Yeah sure why not, lets people bring vampires into content without making healers frustrated. If people want to play a low-health vampire build they'll wear pale order or play solo anyways.

Animation looks too stupid, can't take this ability seriously. Let me slash the enemy with my right hand, in which I will hold my actual main hand weapon 100 % of the time. It should really be a left-handed swipe. Other than that: I think it is in a reasonable spot, but a slight buff won't break it either.

What if instead they just made the other morph have dynamic resource cost?

Soarora wrote: »

Yeah sure why not, lets people bring vampires into content without making healers frustrated. If people want to play a low-health vampire build they'll wear pale order or play solo anyways.

Pale order is useless on trials

DARKSTER1 wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

what does stamina and magicka have to do with Blood for Blood? the ability costs Health.
even if the cost were different anyone can use it.

i think it would be weird if zos removed "After casting the ability, you cannot be healed by allies for a short duration.",
because you're sacrificing your own health when using this ability and if you could be healed immediately then there isn't really a sacrifice.

back in 2020 the ability costed health yes. but it was a magic damage skill. outside of some exceptions that said (scales with your highest resource like DK inferno) magic damage skills scaled with magicka and physical damage skills with stamina. the stamina players back then CRIED that we magicka players had a free spammable (and overall they were right and back then sustain was bad) so the ability got nerfed

Now in 2024 with the hybridization and all. there's NO REASON to keep the ability on the "unhealable" side

it still costs health. are you thinking of Arterial Burst, the other morph of Eviscerate?

They should make it so using eviscerate or it's morphs procs strike from shadows.

Lalothen wrote: »

They could always have Blood for Blood proc heal absorption instead of blocking external healing outright. It should still be enough to make it a risky spammable... perhaps the amount of heal absorption could be a percentage of total health and scale based on the size of your group, capping out at let's say 60% of your maximum health in a 12-man group (so +5% for each person you're grouped with).

So you would make it completely unusable solo? Just switching the problem then.

B4B is balanced the way it is because it costs health, blocking out cross healing was introduced to have a drawback since it was quickly trivializing and overshadowing all spammables by providing infinite sustain. Had nothing to do with Stamina vs Magicka complaints, as a result, it still feels balanced in a post hybridization context.

On this subject though, they should make all spammables and executes scale from your highest resource. Exceptions would be Weapons, Fighters, and Mage's Guild which continue with their Stamina vs Magicka goals. Aka skills like Arterial Burst, Elemental Weapon, Surprise Attack, and Killer's Blade.. but not Silver Shards, Rapid Strikes, Whirlwind, or Force Pulse.

This concept is already in use for Arcanist and Grimoires. Would really open build diversity since a lot of morphs would be picked based on playstyle instead of blue vs green. Impale and Killer's Blade is the best example as they serve a melee vs range playstyle instead of their colour. Many skill morphs that relied on the skill cost difference for uniquness could be combined and revamped to make room for new playstyles, eg. Ricochet Skull could take the stacks on Necro skill cast effect, then Venom Skull could become a melee spammable.