If you think molten armaments is a skill make for magicka dk, you are wrong.

This is actually extremely strong on stamina build, because of other mechanics around it.

And I don't think the change will make this skill useless, but just balanced.

Don't forget that HA charge times are going to be reduced as well.

Heavy attacks do less damage (but still more than light attacks). Molten Armaments increases the damage of a fully charged heavy attack by 40%. Sounds to me like MA is more valuable now than it was before the change to heavy.

This will be a buff if you are currently not using molten armaments.

Molten has always been central to my DK bow builds for PVP. This change is a nerf to damage for sure, however I think with additional sustain they should be able to weather the changes.

Sugaroverdose wrote: »

Toc de Malsvi wrote: »

Molten has always been central to my DK bow builds for PVP. This change is a nerf to damage for sure, however I think with additional sustain they should be able to weather the changes.

If your build main thing is heavy attack, whatever your cost reduction and regen you have infinite sustain, yes

Not infinite, but very good. However to land a heavy outside of stealth required sitting waiting for gapcloser and releasing heavy into draining and dragon leap. Something along those lines obviously each PVP situation is different. It provided okayish support when you could land heavy attacks. Bow heavies have extremely delayed flight time which leads to lots of dodged attacks.

I had a video at one point where I tried to jump someone riding past me and the silver shards I cast after the heavy, hit before the heavy, the guy dismounted and cast wings and I took the hit from the heavy.

Really good sustain is required because you don't have the upfront power to pressure players that are half decent. Which leads to trying to either out resource them or look for windows where they make a mistake or are unaware of what you are trying to do.

Started with trying to gank people, got really good at one shots with Marksman/Alchemist, siting on my ult and using Corrosive+immovability to burst players that pressured me outside of stealth. Corrosive effectively stopped working and they never fixed it so moved away from that play style towards more open survivability trying to use bow mainbar. Moved away from Alchemist, using immovability pots while trying to maintain 2k stam recovery to keep sustain high.

Landing heavies with a bow is not impossible just very hard, especially so on any stamina build with shuffle, I swear shuffle has an inbuilt 60% dodge for heavy attacks. If the player has a ping advantage on stamina you might as well walk away, you wont be able to hit them. This playing on console though so no addon to let people know to dodge.

My thought is though that heavy attack sustain changes will slightly lower the burst but increase survival versus poisons. The play isn't without risks, charging heavies means leaving yourself open to CC and damage. A smart player will not over commit and they will mitigate your heavy with either block, dodge, shield, or reflect, which means and advantage for them most of the time as you end up having to turtle and run while they can continue on offense.