Did ZOS Just Kill Solo Play With This One Set?

LeifErickson · September 2018

Soldier of Anguish (Medium)
2: Weapon Damage
3: Weapon Critical
4: Weapon Damage
5: When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a 25% chance to traumatize your enemy, negating their next 5500 points of healing for 4 seconds. This effect can occur once every 4 seconds.

It's not a named buff/debuff which I would think means it can stack. Fighting even two people with this set basically means you can't heal. I don't have PTS downloaded yet, but if this set stacks then honestly solo play might be dead. Defiles are horrible solo, but think about if you just straight up can't heal at all. Even fighting one person with this set would be absolutely brutal. I will need to test on PTS when I get it downloaded, but first impressions tell me this might be the end to solo play. Someone please convince me I'm wrong.

pieratsos · September 2018

This is a buff if you are using shields. Oh wait...

WreckfulAbandon · September 2018

Don't worry, solo play is already plenty dead even without this set going live. Solo Stamden, Stamplar, Magsorc are done son with these patch notes. Guess it's time for everyone to roll NB.

You want a solo build? Use Leki's + Fury on a heavy bleedblade, and enjoy the passive 50% AoE reduction with Evasion. There's a solo build that's still usable. lol

Gilvoth · September 2018

for a long time, (years even) we see people insta healing from 3% health and almost dead to INSTANT health 100% full.
something needed to be done, it looks like a very good step in the right direction.

The_Brosteen · September 2018

Move over sloads, this item set is now BIS for Xv1ing

Asmael · September 2018

1375 healing per second negated if proc'd on cooldown, 1100 if you take 1s to proc it after the cooldown. Play a stamblade and simply weaving Surprise attack alone is 2 rolls on 25% chance to proc it, so pretty much every 2 second on average. Other things can also proc it, such as deadly cloak, which makes it even worse.

And the 2-4 pieces are actually good as well, that just makes it a complete nobrainer for high pressure builds. I guess you either go seriously overboard on healing or just forget about it and go for HP regen stacking if you want to survive it.

I hope everyone has a pocket healer ready, because we absolutely are going to get defiled to death if this goes live.

Frawr · September 2018

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

for a long time, (years even) we see people insta healing from 3% health and almost dead to INSTANT health 100% full.
something needed to be done, it looks like a very good step in the right direction.

Something needed to be done about people being able to recover from low health?

You're actually supporting the removal of reactive gameplay in a reactive-based game....

Ariades_swe · September 2018

Frawr wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

for a long time, (years even) we see people insta healing from 3% health and almost dead to INSTANT health 100% full.
something needed to be done, it looks like a very good step in the right direction.

Something needed to be done about people being able to recover from low health?

You're actually supporting the removal of reactive gameplay in a reactive-based game....

Check his post history.
It's an interesting read.

LeifErickson · September 2018

Frawr wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

for a long time, (years even) we see people insta healing from 3% health and almost dead to INSTANT health 100% full.
something needed to be done, it looks like a very good step in the right direction.

Something needed to be done about people being able to recover from low health?

You're actually supporting the removal of reactive gameplay in a reactive-based game....

Did you read his signature? He is clueless.

scipionumatia · September 2018

reverb is gonna be disgusting with this set. hard cc, with defile, and negated 5500 points of healing. even if your a magplar i think your dead. follow up with an ultimate of your choice.

Koolio · September 2018

Asmael wrote: »

1375 healing per second negated if proc'd on cooldown, 1100 if you take 1s to proc it after the cooldown. Play a stamblade and simply weaving Surprise attack alone is 2 rolls on 25% chance to proc it, so pretty much every 2 second on average. Other things can also proc it, such as deadly cloak, which makes it even worse.

And the 2-4 pieces are actually good as well, that just makes it a complete nobrainer for high pressure builds. I guess you either go seriously overboard on healing or just forget about it and go for HP regen stacking if you want to survive it.

I hope everyone has a pocket healer ready, because we absolutely are going to get defiled to death if this goes live.

And if you don’t use the 60% heal of werewolf that set pretty much mitigates that 4K cost heal with light attack spam

Gilvoth · September 2018

nothing wrong with healing to full health, but when it's INSTANT from 3% to immediately FULL 100% health it ruins pvp.
people have been complaining about that for Years.

and i agree with those complaints.

edit:
i wouldn't wory about this though just from an armor set.
1 person wearing that set wont be much of a problem, your complaint was about multiple people wearing that set and i bet that will be a rare event to find multiple people wearing that same set.

Koolio · September 2018

Great the set vs werewolf that dares to use the 40% heal in pvp

frostz417 · September 2018

WreckfulAbandon wrote: »

Don't worry, solo play is already plenty dead even without this set going live. Solo Stamden, Stamplar, Magsorc are done son with these patch notes. Guess it's time for everyone to roll NB.

You want a solo build? Use Leki's + Fury on a heavy bleedblade, and enjoy the passive 50% AoE reduction with Evasion. There's a solo build that's still usable. lol

Umm solo stamden and stamplar are going to be more powerful than ever. You even read the notes😂😂

Crixus8000 · September 2018

Sloads 2.0

Looks like pvp is gonna suck with the changes I have read so far.

WreckfulAbandon · September 2018

frostz417 wrote: »

WreckfulAbandon wrote: »

Don't worry, solo play is already plenty dead even without this set going live. Solo Stamden, Stamplar, Magsorc are done son with these patch notes. Guess it's time for everyone to roll NB.

You want a solo build? Use Leki's + Fury on a heavy bleedblade, and enjoy the passive 50% AoE reduction with Evasion. There's a solo build that's still usable. lol

Umm solo stamden and stamplar are going to be more powerful than ever. You even read the notes😂😂

Are you a simpleton?? Massive AoE dmg reduction being passed out like candy is not a good meta for stamplar or stamden.

