Minefield and Tomb need to be differentiated if you're going to nerf damage. Minefield is primarily used exclusively as a form of static defense over a long period and covers a broad area. Tomb covers a much smaller area, and must be aimed when deciding to use it offensively, which is already difficult against moving targets. This is why it works better as a follow-up to a knockdown like Frags (R.I.P.), Dawnbreaker, or Meteor.

I hesitate to criticize the Clannfear and its heal because I don't want it nerfed to the ground, seeing as its my literal lifeblood, but I also don't want it so buffed that everybody and their Nightblade starts using it. I will say that Homestead brought me the most enjoyment out of using it from all the patches since Dark Brotherhood.

As for Streak...

I like all of your changes posted. I only play stam sorc so I'd like to see a couple of changes to the class. Bound armaments needing two slots is pretty brutal and I'd like to see this reduced to one slot. We definitely need a stam spammable and I think an interesting move for stam sorcs would be to have a medium ranged version of frags with maybe twice the distance of a normal melee attack. We're quick characters and it'd be awesome to have a move to kite people with and I think would fit the class well. I'd like a stam version of streak that acts like a game closer if tab targeted. Being able to flash to targets with an attack sounds pretty fun. These are all subjective changes I'd like to see implemented so quite biased.

Give stam more class damage skills.
Give magicka a defense option outside of shieldstacking.
Give options to a little more debuffs.
If nothing of the above, change passives to make them more useful for both amplitudes.

Defense:
When (!) shieldstacking is gone and heavy armor is back in line, I would like to see this class as ultra mobile. Beside tone down on streak fatigue they should have access to both Expedition buffs on mag/stam and snare removal + "denial area" skills (lightning flood, tomb, encase) to make up for difficult healing.
Make it like more selfhealing (higher crit chance, more surge heals) with lesser need of mobility in pve and weaker self healing (due to lower crit chance/ fewer surge heals) with bigger emphasis on mobility in pvp.
Also, when shieldstacking is gone they need to tweak conjured ward.

Utility:
Rework bound armor. Let it grant it current bonus for being slotted but add an active part, snare removal + the other expedition buff (compared to the respective lightning Form morph - minor for boundless, major for hurricane, with respective differences in duration). This wouldn't eliminate the need for double slotting it completely but wouldn't make it useless for just having it on one bar.
Make lightning flood attractive with adding a debuff to it or changing it into a lingering area debuff without dmg. Like minor breach/ fracture and something else, don't know what wouldn't be overkill but strong enough to compete with LL. Maybe instead of another debuff, make it stam/physical dmg or lower it's mag cost to actually make it affordable for both sides. To fit the escape theme I mentioned above, maybe even give it a minor snare (but I think there are too many snares in this game anyway).
Daedric Tomb as second area denial should be somewhat affordable for stam toons too. Lower costs and damage? It's something like an encase -trap but with too high costs to use it for reatreating on stam sorcs.

Damage:
Throw stam sorcs a bone. Grant them either a execute, burst or spam. Change crystal blast for it. E.g. uninterruptable ranged burst with cast time (like dizzy) or one Fury morph as a spam, to open up more variability in weapon choices. ATM being completely reliant on your weapon choices reduces the fun of this class for me.
Make the clannfear morph scale with stam. It already deals physical dmg. Change one atro morph to physical dmg.
All this opens up the use of rebate, expert summoner and blood magic to stam sorcs.


Overperformance:
On the other hand, may reduce time of the wrath proc slightly without killing the delayed playstyle.
Change Implosion. Currently it feels unfair on recieving end and unreliable for the user. Change it to something reliable and predictable. In the likes of undeath passive (lower health = bigger boon) with resource regen, surge healing strength or (my favourite) a slight boost to movement speed. Or if it has to stay execute like, some very minor dmg increase of class skills when oneself or the enemy is at low health (given that they give stam something to work with).
Also, like mentioned above, make a move on shieldstacking. It's no fun on either end.

Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »

Give stam more class damage skills.
Give magicka a defense option outside of shieldstacking.
Give options to a little more debuffs.
If nothing of the above, change passives to make them more useful for both amplitudes.

Defense:
When (!) shieldstacking is gone and heavy armor is back in line, I would like to see this class as ultra mobile. Beside tone down on streak fatigue they should have access to both Expedition buffs on mag/stam and snare removal + "denial area" skills (lightning flood, tomb, encase) to make up for difficult healing.
Make it like more selfhealing (higher crit chance, more surge heals) with lesser need of mobility in pve and weaker self healing (due to lower crit chance/ fewer surge heals) with bigger emphasis on mobility in pvp.
Also, when shieldstacking is gone they need to tweak conjured ward.

Utility:
Rework bound armor. Let it grant it current bonus for being slotted but add an active part, snare removal + the other expedition buff (compared to the respective lightning Form morph - minor for boundless, major for hurricane, with respective differences in duration). This wouldn't eliminate the need for double slotting it completely but wouldn't make it useless for just having it on one bar.
Make lightning flood attractive with adding a debuff to it or changing it into a lingering area debuff without dmg. Like minor breach/ fracture and something else, don't know what wouldn't be overkill but strong enough to compete with LL. Maybe instead of another debuff, make it stam/physical dmg or lower it's mag cost to actually make it affordable for both sides. To fit the escape theme I mentioned above, maybe even give it a minor snare (but I think there are too many snares in this game anyway).
Daedric Tomb as second area denial should be somewhat affordable for stam toons too. Lower costs and damage? It's something like an encase -trap but with too high costs to use it for reatreating on stam sorcs.

Damage:
Throw stam sorcs a bone. Grant them either a execute, burst or spam. Change crystal blast for it. E.g. uninterruptable ranged burst with cast time (like dizzy) or one Fury morph as a spam, to open up more variability in weapon choices. ATM being completely reliant on your weapon choices reduces the fun of this class for me.
Make the clannfear morph scale with stam. It already deals physical dmg. Change one atro morph to physical dmg.
All this opens up the use of rebate, expert summoner and blood magic to stam sorcs.


Overperformance:
On the other hand, may reduce time of the wrath proc slightly without killing the delayed playstyle.
Change Implosion. Currently it feels unfair on recieving end and unreliable for the user. Change it to something reliable and predictable. In the likes of undeath passive (lower health = bigger boon) with resource regen, surge healing strength or (my favourite) a slight boost to movement speed. Or if it has to stay execute like, some very minor dmg increase of class skills when oneself or the enemy is at low health (given that they give stam something to work with).
Also, like mentioned above, make a move on shieldstacking. It's no fun on either end.

Pretty much all this. Pets should scale of highest stats.

I'd make implosion a chance to put a dot on the target at any health, so overall DPS won't change, it'd be more uptime and sustained pressure.

Lord_Invel wrote: »

Mickey wrote: »

I agree.

Wow what an insightful and very detailed reply please post more!!!

Someone spends time, reading YOUR thoughts, agrees with YOU and you get snarky about it?

I hooe these changes are not implemented.