Wtf

Odovacar

Pretty sad indeed. rip pets...on the bright side we might not see so many flappy matriarchs in town --_o_--

BalticBlues

April fools day in October?
ZOS, didn't you notice:
PetSorcs WERE already dead since your last patch.

Elder Stamina Online now even is dancing on their grave.

wbernardo24

They keep shooting pet sorcs meanwhile necros only getting little scratches and they are op in pve

BalticBlues

Why not nerfing the skill from 20% to 0%?

People will not even notice a skill with a 20% bonus
on pet damage which was already nerfed into the ground last patch...

Chilly-McFreeze

Welp, if they make pet curse useless for pet sorcs, they might even turn it into stam ;-)

Aurie

The matriarchs will always be in evidence, until the day ZOS finally get rid of Sorc pets....which seems to be the way things are going.

I have a single pet build, which I use for the burst heal (a lot) and a bit of tanking. I’d be sad to see it go, but it's starting to look inevitable.

BalticBlues

Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »

Welp, if they make pet curse useless for pet sorcs, they might even turn it into stam ;-)

Yes, this makes sense... ZOS will say

"We found out that nobody is using the skill anymore,
so we can turn it into a Stam skill as requested by Stam players."

Elder Stamina Online is on its way to kill more mag skills...

chris211

Good riddance GOS BLESS ZOO SORC IS DEAD

FrancisCrawford

So Daedric Prey's bonus is down from the old 55% to 20% (a nominal 35% that's a true 20-25% reduction), AND pet damage that major direct nerfs too.

Blech.

ZeroXFF

I suspect that at 20% damage bonus the other morph will just always be better than this joke, even with a 4 pet build (scamp+matriarch+atro+maw of infernal monster set).

ThePedge

Nerfing petsorcs is a good thing, it's an over-performing brain-dead spec.

Allow players to aim for a more difficult but more rewarding rotation instead of, "I do fine casting like 2 skills a minute and Heavy Attacking, why get better"

Sure, if you're a casual petsorc will still be good for you and able to do all content besides harder vet trials.

TragedyOA

Well I give up,I quit pve.

Pet-sorc was my First toon & my main/crafter.

Tannus15

ThePedge wrote: »

Nerfing petsorcs is a good thing, it's an over-performing brain-dead spec.

Allow players to aim for a more difficult but more rewarding rotation instead of, "I do fine casting like 2 skills a minute and Heavy Attacking, why get better"

Sure, if you're a casual petsorc will still be good for you and able to do all content besides harder vet trials.

lol, this patch is literally "only spammables and unstable wall".
PvE is going to be defined by casting 2 skills and light weaving a spammable. Much more skillful.

Calboy

ThePedge wrote: »

Nerfing petsorcs is a good thing, it's an over-performing brain-dead spec.

Allow players to aim for a more difficult but more rewarding rotation instead of, "I do fine casting like 2 skills a minute and Heavy Attacking, why get better"

Sure, if you're a casual petsorc will still be good for you and able to do all content besides harder vet trials.

So because of the way zos has designed the game, you think nerfing a skill into the ground to kill a unique spec in end game content is fair? You're worse than the developers themselves.

DarkPicture

ThePedge wrote: »

Nerfing petsorcs is a good thing, it's an over-performing brain-dead spec.

Allow players to aim for a more difficult but more rewarding rotation instead of, "I do fine casting like 2 skills a minute and Heavy Attacking, why get better"

Sure, if you're a casual petsorc will still be good for you and able to do all content besides harder vet trials.

Yes, because its sorcs fault that every dot is completely useless and only spammable skill with free dmg from pets is good in next patch xDD

Kalante

Wow sorcs actually need to learn how to play now instead of relying on a build that requires zero thought process.

Darkenarlol

wbernardo24 wrote: »

20% decrease from deaddric curse now lmao!! If ur a double pet sorc that’s really a rippp

and you are one of the guys who makes changes "official"? mkay

Kalante wrote: »

Wow sorcs actually need to learn how to play now instead of relying on a build that requires zero thought process.

so... la>1>la>2>la>3>la>4 swap la>1>la>2>la>3>la>4

requires "though process" while la>1>la>2>la>3> swap la>1>la>2>la>3>

is a "braindead mindless rotaion"...mkay...


