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NB wishes, Nerf magelight.

  • Huntler
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    Right now using magelight is win win, no negatives.

    Except taking up 20% of your ability bar... yup no negative whastoever.
    Edited by Huntler on September 14, 2014 10:18PM
  • Ezareth
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    The nightblades are so bad I have to keep magelight on 2 of my bars. Even so the best NBs can almost always get away. Most of them are just bad though.

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  • TheBull
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    The nightblades are so bad I have to keep magelight on 2 of my bars. Even so the best NBs can almost always get away. Most of them are just bad though.
    yeah since 1.3 most sorceres are good. Funny how that works.
  • Ezareth
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    TheBull wrote: »
    The nightblades are so bad I have to keep magelight on 2 of my bars. Even so the best NBs can almost always get away. Most of them are just bad though.
    yeah since 1.3 most sorceres are good. Funny how that works.

    That's funny because most of the sorcs I fight are terrible. I can count on less than 2 hands the number of sorcs I'd consider good, even less great.

    Pure offense, glass cannon, streak swarm garbage. I think most of the sorcs are so used to aoeing zergs they forgot how to actually use their class or take advantage of game mechanics.
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  • Aeratus
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    Right now using magelight is win win, no negatives.
    This is incorrect, because magelight is a huge waste of a slot on the bar. The vast majority of players (other than dedicated healers) don't use magelight in their default configuration at all.

    Magelight is specifically used to counter stealthers. That's why it's fair, because they have to specifically slot a skill (which they do not normally use) in order to counter your skill.
  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    Huntler wrote: »


    Right now using magelight is win win, no negatives.

    Except taking up 20% of your ability bar... yup no negative whastoever.
    Aeratus wrote: »
    Right now using magelight is win win, no negatives.
    This is incorrect, because magelight is a huge waste of a slot on the bar. The vast majority of players (other than dedicated healers) don't use magelight in their default configuration at all.

    Magelight is specifically used to counter stealthers. That's why it's fair, because they have to specifically slot a skill (which they do not normally use) in order to counter your skill.
    Yes yes.. ofc, why dont you give me a skill that I can slot to specifically counter templar shield and sorceror bolt, because its the same thing. Thats fair right? I cant use stealth, you cant shield or escape either.

    Well you probably think thats a ridicilous idea and that prevents you from using your main class ability, well thats what magelight does to NB.

    Edit: I think mage light should be counter to sneaking, not counter to cloak. Increase range on sneak detection.. maybe 20 meters around you or something instead of 12. But dont make it so NBs main class ability becomes obsolete.
    Edited by Mograineb16_ESO on September 14, 2014 11:11PM
  • dcincali
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    Nerf detect potions too right?
  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    dcincali wrote: »
    Nerf detect potions too right?
    If detect potions make it so you can see people who use cloak, hell yeah nerf it. You are supposed to use detection pot to see if anyone is in sneak around you, not to break my class ability.

  • Ezareth
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    dcincali wrote: »
    Nerf detect potions too right?
    If detect potions make it so you can see people who use cloak, hell yeah nerf it. You are supposed to use detection pot to see if anyone is in sneak around you, not to break my class ability.

    So a night blade should be able to line up a 3K damage combo on me from stealth while I'm unable to see them or detect them through any means. If that combo fails to kill me he should be given a 100% escape mechanism with no chance of me catching him. Sounds very fair!

    I'm pretty sure bolt escape and blazing shield are nothing like that at all.

    Here is a solution for you....if you want to play a stealth assassin, learn to choose your targets and pick your timing. The advantage of stealth is that you can pick your timing and target and front-load a TON of damage. If you haven't learned when that timing is in the 5 months this game has been out, then magelight isn't your problem.
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  • Braidas
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    TheBull wrote: »
    The nightblades are so bad I have to keep magelight on 2 of my bars. Even so the best NBs can almost always get away. Most of them are just bad though.
    yeah since 1.3 most sorceres are good. Funny how that works.

    That's funny because most of the sorcs I fight are terrible. I can count on less than 2 hands the number of sorcs I'd consider good, even less great.

    Pure offense, glass cannon, streak swarm garbage. I think most of the sorcs are so used to aoeing zergs they forgot how to actually use their class or take advantage of game mechanics.
    out of curiosity, which sorcs do you consider good?
  • Ezareth
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    TheBull wrote: »
    The nightblades are so bad I have to keep magelight on 2 of my bars. Even so the best NBs can almost always get away. Most of them are just bad though.
    yeah since 1.3 most sorceres are good. Funny how that works.

    That's funny because most of the sorcs I fight are terrible. I can count on less than 2 hands the number of sorcs I'd consider good, even less great.

