Don't think it's subassault tbh. It's more the major heroism + nearly free shields, amplified heals and high health.
If stamdens wouldn't get magicka back from shimmering they couldn't zoom in and out of the fight at will and ignore a good portion of ranged attacks. Shimmering shield is nothing but an absurd ulti gen and mitigation tool. It leads to a distribution of ressources. Where other stamclasses need to spend stamina (block, dodge) on or have to invest magicka (wings or cloak) stamden gets a free buff on top of magicka return.
Anything that can get absorbed by shim shield can get a force-miss from vanish or deleted by the sorc teleport that absorbs projectiles. Or just LoS’d. Many of the best wardens don’t use shim shield if they know they have good LoS options nearby.
The class healing is good in theory but not better than a stam sorc or Stam DK in practice. Stamden doesn’t have enough mag to keep uptime on all those buffs, even in CP. in reality, I think Stam sorc actually gets a little more passive healing than stamden.
Sub assault is why wardens are OP.
Yo @Thogard , could you elaborate on why you said stamDK's have better heals than stamwarden? I generally trust your input, but that one is news to me and I've been playing stamDK a lot the past few weeks
Trees are solid healing, it’s true. But it’s a lot easier to kill a warden inside of its trees than it is to kill a DK that pops corrosive
what would you change for non cp battlegrounds? i guess fury might not be the best choice
olesmo, can you plz write down the build in short, i cant watch the videos.
skills, armor, weapon
thx