Vigor has absolutely zero to do with Stamina being powerful in PvP right now..
I completely disagree. The ability to get from near execute range to full HP by casting vigor and rolling twice is the primary reason why stamina builds are so powerful. Right now, they can easily negate any damage that does not kill them in 2 seconds, which allows them to stay continually on the offensive.
Without vigor, any pure damage focused stam build would be forced to retreat if he failed to kill his target fast. If that wouldn't make him less powerful then i don't know what would.
If someone is getting from execute range to full HP by casting Vigor and rolling twice, You're not using a Healing Debuff.
Right. Next time i am fighting a stamina NB, i'm just gonna keep dropping dragonknight standards on him everytime he cast vigor.
Vigor has absolutely zero to do with Stamina being powerful in PvP right now..
I completely disagree. The ability to get from near execute range to full HP by casting vigor and rolling twice is the primary reason why stamina builds are so powerful. Right now, they can easily negate any damage that does not kill them in 2 seconds, which allows them to stay continually on the offensive.
Without vigor, any pure damage focused stam build would be forced to retreat if he failed to kill his target fast. If that wouldn't make him less powerful then i don't know what would.
If someone is getting from execute range to full HP by casting Vigor and rolling twice, You're not using a Healing Debuff.
Right. Next time i am fighting a stamina NB, i'm just gonna keep dropping dragonknight standards on him everytime he cast vigor.
I'd hope you use the one available to you in the 1hd shield line that lasts for 10 seconds, Or maybe use Duroks Bane, or Maybe Cyrodiils Crest, or Maybe Lethal Arrow, Or Maybe Fasalla.
Vigor has absolutely zero to do with Stamina being powerful in PvP right now..
I completely disagree. The ability to get from near execute range to full HP by casting vigor and rolling twice is the primary reason why stamina builds are so powerful. Right now, they can easily negate any damage that does not kill them in 2 seconds, which allows them to stay continually on the offensive.
Without vigor, any pure damage focused stam build would be forced to retreat if he failed to kill his target fast. If that wouldn't make him less powerful then i don't know what would.
If someone is getting from execute range to full HP by casting Vigor and rolling twice, You're not using a Healing Debuff.
Right. Next time i am fighting a stamina NB, i'm just gonna keep dropping dragonknight standards on him everytime he cast vigor.
I'd hope you use the one available to you in the 1hd shield line that lasts for 10 seconds, Or maybe use Duroks Bane, or Maybe Cyrodiils Crest, or Maybe Lethal Arrow, Or Maybe Fasalla.
So every magicka class must run S&B on one bar with a stamina based debuff and resto on the back bar to heal? Or run stamina/tank sets like Cyrodiil's Crest, Durok's and Fasallas? And running bow on a mag DK will work out really well.
Your "solutions" are all require magicka players to be tanky with high stamina pools, while Vigor is available to any stam build of any kind.
Magicka dks generally build tanky so duroks or fasalla is a pretty good setup for them
Magicka dks generally build tanky so duroks or fasalla is a pretty good setup for them
If a mDK runs durok or fasalla, he will butcher whatever little damage he had left. At that point, it does not matter that the stam build is debuffed, as he will be able to outheal that mDK's damage despite of the debuff.
And really, fasalla is completely useless for this purpose, since the debuff only lasts 2 seconds after enemy damages you, and if he did, he is on a 1 sec ability CD and can't use a heal anyway - half of the debuff's duration is wasted. (and the 2nd second probably spent roll dodging or cloaking). Only thing fasalla is good for is zerg busting.
Unless you decide to actually use the Reverb Bash. Its a route you can take if you choose to but you have two viable options there to deal with it.
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Magicka dks generally build tanky so duroks or fasalla is a pretty good setup for them; or they can run 1hd shield like damn near everyone of them runs in pvp. If you want to use dw I recommend fasalla or duroks.
Vigor is a prominent source of imbalance in this game. It's SUPER strong - it can easily out-heal incoming DPS from multiple characters on its own. Magicka-centric characters have nothing to compete with this and is a major reason magicka is underperforming and underrepresented in Cyrodiil.
ZOS, I hope you will consider this skill for the upcoming One Tamriel DLC - a decent option is to scale Vigor with health and cap it at the value of your lowest max resource pool to limit it's power for high weapon damage builds while also making it useful for magicka-centric characters.
I would love to have this healing utility available to my magicka toons, especially my magsorc, which feels incredibly gimped in self healing potential relative to other classes. I don't even care if it costs stamina - the cost is already very reasonable. Also, it would open up the playstyle for magicka by allowing less shield spamming.
TL;DR - reduce the overall effectiveness of Vigor and make it useful to magicka-centric players.
