We absolutely need more ice dps skills and passives to accommodate that. tanking and dps with ice can coexist depending on morphs and stuff think the impaling shards line! I think the heavy attack on ice staff should lower resistances on the enemy hit making it good for both dps and tanks.

ccfeeling wrote: »

Can ZOS change the ice staff HA to other ability but taunt please ?

We need sustain but dont wanna agro the mobs rofl !

Like i said above, i think a resistance lowering heavy attack would be good. Makes heavy attacking worth it.

I would say to him that although we snare and cc alot, we don't actually do anywhere near as much damage as lightning and especially fire. In pvp we are literal assist bots. And we just got nerfed indirectly this patch with the light armour grace passive snare reduction. I know we are cancer in pvp but all we do is snare and cc groups. Which is valuble in pvp and not at much in pve as a damage dealer. I think the problem lies with permafrost and that northern storm doesnt compete with it. In pvp we rely on ground based frost spells to have any elemental viability and style. And that is because we have one single target frost only damaging spell. I agree the cc is sort of an issue but i wouldnt mind droping the northern storm snare a huge amount or completely to gain a passive 10% increase to frost damage. Snares are getting countered more and more and our cc snaremania is becoming more and more obsolete.

I think our path to salvation is by removing the ccs and snares from northern storm and unstable wall of elements to rework them into much more dps oriented skills as that would make permafrost the tank morph and no-one uses unstable wall of elements due to the fact that it literally does less dps than blockade has a smaller radius and has less duration. This morph needs to do MUCH more damage and potentially also removing the secondary effect too so you have a choice still.

And then reworking crystallized slab and arctic blast into potent and unique frost dps skills. Doing this will increase our dps a large amount giving us more unique skills while reducing snares and not changing passives.

I would like it if they would change ice staff to be like crit damage buff and ice abilities to have higher crit chance, or the other way around.
And abandon the tanking aspect from ice staves.

I dont see any reason why ice staff heavy attack should taunt.

Also the worry for ice snare + dps getting too strong in pvp sounds very far fetched as well. In my experience my fire reach does more efficient stopping than my ice clench ever does. With the fire reach i can actually sink in multiple spells but ice equivalent i cannot achieve the same, even when it is supposed to be better at stopping. Maybe it is the knock out that does it with fire? Can we have similar with ice?