Wolf_Watching wrote: »Austinseph1 wrote: »Actually in a way the LA shield did receive a nerf for PvP, and to reach its actual cap takes about 60k magicka. So to effectively use it on any class but sorc to stack you need a resto staff and full light armor. It required you to give up a lot and they also raised the cost a lot. You can say in concept that shields are overpowered but in action in PvP its not sustainable. A more well rounded build would outperform simply building around a shield. The thing that unbalances this is the sorc class shield, and balancing on that class alone has hurt mag classes as a whole in the last couple of patches. You have to realize that light armor also gives up the resistances that come built int med and heavy armor and as such they assume you will shield to make up for that. I would rather have a massive hot for 2k resources than a shield that costs more than double the resources but fades away in 6s. Its hard to compare shields and a hot as they are apples and oranges but for the cost It just barely covers the effectiveness.
That's the wonder of building shield. You don't have to build that wonderfully awesome to have an 8k shield even in non cp. Instantly. And with mag return on hits. Vigor, for example, has to crit and have high stats to get anywhere near that in 5 seconds.
Saril_Durzam wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Austinseph1 wrote: »Actually in a way the LA shield did receive a nerf for PvP, and to reach its actual cap takes about 60k magicka. So to effectively use it on any class but sorc to stack you need a resto staff and full light armor. It required you to give up a lot and they also raised the cost a lot. You can say in concept that shields are overpowered but in action in PvP its not sustainable. A more well rounded build would outperform simply building around a shield. The thing that unbalances this is the sorc class shield, and balancing on that class alone has hurt mag classes as a whole in the last couple of patches. You have to realize that light armor also gives up the resistances that come built int med and heavy armor and as such they assume you will shield to make up for that. I would rather have a massive hot for 2k resources than a shield that costs more than double the resources but fades away in 6s. Its hard to compare shields and a hot as they are apples and oranges but for the cost It just barely covers the effectiveness.
That's the wonder of building shield. You don't have to build that wonderfully awesome to have an 8k shield even in non cp. Instantly. And with mag return on hits. Vigor, for example, has to crit and have high stats to get anywhere near that in 5 seconds.
That shield costs 4k mag, vigor costs 2k stamina. If you build for having 8k shield, you´re losing ALOT of defences.
Vigor heals, shield after it´s gone, don´t heal you - meaning you still have to slot a heal and spend magicka on it.
That shield forces you to slot 5 LA pieces. Vigor doesn´t force you to anything; just to be a stamina character.
The only, repeat ONLY good thing Shields have is shield stacking just before entering fight. If you do it in the middle of a fight, you´re already losing. Ok, it can help if you´re Sorc, you shield and streak... for fleeing. And that doesnt help you if you get stunned or shooted. TBH cloak is much better and with a single button pressing.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Saril_Durzam wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Austinseph1 wrote: »Actually in a way the LA shield did receive a nerf for PvP, and to reach its actual cap takes about 60k magicka. So to effectively use it on any class but sorc to stack you need a resto staff and full light armor. It required you to give up a lot and they also raised the cost a lot. You can say in concept that shields are overpowered but in action in PvP its not sustainable. A more well rounded build would outperform simply building around a shield. The thing that unbalances this is the sorc class shield, and balancing on that class alone has hurt mag classes as a whole in the last couple of patches. You have to realize that light armor also gives up the resistances that come built int med and heavy armor and as such they assume you will shield to make up for that. I would rather have a massive hot for 2k resources than a shield that costs more than double the resources but fades away in 6s. Its hard to compare shields and a hot as they are apples and oranges but for the cost It just barely covers the effectiveness.
That's the wonder of building shield. You don't have to build that wonderfully awesome to have an 8k shield even in non cp. Instantly. And with mag return on hits. Vigor, for example, has to crit and have high stats to get anywhere near that in 5 seconds.
That shield costs 4k mag, vigor costs 2k stamina. If you build for having 8k shield, you´re losing ALOT of defences.
Vigor heals, shield after it´s gone, don´t heal you - meaning you still have to slot a heal and spend magicka on it.
