A well built magicka dragonknight before 1.6 was as powerful as anything else I have seen in this game. With dynamic ultimate generation fueling the best resource management of its time through Battle Roar, soft caps that allowed them to be tankier in light armor than heavy, the fact that they could reflect all ranged attacks through Dragon Fire Scales, dodge the majority of incoming melee damage through Cinder Storm, perma block the remaining melee damage that did connect, and all of that damage was always reduced by Standard of Might as they could drop Standard on cooldown. The survivability of this allowed them to spec fully into sustain and damage.

I still tear up remembering those glorious days.

Corpier wrote: »

A well built magicka dragonknight before 1.6 was as powerful as anything else I have seen in this game. With dynamic ultimate generation fueling the best resource management of its time through Battle Roar, soft caps that allowed them to be tankier in light armor than heavy, the fact that they could reflect all ranged attacks through Dragon Fire Scales, dodge the majority of incoming melee damage through Cinder Storm, perma block the remaining melee damage that did connect, and all of that damage was always reduced by Standard of Might as they could drop Standard on cooldown. The survivability of this allowed them to spec fully into sustain and damage.

I still tear up remembering those glorious days.

But my magicka DK sucks. Kidding. Kind of. I love him anyway.

ill always remember my magicka vicious death nb blowing up 14+ people. good times good times.

or the one punch stam sorc.

Viper veli/selenes before the proc set nerf. Magdk vamps back in the day as well.

stevepdodson_ESO888 wrote: »

Corpier wrote: »

A well built magicka dragonknight before 1.6 was as powerful as anything else I have seen in this game. With dynamic ultimate generation fueling the best resource management of its time through Battle Roar, soft caps that allowed them to be tankier in light armor than heavy, the fact that they could reflect all ranged attacks through Dragon Fire Scales, dodge the majority of incoming melee damage through Cinder Storm, perma block the remaining melee damage that did connect, and all of that damage was always reduced by Standard of Might as they could drop Standard on cooldown. The survivability of this allowed them to spec fully into sustain and damage.

I still tear up remembering those glorious days.

yup...and if they were also a Vamp using the ulti when it basically sucked the life out of everything and regenerated it's own ulti at the same time, so you could almost keep it on a loop

oh and i almost forgot holding block whilst casting Pulsar...the glory days are long gone sad to say

On the good side the silver bolt solved the vampires problem well, they should not have changed it rater given some npc an low chance of silver bolt, no more complains about vampire look

I guess release MagDK, like many stated before.

But one could also say Templar healer since it was the best healer since launch and still is. It has never been as broken as some other builds but definitely wins in the long run.

Anyone who hasn't seen the old mDK as mentioned above doesn't have a clue. Heh

They were so stupidly broken and overpowered it was amazing. Nothing like the crap we cry about on a daily basis here since then.

I wish they could upload a 1.4 version of the game on the pts sometime just for funzies to relive when magdk was magdk. Before wrobel clipped their wings.

magDK 'round 1.6 era

Aside from the obvious magDK godmode period, I have seen video's of pre 1.6 sorcs soloing entire zergs by streaking through them and getting almost instant ult, then batswarm farming the lot of them. Ult gen was totally out of control. They could also spam streak almost unlimited times, which made it a nightmare to fight them. Especially as a templar with your stationary and slow skills.

SirAndy wrote: »

Well, it started with sorcs for the first year or so and was followed by sorcs, which were replaced by sorcs and then finally sorcs again.

I mean, it's not like the main guy in charge of combat design is madly in love with sorcs or anything like that ...

whaty are u talking about? sorc get buff nearly at DB or 1Tam. Since relise to 1.6 they was really scum and stamsorc even did not exist like class

Feanor wrote: »

Corpier wrote: »

A well built magicka dragonknight before 1.6 was as powerful as anything else I have seen in this game. With dynamic ultimate generation fueling the best resource management of its time through Battle Roar, soft caps that allowed them to be tankier in light armor than heavy, the fact that they could reflect all ranged attacks through Dragon Fire Scales, dodge the majority of incoming melee damage through Cinder Storm, perma block the remaining melee damage that did connect, and all of that damage was always reduced by Standard of Might as they could drop Standard on cooldown. The survivability of this allowed them to spec fully into sustain and damage.

I still tear up remembering those glorious days.

To be fair, that was also the time when most players had no idea what they were doing and the concept of running the DK out of stam through CC was applied only by good players. Most people just frantically hit the DK, feeding him even more Ult.

The DK standard of might was a glorious ultimate. It's a shame it isn't any longer. In recent time the 70k HP DK build feeding 14k shields to the whole group was also as OP as it gets, although it was very short lived.

You could not run a DK of old out of stamina unless you were duelling him. The more people that were attacking him, the faster he built ult, the higher sustain and damage he had. And no matter how good you were there would always be some idiots around to feed them unlimited ult.

That said early Sorc was almost as broken as magDK with the right set up. People just didn't know how to play him. Not so much god mode in 1v1 but against stacked groups as potent as the DK if not more.