The entire Vampire skill line.

Weakness to Elements.

It should lower resistances to the type of destruction staff that that you're using only. Maybe a morph could also increase damage taken from that element by a %.

It just doesn't make sense to me that a skill called Weakness to "Elements" also lowers resistance to physical (are we calling it martial these days?) damage.

SilverBride wrote: »

The entire Vampire skill line.

This, 100%. It's such a shame that what was supposed to make being a vampire unique kinda killed it completely in the end. Even if it ends up being a niche playstyle like WW, at least it will be better that its current state, it's not even niche, it's non-existent outside of RP or people who just like vampires for one reason or another.

Also, Force Siphon and its morphs from the Restoration Staff skill line. I feel like this skill is pretty much never used (at least in PvE, don't know about PvP), since you have other, far better, ways of applying both Lifesteal and Magickasteal, and the Vateshran staff really doesn't change anything.

Malevolent Offering should have at least one morph (Healthy Offering would fit best) reverted to health cost only, as it used to be before Deadlands update.

Since it was already established vampires need a rework, I felt like leaving an idea here which I got after playing a bit on my magDK.

Vampiric Drain - basically what is holding this otherwise iconic ability back is that, in PvP it doesn't heal nearly enough and has pitiful pressure, so your enemy will be able to shrug it off and recover their own health and resources more than you can during the channel time, and in PvE it deals pitiful damage and is thus not worth slotting while also being impossible to weave LAs with.

So my idea is to change Vampiric drain to give it one offensive morph (meant for PvE dps) and one defensive morph (meant for PvP).
The offensive morph would be either a spammable (like Rapid Strikes or Templar Jabs, but treated as a dot ability instead of a series of direct damage) or an execute ability (like Jesus Beam), in which case it needs to be powerful enough that the channel duration doesn't matter. Eitherway it should heal you for a percentage of the damage done by it, like DK's Burning Embers only weaker but healing the entire duration instead of just at the end. The reason I don't think it should be just another single-target dot is because vampires have been shown to use the drain ability continuously and often, so thematically it wouldn't make sense to be an ability used only once every 14 seconds - especially considering that every single class has a dot ability somewhere, but some classes do not have an execute or spammable.
The defensive morph should not heal based on missing health (unless it's a flat amount increased by missing health like Dragon Blood). Considering its channel time and the opportunity for enemies to interrupt your healing with a bash, it should certainly be a strong heal based on max health or it should be impossible to be interrupted and be a normal but strong heal over time. It can also keep the ult generation, because that allows you to charge up your ultimate against NPCs before the next fight or essentially become a stall ability to semi-reset a fight (a nice change compared the usual line-of-sight running in circles around a tree).

Either morph would also help stage 4 vampires reach full health upon leaving a fight, which I think is only an issue right now because the closer you are to full health, the less effective a heal solely based on missing health is.

JAB [Templar] - jabs should be single target. or much more expensive. This should not be the only spamable the class uses. For years now templar class is just spamming one skill while all the others use spamables suited for situation. single spamable should not work for every content type. Just like Scythe or Sap essence it should be an option for AOE only.

Sorc's Lightning Splash and its morphs. Its damage is laughable compared to other AOEs + for some reason it takes around 2 seconds from cast to damage (even tho tooltip says its instant).

Sorc's execute is kinda meh as well, bringing it up from 20 to 25% would be nice.

I think this can't be stressed enough, so I second the mates that already said it:
Vampirism needs to be reworked.
Again.

SilverBride wrote: »

The entire Vampire skill line.

please, this

Ratzkifal wrote: »

Since it was already established vampires need a rework, I felt like leaving an idea here which I got after playing a bit on my magDK.

Vampiric Drain - basically what is holding this otherwise iconic ability back is that, in PvP it doesn't heal nearly enough and has pitiful pressure, so your enemy will be able to shrug it off and recover their own health and resources more than you can during the channel time, and in PvE it deals pitiful damage and is thus not worth slotting while also being impossible to weave LAs with.

So my idea is to change Vampiric drain to give it one offensive morph (meant for PvE dps) and one defensive morph (meant for PvP).
The offensive morph would be either a spammable (like Rapid Strikes or Templar Jabs, but treated as a dot ability instead of a series of direct damage) or an execute ability (like Jesus Beam), in which case it needs to be powerful enough that the channel duration doesn't matter. Eitherway it should heal you for a percentage of the damage done by it, like DK's Burning Embers only weaker but healing the entire duration instead of just at the end. The reason I don't think it should be just another single-target dot is because vampires have been shown to use the drain ability continuously and often, so thematically it wouldn't make sense to be an ability used only once every 14 seconds - especially considering that every single class has a dot ability somewhere, but some classes do not have an execute or spammable.
The defensive morph should not heal based on missing health (unless it's a flat amount increased by missing health like Dragon Blood). Considering its channel time and the opportunity for enemies to interrupt your healing with a bash, it should certainly be a strong heal based on max health or it should be impossible to be interrupted and be a normal but strong heal over time. It can also keep the ult generation, because that allows you to charge up your ultimate against NPCs before the next fight or essentially become a stall ability to semi-reset a fight (a nice change compared the usual line-of-sight running in circles around a tree).

Either morph would also help stage 4 vampires reach full health upon leaving a fight, which I think is only an issue right now because the closer you are to full health, the less effective a heal solely based on missing health is.

I want to be able to summon Blood Fiends or Giant Bats to attack my enemy. There's some sets that proc for a cone of crows to rain down on a target, would be nice if I could get a thrall or two to annoy NPCs in PvE.

Would also be nice if I could just siphon blood but instead of taking it out, I make it all rush to someone's head so they blow up.

Crystal Fragments and Streak.

Why it was ok to remove reflective plates original functionality (Reflect projectiles) but then give Sorcerers Frag procs off Frags essentially creating a 10k per projectile minigun, i'll never know.

Streak is an over bloated skill. Damage, Proc'ed passive damage. Stun, escape.
At least Bolt Escape is practical, streak just feels completely overloaded.

Alternatively, give Dks reflect back at least that way we wont get wrecked by 2 ranged skills all the time (Snipe spam and Frag spam)

Nezyr_Jezz wrote: »

JAB [Templar] - jabs should be single target. or much more expensive. This should not be the only spamable the class uses. For years now templar class is just spamming one skill while all the others use spamables suited for situation. single spamable should not work for every content type. Just like Scythe or Sap essence it should be an option for AOE only.

Yeah, no to that.

Templar's use Jabs/Sweeps for everything because of Burning Light. Change Burning Light so that it's not a proc with Jabs as the most efficient proc'er and you'll see Templars start using other spammables. But, simply changing it to be single target would make the skill clunkier to use, leaving Templars in a less than ideal state.

(Also, I've never understood the push to make all spammables operate along the same set of rules. People complain about homogenization, spreadsheet balancing, and lack of class identity, but then suggestions come up that would continue to be detrimental to those ideas.)

Templars in general just have too many long-duration abilities. It doesn't help one passive's only function is adding 2 seconds of duration. POTL/PL is 6 seconds, Barrage is 10 seconds, Reflective Light is 12 seconds, Vampire's Bane is a whopping 16 seconds. There's too much empty space that needs filled, so the spammable is the answer.

Cliff Racer, for sure, what were they thinking making it a spammy, its horrible, bring back the delay and lets have out bursty back.

Also, poop rocks and poop fist on the DK... yuck!

EDIT: oh also, betty netch needs a power distrobution, i hate having to use it on all builds no matter what, its to overloaded and looks nasty