I think Velocious Curse should get a damage nerf (if it needs a nerf at all, which I don't think it does) instead of a time nerf.

i agree shield length should be increased, maybe not back to 20sec but 6 is too short making it hard to maintain and and a magic burner. Why is curse getting a nerf?

Haunting Curse is just bad. Please revert it back to Velocious. The idea of auto-cast a second curse makes no sense at all!

Sooo will Curse go back to being able to scale with Thaumaturge now or ??? Why do you guys want to destroy one of the most important magicka sorc skills in our rotation? 3.5 seconds is perfect. This change makes no sense at all.

You also made destro ults do more damage with a lightning staff? 5% damage nerf but an 8% AoE buff with lightning?

STOP PUSHING PETS.

So confused.

As many I don't understand the need of a velocious curse change, but if for some reason it has to stay consider reducing those timers. Something like 5 secs for the first proc and 3 for the second one, would be somewhat more reasonable.

The change to maximum stored ultimate reduction from 1000 to 500 is unneeded and reduces the effectiveness of sorcs that actually use overload rather than just use it as a 3rd bar.

Please don't make this change.

It limits a "frugal" resource management play style where you choose to avoid wasting ultimate and use it as a 3rd dps pool to draw on and use carefully.

This is good for battling bosses. It allowed the creation of very simple but effective builds.

It did not matter that it isn't the strongest dps out there. It was a build design idea I really liked and not like other build ideas in the game. It adds to the divesity of the game.

The changes really pigeon hole Sorcs into needing to go cookie cutter builds..knowing the justification would be good. Who had a problem with Overload??

The changes punish DW, punish Overload with no real reason.

No PvPer's were moaning about Overload, its easy to dodge / reflect. The world was angry about Proc sets and the change to Proc sets is meaningless for PvP as we dont see Crits, yet Overload gets cut in half and proc sets hardly touched.

Id love to know the reasoning. Right now DPS sorcs feel like they are pushed Into Destro staff, proc set, bland build with an odd burst / rotation now with Curse change.

Don't get me wrong, 8% more damage done on Inferno bar, brilliant, and that Force Pulse is a beam so not reflectivle / dodge, that's great. It's just odd to have smashed Overload so badly.

Pets getting buffed is good, but damage needs a review too, and the Champion Point buffs don't fully apply.

Lastly - WHY NO PET TARGETING for consoles??

I'm going to tell you the same thing I did last year, and the year before that, all the way back to PC beta.

You have a 12 slot game for actives, which is fine, works great on consoles, but you need to maximize the gameplay possibilities within those limitations.

That means asking your players to double slot abilities is terrible game design, slotted buffs aren't much better. I'll never understand why you continue to use awkwardness as a balancing tool.

Should have put a limit on the number of passives a player can have at the same time, provide choices for them to make, and then put the slotted buffs there. Make toggles persist through weapon swap if the toggles are necessary at all, make all abilities function as smoothly and efficiently as possible (spectral bow) and THEN make a balance pass.

Buff durations are too short, shield durations are too short, having more slottable actives will drastically improve the way the game plays. Balance damage and mitigation AFTER the mechanical/rotational stuff is worked out.

Put a 4 second global cooldown on armor damage procs and then balance the damage between sets. One damage proc is plenty, particularly if everyone has a couple more actives slotted. Stop trying to fix symptoms through battle spirit and nerfing crit and fix the underlying problems.

I do love what you've done with sorc passives lately though. Have no idea where you're coming from with any of the active changes this patch, on any class really.