Katahdin wrote: »

No
I saw 6 people including my v16 nb doing 8k-10k hits pounding on 1 sorc all alone last week and he still did not die.

infinite stacking of infinite sheilds gotta go

this along sorcerr OP DPS is ONE reason why pvp is unbalanced

The sorc tears taste so sweet

The decrease was down to 6 seconds however you shield stackers spam those shielding spells every 2 seconds so even if it was down to 3 seconds it wouldn't make a diffrence

Nightblades survived their nerf to cloak and stealth, sorcs can survive the nerf to shields.

I'd like it if Empowered Ward got back it's summons +% damage while active, to be honest.

As a Summoner I don't really appreciate my pet shields losing 12 seconds (if I go Empowered) / 14 seconds (if I go Hardened still) on THEIR shields, instead of just my own. In a group setting, if not most of the time the shields will time out in 6 seconds, instead of being removed by damage =/

Without a shield my Twilight basically gets oneshot in Dungeons.

Annulment
Bone Shield
Healing Ward/other morph it has
Learn a few self heals with restro staff

There's a few suggestions for you. Learn to adapt. I've adapted my Sorc loads since the very beginning.

Is this the right place for SORC Tears Soap Opera?!


"compensation"

EsoRecon wrote: »

Zos should do what King Richard has mentioned. Make it so you can only have 1 shield of that type up at a time. So for example your hardened ward must be completely depleted before you can add another. Then zos could keep the 20 sec up time and all that stuff.

How to make every sorc that does not already stack shields into a shieldstacker 101.

The idea is stupid and it did not take any skill back then to alternate between harness and hardened ward. The only thing that would achieve is EVERY sorc starts running harness and hardened together (which ofc king richard could care less about as he already does this).
It´s a horrible proposal when thinking about reducing shield stacking and increasing build variety.

Aquanova wrote: »

I think ZOS should just decrease the cost of ward to compensate for the duration this update. Wards nerf is really only going to be apparent in PVE where you'll probably have to fit it on your front bar and work it into your rotation. Any Sorc's who used it in PVP know that it will be down well before it expires. For PVP all you really lose is the safety blanket it provided, knowing that you had it up and could move freely for 20 seconds.

I will adapt to PVP changes thats going to happen all the time no matter what. I'm reluctantly starting to have my shield on my offensive bar anyways because of the lag in switching them around under attack. What I don't get is the reason to reduce shield duration in PVE other than consistency.

If Absorption field silences enemy players instead of stunning them like it does to NPCs, then why not leave the PVE time alone and do what you will to PVP shields?

Obviously in Maelstrom Arena the lesser shield time factors in differently than a PVP setting. Were there some balance issues in PVE as well that needed to be addressed?

Adopt, adapt, and improve. I will whistle the tune from "Bridge on the River Kwai" and march on but I will not stop trying to negotiate some (keyword) compensation when I'm not whistling.

Bump shields up to 10s from 6s and i would be happy