New weapon or jewelry enchants

tinythinker · January 2016

If you could add some what would they do? Besides one-shot your opponent and allow you to mitigate 100% damage, of course...

Here are some starter ideas so yours doesn't have to be first:

Weapon enchants:

- Drains stamina from target.
- Drains magicka from target.
- Blinds target for x seconds.

Jewelry enchants:

- Increases elemental damage done by X.
- Increases poison damage done by X.
- Increases disease damage done by X.
- Increases movement speed by X.

Lenikus · January 2016

Those weapon enchants already exist in a non-drain mode, save the binding one.
Now, the jewelry ones are just copypaste from the weapon ones, again, save the last one.
Those, specially the binding and increase speed are exclusively designed for PvP, but will not be used due to there's better alternatives for min/max'ing ;3

#Edit. grammar.
also, not many skils do disease or poison damage ._.

tinythinker · January 2016

Lenikus wrote: »

Those weapon enchants already exist in a non-drain mode, save the binding one.

But that's the point -- drain mode. The target loses either magicka or stamina. No damage is done nor do you receive anything, they simply lose a sizeable chunk of one or the other when the enchant procs. Think of it as inducing fatigue. Maybe you had 4000 stamina left in a close fight, enough to roll dodge or block or use an ability or two but now you have 200 left all of a sudden because the drain stamina enchant on your opponent's weapon just hit.

Lenikus wrote: »

Now, the jewelry ones are just copypaste from the weapon ones, again, save the last one.

Nope, they are not the same. They increase *how much* damage you do with that damage type, they don't inflict that damage. So as a DK using Ardent Flame skills or a Sorc using Storm Calling skills, if you use the boost to elemental damage you are going to see a boost in how hard your class skills hit. If you do have an enchant for fire/frost/shock on your weapon, yes, the elemental damage boost from the jewelry glyph will synergize with that as well, just as a poison/disease jewelry glyph will synergize with weapon damage glyphs of the same damage type.

also, not many skils do disease or poison damage ._.

You could combine them together as one enchant, a "boost poison and disease damage" glyph. Almost did for the first post anyway. Combined with the Thaumaturge star from the Champion system an archer can crank up the damage on abilities like Poison Arrow and its morphs, the Acid Spray morph of Arrow Spray, and the Lethal Arrow morph of Snipe. I am hoping they will do more with disease damage in the future.

Lenikus wrote: »

Those, specially the binding and increase speed are exclusively designed for PvP, but will not be used due to there's better alternatives for min/max'ing ;3

It depends on your build, including Champion point allocation, and the strength of the enchants. If a single speed enchant only gave you a 3% boost, it would be a novelty but not worth slotting in PvP. If it was a 10%-20% boost that could stack with Major/Minor Expedition, creative players might find a way to work it into a build. The same goes for blinding, which causes a miss chance on the opponent. If it gave a really low miss chance when it procced and lasted 3-4 seconds, it would be pointless. If it gave a 20-30% miss chance for 6-8 seconds, it would deserve a second look when deciding what to use on your weapon.