    Pure offense, glass cannon, streak swarm garbage. I think most of the sorcs are so used to aoeing zergs they forgot how to actually use their class or take advantage of game mechanics.
    out of curiosity, which sorcs do you consider good?

    I'd prefer not to get into names as I wasn't saying what I said to talk trash or talk down to people or get into arguments of the sort.

    I think we both can agree that 90-95% of players really don't know their own class, yet alone other classes very well.

    As a solo player, if these people didn't exist, I'd rarely get a kill and I'd have far less than a 25-1 K/D ratio.
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  • Huntler
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    So a night blade should be able to line up a 3K damage combo on me from stealth while I'm unable to see them or detect them through any means. If that combo fails to kill me he should be given a 100% escape mechanism with no chance of me catching him. Sounds very fair!

    Yes, that is exactly what the OP seems to feel entitled to.
  • Braidas
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    TheBull wrote: »
    The nightblades are so bad I have to keep magelight on 2 of my bars. Even so the best NBs can almost always get away. Most of them are just bad though.
    yeah since 1.3 most sorceres are good. Funny how that works.

    That's funny because most of the sorcs I fight are terrible. I can count on less than 2 hands the number of sorcs I'd consider good, even less great.

    Pure offense, glass cannon, streak swarm garbage. I think most of the sorcs are so used to aoeing zergs they forgot how to actually use their class or take advantage of game mechanics.
    out of curiosity, which sorcs do you consider good?

    I'd prefer not to get into names as I wasn't saying what I said to talk trash or talk down to people or get into arguments of the sort.

    I think we both can agree that 90-95% of players really don't know their own class, yet alone other classes very well.

    As a solo player, if these people didn't exist, I'd rarely get a kill and I'd have far less than a 25-1 K/D ratio.
    ya wasnt asking for anything like tht just curious cuz why not, but i gotcha
    Edited by Braidas on September 14, 2014 11:46PM
  • leovuoeb17_ESO
    I'll post it here aswell.

    Regarding Magelight: does the bonus from decreased detection area size from Improved Sneak (http://esohead.com/skills/29738-improved-sneak) and Stealthy (http://esohead.com/skills/36022-stealthy) apply to the invisibility provided by Cloak?

    Or does Magelight always have 12 meters of detection regarding invisibility (not sneak/crouch)?
  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    Huntler wrote: »

    So a night blade should be able to line up a 3K damage combo on me from stealth while I'm unable to see them or detect them through any means. If that combo fails to kill me he should be given a 100% escape mechanism with no chance of me catching him. Sounds very fair!

    Yes, that is exactly what the OP seems to feel entitled to.
    Entitled? Why are you entitled to make my stealth obsolete? If you dont wanna have a 3k damage combo from stealth, you can use mage light to reduce incoming sneak damage with 50%.

    You guys do nothing, its a passive skill that prevents me from going stealth. Atleast im willing to meet at the middle with this problem. Increase sneak detection radius, so that after we escaped, you can find us easier, or make the skill action so you have to put effort in preventing me going stealth.
    Edited by Mograineb16_ESO on September 14, 2014 11:51PM
  • Forestd16b14_ESO
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    Any one else feeling them self getting noobier by reading this???
  • Columba
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    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
  • TheBull
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    Columba wrote: »
    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
    Bet you didn't know that Magelight is bugged and canceling Dark Cloak did ya?

    OP's concerns are valid.


    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1266563/#Comment_1266563
    Edited by TheBull on September 15, 2014 1:31AM
  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    TheBull wrote: »
    Columba wrote: »
    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
    Bet you didn't know that Magelight is bugged and canceling Dark Cloak did ya?

    OP's concerns are valid.


    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1266563/#Comment_1266563
    Yes, ty for the link.

    If cloak didnt get broken by magelight and you could feint someone and run in a different direction to get outside the magelight area and be in stealth, that would probably work fine.
  • GreyPilgrim
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    Thanks for the link, though it seems it is still up in the air whether the effect change is intentional.

    That actually seems like a reasonable compromise though, that Magelight would allow you to 'see' someone who is invisible, but wouldn't actually break their invisibility, thus giving you the heads up if you are paying attention, but not actually disabling the skill.
  • Columba
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    TheBull wrote: »
    Columba wrote: »
    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
    Bet you didn't know that Magelight is bugged and canceling Dark Cloak did ya?

    OP's concerns are valid.


    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1266563/#Comment_1266563

    don't really care, honestly.

  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    Columba wrote: »
    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
    Funny guy, do you even NB?

  • Huntler
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    Columba wrote: »
    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
    Funny guy, do you even NB?

    Whats funnier is that somehow anyone who disagrees with you is a troll or doesn't understand, and your opinion must be right.


    And to another point you made, Magelight does not completely negate dark cloak, it does so under only certain circumstances.
  • PlagueMonk
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    TheBull wrote: »
    Columba wrote: »
    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
    Bet you didn't know that Magelight is bugged and canceling Dark Cloak did ya?

