Lava Whip and its morphs. Dragon Leap and its morphs.

Either mobs have really, REALLY high magic resistances, or they continue nerfing in stealth mode.

I noticed this in cyrodill 4-5 days ago where magma armor and its morph were doing 53 a tick when it says it should be doing 400 a tick. All of the dks in my guild are getting this. So this was happening before this maintenance patch.

you really think a skill that caps inc dmg at 3% should be doing 300 dmg a tick when standard is a fixed aoe ultimate that does like 100 per tick. They should be hitting 50 like they are now.

They did some magical server side fix last thursday that lowered the damage done by them, but they didn't fix the tooltips cuz no client patch.

Imp666 wrote: »

Yeah, an ultimate doing less damage than the spammable staff aoe sounds right to you...

Tanks with lots of health and stamina got zero dps now.

Way to go!

Dude, it's a defensive ultimate. The idea behind it is to reduce damage taken to maximum 3% of your health and deal small AoE damage to keep generating threat to the ennemies around you.

If you want an offensive ultimate, go with Standard of Might. It deals a lot more damage in AoE and boost your damage while staying inside of it. Also you can keep spamming other abilities while you do massive damage around the standard.

Veil of blades for example gives 60% damage reduction and does a massive amount of damage. So your point is moot at best. Ultimates should ALWAYS do more damage than a spammable spell.

Imp666 wrote: »

Veil of blades for example gives 60% damage reduction and does a massive amount of damage. So your point is moot at best. Ultimates should ALWAYS do more damage than a spammable spell.

That doesn't make sense at all. If an ultimate clearly has a very well designed purpose other then damage, and is very strong at it, it doesn't make sense to give it awesome damage as well.

From your arguments it is pretty obvious you are not playing a DK tank. So let me elaborate. In boss fights you will almost never get to use your ultimate more than once per fight, sometimes not even that unless you charge it up before the fight. Those eight seconds are insignificant compaired to the duration of the battle. The main use of that skill would be for soloing or as an alternative in trash pulls. You should also keep in mind that the large majority of bosses have a pretty slow attack speed, so you are being protected against two to three attacks. For 200 ultimate that is just a waste. If it was supposed to be a purely defensive ultimate it should have at least double duration and a lower cost. Lastly my comments come purely from a pve point of view. My main is an end game heavy armour DK tank like.

Imp666 wrote: »

From your arguments it is pretty obvious you are not playing a DK tank. So let me elaborate. In boss fights you will almost never get to use your ultimate more than once per fight, sometimes not even that unless you charge it up before the fight. Those eight seconds are insignificant compaired to the duration of the battle. The main use of that skill would be for soloing or as an alternative in trash pulls. You should also keep in mind that the large majority of bosses have a pretty slow attack speed, so you are being protected against two to three attacks. For 200 ultimate that is just a waste. If it was supposed to be a purely defensive ultimate it should have at least double duration and a lower cost. Lastly my comments come purely from a pve point of view. My main is an end game heavy armour DK tank like.

If you played a DK tank all this time, why are you even arguing about that ultimate?

The skill was doing 5 times the dmg prior 1.3.0 patch, so if you realy were a DK tank and used this ultimate, you should have know there was something wrong with it all this timel! They now reverted the dmg back to the initial value but it does also scales with stamina and weapon power now. So if you played a DK tank all this time, you should have feeled a buff in the damage done from this ultimate since it now scales with the stats you are currently using!

It may have been nerfed in duration, but for a very good reason. No other ultimate grants you the potential mitigation wich Corrosive Armour can offer to yourself and your allies while beeing mobile too. Asking for it to deal more than twice the damage Standard ultimate ever did is just wrong, no matter how you try to put in your arguments.

If you want to use Magma Shell to tank longer, then adding duration is more logical than adding more DPS. Looking at 3% damage received cap status of it, wanting more DPS out of it just means that you want an invincible ultimate tank and DPS at the same time. Tanks shouldn't have much DPS while tanking in the first place, hence the balance.

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

I got no complaints about the reduced damage, like others said it's a tanking ultie. I'm still a bit peeved about the cut in duration by 5 secs, I think that was a bit unnecessary.

Anyhow I'm not a big fan of it, since the rescaling of the dmg, for PvP. Incoming damage capped at 3% is still ~300dmg per attack from other players which is still a lot. It's more damage than you'd take compared to Veil of Blades unless you're getting hit by attacks for over 1k. Also since DoT ticks register as separate attacks you can still clock a lot of DoT damage for other ulties which is not affected by the Magma Armor cap.

It's good for boss tanking, but rubbish outside of PvE, I think. Maybe if Corrosive Armor gave spell damage as well as weapon damage reduction. Seen as a lot of the damage you get in PvP is from spell dmg boosted spells.

^^ This

The damage cap doesn't make that huge of a difference, unless someone is trying to drop an ultimate on you.

The duration in relation to Banner equated to a similar level of damage. But, someone would have to be in the standard for all 17 seconds, which is not going to happen.

I would have liked to see a more moderate nerf on Corrosive, duration kept high and he damage brought down just not as far.

There are a lot of ultimate that are doing 2k+ damage in the game, so I think a lot of the QQ on corrosive is not the damage it is the unfamiliarity. The animation is not very evident, and not many people were using it previous to the patch. This is moot now as the damage is insignificant.

I use magma shell because most of the damage youll get in pvp is spell damage. Helps team mates more imo.

AtriasNaradan wrote: »

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

I got no complaints about the reduced damage, like others said it's a tanking ultie. I'm still a bit peeved about the cut in duration by 5 secs, I think that was a bit unnecessary.

Anyhow I'm not a big fan of it, since the rescaling of the dmg, for PvP. Incoming damage capped at 3% is still ~300dmg per attack from other players which is still a lot. It's more damage than you'd take compared to Veil of Blades unless you're getting hit by attacks for over 1k. Also since DoT ticks register as separate attacks you can still clock a lot of DoT damage for other ulties which is not affected by the Magma Armor cap.

It's good for boss tanking, but rubbish outside of PvE, I think. Maybe if Corrosive Armor gave spell damage as well as weapon damage reduction. Seen as a lot of the damage you get in PvP is from spell dmg boosted spells.

Just one question, where did you get 300 dmg from? it's damages capped at 3% of our max health, which at most right now is about 3K...3% of it is about 90 dmg. And even if you mistaken it as 3% of opponent damages, then it would be even lower. Combined it with shield, and a few added damages, it is the best tanking ultimate there is.

I agree though, it could use longer duration...and it is rubbish outside of PvE, since other players can just back down making the already small DPS even more ineffective. But anyway, it's not a DPS ultimate in the first place.

Never mind me, I fecked up my math as always!

You're absolutely correct