P.S. not a petsorc btw just laughing on all

those "sorcs now have to think" comments

ZonasArch

Odovacar wrote: »

Pretty sad indeed. rip pets...on the bright side we might not see so many flappy matriarchs in town --_o_--

I don't see how this is bad. I have a sorc healer and I don't use my matriarch at all outside bosses because I can't really handle the wings! Haha

Celestro

Darkenarlol wrote: »

wbernardo24 wrote: »

20% decrease from deaddric curse now lmao!! If ur a double pet sorc that’s really a rippp

and you are one of the guys who makes changes "official"? mkay

Kalante wrote: »

Wow sorcs actually need to learn how to play now instead of relying on a build that requires zero thought process.

so... la>1>la>2>la>3>la>4 swap la>1>la>2>la>3>la>4

requires "though process" while la>1>la>2>la>3> swap la>1>la>2>la>3>

is a "braindead mindless rotaion"...mkay...


P.S. not a petsorc btw just laughing on all

those "sorcs now have to think" comments

This sums things up nicely. It's practically no different than slotting skills that basically boost your damage. Free damage right? Especially with the way this patch is set up.

The only complicated rotations have ever really been like NBs.

MashmalloMan

Celestro wrote: »

Darkenarlol wrote: »

wbernardo24 wrote: »

20% decrease from deaddric curse now lmao!! If ur a double pet sorc that’s really a rippp

and you are one of the guys who makes changes "official"? mkay

Kalante wrote: »

Wow sorcs actually need to learn how to play now instead of relying on a build that requires zero thought process.

so... la>1>la>2>la>3>la>4 swap la>1>la>2>la>3>la>4

requires "though process" while la>1>la>2>la>3> swap la>1>la>2>la>3>

is a "braindead mindless rotaion"...mkay...


P.S. not a petsorc btw just laughing on all

those "sorcs now have to think" comments

This sums things up nicely. It's practically no different than slotting skills that basically boost your damage. Free damage right? Especially with the way this patch is set up.

The only complicated rotations have ever really been like NBs.

It's the same people that claimed it was brain dead to use flame reach/soul trap/entropy instead of double barring inner light which many builds have done for multiple years for bis dps. Somehow USING abilities is more braindead then not using abilities.

Daedric Prey also has an odd, short timer that you need to run out before you recast, but also keep up as much as possible to get high uptime on the pet buff. Trying to play as a pet sorc end game was just as, if not harder than a lot of builds I've tried.

Makes sense. /s

SirMewser

5.2.3 "I think I'm going to return to ESO."
5.2.4 "Haha, NOPE!"

Any other game has been more appealing.
ZoS does nothing but revert changes each iteration, each quarter.

Jayroo

I'm not going to quit a game because a sub class of a class is getting a nerf, there are plenty of other reasons to quit if that were the case

But for real, year after year magicka classes get *** on and stamina classes get to take all the glory, its getting tiresome waiting for them to balance magicka and stamina classes

Witar

Haven't they promised to move pet utility to haunting and make daedric prey stamina?

FearlessOne_2014

Jayroo wrote: »

I'm not going to quit a game because a sub class of a class is getting a nerf, there are plenty of other reasons to quit if that were the case

But for real, year after year magicka classes get *** on and stamina classes get to take all the glory, its getting tiresome waiting for them to balance magicka and stamina classes

This will never happen. Just do yourself a favor and get over it. Play Stamina for leaderboards and magicka for causal play. Or leave ESO for a game that has better competitive caster support.

This has been going on for 2 years now. ZOS has made it clear now. ~Stamina for competitive play, and Magicka for support roles.~ If that bothers you than you are playing the wrong game. ZOS will never make Magicka competitive to Stamina. If anything ZOS will just completely make Magicka non-viable for damage dealer roles and PvP.