That shield forces you to slot 5 LA pieces. Vigor doesn´t force you to anything; just to be a stamina character.
The only, repeat ONLY good thing Shields have is shield stacking just before entering fight. If you do it in the middle of a fight, you´re already losing. Ok, it can help if you´re Sorc, you shield and streak... for fleeing. And that doesnt help you if you get stunned or shooted. TBH cloak is much better and with a single button pressing.
Vigor after it is gone doesn't shield you tho.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Saril_Durzam wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Austinseph1 wrote: »Actually in a way the LA shield did receive a nerf for PvP, and to reach its actual cap takes about 60k magicka. So to effectively use it on any class but sorc to stack you need a resto staff and full light armor. It required you to give up a lot and they also raised the cost a lot. You can say in concept that shields are overpowered but in action in PvP its not sustainable. A more well rounded build would outperform simply building around a shield. The thing that unbalances this is the sorc class shield, and balancing on that class alone has hurt mag classes as a whole in the last couple of patches. You have to realize that light armor also gives up the resistances that come built int med and heavy armor and as such they assume you will shield to make up for that. I would rather have a massive hot for 2k resources than a shield that costs more than double the resources but fades away in 6s. Its hard to compare shields and a hot as they are apples and oranges but for the cost It just barely covers the effectiveness.
That's the wonder of building shield. You don't have to build that wonderfully awesome to have an 8k shield even in non cp. Instantly. And with mag return on hits. Vigor, for example, has to crit and have high stats to get anywhere near that in 5 seconds.
That shield costs 4k mag, vigor costs 2k stamina. If you build for having 8k shield, you´re losing ALOT of defences.
Vigor heals, shield after it´s gone, don´t heal you - meaning you still have to slot a heal and spend magicka on it.
That shield forces you to slot 5 LA pieces. Vigor doesn´t force you to anything; just to be a stamina character.
The only, repeat ONLY good thing Shields have is shield stacking just before entering fight. If you do it in the middle of a fight, you´re already losing. Ok, it can help if you´re Sorc, you shield and streak... for fleeing. And that doesnt help you if you get stunned or shooted. TBH cloak is much better and with a single button pressing.
Vigor after it is gone doesn't shield you tho.
The preemptive hot reacts in similar fashion as a preemptive shield... negates dmg to the degree of which the heal is capable. And with vigor BUFFS, and REDUCED cost... it should go on your front bar with nearly 100% uptime..
Meanwhile shields have only gotten nerfs regarding pvp. And they cost twice as much as a cast of the pts vigor.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Saril_Durzam wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Austinseph1 wrote: »Actually in a way the LA shield did receive a nerf for PvP, and to reach its actual cap takes about 60k magicka. So to effectively use it on any class but sorc to stack you need a resto staff and full light armor. It required you to give up a lot and they also raised the cost a lot. You can say in concept that shields are overpowered but in action in PvP its not sustainable. A more well rounded build would outperform simply building around a shield. The thing that unbalances this is the sorc class shield, and balancing on that class alone has hurt mag classes as a whole in the last couple of patches. You have to realize that light armor also gives up the resistances that come built int med and heavy armor and as such they assume you will shield to make up for that. I would rather have a massive hot for 2k resources than a shield that costs more than double the resources but fades away in 6s. Its hard to compare shields and a hot as they are apples and oranges but for the cost It just barely covers the effectiveness.
That's the wonder of building shield. You don't have to build that wonderfully awesome to have an 8k shield even in non cp. Instantly. And with mag return on hits. Vigor, for example, has to crit and have high stats to get anywhere near that in 5 seconds.
That shield costs 4k mag, vigor costs 2k stamina. If you build for having 8k shield, you´re losing ALOT of defences.
Vigor heals, shield after it´s gone, don´t heal you - meaning you still have to slot a heal and spend magicka on it.
That shield forces you to slot 5 LA pieces. Vigor doesn´t force you to anything; just to be a stamina character.
