Vampire Ultimate (Blood Scion) Feedback

Deloth_Vyrr

Having played around with this ultimate for a bit on PTS I think its generally pretty neat, however it comes with an annoying, glaring issue.

The wasted duration at the start and the self-stuns at the end are extremely brutal. Firstly, the start up animation is super long, which would be ok if it didn't eat into the Ultimate's duration time. The skill says it has a 20 second duration, but by the time you can actually act you are down to 17 seconds. Please make the 20 second timer not start until the animation has completed.

The second, and IMO worst part is at the end, when you transform back it interrupts whatever you are doing and basically stuns you. If you are mid heavy attack, channel, or anything else it will immediately interrupt when the Ult wears off. This is not only clunky but can really mess up your rotation. Please consider removing the self-stun that comes with the transformation back to "Human" form.

Vevvev

The only good thing about that start-up animation is it warns me when to run away from the person casting the ultimate. The fact it gives 10k magicka and stamina along with 10k health is a bit ridiculous. Its giving the caster 1k effective spell and weapon damage while its up, which is incredibly noticeable when they combine it with Blood Frenzy and/or Inner Light. If you can't keep them away from you or burst them down quickly you're going to die...

I do agree with you the animation at the end of it is a bit much though, and I wouldn't mind them doing something about that. It does break the flow of combat more than it should.

Deloth_Vyrr

Vevvev wrote: »

The only good thing about that start-up animation is it warns me when to run away from the person casting the ultimate. The fact it gives 10k magicka and stamina along with 10k health is a bit ridiculous. Its giving the caster 1k effective spell and weapon damage while its up, which is incredibly noticeable when they combine it with Blood Frenzy and/or Inner Light. If you can't keep them away from you or burst them down quickly you're going to die...

I do agree with you the animation at the end of it is a bit much though, and I wouldn't mind them doing something about that. It does break the flow of combat more than it should.

I don't actually mind that the Ult has some counterplay given the boost in power it gives you, letting everyone know whats happening with the transform animation is fine IMO. The fact that it takes up almost 3 seconds of the Ult's duration is the bigger problem, you don't actually get 20 seconds of use out of it. Simply having the 20 second duration begin after the animation has finished would fix that.

Areloth

Can you confirm if it is possible to gain ultimate while in vampire form and if I loose vamp form when swapping bars without having the ultimate slotted on the other bar?

Sephyr

Areloth wrote: »

Can you confirm if it is possible to gain ultimate while in vampire form and if I loose vamp form when swapping bars without having the ultimate slotted on the other bar?

You can't gain ult while in Vampire form. You don't lose the form while swapping though.

Areloth

Sephyr wrote: »

Areloth wrote: »

Can you confirm if it is possible to gain ultimate while in vampire form and if I loose vamp form when swapping bars without having the ultimate slotted on the other bar?

You can't gain ult while in Vampire form. You don't lose the form while swapping though.

...that destroys my idea of having a ulti build which is permanently in vamp form...but thanks for the quick confirmation