Why does Zenimax hate fire damage?

ForlornBeliever · April 2016

Been reading the patch notes for Dark Brotherhood and it seems like every ability that deals flame damage has been changed. Granted, I haven't finished as of posting this, but that's how it seems. If this is an attempt at appeasing vampire players in PvP, then I fail to see how this really "balances" anything since most of the abilities are changed to Poison damage which affects Werewolves more. I understand that the extra damage would only affect after transforming, but that on top of the Fighter's Gulld passive seems a bit excessive and only serves to deter people from using it in PvP. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure flame damage deals more DoT than poison so this weakens the abilites as well.

Tryxus · April 2016

Only Stamina morphs of Dragonknight skills. It was done so they could make better use of the CP system (Mighty boosts Physical and Poison damage)

dimensional · April 2016

Tryxus wrote: »

Only Stamina morphs of Dragonknight skills. It was done so they could make better use of the CP system (Mighty boosts Physical and Poison damage)

This.

UltimaJoe777 · April 2016

All physical attacks doing Flame Damage are what changed. Everything else dealing Flame Damage still does so.

Acsvf · April 2016

Mighty.

ContraTempo · April 2016

Poison is less damage per tick but 4x more ticks. Also no possibility of damage like the burst of flame damage. So basically poison is more of a pure, slow DOT.

But really, how often will you go 12 seconds between hits? That long DOT sounds good but in combat you almost never let it run that long. Even with Mighty, it does not work out because you would have to get like a 400% increase to match what flame does in 3 sec.

ContraTempo rules this a nerf.