http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/synergy


Literal definitions aside, it's a mechanic designed to enhance teamwork. Now if we could only get people to activate them.

My only problem with synergies is that I can never remember exactly what it is that they do, so I just tend to activate em when I see em.

Synergies like almost everything in this game was a great idea but just like usual ZOS messed it up or bent down to their precious whiners until they turned the game into a total pile. It of course makes perfect sense that synergies should be activated by pressing [x] followed by a long rotation breaking animation, instead of something like class A skill X does something when class B skill Y is activated .

Soulshine wrote: »

Synergies in this game are like Big Foot. Everyone wonders if they really exist, many individual people have even seen some, but most have no clue what they really look like.

Back during beta and again at early launch I had asked for there to be a comprehensive list of not only what synergies there were in game, but exactly which ones best complimented which for use in dungeons. **crickets**

Coming from LotrO where we had what were known as Conjunctions in raiding, I thought synergies here would be a cool -- if not entirely similar -- mechanism. CJs in LotrO require party members to activate on a specific pattern, and they can provide significant damage, restore power, or HP. Some can debuff. Some are DoTs. There are a great variety and some are really awesome.

Since launch, there have been a few people here that compiled some information on our synergies, but not very many. I think this is one area of the game that can definitely and SHOULD in fact be augmented and grown, so that as our characters level and become more powerful, we could acquire new synergies and incorporate different levels to them as we progress, depending on our group compoostion they could be super fun combos to utilize... not sure if they will even do this but I would like to see it added to the game.

See the problem with the current system isn't that it doesn't work well. It's that it gives players no incentive to activate them unless they know what it is and know it's coming. There are plenty of synergies that people activate when they see them (like Blood Altar) because they know they'll get something out of them. A lot of abilities with synergies do little damage but the synergy can output some serious dps. (Shadow Silk for example.) If every synergy gave buffs or resource returns to people who activate them, they'd be used more often. So we need to have better rewards for activating that can offset a momentary healing or dps disruption on the individual level.

For one, I think synergies should get stronger when more people activate them. Having six players activate the Storm Atronach's synergy should deal a great deal more damage than just one or two people activating it. The buff given should also be stronger the more people activate. The tricky part here is whether or not such large setups should be channeled. I think the LOTRO conjunction provides a good example of how this could work (having an indicator above party members) on the design level.

Another thing we could look at is getting synergies from different abilities to stack or mutate. Having several people activate synergy abilities in a sequence could become an effective method of dealing damage to certain bosses or a heavy counterattack in pvp. This would be a lot trickier, as it could easily become OP if all a group has to do is drop 5 ultimates and it becomes an automatic "I win" situation. But I think there is something to be had here.

PainfulFAFA wrote: »

Fizzlewizzle wrote: »

I have been wondering about this... why can't we activate our own synergies?

We all know that you can only use a synergie once (or at least depending on the skill, activate it once per person).
Yet although there are quite a few skills with good synergies, you can't use them yourself.

As a Templar this bothers me quite a bit, especially with skills like Nova or Purifying Ritual.
The undaunted has a whole lot of skills which have Synergie options (actually, all of them).

So i wonder... why can't we use them ourselves?

It bothers you that you can't spam that little spear to synergize for that extra stamina, in other words infinite stamina?

Not really. I'm a healer (check my signature), so stamina means nothing to me.
I prefer a magica based build over stamina. Stamina builds have no decent healing options, so i stay away from those. if i need stamina (for whatever reason) ill just use repentance.
(Punctering sweep + 2k magicka regen in heavy armor ftw.)

Thanks! This thread was funny!

It's suppose to give that feeling of "working together". In reality this not so well thought out system is no different than this for most of us:

I like the idea of synergy being activated on an ability use rather than x, this would make much more fluid gameplay