How many none sorcerer classes who used magicka builds are now ruined with light armor changes?

Digiman · February 2015

I was thinking with a lot of friends who tend to play NB, Templers and even Dragon Knights with cloth armor to use magicka builds. Was wondering how many other players those builds are similar would be scraped? Are you going to have to change your builds and gear now come patch 1.6?

Or is it business as usual, because I know the roles of each class line but some people prefer to play unique roles instead. Are any of you forced to totally respec and re learn? Are you upset now that this seems to be less of play as you want with 1.6?

Samadhi · February 2015

The Nightblade changes to include Stamina morphs gimped all my Magicka builds except my pure Healer build.

My Sorcerer came out of it better off than my Nightblade, but will be receiving some build tweaks.

AssaultLemming · February 2015

My spell crit sap essence funnel health veil of blades nightblade is effectively ruined, probably have to join the Nightblades-are- rogues-use-stamina crowd to be competitive now, but only time will tell.

Morvul · February 2015

Digiman wrote: »

I was thinking with a lot of friends who tend to play NB, Templers and even Dragon Knights with cloth armor to use magicka builds. Was wondering how many other players those builds are similar would be scraped? Are you going to have to change your builds and gear now come patch 1.6?

My impression is that most of the magicka builds are going to have a pretty tough time. The reason why sorcs are screaming more then others on the forums (IMHO) is that all other classes have the option to go stamina and be very, very effective. Sorcs obviously can go stamina as well, but there is really nothing in the class lines that would support a sorc-stamina build - so why use a sorc for a stamina build?

Panda244 · February 2015

Dragonknights won't be hit that hard, aside from Unstable Flame, which has been turned into a stamina ability. The lack of armor we make up for with Hardened Armor, which gives us a damage shield now, yippy. I think we'll be seeing more Hybrid DKs though, as they'll need the medium armor for the stamina recovery/reduction thanks to block and roll dodge being absurdly high in the cost range.

Derra · February 2015

I think magica dmg scaling is somewhat bugged on pts atm (in pvp that is - 8400 tooltip curse hitting for 2400 dmg seems strange).

Also thing they´ve ruined magica builds across the board for all classes. Sorc probably suffers the least but with the current pts dmg scaling even a sorc is not really vaible.

Seraphyel · February 2015

Magicka builds... we only have Destruction Staffs, that's a limitation. Next to that, many classes are forced to go into melee range to use their "Magic". I don't get that. Only Templars and Sorcs can rely on range, DKs and NBs have to go into 5-10m range to use their strongest Magicka skills - I think that's a bit... dumb.

In ESO there is still more stuff for melees, than for ranged players and that's a bit sad.

Reremnu · February 2015

Samadhi wrote: »

The Nightblade changes to include Stamina morphs gimped all my Magicka builds except my pure Healer build.

My Sorcerer came out of it better off than my Nightblade, but will be receiving some build tweaks.

Some changes are just ridiculous. Why force us and change some skills to be stamina? Nightblades are mages, ZOS took away Ambush and Surprise attack, NB's magicka assassination abilities. Power Extraction made a stamina class AoE makes no sense. So now we are using stamina as source of our "spells"?

@ZOS_GinaBruno
@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

How about adding a third morph for abilities and make it a stamina morph, leaving alone old (from 1.5) skills alone?