Official Discussion Thread for "Dark Brotherhood: First Look"

ZOS_GinaBruno · April 2016

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Dark Brotherhood: First Look. We hope you enjoyed this sneak peek of the next DLC! Which feature are you most excited about?

ButtersEP · April 2016

@ZOS_GinaBruno Hey, thanks for this and maybe it hasn't been released yet but are we not getting new dungeons? Has Zenimax decided we are going to release 'X' number of dungeons annually and is this number only 2?

Skorol007 · April 2016

"a new District capture system for Imperial City" nice!!!

Bfish22090 · April 2016

what you listed, as far as changes to the game are concerned, are very intriguing

RDMyers65b14_ESO · April 2016

Ooooooh! I want!!!!!

HAIL SITHIS!!!!!

lolo_01b16_ESO · April 2016

Base game patch sounds nice, the dlc itself, well, another dlc without proper group content, similar to wrothgar.

timidobserver · April 2016

At first glance, this looks really good. Of course, execution will determine whether it actually is. I am looking forward to going back to IC. I had more fun in IC when it launched than I ever had in Cyrodiil. Though, vicious death is probably going to decrease the fun.

Sanctum Ophidia scaling and vet mode will be nice too.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO · April 2016

Im withholding judgement until I see more details. I worry when I see they are doing "tons" of balance changes, skill changes and trait changes. Too many changes at once can be a bad thing.

Ahzek · April 2016

SO scaling ? SO scaling !

Ling · April 2016

still no race change or barber?

MissBizz · April 2016

Woah.

So so so amazing. To be honest.. I think I'm more excited for the base game updates! lol

Tyrion87 · April 2016

Umm, why will we have to spend additional money for motif previews?! This is to be in the crown store... you got to be kidding me. This should be implemented within base game patch... Or do I misunderstand something?

Legoless · April 2016

that base game patch tho *o*

Gonza · April 2016

Thank you zos

These are really gooooood neewwwss

ZOS_GinaBruno · April 2016

Tyrion87 wrote: »

Umm, why will we have to spend additional money for motif previews?! This is to be in the crown store... you got to be kidding me. This should be implemented within base game patch... Or do I misunderstand something?

To clarify, you'll be able to preview what a motif from the Crown Store looks like on your character before you purchase it.

Xsorus · April 2016

@ZOS_GinaBruno race change is still coming right?

Tyrion87 · April 2016

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Tyrion87 wrote: »

Umm, why will we have to spend additional money for motif previews?! This is to be in the crown store... you got to be kidding me. This should be implemented within base game patch... Or do I misunderstand something?

To clarify, you'll be able to preview what a motif from the Crown Store looks like on your character before you purchase it.

Oh, now I understand because the current wording in the article is a little confusing. Thank you for clarification!

d8rmir · April 2016

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Tyrion87 wrote: »

Umm, why will we have to spend additional money for motif previews?! This is to be in the crown store... you got to be kidding me. This should be implemented within base game patch... Or do I misunderstand something?

To clarify, you'll be able to preview what a motif from the Crown Store looks like on your character before you purchase it.

But I can just use the crown store to get a free preview of a motif I already know, before I craft it. Correct?

Dorrow · April 2016

Poison-making, guys!

Skorol007 · April 2016

Xsorus wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno race change is still coming right?

can we get info on this @ZOS_GinaBruno please?

Jaeysa · April 2016

Additional character slots? Poison making? Removal of Vet ranks? Crafting bags? Smells like fan-service

Can't wait!

joker0137 · April 2016

Looks like silent stealth kills will become available again, its been sadly missed x

code65536 · April 2016

rebalancing for the Imperial City dungeons

So, not only are we not going to get any new 4-man content, they're also gonna hit vWGT and vICP with the nerfhammer?

(Unless by "rebalancing", they mean "buffing", but somehow I doubt that's what they meant.)

4-person content is such a huge part of this game. It's a MMO, so why in blazes is there so much focus on solo questing in each update? And while I do enjoy running trials, most people in this game have a hard time getting together 12-person groups for that. But the 4-person content? That's fun group content (remember, this is a MMO!) that you can easily clobber together. And we haven't had any updates to 4-person content since the introduction of vICP and vWGT.

So, no new 4-person content. No updates or scaling to vDSA. And now, it looks like we're likely to see nerfs to the only two pieces of challenging 4-person content in the game. Please, no.

Lightninvash · April 2016

my question is what about text chat for the consoles O.O was hoping it would be with this like the SCT was with the TG patch. Then again it says and more so maybe it could be.... I cant wait to see.

Dominoid · April 2016

ButtersEP wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno Hey, thanks for this and maybe it hasn't been released yet but are we not getting new dungeons? Has Zenimax decided we are going to release 'X' number of dungeons annually and is this number only 2?

Doesn't look like any in this patch, but I found a new dungeon in the code entitled "Ruins of Mazzatun". So there is one coming. Clockwork City maybe?

Xsorus wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno race change is still coming right?

Ling wrote: »

still no race change or barber?

I don't believe either of these items were for Q2.

deadlock007 · April 2016

This update looks awesome

staracino_ESO · April 2016

I have to agree that the base game changes look decent right now. The DLC preview makes me think it is going to turn out to be a carbon copy of the TG DLC (a few hours of content, boring dailies and one motif to camp bosses forever to get). Hopefully they give us a bigger zone with more to do, and integrate the DB into the rest of Tamriel better.
They list poison making as though it will be a new skill... when we already have alchemy to make poison. Does this mean they will be re-vamping alchemy? Or will they be adding some other redundant interface to accomplish this?

Dominoid · April 2016

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Tyrion87 wrote: »

Umm, why will we have to spend additional money for motif previews?! This is to be in the crown store... you got to be kidding me. This should be implemented within base game patch... Or do I misunderstand something?

To clarify, you'll be able to preview what a motif from the Crown Store looks like on your character before you purchase it.

Surely this will eventually lead to a true crafting preview at the crafting stations . . . .

Alcast · April 2016

It would be nice if Maw of Lorkhaj could be fixed before you release a new DLC. tyvm

Fasold666 · April 2016

Still no pvp-update, nice!

tinythinker · April 2016

Vote-kick is OK and opens the way for bonuses to needed roles in the random dungeon selector. Giving a bonus to rewards for tanks when they are in short supply, for example, but being able to /kick those who fraudently queue as a tank just to get a group. This can be further balanced and made more positive by adding a commendation/rec system wherein each party member can commend one other group member at the end of a run with a random group. Plenty of time to slip those additional features in before the update goes live on PC, right?

With such small additional changes on top of the many positive steps already taken/announced the LFG tool will finally start to look like something people will be eager to use which means it will work better with more people in the queue who are getting matched more quickly.

(Oh, and how about getting an extra reward of gold and add in a bonus to raising the undaunted skill line for doing five randoms in a day or something like that?)