Those are some solid changes.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*]Restoring Light

• Healing Ritual: Reduced the cast time of this ability and its morphs to 1.2 seconds from 1.5 seconds.
  Developer Comments:
  Reducing the cast time of this ability will make it less susceptible to interrupts, and easier to land a potential life-saving heal on an ally. It now fits better with the fast-paced nature of combat.

• Cleansing Ritual: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 14%.
  Developer Comments:
  This change encourages more strategic use of this ability’s powerful debuff removal. Recasting this ability to remove only a few debuffs at a time will be a less efficient use of the Templar’s resources.

This is what aggravates me about the whole PTS process.

A pointless buff to a skill hardly anyone uses and a nerf out of left field that has no rhyme or reason or consistency. How about you increase the cost of cloak, shields, bird spam, etc., to "encourage more strategic" use of these abilities? It's a gratuitous slap in the face to Templars.

And @Kilandros is right. That's a crazy change to siphoner. The whole point why ZoS redid the Champion System in Morrowind was so each and every star would have a counter. Now that is no longer the case as this ... this (trying to be real polite here) Champion System ... is now effecting stuff beyond what is was intended to and corrupting the base values of the game.

I actually think the nightblade class is fine now.

What I personally would like to see:

• The summon shades morph needs some sort of buff, either the shadows to do more damage or an additional minor debuff
  
• Sap essence cost reduction or increase in power
  

Joy_Division wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*]Restoring Light

• Healing Ritual: Reduced the cast time of this ability and its morphs to 1.2 seconds from 1.5 seconds.
  Developer Comments:
  Reducing the cast time of this ability will make it less susceptible to interrupts, and easier to land a potential life-saving heal on an ally. It now fits better with the fast-paced nature of combat.

• Cleansing Ritual: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 14%.
  Developer Comments:
  This change encourages more strategic use of this ability’s powerful debuff removal. Recasting this ability to remove only a few debuffs at a time will be a less efficient use of the Templar’s resources.

This is what aggravates me about the whole PTS process.

A pointless buff to a skill hardly anyone uses and a nerf out of left field that has no rhyme or reason or consistency. How about you increase the cost of cloak, shields, bird spam, etc., to "encourage more strategic" use of these abilities? It's a gratuitous slap in the face to Templars.

And @Kilandros is right. That's a crazy change to siphoner. The whole point why ZoS redid the Champion System in Morrowind was so each and every star would have a counter. Now that is no longer the case as this ... this (trying to be real polite here) Champion System ... is now effecting stuff beyond what is was intended to and corrupting the base values of the game.

I'm pretty much feeling defeated right now after that random, out of nowhere purify nerf. Strategic? This is our last major defense ability lol. How is using it effectively right now not strategic anyways? Templars and DKs seem to just be pinned into this mass suffering since Morrowind, and it's just getting worse LOL

Titanic Cleave: This item set now increases the direct damage Cleave deals by 1500 for each enemy in its cone, up to a maximum of 9000 increased damage.

People are going to ask for a nerf on this once it starts becoming more common

Esp if Stamina Wardens start picking it up.

CyrusArya wrote: »

Champion System
The Tower
Siphoner: Reverted this champion passive’s values back to 15% at 100-points, but it now reduces all resource restore effects on the enemy. This includes potions, item sets, and ability passives.

*** this company loves to empower zerglings.

No one is going to invest more then a few points in this if any, You're not going to give up your own sustain to dump points into this basically.

Waffennacht wrote: »

So can syphoner be stacked with defile to prevent heals returning the health resource?

You can bet they didn't think of that

mb10 wrote: »

Shield Ult and resto ult in need of change, more so shield ult imo.

The player that uses it basically guarantees their life for another 7 seconds in PVP. The spell wall morph renders all projectile players useless for that period of time too and sends their goods right back at them.

Its just way way way too powerful for a 100 ult. I honestly think its a 200 ult minimum

If an ultimate can pretty much guarantee life than it should cost the same as ultimates that pretty much guarantee death


Resto ult is a bit bad too but theres a chance you wont even cast it on yourself and it requires the less popular resto staff to wield (in PVP).

200 ult and no one uses it.

Defensive Ults have to be cheaper then offensive ults otherwise its just better to use Offensive.

For example look at Corrosive Armor, you think anyone will use that ult? Nope... far better to go for an offensive ult like Leap.

Still keeping up with mad idea of NB healers using those malevolent offering to heal... Not even 1 NB healer gonna use it in serious content stop wasting time trying to do something stupid and actually PLAY damn NB healer and see what we miss... Our ulti range is 2 low compared to cost, templars got huge range and no need to do anything beside pressing button, warden got spammable twice cheaper ulti so give us boost already... And don't forget we have no spammable synergy meant for healing/cleansing yet nor do we have spammable burst heal...

EotS change is a joke. 10% damage does nothing when 2-4 are stacked. How about no gap closing while active? How about change to the pts damage model?

Clever Alchemist change..... do you want to get rid of gankers completely? I dont even gank anymore but this is stupid in my opinion. Gankers are at a dis-advantage when they fail and the set proc is gone..... not to mention they dont have a potion if they fail. Unbelieveable. It was high cost/risk for high reward. All your hurting is stamina gankers. Magicka bomb-blades specifically will be in combat with their group. Also stamina players dont 1 shot.... its a combo of a lot of things, all gankers sacrifice somewhere to "1 shot combo" players. Anyone using this set also needs to wait 40 seconds to get value again.... honestly this change is triggering since bomb-blades are not effected... only stamina ganks are.

Siphoner change is nice.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Weapon

• Bow
  • Acid Spray (Arrow Spray morph): Increased the duration of the Damage over Time applied by this morph to 6 seconds from 5 seconds, causing it to tick for one additional instance of damage.
  • Arrow Spray: Increased the duration of the snare applied by this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 5 seconds.
  . . .
  
• Piercing Spray: Increased the duration of the debuff applied by this item set to 6 seconds from 5 seconds.

Seriously?

This would appear to offhand be either a nerf to Acid Spray's DoT, or a completely irrelevant change. Either you are spacing the existing damage out over 6 seconds instead of 5, which would be a nerf, or you are adding an extra tick which is irrelevant because the majority of the time Acid Spray is reapplied before the DoT runs out. Besides which even with the buff, the DoT on Acid Spray is not a reliable means of damage.


Secondly the problem with Piercing Spray, had nothing to do with the duration. Buffing one skill cast does not make using a costly low damage AOE worthwhile. For PVP you actually have to land the AOE as well which means you will miss 50% of the time and thus lose out on the buff, while having used a costly ineffective AOE skill. So in essence you changed nothing.

Xsorus wrote: »

No one is going to invest more then a few points in this if any, You're not going to give up your own sustain to dump points into this basically.

Really depends on the build and how much sustain you need to skate by. 5%-10% siphoner is not too demanding on your own sustain after the front loading of CPs, and will now effectively diminish all forms of sustain if I'm reading this right. Kind of a big deal when it comes to tough outnumbered fights where you'll be running on fumes at some point.

Its not the end of the world and Im sure people will adapt if need be, but my issue is on principle that once again a change is implemented that disproportionately strengthens the many vs the few.