We want our mitigation on Shields if they can be crit on

Diamond_10 · August 2015

Just like the topic says, if you can crit on shields, then i want my mitigation on the shield, otherwise i will end up, as a tank, taking more damage WITH a shield and the overflow of the crit into my health, than if i just took the hit to my mitigated armor.
That is all.

sabresandiego_ESO · August 2015

Get out of here. Light armor sorcs are tanking 3+ people at a time with shield spam right now. They are essentially unkillable in 1on1 or 1on2, and you want more buffs?

Diamond_10 · August 2015

sabresandiego_ESO wrote: »

Get out of here. Light armor sorcs are tanking 3+ people at a time with shield spam right now. They are essentially unkillable in 1on1 or 1on2, and you want more buffs?

Ok, and light armor mitigation will be very little, so they will still get hit hard. This will benefit tanks with shields, not glass cannons with shields.

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO · August 2015

Seriously? When I am on one of my non-sorc chars I feel utterly naked compared to my all light sorc who can run around without a care in the world. Damage shields are insanely powerful at the moment and these changes simply pull us sorcs down closer to the level of other classes, which is a good thing.

If i stack all my possible shields on live I have 60k damage shield they have to pass through, and that is with the 15% reduction you already have in Cyrodiil.

My main tactics to find NBs on the sorc is to pull out the map in the open to lure them out because I know my damage shields ignore all their crit bonuses and they can never ever damage me on their first few strikes. It is a bit silly.

So no these changes are good.

Naphariel · August 2015

sabresandiego_ESO wrote: »

Get out of here. Light armor sorcs are tanking 3+ people at a time with shield spam right now. They are essentially unkillable in 1on1 or 1on2, and you want more buffs?

Right now shields have been confirmed to be bugged on PTS, you can't really use their current state as a reference point for anything.

Diamond_10 · August 2015

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO wrote: »

So no these changes are good.

Tell that to the tank who has an 8k shield and will eat a 30k crit for having no mitigation by having a shield up. Thats like 8k shield 24k health, where as with no shield it probably would have been 15k health.

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO · August 2015

Diamond_10 wrote: »

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO wrote: »

So no these changes are good.

Tell that to the tank who has an 8k shield and will eat a 30k crit for having no mitigation by having a shield up. Thats like 8k shield 24k health, where as with no shield it probably would have been 15k health.

30k crit... *giggle*

Anyway seriously, if someone has a crit build it is fair that his crit rating doesn't get completely ignored by a shield. A shield simply should remove incomming damage before damage mitigation kicks in vs the damage that gets through. At the moment the shield remove the entire crit rating on an attacker in addition to removing damage, which is silly.

Emma_Overload · August 2015

I can't believe people are even arguing with the OP. Mitigation on the overflow damage should have built in on DAY ONE.

I always assumed this was a bug ZOS hadn't got around to fixing!

IxSTALKERxI · August 2015

Emma_Eunjung wrote: »

I can't believe people are even arguing with the OP. Mitigation on the overflow damage should have built in on DAY ONE.

I always assumed this was a bug ZOS hadn't got around to fixing!

^ I agree with this.

Please read and understand what the OP is saying before commenting. It's like people see the word 'shield' and write their post without reading another word haha.

Armitas · August 2015

sabresandiego_ESO wrote: »

Get out of here. Light armor sorcs are tanking 3+ people at a time with shield spam right now. They are essentially unkillable in 1on1 or 1on2, and you want more buffs?

Sorcs are not the only ones who rely on shields to survive in light armor. I understand your point, but this ridiculous global fix to a specific problem hurts everyone.