Unified_Gaming wrote: »

katorga wrote: »

relentless_turnip wrote: »

I imagine they had some sort of data that lead them to some skills more than others.
As templars are basically essential in ballgroups there is probably a pretty hefty spike on their graph when it come to their most spammed skills. Jabs made the list for obvious reasons too

The list created on the PTS section has a lot of skills that do radius checks and seem to be unaffected by the change. So I am assuming they must have had a strong inclination of what skills were being pressed a lot.

they said that skills that do something "around the target" are not included. So shock clench aoe is a burst around the target. Blastbones is around the target.

Both really stuck out to me for not being impacted.

But how would they sell stamcro of magden upgrades??

On the plus side, Sorcerer Mages Wrath and Curse fall into that bucket. If those got hit, along with streak, sorc would be as dead as templar. But seriously, I think sorc drops to barely viable with a 3 second cooldown on streak. That probably kills the class for pvp. Stam sorc too.

But why did ball of lightning with no aoe, no stun, nothing, get hit?

I cannot understand why ground based aoe dots are included at all. It serves no purpose. Once I drop wall of elements, those calculations have to be performed every second. Period. Being limited to casting it every 3 seconds does nothing to reduce server load

katorga wrote: »

Unified_Gaming wrote: »

katorga wrote: »

relentless_turnip wrote: »

I imagine they had some sort of data that lead them to some skills more than others.
As templars are basically essential in ballgroups there is probably a pretty hefty spike on their graph when it come to their most spammed skills. Jabs made the list for obvious reasons too

The list created on the PTS section has a lot of skills that do radius checks and seem to be unaffected by the change. So I am assuming they must have had a strong inclination of what skills were being pressed a lot.

they said that skills that do something "around the target" are not included. So shock clench aoe is a burst around the target. Blastbones is around the target.

Both really stuck out to me for not being impacted.

But how would they sell stamcro of magden upgrades??

On the plus side, Sorcerer Mages Wrath and Curse fall into that bucket. If those got hit, along with streak, sorc would be as dead as templar. But seriously, I think sorc drops to barely viable with a 3 second cooldown on streak. That probably kills the class for pvp. Stam sorc too.

But why did ball of lightning with no aoe, no stun, nothing, get hit?

I cannot understand why ground based aoe dots are included at all. It serves no purpose. Once I drop wall of elements, those calculations have to be performed every second. Period. Being limited to casting it every 3 seconds does nothing to reduce server load

Ball of lightning is included because it the end you summon a ball that absorb all projectile around it in 3-4m radius, so technacly it is an AOE skill.

katorga wrote: »

universal_wrath wrote: »

Thank you that waa very informative.

While I don't agree with AOE cool down. I think it is fine to havd some coold down some some skills. Like armor buff for ibstant, why would you feel the need to use hurricane 2 or 3 times in a raw when thd skill is 15 secs and does not benefit from initial casting. Volitile armor usualy spammed to get nightblades out of cloak, thst is reasonable to keep using it. Templar rune is useless to spam, beckoing armor as well. There are many skills that could benefit from the cooldown and many more that don't.

Armor buffs with a cool down is redundant, and actually creates extra server load to track a timer on a skill does not need one at all.

Think about the sorc buff on the other hand...23 seconds of radius AOE. It creates no extra server load to spam it because the skill has to perform all of the radius aoe math, every second, no matter what. A player casting their boundless storm once creates the same server load as a player spamming impulse once a second for 23 seconds. If the same player casts boundless storm six times, every 4 seconds, for major expedition, it creates no more server load from aoe calculations than casting it once.

All can be explained as zos logic 👏

Aedaryl wrote: »

Did someone tested if lightning destructive touch is affected ? The one that does damage to a target then AoE around, is it on cooldown too ?

Shock Clench and Shock Reach have no restrictions. I tested both.

katorga wrote: »

universal_wrath wrote: »

Thank you that waa very informative.

While I don't agree with AOE cool down. I think it is fine to havd some coold down some some skills. Like armor buff for ibstant, why would you feel the need to use hurricane 2 or 3 times in a raw when thd skill is 15 secs and does not benefit from initial casting. Volitile armor usualy spammed to get nightblades out of cloak, thst is reasonable to keep using it. Templar rune is useless to spam, beckoing armor as well. There are many skills that could benefit from the cooldown and many more that don't.

Armor buffs with a cool down is redundant, and actually creates extra server load to track a timer on a skill does not need one at all.

Think about the sorc buff on the other hand...23 seconds of radius AOE. It creates no extra server load to spam it because the skill has to perform all of the radius aoe math, every second, no matter what. A player casting their boundless storm once creates the same server load as a player spamming impulse once a second for 23 seconds. If the same player casts boundless storm six times, every 4 seconds, for major expedition, it creates no more server load from aoe calculations than casting it once.

Tbh, my thought never included server performance as that is something almost beyond repair. Problem with performance is either the old engine, or server capacity and quilty. My thought is to improve gameplay, atleast for new players, as you said about someone casting bounless every 4 secs for major expedition or scroch every 3 seconds. My friend took a very long time to get used to how scroch skill from warden works, snd almost dropped the skill completely because he kept pre casting it before it activate. Obviously he got used to the skill, but it took him so long to do that. Having a cool down on scorch that prevent plwger from cast it again every 3 secs can build up muscle me.ory for player in regards to tha specific skill. Pro or expert players will not feel the cooldown because they already used to activating scrotch skill every 3 secs or bounless every +4 seconds for major expedtion. Just a thought, nothing more.