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Dizzy Swing: Overpowered? Or L2P Issue? Pre-Dragonhold

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Was Dizzy Swing OP before the Dragonhold patch? Or was it just a L2P issue? Comment Question: Should ZOS bring back its damage, stun, or neither?
Edited by Xzysts on December 11, 2019 10:17PM

Dizzy Swing: Overpowered? Or L2P Issue? Pre-Dragonhold 110 votes

Yes, D-Swing was OP.
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No, D-Swing was not OP.
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  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    @MartiniDaniels Yea same with DK Leap, Stun is really buggy to break free from, more so than others. I play on DK also, so I am not just saying that. Just an observation of mine since I play pretty much all classes.
  • MartiniDaniels
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    Yes, D-Swing was OP.
    Xzysts wrote: »
    @MartiniDaniels Yea same with DK Leap, Stun is really buggy to break free from, more so than others. I play on DK also, so I am not just saying that. Just an observation of mine since I play pretty much all classes.

    Yes, I agree. Now leap is like excuse or a crutch on which stamDK is considered good in this patch. While ton of other abilities are underpowered in comparison to other classes.
  • Karmanorway
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    Dont think it was that OP, except on stamdens maybe. But imagine how suprised i was that day after 2 months break that my stamsorcs only stun was removed xD
  • dennissomb16_ESO
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    Yes, D-Swing was OP.
    Voted OP as it demonstrates one of the overall design flaws (in my opinion) in ESO and that is abilities that do to many things. DS did big damage, stun, knock back, and had a fairly large range. Add in the ability to remove the animation. For me this is the issue in ESO. Abilities that do to many things in one skill. It takes away any sense of build variety, removes the need for group play (in a MMO). PvP could be improved a great deal if abilities did one thing but I imagine that would get a lot of push back also.
  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    @Karmanorway Yep, I am in the same boat. Instead I tried using DW since DSwing got nerfed, but Dual Wield just isnt the same. It takes up a lot of Stamina, and the dmg is appearing to be decreased.
  • Karmanorway
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    Xzysts wrote: »
    @Karmanorway Yep, I am in the same boat. Instead I tried using DW since DSwing got nerfed, but Dual Wield just isnt the same. It takes up a lot of Stamina, and the dmg is appearing to be decreased.

    I agree its way too expensive, i use the fear skill from FG skill line instead now. I swapped dizzy for carve and to 2h maelstrom, this makes up a bit for the loss. Just heavy cancel crit rush with poison applied gives almost the same dmg for me as old dizzy
  • Mayrael
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    Yes, D-Swing was OP.
    Xzysts wrote: »
    @MartiniDaniels Yea same with DK Leap, Stun is really buggy to break free from, more so than others. I play on DK also, so I am not just saying that. Just an observation of mine since I play pretty much all classes.

    You can't spam leap.
    I am doing my best, but I am not a native speaker, sorry.

    Mael Nightshadow - that's all you need to know.
  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    @Mayrael With an ult gen build you can get pretty close :D all jokes aside, you cannot dodge leap, or walk through it, but you could with Dizzy? Nor did Dizzy auto target you.
  • Smol_Bat
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    I would say yes and no, it could be interrupted, the issue when you don't see it coming because you're focused on just not dying.
  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    jadarock wrote: »
    The fact that everyone and I mean every stam meta *** was using it should've made it obvious to everyone including users that the skill was OP.
    I played on a necro healer(zero damage) the month before d swing got nerfed and it was my achilles heel. Armies of d swing spammers following me across the map was flat out ridiculous and not fun gameplay.
    If this game wasnt so buggy I dont think it would've been such an issue but the fact that the code and servers dont play nice made that iteration of d swing OP imho

    I truly think the only reason anyone started using it was because of Onslaught.
  • jcm2606
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    With the reduced cast time, I do think it was too strong, but not as OP as people claim. With the old cast time, though, it was absolutely not OP, or even too strong. It's telegraphed, it's slow, it's easily countered, and it can be frustrating to get it to actually land in even a tiny bit of lag. That justifies having the high damage with the stun, IMO.
  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    Abyssmol wrote: »
    D-swing - a skill with a tool tip of 18k to 20k, spammable (.8 sec cast time), with knock back and a stun. It was meteor every second....

    But is easily avoidable, walking through, dodging, renders the skill inconsistent. I think it is l2p. meteor you cant dodge or avoid other than block.
  • Sorbin
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    *** no. It was clearly a L2P issue because the same kids are still getting smacked around by it now lol and they're still on here complaining about whatever showed up in their death feed last. The people with great mitigation that actively avoid Dizzies have been good at avoiding it for years. The last time Dizzy could be considered OP was when Wrecking Blow was the preferred morph .
  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    Sorbin wrote: »
    *** no. It was clearly a L2P issue because the same kids are still getting smacked around by it now lol and they're still on here complaining about whatever showed up in their death feed last. The people with great mitigation that actively avoid Dizzies have been good at avoiding it for years. The last time Dizzy could be considered OP was when Wrecking Blow was the preferred morph .

    summarized nicely. I could not agree more. I'd like to see some nuked abilities make come backs.
  • Goregrinder
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    Yes, D-Swing was OP.
    I see tons of people complaining about how OP Templars and Sorcs are because they are everywhere right now...."OP Nerf Templar, every BG I go into half of them are Templars....." So the fact that so many people are playing Templar in Bg's is an indication of how OP it is? Oh really?

