Seraphayel wrote: »King_Thelon wrote: »@NyassaVStreak and Cloak are EXTREMELY different. You can escape pretty much 100% of the time after streaking 4 times. There is no guarantee that you'll escape if you spam cloak 8 times
Streaking 4 times not only bleeds every MagSorc in the game dry, but every player with access to a snare, root and / or gap closer says lol. Please friend go play MagSorc solo for 100 hours and try for yourself.
Streak is fine the way it is. It was absolutely overpowered without the increasing cost.
Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »Seraphayel wrote: »King_Thelon wrote: »@NyassaVStreak and Cloak are EXTREMELY different. You can escape pretty much 100% of the time after streaking 4 times. There is no guarantee that you'll escape if you spam cloak 8 times
Streaking 4 times not only bleeds every MagSorc in the game dry, but every player with access to a snare, root and / or gap closer says lol. Please friend go play MagSorc solo for 100 hours and try for yourself.
Streak is fine the way it is. It was absolutely overpowered without the increasing cost.
Hope you don't mind that I cut your text a bit short. But streak is not fine. Every single gap closer counters it. It would be absolutely fine if it gave a short gap closer immunity. So we still have to streak twice but at least we could get away.
Ilithyania wrote: »cloak has had some nerfs too:
King_Thelon wrote: »
GoodFella146 wrote: »Adding the Streak penalty to cloak seems pretty reasonable to me
Streak and Cloak are EXTREMELY different. You can escape pretty much 100% of the time after streaking 4 times. There is no guarantee that you'll escape if you spam cloak 8 times
King_Thelon wrote: »@ZOS_Wrobel
10 updates ago, you nerfed streak to the ground, making sorcerer the only class in the history of the game that is punished with a stacking cost to an ability:
You dont understand lol.
Nightblades have NO proper self heals or shields.
Nerf cloak and the class is pretty much finished.
You dont understand lol.
Nightblades have NO proper self heals or shields.
Nerf cloak and the class is pretty much finished.
GoodFella146 wrote: »Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »GoodFella146 wrote: »Adding the Streak penalty to cloak seems pretty reasonable to me
Or how bout we keep cooldowns out of this game so it doesn't turn into guild wars.
Ok remove the Streak penalty then. Or even better give vampires a cloak so that every class can cloak
GoodFella146 wrote: »Adding the Streak penalty to cloak seems pretty reasonable to me
Exactly!
Cloak should have an increased cost.
Maybe not same as streak but increased cost if used again in less than 4 seconds.
But sadly this has been suggested multiple times and the developers team ignored the feedback.
Right now over 50% of Cyrodiil population are Nightblades, "balanced"(proof ? just go to cyrodiil and find out).
Shadow Cloak should be changed to the following(Shadowy Disguise-example):
Cloak yourself in shadow to become invisible for 2.5 seconds. Your next attack within 3 seconds will always be a Critical Strike.
Casting again within 4 seconds cost 30% more Magicka.
Bolt Escape should be changed to the following(Streak-example):
Transform yourself into pure energy and flash forward, stunning enemies near origin location for 2 seconds.
Also grants you immunity to knockback and disabling effects for 2 seconds.
Casting again within 4 seconds cost 40% more Magicka.
kypranb14_ESO wrote: »There is a huge gap between how streak works and how cloak works.
Cloak is almost useless when you have high tier snares on you or are affected by any damage-after-time abilities.
Streak can be used when snared, immobilized, affected by any effect other than stuns really.
Tan9oSuccka wrote: »King_Thelon wrote: »@SeraphayelSeraphayel wrote: »Oh man, Sorcs bragging about Nightblades. As a DK or Templar I'd wish to have the nerfed Streak because it is still better than everything my class has.
Sorcerers and Nightblades are the two classes that really should not complain about anything in that regard.
Friend please go play 100 hours solo on a MagSorc. You will quickly learn that EVERY STAMINA CLASS has better mobility. Forward momentum + sprint outshines MagSorc's class-defining "escape" mechanism by miles.
Do you really think Stamina characters use sprint to escape?
Seraphayel wrote: »Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »Seraphayel wrote: »King_Thelon wrote: »@NyassaVStreak and Cloak are EXTREMELY different. You can escape pretty much 100% of the time after streaking 4 times. There is no guarantee that you'll escape if you spam cloak 8 times
Streaking 4 times not only bleeds every MagSorc in the game dry, but every player with access to a snare, root and / or gap closer says lol. Please friend go play MagSorc solo for 100 hours and try for yourself.
Streak is fine the way it is. It was absolutely overpowered without the increasing cost.
Hope you don't mind that I cut your text a bit short. But streak is not fine. Every single gap closer counters it. It would be absolutely fine if it gave a short gap closer immunity. So we still have to streak twice but at least we could get away.
And how is that better with Cloak? And what do classes like Templar or DK that have neither Cloak nor Streak do? They can't get away.
Streak as it is now is still better than no Streak, isn't it?
Wreuntzylla wrote: »Streak and Cloak are EXTREMELY different. You can escape pretty much 100% of the time after streaking 4 times. There is no guarantee that you'll escape if you spam cloak 8 times
Let's not go all crazy now. If I cloak 2-4 times, I am gone unless someone used a detect pot, snared me for 50%+, dropped a fast pulsing AoE, or hit me with a cloak breaking DoT or an effect that prevents cloaking.
Vampire + concealed weapon (yes, the magicka version). I walk/run faster cloaked than I do uncloaked. There are plenty of good spammables to replace suprise attack with, my personal favorite is shrouded daggers. Way underused, snare up to 3 enemy.
