ESO Balance (Axe/Battleaxe needs an improvement)

Vaneur

ESO Balance:

> Greatsword/Swords x2 new passive vs Warrior Mundus: 284 wpn damage vs 238 wpn damage. (mundus is clearly worse)

> Maul/Maces x2 passive vs The Lover Mundus: 3300 armor penetration vs 2744 armor penetration (mundus is clearly worse)

> Great Axe/ Axes x2 passive vs The Shadow Mundus: 8% Critical dmg and healing vs 11% Critical dmg and healing (mundus win this time!)

(Why would I wear an axe/greataxe this patch with these crits chance nerfs? Its passive is not also good if we make a comparinson with another dmg sources (greatsword/swords passives improves critical and non critical dmg and healing; would increase them to 7%/14%))

Edit: Khajit race passive is way better than axe/battleaxe new passive, so... why orc/dark elf/high elf damage passives are worse than swords/greatsword new passive?

Also:

> Recovery armor bonus vs Damage armor bonus: 126 vs 126

> Recovery glyph vs Damage glyph: 169 vs 174

> Recovery mundus vs Damage mundus: 310 vs 238


Everything it's ok, José Luis.

UntilValhalla13

I'm low-key expecting axes to replace swords in acuity bombing builds with these changes.

satanio

You could still build decent amount of crit with AY to feel the impact of the axes bonus. Plain WD has a small flaw, and that flaw is that the more of WD you have, the less impact another WD brings to your overall dps.. But honestly now its hard to say bcs it is very painful to parse with only 810 CP and bugged penetration.
Maces are the winner of the weapon adjustements. Plain stat, that has no diminishing returns, its only flaw is that, once you hit 18200 pene any more of it is useless. This adjustement somehow compensates the loss from the old CPpenetration.

stefj68

honestly, don't feel this is an issue... with axe/battleaxe ... you can pick another mundus and 4 blue stars that could compensate for what you have... you have to see the whole picture... if u have extra wd from axes, you could pick more crits from mundus, or more crits damage with blue stars... at the end i think you can almost all balance it... except for mace...

i like those changes

unless you want to try to stack to the extreme 1 aspect

Firstmep

satanio wrote: »

You could still build decent amount of crit with AY to feel the impact of the axes bonus. Plain WD has a small flaw, and that flaw is that the more of WD you have, the less impact another WD brings to your overall dps.. But honestly now its hard to say bcs it is very painful to parse with only 810 CP and bugged penetration.
Maces are the winner of the weapon adjustements. Plain stat, that has no diminishing returns, its only flaw is that, once you hit 18200 pene any more of it is useless. This adjustement somehow compensates the loss from the old CPpenetration.

Frankly with the continued nerfs to crit chance I feel like daggers are going to be a must have for pve, I can't imagine building a healthy amount without them.
Honestly rather than continously nerfing crit they should just rework it already, so it's not this super powerful multiplier anymore.
Maybe nightblades will be able to get enough crit chance to pull of axes or at least 1 axe, but I doubt the rest of the classes will.
This also makes it so that dw has 2 crit oriented weapon types now, like why?
The bleed was just fine on axes and very thematic too.
They couldve made axes gives status chance instead and that would've made more sense than this, really.
Bleed builds are getting a pretty big nerf as well, despite not being that strong already.
Sigh.

OlumoGarbag

UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

I'm low-key expecting axes to replace swords in acuity bombing builds with these changes.

Why wouldn't they? Wow your smart it's insane