    Well it's funny you should bring that form of logic to the table, because during Scalebreaker guess how many Stam builds were running Dizzy swing....
  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    I see tons of people complaining about how OP Templars and Sorcs are because they are everywhere right now...."OP Nerf Templar, every BG I go into half of them are Templars....." So the fact that so many people are playing Templar in Bg's is an indication of how OP it is? Oh really?

    Well it's funny you should bring that form of logic to the table, because during Scalebreaker guess how many Stam builds were running Dizzy swing....

    well the guy who said that was actually saying the same thing you are, but again I'll say I don't think any class is really OP right now. I think the others are just really lacking, since they got nerfed so hard because people dont know how to place their frustration. Ask maybe if it is a L2P issue or if it is simply your class that is ill equipped before calling for blatant sledge hammer morphs is how I see it.
  • Aliyavana
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    it wasn't really complained about when it took one sec to cast tbh. post buff, there was a lack of any effective spammables and that's one of the reasons d swing became the most used spammable.
    Edited by Aliyavana on December 12, 2019 12:10AM
  • Xzysts
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    Aliyavana wrote: »
    it wasn't really complained about when it took one sec to cast tbh. post buff, there was a lack of any effective spammables and that's one of the reasons d swing became the most used spammable.

    well said.
  • Goregrinder
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    Yes, D-Swing was OP.
    Xzysts wrote: »
    I see tons of people complaining about how OP Templars and Sorcs are because they are everywhere right now...."OP Nerf Templar, every BG I go into half of them are Templars....." So the fact that so many people are playing Templar in Bg's is an indication of how OP it is? Oh really?

    Well it's funny you should bring that form of logic to the table, because during Scalebreaker guess how many Stam builds were running Dizzy swing....

    well the guy who said that was actually saying the same thing you are, but again I'll say I don't think any class is really OP right now. I think the others are just really lacking, since they got nerfed so hard because people dont know how to place their frustration. Ask maybe if it is a L2P issue or if it is simply your class that is ill equipped before calling for blatant sledge hammer morphs is how I see it.

    Sure L2P issues are a very real thing, but so are OP abilities. 99.9% of Stam builds ran Dizzy swing. As a stun. As a Spammable. You could literally just cast nothing but DS over and over and over and you could easily win that way. It had to go.
  • sly007
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    jadarock wrote: »
    The fact that everyone and I mean every stam meta *** was using it should've made it obvious to everyone including users that the skill was OP.
    I played on a necro healer(zero damage) the month before d swing got nerfed and it was my achilles heel. Armies of d swing spammers following me across the map was flat out ridiculous and not fun gameplay.
    If this game wasnt so buggy I dont think it would've been such an issue but the fact that the code and servers dont play nice made that iteration of d swing OP imho

    It was the only decent skill besides snipe. Just like every stam build was using dawnbreaker before cast time. It has nothing to do with dawnbreaker being OP and mostly because the other ultimates were not worth using. Instead of nerfing dizzy, they would have buffed flurry, and other stammables.

    Now every stamina build is using onslaught. Why? Because everything else is not worth using. If ZOS nerf onslaught, stamina build will have to find the next best thing. Again, that doesnt mean its OP.
  • Stebarnz
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    Yes, D-Swing was OP.
    If everyone used it then it was OP, and everyone did use it, 2H swinging everywhere!

    Much better now. If you needed that KB crutch then its a L2P issue!

    It was too easy to DS then when they were in the air pop an ult and execute interspersed with LA's or HA's.
    Edited by Stebarnz on December 12, 2019 1:13AM
  • jadarock
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    Yes, D-Swing was OP.
    sly007 wrote: »
    jadarock wrote: »
    The fact that everyone and I mean every stam meta *** was using it should've made it obvious to everyone including users that the skill was OP.
    I played on a necro healer(zero damage) the month before d swing got nerfed and it was my achilles heel. Armies of d swing spammers following me across the map was flat out ridiculous and not fun gameplay.
    If this game wasnt so buggy I dont think it would've been such an issue but the fact that the code and servers dont play nice made that iteration of d swing OP imho

    It was the only decent skill besides snipe. Just like every stam build was using dawnbreaker before cast time. It has nothing to do with dawnbreaker being OP and mostly because the other ultimates were not worth using. Instead of nerfing dizzy, they would have buffed flurry, and other stammables.

    Now every stamina build is using onslaught. Why? Because everything else is not worth using. If ZOS nerf onslaught, stamina build will have to find the next best thing. Again, that doesnt mean its OP.

    sly007 Let's be honest
    Someone at zos obviously played stam and wanted god mode.
    Its was OP compared to other skills just stop.
    Both snipe and dswing were originally given longer cast times for a reason.
    And finally if these skills weren't so buggy i dont think people would have such an issue with them.

    Edited by jadarock on December 12, 2019 1:53AM
  • Stratti
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    No, D-Swing was not OP.
    Bashev wrote: »
    No spamable,-uninterruptible burst skill should have a stun.

    Not really a spammable to be fair , it has a 1 sec cast time.
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