Dark Convergence easy to avoid

Marcus_Aurelius

Juts block. Yes just block while you are surrounded by several enemies. Just stand there and block while they spam their AoE on you.
My most sincere congratulations for this set, we really needed it.

DrSlaughtr

Depends on the class that dropped it. If a Necro knows what they're doing, most people drop dead.

Merllow

There are also builds that are not intended to be blocked.

divnyi

This is most bizzare advice ever for the builds that don't stack sturdy. 2k stam per block, which can happen every 1/4s.

Say, you need to block for 3s, thats 24k stam. Only stam builds can do this, and they will be so horribly out of sustain that it most likely spells death.

gamma71

Hard to avoid when it's literally every square inch of the entire battlefield. Your advice might work if I had 50 million stam to block with.

Jameson18

I smiled at the OP. Then chuckled at the comments.

You guys missed the sarcasm.

StarOfElyon

In every single game, the team that either has Dark Convergence or is using Dark Convergence the best wins. Forget about flag games, we can't even have a decent death match with this abomination in the game!!!! I'm frustrated because we finally get all the deathmatch that we can handle and it's absolutely !RUINED! by Dark Convergence!

axi

Just another brick added to the wall of PvP issues. It's kind of a testimony to how devs are disconnected from their own game when it comes to PvP aspect of it. For every 1 decent change they make in PvP , they're adding multiple horrible ones.

taugrim

axi wrote: »

Just another brick added to the wall of PvP issues. It's kind of a testimony to how devs are disconnected from their own game when it comes to PvP aspect of it. For every 1 decent change they make in PvP , they're adding multiple horrible ones.

I actually think PVP was getting to be a good state with the recent change to Battle Spirit.

It's just the new PVP AOE sets are stupidly faceroll in terms of effectiveness.

Abyssmol

If ZOS don't fix Necro or Dark Convergence there would be no PVP. PVPers will finally leave this game!

Fawn4287

1 shot sorc gank builds, magblade bombers and stamblade gank builds are easily countered like this too, just near permanently hold block in PvP zones, run so much health and resists that nothing is capable of 1 shotting you or both. People wonder why cyrodil is so trash to play, bad players and groups get rolled by cheesy garbage like this and just stack 35-40k health and never leave the sword and board bar to avoid being 1 hit. I would take pre set PvP loadouts over being able to use sets like this at this point.

ResidentContrarian

Don't forget, it can still proc more than once from the same instance with zero CD. Surprised no one is abusing that bug to cheese PvE yet.

GRXRG

I seriously don't care of the set, I never died a single time to it and i play over 50 bgs per day, and I am at max elo.

The problem I had was hrothgar because was bugged and impossible to avoid, now it's nerfed barely hit me for 2k, so it's fine again.

The only annoying thing is when the DC radius bugs out and it still pull you even if you are out of the aoe cue.

Best strat is insta break free, pop snare removal and walk out of it; hold block in case of teams ulti dumps into the DC zone.

This patch was so dynamic and fun for me, yeah the sets lowered the skill gap tremendously between good and bad players, but at the end of the day who cares, it's a MMO where skill is made of metas and sets for at least a 75%, 25% is personal player skill, lag issues and computer specs.

Alchimiste1

amazing how some people can't see the original poster's sarcasm/advise

MEBengalsFan2001

gamma71 wrote: »

Hard to avoid when it's literally every square inch of the entire battlefield. Your advice might work if I had 50 million stam to block with.

Use Shuffle and dodge roll out of it. I find shuffle skill is most valuable against DC and other AoE abilities. I also use Flare on my back bar and instantly swap to it when I get pulled in for an additional 10% damage reduction. Does it work all the time, no but about 50% of the time it does.

GetAgrippa

MEBengalsFan2001 wrote: »

Use Shuffle and dodge roll out of it. I find shuffle skill is most valuable against DC and other AoE abilities.

Brb, lemme just equip medium armor and shuffle on my mag toons. 🤷‍♂️

divnyi

REiiGN15 wrote: »

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It is blockable. All of it, damage including.

[edited to remove quote]

jerj6925

GRXRG wrote: »

I seriously don't care of the set, I never died a single time to it and i play over 50 bgs per day, and I am at max elo.

The problem I had was hrothgar because was bugged and impossible to avoid, now it's nerfed barely hit me for 2k, so it's fine again.

The only annoying thing is when the DC radius bugs out and it still pull you even if you are out of the aoe cue.

Best strat is insta break free, pop snare removal and walk out of it; hold block in case of teams ulti dumps into the DC zone.

This patch was so dynamic and fun for me, yeah the sets lowered the skill gap tremendously between good and bad players, but at the end of the day who cares, it's a MMO where skill is made of metas and sets for at least a 75%, 25% is personal player skill, lag issues and computer specs.

I love this, Hrothgar was bugged and .... impossible to avoid, this was the most easy set to avoid the proc. chug a pot to prevent getting stunned, block to prevent getting stunned, roll dodge to prevent getting stunned.. and you say not that it only hits you for 2k and no longer a threat to you its finally ok... talk about lack of learning to adapt. the longer that set was in use the less effective it was because people learned how to avoid it.

Alchimiste1

jerj6925 wrote: »

GRXRG wrote: »

I seriously don't care of the set, I never died a single time to it and i play over 50 bgs per day, and I am at max elo.

