Heavy attack seems useless

jcr1978rwb17_ESO

Hi ZoS, Please make the heavy attack give alot more stamina or magicka because as it is, it's not worth the effort.

xWarbrain

Zos, I counter this argument by asking you to leave it the way it is. Its fine.

Starlock

Maybe your character just needs to work out more?

validifyedneb18_ESO

They mostly are, there are a few cases where they are used though:

1. PVP burst combos, 2h and Fire staves in particular can wack out a massive amount of heavy attack damage in a single hit with the right build. People will often do this and for example bash cancel into a finisher ability.
2. Tanking, if you can get away with not blocking for some time its free resource. Ice staves will also taunt for example.
3. DPS PVE will sometimes have rotations that say, have 1 HA every second cycle on a rotation, when a build has barely enough regen

So it has uses, its just not designed to be the main way to play the game. Combat would be pretty bad if it was all heavy attacking all the time.

Sergykid

i'd rather take base recovery increase or abilities cost reduction across the board.

Major_Lag

Don't forget that there are also proper heavy attack builds, which build around heavily buffing the heavy attack damage.
Xynode's "easy sorc" build is one fairly popular example.

mocap

i use off meta heavy attack pet sorc. 37k on 3kk dummy with guild store gear outside of vMA and monster.

CaffeinatedMayhem

jcr1978rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Hi ZoS, Please make the heavy attack give alot more stamina or magicka because as it is, it's not worth the effort.

How many CP do you have? Put points into the Tenacity perk, increases the return on HA.

Aurie

Sergykid wrote: »

i'd rather take base recovery increase or abilities cost reduction across the board.

While that is undoubtedly useful, a quick burst of mag/stam can save a situation.