Tasear wrote: »

Why the implementation of shield is questionable. The changes are aren't that bad since it takes in resistances now. Personally haven't seen much fuss in game after things settled.

This. I think people adapted well. I still am salty at the Healing Ward initial heal removal, though (as a non-Templar PvE healer).

Like the ithers have said, many magicka players adapted very quickly. Some found ways to bump their resistances via CP's and sets to make their shields much stronger overall with a decent crit resistance.

Just means people can't stack 7 divines light and survive forever. They have to think about crit resistance and such like the rest of us.

Depends on your server as to what you'll find in PvP. Some servers have quite a few tanks running in groups with healer support. Others have gone more burst oriented relying on their line of sight and such for survival. All in all, not tonnes of change.

As a Templar you'll find a few helpful buffs were given, depending how long you've been gone.

Love how people say 'Those that adapt'..

Well yeh, I adapted yah. I no longer use shields in my builds. And guess what? I still kill scrubs in PvP, I still get whispers that shields are OP and I still hear Sorc is OP.

But the point every sorc pointed too was that even before the shield nerf, shields would never last its full duration against any semi competent player. So sorc was already looked down upon in the combetative pvp community before nerfmire. And it did not get any better after the change.

Shields on sorcs are still pretty good but a bit more squishy than they were on other classes as they only have the one. also the heal from healing ward has been removed..
Yea the meta is now pretty much all tanks and snipers.

I play a mDK and PvP mostly. I rely on harness pretty heavily for survival and I haven’t really noticed much difference really.

I’m Cyrodiil, if I’m going to die, very likely I would have died with the previous shield anyway.

Shields indeed took a nerf, however after the initial outrage everyone who stuck with their builds eventually learned to adapt (as an endgame PvE MagSorc im a but squishier but ive changed around my build a bit without sacrificing my general play-style or damage and everything is fine for Vet Trials and DLC Dungeons).

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

Redownloading ESO now because every other game I have sucks. Anyway, I just read the latest patch notes and it appears that jacking a bazillion points into magic (I had 50k+ on my old Templar) no longer creates ridiculous shields allowing me to wear paper in PVP. It also looks like shields can now also be crit. Am I understanding this correctly? Would this mean the PVP meta is now 90% tanks?

Anyway, if someone could just give me a lay of the land of what the game looks like in comparison to 6 months ago it would be appreciated.

Side Note: I’ll probably still wear paper like a lunatic. That’s just how I like to ESO. Best defense is a good offense! (in theory)

I haven't noticed an increase in tanks.

The same strategies that always dominate PvP are still there - namely the zerg cc/stun + burst = instant death.

Cardthief wrote: »

Shields indeed took a nerf, however after the initial outrage everyone who stuck with their builds eventually learned to adapt (as an endgame PvE MagSorc im a but squishier but ive changed around my build a bit without sacrificing my general play-style or damage and everything is fine for Vet Trials and DLC Dungeons).

Did not sacrifice damage? How? Pray tell. Not even a little bit? Be honest ; )

So I got to PVP a bit last night. I left my build as is from June and did reasonably well. I got into 3 1 on 1s and went 0-1-2 with the loss being to a 810 CP (I’m 759) after a few minute YouTube worthy battle. The other 2 had me surviving an onslaught from stealth by repeatedly casting shield-shield-heal repeat until they were out of resources and ran.

Once done with that I did some good old fashioned Zerg surfing and killed 20 NBs in like 10 minutes.

I did feel a bit wet noodlish in the 1 on 1s but my toon is specced to take out multiple people better than 1 so that’s not unexpected.

All in all ... seems good to me!

Tasear wrote: »

Why the implementation of shield is questionable. The changes are aren't that bad since it takes in resistances now. Personally haven't seen much fuss in game after things settled.

Yeah...well...I adapted (again). But I grew tired of that and now I am on an extended break because I was so weary of the unneeded changes that just cripple certain builds in the name of so called combat balance. Had been a faitful ESO plus member from launch who often defended the changes but I switched to another game and have not played since early November. Funny I thought I'd miss it more.

Likely I'll return one day but the forum comments on Cyrodil are not encouraging. And while I like the thought of a Necromancer class...I see some are already expecting or wanting it to be the most powerful class. (Balance?)

ArchMikem wrote: »

You missed the absolute temper tantrum that occurred from the Shield change, but after all was said and done nothing's different. Mag characters still shield stack and it still works.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.