Chilly-McFreeze · September 2018

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

nothing wrong with healing to full health, but when it's INSTANT from 3% to immediately FULL 100% health it ruins pvp.
people have been complaining about that for Years.

and i agree with those complaints.

edit:
i wouldn't wory about this though just from an armor set.
1 person wearing that set wont be much of a problem, your complaint was about multiple people wearing that set and i bet that will be a rare event to find multiple people wearing that same set.

Like with everything that was intended to deal with extremes, it's going to break everything in between as well.

Gilvoth · September 2018

how many people you think will actually be wearing this set?
most people are allready happy with thier sets and probly wont make a change.

The_Brosteen · September 2018

If this set goes live like this im just going to use this and reverb bash on my stamplar so I don't have to worry about being good.

Jamdarius · September 2018

LeifErickson wrote: »

Soldier of Anguish (Medium)
2: Weapon Damage
3: Weapon Critical
4: Weapon Damage
5: When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a 25% chance to traumatize your enemy, negating their next 5500 points of healing for 4 seconds. This effect can occur once every 4 seconds.

It's not a named buff/debuff which I would think means it can stack. Fighting even two people with this set basically means you can't heal. I don't have PTS downloaded yet, but if this set stacks then honestly solo play might be dead. Defiles are horrible solo, but think about if you just straight up can't heal at all. Even fighting one person with this set would be absolutely brutal. I will need to test on PTS when I get it downloaded, but first impressions tell me this might be the end to solo play. Someone please convince me I'm wrong.

Stam Sorc comes, Stam Sorc casts negate, stam sorc hits with the set, it procs, enemies dead on ANY breach, especially mag users.

olsborg · September 2018

Ye was thinking that too. It needs a way longer cooldown imo

Ragnaroek93 · September 2018

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

for a long time, (years even) we see people insta healing from 3% health and almost dead to INSTANT health 100% full.
something needed to be done, it looks like a very good step in the right direction.

Something needs to be done against your forum trolling. You don't even show us your ingame name/chars... how unsurprising.

Stamicka · September 2018

The real question is "Did ZOS just kill the game with one patch?"

MyKillv2.0 · September 2018

Stamicka wrote: »

The real question is "Did ZOS just kill the game with one patch?"

The real answer is no, the game will be fine.

The changes may suck but if anything "broke" the game it was Morrowind and that was.... 16 months ago? So yeah, the game will be fine.

Bakkagami · September 2018

LeifErickson wrote: »

Soldier of Anguish (Medium)
2: Weapon Damage
3: Weapon Critical
4: Weapon Damage
5: When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a 25% chance to traumatize your enemy, negating their next 5500 points of healing for 4 seconds. This effect can occur once every 4 seconds.

It's not a named buff/debuff which I would think means it can stack. Fighting even two people with this set basically means you can't heal. I don't have PTS downloaded yet, but if this set stacks then honestly solo play might be dead. Defiles are horrible solo, but think about if you just straight up can't heal at all. Even fighting one person with this set would be absolutely brutal. I will need to test on PTS when I get it downloaded, but first impressions tell me this might be the end to solo play. Someone please convince me I'm wrong.

I don't see this set going live without getting nerfed tbh. It will perform even better than duroks in many situations

frostz417 · September 2018

WreckfulAbandon wrote: »

frostz417 wrote: »

WreckfulAbandon wrote: »

Don't worry, solo play is already plenty dead even without this set going live. Solo Stamden, Stamplar, Magsorc are done son with these patch notes. Guess it's time for everyone to roll NB.

You want a solo build? Use Leki's + Fury on a heavy bleedblade, and enjoy the passive 50% AoE reduction with Evasion. There's a solo build that's still usable. lol

Umm solo stamden and stamplar are going to be more powerful than ever. You even read the notes😂😂

Are you a simpleton?? Massive AoE dmg reduction being passed out like candy is not a good meta for stamplar or stamden.

You do realize many stamdens don’t rely on shuffle for dodge chance... they have amazing heals and damage, losing dodge chance isn’t much.
Stamplars will now be even more tanky with extra sustain. Guess you’ve never seen much in PvP. Nice using insults btw

Lexxypwns · September 2018

frostz417 wrote: »

WreckfulAbandon wrote: »

frostz417 wrote: »

WreckfulAbandon wrote: »

Don't worry, solo play is already plenty dead even without this set going live. Solo Stamden, Stamplar, Magsorc are done son with these patch notes. Guess it's time for everyone to roll NB.

You want a solo build? Use Leki's + Fury on a heavy bleedblade, and enjoy the passive 50% AoE reduction with Evasion. There's a solo build that's still usable. lol

Umm solo stamden and stamplar are going to be more powerful than ever. You even read the notes😂😂

Are you a simpleton?? Massive AoE dmg reduction being passed out like candy is not a good meta for stamplar or stamden.

You do realize many stamdens don’t rely on shuffle for dodge chance... they have amazing heals and damage, losing dodge chance isn’t much.
Stamplars will now be even more tanky with extra sustain. Guess you’ve never seen much in PvP. Nice using insults btw

He’s referring to Major Evasion now reducing AoE damage.

wozborne · September 2018

These Patch notes just got worse and worse

lassitershawn · September 2018

This set is broken af.

Lexxypwns · September 2018

If all the changes are the way they seem and go live that’s a wrap for me

ManDraKE · September 2018

yeah that set is stupid, and is not the only one from the new ones. If that thing goes live, is going to be worst than sloads and the old viper combined.