There needs to be more melee magicka spammables

Bosco916
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As the title suggests; currently, there exists only ONE melee magicka spammable available across all classes: Eviscerate...and you have to be a vampire to use it. Ofcourse, other classes have the options of available melee magicka spammables within their class skill lines, but see, I’m a magicka sorcerer using dual wield wpns and the only option for a melee magicka spammable to me is to be a vampire and use Arterial Burst. It’s just, well...limiting. What do y’all think?
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  • Icy_Nelyan
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    Actually there Is imbued weapon magicka morph, It Is a bit underpowered in comparison to other spammables (waaaaaay underpowered), I Also understand Is somewhat hard top use because It relies on light Attack weaving and in pvp Is a Nightmare (I'm actually use It as spammables in pvp so I know all the problema about that skill) but still Is a spammables.

    But I really would like to have at leaat One common to all classes skill line, like a weapon magicka based skill line with melee skills; i actually run a melee DK magicka with a greatsword or dual swords and I would like to have more usefull melee skills.
  • Bosco916
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    Icy_Nelyan wrote: »
    Actually there Is imbued weapon magicka morph, It Is a bit underpowered in comparison to other spammables (waaaaaay underpowered), I Also understand Is somewhat hard top use because It relies on light Attack weaving and in pvp Is a Nightmare (I'm actually use It as spammables in pvp so I know all the problema about that skill) but still Is a spammables.

    But I really would like to have at leaat One common to all classes skill line, like a weapon magicka based skill line with melee skills; i actually run a melee DK magicka with a greatsword or dual swords and I would like to have more usefull melee skills.

    Yeah, I didn’t include Elemental Weapon because the animation is soo long, not really viable as, say, vamp’s Eviscerate or magnb’s Concealed Weapon.
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  • Icy_Nelyan
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    You are totally right, I actually miss some LA from time to time because of the animation, anyway the damage Is too low; the animation with the low damage and the DPS Is disastrous.

    Unfortunately a magicka based melee skill Line I Guess never happen because they have to add not only new models for wepaons (if any, otherwise if they want to use already in game models like swords this isn't a problem), but also new weapons for all the sets, as a plus they actually have to make from scratch new ability altering weapons for all the already existing ability altering sets.

    We actually Need melee magicka skills, I'm ok with the ranged mage, but Battle mages? Spellswords? Runemasters? Magus? Where are the weapons for those archetypes? And the skills? We have few skills to play like a melee mage/Sorcerer and I'm very very Sorry for this.
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    i like arterial burst, but it doesn't work on magden very well unless you turtle, which is harder to do now. otherwise we have no directly applied snare to make it work, i think that's the biggest problem. if you don't have a direct snare on a mag build it's hard to make it work.
    Edited by ESO_Nightingale on June 3, 2021 1:57AM
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  • Xvorg
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    Bosco916 wrote: »
    As the title suggests; currently, there exists only ONE melee magicka spammable available across all classes: Eviscerate...and you have to be a vampire to use it. Ofcourse, other classes have the options of available melee magicka spammables within their class skill lines, but see, I’m a magicka sorcerer using dual wield wpns and the only option for a melee magicka spammable to me is to be a vampire and use Arterial Burst. It’s just, well...limiting. What do y’all think?

    each class has its own melee magicka spammable as far as I remember

    On the other hand stamina has little options for stamina ranged spammable outside bow...
    Edited by Xvorg on June 3, 2021 2:56AM
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  • Bosco916
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    Xvorg wrote: »

    each class has its own melee magicka spammable as far as I remember

    On the other hand stamina has little options for stamina ranged spammable outside bow...[/quote]

    Oh? Could you tell me the melee magicka spammable for the sorcerer class? And, yes. Ranged stamina spammables likely suffer much in the same respect.
    Edited by Bosco916 on June 3, 2021 4:10AM
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  • Syrpynt
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    Bosco916 wrote: »

    Oh? Could you tell me the melee magicka spammable for the sorcerer class? And, yes. Ranged stamina spammables likely suffer much in the same respect.

