I have posted this elsewhere but there is a solution to this. The increasing cost is ok if they either reduce the time from 4 seconds to 1.5, or allow a heavy (or melee attack) to erase the cooldown.

This rewards sorcerers for staying in the fight but still punishes those who spam the ability. Rationale below:

The main benefits of using (the base skill) bolt escape are:
1. Maintaining superior positioning on the battlefield
2. Kiting an enemy
3. Being able to completely disengage/tranverse long distances quickly

Most of these nerfs are stemming from the application of benefit 3, i.e spamming the skill. However, applications 1 and 2 are critical to the sorcerer class due to the lack of self heals and the light armor situation. The current/proposed nerfs though intended to address #3, greatly reduce the effectiveness of 1 and 2 as well and harm the mobility of the class overall considering the other aforementioned class drawbacks.

The goal of this post is to suggest a compromise to ZOS that maintains a Sorc's ability to perform 1 and 2, while still having a mana penalty for using the skill for application 3.

Bolt Escape: (base skill and all morphs) Performing a fully charged heavy attack on a target will remove the 4s cooldown timer.

Streak morph: In addition to the above, any melee attack will remove the cooldown timer.

Rationale: This will allow the skill to punish those who spam it but reward those who actually intend to stay and fight. Kiting an enemy (not completely disengaging) is an important and fun class strength for the sorcerer and this change would preserve it. Any decent opponent with a speed buff or a gap closer would have plenty of time to close the distance if you had to execute a heavy attack before bolting again as you would be limited to the range of your heavy attack.

Extra Rationale for the necessity of the "Melee attack" addition for streak. While Ball of Lighting is good for Kiting, Streak is a melee ability by design (due to damage cause when you streak through someone) and as such is designed for sorcerers who are in the very thick of the fight against classes much better suited for melee combat.

I know that stamina sorcs (and PvE sorc tanks) are a very low percentage of players but there is a reason for that. Eric spoke about increases options for stam sorcs and this would be extremely helpful and would synergize well with other melee abilities. Bolt escape is already prohibitively expensive for stam sorcs, being able to reset it with any melee attack encourages sorcs to stay in the fight and lets the class benefits of mobility and positioning work for all sorcerers.

Let me know what you think. If you like this suggestion, put it in your signature.

Sausage wrote: »

This was needed, it isnt fun when theres 1 sorcerer, and your entire army goes after it like lemmings and realizing they never cant catch-up. Teleport is just OP, way too much mobility and too much control.

So sorcerers need to be nerfed because PUGs cant control themselves?

Best counter to bolt escape is /wave