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Ice Warden

Arbit
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So, I got to thinking the other day about whether an ice warden would be viable. As if by divine providence, every piece I needed from ysgramor's birthright was available in stock by 1, so I picked up everything i needed to test a build of ysgramor's and julianos and kena shoulder. Ill link my current build.

esoacademy.com/builds/novice-magicka-warden/

So basically, my current build is this with a ysgramor lightning staff front bar, and an ice staff back bar. With northern storm ult on front bar, and ice comet back bar.

Is it possible to make a viable dps as an ice magicka warden like this? Are there other ice sets that could improve its dps? Could Ice magicka warden be a thing? I'd like to make this work if possible.
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  • AverageJo3Gam3r
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    I tried 5 divine winter born, 4 infal (3 jewelry, infused inferno front bar), 1 ice heart, 1 slimecraw, infused vMA frost staff back bar. Maybe it was rotation issues, but I could not break 23k
  • Waffennacht
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    You're absolutely fine doing everything but probably Veteran trials.

    Vet 4 man Dungeons will be fine, so I'd say, have a blast!

    23k is more than enough for vet Dungeons
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  • AverageJo3Gam3r
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    @Waffennacht true, but for those of us that do enjoy vet trials it's very disappointing
  • f047ys3v3n
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    The problem with ice warden is not really dps. The primary problem was that at the same time ZOS seemed to be trying to make ice warden DPS a thing with ice damage passives and ice abilities it was also making full heavy attacks the basis of combat and trying to make ice staff tanking a thing by making it's heavy apply a taunt. The result of all of this is that you have to full heavy with your ice staff and that full heavy pulls taunt from the tank.

    It is all a good illustration of the complete lack of basic understanding of combat the Wrobel has and why he should be fired. Who would be stupid enough to do all of these contradictory things at the same time especially when it would likely lead to less experienced players trying the whole ice staff warden thing and blowing up some of the few dungeon runs that their long broken group finder manages to put together.

    Petition to:
    1) Fire Wrobel
    2) Make heavy / light attacks scale in a sensical way so that full heavies are not required and heavy animations align with actual cast times.
    3) Remove the taunt from ice staff heavy. Just lower the cost of the undaunted taunt to something rational and you can use that on your ice bar. Nobody can really use the ice taunt as tank anyway because 2.2 seconds with no block to apply a taunt is crazy talk.
    4) Make me a dps test dummy with Wrobels head on it. You could do it so he spouts some memorable ESO live idiocies when you hit him.
    I am currently worried for the future of ESO. Population seems like it is in free fall and the cancellation of the North America in-person gathering feels very much like pulling the plug. Kudos on fixing the in-game economy though. Clearly whatever gold shenanigans were happening the last couple years are fixed.
  • Arbit
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    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    Who would be stupid enough to do all of these contradictory things at the same time especially when it would likely lead to less experienced players trying the whole ice staff warden thing and blowing up some of the few dungeon runs that their long broken group finder manages to put together.

    I won't be "blowing up" any dungeons, I'm not quite that inexperienced. I'm hoping there'll be some hidden avenue that'll lead to wardens becoming strong, as theyre currently underpowered.
    Edited by Arbit on October 1, 2017 11:08PM
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