    I'd say it's the Overload Ultimate (heavy attack specifically). Sure it's not magicka, or stamina--but ultimate. But Magicka and ultimate are both depletable resources that need to be recharged. You can just use your Sith powers on ememies until your ult is gone from 500 Ult if you wanted! That's the "ultimate" spammable move (;

    Ranged Spammables are Snipe (single target) Scatter Shot (multi), Silver shards (multi), and Psijic "Crushing Weapon" ability applied to a bow (single), and DW Shrouded daggers (single or multiple still effective).

    Ranged Class Stamina Abilities:

    Wardens have cliffracer.
    Necromancers have venom skull.
    Dragon Knights have Stone Giant (rock throwing)
    Templars have Binding Javelin (would be super annoying though with that sound effect lol)
    Sorcerers have Bound Armaments that can be used with a bow.
    Nightblades have no ranged+"spammable" stamina ability. I don't think Relentless focus counts since it takes 5 LA's to trigger the morph.
  • ealdwin
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    Syrpynt wrote: »
    Bosco916 wrote: »

    Oh? Could you tell me the melee magicka spammable for the sorcerer class? And, yes. Ranged stamina spammables likely suffer much in the same respect.

    I'd say it's the Overload Ultimate (heavy attack specifically). Sure it's not magicka, or stamina--but ultimate. But Magicka and ultimate are both depletable resources that need to be recharged. You can just use your Sith powers on ememies until your ult is gone from 500 Ult if you wanted! That's the "ultimate" spammable move (;

    Ranged Spammables are Snipe (single target) Scatter Shot (multi), Silver shards (multi), and Psijic "Crushing Weapon" ability applied to a bow (single), and DW Shrouded daggers (single or multiple still effective).

    Ranged Class Stamina Abilities:

    Wardens have cliffracer.
    Necromancers have venom skull.
    Dragon Knights have Stone Giant (rock throwing)
    Templars have Binding Javelin (would be super annoying though with that sound effect lol)
    Sorcerers have Bound Armaments that can be used with a bow.
    Nightblades have no ranged+"spammable" stamina ability. I don't think Relentless focus counts since it takes 5 LA's to trigger the morph.

    Binding Javelin is more of a CC skill than a spammable. The range is too short (22m) and the damage not high enough to function as a spammable.
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    ealdwin wrote: »
    Binding Javelin is more of a CC skill than a spammable. The range is too short (22m) and the damage not high enough to function as a spammable.

    I wouldn't know because I haven't played a Templar character in over 2 years now. lol I just remember some abilities. 22m isn't within melee range, but yeah, if it doesn't do enough damage then the universal or weapon ranged stamina spammables are the only option for them.
  • Vevvev
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    Vampire got one and some people were absolutely livid about it. While I agree with your idea to add more, people keep complaining about how weak and squishy mages are in melee range (Which as a magDK I laugh at) so I don't know how much support this would gain.
    Edited by Vevvev on June 3, 2021 5:26PM
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  • Icy_Nelyan
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    Magicka melee based character are very hard to build because they are squishier then their stamina counterpart, Is really hard to play as a sort of Bruiser in light armor, hard top balance penetrazione, resistence and Power. Built properly You can survive and with a good tactic You can face many encounters; as a mag DK I have a Cook set of skills that can help me out but well, sometime neither God can survive some necro with Warren both yamina with Dizzy and subterranean or Ghouls pulverizing You.

    Anyway more melee magicka based skills would be appreciated, eventually not a new class but something common to every character like a new build; classes are fine to me at the Moment I don't think some of them are in Need of something really essential (every classe plays in its way), so more like a guild or maybe another morph for every weapons: magicka morph for stamina based and stamina morphs for magicka based.
  • Xvorg
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    Bosco916 wrote: »
    Xvorg wrote: »

    each class has its own melee magicka spammable as far as I remember

    On the other hand stamina has little options for stamina ranged spammable outside bow...

