Necromancer Flame Skull morphs needs a buff

Stibbons

Every third cast should do 33% more damage. At this moment sorc counterparts from Crystal shard are way better.

Zer0_CooL

Then play a sorc

Neloth

it should be much faster too

Magna_Chronos

I prefer that they fix the useless passive of the Stalking Blastbones morph.

wheem_ESO

I'd also like for it to be a bit more weave-friendly; it's really bad about queueing up and clipping light attacks.

Anhedonie

Neloth wrote: »

it should be much faster too

Yes. It's so painfully slow. Probably only warden has it worse.

ESO_Nightingale

really all i think flame skull needs is a faster projectile speed

SHANKS_63

I agree that it's slow.

nesakinter

Flame skull is a spammable not a burst skill like Crystal Shards. That said it is way too slow.

TheFM

Stibbons wrote: »

Every third cast should do 33% more damage. At this moment sorc counterparts from Crystal shard are way better.

The sorc counterpart to skulls doesn't exist. If anything skulls should be comparable to crushing shock. Which it is.

Sephyr

TheFM wrote: »

Stibbons wrote: »

Every third cast should do 33% more damage. At this moment sorc counterparts from Crystal shard are way better.

The sorc counterpart to skulls doesn't exist. If anything skulls should be comparable to crushing shock. Which it is.

I just want my flaming skulls to scream. That's a buff, right?

ESO_Nightingale

Sephyr wrote: »

TheFM wrote: »

Stibbons wrote: »

Every third cast should do 33% more damage. At this moment sorc counterparts from Crystal shard are way better.

The sorc counterpart to skulls doesn't exist. If anything skulls should be comparable to crushing shock. Which it is.

I just want my flaming skulls to scream. That's a buff, right?

as long as it screams really quick because i actually want it to hit my target.

Leocaran

TheFM wrote: »

If anything skulls should be comparable to crushing shock. Which it is.

Don't see it at all. Crushing shock is not a projectile, applies more elemental debuffs, can proc more elemental sets, is a ranged interrupt and much faster.

ESO_Nightingale

i love the theme of this projectile but it's just too slow to effectively use as a pvp spammable. i really really want to use it. but it's just not usable compared to other spammables.

colossalvoids

I'll just take weaving fluidity of force pulse and it's set.

TheFM

Leocaran wrote: »

TheFM wrote: »

If anything skulls should be comparable to crushing shock. Which it is.

Don't see it at all. Crushing shock is not a projectile, applies more elemental debuffs, can proc more elemental sets, is a ranged interrupt and much faster.

Yes but skulls are instant, and have a guaranteed buff to damage. With frags it's all rng for insta proc, otherwise there is a cast time. Blast bones are necros fragsit skulls.

Moonsorrow

wheem_ESO wrote: »

I'd also like for it to be a bit more weave-friendly; it's really bad about queueing up and clipping light attacks.

This.

Just a bit faster travel time and being easier to weave light attacks with it and it would be bueno. Sadly right now i only use it at some overland content where an "RP" skill like functionality does not matter so my spammable shows i play a Necro and not a discount Magsorc with the Force Pulse spam.

While the Psijic spammable (Elemental Weapon) is good, it often feels a bit clunky and is affected by ping spikes. It also makes annoying high-pitched sound everytime you use it.

Optimally if Flame Skull was faster and weave-friendly, i`d use that on Destro bar spammable and on some builds i`d have Elemental Weapon on Resto staff (for reasons, yes at PVP).

Well, atleast the Colossus SMASH always shows my necromancer school of dark arts.

Pretty much always on almost all classes (except Templar) on mag specs i end up using Crushing Shock as spammable, i often keep it for PVE runs too, switching the morph all the time sucks.. and interrupting boss mechanics (and thus helping the tank occasionally too to save stam from Bashes) and mobs cast-timed abilities is a nice bonus, even though the Force Pulse cleave damage is very nice number always on Combat Metrix.

Derra

TheFM wrote: »

Stibbons wrote: »

Every third cast should do 33% more damage. At this moment sorc counterparts from Crystal shard are way better.

The sorc counterpart to skulls doesn't exist. If anything skulls should be comparable to crushing shock. Which it is.

Considering Zos ideally wants their class skills to be desireable to slot over weapon/guild skills i´d argue this as untrue.

The Cost is too high and the functionality is useless from a pvp pov - ele weapon and crushing shock are both superior in every way there.