1.6 Wall of Elements needs to be changed

Joy_Division · February 2015

1.5 (on my character):
Wall of elements does 116 damage every second for 3.5 seconds
Pulsar does 252 damage and removes 10% of enemy's health.

1.6 (on my character):
Wall of elements does 230 damage every half second for 8.5 seconds (I think...I took the blockade morph for reasons below...it lasts 6.5 seconds).
Pulsar does 2031 damage and put a health debuff on the enemy.

In 1.5, I can cast wall of elements and in 2 seconds, almost do as much damage as pulsar.
In 1.6, I can cast wall of elements and it now takes 4 and a half seconds to get the same amount of damage.

In 1.5, I have the option of placing down multiple walls for a legitimate option for AoE vs multiple opponents. note: the damage to these wall do NOT stack. If you don't believe me, spam the walls against a immobile strangler and see for yourself.

In 1.6, according to the patch notes, you can only have one wall down at a given time. So now the spell is a (very) low damage DoT that enemies can easily move out of that if you do recast is a waste of magicka. Now, the only option (which it still kind of is in 1.5) is pulsar - pulsar - pulsar - pulsar...which nobody likes.

Edit: I'm not sure what this means: "The damage dealt by Wall of Elements will now stack correctly with other instances of Wall of Elements cast by other player characters that affect the same target."

If this means that my wall of elements will do zero damage if another player casts wall of elements, that is completely inconsistent with every skill in the game and inconsistent with the non-stacking issue they address with other skills such as daedric curse and backlash.

Derra · February 2015

It is an addition to other aoe than one of its own. Unstable/Blockade of frost is really good soft cc now.
Also it proccs valkyn skoria like mad with the 0.5 second ticks.

Armitas · February 2015

To put it in perspective. Eruption Now (from DK ash cloud) does about 5 less damage per tick, lasts 3 times as long as elemental blockade, and has about the same burst as unstable wall. This skill was never a damager either. Elemental wall is really really bad right now. Though it does trigger lots of meters with the .5 sec tick.

They also have the morph durations backward. If you look at the two morphs simultaneously unstable wall shows 6 seconds and elemental blockade shows 3 seconds. They should be reversed as elemental blockade is the morph that should have the longer duration.

Gorthax · February 2015

yea they have no clue what they are doing. This is PTS though, so hopefully they actually listen and tweak these numbers accordingly.

Emma_Overload · February 2015

Wall of Elements used to be so useful, if you knew how to use it. I can say that on the PTS, it's totally lame now.

Not only can you not cast Wall of Elements from the same staff twice (side by side, for example), BUT you can't even cast Walls of 2 DIFFERENT elements anymore!

This means there is no point in carrying a Frost Staff on one bar and a Fire Staff on the other. Walls of differing Elements DO NOT STACK, even though they are technically different spells.