Magicka buffs, class and skill line reworks needed

Lemonsinspace

These are my opinions not all these skills are bad, just not up to stam lvl. I will only talk about mag classes here. Nightblades were not mentioned as I have no experience with them and they looked good on paper.

Side note: remove all arena weapons from bgs and pvp and buff DOTs again.


Necro - All over the place (every dmg type and not a focused dmg type) and clunky. Make all single target fire and AOE frost or lightning, so sets like netch's touch can be used etc.

Flame skull - bad spammable, highly telegraphed and weak. An increase in dmg is needed (make it like shrouded daggers with extra dmg per 2nd and 3rd person)
Stalking BB - easy to avoid at range. Needs a strong secondary, try switching range %dmg to a defile like stam morph?
Boneyard - uniform dmg type
Skeletal mage/archer - buff dmg or give better buffs from using them
Siphon skills - add small AOE on player? Good for pve
Scythe - needs rework (who uses this?)
Reanimate - make it immune to negate. At 350 ult cost it should be immune, people that revive are easy to kill anyway
Hex proof - cleanse 3 down from 4

Sorcs - give cleanse after buffing DOTs, otherwise great

Crit surge morph - cleanse 1 DOT and 1 after every 5 or more secs
Make penetration go through shields, currently it just ignores it
Make pets 1 bar, perhaps reduce twilight heal and make it unkillable? Or just the 1 bar buff

Templars - they need lots of buffs (just kidding) templars are OP (because of aedric spear)

Puncturing sweeps - make single target and replace heal with spell crit
Javelin - more dmg
Unstable core - remove 1st effect and that makes it punishing
Aedric spear passives need SLIGHT nerfs

Dk's - only 1 real way to play them

Molten whip - give passive spell dmg for slotting e.g 300
Burning embers - swap heal for breach maybe
Chains - give them a DOT
Ferocious leap - take flight gets decreased cost and increases dmg and range. Make this morph do more AOE dmg with more than 6 targets or more dmg against 25% targets
Coagulated - add mag recovery
Magma shell - make it ignore spell resist, stam version gets ignore physical resistances and they have beserking strike (2h ult)
Molten armaments - add increased light attack dmg
Mountains blessing - add minor sorcery, scale off highest resource (SOHR)
Helping hands - add mag equivalent SOHR

Wardens - bottom of the barrel & smallest dps tool kit

Cliff racer - change range % dmg to 10% flat out dmg instead, this currently works out of shalk range (silly morph)
Fletcher flies - make it ramp up dmg to targets below 25% (we need an execute) Second press causes a stun (4 sec cooldown)
Natures grasp - make it usable on self and maybe nerf heal
Perma/NS - reduce time & increase dmg (not worth it atm)
Gripping shards -make all morphs scale off mag. One can be high dmg spell, the other a fast ticking dot. (passives that buff frost dmg, but hardly any class frost spells)
Bear ult - make 1 bar, increase proc dmg (bear has execute and I don't)
Crystal slab - turn these morphs into proper shields and reduce bolts to 2 (decrease dmg by 1000-3000 or melee users take the full dmg) A thorns like shield is great
Shimmering - reduce ult cost or adds mag or stam recov
Expansive frost cloak - LA and HA deal more dmg, like molten armaments and give minor crit dmg

Light armour - change snare effectiveness to break free cost reduction

Restoration staff - few tweaks needed to bad morphs

Lights champion - adds 10-20% crit chance on top off crit dmg
Illustrious healing - make duration 10-12 secs

Destruction staff - worst weapon skill line from passives to skills

Tri focus - add light attacks do 5% mored dmg
Penetrating magic - make all dmg ignore 10% spell resist and 14% additional dmg to blocking targets (sword and shield gives 10% dmg resist and 14% projectile mitigation. Mag unfairly nerfed more - this avoids nerfing sword and board) or change deflect bolts to bosses and adds only
Elemental - add increase dmg to silenced, burning, concussed and chilled targets by x amount
Ancient knowledge - change frost staff to increased shield strength
Destruction expert - whenever an enemy dies restore mag (add cooldown)
Wall of elements - reduce cost & dmg increase
Destructive touch - one morph could be a stun that empowers next non ult spell, the other a faster ticking dot
Impulse - make these into execute spells

Mages guild - easiest ult to avoid, bland and underwhelming line

Ice comet- increase AOE size of morph and make it less telegraphed or enemy stands still until it hits (speed up ult)
Shooting star - make 3 to 5 smaller meteors pepper an area in a big circle (could turn it into a dot version, bigger dot ticks)
Radiant mage light - take less dmg from behind and at sides (remove stun immmunity)
Structured entropy - adds mag recovery instead of healing
Spell symmetry - exchange health foir x resistances for x seconds
Everlasting magic - Increase mages guild DOT dmg and up time
Might of the guild - when mages guild spell slotted gain x spell dmg (absolutely terrible as is)

Lemonsinspace

I was wrong about the ferocious leap morph - the shield scales with health, a great skill to use.

MellowMagic

They're not going to add class specific buffs to other classes why can people not understand this? Minor sorcery is from templars only. Sorc should have a auto purge ever 5 seconds? Sorc main ? asking for templar nerfs?

