Why make winter's revenge only viable for staves?

MashmalloMan

xDeusEJRx wrote: »

I think the reasoning they did that is to encourage more variation in builds because hybridization made clear distinctions in what weapon types/morphs are clearly superior to others and I think this change is just to encourage people to use more varied builds.

I don't think zos know how to create a variety in builds without making 1 morph blatantly overperforming for one particular playstyle to where people just switch over to another playstyle.

I think we're seeing the same thing with the changes to concealed weapon/surprise attack on nightblade as well. They wanna give mag and stam variants variety so people just don't blatantly pick one over the other so they buff one or the other and leave the other underwhelming and then everyone just uses the other morph.


I think hybridization facilitated some weird cycle where ZOS only can think of attaching stipulations to weapon types in order to have any variety in their skills.

Just my take on the situation

Thats 100% what it is, but this isn't the solution. Play as you want to me, means equal opportunity.

Now every PVE Warden, stam or mag is just going to back bar a Destruction staff and call it a day. It fails to accomplish anything meaningful and it worries me that all the classes will be hit with this in the future.

Update the passives. "Frost staves are 5% stronger for Warden." Perfect, now you'll think about running it front bar and this only makes sense because Frost staves are typically a support weapon, so you're not going to see every Warden want to run it. Plus the passive is only 5%, it's hardly something to go nuts over, but would help it pass other Destruction staff types.

LurgidBean

It's a weird tactic to balance, but if that's what they're doing, okay....But it isn't even all staves. Why couldn't they include resto staves as well, if the idea is to support the people still playing magdens?
I've actually used builds where I run the skill on my resto bar, not my frost bar. But there would be no room to swap it to the frost bar, so too bad for *that type* of Magden. You chose the wrong type of magical weapon so no boost for you.

I'm console so legitimately asking the people doing the PTS work and who are doing their best to understand the changes - Why wouldn't they extend this to resto as well? Is it because of the other resto changes in the patch?

sbr32

LurgidBean wrote: »

I'm console so legitimately asking the people doing the PTS work and who are doing their best to understand the changes - Why wouldn't they extend this to resto as well? Is it because of the other resto changes in the patch?

Because they are throwing darts at random targets and just hoping it works out.