Personally I hate the robotic nature of dummy dps / weaving. So unsure about all these new things buffing light attacks (sorc skills too) unsure we need any more DPS for PvE and prefer burst damage for PvP. But that's just what I'm feeling right now haven't used on PTS

Nifty2g wrote: »

First morph is basically VMA staff infused with Asylum staff, and it's a pretty strong skill right now for being behind a Chapter to use lol

whats your opinion on the stam morph?

The skill is outparsing all other magicka spammables at the moment. The parses I have seen from Warden, Nightblade and DK using this over their builtin skills have all been pretty nasty too.

Personally, I didn't really like the skill when I tried it out, mostly due to the janky animation, and the fact that I was running a build that needed a lot of heavies to sustain. I've swapped over to Dubious now, and will try again, though the stam version seems to hit about as hard as Flying Blade.

Elemental Weapon: Stronger than all other spammable magicka damage abilities AND cheaper as well

Hmm maybe a cone shaped aoe affect in melee range for crushing?

NyassaV wrote: »

So the stam morph is effectively better... Yay. More stamina love -_-

All the comments here indicate the opposite

Nifty2g wrote: »

First morph is basically VMA staff infused with Asylum staff, and it's a pretty strong skill right now for being behind a Chapter to use lol

Behind a chapter? A lot of stuff are Behind chapters. Cant follow you?

Aliyavana wrote: »

Sixty5 wrote: »

The skill is outparsing all other magicka spammables at the moment. The parses I have seen from Warden, Nightblade and DK using this over their builtin skills have all been pretty nasty too.

Personally, I didn't really like the skill when I tried it out, mostly due to the janky animation, and the fact that I was running a build that needed a lot of heavies to sustain. I've swapped over to Dubious now, and will try again, though the stam version seems to hit about as hard as Flying Blade.

flying blade has the benefit of hitting aoes target so if that's the case then flying blade for pve and crushing weapon for pvp

nah it's awful in PVP

really low buff duration, and stam light attacks feel like they hit for nothing in PVP. Plus you can't even Imbue > Wrecking Blow > Light Attack for burst, since the duration is so low.

The heal might be nice, but I don't think it's really worth it.

Alcast wrote: »

Elemental Weapon: Stronger than all other spammable magicka damage abilities AND cheaper as well

Not really stronger, sometimes it gives slightly better dips, but i know people who got better results with FP or FH.

It's only better because it's cheaper, and i wouldn't truly complain about it. Skill is working pretty fine imo.

I can't really say anything about stam morph tho. Better leave it to people who main stamina chars.

Edit: Also note that it's not a direct cast, it's bound on light attack. Miss the LA and you miss the skill, not like FP or FH.

Bodycounter wrote: »

Does it work with Overload?

Empower —> Imbue Weapon —> Overload —> Light Attack = Oneshot in Cyrodiil?

Overload is light attack.

I've been told what you're describing works, but it's not much different in terms of damage to the current combo:
Empower->Crystal Blast->Overload

I've been testing elemental weapon, mage's light(empower), with overload in PvE, and I've managed over 80k with a light attack from overload + crystal frag proc. If you include my set proc, it deals about 100k damage. I hope they reduce light attack damage slightly, nerf empower to 30% instead of 40%, or slightly reduce elemental weapon, as this is really op. My only complaint about the skill itself is that there is no animation when in overload, so you cast it, but can't perform any action for like 1.2 seconds, so it's hard to time when you can actually perform actions again. Sometimes I've missed the 2 second window for light attacking because of this lack of animation.

Alcast wrote: »

Elemental Weapon: Stronger than all other spammable magicka damage abilities AND cheaper as well

It's a buff if you can animation cancel

The tooltips for Elemental Weapon and Force Pulse, on exactly the same setup for magsorc.

Force Pulse: 2860+2860+2962 = 8682 (Costs 2295 magicka)
Elemental Weapon: 8654 (Costs 1890 magicka)

Force Pulse does AOE damage, and it's direct cast without being bound to anything else. With Perfected Asylum, you put all 3 status affects every 2nd cast of FP, with Non-Perfected it takes 3 casts.

Elemental Weapon puts one random status affect on every cast, that's no way close to Perfected Asylum's guaranteed 3 status effects in 2 casts, and it's not even equal to Non-Perfected Asylum because affects are random.

Elemental Weapon triggers Spell Orb passive from Psijic Order skill line, which gives like 0,7k more dps on dummy. In trial environment there will be a lot of stuff going on, so most likely these orb stacks will be lost in many cases, and even if not, it basically gives nothing.

My personal conclusion: Elemental Weapon and FP have quite similar aspects, with Ele Weapon being slightly disadvantaged, therefore less costed.

I love the animation and diversity that comes with this skill.

Maulkin wrote: »

@themaddaedra

Good stuff. If you’re a MagBlade without perfected asylum, I wonder if EW is higher DPS and sustain than Funnel or FP. Sounds like it is.

Thanks, i'm not quite aware with the DPS part, some NBs told me they got better dummy results with FH, but Ele Weapon is obviously a better choice for sustain. I also would like to see a full MagNB comparison for FH and EW.

ezeepeezee wrote: »

I haven't tested, but my thoughts on the stam version:

- Lower tooltip than Wrecking Blow, with a similar amount of time required to execute (however it isn't as easily avoided)
- No CC like Wrecking Blow
- Heal is pathetic on a stam toon with 25k health avg (25000*.15=3750/2=1875) (divide by 2 for Cyrodiil healing debuff)
- 2h light attacks are being nerfed already, so using this would be even more pointless
- On DW it might be okay, but then I'm stuck using a magicka ability for CC (unless on stamplar w/ jav)

That's pretty much the healing Strife does on Magblade