I'm just gonna have to eat that nerf if it goes live, thanks a bunch for the balancing ZOS. Meanwhile Shalk+Bird+DBoS still obliterating people. But yeah, we needed to nerf a projectile ability that is already countered by abilities in game as well as an addon that 50% of PvPers use.

No cast time. Simple.

More burst damage/single target damage. More sustain on magicka from the reduced cost on proc, no cast time when you proc it, and 10% more damage. Crystal blast needs to be either completely reworked, or changed to a stamina morph version of crystal fragments.

Although, I personally would like to see it changed to an actual spammable single target ability without the cast time for sorcs. Obviously numbers would need to be adjusted to make it useful, but not overpowered.

Frags for my playstyle were an inconvenience with their stun. They're required for burst damage, but they make it harder to time my own stuns to my advantage by keeping my target on a constant immunity cool down every single time I wanted to boost my damage.

This allows me to have more control over WHEN I stun my target.

I can work with it.

Fragments, only casting to start a fight or when the instant proc pops, otherwise you're using heavy attacks and spamming a instant ability like Force Pulse.

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Oh look, the change that was totally meant to make Crystal Blast appealing failed miserably.... again.

Only this time ZOS nerfed Crystal Fragments to do it. What a joke.

I was about to write the same thing word for word basically lol

Crystal Frags are even more potent now, they don't proc your targets CC immunity anymore so you can stun them 100% reliably with other skills and make Frags completely unblockable and undogeable. Sure it requires better timing then before but the result is deadly.

as someone who plays a sorc as well as a stam sorc, fragments wins hands down, nothing is beating the proc for it, only way you are gunna make the blast desirable is to make it a semi close range instant STAM proc.
as suggested MAAAANY times before.

Here'S comes ZoS Thinking.. as usualy you see in PvE, and now the are gonna do this to that skill, when they don't know what to do, they add CC, dungoen are easy, adding CC, wondering what to do with a skill, morph it CC... CC is their easy escape actions Elser CroundControl Online

You have 2 cookies. One of those have poo in it, and the other haz chocolate.

You happen to replace the chocolate cookie with filthy raisin oatmeal cookie. Do you want to eat the other cookie?

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On a more serious note: Crystal blast will not be used in PvP because it has a design failure. Even if Crystal fragment didn't even exist, it would still not be used. Why? Because cast times in PvP are absolutely horrid, which is why Inevitable detonation, Healing ritual and Solar Barrage (PTS) don't / will not see play.

If you want to make it a compelling choice, make both morphs have a proc chance, with one having single target damage increased and the other a slightly longer stun + the AoE effect and / or a slightly increased chance to proc and / or cost reduced even further on cast.

Stop thinking that nerfing the best option is a proper way of making less viable options more compelling, might as well remove all abilities from this game - that'll make things easier to balance.

Casttime isn´t going to happen in this game anymore.