Problem is it made ultimate generation too powerful for some builds, resulting in constant ultimate spam. The primary culprit was bat swarm vampire dks, but I remember being able to literally lay down two veil of blades with my nightblade in dungeons back when this was a thing.

The current system ensures roughly equal ultimate generation regardless of class or role, and also allows them to more easily balance ultimates because it's more or less consistent how much ult you'll get in a given amount of time.

Lynx7386 wrote: »

Problem is it made ultimate generation too powerful for some builds, resulting in constant ultimate spam. The primary culprit was bat swarm vampire dks, but I remember being able to literally lay down two veil of blades with my nightblade in dungeons back when this was a thing.

The current system ensures roughly equal ultimate generation regardless of class or role, and also allows them to more easily balance ultimates because it's more or less consistent how much ult you'll get in a given amount of time.

Devouring Swarm Spam was... slightly different. You'd Stack the Akaviri Dragonguard set with Stage for Vampirism (back when that was a 75% cost discount), along with a Sorc's Power Stone, and you'd get an ultimate that cost... 4? 6? Something like that. Then you'd use Mistform (which didn't block devouring swarm heals), and break Cyrodiil.