Blinding flashes would be awesome but wouldnt say no to a mobility buff or aoe cc too

Healing RItual and Eclipse are my two skills that should be deleted and replaced.

I am pretty sure blinding flashes isn't coming back, so I marked mobility skill.

I guess I'm in the minority with this but I feel it works pretty okay. My only gripe with it is the fact that it's hard to tell from a distance whether the target you wish to place it on is already immune to CC having broken something already so in the heat of a battle, I may find myself trying to spam it in case I miss my next opportunity and end up sacrificing precious milliseconds.

Flashes! Flashes! Вспышка! Вспышка!

Elsir wrote: »

I guess I'm in the minority with this but I feel it works pretty okay. My only gripe with it is the fact that it's hard to tell from a distance whether the target you wish to place it on is already immune to CC having broken something already so in the heat of a battle, I may find myself trying to spam it in case I miss my next opportunity and end up sacrificing precious milliseconds.

Do you think Eclipse is effective as it is now or could do with a bit of a buff? Perhaps I should've included an option for keeping Eclipse but reworking it a bit. I don't understand why they changed it to only affect 1 person at a time - was this EVER complained about in the forums for a nerf? I've never seen anyone complain that Eclipse, of all skills, needed a nerf, so the change really came out of the blue for me. I'd be content to keep Eclipse if they returned it to being spammable on multiple targets.

Imdrefan wrote: »

I do use it in PvP sometimes and you will get a message at the top (right?) of your screen saying target immune, and that will tell you if they recently did a CC break.

Oh yes, I do see the message, but I find myself spamming it so I don't miss my chance that once their CC immunity has worn off, I can put my eclipse on them before they maybe take an immovable potion or stealth out or some such thing that would otherwise stop me from placing my eclipse on them.

EgoRush wrote: »

Do you think Eclipse is effective as it is now or could do with a bit of a buff? Perhaps I should've included an option for keeping Eclipse but reworking it a bit. I don't understand why they changed it to only affect 1 person at a time - was this EVER complained about in the forums for a nerf? I've never seen anyone complain that Eclipse, of all skills, needed a nerf, so the change really came out of the blue for me. I'd be content to keep Eclipse if they returned it to being spammable on multiple targets.

Is it effective? No, I don't think it is. But it's doing enough for adaptable purposes. EG: Eclipse an annoying mage guard while I puncturing sweep a group of melee guards down. Often this is JUST enough to say it's not useless, but I can't say it's the best thing in the world or hold it above the alternate suggestion of Blinding Light. It's the skill I would change out if I needed Rapid Manoeuvres or something else temporary.

I'm not sure why they changed it either. Perhaps a cap of 3 targets, but 1 was definitely a HUGE change in respect to how the skill used to work. Considering how many stamina builds are out there, even magicka users are able to break out of a lot more these days, I never thought the way it was could be considered "broken" or in need of a nerf so I didn't expect it either. I thought they accidentally(™) broke it before I read the change was in fact intended.

I guess what I'm getting at is, I don't find it useless. Though, I don't think it's amazing either. I didn't think it needed nerfing from what it used to work as.
I would not be heart broken to see it replaced, would be impressed if they unnerfed it, would be happy enough if they buffed it a little, but wouldn't be displeased if it remained the same. My vote went for "remain the same" because of that. If it didn't change, I wouldn't mind.

Dont think there's much point in dreaming about Blinding Flashes.

ZoS wants templars to have a lot of situational skills. Blinding Flashes used to be just that, since most guys prior to 1.6 used staff or bow.

But today, Blinding Flashes would no longer be situational. It would be really good. Half the population plays stamblades or spams Wrecking Blow. With Blazing Shield turned into uselessness, that skill would save your butt. So no way in hell it's coming back.

Give me mobility buff. Remove Healing Ritual, Eclipse or both.

Eclipse was okay when you could use it on multiple targets. But now it's a weak single target debuff. Only shuts down offensive abilities. Eclipsed targets can still heal, shield and use utility like Purge that conveniently removes Eclipse, if you feel like saving stamina.

