Suggestion to changing Shieldbreaker.

olsborg · February 2016

So we have that black rose set wich changes heavy armor passive.

Why not change shieldbreaker set to do something similar for the new cp passive, shattering blows(i think) by a % just like that?
I use shieldbreaker pretty much all the time in cyrodiil these days, because I think shieldstack meta needs a counter, but im not so thrilled about this set rly, its abit too hard counter, please consider this @Wrobel

Ryuho · February 2016

Great idea.

Valrien · February 2016

olsborg wrote: »

So we have that black rose set wich changes heavy armor passive.

Why not change shieldbreaker set to do something similar for the new cp passive, shattering blows(i think) by a % just like that?
I use shieldbreaker pretty much all the time in cyrodiil these days, because I think shieldstack meta needs a counter, but im not so thrilled about this set rly, its abit too hard counter, please consider this @Wrobel

Shield stack has a counter, it's called burst and cc.

SemiD4rkness · February 2016

Valrien wrote: »

olsborg wrote: »

So we have that black rose set wich changes heavy armor passive.

Why not change shieldbreaker set to do something similar for the new cp passive, shattering blows(i think) by a % just like that?
I use shieldbreaker pretty much all the time in cyrodiil these days, because I think shieldstack meta needs a counter, but im not so thrilled about this set rly, its abit too hard counter, please consider this @Wrobel

Shield stack has a counter, it's called burst and cc.

Burst and cc have only 1 counter, it's called shield stack.

Sharkano · February 2016

I have used shieldbreaker and find it not too great. It's useless on non-sorcs, and only good on sorcs who stand there spamming wards. It's damage is too low to do anything against anyone who has a clue.

Lenikus · February 2016

Nah.
Sorcerers with pvp builds that get more shield than actual health need to learn a lesson.

Didgerion · February 2016

Shield breaker should be renamed to shield popper.

If a shield takes damage then it will pop.

DschiPeunt · February 2016

Lenikus wrote: »

Nah.
Sorcerers with pvp builds that get more shield than actual health need to learn a lesson.

I mean...yeah I agree with you that it is ridiculous to have more shield than health. But...you know...why don't we just nerf hardened ward instead of creating a set that leaves sorcs without a chance?

Fasold666 · February 2016

Great idea.

I also think that shieldstacking is a little bit too much these days. But magicka sorcs have like no other choices to survive in pvp than shieldstacking at the moment (or atleast using hardned ward).
And getting spammed by weightened bow shieldbreaker playeres is pretty much ruining the whole class (unless you have atleast 2 healing skills slotted. But that shouldn't be it, just to counter that one specific armor set).

So I am glad that there is a new cp passive to counter shields and would be happy if they changed the sb-set to something like "10% extra damage against damage shields" or so like you suggest.

olsborg · February 2016

My suggestion is something like:

Lets say you have picked CP to increase your dmg vs shields by 20%, the new Shieldbreaker will increase this % by another 50% effectively making you do 30% extra dmg on damage shields (numbers taken out of thin air as an example)

This would make you a shieldbreaker and not a shieldbypasserspammerlightatackdeathfrombow (like so many does)

sagitter · February 2016

No, that way sorcerer would be more stronger and they don t need it, they already have new cp physical resist passive with new patch.

LegendaryMage · February 2016

Azura's star will be a cp free campaign on the next update and probably a very popular one. Shieldbreaker will be the only way for some stamina people to counter shieldstacking, but the problem is that you are not breaking shields with it, you're ignoring them. Call it shield ignorer then, as it ironically does not break a single shield in the game. The new CP passive does.

Malmai · February 2016

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olsborg wrote: »

My suggestion is something like:

Lets say you have picked CP to increase your dmg vs shields by 20%, the new Shieldbreaker will increase this % by another 50% effectively making you do 30% extra dmg on damage shields (numbers taken out of thin air as an example)

This would make you a shieldbreaker and not a shieldbypasserspammerlightatackdeathfrombow (like so many does)

And what does make SorcsShieldStackSpammer ?

I remember when Sorcs didn't need to spam shields now its easy. Shieldbreaker is good as it is now + we need dmg against the shields, non critable and what not ye right...