you shoulda gone with Elder Skirts Online. #justsayin

Raising soft caps sounds great! Especially if they rebalance the mobs to match.

bg22 wrote: »

WilliamTee wrote: »

you shoulda gone with Elder Skirts Online. #justsayin

I actually changed it entirely to further gain weight as a thread in general bc I think this would really help a lot of issues out.

Well now my post looks entirely bizarre... #DamnYou!

There are several ways they could try and fix Melee and the useless Medium and Heavy Armor but most wont do you any good !

Until they change game content and STOP having Mobs spam AoEs you will stand at Range doing Ranged damage . Ranged damage with a staff as they would need to increase Bow damage for it to be competitive .

SilverWF wrote: »

bow damage already good. use armor decrease enchants.

If Bow damage was good . Why are people using Staff ?

Staff is higher DPS

deacon13 wrote: »

SilverWF wrote: »

bow damage already good. use armor decrease enchants.

If Bow damage was good . Why are people using Staff ?

Staff is higher DPS

Maybe, because they are love staffs?

SilverWF wrote: »

deacon13 wrote: »

SilverWF wrote: »

bow damage already good. use armor decrease enchants.

If Bow damage was good . Why are people using Staff ?

Staff is higher DPS

Maybe, because they are love staffs?

No

Staff IS higher DPS .

deacon13 wrote: »

No

Staff IS higher DPS .

Yes - I love staffs.
And staff is NO higher DPS.

Melee weapon passive skill "Skirt Splitter" X% chance on hit to knock up sorceress with two handed sword equipped.

bg22 wrote: »

I think the fix is fairly simple in order to let ppl play they want, rather than having 90% of your population run around in LA w/ staves:

-Increase base weapon damage (significantly)
-get rid of weapon damage soft caps
-Increase medium and heavy armor value so that they cannot be reached while wearing LA even with jewelry(which would require the raising of soft caps as well). Basically LA could reach MA armor via 2x + armor rings, and MA could reach HA via 2x + armor rings. Basically each armor type would have a difference of roughly 1200 armor rating (if wearing a full set). Which equates to a 12% damage mitigation difference per armor type.
I honestly believe that with these three changes it would solve a multitude of "balance issues".

I play 5/2 h/l s+b or bow dk tank . I do not agree. Firstly melee balance is hard as survivability is very high so increasing damage significantly can make them OP which leads to a nerf

First point : I would not think a huge increase was needed maybe 10% but not more than that

Second point : weapon dame soft cap for me is high 170 I'm one handed so I'm are 130 do t see the issue

Third point: will break our builds we rely on the passives of am and la to increase damage output through magicka etc

I believe it comes down to learning the class - I can hit 340 or so dps now with a particular rotation - single target. I burst past 750 on 3 mobs during a AoE with ultimate - 450 without. Given also the level of cc on demand available I would think any significant increase to say 450 single target would make me unstoppable ( shield bash did that in older days)

bg22 wrote: »

I think the fix is fairly simple in order to let ppl play they want, rather than having 90% of your population run around in LA w/ staves:

-Increase base weapon damage (significantly)
-get rid of weapon damage soft caps
-Increase medium and heavy armor value so that they cannot be reached while wearing LA even with jewelry(which would require the raising of soft caps as well). Basically LA could reach MA armor via 2x + armor rings, and MA could reach HA via 2x + armor rings. Basically each armor type would have a difference of roughly 1200 armor rating (if wearing a full set). Which equates to a 12% damage mitigation difference per armor type.
I honestly believe that with these three changes it would solve a multitude of "balance issues".

With Staff skills scaling with weapon damage... it would also buff the staffs... but that`s ok as the staff skills are crappy, people use the Resto one for the 10% extra damage while at full HP + class skills for damage.

The only real good damage skill from the Destro staff is the last one... the AOE one. The rest are weaker compared to class skills.

Malmai wrote: »

you guys are talking like you dont have nothing in your med skill tree.

They need to have brain to using all of this stuff, but they didn't.
I'm very rarly see melee who trying to do dodge or attack from behind a target, damn, just moving while fighting.
They are just staying in front of monster and pushing skills, no blocking, no interrupting, then died and going to complain at forums - "give us Win-Button and nerf this damn mages!"

Most of mages are more professional players than most of melee
Discuss ^^

ss.ioannidisnrb18_ESO wrote: »

bg22 wrote: »

I think the fix is fairly simple in order to let ppl play they want, rather than having 90% of your population run around in LA w/ staves:

-Increase base weapon damage (significantly)
-get rid of weapon damage soft caps
-Increase medium and heavy armor value so that they cannot be reached while wearing LA even with jewelry(which would require the raising of soft caps as well). Basically LA could reach MA armor via 2x + armor rings, and MA could reach HA via 2x + armor rings. Basically each armor type would have a difference of roughly 1200 armor rating (if wearing a full set). Which equates to a 12% damage mitigation difference per armor type.
I honestly believe that with these three changes it would solve a multitude of "balance issues".

I play 5/2 h/l s+b or bow dk tank . I do not agree. Firstly melee balance is hard as survivability is very high so increasing damage significantly can make them OP which leads to a nerf

First point : I would not think a huge increase was needed maybe 10% but not more than that

Second point : weapon dame soft cap for me is high 170 I'm one handed so I'm are 130 do t see the issue

Third point: will break our builds we rely on the passives of am and la to increase damage output through magicka etc

I believe it comes down to learning the class - I can hit 340 or so dps now with a particular rotation - single target. I burst past 750 on 3 mobs during a AoE with ultimate - 450 without. Given also the level of cc on demand available I would think any significant increase to say 450 single target would make me unstoppable ( shield bash did that in older days)

Yes, ipeople fail to realize that having more armor, more block, more stamina, reduced cost on Dodge Rolling and so on is something no magicka build has...

Also, let`s consider the best Sorc spell... Crystal Shards... it has a 420 magicka cost. With 25% reduction(light armor + passives) its 315 Magicka. The Magicka Soft cap is at 1950ish and the Regen Soft cap is 90ish..

This means that a sorcerer can cast 7 spells before going out of magicka while a melee can just keep on going.

Anyone see the problem if at any point the melee will do the same damage? This is why with the current design they can`t do that. You can ask for more armor(you already have more) and other things but you can`t expect equal damage with this system...

To make melee do the same damage they would have to make light/heavy attacks use stamina so a heavy attack would do as much damage as a spell... but you can only do 7-8 before running out of stamina. I doubt you would like that.

The Light Armor adds a 21% reduction to magicka skills... that means that they can cast 5 spells where you can cast 4.... not that big of a deal. It also adds 28% magicka regen... so while you regen 40 magicka per second they regen 52 magicka. With a spell cost of 300 it would take 30 seconds before that regen translates into an extra spell.

Again, the difference is not all that great... i don`t get why people rage about it.