We always take feedback seriously. One Tamriel was so huge we had to focus on the balance and new item sets. With the next major update we will be focusing on class balance and abilities. We have a pretty cool new version of Dragon Blood planned that will help magicka DKs while maintaining it's power level for high health characters.

Yup, we definitely have planned a good list of buffs for magicka DK and also balance in general for magicka vs stamina DPS.

We want to make DK's have a unique playstyle that does not include an execute ability. Instead we want them to focus on pressuing enemy's health bars with DoT effects. We've got some sweet changes for magicka DKs planned for update 13!

We're already got a pretty significant list of buffs for magicka DKs coming with update 13 and we have been reading your feedback.

WHERE??

We're already got a pretty significant list of buffs for magicka DKs coming with update 13 and we have been reading your feedback.

WHERE???????? WHERE THE **** ARE THEY? ****ING BETRAYAL

why not just delete magicka dk, thats what they seem to want to do

What I think about the DK changes this patch ...

THANK YOU SO MUCH ZOS. Seriously. I want to thank you personaly for caring so much about a portion of your player base. Because of your new changes, my grades, fitness, social life or anykind of my IRL life for the matter, will improve due to me pretty much quiting this game. Thats the buff we were looking for guys.

So once again, thank you. @ZOS_GinaBruno can you please pass our thank you to the whole team, that'll be greatly appreciated. And also remind them that not consulting their player base, forum threads, etc..., for ideas and inputs for future improvements and balance is a great idea to have the game survive an other year or team. Cause i mean it's not like the answer to all of ESO problems hasn't been already identified by the players AND balance fixes brought up by us as well, right ? I mean... we are pretty dumb, unexperienced and have no knowledge of what we talk about, RIGHT ?

So... yeah... once again, GREAT JOB ZOS. Thank you for listening to us

(wrobel since you seem to be a special kind of smart person buddy .............. I AM BEING SARCASTIC)

Nice to know our class will keep being punished for the way it was at launch.

I really don't understand the Banner nerf either.

Is it because Cor keeps posting videos of players dying in his banner due to his exceptional player skill and ability to place them where instantly exiting them is difficult? Or when some of those players just tunnel vision Qaevir while inside his banner and die? Are we trying to protect those players? I just don't get it.

In group play, Banner isn't even good in most scenarios other than defense of a keep or bombing a group that you've lured to/is coming through a choke. The meta is, and will remain in Update 13, Negate and Destro Ultis. That's it. So WHY THE *** DID THEY NERF BANNER AGAIN?

No changes to:

Stone Fist
Inferno
Eruption / CinderStorm
Chains (ones that matter)
Class Passives

Dan_Fazzyub17_ESO wrote: »

So WHY THE *** DID THEY NERF BANNER AGAIN?

KisoValley wrote: »

Cause it's still the best ult in PVE. Same reason they changed curse, it's all about PVE, claiming its a PVP change.

Like Kiso said, its a PvE change. Since SoM isn't really used in PvP this change is largely irrelevant.

In PvE it will be more than offset by the Inferno staff buff.

Ardent Flame
Burning Embers (Searing Strike morph): Fixed an issue where Rank IV of this morph was not allowing multiple Dragonknights to apply the Damage over Time component to the same target.

Embers fix? I think it's a PvP oriented fix... meh... few people uses that skill in PvP.

Fiery Grip: Increased the duration of the Major Expedition buff granted by this ability and its morphs to 8 seconds from 2 seconds.

Major exp after chain? Is that going to solve the issues with the skill? No. It will still be a crappy skill. No reason to leave my shield. No real solution to movility (it's going to be fun to see the pull morph being used t get the MExp buff) I'll still insist in my idea, make dragon leap the DKs gap closer and give Unrelenting force as ulti. And erase chains.

Inferno: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs would display an incorrect Spell Critical Strike Chance percentage on your character UI after swapping weapons.

Inferno fix? OK... I didn't even knew it was buggy because.. oh dear lord, I don't use it 'cause it's crap

Lava Whip: Increased the damage from this ability and its morphs by 5%.

5% extra dmg on whip? What? It will be a moist noodle, nothing better than that... OK, you can use a flame staff to get a real buff... but who would do that having the wonderful passives given to frost staff? Crap

Standard of Might (Dragonknight Standard morph): This morph now increases your damage done and decreases your damage taken by 12/13/14/15% while standing inside the standard, down from 17/18/19/20%.

SoM nerf... besides being a hard to use skill, now it's nerfed. Great ZoS.

Draconic Power
Coagulating Blood (Dragon Blood morph): This morph now heals you for 33% of your missing Magicka instead of 33% of your missing Health.

How to begin with this? It is not only stupid, it is superstupid. Whenever I'm low health I hit the heal button, and that button is R (because of the beautiful battle roar passive). Now I have a heal that works if I have almost no magicka, and if I have no magicka to cast coag blood, I drink a pot or use the R button, and my heal is going to be crap. Please Zos, rework the skill

Dragon Blood: This ability and its morphs can now Critically Strike.

Who cares about a crappy crit if your heal is crap?

Ferocious Leap (Dragon Leap morph): This morph now deals Flame Damage instead of Physical Damage.

The only decent change in all the "let's buff mDK" promise.

Hardened Armor (Spiked Armor morph): Increased the damage shield value granted by this morph to 15% of your Maximum Health from 10% of your Maximum Health.

Do tanks really need a stronger shield? Because in a non tank build this is useless. In the case of PvE, the shield, for obvious bttlespirit reasons it's going to be nerfed to crap.

