My thoughts as a pvp focused succession sorc on the upcoming changes to succ sorc announced on the 14/03/2025 Global Labs.

tl:dr/summary at the bottom

Prime: Dark Flame - No one cares

Succession: Ultimate Dark Flame - No one cares

Dark Tendrils - Cooldown changed from 11 seconds to 8, and Defensive Judgment changed from Super Armor to Forward Guard.

-Lower cds on such skills are always cool but it feels like such a bad change for succession sorc, probably one of our best Super Armor skills and now it will just be a budget Prime Black Wave?

Shadow Ignition - Cooldown changed from 10 to 8 seconds.

-Cool

Crow Nightmare- No one cares

Prime: Dream of Doom- The Speed of charging the skill has increased

-Cool

Prime : Violation- Skill's defense has changed from Forward Guard to Super Armor

- Mixed feelings about this one, sounds good on paper but the Forward Guard was also nice? 

Prime: Crow Flare- Skill's defense has changed from Forward Guard to Super Armor

-Our most reliable FG replaced with a Super Armor so we can just die to standing to any ranged class, no Q/S block or low CD reliable FG like Crow Flare.

Shadow Eruption- Skill's defense has changed from Super Armor to Forward Guard

-Okay so now we went from having 1 reliable CC to an unreliable half protected half not CC????? (wtf)

Dark Backstep, Succession: Dark Backstep- Skill's defense has changed from Forward Guard to Super Armor

- Nice I guess?

Shard Explosion- Added Super Armor during skill use

-Useless skill and far too slow :), used to be a nice eva shread but got ruined.

Night Crow 

-Please don't touch the skill, the triple iframe flying tech is something unique that sorc has and that was already nerfed a while back but now you are completely killing? This ain't it.

https://streamable.com/lgpg9i

Did check with quite a few other successions sorcs in the community and no one liked these changes, the damage increase and reduced cooldowns are a nice and welcomed changes but the SA/FG changes are far from ideal and will impact the class negatively, even with the damage buffs this would still feel like a nerf so PA needs to reconsinder these changes and or just scrap them.

My suggestion if you would like to buff the class/spec would be to maintain the protections as they are and just proceed with the cooldown and damage changes, nice and simple because right now you definitely over-cooked and burnt the whole house down.

Based

The classic example of touching things that don't need to be touched and yet again proving that they are just clueless...

I guess it's time to unlock storming crow to have 1 SA cc again.

Please reconsider these changes, they make absolutely no sense.

Updooted

Gonna chip in with some of my own suggestions:

1. If PA is hellbent on making Crow Flare a super armor, then either make it a 4-5 second cooldown with a float and either lower the cooldown on claws of darkness OR give us an S/Q-block.

2. Shadow eruption change is just dumb, if anything Ultimate: Shadow Eruption should have a Frontal Guard on it.

3. Make stamina regen during shard explosion or rework the skill to not use shards if it's going to be a stamina lock

4. Remove knockdown from abyssal flame and make the entire skill super armor.

5. Tendrils - don't change it to FG, maybe even keep the 11 second cooldown and buff the healing on it.

6. Bring back dark flame knockdown.

better nerf zerk

prime violation SA is pretty cool, rest of the changes I personally dislike.

Worst of all: jump iframe! I wanna keep flying :( they RUINED the jump iframe, please revert.

The crow flare, tendrils and shadow eruption changes completely ruin the class, rest all either doesnt matter or isn't as impactful but would hope PA would undo at least those changes as I think it completely misses the mark and ruins the class identity.

Please reconsider these changes, they make absolutely no sense.

+1 on scrapping nerf to jump night crow. Just guts sorc mobility even more (basically dead on succ), plus you take fall damage.

https://streamable.com/92y09o

Personally wouldn't mind the infinite part, but no synergy with jump height + ankle weight nerf needs to go. Surely this isn't too much to ask for, considering the classes today.

Upvoted 1000%, These changes are basically PA's way of forcing us to grab a scythe