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Should Major Sorcery be added to Surge and Critical Surge?
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Girl_Number8✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭YesYes, why wouldn't you want a class skill to be useful. It isn't like a woodelf sorcy healer is needed anyway....Edited by Girl_Number8 on August 19, 2019 12:05PM0 -
Kel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭YesSorcerer class
Also: has no class abilities that give sorcery.
Genius...absolutely genius.
In the evil genius sort of way.Edited by Kel on August 19, 2019 12:25PM3 -
Lylith✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭YesAlienoutlaw wrote: »should never have been taken off in the first place!!!!!!!!!
this.right.here.2 -
Aurie✭✭✭✭✭
✭YesSurge should have major sorcery and critical surge add major brutality this way stamina sorc will have also major brutality and regular magica sorc health on crits, this way both would be happy.
Critical Surge already has Major Brutality......Surge and both morphs have Major Brutality! Surge and Critical Surge just need Major Sorcery added
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Kadoin✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭YesZOS should be encouraging options, but they should be fair and balanced. If ZOS does not find both skills with major sorcery balanced, then they should adjust the heal or tick on whichever morph they find unbalanced instead of restricting options.3 -
Major_Lag✭✭✭✭✭
✭YesZOS should be encouraging options, but they should be fair and balanced. If ZOS does not find both skills with major sorcery balanced, then they should adjust the heal or tick on whichever morph they find unbalanced instead of restricting options.
Also, it's really weird that Surge (the base skill) doesn't have Major Sorcery on it anyway.
A new player who wants to play a magsorc but doesn't use a guide or a wiki, will look at this, be like "hmm, this boosts weapon damage... meh, don't need it" and won't even bother with this skill, which is/was an essential part of the Sorc's toolkit.
I made a mistake of not using the old Power Surge when I was still new to ESO... needless to say, it was a huge mess, resto backbar, ward ally + mutagen, and even that wasn't enough for most content that isn't overland.
Not having the Surge heal is BRUTAL...2 -
Starlock✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭YesIf I recall correctly, Surge is one of those abilities that has undergone very few changes since the launch of the game on console. In those early days, weapon damage and spell damage operated very differently. Weapon damage boosted damage with all weapons, including staves. As such, Surge boosting weapon damage alone would have still made sense back then as even a magicka sorcerer would still see benefit from it.
Today, however, things are different. Weapon damage no longer boosts damage from staves, which most magicka sorcerers are going to use given the limitations imposed by doing otherwise. To update this ability with the current state of the game, the base ability needs to add both weapon damage and spell damage via major brutality and sorcery respectively. I'm still shocked that this wasn't added prior to the launch of this patch. It's kind of a no-brainer.
In the mean time, I'm playing the two characters that are going to get hit especially hard prior to this patch dropping on console. Lightning mage will be okay, but he will loose something like 500 SD by not having major sorcery. I rather like his bar set up as it is now and I really don't want to slot Entropy just to get something he has always had since I created him years ago.2 -
Starlock✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭YesI made a mistake of not using the old Power Surge when I was still new to ESO... needless to say, it was a huge mess, resto backbar, ward ally + mutagen, and even that wasn't enough for most content that isn't overland.
Not having the Surge heal is BRUTAL...
It really is. Now imagine that without using a restoration staff EVER. That's my lightning mage. He's not a healer, and he's never going to be a healer. It doesn't fit his character. So I basically have no choice but to slot surge anyway and simply loose out on major sorcery if I want to keep in character.
I'm cautiously optimistic the developers are going to do the obvious, common sense thing and add major sorcery to the base skill and both morphs.2 -
seratin✭✭✭OtherAdd heal on critical damage to power surge (though a smaller amount than critical surge) and than have that be able to crit to proc the aoe heal portion.0
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Animal_Mother✭✭✭✭OtherMakes perfect sense. They took Major Mending from Templars, a couple years ago; now Major Sorcery from Sorcerers. It's par for the course.0 -
Tsar_Gekkou✭✭✭✭✭
✭YesOf course. Wardens have the netch that can give either major sorcery or brutality, so why shouldn't sorcs have a skill in their skill line that gives major sorcery?Xbox NA healer main
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Aurie✭✭✭✭✭
✭YesInteresting that no 'no' voters have cared to comment and explain why they voted 'no'.
Except for the person who's opinion was that Sorcerers were battle mages with heavy armour and big weapons, and we were ridiculous to think that Sorcerers carried staffs and shot fireballs lol.1 -
Tommy_The_Gun✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Yep, add everything you can. Sorc not OP enough. Pls fix
Edited by Tommy_The_Gun on August 20, 2019 4:05PM0
