angelyn wrote: »

Perhaps they wanted to move the resist from enchants to cps. However, I think when they said vamps will now take 40% fire damage no one thought they would have to use 3 times as many enchants as in 1.5 or dump most of their first cps into resistance in order to achieve that 40%.

Either ZoS didn't think about the implications of nerfing the Fire glyph into the ground (went from 28% in 1.5.8 to 3.4% in 1.6) or it's intended as a balance based on 3600 CP when you'd have max Fire resistance via Elemental Defender + Spell Shield & Thick Skinned, to a lesser extent. The latter is a very poor way to do it because it severely gimps DPS/Healers that are Vampires until they are very deep into CP, like 3-400+ deep. Tanking as a Vampire in 1.6 is very easy as reaching hard cap for Spell Resistance is reasonably easy in 7/7 Heavy Armor and using Major Spell Resistance plus Defending on your 1H and at least 1 Nirnhoned off-pc.

Now I wouldn't at all put it past ZoS to have miscalculated how badly Vampires would suffer from the moment of 1.6's launch but I have a feeling it's that they're balancing everything from the moment 1.6 went Live as if we all had 3600 CP already. That's the easy way out for ZoS because they don't have to re-balance the Champion System multiple times over the course of a year or 3 as Players gain more and more CP, and since not all Players will gain CP at the same rate it would make it even more of a challenge for continued balance passes over time.

However, the above concept is looking at the problem the wrong way. The much easier way to go about it is to NOT nerf Fire resist glyphs as hard as they did from 1.6's launch but instead drop it from 28% to say 25% (Light Armor wearers still wouldn't be hard capped with 1 glyph) then 6mo later drop it again to 15%, another 6mo drop it to 10%, then finally at 18mo after 1.6 Launched drop the Fire resist glyph to what it is now, 3.4%. That gives Players sufficient time to gain CP so that they don't feel required to push all of their first 50-100+ points into Elemental Defender and Spell Shield just so they don't have to use (3) Fire Glyphs, which is unreasonable for ZoS to except us to use.

The bigger issue that this shows, is that Light Armor wearers in PvE (like those pesky Healing types that keep you alive in Trials) can be 1-shot by normal trash Archers due to absurdly low Armor value. If ZoS were to have done it right, LA should've been 50% of HA's value, and MA at 75% instead of LA being 25%. And all of that was done due to all the whiners out there that were mad because Players could Tank in LA. Here's a pro tip for those types, you STILL CAN Tank in 7/7 LA, even Trials, I've witnessed it personally since 1.6. So all those complaining about Players Tanking in LA that got ZoS to severely nerf the Armor value of LA just ended up Gimping their own Healers and those few remaining Magicka DPS, good job.