i love that they got rid of a similar mechanic on nightblade fear because of similar reasons, but they decided to slap it on warden anyways in an even more broken form. ive had it completely break my character, like unable to move, cast skills, block, roll dodge, basically i just turn into a target dummy until someone kills me. been that way since it went live and hasn't been addressed, nor do i think it ever will be. Just like rush of agony.

RaidingTraiding wrote: »

i love that they got rid of a similar mechanic on nightblade fear because of similar reasons, but they decided to slap it on warden anyways in an even more broken form. ive had it completely break my character, like unable to move, cast skills, block, roll dodge, basically i just turn into a target dummy until someone kills me. been that way since it went live and hasn't been addressed, nor do i think it ever will be. Just like rush of agony.

Indeed.

I remember reading the PTS notes for Faun's Lark Cladding Mythic (where Charm originated as a player ability) and thinking, "Wait, why are we doing this again? Old Fear was a buggy nightmare and this will be as well...." But someone, somewhere is seemingly infatuated with the mechanic.

Thumbless_Bot wrote: »

RaidingTraiding wrote: »

i love that they got rid of a similar mechanic on nightblade fear because of similar reasons, but they decided to slap it on warden anyways in an even more broken form. ive had it completely break my character, like unable to move, cast skills, block, roll dodge, basically i just turn into a target dummy until someone kills me. been that way since it went live and hasn't been addressed, nor do i think it ever will be. Just like rush of agony.

They should just add the charm mechanic to roa and be done with it. I mean, at this point combat is so bad, why not.

No no, next content pass release a Rush set with 5 second cooldown, pulls people and then charms them with no CC cooldown applied 25m radius.

Make everyone buy the dlc, then throw up perma vengeance 6 weeks later.

There's too much CC In this game already. Charmed was never needed and is not part of the solution.

Warden Charm, RoA, heal/shield stacking... there are some obvious outliers that need serious correction.

Warden Charm is the silliest of them, because it's such an afterthought (a single line on Scribing) that has such significant impact. I feel like if it was an ability it would be drastically OPed and could perhaps be a fair-ish Ultimate for what it does, but here we are with it as a tacked-on line of a burst heal or Contingency stack!

It really is crazy it's lasted this long. It's one of those things where it feels like the powers that be don't play their own game enough to understand, and I hope this recent splurge of messaging is noticed.

Durham wrote: »

Again how long does it take to fix this, ZOS? What are you doing? In heavy lag, this is unbreakable at times. This is an easy fix that only affects monsters, including guards. This charm has been putting people in walls, boxes, and doors, yet nothing has been done. It's been a year!

When Charm first hit, the PvP Discord I'm on laughed and said it was a matter of time before it was nerfed. It was glaringly obvious to all of us, and it seemed surely this ludicrously strong *single line* of a Scribed Ability would get the axe.

Yeah, as you said - that was a year ago. Nobody is really laughing now.

Ok, I lied, people are laughing AT something, but that's not really the same.

smallhammer wrote: »

Charm, combined with Vicious and Pestilent Colossus, are gamebreakers. Add to that cross healing in ball grps, and the fun is sucked out of Cyro.

When many groups are around that are using either or playing like this, I just leave. This is not moaning, it is just a sigh about how unbalanced it is, when you have no effective counter.

Also charm sometimes has a bug, that makes you char run around endlessly in a circle. Till you either get mowed down, or the enemy grp has moved on or been chased away.

Agreed. Haven’t been playing PvP much these days and instead went back to PvE and it’s been a nice change