Storm Atronach

Scora · October 2015

How is this ultimate doing nowdays?
I remember it being really good but now it seems really weak. Does it get alot alot better or have they over nerfed the poor fella?

Darkonflare15 · October 2015

Scora wrote: »

How is this ultimate doing nowdays?
I remember it being really good but now it seems really weak. Does it get alot alot better or have they over nerfed the poor fella?

It depends on what you consider weak. I use it to stun players, distract them, or deal extra damage while bursting them down in pvp. In pve, I use it to stun mobs, pull aggro when the tank is down, increase the dps of my teammates, and use constant damage to bosses when I have to revive teammates. So it is pretty strong ultimate when use right.

Dracane · October 2015

It used to be good ? Must have been a dream of yours

It was horrible since it exists. Maybe it used to be good, because players used to be really bad.

I don't see a use for the Atronach. In pvp, it is easy to counter. It can't move, is ccable and the damage is really not that great anyway.
In pve, there are better ultimates for dps. If the Atronach would be on par with the cost of Soul Assault and Shieldbreaker, I would consider it somewhat usefull. But 170 ultimate for this ? No thanks.

Scora · October 2015

Well i dont consider it good anymore because it used to taunt all mobs and do good damage. nowdays it does'nt seem to taunt anything and the damage it does it really low for being an Ultimate

Dracane · October 2015

Scora wrote: »

Well i dont consider it good anymore because it used to taunt all mobs and do good damage. nowdays it does'nt seem to taunt anything and the damage it does it really low for being an Ultimate

The taunt has been removed with update 1.6

Valen_Byte · October 2015

Its crap now. When someone throws one down in Cyro, it gets stomped down in just a few seconds.

Ahzek · October 2015

Additionally the chang for the atro to ONLY ever attack its clostest target makes it practically useless in every fight with more than oneenemi, since it is impossible to focus anyone with it properly.

Dracane · October 2015

Ahzek wrote: »

Additionally the chang for the atro to ONLY ever attack its clostest target makes it practically useless in every fight with more than oneenemi, since it is impossible to focus anyone with it properly.

So they were serious with this patchnote ? I didn't take it serious at all, because the Atronachs range is so short anyway and yea.

But I haven't used him for ages, it's not worth it. Not even with a pet build.
I mean what the hell ? Molag Kena uses Sorcerer Storm Atronachs. They have the beam, can move and are unccable. Can someone give me a reasonable explaination on why our class atronach can't ? This is ridiculous.

If he could at least move, this would already help a lot. They either have to increase his range, make him mobile and unccable or HIGHLY reduce his cost. Or I can't see anyone using this trash. This can't even be considered an ultimate, rather an ultimate energy dump.

Joy_Division · October 2015

Storm Atronach was nice when we were new to the game, didn't know what we were doing, and the questing stuff/mobs were more difficult. I'd actually say during my beta experience it was a reasonably effective ultimate.

It's pretty meh now and my PvP raid leader would have a conniption if I ever actually used this.

Waffennacht · October 2015

The taunt was its only use, clearly PvE was its strong spot. In a pet solo tank build it could be used. Now I don't bother with it, maybe if it cost 1/3rd the ult, maybe.

CP5 · October 2015

At least you can still command it to attack particular targets.. which doesn't help much when you are trying to have your other pets not run off and get themselves killed since the atro will still be passive if you told your other pets to do so.

Colosso-monstro · October 2015

Actually one of the top sorcs in the game, @Dymence uses this. And he has been using it to great effect as well by using daedric prey.

Dymence · October 2015

It is a strong ultimate, but not in every fight.

Take sanctum ophidia for example. If your atronarch gets hit by the poison mines from the mantikora it gets stunned, and then it stops doing anything for a while. The same principle goes for the serpent hard mode. You can place it somewhere, but he won't be up long because the serpent will throw his big meteor that will oneshot it.

In AA hard mode, you can't really place it either because it passes along chain lightning to your teammates and will kill them like this if you place it too close to the boss, and if you place it too far then it will start targetting nonsense. You're supposed to be able to re-target your atronarch's current target with y+left click, but that doesn't seem to work for me anymore ever since they introduced the "Your pets will now attack the nearest target" thing.

All in all it has a lot of downsides when you look at it like this. But if you have a fight where there's no special gimmick, it will come second to overload in DPS.

ADarklore · October 2015

I used to use Storm Atronach until I realized how Overload destroys everything in mere seconds in comparison. Loading up Overload bar with defensive skills and then just running around light attacking enemies is pretty awesome.

Oh_Skrivva · October 2015

for pure single target bosses i love my atro. it has to be paired with daedric prey though. i looked up @dymence build and i run a similar set up. props to dymence. you tested some sets i have yet to acquire. so that saves me some time in testing. cant seem to get any magic sets to drop for me from vWGT or vICP. I always get stam gear. with 40+ vWGT completes i have yet to get a molag kena helm. Back to the topic, the atro when applicable (i'd say 70% of time it is) does great dps.

TheNephilimCrow · October 2015

I haven't played Sorcerer in quite a long time, but from what I've been hearing, there is allot of hate for the ultimate, because it doesn't walk around. It is a stationary summon. If it could move and do all the wonderful things it currently does, it would be amazing. Again, this is from what I hear, not from my own experience.