Joy_Division wrote: »

Umm...

I just want my old Eclipse back when it was actually one of the few decent Templar skills. So, no, replace it with nothing.

That being said, I do want blinding flashes back - replace it with the other trash in our skill-lines: backlash, healing ritual, sun shield, etc.

Backlash is great for PvE, so I wouldn't want to see that go. Healing Ritual is useless for both PvE and PvP pretty much, so I'd say that would please more of a majority. Sun Shield was nerfed too hard even before Battle Spirit came in and made the shield completely useless. It needs a damage buff or to scale off our largest stat (magicka/stamina).

What about the Javelin? Thrown with god-like strength to tickle enemies. I could consider keeping Eclipse but returning it to being spammable on multiple targets, then get Blinding Flashes in over that Javelin or Healing Ritual. Perhaps the Blinding Flashes morph that damages enemies could be turned into a HoT instead if it was moved to the healing tree of Templar abilities.

I feel like I'm starting to ask for too much and over-complicating this thread now ha.

Love Blinding Flashes. A nice cc would be cool too though.

Don't get rid of my Healing ritual! I spam the heck out of that skill. Keeps everyone alive in range

TheBull wrote: »

Um Total dark is freaking awesome. It's one of the most powerful skills in the game for pvp. It's a complete shut down of all caster offensive magic, plus it heals you!

Get rid of the stupid skill that stores your dmg then releases it.

I used to feel the same way and I've even tested Total Dark in vMA to shut down mages and get extra healing, but even they just break free of it and continue as if nothing happened. Compare it to the DK reflective scales ability: Eclipse costs more, can be broken out of or purged, only affects the target rather than reflecting everything from you, does not reflect arrows/flying blades. It is a worse version in almost every way.

I don't care about this skill at all. I think Defensive stance, which I use, is much better reflect. 6 seconds against single specific enemy is just useless.

There's lot of suggestions, but not really anything I like so much. For example I don't care about about mobility. There's rapids + if they ever fix Toppling Charge that would also help a lot. I think they should focus on fixing current skills.

Jura23 wrote: »

I don't care about this skill at all. I think Defensive stance, which I use, is much better reflect. 6 seconds against single specific enemy is just useless.

There's lot of suggestions, but not really anything I like so much. For example I don't care about about mobility. There's rapids + if they ever fix Toppling Charge that would also help a lot. I think they should focus on fixing current skills.

That's why I added an option to vote for "replace with other" so people can vote there and maybe add in a suggestion that hasn't been voiced yet, if they have one. Agreed on fixing current skills (Toppling is still broken and can trap you in the animation, plus a delay on follow-up skills), but there are other threads for that.

EgoRush wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

Umm...

I just want my old Eclipse back when it was actually one of the few decent Templar skills. So, no, replace it with nothing.

That being said, I do want blinding flashes back - replace it with the other trash in our skill-lines: backlash, healing ritual, sun shield, etc.

Backlash is great for PvE, so I wouldn't want to see that go. Healing Ritual is useless for both PvE and PvP pretty much, so I'd say that would please more of a majority. Sun Shield was nerfed too hard even before Battle Spirit came in and made the shield completely useless. It needs a damage buff or to scale off our largest stat (magicka/stamina).

What about the Javelin? Thrown with god-like strength to tickle enemies. I could consider keeping Eclipse but returning it to being spammable on multiple targets, then get Blinding Flashes in over that Javelin or Healing Ritual. Perhaps the Blinding Flashes morph that damages enemies could be turned into a HoT instead if it was moved to the healing tree of Templar abilities.

I feel like I'm starting to ask for too much and over-complicating this thread now ha.

Backlash use to be OK for PVE but with the amount of spell damage and magicka we have, that capped damage number isn't worth the effort to chase.

Javelin is another underwhelming templar skill I'd trade for blinding flashes.

A lot of Templar skills need to be re-done, and this is certainly one of them.