Purely Visual Request for Sorc

ZoeliTintanie

this isn't a "every thing on the list is what I want", but more of "so i'm playing lots of pve and I notice a lot of stuff and stuff" post that i'll probably add to and clean up as I go along my adventures.
enjoy.


Wards - it's very dim and dark, can't tell when its there and when it isn't on either morph in many many situations.
There's a pale blue damage shield animation with scribing, could sorcs get it in their color palette in addition to the current ward animation please? It would make it a lot easier to see the damage shield portion

Crystal Fragments - it's barely visible except in first person which it looks amazing. like the new gold road shattered glass stuff. Could it be made more prominent? brighter and more pieces flying around?
And maybe make the skill have cleave damage please?
Request - cleave damage addition or something extra, its not a very fun spammy
animation request - maybe something like the wall of elements ice shards incorporated somehow

Mages Fury - it looks great but its so quick
request - make a morph that can be held-channeled like arcanist/templar beams. use the ulfililings contingency cast animation prior to the mages fury-arm raise lightning bolt, then hold the arm in the upright position while the sorc channels all that lightning over and over on multiple targets.
and since its a channel, the sorc can pulse a pbaoe like the current scribing class affix around itself every pulse.

Hurricane - having more wind effects like the wardens arctic wind, added to hurricane would help. currently it looks very, empty? around the avatar which turns into a ghost.
If its turning the sorc into an energy, could it be changed to add more static/energy lines around the blue parts? maybe changing in hues as the hurricane expands to full duration, shifting from intensity so from blue to magenta to white etc.
request - combine with storm memento animation (more whirling lightning & winds by the feet & lower body)
(gothnars helm/shoulders combo) also has a very bright fire ring that pulses, if that animation gets turned into the sorc-colors and added to hurricane it would help too.

Critical Surge - Looks 99% identical to Overload (ult)
request - add crystal-fragments-stam morph animation to Critical Surge (both morphs) so the sorcs weapon surges too, with a mix of both animations.
- add the current scribing pet buff to this
Overload - request : could it have more static around the body instead of just the arms? maybe even add some of the crystal fragment shards around the body for an atronauch-like appearance.

Haunting Curse - i don't even know if i cast it or not sometimes
Request - unfathomable darkness set has a crows that attack, using that same animation style, but replace the birds with ghostly daedra or some dark magic sigils etc floating around

Crystal Cage - a burst of light when it goes off would be great, doesn't need to go off if it gets broken. I can't realy tell if I stunned anything with it unless I see the word stun pop up. I can barely see the crystals sometimes unless I zoom in.
request - the sorc class armor from infinite archive has those bright spikes that come down to channel the lightning energy, maybe something like that bright, not too bright not too dark, but noticeable.

Vibrant Shroud (both morphs) etc - its so dark the sorc has such pretty animations but they are so dimmed out and toned down on so many skills.
request - more of whatever they are, they're pretty but barely noticeable


ok bye

Pelanora

I don't want the effects on me so much as on the npc I hit. Having someone just fall over flat like a board is so boring.

Lystrad

ZoeliTintanie wrote: »

Mages Fury - it looks great but its so quick
request - make a morph that can be held-channeled like arcanist/templar beams. use the ulfililings contingency cast animation prior to the mages fury-arm raise lightning bolt, then hold the arm in the upright position while the sorc channels all that lightning over and over on multiple targets.
and since its a channel, the sorc can pulse a pbaoe like the current scribing class affix around itself every pulse.

I'm all for sorc getting a channeled lightning attack, but given that contingency is one of those animations that flickers your weapons out of existence I would prefer it not use the bones of that animation, as my favorite thing about sorc is that it doesn't really have abilities that do that other than overload light attacks.

My only real personal request is to give the berserk on dark deal/dark conversion a unique visual similar to how class based versions of brutality and sorcery get unique visuals. The bright red is really jarring when the rest of sorcs kit is blue and purple with a little yellow mixed in on heals.

ZoeliTintanie

the thing I love about contingency is the initial casting animation, its amazing looking with the swirls of light and the arm movements

ESPECIALLY

If you follow it up with

Radiant Opression from Templar
Wings from Warden
Mages Fury from Sorc
Rune Armor from Arcanist

its amazing to see, I can even make the wings from warden + contingency combine to look like green/red phoenix wings (if you put fire damage or shield on contingency)

Same with Wield Soul on a Templar, Cast Contingency, cast Ray and then Wield soul and its basically a Lightweaver class

but if we skip that animation and just go to the base animations, you can tell that theres something "missing" that the scribing animations are pointing at, but not 'covering the gap' of. Know what I mean? I hope so.

LunaFlora

some of this seems cool and i definitely about the Ward damage shield being too dark,
but i really don't want more static on Overload or a channeled morph of Mages' Fury.

the static already hurts my head and there's no way to turn off these kinds of effects in options

MashmalloMan

All I want is to not be invisible when using Lightning Form.

derpy_mushroom

Don't want a channeled morph of Mages' Fury, but if a morph kept the animation it currently does and became a proper spammable that Sorc passives benefit? I'd use the hell of out that skill.

Dracane

MashmalloMan wrote: »

All I want is to not be invisible when using Lightning Form.

I have lamented this for eons. Sorcerer ought to be the worst fashion class, because you never get to see it in combat. All of the classes get somewhat obstructed or difused by their class armor buffs, but Sorcerer is the silliest. I always found it stupid and non-Elderscrolly to turn transparent instead of being merely cloaked in lightning.

Although I shant deny, it's a great animation obstructer in pvp. Harder to tell for an enemy what you are doing.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Dracane wrote: »

MashmalloMan wrote: »

All I want is to not be invisible when using Lightning Form.

I have lamented this for eons. Sorcerer aught to be the worst fashion class, because you never get to see it in combat.

I still remember the Bound Armor completely obscuring my character’s appearance.

(And she still got mistaken for a Templar with it active! 🤣)

Dracane

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

MashmalloMan wrote: »

All I want is to not be invisible when using Lightning Form.

I have lamented this for eons. Sorcerer aught to be the worst fashion class, because you never get to see it in combat.

I still remember the Bound Armor completely obscuring my character’s appearance.

(And she still got mistaken for a Templar with it active! 🤣)

Old times. Back then, long before dye stations existed, that silvery daedra armor was actually quite the fashion statement. It certainly looked better than the muddy argonian robes Necropotence forced upon you.