Day 1 Feedback

ValindorPinebrook

I have been a long term player since launch. While I primarily main tanks, I can pull good dps (40-45k on 3m and 6m, and 70-75k on 21m) in the current patch on live wearing non-meta, but strong sets. I have felt the ebb and flow of changes throughout the years and have always adapted to them and found enjoyment in each patch regardless of the changes. I know this is patch day 1, and the majority of the posts here have been on the more negative side, but I share some of the concerns that have been brought up. My initial feelings after spending roughly 3 hours on the pts dumby humping is one of, for lack of a better word, depressed. While I could hit 43k on the 3m with self buffs, I did have to run more meta setups (Relequin, etc.) to accomplish that number. Sustain did feel great, but sketchy if you neared the bottom of your resource pool. Prior to the change you could do a HA for about 20-25% of your resources. Now, we can only do 3 LAs for a 1000 which will give you ~1400 after all 3 LAs; however, that is not enough to cast most abilities in this game. I was hopeful that this change would bring back max health and stam food, and you can run it, but your sustain still suffers. I know at this point I am just rambling, but I am just trying to process where these changes fit with my play style. I'll add more as I continue reflect. If you have similar experiences please share them and let's discuss this!

heaven13

I ran into similar issues on PTS regarding sustain. Wearing my current 'usual' (PFG, MS, backbar maelstrom) I dropped dps by about 7k but my magicka pool never fell below 70%. Switched to Siroria and had more issues (though partially due to the skill not firing bug and then me casting it twice) and when my resources hit the bottom end, it was like "well, just stand here and twiddle your fingers then". It felt like there was less of a deliberate course of action for regaining resources compared to live and that yes, depending on set-up light attack weaving WILL be important for sustain.

Tannus15

first test, literally just took my live build and parsed a dummy.

live

current pts

build is perfected false god, imperial wrath, perfected asylum staff, zaan - fish bowl 2 stat food - breton

clearly i'm massively over sustaining compared to live, so i'll make some adjustments and see what happens, but that's a huge dps loss.

Tannus15

@heaven13 I hadn't really thought about that part of it.
What are you meant to do now you're out of resources? just light attack spam?

IxSTALKERxI

Tannus15 wrote: »

@heaven13 I hadn't really thought about that part of it.
What are you meant to do now you're out of resources? just light attack spam?

You're meant to die (hopefully).

Tannus15

so i race changed from breton to altmer and changed the front bar enchant from absorb mag to flame

didn't really dip below 70% mag still

changed perfected false god for new moon and asylum for the standard mothers sorrow front bar and I'm finally out of magicka when parsing, and it's awful.
there is nothing you can do except spam light attacks. if the build isn't "sustainable" then the builds feels broken.

I did have a crack at heavy attack weaving the front bar with perf FG and m-sorrow but i'm more than willing to put this parse down to me just not knowing how to pull this off

Aelorin

Thank you for doing actual testing and sharing your parses.