Vaoh wrote: »

I totally agree with the changes to Infused and the new Charged that you listed here!

A few suggestions though;:
- If these changes were to happen, we'd need to buff "Powerful" (formerly Charged). Keep the effect you listed and combine it with the old Weighted trait (increased weapon attack speed).
- Give the new "Charged" a slightly better and more fitting name to avoid confusion with the trait changes
- Buff Decisive

Those are my thoughts

Hmm, forgot about decisive when I was thinking about the new "charged" (previously powered), will likely make a thread on that
The name, def needs some work,... maybe Empowered? (to also go back a bit to its original name?)
the attack speed buff would be nice, but.. was there a performance reason to redact the attack speed stuff?

Albino_Dunmer wrote: »

Add x% crit dam to precise. 2x% on 2H. This does not scale with quality. Just a flat number that is balanced. I'm not sure what number would be worthwhile but balanced.

Add bonus spellshield damage to nirnhoned weps.

Make Prosperous and Training into a single trait and add a x% chance to find double mats from
nodes per piece. It might actually make it worth something as a farming set. It'd have to be a really small amount for double resource yield though. Like .5%.

Decisive. Reduce ultimate cost by 5% and gain 1 ultimate every time you gain ultimate.

Infused. Simply further enhance the enchant effect and reduce cooldown even more.

New one. Enhanced for jewelry. Increase the effect of this items set bonuses by x%.

Hmm., might take the ultimate reduction out of the empowered revamp and put into decisive, just have mag/stam reduction instead.
Training and prosp should still be separate, but prosperous adding additional bonuses would be nice.

Precise would certainly benefit from crit damage increase.

Nirnhorned weps should still be damage, not defense, perhaps increase heavy attack damage by a percent?

Charged is extremely useful in Melee if you slap a disease enchant on your weapon.

Rebalanced traits arr meaningless. It is impossible to make the all viable when mimaxxing in a game. There will always be a best

Leave sharpened as it is. That doesn't need any further improvements

Otherwise that sounds like good suggestions. But I have to say if they make nirnhoned that way my lightning heavy attack builds will seriously get out of hands

And don't take away the status effect of charged, that finally has its use on destro staffs with concussion and blockade in small scale content, pvp and trials. Moving it to infused is fine though.

And @notimetocare, yes there will be, but the differences are far too high right now to justify it. ZoS said a few months ago that they want to keep the respective advantages that every trait has, but sharpened is way overtuned in comparison to the others.

Sadly I made similar suggestions on every thread that touched this topic in the past few months and got NOT ONE response from ZoS... How on earth do they understand customer relationship? I mean good communication is always better than literally no communication.

Economically, in a company that relies on Abonnements of their customers, customer satisfaction is key to success. Which is why the lack of responses and weak bug fixing, support etc. is a very strong sign of bad management overall.

Take the vMA staff bugs (bow/destro staffs) for example, we had 5 threads about this in the past few days and didn't get one response to a topic that concerns everyone who wants those weapons. They want to keep people doing that content, but don't seem to care about fixing the most important weapons there are.

Yeah, the idea is to try and spread out advantages. Sharpened is not the Jack of all Trades currently, it is the King of all Trades, when it comes to DPS.
Were content not damage focused, that'd be fine. but, with trials,dungeons,worldbosses and the like, damage is one of the most important parts (requiring the most players playing that role) to get through the content faster, and in vet AA, if you do not have enough damage output, you cannot move past the ghost person part. Which is why the flat 8% damage increase of sharpened is the go to choice.
So in order to make other traits more enticing, what needs to be done is to have them give damage bonuses to specific playstyles. such that sharpened is the jack of all trades, but other traits may be king in niche dps builds.

With the recent change to the lightning proc that adds minor vulnerability, being an 8% increase in damage taken, we saw Trails and minmaxers having at least one or two people with the charged trait on their weapon. This was good, but unfortunately provided a large damage bonus to everyone in the group, not just the player using the trait. On the flip side though, it was good in that it provided a way for the charged trait to shine in a specific area, though it is only useful in groups with 2 or more dps, as an 8% damage increase is about the same as the 8% damage penetration from sharpened.
Edit: problem being it only made the lightning proc useful