Why the heavy stealth nerf to lightning staff ?

Dracane · September 2015

I think the most iconic thing about the lightning staff and the thing that makes it usefull, is the fact that the beam bypasses blocks.
But I had to find out, that this is no longer the case O.o it's blockable now and its damage is highly reduced by blocks.

This was the only way to deal some damage through reflective scales and for myself the only possible way to deal with absorb magic builds. Absorb magic builds are unkillable for projectile using mages, as they restore more health than you could possibly deplead and just mitigate too much damage at the same time. Heavy attacks helped here, but not anymore.
I wonder why you guys are trying to kill heavy attacks further and further.
In 1.6, you've increased the casttime of heavy attacks by 50%, highly reduced the restored amount of Magicka and now you destroyed the only iconic aspect of an entire weapon.

And against roll dodger I'm better of with using restoration heavy attacks, because it is MUCH faster than lightning heavies and restore more ressources. Please revert this change, this is ridiculous. If this is a bug, I apologize, but then this needs to be fixed. This wasn't even mentioned in the patchnotes.
I however stick with flame staff from now on, like most people.

a.skelton92 · September 2015

While the person thinks they are cool hiding behind a block, they cant do bugger all. So get out your chair, read a book, have a nap and wait for them to eventually lower their shield which you will then doom the poor soul to the most agonising death imaginable.

leepalmer95 · September 2015

This seems like one of those pointless nerf's...

Dracane · September 2015

a.skelton92 wrote: »

While the person thinks they are cool hiding behind a block, they cant do bugger all. So get out your chair, read a book, have a nap and wait for them to eventually lower their shield which you will then doom the poor soul to the most agonising death imaginable.

Okay.....

Fact is, this is huge buff to reflective scales and absorb magic in my opinion. Lightning heavy attacks are the only weapon against good Dragonknights who never let their scales down.

Don't wanna sound like a noob

I lost my fear for DKs a long time ago. But that was because I had a reliable counter to scales. But what now ? This weapon is trash now.

Dymence · September 2015

Hmm, are you sure it doesn't work against scales anymore either? I'm fairly sure it still works against scales, just not block.

leepalmer95 · September 2015

Dymence wrote: »

Hmm, are you sure it doesn't work against scales anymore either? I'm fairly sure it still works against scales, just not block.

Problem is the tank magicka permblock always have both up ^^

Dracane · September 2015

Dymence wrote: »

Hmm, are you sure it doesn't work against scales anymore either? I'm fairly sure it still works against scales, just not block.

Yes it still works. But most DKs are blocking all the time. So the only way to deal some damage was to use heavy attacks.
Now as long as they have scales up, there is basically no way to deal damage against them with ranged magic.

BaldusMageezack · September 2015

Most DK's are too afraid to let down their block. They lock up with fear and perma block

Joy_Division · September 2015

Just wait until you find out that heavy lightning attacks no longer damage adjacent enemies. This is not a stealth nerf, but an outright lie since ZoS's patch notes indicated that the number of targets who would be hit by such an attack was being increased from 2 to 6.

Dracane · September 2015

This is the normal Zenimax logic. Buff something, but take something at the same time.
Buff: Lightning and restores heavy attacks can crit now/ Nerf: blockable now
Buff: Mages Fury can crit now / Nerf: Blockable now
Buff: Increased the amount of gold you receive from pvp mails/ Nerf: You get much less of them now

The list goes on. This happens in each patch, basically every time they buff something.