nordickittyhawk wrote: »
Just looked at the bow. 8 damage? Yes its 8 additional damage each .5s, anyone try it out to see how useful it is?
Dagoth_Rac wrote: »Just looked at the bow. 8 damage? Yes its 8 additional damage each .5s, anyone try it out to see how useful it is?
I think Volley lasts 8 seconds. So since it stacks, the extra damage would be:
8 + 16 + 24 + 32 + 40 + 48 + 56 + 64 + 72 + 80 + 88 + 96 + 104 + 112 + 120 + 128
= 1088 total / 8 seconds = 136 DPS
It could crit, of course. But it still seems really weak compared to the other Maelstrom enchants.
Dagoth_Rac wrote: »Just looked at the bow. 8 damage? Yes its 8 additional damage each .5s, anyone try it out to see how useful it is?
I think Volley lasts 8 seconds. So since it stacks, the extra damage would be:
8 + 16 + 24 + 32 + 40 + 48 + 56 + 64 + 72 + 80 + 88 + 96 + 104 + 112 + 120 + 128
= 1088 total / 8 seconds = 136 DPS
It could crit, of course. But it still seems really weak compared to the other Maelstrom enchants.
Springt-Über-Zwerge wrote: »Proof Zos doesnt play understand even the basic elements of their own game
byrom101b16_ESO wrote: »What and utterly ridiculous, inexplicable pile of steaming dross.
Staffs no-one but a drooling idiot will use and a 2H sword only drooling idiots WON'T use.
Whoever programmed these either wants to be sacked by the people responsible for game balance or ZOS need to start recruiting people willing to use their elementary math skills.
How the hell does that charge damage bonus equate to getting a few hundred damage bonus against a target stupid enough to stand in an elemental wall, which was nerfed into utter irrelevance to the point nobody uses it anyway?
Anyone who plays this game can see how unbelievably unbalanced these extremes are from just looking at them!
This is the most pathetic example of bad design I have ever seen in any MMO at any point whatsoever, and I saw some pretty poor stuff by Funcom... but this - it just amazes me, even after all this time watching the mistakes made in this game already...
... just admit it devs - you want staffs to be flat out the worst weapon in the game by a country mile, with no ways of fixing it for your poor players by going after a rare drop etc.
You wonder how the hell this kind of thing gets past the first design concept meeting, really...
byrom101b16_ESO wrote: »What and utterly ridiculous, inexplicable pile of steaming dross.
Staffs no-one but a drooling idiot will use and a 2H sword only drooling idiots WON'T use.
Whoever programmed these either wants to be sacked by the people responsible for game balance or ZOS need to start recruiting people willing to use their elementary math skills.
How the hell does that charge damage bonus equate to getting a few hundred damage bonus against a target stupid enough to stand in an elemental wall, which was nerfed into utter irrelevance to the point nobody uses it anyway?
Anyone who plays this game can see how unbelievably unbalanced these extremes are from just looking at them!
This is the most pathetic example of bad design I have ever seen in any MMO at any point whatsoever, and I saw some pretty poor stuff by Funcom... but this - it just amazes me, even after all this time watching the mistakes made in this game already...
... just admit it devs - you want staffs to be flat out the worst weapon in the game by a country mile, with no ways of fixing it for your poor players by going after a rare drop etc.
You wonder how the hell this kind of thing gets past the first design concept meeting, really...
Exactly. The gap between melee weapons and magical weapons is big once again.
The bonus for maelstrom staves should be reconsidered and replaced with something equally in strenght to what melee weapons do.
If you're asking me, maelstrom staves are another hidden attempt to make a weak and underused abilitiy (wall of elements) attractive so people use this trashy ability just so that Zenimax gets their statistics right. 'Oh, wall of elements gets used by enough people. Seems like it's a good ability and love to use it. We did a great job here' Woa.... !