XiDiabolismiX wrote: »

That’s where you cross the threshold of casual runs turning into leaderboard runs/harder content. Being in the end game community, you need to understand that the class you love to play will be benched from patch to patch. That’s why a lot of us run multiple classes for that reason.

I use to consider my stamina dk my main, until vAS and now vCR. They just don’t work. So I rolled a magic class of all my stam classes to stay up to date and consistent. It is extremely tough work to stay on your game in harder content, which is why when some achievements/skins are sniped, the end game community gets so upset.

Anyways back on topic, this is the life of devs wanting to “balance” things so much and endlessly. Because I love the game though, we just have to put in extra work to stay current.

Yes, you can do that. There is nothing incorrect in what you are saying, however the pertinent question is, why is this the case.

I mean one obvious cause is the way in which ZOS makes changes to game balance, with massive amounts of major changes going in all at once every 6 or 12 months. This is not how you balance a game. Sure, 100% balance is impossible but having such serious gulfs between trial performance on magicka vs stamina is just unacceptable and is a sign of things being done wrong at many levels, this being the most obvious one.

Then there is the design of the trials themselves...
Just look at all the other trials prior to this latest generation of mini "trials", at almost every boss there was a reason to have a good split between magicka and stamina, everyone can have a job no matter which you are built around.
Yeah there are a few exceptions, melee is pretty bad on the stone atro in AA, as an obvious example off the top of my head, but within every trial it was good to have a pretty even mixture of both ranged and melee. vMoL did an absolutely brilliant job at this and imo is by far the best trial ZOS has ever produced, nothing since then has come close to it.

After vAS being dominated by magicka builds, I assumed that this was just a mistake or an oversight and would have expected ZOS to take some notice of this and try to make content more balanced for all classes in future, however it seems they either didn't notice or they just don't care.


To go from getting trials like vMoL where the mechanics were amazing, the trial was well paced, the content was balanced for both magicka and stamina, which obviously takes some consideration and effort from the developers to achieve, to these trials where they are rushed out with half of the content that a trial should have missing, and where seemingly nobody has bothered to look at the trial and consider, "Is this going to have something for everyone", is really quite sad.