I personally have more success using streak than cloak, but it's more a function of being a stam NB and needing the magicka for more things than a sorc needs stam. In both cases, there are various tricks to getting away but my success rate is highest going through my opponent. That's obvious for streak, and it takes an extra step with cloak (they need to see you running away from them before you switch directions and go through them), but both have a generally high success rate that drops to near zero when facing players that know what to do.
Seraphayel wrote: »Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »Seraphayel wrote: »King_Thelon wrote: »@NyassaVStreak and Cloak are EXTREMELY different. You can escape pretty much 100% of the time after streaking 4 times. There is no guarantee that you'll escape if you spam cloak 8 times
Streaking 4 times not only bleeds every MagSorc in the game dry, but every player with access to a snare, root and / or gap closer says lol. Please friend go play MagSorc solo for 100 hours and try for yourself.
Streak is fine the way it is. It was absolutely overpowered without the increasing cost.
Hope you don't mind that I cut your text a bit short. But streak is not fine. Every single gap closer counters it. It would be absolutely fine if it gave a short gap closer immunity. So we still have to streak twice but at least we could get away.
And how is that better with Cloak? And what do classes like Templar or DK that have neither Cloak nor Streak do? They can't get away.
Streak as it is now is still better than no Streak, isn't it?
DK and Templar are not supposed to be mobile to begin with
Judas Helviaryn wrote: »King_Thelon wrote: »@ZOS_Wrobel
10 updates ago, you nerfed streak to the ground, making sorcerer the only class in the history of the game that is punished with a stacking cost to an ability:ZOS_Wrobel wrote: »Bolt Escape: This ability no longer reduces out-of-combat Magicka recovery after casting. We have also increased the cost for Bolt Escape by 50%, which stacks with each cast within four seconds.
Sorcerer's escaping or resetting fights at will is OP. Nightblade's escaping or resetting fights at will is fine.
You don't need to nerf cloak; it's a fun and useful escape tool. But you do need to return that same fun and useful escape tool to the sorcerer's kit.
A properly built sorcerer has no issue escaping the average player in Cyrodiil, and a properly built Nightblade has no issue with the same.
I'm for leaving the classes alone, and letting the people who whine figure it out the hard way.
Drachenfier wrote: »Cloak is broken. It needs to be changed, and I've recently changed mains from DK to NB.
Thunderknuckles wrote: »kypranb14_ESO wrote: »There is a huge gap between how streak works and how cloak works.
Cloak is almost useless when you have high tier snares on you or are affected by any damage-after-time abilities.
Streak can be used when snared, immobilized, affected by any effect other than stuns really.
Streak also causes damage, too. And stuns. I'll admit it. In the IC sewers the other day a sorc and I came across each other unexpectedly and he reacted very quickly. Well, just enough faster than me to hit Streak. He didn't run off. He instantly streaked back and forth about 4 times and the shock damage plus whatever else he was firing off just blew me up. "Why ain'tchoo juss break free, d00D!?" In case you forgot, it also stuns. I was basically stun locked till dead. LOL
I wouldn't say that Streak has been gimped too much. Cloak certainly doesn't stun AND damage nearby enemies.
Edited for typo.
Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »Thunderknuckles wrote: »kypranb14_ESO wrote: »There is a huge gap between how streak works and how cloak works.
Cloak is almost useless when you have high tier snares on you or are affected by any damage-after-time abilities.
Streak can be used when snared, immobilized, affected by any effect other than stuns really.
Streak also causes damage, too. And stuns. I'll admit it. In the IC sewers the other day a sorc and I came across each other unexpectedly and he reacted very quickly. Well, just enough faster than me to hit Streak. He didn't run off. He instantly streaked back and forth about 4 times and the shock damage plus whatever else he was firing off just blew me up. "Why ain'tchoo juss break free, d00D!?" In case you forgot, it also stuns. I was basically stun locked till dead. LOL
I wouldn't say that Streak has been gimped too much. Cloak certainly doesn't stun AND damage nearby enemies.
Edited for typo.
In case you forgot, there is something like CC immunity.
Seraphayel wrote: »Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »Seraphayel wrote: »King_Thelon wrote: »@NyassaVStreak and Cloak are EXTREMELY different. You can escape pretty much 100% of the time after streaking 4 times. There is no guarantee that you'll escape if you spam cloak 8 times
Streaking 4 times not only bleeds every MagSorc in the game dry, but every player with access to a snare, root and / or gap closer says lol. Please friend go play MagSorc solo for 100 hours and try for yourself.
Streak is fine the way it is. It was absolutely overpowered without the increasing cost.
Hope you don't mind that I cut your text a bit short. But streak is not fine. Every single gap closer counters it. It would be absolutely fine if it gave a short gap closer immunity. So we still have to streak twice but at least we could get away.
And how is that better with Cloak? And what do classes like Templar or DK that have neither Cloak nor Streak do? They can't get away.
Streak as it is now is still better than no Streak, isn't it?
Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »Thunderknuckles wrote: »kypranb14_ESO wrote: »There is a huge gap between how streak works and how cloak works.
Cloak is almost useless when you have high tier snares on you or are affected by any damage-after-time abilities.
Streak can be used when snared, immobilized, affected by any effect other than stuns really.
Streak also causes damage, too. And stuns. I'll admit it. In the IC sewers the other day a sorc and I came across each other unexpectedly and he reacted very quickly. Well, just enough faster than me to hit Streak. He didn't run off. He instantly streaked back and forth about 4 times and the shock damage plus whatever else he was firing off just blew me up. "Why ain'tchoo juss break free, d00D!?" In case you forgot, it also stuns. I was basically stun locked till dead. LOL
I wouldn't say that Streak has been gimped too much. Cloak certainly doesn't stun AND damage nearby enemies.
Edited for typo.
In case you forgot, there is something like CC immunity.
Not when you never break free.