    Oh? Could you tell me the melee magicka spammable for the sorcerer class? And, yes. Ranged stamina spammables likely suffer much in the same respect.[/quote]

    My bad, sorc has no melee magicka spammable, but that's a design decision that I've been seeing since 2014 (or even before that)

    Anyway, I think it's somehow balanced between magicka having more ranged attacks and stam having more melee attacks.
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    Vevvev wrote: »
    Vampire got one and some people were absolutely livid about it. While I agree with your idea to add more, people keep complaining about how weak and squishy mages are in melee range (Which as a magDK I laugh at) so I don't know how much support this would gain.

    Actually I've seen AND used S/B, 2H and DW Magsorcs with elemental weapon. Though it is not a game changing skill, it can be used. With some luck you can proc frags while weaving ele weapon, to apply good ol' "frag to the nose"
    Edited by Xvorg on June 3, 2021 8:54PM
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    Xvorg wrote: »
    Vevvev wrote: »
    Vampire got one and some people were absolutely livid about it. While I agree with your idea to add more, people keep complaining about how weak and squishy mages are in melee range (Which as a magDK I laugh at) so I don't know how much support this would gain.

    Actually I've seen AND used S/B, 2H and DW Magsorcs with elemental weapon. Though it is not a game changing skill, it can be used. With some luck you can proc frags while weaving ele weapon, to apply good ol' "frag to the nose"

    Indeed, although the passives are not as in favor of using said weapons. I am curious how dual daggers with Elemental Weapon would go with the crit boosts.
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  • Spurius_Lucilius
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    Many Magicka classes don’t have the mobility to use melee spammable effectively. If there were more melee mag spammable, we need to have more magicka gap closer options.
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  • Icy_Nelyan
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    Many Magicka classes don’t have the mobility to use melee spammable effectively. If there were more melee mag spammable, we need to have more magicka gap closer options.

    True, with my magDK I use and abuse chain and mostly I wait for a good placed stun tovstart weaving ele weapon, if You have a way to slow down the enemy gap closers are not necessary but this means You have to rely on poisons for a good chance to slow down people. Ele weapon Is decent as spammable but in pvp Is a pain in melee because of the animation mostly, but if You manage to "PIN down" your enemy then You can melt him.

    Gap closers are very useful but with lag, desync, few slows at your disposal, so many way to remove them and Speed skills, Also with a gap closers Isn't so Easy to strike 3/4 Times in a row with ele weapon... Without taking in account the damage of that skill... That's why gap closers are Indeed usefull but mostly You want ti wait a good hard cc long enough to score some real good damage, otherwise You want to use a totally different strategy like to Say: dot, dot, ranged spammable, Meteor or whatever ti stun and damage, get close and melee spammable (with possibily a delayed burst).
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    Many Magicka classes don’t have the mobility to use melee spammable effectively. If there were more melee mag spammable, we need to have more magicka gap closer options.

    I am not sure about that.

    DK have chain which works in both ways (and gives you empower).

    Temp have charge.

    NB have lotus (possibly the best GC in the whole game).

    Sorcerer Strike (the best next to Lotus).

    Necro have pulling armour.

    The only class without GC, as far as I am aware (not sure how these ice gates works) is Warden.

    Edited by Ippokrates on June 4, 2021 9:20AM
  • Andre_Noir
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    Ippokrates wrote: »
    NB have lotus (possibly the best GC in the whole game).

    From PVP experience it's the worst due to it's unreliability.
    Another problem - movement speed, since every stamina user in medium armor can simply run away from you.

    So there is no sence in melee magicka spammable without:
    1. Proper sets - Diamond's victory is right direction, but mages still don't have a viable def for melee range
    2. Movement speed bonus removal from medium
    3. Destro rework since it's useless in melee range (pulsar is a trash). Or a new weapon line since ranged has lower dmg then melee atm
    4. Gap closers. They made a melee line (vampire) without any gap closers (but NPCs have it). So I have no hopes for the current balance team
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