Was cool that Zos accidentally made Blazing shield a semi useful skill. Granted that it was still in worse shape than years previously, it's obvious weaknesses being ranged damage, repeated root and CC spamming, no worth while Ult, resource draining, the the fact you literally cannot heal at all, and that the skill doesn't benefit from max magicka or spell damage. You can't even stack as much health as you could years ago.

At least a mostly useless skills like Sorcs bound armor is beneficial to slot, blazing shield is actually just a waste of space on your bar for any Templar build. The bug was the only thing that made it worth playing around with again.

Oh. I could also say the same for Overload. Literally buffed the skill intentionally and made it a useful skill that was unique and fun to use useless, when comparable Ults that do MORE DAMAGE and take less skill to use (Destro ult) just remains the meta.

Players are forced to stick with the same homogenized skills and spammables, every stamina class plays just about the same and mag nb and mag sorc become more the same every patch, PvP is the same fight around the Emperor keeps all day, and any strong unique skills that starts being used to break the monotony of gameplay is quickly done away with by the combat team.

The real reason these skills were nerfed is that a vocal minority of people dying to these skills on a forum justifies them being changed.

So yeah, so much for #PlayHowYouWant Thank you, very cool Zos

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/345899/addressing-blazing-shield-changes/p1