Please swap the proposed mace and axe effects (respecting lore)

Athan1

The new proposed effects for maces and axes are interesting, but for the love of everything that is holy please make maces the healing weapon and axes the penetration weapon. It genuinely makes no sense as it is now. Let's respect decades of dnd lore... even if it's based on misconception, maces have always been the cleric/healing weapons. And axes obviously penetrate armor... please consider lore and respect it. Also making healers equip axes is not only funny but is becoming a meme... Don't let it go in this direction, it's just a tiny swap of effects between weapons.

Vevvev

Reason maces penetrate armor in ESO is under the assumption that they bypass it by being blunt force trauma. To kill an armored knight you don't use a cutting weapon, you bludgeon them to death.

Scardan

Dude, DnD lore and TES lore are not the same.

MythicEmperor

Axes do not penetrate plate armor IRL, but maces are able to damage fully armored opponents with ease. Penetration makes much more sense on maces- their entire purpose as a weapon is to bypass the effects of armor.

Athan1

But axes as healing weapons don't?! It's a litetal meme

UntilValhalla13

I mean, resto staves are still going to be the primary healing weapons. This is also a video game, and shouldn't be taken seriously.

Nordic__Knights

(1) axes = makes an gash ( bleed)
maces = blunt force ( penetration)
or
(2) axes = deep cut ( penetration)
maces= blunt force ( internal bleeding)

idk looks like you can go with whatever floats your boat but 1 seems to fit better to 80% of the world myself included

relentless_turnip

Axes aren't a healing weapon, they increase crit damage and crit healing. This makes less sense than previously where they'd cause a bleed, but with the changes to status effects they could cause 2 dots 😂. Mace makes perfect sense to increase penetration. If its aesthetic you find disagreeable I would recommend an outfit station👍

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Athan1 wrote: »

The new proposed effects for maces and axes are interesting, but for the love of everything that is holy please make maces the healing weapon and axes the penetration weapon. It genuinely makes no sense as it is now. Let's respect decades of dnd lore... even if it's based on misconception, maces have always been the cleric/healing weapons. And axes obviously penetrate armor... please consider lore and respect it. Also making healers equip axes is not only funny but is becoming a meme... Don't let it go in this direction, it's just a tiny swap of effects between weapons.

Keep dnd lore out of eso

Icy_Waffles

Yeah I’m against changing this. It’s not DnD.

It also logically makes sense. I like the changes.

spartaxoxo

This game is not DnD and doesn't need to respect it's lore.

MashmalloMan

Athan1 wrote: »

But axes as healing weapons don't?! It's a litetal meme

None of the melee weapons make sense as a healing weapon, it's only there because ZOS wants to be inclusive when it comes to crit damage and crit healing going forward, instead of seperating them.