[6.1.1 Update]
Patch Notes
- 10 minutes duration
- Future devs plan: maximum stack count from 20 to 50 (up to 2000 dmg) or 40 dmg per stack
- up to 50 % reduction in healing and shield efficacy
- up to 50 % increased damage taken
- Keep stacks on death [EDIT: THIS SEEMS TO BE A BUG]
Developer comments:
- people don't wanna dump the stacks
- on death, people try to regain stacks
- Too many players are using it in trials (unhealthy balance between magicka and stamina)
- They don't want all damage dealer to wear Thrassian stranglers
Once again, it feels like the developers have trouble balancing kiss curse with opposite ideas. The duration might be better, but I feel like kiss curse should be based on how much one player wants to push the risk/reward instead of playing a timer.
Also, if the addition of the timer is there to make players loose their stacks, why do you allow people to keep their stacks
[EDIT: THIS SEEMS TO BE A BUG] when they die? You literally remove the risk component of thrassian stranglers! Death is how people "dump" their stacks.
As far as the trial comment goes, I feel like it is not as problematic as they think with the rework to make it give the same buff to stam damage dealer. Is it BiS? Yes. Should all dps wear it in trials? Most likely yes if you are in an end game group. Is that problematic? No. If you take a look at ESOLogs, almost everyone is running the same sets and the same skills. It doesn't seem to bother anyone, why should wearing thrassian be different? It is a "new meta" it would be better to balance around that and accept the fact that people will want to wear it in trials.
To summarize my points:
- Loosing stack on timer = Bad risk / reward | Loosing stacks on death = Good risk / reward
- Stacks from 20 to 50 (40 dmg per stack) good, slow linear powercreep with slow linear penalty (1 % per stack)
- Keeping stacks on death: [EDIT: SUPPOSED TO BE A BUG] Hopefully this is a bug and not intended otherwise I have multiple questions
- Having a new meta (with the stamina dmg change) is not a problem, something is always going to be BiS.
Edited by GrumpyKlam on July 20, 2020 5:17PM
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