I miss Crystal Blast

AdamBourke · June 2021

I loved this skill. I like to solo dungeons and this was great for those bosses with lots of adds - like the final boss of Vaults of Madness. But I used it for everything. I had my rotation practiced pretty well. But mostly it was just a really fun skill. I enjoyed using it.

I haven't been able to really enjoy combat ever since. I've tried several other builds, and I can still solo most of the base game dungeons... It's just not as fun as it was before.

I doubt they'll ever bring it back, this is more of a nostalgia post than anything else. I just wish they had added a third morph or additional skill for stamina builds rather than remove a fun one from mag builds...

phaneub17_ESO · June 2021

I miss Nightblade's Malefic Wreath, misunderstood ability, for the most part it was useless against single target or small groups, but spamming it against large packs of 10+ mobs and it utterly annihilates them with insane damage, no target limit in a matter of seconds.

FriedEggSandwich · June 2021

I felt similarly when they turned Velocious Curse into Haunting Curse. I mostly pvp'd at the time, and I predicted that Haunting Curse would give pvpers more reason to whine about sorcs, without actually providing any benefit to me. My prediction came true. Velocious Curse took skill to keep up on a cloaking NB, Haunting Curse is just free troll fodder in pvp. It's not even used in pve rotations that much afaik, which was why it was introduced.

I was also devastated when they announced the removal of frags knockdown. I also hate that pets have been buffed so much to make pet-sorcs stronger than non-pet, when non-pet have more button to press. So many other (imo poor) changes have been made since then, I just learned to love the game less. Changes get made, people get hurt. The devs can't share every player's vision. I'd also like to see 3rd morphs introduced for all class skills, but then would the 3rd morph go to mag players or stam players?

ealdwin · June 2021

FriedEggSandwich wrote: »

I'd also like to see 3rd morphs introduced for all class skills, but then would the 3rd morph go to mag players or stam players?

I would say that if a third morph was introduced, and that the distribution had to rely on the mag/stam divide, then the breakdown should be 2-mag and 1-stam morph. So with Crystal Shards, you'd see Frags, Blast, Weapon as the morphs.

Originally the classes were conceived as replacements for the schools of magic, dividing magical effects by theme rather than the theory behind them. The idea was that more "mage" oriented characters would opt for more class skills and find diversity of choice there, while more "warrior" oriented characters would opt for more weapon skills and find more diversity of choice there—between the variety of weapons*. While technically lore-breaking, the change of several morphs of class skills to Stamina cost, did add some class identity to those "warrior" oriented characters**. So, in order to preserve/regain some of that original design of "mage" diversity in class morph options and "warrior" diversity in weapon type choices, my suggestion if a third morph was introduced to go with a 2-mag and 1-stam distribution (again, in those scenarios that it made sense).

*Mage variety comes from the different options of spells in their repertoire, whereas Warrior variety comes from the different weapons they have trained in.

**I would have argued that reducing the number of choices in weapon/armor and scaling dictated by the mag/stam dichotomy to support more hybrid builds rather enforcing strict warrior/mage adherence would have been a better option going forward, but that's not what the decision was and I don't have a time machine.

tsaescishoeshiner · June 2021

Crystal frags is a better spammable now than when Crystal Blast was before, because it can proc its own damage boost now.

I used to use Crystal Blast for PvP and sometimes dungeons, and the stun is missed in PvP, but it deals more damage now PLUS has a very chaotic weaving feel because of the random proc chance lol.

AcadianPaladin · June 2021

My magsorc used to use blast instead of frags. With the end of blast, she's using frags now. I've kind of gotten used to it out of necessity.

AdamBourke · June 2021

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

My magsorc used to use blast instead of frags. With the end of blast, she's using frags now. I've kind of gotten used to it out of necessity.

Yeah, I've gotten used to it and can mostly play as well as I was before. I just don't enjoy it as much....

Aertew · June 2021

I remember using it a ton and wasn't suprised it was nerfed. I remember when it knocked back enemies. Was really fun

Xvorg · June 2021

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I miss Nightblade's Malefic Wreath, misunderstood ability, for the most part it was useless against single target or small groups, but spamming it against large packs of 10+ mobs and it utterly annihilates them with insane damage, no target limit in a matter of seconds.

the combo meteor + wreath was quite good in PvP

Xvorg · June 2021

I want my wings back btw

Vevvev · June 2021

I miss the old stone giant DKs had. Nothing like stunning someone over 28 meters away and stacking minor and major resolve together. (Or what the equivalent back in the day)

Made my long range magDK build with Elemental Weapon as the spammable work and it's gone because people wanted a stamina spammable, but ZOS didn't give them poison whip.