Miloscpolski

Lemonsinspace wrote: »

These are my opinions not all these skills are bad, just not up to stam lvl. I will only talk about mag classes here. Nightblades were not mentioned as I have no experience with them and they looked good on paper.

Side note: remove all arena weapons from bgs and pvp and buff DOTs again.


Necro - All over the place (every dmg type and not a focused dmg type) and clunky. Make all single target fire and AOE frost or lightning, so sets like netch's touch can be used etc.

Flame skull - bad spammable, highly telegraphed and weak. An increase in dmg is needed (make it like shrouded daggers with extra dmg per 2nd and 3rd person)
Stalking BB - easy to avoid at range. Needs a strong secondary, try switching range %dmg to a defile like stam morph?
Boneyard - uniform dmg type
Skeletal mage/archer - buff dmg or give better buffs from using them
Siphon skills - add small AOE on player? Good for pve
Scythe - needs rework (who uses this?)
Reanimate - make it immune to negate. At 350 ult cost it should be immune, people that revive are easy to kill anyway
Hex proof - cleanse 3 down from 4

Sorcs - give cleanse after buffing DOTs, otherwise great

Crit surge morph - cleanse 1 DOT and 1 after every 5 or more secs
Make penetration go through shields, currently it just ignores it
Make pets 1 bar, perhaps reduce twilight heal and make it unkillable? Or just the 1 bar buff

Templars - they need lots of buffs (just kidding) templars are OP (because of aedric spear)

Puncturing sweeps - make single target and replace heal with spell crit
Javelin - more dmg
Unstable core - remove 1st effect and that makes it punishing
Aedric spear passives need SLIGHT nerfs

Dk's - only 1 real way to play them

Molten whip - give passive spell dmg for slotting e.g 300
Burning embers - swap heal for breach maybe
Chains - give them a DOT
Ferocious leap - take flight gets decreased cost and increases dmg and range. Make this morph do more AOE dmg with more than 6 targets or more dmg against 25% targets
Coagulated - add mag recovery
Magma shell - make it ignore spell resist, stam version gets ignore physical resistances and they have beserking strike (2h ult)
Molten armaments - add increased light attack dmg
Mountains blessing - add minor sorcery, scale off highest resource (SOHR)
Helping hands - add mag equivalent SOHR

Wardens - bottom of the barrel & smallest dps tool kit

Cliff racer - change range % dmg to 10% flat out dmg instead, this currently works out of shalk range (silly morph)
Fletcher flies - make it ramp up dmg to targets below 25% (we need an execute) Second press causes a stun (4 sec cooldown)
Natures grasp - make it usable on self and maybe nerf heal
Perma/NS - reduce time & increase dmg (not worth it atm)
Gripping shards -make all morphs scale off mag. One can be high dmg spell, the other a fast ticking dot. (passives that buff frost dmg, but hardly any class frost spells)
Bear ult - make 1 bar, increase proc dmg (bear has execute and I don't)
Crystal slab - turn these morphs into proper shields and reduce bolts to 2 (decrease dmg by 1000-3000 or melee users take the full dmg) A thorns like shield is great
Shimmering - reduce ult cost or adds mag or stam recov
Expansive frost cloak - LA and HA deal more dmg, like molten armaments and give minor crit dmg

Light armour - change snare effectiveness to break free cost reduction

Restoration staff - few tweaks needed to bad morphs

Lights champion - adds 10-20% crit chance on top off crit dmg
Illustrious healing - make duration 10-12 secs

Destruction staff - worst weapon skill line from passives to skills

Tri focus - add light attacks do 5% mored dmg
Penetrating magic - make all dmg ignore 10% spell resist and 14% additional dmg to blocking targets (sword and shield gives 10% dmg resist and 14% projectile mitigation. Mag unfairly nerfed more - this avoids nerfing sword and board) or change deflect bolts to bosses and adds only
Elemental - add increase dmg to silenced, burning, concussed and chilled targets by x amount
Ancient knowledge - change frost staff to increased shield strength
Destruction expert - whenever an enemy dies restore mag (add cooldown)
Wall of elements - reduce cost & dmg increase
Destructive touch - one morph could be a stun that empowers next non ult spell, the other a faster ticking dot
Impulse - make these into execute spells

Mages guild - easiest ult to avoid, bland and underwhelming line

Ice comet- increase AOE size of morph and make it less telegraphed or enemy stands still until it hits (speed up ult)
Shooting star - make 3 to 5 smaller meteors pepper an area in a big circle (could turn it into a dot version, bigger dot ticks)
Radiant mage light - take less dmg from behind and at sides (remove stun immmunity)
Structured entropy - adds mag recovery instead of healing
Spell symmetry - exchange health foir x resistances for x seconds
Everlasting magic - Increase mages guild DOT dmg and up time
Might of the guild - when mages guild spell slotted gain x spell dmg (absolutely terrible as is)


Support

Blinding flare - places a circle on the ground silences stam skills while inside (or enemies can't revive, drink potions, stealth and eat/drink, with a slowing effect)
Lingering - enemies can't stealth and 6-12 allies gain dodge chance


Assualt

Proxy det - reduce to 6 secs
Inevitable det - hits 8 targets, increase dmg cap

I hope someone from ZoS can look at these for combat balancing inspiration. Ask questions, make suggestions and such. Which changes do you want?

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