@Wrobel I'm holding on to hope that you guys plan to do something about the balance situation in One Tamriel.
The whole idea of basing healing off of weapon or spell damage is flawed to begin with.
Unless you decide to actually use the Reverb Bash. Its a route you can take if you choose to but you have two viable options there to deal with it.
If you believe that using a costly stamina attack as a magicka DK (against an enemy running shuffle and rolling all the time) is a viable option, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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Magicka dks generally build tanky so duroks or fasalla is a pretty good setup for them; or they can run 1hd shield like damn near everyone of them runs in pvp. If you want to use dw I recommend fasalla or duroks.
Great, your mDK can put on a heal debuff. Go ahead and heal debuff me, I'll go AFK and get a sandwich, when I come back your DK might have me down to 50% health.
I spam dark flare every night in Cyrodiil. High weapon damage + vigor/rally is enough for players who know what they are doing to still heal through lots of incoming damage. To say nothing that vigor users themselves have access to heal debuffs so it's not like that's a weakness that is supposed to balance it Vs. mutagen.
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Magicka dks generally build tanky so duroks or fasalla is a pretty good setup for them; or they can run 1hd shield like damn near everyone of them runs in pvp. If you want to use dw I recommend fasalla or duroks.
Great, your mDK can put on a heal debuff. Go ahead and heal debuff me, I'll go AFK and get a sandwich, when I come back your DK might have me down to 50% health.
I spam dark flare every night in Cyrodiil. High weapon damage + vigor/rally is enough for players who know what they are doing to still heal through lots of incoming damage. To say nothing that vigor users themselves have access to heal debuffs so it's not like that's a weakness that is supposed to balance it Vs. mutagen.
Are you really trying to argue with me on this? At best you're going to heal for 4500 with Vigor, That's 2250 Heal over time with a heal debuff on ya....I'll give ya say 1250 on rally Extra....and i'm being generous there.... that's 3500 Heal you have to deal with....Are you telling me you can't outdamage that?
Unless you decide to actually use the Reverb Bash. Its a route you can take if you choose to but you have two viable options there to deal with it.
If you believe that using a costly stamina attack as a magicka DK (against an enemy running shuffle and rolling all the time) is a viable option, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Its a bloody 10 second Healing Debuff, yes I think you should use it
Unless you decide to actually use the Reverb Bash. Its a route you can take if you choose to but you have two viable options there to deal with it.
If you believe that using a costly stamina attack as a magicka DK (against an enemy running shuffle and rolling all the time) is a viable option, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Its a bloody 10 second Healing Debuff, yes I think you should use it
It does not matter how long the debuff is, a magicka spec simply cannot afford using an expensive stamina attack that will on average miss 2 times out of 3 tries due to the target running shuffle and/or roll dodging.
Joy_Division wrote: »[
Magicka dks generally build tanky so duroks or fasalla is a pretty good setup for them; or they can run 1hd shield like damn near everyone of them runs in pvp. If you want to use dw I recommend fasalla or duroks.
Great, your mDK can put on a heal debuff. Go ahead and heal debuff me, I'll go AFK and get a sandwich, when I come back your DK might have me down to 50% health.
I spam dark flare every night in Cyrodiil. High weapon damage + vigor/rally is enough for players who know what they are doing to still heal through lots of incoming damage. To say nothing that vigor users themselves have access to heal debuffs so it's not like that's a weakness that is supposed to balance it Vs. mutagen.
Are you really trying to argue with me on this? At best you're going to heal for 4500 with Vigor, That's 2250 Heal over time with a heal debuff on ya....I'll give ya say 1250 on rally Extra....and i'm being generous there.... that's 3500 Heal you have to deal with....Are you telling me you can't outdamage that?
Wow, you are ssooooooo wrong. Vigor heals for much more than that. You can also use it inside an enemy negate bubble...
I assume you use CC break?
Use it after CC break on the target.
You either build to counter what you're having trouble with or you can hope they just absolutely gut vigor.
I assume you use CC break?
Use it after CC break on the target.
After i use CC break to get out of fear, i have other things to worry about than debuffing enemy healing, because i just ate an unblocked incap strike+SA+light attack during the fear before it was possible to CC break it.
If i am sitting at execute range HP or very close to it, with dots out of the wazoo ticking on me (2k+ heavy weapon bleed, 2k+ poison injection, probably 1k+ rearming trap...), i need to worry about getting my HP back, not gamble the next move on an offensive attack that will most likely be evaded anyway.You either build to counter what you're having trouble with or you can hope they just absolutely gut vigor.