    OP's concerns are valid.


    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1266563/#Comment_1266563
    Yes, ty for the link.

    If cloak didnt get broken by magelight and you could feint someone and run in a different direction to get outside the magelight area and be in stealth, that would probably work fine.

    I take it you have never used invisibility. We do not "run" anywhere which is part of the problem. All we can do it slowly skulk away (unlike Sorc who can get completely out of range with a single blink) and have to reapply invis every 2.9 secs which quickly drains your magicka. All you have to do is run around to easily catch a NB (unless they have the super speed sneak which most do not)

    I don't understand why all these counters to stealth were built into the system but nothing to stop things like blink.

    Maybe if NBs had more inherent speed when Invis. and for a longer duration it wouldn't be as big of a deal but currently it's ridiculous.

  • timidobserver
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    I think the OP just asked for them to purposefully bug magelight?
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  • Domander
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    This thread is silly.
    Edited by Domander on September 15, 2014 2:56AM
  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    Huntler wrote: »
    Columba wrote: »
    Most decent NBs would disagree with this nonsense.
    Funny guy, do you even NB?

    Whats funnier is that somehow anyone who disagrees with you is a troll or doesn't understand, and your opinion must be right.


    And to another point you made, Magelight does not completely negate dark cloak, it does so under only certain circumstances.
    Whats even more funnier is that according to you I cant argue against what you are saying, because then im in the wrong. I dont think that people isnt understanding what im saying, I just dont agree with what they are saying... and my opinion is not the "correct" one, its just that, MY opinion. There is smarter people out there that design skills, I just made a wish, not a demand.

    Ofc I call someone a troll, when they claim to play NB and never had a problem with magelight, ofc this depend on what they think is a problem. But being in melee range of someone who use magelight and you try using cloak and it fails. I think thats an obvious problem, doesnt matter if its intended.

    And yes, magelight only negates dark cloak under certain circumstances.. and these circumstances are what Im having problem with, making cloak useless in its area of effect.

  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    PlagueMonk wrote: »

    I take it you have never used invisibility. We do not "run" anywhere which is part of the problem. All we can do it slowly skulk away (unlike Sorc who can get completely out of range with a single blink) and have to reapply invis every 2.9 secs which quickly drains your magicka. All you have to do is run around to easily catch a NB (unless they have the super speed sneak which most do not)

    Dude, while standing up and we use cloak, we either run in normal run speed or 25% faster than normal run speed when using concealed weapon skill.

  • GRxKnight
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    OP I don't actually have a problem with magelight being in the game to counter cloak. Reason being is that if it weren't, even the crappiest NB's would be practically unkillable because of their fail-safe escape in Dark Cloak. And then everyone will roll NB and all we'll be having is a huge Ambush party.

    Also, usually sorcs are the ones to break me out of stealth thanks to the range on their streak stun. Now that needs to be nerfed even more after 1.4 drops. As it is right now you can stun someone infinitely with streak as the rules of CC break and CC immune don't apply to that skill for whatever reason. Other than that I see no problem with sorcs having an escape. They're squishy usually so if they weren't being pansies they would just be dead (not calling all sorc's out here. Just a lot of people I mark who are sorcs tend to run away all the time like cowards. I have come across good sorcs and have respect for them, but the ones that just blink away I shake my head). Templars and DK's have no escape so they need survivability in the form of shields/heals.
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  • Mograineb16_ESO
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    GRxKnight wrote: »
    OP I don't actually have a problem with magelight being in the game to counter cloak. Reason being is that if it weren't, even the crappiest NB's would be practically unkillable because of their fail-safe escape in Dark Cloak. And then everyone will roll NB and all we'll be having is a huge Ambush party.

    Also, usually sorcs are the ones to break me out of stealth thanks to the range on their streak stun. Now that needs to be nerfed even more after 1.4 drops. As it is right now you can stun someone infinitely with streak as the rules of CC break and CC immune don't apply to that skill for whatever reason. Other than that I see no problem with sorcs having an escape. They're squishy usually so if they weren't being pansies they would just be dead (not calling all sorc's out here. Just a lot of people I mark who are sorcs tend to run away all the time like cowards. I have come across good sorcs and have respect for them, but the ones that just blink away I shake my head). Templars and DK's have no escape so they need survivability in the form of shields/heals.
    Yeah I agree with you, it would probably be too strong if you went into stealth 100%. That doesnt mean I cant dream right? <3

    But I like how the magelight was working before the latest patch, that made them see you in cloak but not breaking cloak, so that would make it easier to get away. Maybe they thought it was too easy for nightblades to escape when it was like that and now then made it how it is right now.. who knows really.

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