PapaWeeb wrote: »

Personally I think meteor shouldn't be absorbed, and overload should continue to be absorbed/reflected.

You're committing 170-200 ult to cast meteor on someone, if they're running away from you with ball of lightning then there's nothing you can do to stop them.

On the other hand overload uses hardly any ult per cast and can be toggled on/off, if one or two light attacks get absorbed then it's not a big deal.

Ruckly wrote: »

The problem with this is a sorc teleporting out of a group and absorbing the meteor making it count for nothing. 200 ult is a lot. On the one hand the burst/stun on light armor might be a lot on the other dragging the meteor out of a group causing it to do 0 damage sounds broken.

Maybe make the meteor do magicka or stamina damage or both to the teleporting sorc? The problem nowadays is transmute means you can't tell who is in light armor and likely a sorc just by glancing into a group of 20. Maybe there is an add-on that floats class icons above everyone's heads I haven't seen it.

Ball of Lightning only absorbs skills fired while there already is a BoL. If you cast a meteor while a ball is up, that's your fault. If you cast a meteor on a sorc and they teleport out of their group, they'll still get hit themselves.

SkysOutThizeOut wrote: »

It absorbs everything to include leaps. I’ve seen people try to pass off 30-40k leaps on those balls as players.

BoL is only a pet that can be hit by AoE skills and redirects certain skills. If you leap next to a ball, you will hit the ball as well, but that doesn't mean anything. If you cast a Meteor that gets redirected on a ground level Ball of Lightning, it can still hit close targets around it.

Meteor can be good on groups in lag. Tons of people get hit then. Against solo targets it’s ***

Sanctum74 wrote: »

The bigger question is why would you slot a ridiculously expensive ultimate like meteor that gets blocked 99.9% of the time and the .01% that don't have the common sense to block it you probably could have killed with a few light attacks.

While it may not connect often, it's totally worth it when it does in my opinion.


Go to 1:46 a few seconds after that I drop a satisfying Shooting Star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNObP0T2Vlc

How many meteors can be reflected back and forth with wings/defensive stance? Why should one be reflected and not the rebound? What of the tooltip? lol Meteor pong sounds fun.

Crushing shock is a magic "beam" that can't be reflected. I think these semantics are a feature like animation cancelling in this case.

I don't even use the skill, I use streak. I still somehow feel my mobility being threatened in this thread. I don't think the other half of the skill description can handle a nerf... That doesn't mean they should nerf what makes it unique.

ccmedaddy wrote: »

Meteor is already a crappy ult and now people want it to be reflectable and absorbable again?!

You know what, just give us a magicka Dawnbreaker and you can butcher Meteor however you want.

Absolutely. The only good reason to run Meteor is for lack of a better ult—and that only really applies to Magsorcs anymore as our class ults are dogsh*t offensively.

DBoS still works great in BGs and Sotha, as the only thing it loses-out on is the 5k pen from light armor. But in a CP environment, the lack of more than half of your CP stars means DB is going to crit for about as much as a flame reach, so you're basically forced to run Meteor to have any kind of bursty ult, as much as it sucks.

I've actually been campaigning for a magicka DB for a while now. Here was the latest suggestion I made on the issue, designed in such a way that it doesn't remove any options from anyone else:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/434453/how-to-implement-a-magicka-dawnbreaker-without-removing-options-for-stam-players/p1