The problem I had was hrothgar because was bugged and impossible to avoid, now it's nerfed barely hit me for 2k, so it's fine again.

The only annoying thing is when the DC radius bugs out and it still pull you even if you are out of the aoe cue.

Best strat is insta break free, pop snare removal and walk out of it; hold block in case of teams ulti dumps into the DC zone.

This patch was so dynamic and fun for me, yeah the sets lowered the skill gap tremendously between good and bad players, but at the end of the day who cares, it's a MMO where skill is made of metas and sets for at least a 75%, 25% is personal player skill, lag issues and computer specs.

I love this, Hrothgar was bugged and .... impossible to avoid, this was the most easy set to avoid the proc. chug a pot to prevent getting stunned, block to prevent getting stunned, roll dodge to prevent getting stunned.. and you say not that it only hits you for 2k and no longer a threat to you its finally ok... talk about lack of learning to adapt. the longer that set was in use the less effective it was because people learned how to avoid it.

This set is the single worst thing thats happened to pvp. It completely shuts down offensive windows unless you are a magsorc fighting from 40 meters away. The set has been known to pull you through roll dodge and cc immunity. "just hold block" okay and then 2 more DC get dropped on you while you are getting hit by other abilities so when can you stop holding block ? It makes pvp not fun.

moo_2021

GetAgrippa wrote: »

MEBengalsFan2001 wrote: »

Use Shuffle and dodge roll out of it. I find shuffle skill is most valuable against DC and other AoE abilities.

Brb, lemme just equip medium armor and shuffle on my mag toons. 🤷‍♂️

I put class heal on front bar to survive that.

It's not the damage that kills. With resto staff all the damages can be eaten easily but aoes frequently interfere with bar swapping and ability firing, and DC makes it much worse whether I get stunned or not.

Starting with the most recent update I even have old abilities fired after bar swap and new ability on the current bar, which completely confused me in battle. Now I have to bind strongest heals to both bars on the same button and whenever I get into DC I spam either heals.

Mrtoobyy

Alchimiste1 wrote: »

jerj6925 wrote: »

GRXRG wrote: »

I seriously don't care of the set, I never died a single time to it and i play over 50 bgs per day, and I am at max elo.

The problem I had was hrothgar because was bugged and impossible to avoid, now it's nerfed barely hit me for 2k, so it's fine again.

The only annoying thing is when the DC radius bugs out and it still pull you even if you are out of the aoe cue.

Best strat is insta break free, pop snare removal and walk out of it; hold block in case of teams ulti dumps into the DC zone.

This patch was so dynamic and fun for me, yeah the sets lowered the skill gap tremendously between good and bad players, but at the end of the day who cares, it's a MMO where skill is made of metas and sets for at least a 75%, 25% is personal player skill, lag issues and computer specs.

I love this, Hrothgar was bugged and .... impossible to avoid, this was the most easy set to avoid the proc. chug a pot to prevent getting stunned, block to prevent getting stunned, roll dodge to prevent getting stunned.. and you say not that it only hits you for 2k and no longer a threat to you its finally ok... talk about lack of learning to adapt. the longer that set was in use the less effective it was because people learned how to avoid it.

This set is the single worst thing thats happened to pvp. It completely shuts down offensive windows unless you are a magsorc fighting from 40 meters away. The set has been known to pull you through roll dodge and cc immunity. "just hold block" okay and then 2 more DC get dropped on you while you are getting hit by other abilities so when can you stop holding block ? It makes pvp not fun.

I second that, it really is the worst thing EVER done to pvp. They could leave the set as it is but change to only work with PVE. Change it so it says something like "to non player enemies" like some other sets/abilites do.

StarOfElyon

Mrtoobyy wrote: »

Alchimiste1 wrote: »

jerj6925 wrote: »

GRXRG wrote: »

I seriously don't care of the set, I never died a single time to it and i play over 50 bgs per day, and I am at max elo.

The problem I had was hrothgar because was bugged and impossible to avoid, now it's nerfed barely hit me for 2k, so it's fine again.

The only annoying thing is when the DC radius bugs out and it still pull you even if you are out of the aoe cue.

Best strat is insta break free, pop snare removal and walk out of it; hold block in case of teams ulti dumps into the DC zone.

This patch was so dynamic and fun for me, yeah the sets lowered the skill gap tremendously between good and bad players, but at the end of the day who cares, it's a MMO where skill is made of metas and sets for at least a 75%, 25% is personal player skill, lag issues and computer specs.

I love this, Hrothgar was bugged and .... impossible to avoid, this was the most easy set to avoid the proc. chug a pot to prevent getting stunned, block to prevent getting stunned, roll dodge to prevent getting stunned.. and you say not that it only hits you for 2k and no longer a threat to you its finally ok... talk about lack of learning to adapt. the longer that set was in use the less effective it was because people learned how to avoid it.

This set is the single worst thing thats happened to pvp. It completely shuts down offensive windows unless you are a magsorc fighting from 40 meters away. The set has been known to pull you through roll dodge and cc immunity. "just hold block" okay and then 2 more DC get dropped on you while you are getting hit by other abilities so when can you stop holding block ? It makes pvp not fun.

I second that, it really is the worst thing EVER done to pvp. They could leave the set as it is but change to only work with PVE. Change it so it says something like "to non player enemies" like some other sets/abilites do.

By far the worst thing. [snip]

[edited for bashing]