There is no counter. Not with the way this game heavily favors stamina builds over magicka. Not while a stam build has heals so strong that you need a healing debuff to even have a chance of scratching them, while also having damage output that has you hang on for dear life for the majority of the (very short) encounter. And that's when you are wearing heavy - if you are wearing light, there is no fight to begin with.
That's just wrong.
You want to have extreme damage output? Fine.
You want to have extemely effective healing? Fine.
You want to have extremely effective damage avoidance/mitigation? Fine.
But all three at once? Broken.
Don't use it every single time you get out of CC break, You should know when to use it.
If you're being put on the defensive constantly you're probably going to lose the fight. The reason you're going on the defensive so much is because the damage you're applying is not putting him on the defensive..Why? Because he's out healing your damage and you don't run a Heal Debuff.
Slap Duroks or Fasalla on and go out and try it out and let me know how you do
; or Use Reverb Bash..I don't care which one you use but if you're going to fight in this game you need a Heal debuff...This counts towards Stamina Builds as well..
You think I stand a damn chance vs a Magicka Templar without a Healing Debuff? I'll get bloody destroyed.
Don't use it every single time you get out of CC break, You should know when to use it.
Tell that NB to not use his mega-nuke-combo on me every single time he fears, then i will have time to attempt fancy things like a stamina attack after some CC breaks.If you're being put on the defensive constantly you're probably going to lose the fight. The reason you're going on the defensive so much is because the damage you're applying is not putting him on the defensive..Why? Because he's out healing your damage and you don't run a Heal Debuff.
No. The reason is that his own damage output is so insanely high that i simply have no time to put him on defensive. I could put him on defensive if i managed to survive his alpha strike, applied some DOTS, have them reduce his HP slowly, and wear him down. That's how it was possible to fight extreme damage stam builds before vigor was a thing. Vigor makes that impossible now.Slap Duroks or Fasalla on and go out and try it out and let me know how you do
I dont have to try it out, i am using fasalla regularly in situations where the set is useful. In a 1v1 against a stam build it is not useful because wearing it guts your damage so much that vigor outheals it even when debuffed.; or Use Reverb Bash..I don't care which one you use but if you're going to fight in this game you need a Heal debuff...This counts towards Stamina Builds as well..
Well that's the problem you see, you shouldn't have to need a healing debuff when fighting a primary DPS spec.You think I stand a damn chance vs a Magicka Templar without a Healing Debuff? I'll get bloody destroyed.
Funny that you mention it. Fights against magicka templars last about 10 times as long as those against stam builds, and the winner or loser is usually decided by who makes a mistake. That's without a healing debuff.
1. If you're having trouble with burst from NBs during fear I recommend Reactive. You'll of course need to use Reverb Bash to make up for not having Duroks/Fasalla but It'll save your ass a lot during those burst phases.
3. Vigor has existed for a very long time and it wasn't a issue before...So clearly its not vigor that's doing it. If Vigor was gutted right now pretty much Magicka Builds would swing back to be insanely OP and stamina builds being nothing but Bow Spamming.
3. Clearly you're having trouble with heals; Clearly your damage isn't working..Clearly you should pickup a Heal Debuff.
4. Huh....Every class in this game can heal and has the capability to pickup a heal, I have zero idea why you think you wouldn't need a Heal Debuff. You're trying to go by past ideals of "Well this game has Healers and this game has DPS and they don't have Heals" when you know damn well this game doesn't work like this.
1. If you're having trouble with burst from NBs during fear I recommend Reactive. You'll of course need to use Reverb Bash to make up for not having Duroks/Fasalla but It'll save your ass a lot during those burst phases.
I'm repeating myself by now, but you leave me no choice. Reactive armor is a stamina set. It gives max stamina, it gives bloody stamina regen. Wearing that will gut my magicka DK's damage so much that i can reverb bash till the cows come home, i'm not gonna outdamage vigor, not on an enemy who is evading most of the attacks directed at him, be it through roll dodge, shuffle, or cloak.
And this is not armchair theory either, i have a full set of gold reactive armor sitting in the bank. I tried. It does not work.3. Vigor has existed for a very long time and it wasn't a issue before...So clearly its not vigor that's doing it. If Vigor was gutted right now pretty much Magicka Builds would swing back to be insanely OP and stamina builds being nothing but Bow Spamming.
I was playing a stamina NB at release, where i not only didn't have vigor, i didn't have any stamina morphs of class skills either. And you know what, the class was fun to play (except when fighting at-that-time overpowered magicka DK's, of course, but that wasn't a stamina weakness)3. Clearly you're having trouble with heals; Clearly your damage isn't working..Clearly you should pickup a Heal Debuff.
