I use Pulsar on my Tanks, just to try and make the run as painless as possible by making trash pulls not have globs of health.

Granted, elite mobs are immune to the Minor Mangle debuff so it's still pretty painful

@Avran_Sylt

Chilled status effect from frost damage already applies minor maim, so "- Frost Staff applies Minor Maim." isn't a big deal. It's nice idea though to have increased chance of applying status effect depending on stuff type.

And for morphs it will be nice to have something like what you suggested
Pulsar:
- Lightning Staff deals 4-5-6-7% more damage per enemy hit, up to 20-25-30-35%. (not to forget that our targets are likely to be concussioned so already take 8% more damage)
- Inferno Staff Deals 14-16-18-20% more damage to Burning targets. Minor Mangle is rather situational IMO, while more DPS is more DPS. But we can have both.
- Grants a [x] Damage Shield plus an additional 30-40-50-60% per enemy hit up to 150-200-250-300%. (and slow down targets maybe?)

Elemental Ring is fine as you suggested + increased chance of applying status effect of base skill.

Its great with mechanical acuity and mobs.

@Marxont

I thought Chilled got reverted back to only being a 40% 4s snare? Although I'm not entirely sure. If it is the case that it's Minor Maim, then yeah, it'd have to change.

Mangle is very situational, but I wasn't sure if it would be a good move or not to replace it. Though if I were to suggest a replacement effect, it'd be a Fire DoT.

@SirMewser

Lightning Impulse Stunning would only be if the target was already under the concussed status effect. In fact, I see that I wasn't consistent with my suggestion in that regard. The intention would be to have the base skill of Impulse deal additional effects to targets under their respective status effect.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

Silver_Strider wrote: »

I use Pulsar on my Tanks, just to try and make the run as painless as possible by making trash pulls not have globs of health.

Granted, elite mobs are immune to the Minor Mangle debuff so it's still pretty painful

Pulsar only applies the minor mangle to one mob per cast. Hardly worth using on a tank, better to use gripping shards/talons/encase/time stop to just keep the mobs still.

Yeah but I recently learned that it affects Chudan in vRoM as well after helping a friend get his skin so now I have to test it on other bosses in vet mode to see if ZOS screwed something up because taking 100k+ health off a boss really makes a difference.

Silver_Strider wrote: »

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

Silver_Strider wrote: »

I use Pulsar on my Tanks, just to try and make the run as painless as possible by making trash pulls not have globs of health.

Granted, elite mobs are immune to the Minor Mangle debuff so it's still pretty painful

Pulsar only applies the minor mangle to one mob per cast. Hardly worth using on a tank, better to use gripping shards/talons/encase/time stop to just keep the mobs still.

Yeah but I recently learned that it affects Chudan in vRoM as well after helping a friend get his skin so now I have to test it on other bosses in vet mode to see if ZOS screwed something up because taking 100k+ health off a boss really makes a difference.

It may be a bug as Minor Mangle does not effect boss but only trash adds!

Marxont wrote: »

Are there any scenario's where it outperforms other AOE destruction and class skills? Why not to replace it with some skill with similar mechanics to mend wounds and overload (with less damage ofc), which will be avaible for all classes?

Sorry if it was already discussed

When they first dropped AOE caps in PVP and added the ranged morph for impulse it was very useful for making builds capable of doing ranged AOE and I got some excellent mileage out of it.

Now, post time stop, there is not much tight grouping in PVP. With the small area of impulse (it was once 8m but no more) I am getting little effect from it. Really, spinning blades and hurricane, with their big radiouses, seem to be pretty much the only effective AOE's. PVP seems to be mostly single target burst damage now even in large group play.

So, my opinion, not much use for impulse these days. I will probably spec to pure single target, or, more likely, just go stam, probably warden, in PVP as it is massively better.

For those keeping track, that means that, in PVP mag builds, who have only one weapon line, are down to just 1 damage/interrupt skill, a weak ultimate and a very weak CC from that weapon. It is no wonder mag builds are having issues in PVP. Only crushing shock is an ability in their only weapon skill line that I consider to be genuinely good.