The only, repeat ONLY good thing Shields have is shield stacking just before entering fight. If you do it in the middle of a fight, you´re already losing. Ok, it can help if you´re Sorc, you shield and streak... for fleeing. And that doesnt help you if you get stunned or shooted. TBH cloak is much better and with a single button pressing.
Vigor after it is gone doesn't shield you tho.
The preemptive hot reacts in similar fashion as a preemptive shield... negates dmg to the degree of which the heal is capable. And with vigor BUFFS, and REDUCED cost... it should go on your front bar with nearly 100% uptime..
Meanwhile shields have only gotten nerfs regarding pvp. And they cost twice as much as a cast of the pts vigor.
Right. So if vigor's cost was increased back to live values. Would it be fair then? Then annulment could take that audit.
Give majicka players a reliable guaranteed hot and then we can talk about nerfing shields. As it stands now majicka hot's will often go to other players instead of the caster, require us to do critical damage, light attack, or take/do damage just to get a heal.
Maybe stamina hot's should be the same, make them have to spam the same skill 2-4 times just to get a heal or add conditional requirements like they only get a heal if they roll dodge or light attack. Then it will be balanced with majicka lol.
Give majicka players a reliable guaranteed hot and then we can talk about nerfing shields. As it stands now majicka hot's will often go to other players instead of the caster, require us to do critical damage, light attack, or take/do damage just to get a heal.
Maybe stamina hot's should be the same, make them have to spam the same skill 2-4 times just to get a heal or add conditional requirements like they only get a heal if they roll dodge or light attack. Then it will be balanced with majicka lol.
Moonsorrow wrote: »Nah, i am sure we can turn in to audit some more on Werewolf skill line though.
Audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit-
mushroom, mushroom-
Audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit-
neeeerf, it`s a neeeeerfff!
(you know you can hear the right beat to it)
I sure wish all players would play both mag and stam.. the understanding of skills from both views and their realities on viable builds would make the future of this game look better if people would know what to compare things and how changes they ask will affect not only the thing they want audit on but to everything else also.
Mag vs Stam
brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
He talks about pvp.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
He talks about pvp.
Ik. Still a lot tho. Or ar least I think it is. I don't see a lot of mag builds past 24.5 but dam.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
He talks about pvp.
Ik. Still a lot tho. Or ar least I think it is. I don't see a lot of mag builds past 24.5 but dam.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
He talks about pvp.
Ik. Still a lot tho. Or ar least I think it is. I don't see a lot of mag builds past 24.5 but dam.
Depends if cp or nocp.
I run between 27 and 30k on all my light armor builds (sorc, dk, nb and temp). There comes no downside to it bc of tristat glyphs and triune.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Something that is at least better than ur negative Stam build with 8k vigors.
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
Bro.... most if not all builds have on average 26k health in PvP. I should’ve clarified that those stats are in PvP.
I play around 7 classes and the only one that dips below 26k ish magwarden with 25k... but with warden buff it’s around 27k
Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Something that is at least better than ur negative Stam build with 8k vigors.
Well my vigors usually CRIT around 2k-2.3k no points in blessed (but this is not including PTS changes).Wolf_Watching wrote: »Wolf_Watching wrote: »brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »The dampen magicka morph after battle spirit with 43k mag and 26k health is only give a 6.4k shield on the PTS, they changed the percent it can scale to which is only useful in PvE and not really needed but whatever, they changed the way shield scale with max Magicka.
Shields on PTS aren't overpowered, what are you going to do with a 6k shield ( with the more powerful morph ) ?
Die.
Ha what build you have. A negative mag build. Tf?
Most mag builds have around 43k mag on average with 26k health.... so he has a standard mag set up..
26k health? No. Wut?
Bro.... most if not all builds have on average 26k health in PvP. I should’ve clarified that those stats are in PvP.
I play around 7 classes and the only one that dips below 26k ish magwarden with 25k... but with warden buff it’s around 27k
Yea. I feel you. Guess I just don't open world as much as I use to. MAGDEN tho has minor toughness which gives you the equivalent of heavy armor health.