A video of emperor gameplay is DEFINITELY the right place to start complaining about class balance.

Ifthir_ESO wrote: »

@2:33 hits 2x light overload light attack crits for *1549*
@4:23 Velocious Curse crit for *1071*
@4:31 Mages Wrath Explosion *1363*
@4:45 2x overload light attack (non-crit) for 958
@5:02 Overload light attack non crit for 939
@5:03 overload light attack Crit for *1549* which costs a whopping 25 ultimate it looks like
@5:28, you hit Rubixy (LOL) with a shooting star (using 200 ult). It crits for *3729* and returns you 120 ultimate points.


And sorcerers are really crying about being sniped????

Are you guys high? LOL. Game balance, what a joke, dude doesn't drop below 60% magicka the entire vid, that I saw.

But hey, snipe and stealth attacks are too powerful. Not unblockable impulse, not shield stacking, not endless magicka sorcs, not endless blazing shield spamming temps, the real thing killing PvP is snipe?

I clearly am playing a different game.

Dude, are you seriously trying to argue about balance by comparing EMPEROR dps with normal player dps? Shooting star isn't even a sorc ability. The only joke here is your post.

Ifthir_ESO wrote: »

@2:33 hits 2x light overload light attack crits for *1549*
@4:23 Velocious Curse crit for *1071*
@4:31 Mages Wrath Explosion *1363*
@4:45 2x overload light attack (non-crit) for 958
@5:02 Overload light attack non crit for 939
@5:03 overload light attack Crit for *1549* which costs a whopping 25 ultimate it looks like
@5:28, you hit Rubixy (LOL) with a shooting star (using 200 ult). It crits for *3729* and returns you 120 ultimate points.


And sorcerers are really crying about being sniped????

Are you guys high? LOL. Game balance, what a joke, dude doesn't drop below 60% magicka the entire vid, that I saw.

But hey, snipe and stealth attacks are too powerful. Not unblockable impulse, not shield stacking, not endless magicka sorcs, not endless blazing shield spamming temps, the real thing killing PvP is snipe?

I clearly am playing a different game.

Shadow Mundus = 1.65% crit multiplier.

The opening scene has me critting for 3841 with meteor and almost having enough ult to meteor again. You have to understand many of these crits are against vampires too though. 59% bonus damage on meteor since it is fire. Plus I'm boosting the spell by inner light toggle and spell power pots.

As Emperor I was able to switch out pure magicka enchants and spell damage enchants since having over 5k health is overkill.

All that said as Emp I still wasn't nearly as effective as an AoE spec Emp because they do far more sustainable damage and generate ultimate much faster.

Ifthir_ESO wrote: »

overload uses a portion of the ultimate pool on use, it does not use it all. To my knowledge NO other ultimate works that way. I wish my ultimates worked that way. Also the rumor is that there is a bug right now with that toggle-able ultimate currently giving health when toggled and wearing a specific set.

Overall though I was pointing out that at no time do I think a pure stamina character can beat an @ezareth_ESO‌ without catching him completely off guard. To me that seems completely unbalanced and ridiculous that to beat most enemies I have to normalize my build to one option.

With the changes to sneak damage, the burst you can do from stealth is now limited making a character like this even harder to kill as time goes on.

So you have a character who is extremely good at bursting, extremely good at surviving due to shield stacking, and extremely mobile due to ball lightning. What other class has those same features? And yet sorcs crying about snipe.

EDIT: All this said, very nice video from the OP who is an extremely difficult player to nail down and can highlight the strengths of this build extremely well.

I think Ebonheart Templar who is pure stam could give me a run for my money. I'm sure there are players out there who could that I haven't met. But try to understand my build and gearing (not as Emp) isn't built for damage. It is built for survivability and sustainability. I kill people by outlasting them but I can't kill good players quickly.

Power Overload is very strong but the strongest aspect of it is I can use my magicka for mobility/shields and use the overload for damage.

As I've said before if gankers had an easy time killing me from stealth something would be very broken. 3700 hitpoints with sword and board, a couple thousand tripots, and understanding of when to block and when to roll makes me a difficult gank solo. I don't know *any* good players who are easy to gank so that doesn't make me special.

Is this guy serious? He obviously wasn't getting hit by my standard or batswarms... 500 damage ticks

Ifthir_ESO wrote: »

ezareth_ESO wrote: »

try to understand my build and gearing (not as Emp) isn't built for damage. It is built for survivability and sustainability. I kill people by outlasting them but I can't kill good players quickly.

Great responses overall but thanks for highlighting this. Totally agree thats what puts this build over the top. You might not beat that big DK/Templar in a fight, but your build can run to live another day if you are in trouble

I think where this build runs into a wall is in large zerg v. zerg fights? I also like how you tend to fight solo.

See you in game.

There are players with pure defensive specs from every class that I don't bother engaging in 1 v 1 scenarios. Most ball lightning sorcs who shield stack, defensive heal spamming-templars, good sword and board NBs like Ninja San, or DKs who spam harness magicka and play defensively. They can't kill me, I can't kill them so when we see each other we typically pick on squishier targets like that gank nightblade in the back lining up a snipe or the that sorc sitting there *casting* crystal fragments. Knowing which victim to target is half the fight in any 1 v X scenario.

I did have some decent success against a hyjinx group using an experimental daedric mine build which I swapped for my Velocious Curse. I'd just Spam Daedric mines on the people in the rear which would seperate them from the "pack". Then the hordes of pugs running around would pounce on them and kill them but no I've fired 1000 ult into a blob of players as emp and not killed a single target. There are just too many healers and shields and such being thrown by too many people to kill anyone with any amount of single target damage.

Cody wrote: »

how did you get 3700 health WITHOUT emp buffs? while supporting all that magicka?

6 Legendary VR 14 Health enchants including the Shield. 49 points in Health. 2 VR 14 Magicka enchants with Max magicka Rings and neck and some set bonuses. Fortified Sweetroll will take me to just under 3700 health.