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Grim focus is now the only skill that double dips in GCD and resources.

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  • Mageri
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    To the people concerned about double barring a change to Grim focus to act more like frags or count light attacks on the back bar if just a slotted skill. Look at the Psijic Skill mend wounds, this is only needed on one bar and carries over to both so it’s well within ZoS capability to work around this.
  • Narvuntien
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    I think the answer is pretty simple the skill wants you to light attack so it should provide a damage boost to light attacks similar to the sorcerers bound armor.

    So 15% bonus damage on light attacks and the stamina morph should get its minor endurance back.
  • Strider__Roshin
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    thankyourat wrote: »
    Dracane wrote: »
    Ragnaroek93 wrote: »
    Now we have to spend a GCD and ressources for the pleasure to do 5 light attacks. Always remember about sorcs complaining about Grim Focus being the better Frags :smile:

    It was. :) 8% passive damage bonus and significantly higher damage.
    Now they need to remove this stupid initial cost that it has and it will still be good.

    And then, Sorcerers and Nightblades can both marvel at Necromancer, who have an ability that has the same tooltip as a proced crystal fragment (and the same as merciless resolve when at full strength), which is also undodgeable and is an aoe.

    Grim focus was never actually better than Crystal frags for PvP. Especially right now grim focus and Crystal frags have the same exact damage for the most part. My magblade has a merciless tooltip of 23k my sorc has a frag tooltip of 19k but when you factor in the 20% increase in damage on a proc'd frag it comes out to the exact same damage as merciless. And next update after the minor berserk Nerf frags will actually be hitting harder than merciless without any of the micromanaging or wasting GCD's. The damage of merciless and frags have always been pretty comparable.

    curse also has a higher tooltip damage than soul tether and it's completely unavoidable. I've also seen my pets hit 5k on soft players. Honestly sorc is the most OP class right now on live and I really think it can give necro a run for it's money on which one would be more broken. It just has so much fire and forget damage while at the same having good defense with shields and pets

    And yet they nerf Nightblades.
  • likecats
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    Mageri wrote: »
    To the people concerned about double barring a change to Grim focus to act more like frags or count light attacks on the back bar if just a slotted skill. Look at the Psijic Skill mend wounds, this is only needed on one bar and carries over to both so it’s well within ZoS capability to work around this.

    Interesting, ZOS definitely has the ability to implement this, depends on how much they care about nightblades.
    Edited by likecats on April 22, 2019 12:31PM
  • mcagatayg
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    remove the initial cost, it should be good
  • likecats
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    mcagatayg wrote: »
    remove the initial cost, it should be good

    Wouldn't remove the double GCD issue.
    No reason why wrapper abilities that do nothing other than increase GCDs should exist in this game.

    Imagine how dumb it would be if they applied this idea to a more mainstream ability.
    I want to use steel tornado ... but wait! I must first cast this useless (imaginary) wrapper ability that does nothing! Now I can actually use steel tornado.
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