caperb wrote: »

Though I am saddened that a nice niche magsorc bomb skill leaves the game, stamsorc really deserved another stamina morph. Now lets hope it will be good enough to slot!

Yeah now I can delete my mag sorc since I only used it to wipe ball groups that had some people on the forum championing for the change. Well done ZOS...

Mettaricana wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

I don't see myself using this over Wrecking Blow or Rapid Strikes unless it looks amazing.
It doesn't have the proc Crystal Fragments does, so what's the benefit?

I can agree i wish they just gave it the melee frags face lift make it have a chance to proc on stam skill usage that 4 sec comboed with this games horrid lag and performance we gonna waste most 4 sec durations trying to get a light attack to fire off plus heavy has such a long wind up

The only problem is that a "melee frags" would be OP for the same reason a melee whip would: stam already has enough insta-cast high damage skills available and most are direct damage. Contrast that to mag builds that need to split between direct damage and DoT damage which keeps the skills somewhat balanced and limited, this is before even mentioning general balance between mag and stam damage in the first place when considering stam only has to stack weapon damage and stam, where mag must manage stam, spell damage, and max mag.

Insta-cast frags on a stam build would be an "I win" button, and if you want that , then you can always go hybrid and take the downsides of a hybrid to get the potential to do so.

Anyone that has played a hybrid knows what the problem would be with a stam frags, and apparently ZOS also understands the issue enough for them not to do it despite the forum noise from posters pretending it wouldn't be broken OP.

Karmanorway wrote: »

Crystal Blast (morph): This ability has been reworked into a Stamina morph, and renamed to Crystal Weapon. It is now an instant-cast ability that causes your next Light or Heavy Attack made within 4 seconds to deal additional damage, equal to the standard spammable amount such as Lava Whip or Veiled Strike. Enemies hit by this ability will their armor reduced by up to 1000.

So hyped! Tnx for not forgetting us ZoS 🥰

Crystal Shard:

Reduced the cast time of this ability and its morphs to 800ms, down from 1 second.
Reduced the damage done from these abilities by approximately 21%.
Reduced the cost to 2700, down from 2970.
These abilities have a new affix, where after successfully casting, your next non-Ultimate ability used within 3 seconds costs 10% less.

Probably a good time to retire it for good. If memory serves, this is now the 3rd nerf the skill has received, and the trade off of reduced time/cost isn't worth it.

I'm also not happy they're replacing the first 2 traits of Tarug's Pact, replacing crit for armor. For new sorcs learning the game, this is one of the easiest set pieces to apply to staves early on to help combat the gross power creep this game keeps introducing with every patch.

I recently started a new game on the PS4 and I have completely forgotten how horrible the game design is without CP points. The power creep is real, and it's atrocious.

I now see why so many new players leave the game.