skwherl wrote: »

Give db a value heal like bol or hot like vigor. Its been said so many times before.

• Fiery Grip. - While I appreciate the major expedition increase, run speed and gap closers are very different. The main problem with the skill is that it doesn't gap close due to being jammed up on the Z axis (which causes it to jam for a while) or auto dodged or dodge rolled. In either case no gap closing occurs but you lose magicka for casting it.
  
• Flames of Oblivion - We were really hoping this skill would be cool like it used to be. Our inferno was replaced with a mage light clone and given to sorcs in the form of hurricane. The skill functions adequately as dps but there is nothing exciting about this top tier skill.
  
• Cauterize - In the past this skill could not heal the DK, it also didn't heal smartly. I have tested this on the PTS and it still will not heal the caster, it also needs to do so smart healing if it doesn't already.
  
• Lava Whip - I'm happy with the 5% increase in damage.
  
• Standard - I don't know how much dps we lost on this nerf but I am aware that the loss is mitigated by the constant 5% damage on whip and single target damage from a destro staff. I'm not sure why we lost the mitigation on it. I personally prefer the 5% detachment to whip for PvP sake. Will have to see what the trial DK's find on it to know for sure.
  
• Combustion Passive - I feel like most of the ardent flame passives are fillers, more damage or more duration but this one really stands out. This does poor damage on it's own, it's slow to proc, and there are so many ways to mitigate it. You can reduce it with armor, Elemental defender, and thick skinned. Why not make this passive into something more exciting. Why not make it increase dot damage while it's ticking or proc minor defile whenever it crits, or even make it return burning damage as magicka or magicka steal?

• Coagulating Dragons Blood - (I still need to test this, but speaking from the notes) A lot has been written and will be written about this so I will be short and defer to those that have focused on it. When this skill was based off of health it still wasn't strong enough because of Battle spirit, 50% executes, incredible burst, and constant defiles. Switching this to magicka is going to result in a larger heal than the health equivalent but it won't save you from getting ganked at full magicka. This means you will have to carry two nuke heals to cover the deficiency of cDB.
  
• Ferocious leap - Now does flame damage. This is great, thank you. I am very excited about this.
  
• Volatile Armor - really cool, i'm glad to see this getting buffed and I am excited to see how it plays with Thaumaturge.
  
• Reflective Scale - Force Shock becoming a beam has finally wrecked this skill. There is very little that this skill now effectively reflects. It doesn't reflect poison injection because that is 100% animation canceled and invisible so you can't cast reflect reactively. It doesn't reflect lightning channels which nearly every sorc now uses. It only ever reflected 2 people at a time because of the way range is weaved for 2 hits. It doesn't reflect meteor. It rarely reflects crystal shards because most experienced players don't hard cast it but hold the shard proc for a surprise burst combo. It really has little purpose at this point.
  
  There was a nice balance between sorcs with them hiding in their mine fort and channeling lit staffs and curses while holding back their burst. Now there is nearly nothing to protect the DK as he gets hit by lit channels, curses, force shocks, infernal guardian mortars, all while trying to navigate through a now cheaper encase spam which sticks to you even after you roll out of it, as well as an impassible mine fort that the sorc circles around to close any blown breaches. You can't dragon leap or chain over it without risking blowing up every mine at once. It is a bad situation that was formerly balanced. Something needs to be done to make up for the imbalance that this has created.
  
• Elder Dragon - A lot of us are vampires by a near necessity and will never see much value to a % health recovery, let alone 5% per slotted. Compare that to refreshing shadows which gives 15% health, magicka and stamina recovery with no prerequisites. A lot of our passives are just really sad and lack luster.

• Obsidian Shard - This is a very powerful heal, however I found it very unreliable given all the dodging in PvP. I have seen it dodged 3x in a row giving no heal. It would be nice to see the heal not be contingent with it landing.
  
• Fragmented Shield - This isn't a poor mans Blazing shield. It's a poor shield, and it's a poor damager. If I wanted a shield I would cast Annulment, if I wanted more damage I'd slot a real damage ability. This isn't a two for one skill, it's a disappointing shield and disappointing damage. This used to be best in slot for the way it worked on release but since it was obliterated by the nerf I have not seen it on a single dragon knight build. This skill either needs caster damage, some of the old group damage, or provide some form of debuff or buff that originates on each person whose shield is blown.
  
• Igneous Shield - In PvP this is basically major mending with a minor shield attached. It's not slotted for the purpose of shielding, it's slotted for the value it provides for healing. This is an amazing skill for PvE tanking but battle spirit has completely destroyed it as a personal shield and as a group shield. Before this was destroyed I would use it to pad my groups incoming damage but it has become too low on any viable build to have any value as a shield. At 25-27k health it needs to be at least a 3k shield on a group member in PvP and at least 5k on the caster. Most importantly is the shield it provides for the group as we can use annulment if we want a personal performance shield.

Areloth wrote: »

Just tested dragon blood on pts...I manage to get 19.2k heals on light armor. The heal bonuses and the cp make the heal pretty good. Test it before judging

Xsorus wrote: »

I just tested Dragons Blood, in PVE mind you without the Battle Spirit Debuff

at 20% of my health, it healed for around 1200...when I was at full magicka

It is an absolutely worthless heal.

Xsorus wrote: »

I just tested Dragons Blood, in PVE mind you without the Battle Spirit Debuff

at 20% of my health, it healed for around 1200...when I was at full magicka

It is an absolutely worthless heal.