Ragnarock41 wrote: »MartiniDaniels wrote: »MellowMagic wrote: »the damage is lower because it is ranged, I'd rather it hit harder and be melee range
don't think that is an actual thing in eso.. if you look at how various skills scale, there is nothing that indicates that ranged skills do less damage than melee. more the opposite if anything
I've not seen anything suggesting it is lower as a result of being ranged.
Ranged abilities always have less damage and sometimes cost more. For example concealed weapon vs swallow soul - concealed is cheaper and deals more damage. Of course it is ZO$ and we have exceptions like elemental weapon...
Also DK has passive - 7m range of melee abilities. It is really big difference in practice... so 7m melee spammable stamina ability can be a real signature (like whip is). Anyways ZOS could leave ranged stonefist for PVE with few tweaks (and removed cast time), and grant flame lash morphs same treatment as soul trap - i.e. if stamina is higher deals and scales with poison damage, if magicka is higher - deals and scales with fire damage.
just give up. ZoS wants something "creative" over useful, even if that means making the skill non-viable
Its not creative either unfortunately. I value creativity and risky/unique things. This is neither.