No i am not having trouble with heals, i am having trouble with a DPS spec healing himself just as effectively as an effin healer would.4. Huh....Every class in this game can heal and has the capability to pickup a heal, I have zero idea why you think you wouldn't need a Heal Debuff. You're trying to go by past ideals of "Well this game has Healers and this game has DPS and they don't have Heals" when you know damn well this game doesn't work like this.
The problem isn't that all classes have heals. Stam specs have rally, and i have no problem with that. The problem is that a non-healer is capable of healing himself from near-death to full in a timeframe that should only be reserved for a dedicated healer.
Once again, extreme damage, extreme damage avoidance/mitigation, and extreme healing should not all be on the same class/spec. Currently, thanks to vigor, stam builds have all three, which makes them overpowered compared to magicka builds.
1. If you're having trouble with burst from NBs during fear I recommend Reactive. You'll of course need to use Reverb Bash to make up for not having Duroks/Fasalla but It'll save your ass a lot during those burst phases.
I'm repeating myself by now, but you leave me no choice. Reactive armor is a stamina set. It gives max stamina, it gives bloody stamina regen. Wearing that will gut my magicka DK's damage so much that i can reverb bash till the cows come home, i'm not gonna outdamage vigor, not on an enemy who is evading most of the attacks directed at him, be it through roll dodge, shuffle, or cloak.
And this is not armchair theory either, i have a full set of gold reactive armor sitting in the bank. I tried. It does not work.3. Vigor has existed for a very long time and it wasn't a issue before...So clearly its not vigor that's doing it. If Vigor was gutted right now pretty much Magicka Builds would swing back to be insanely OP and stamina builds being nothing but Bow Spamming.
I was playing a stamina NB at release, where i not only didn't have vigor, i didn't have any stamina morphs of class skills either. And you know what, the class was fun to play (except when fighting at-that-time overpowered magicka DK's, of course, but that wasn't a stamina weakness)3. Clearly you're having trouble with heals; Clearly your damage isn't working..Clearly you should pickup a Heal Debuff.
No i am not having trouble with heals, i am having trouble with a DPS spec healing himself just as effectively as an effin healer would.4. Huh....Every class in this game can heal and has the capability to pickup a heal, I have zero idea why you think you wouldn't need a Heal Debuff. You're trying to go by past ideals of "Well this game has Healers and this game has DPS and they don't have Heals" when you know damn well this game doesn't work like this.
The problem isn't that all classes have heals. Stam specs have rally, and i have no problem with that. The problem is that a non-healer is capable of healing himself from near-death to full in a timeframe that should only be reserved for a dedicated healer.
Once again, extreme damage, extreme damage avoidance/mitigation, and extreme healing should not all be on the same class/spec. Currently, thanks to vigor, stam builds have all three, which makes them overpowered compared to magicka builds.
Unless you decide to actually use the Reverb Bash. Its a route you can take if you choose to but you have two viable options there to deal with it.
If you believe that using a costly stamina attack as a magicka DK (against an enemy running shuffle and rolling all the time) is a viable option, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Its a bloody 10 second Healing Debuff, yes I think you should use it
It does not matter how long the debuff is, a magicka spec simply cannot afford using an expensive stamina attack that will on average miss 2 times out of 3 tries due to the target running shuffle and/or roll dodging.
I assume you use CC break?
Use it after CC break on the target.
If you've build your character with the right CP you'll be fine; if not Pick up one of the sets I suggested..Or continue to complain that your Heavily Dot based DPS is having trouble killing Stam Users....You either build to counter what you're having trouble with or you can hope they just absolutely gut vigor.Joy_Division wrote: »[
Magicka dks generally build tanky so duroks or fasalla is a pretty good setup for them; or they can run 1hd shield like damn near everyone of them runs in pvp. If you want to use dw I recommend fasalla or duroks.
Great, your mDK can put on a heal debuff. Go ahead and heal debuff me, I'll go AFK and get a sandwich, when I come back your DK might have me down to 50% health.
I spam dark flare every night in Cyrodiil. High weapon damage + vigor/rally is enough for players who know what they are doing to still heal through lots of incoming damage. To say nothing that vigor users themselves have access to heal debuffs so it's not like that's a weakness that is supposed to balance it Vs. mutagen.
Are you really trying to argue with me on this? At best you're going to heal for 4500 with Vigor, That's 2250 Heal over time with a heal debuff on ya....I'll give ya say 1250 on rally Extra....and i'm being generous there.... that's 3500 Heal you have to deal with....Are you telling me you can't outdamage that?
Wow, you are ssooooooo wrong. Vigor heals for much more than that. You can also use it inside an enemy negate bubble...
I've yet to see Vigor Heal for more then 4500; And I generally run a Blackrose/Fury build so my Weapon Damage gets insane at certain points..I also don't know why you brought up Negate.....Did I Mention Negate?