I believed Soul Tether only did so much damage because they changed how ultimate abilities scaled. Before 1.3 it was doing much less.

This lead me to believe that it must have been an unwanted side-effect buff, and I clearly anticipated the nerf-back-to-old-value.

Also, Bat Swarm had the same thing happened to it. Or something similar.

And for the solo dungeon bosses, you don't need Soul Tether.Though I agree it was nice having the 5k damage.

On the other hand, the whole undocumenting what happened is a big mistake from their part (one they keep doing, willingly or not).

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

No we can't. We can't have a mature conversation while you call an ultie that does that much damage+stun+heal for so little cost "balanced". I can only treat that as trolling because if I don't I'll have to treat it as idiocy and then you'll say I'm rude and offensive.

Also they rolled back what was clearly an unintentional change in the first place. They didn't document that either, but I guess you had no problem with that.

Soul Assault does 3.2k dmg for me (close to mgk and spell dmg soft cap), it does not heal you for 4k and the snare does not compare to the hard stun. The fact you even try to compare it is laughable. If Soul Assault was on a par you wouldn't use Soul Tether like you did and you wouldn't come here to complain now, would you?

OP's just butthurt he cant 1shot now.

the current damage thats now working is better then before 1.3 but isn't one shotting.

AlienDiplomat wrote: »

dsalter wrote: »

OP's just butthurt he cant 1shot now.

the current damage thats now working is better then before 1.3 but isn't one shotting.

Like I said, I don't PVP. So your assumptions about me are unfounded.

Whatever. Now I remember why I don't bother posting here. People are so immature it isn't even worth my time.

ok then a pve point of view. it was hitting much harder then Soul Assault, almost instantly, could stun, heals you, and charges at the same rate as Soul Assault causing a large imbalance toward damage output

Edit: derp used full stops not comma's

Impossible as stated by ZOS they put every change in to the patch notes no matter how small.

The problem with this thread is its first sentence, making it unapproachable with any kind of seriousness. I would concede and edit what you said Op.

AlienDiplomat wrote: »

Is it really that hard add a different effect "when attacking enemy players?"

I agree but ...

Unfortunately one of the design tenants of ESO is that skills behave the same way in PvE and PvP. This is almost impossible problem to get around for ZoS.

This causes huge balance issues on top of the fact that NBs are generally a broken class that is not very cohesive even if all the skills work properly. There are some good skills and builds and very skillful players but the class is not cohesive and their seem to be a perpetual breakage of one or more skills after every patch. So you don't know if something will work better or worse.

Well, for soft cap spell damage and magicka, you can do around 4k damage with veils of blades in around 17 sec for PvE+60% damage mit for caster but not the best for killing stuff in PvP, just change to that instead if you are only PvEing.

PS: Dont feed yje Trolls.

Baphomet wrote: »

Some number-crushers found that after patch 1.3 certain abilities (soul tether for one) scaled off both spell and weapon power and thus were unintentionally powerful.

Dunno if they fixed it yet, but if they did, they actually just corrected an error.

this is the reality of it.. the damage it was doing was not intended so they applied a FIX.

Only a self entitled little child would have been happy with the lack of balance in this ability, and complained when it ended.

Be glad for a the brief time with a move that was clearly unintentionally overpowered, and what ever your exploitation of Zenimaxes oversight managed to bring you.

Be glad Zenimax doesnt hold it against you for using their mistakes to your advantage... some company do get pretty pissy when their end users take advantages of gaps in their system.

And don't fool yourself again when something like this appears, it gets documented pretty quickly by PTS players, and even if they miss it there the complaints from the PvP players who have a legitimate complaint (tho how they complain is rather annoying) will eventually see issues like this fixed.

I figured this would get reverted back; I did use it though for a bit but honestly I still liked veil of blades better.

Sucks it was nerfed. But I do agree they need to start documenting every freaking change. If they find a bug with a skill doing crazy damage it should be in the patch notes when it's fixed. Lazy lazy lazy ZOS same as always

What is the purpose of the PTS if the tests don't actually matter? In a situation where we are effectively paying to beta test their game, it's very insulting when they don't even listen to the PTS bug reports.