Reduce Battle Spirit Reduction of Above and Beyond

madmufffin

With how underwhelming NB is right now in PVP and how aggressively their core mechanic of stealth is being gimped with this patch, can we not reduce the punishment from battle spirit on Above and Beyond? An 80% reduction of the mastery when every other class is allowed to run rampant with their max power masteries (sorry Templar) is a pretty insane level of shackling for a currently underperforming class in PVP. Realistically it could be at its full value and still not be game breaking, but at the very least bring it up to only a 50% reduction like An Eye for Exploitation has.

evLRise

madmufffin wrote: »

With how underwhelming NB is right now in PVP and how aggressively their core mechanic of stealth is being gimped with this patch, can we not reduce the punishment from battle spirit on Above and Beyond? An 80% reduction of the mastery when every other class is allowed to run rampant with their max power masteries (sorry Templar) is a pretty insane level of shackling for a currently underperforming class in PVP. Realistically it could be at its full value and still not be game breaking, but at the very least bring it up to only a 50% reduction like An Eye for Exploitation has.

This. 5% is worse than most normal passives.

Piercing Spear: Increases your Critical Damage by 12%. Increases your damage done to blocking players by 12%.

Hemorrhage: Increases your Critical Damage by 10%. Critically striking in any form grants you and your group Minor Savagery, increasing your Weapon Critical rating by 1314 for 20 seconds.

Blessing at the Peak: Where earth meets sky is a wellspring of power you can tap at will. When you cast or deal damage with an Earthen Heart ability in combat you generate 3 Ultimate. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds. Increases your Critical Damage by 10%.

The cap increase is inconsequential in almost every PvP scenario due to crit resist.

rlindsey912nub18_ESO

Like seriously dks and sorcs are melting players but god forbid nbs being able to burst and kill its target and everything they nerf nbs for over the years they just allow dks and sorcs to just for the love of the game

warm_blanket

Above and Beyond is a comically poor mastery in pvp.

You can already subclass into animal companions to get +5% cd (no crit healing though) for every AC skill on your bar, or aedric spear for a flat 12%, and needless to say the crit cap increase has zero value in pvp. These masteries need to be significantly better to offer anything over subclassing.

Remove the battlespirit limiter entirely. Instead put an in-combat only modifier on it to assuage the teams ganking fears, and it'll be fine.