Iron Skin: Reduced the amount of additional damage you can block from Rank I of this passive to 4% from 5%.
Note that due to how percentages are calculated, the total damage blocked with this rank remains unchanged.

Funny note "we are going to make a 1% reduction, that will not impact anything... :facepalm:

Spiked Armor: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs would deal their thorns damage when the attacker procced a Disease or Poison Weapon Enchantment on the Dragonknight.

I read the word "nerf" all over that sentence

Volatile Armor (Spiked Armor morph): Increased the damage of the Damage over Time component of this morph by approximately 20%.

Volatile remains as the default option for the skill. IDK why you took your time working on hardened if it is not going to do anything.

Earthen Heart
Battle Roar: Significantly revised this passive ability’s tooltip to more accurately describe the values of Health, Magicka, and Stamina it restores based on the Ultimate’s cost.
Note that decimal values will be truncated from the tooltip, so values restored may be slightly higher than described.

Presentational change. That's not a change, neither an improvement, it is just the job you had to do more than one year ago.

This is the second worst case of *** fixes in this game... only surpassed by the nerfs you did to mageblades in this very same patch.

No reason to keep on playing.

Yeh I think my time as a mDK is coming to an end. Stam DK is just so tanky compared...

Wow, really disappointed at the salt level in this thread. At first, I was confused by the patch notes, then it hit me. This patch is gonna be very good for mDKs. The issue mDKs have had for a long time is they need to stack all three stats: magicka for damage, health for CDB, and stamina for blocking.

You have to look at the patch notes in their entirety. When you consider the entire notes, with an ice staff we only have to stack a single stat...magicka. With our magicka pool, we can now block, heal, and deal damage! We gain light attacks that actually deal damage instead of tickle. With large magicka pools we gain the ability to use damage shields that are actually decently sized.

Let me repeat that...no longer do we have to split our stat pool!!!

I don't think you realize how much you'll be able to permablock with an ice staff and desert rose.

The CDB changes will be better than old CDB in every way. My magicka pool, even with trainee and argonian passives, is 10k higher than my health pool. Of course my DB heals will be stronger. Only scenario where they won't is when I'm ganked. I don't recall the last time I was ganked where I didn't die instantly to 5 proc sets going off at the same time, so not worried about that scenario really (and am not convinced the proc set nerf will change this, but that's a different thread).

Flame leap will be a cheaper ult than meteor that hits just as hard, and doesn't require a fossilize to guarantee a hit because it doesn't telegraph.

Whips hit harder.

In PvE, whip damage is buffed 13% with destro staff changes.

I'm excited about these changes. In @Wrobel we trust!

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

Wow, really disappointed at the salt level in this thread. At first, I was confused by the patch notes, then it hit me. This patch is gonna be very good for mDKs. The issue mDKs have had for a long time is they need to stack all three stats: magicka for damage, health for CDB, and stamina for blocking.

You have to look at the patch notes in their entirety. When you consider the entire notes, with an ice staff we only have to stack a single stat...magicka. With our magicka pool, we can now block, heal, and deal damage! We gain light attacks that actually deal damage instead of tickle. With large magicka pools we gain the ability to use damage shields that are actually decently sized.

Let me repeat that...no longer do we have to split our stat pool!!!

I don't think you realize how much you'll be able to permablock with an ice staff and desert rose.

The CDB changes will be better than old CDB in every way. My magicka pool, even with trainee and argonian passives, is 10k higher than my health pool. Of course my DB heals will be stronger. Only scenario where they won't is when I'm ganked. I don't recall the last time I was ganked where I didn't die instantly to 5 proc sets going off at the same time, so not worried about that scenario really (and am not convinced the proc set nerf will change this, but that's a different thread).

Flame leap will be a cheaper ult than meteor that hits just as hard, and doesn't require a fossilize to guarantee a hit because it doesn't telegraph.

Whips hit harder.

In PvE, whip damage is buffed 13% with destro staff changes.

I'm excited about these changes. In @Wrobel we trust!

And how exactly will you sustain permablocking while having 0 Magicka Regen and your Magicka pool being drained by blocking? You won't even be able to use 2x 5p sets + 2p Undaunted.

Ignoring the rather large indirect buff Inhale got by increasing the dmg in place for AOE caps.

usmcjdking wrote: »

Ignoring the rather large indirect buff Inhale got by increasing the dmg in place for AOE caps.

1. I would assume the heal is limited to 6 targets.
2. If you hit enough people to actually feel a significant effect of this you are *** anyway if you don't have a group with you.
3. I doubt anyone will actually feel any noticeable difference from this.

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

@Sanct16 desert rose or black rose. Same way that you get stam back while blocking today. With undaunted sets not being able to crit, I'm not sure they'll continue to be BiS anyways. We'll have to see how that plays out. The first setup I plan on trying is 5 black rose, 5pc dps set (probably BSW), 1pc infernal guardian, master resto back bar for more magicka on the shield bar.

4pc necro with 1pc infernal guardian, 1pc grothdar is another option. 5pc desert rose+5pc rattlecage. Lots of stuff to try out!

Not all undaunted sets are damage sets, pirate skeleton and bloodspawn just got a lot more appealing.

Dan_Fazzyub17_ESO wrote: »

I've never been more upset with changes to my class than I am now.

Really seems like ZoS is just telling mDK players to go *** themselves and re-roll stamina.

I re-rolled stamina last month because hearing that they are going to buff mDK in a future update in an unspecified way did not fill me with confidence. Apparently, I made the right choice.