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No one will slot Shocking Tether for anything but the passive if it isn't off gcd.
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✭✭YandereGirlfriend wrote: »My Psijic powers have shown me a glimpse of one potential future:
1. These changes go through
2. Necros stop using the ability and instead slot it only for the 3% damage passive
3. Next patch ZOS says: "We don't like that Necros are only slotting this ability for the passives so we have removed them and have instead buffed Tether damage by *checks spreadsheet* 8.45%"
4. Necros drop the ability from their bars
5. Time passes, Magicka Blastbones still isn't fixed, and magCros move on to a different class
Really does make you wonder if they play their own game.
6. Major Vulnerability is removed from the colossus.
I'm somewhat of a Psijic order member myself.
Edited by Anhedonie on May 21, 2020 1:11AMProfanity filter is a crime against the freedom of speech. Also gags.2 -
Skullstachio✭✭✭✭✭I would suggest incorporating Draugrkin’s Grip into a Necromage, the set makes the Shocking siphon quite dangerous if the accursed enemy comes into range, especially if built for crit chance with mothers sorrow.If you see me anywhere. Know that I am sitting back with a bag of popcorn, watching as ESO burns the goodwill of its player base with practices that only disrespects the players time like it did to me and many others...
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Yeah cause it’s not like this topic is about mag necros or anything.
I'm sorry, the title referred to the skill as a whole rather than the magicka morph which is called Mystic Siphon and i'm definitely guilty of not reading the first post.
Either way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WP8RRawTcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlzUpNHbESI Edited by MaxJrFTW on May 21, 2020 1:26AM"I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
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Siphon has always been manageable while playing solo or parsing, although it can still bug out. Its in group play, especially with other necros, where the ability is broken.0 -
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Siphon has always been manageable while playing solo or parsing, although it can still bug out. Its in group play, especially with other necros, where the ability is broken.
And yet
https://www.esologs.com/zone/rankings/12#boss=44&class=Necromancer&spec=MagickaDPS
everyone is using it, and everyone will continue to use itEdited by MaxJrFTW on May 21, 2020 5:24AM"I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
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Siphon has always been manageable while playing solo or parsing, although it can still bug out. Its in group play, especially with other necros, where the ability is broken.
And yet
https://www.esologs.com/zone/rankings/12#boss=44&class=Necromancer&spec=MagickaDPS
everyone is using it, and everyone will continue to use it
Well.. ya, those logs are from harrowstorm, where siphon is off the gcd. However, it was quite common, especially for stam, to only slot it for the passive back when it was still on the gcd. If they revert the changes, put it back on the gcd, and it is still broken.. its safe to assume people will do that again.
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Posting a parse video from 3 patches ago to prove a point when i already posted 2 videos from the greymoor pts in which people are actively using siphon. I'm done here..."I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
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Posting a parse video from 3 patches ago to prove a point when i already posted 2 videos from the greymoor pts in which people are actively using siphon. I'm done here...
You posted two solo parses. It was already stated that siphon was manageable solo, and became buggy in content when playing with other necros (the theory is corpses from other necros cause line of sight issues for siphon). This is why siphon was taken off the GCD to begin with, so we could hit it at any time in the rotation during the random brief split seconds it became available. I know exactly what the op is referring to, and it seems most others do as well, the issue is common knowledge for anyone who has ever played a cro. Why do I have this feeling you have never played one and have no idea what is actually being discussed here? If the OP is correct, and it still isn't fixed ( I pray he is wrong), and they put it back on the gcd, people will probably once again, revert back to not using it.Edited by hashsnob on May 22, 2020 4:17AM6 -
lucky_Sage✭✭✭✭✭I had a idea about how to help necros with there tethers is by having blast bones leave a corpse on one enemy hitDC PC NA
Magdk - main
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AD PS4 NA -retired (PC runs way better to play on console)
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✭Siphon is once again completely unusable in trials, and Necro has lost considerable aoe dps due to this change. Nothing has changed since the last patch, targeting is too unreliable to actually attempt to use the ability. 99% of the time it's flickering on my bar because the ability cannot actually properly target a corpse to use the tether on.
Siphon is a sustain ability too, and with it once again being too unreliable to attempt to use in most situations, sustain has also gotten worse.
I don't understand this change at all. Siphon was finally usable when it was off gcd, and now we're back to square one where in the majority of situations the ability only exists to provide a passive. I have enough useless abilities on my bar that only provide passives, I certainly don't need another one.
Gryphon Heart
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqMqTnuBXyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInqN9wkNRI&t=6s