The best part I love about this is the devs are in the same boat as the QQ group. While the setup does a lot of damage, it is not fast and needs to be setup. They act like everyone is doing this and killing people in one shot.

You should never balance a game on the 1% of min/max players. You need gear, rank, pots and the right timing. Again, not like everyone is doing this.

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

Everyone *could* do this with the right set bonuses and setup.

I was 1-shotting people with meteor as Emp, 3800+ damage but that was against vampires and I have no way to guarantee a crit with a spell.

I think the stealth Nerf should address this unless I'm missing other benefits that will ofset it.

You don't balance around the top 1% of players but when balancing any game you should account for all possibilities and combinations. Sometimes players devise a way to use an ability that was never intended and that is when balance is needed.

In all honesty when I made that character I was hoping to troll people on it until Zos get enough complaints and they nerf the power of archers from stealth. but when i got to lvl 50 I heared that stealth dmg was already nerfed on PTS.

I agee with the change somewhat. Snipe is too powerful unless people invest in psn glyphs like arx pointed out, even then people might go for the other morph focused aim and forget about the healing debuff, you are 1 hitting people anyway, so healing debuffing them is just an extra

I dont know how will the stealth nerf affect NB class, i hope it doesnt make them weaker, but there are few good NBs out there that dont even use stealth.

I am sure the good players will learn to adapt and move on.

Rylana wrote: »

Most of us that regularly go over 2k snipe wont see much difference really. Its the ones that top out around 1200 that will feel the pain.

I use lethal arrow for the sheer reason that the immediate reaction from getting hit is to heal, especially DKs and Templars. Almost every DK I have ever shot will hit GDB before wings and that 1/4 second delay is usually life or death.

Wings -> Purge -> GDB -> Pot (if in fight) -> GG I'm at 90% now

Soulac wrote: »

Combat Prayer
Aggressive Horn (+ Stamina + Weapon dmg)
Charging Maneuver
Flawness Dawnbreaker
Weapon Power Potion
be a NB for extra sneak DMG
be a Khajiit/Bosmer for extra sneak DMG
be at max range for max passive bonus
get some badass sets
Critdmg mundus
Sharpened Trait + Armor Reduction (heavy armor, u know?)

with next patch a a NB -> Death Stroke on some animal for a 20% dmg boost

Maybe there is more, but well i don´t run a bow and i don´t care about the max. Snipe dmg :P

Added two other things.. :P

eliisra wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Critdmg mundus

Does crit dmg modifiers like Shadow Mundus or Hemorrhage passive effect sneak damage tho? I mean sneak dmg and crit dmg is (from what I've heard) two different things, even if the result is the same. Asking because I dont know

Well the dmg with sneak is always crit, so the mundus should effect it.
I don´t care about sneakdmg so you´re free to test it yourself :P

xsorusb14_ESO wrote: »

Highest i've hit for is 2400... a 3k Lethal Arrow is bloody impressive.

You're vidz are awesome with snipe! Not sure if you have a NB or not, but imagine what you could do as a NB and their passives/skills!