Avran_Sylt wrote: »

Certain Major Adornments/Minor Adornments/baubles on Hairstyles change color based on the characters base hair color.

Could you add a Barber NPC that lets you change your base hair color without the need to spend character change tokens to tweak/restore the looks of those cosmetics? (annoying that the pictures don't depict the cosmetic correctly/that colors change if you change hair color).

1. Cyrodil as a whole is dysfunctional
   • Performance - In any software after years of many different people pulling apart and stitching code you will have issues. However this is not just at the coding level, but at every level. Animations are 10x flashier, there are 10x the particle effects, sets and items do 10x more effects with paragraph tooltips. To cut it short, the game is too bloated and not concise to any degree. I will talk more on this in the combat direction portion.
   • Solo vs Group misdirection - A major issue is that early on zos got scared of 1vX players being too popular and they strive to shut down any mechanics that let players hold their own. What do you think happens to the solo and small man NEW PLAYER population when they can't play anymore? The game has now flopped the other way to the point where players are rewarded for grouping. Take a look at sets like Rallying cry, where for a 10 man group this one set bonus becomes worth 10 set bonuses. For a solo player it is only worth 2 set bonuses.......This exponentially raises the playing field in favor of groups. On top of having more players, now they have more stats
   • The cyrodil map - Its been 10 years, feel free to change it around. Make up some lore reason or something. Give us more paths to fight on instead of just allessia bridge or ash gate. You could incentivize players to go outward from the emp ring by using the towns and outer outposts to make new transit lines through the middle gates or bridges.
   • Campaign rules - Currently the winning faction GAINS combat bonuses. Originally this was intended with the full launch player capacity of 4x the playerbase. If one faction was winning, there would be two factions to oppose them. However this rule only works while the campaign is POP LOCKED. Under LVL 50 and NOCP campaigns both died because one faction would have more players and flip the whole map while being super humans. This causes NEW PLAYERS to give up and leave pvp. Ive seen entire guilds disband in discords and leave the game because another guild would just log on late at night and flip the map unopposed. The following day you would have to ALWAYS fight an uphill battle to retake the map against enemies that have stat bonuses and emperor.
   • Campaign rewards - Rewards for the worthy is a joke. Half the sets have been gutted and are not viable. The only thing worth it is Rallying cry, but everyone already has this. Campaign rewards also used to be worth more by giving golden mats and arena weapons. Perhaps think about making mythic leads drop.
2. BGs are barely tolerable
   • MMR resetting is driving the issue where 10 year veteran pvp players are going 40/0 against brand new players
   • The spawn zones drastically disadvantage the losing team. It would be better to make the spawns level with the ground and have a one way wall. This way losing teams can regroup and push together without being hit for 2-3s while falling into shark infested waters one by one.
   • Too many Ques, on PCNA you literally need an addon to que up for all four of the ques at once, otherwise your wait time for matches can be 4x as long
   • Certain game modes end to quickly because they are not time based, they end based on the objective which can be abused for dailies to ignore pvping.
3. Combat direction has no direction
   • Important Core mechanics such as ultimates and stuns, snares, roots, etc have taken a back seat in terms of clarity. The old original combat teams made it very clear what IMPORTANT effects were GOING to hit your character and which ones DID hit your character. Currently there are far too many bloated effects and animations that are draining the server of resources that are just not important.
   • Group sets - Are cool in pve for progression, granted they turn people into buff slaves instead of letting them solo fill a role. In pvp these quite literally decimate the casual playerbase and anyone not running a coordinated 12 man group. If you have a 10 man group running generic set bonuses they are worth 10 people. Now if you have 10 people running group sets that buff each other, they suddenly become worth 100 people......and we wonder why the server is lagging.
   • PvP rulesets for combat - There used to be built in concepts to shut down meta abuse. For instance, effects not stacking would prevent one proc set or effect skill from becoming abused. A proc or dot or hot may be strong in a 1v1, but if it wont stack it will never exponentially be abused in combat in group play.....To the same degree if one skill or hot isn't the strongest in the game, we will not see group combat spamming the most effect heavy stat dense skill in the game........and we wonder why the server is lagging.
   • Merciless resolve simply is game breaking. Why doesnt it follow the same tooltip standard as other timed or delayed burst skills like Frags, curse, blastbones, deep fissure. Instead it has 25% more damage than all of these and can be fired back to back. It quite literally has 25% more damage than dawnbreaker. I think take flight is the only single source of damage that beats it.....but take flight is an ultimate that can only be used every 30s not every 5s.
   • Many skills are losing their main uniqueness in favor of fitting one generic playstyle. I don't know if it is dev short sighted-ness or more like being in an echo chamber, but things like old dizzy swing having a long cast time with a hard hitting reward was far more interesting than a sped up low damage generic skill. Look at old school sword and shield bash/block weaving, now adays reverb and puncture do so little damage you can't make it worth it.
4. Subclassing skill line woes
   • The sudden jump in class passives that can stack are an immediate issue. For instance in pvp you realistically can get enough crit resist to mitigate 40-50% crit damage. However with subclassing everyone is getting another 20-25% crit damage and have way more access to crit chance bonuses. Combined with the new Pay2win mythic and suddenly most PvP builds are upwards of 125%-175% crit damage.
   • Subclassing has also forced people who have been playing a character for 10 years to give up on their character and have to grind another character. Many players are just giving up entirely. It would have been better to transition the game to a ONE CHARACTER concept where you dissolve the class system entirely and just freely let people pick class skill lines.
   • Skill lines were not setup for subclassing balance wise. Because certain skill lines were previously designed to be the entirety of a class's damage, now you have no reason to choose the skill lines that were a healthy balance of dmg, tank, heals.
5. General QoL, the game is a chore to play instead of fun
   • Why are there so many dailies? Next level is why do dailies require multiple characters? Do I really need to spend 3 hours of my day logging in and out in load screens? Is this supposed to sound fun for new players?
   • The modern day gaming playerbase consists of 3 main groups: You have the young fortnite group with 0 attention span, then the middle age college+ group who has only about 2-3 hours a couple days a week, then you have the older group. If you do not transition to be remotely enjoyable for the younger or middle age crowd that wants GAMEPLAY instead of chores, the game will slowly die out as it has been for years.
   • Overland being too easy is a perfect example. There are 46+ zones with hours of quests, bosses, places to explore. I have been paying for for 10 years and its been too boring to do ever since around the 2015 era. Hearing statements from team on stream saying the game is too hard for new players is a crazy. Why did elden ring get game of the year? Why is it 5x the eso playerbase? It has fun difficult and rewarding GAMEPLAY. It has tons of content that is WORTH doing.

amiiegee wrote: »

kargen27 wrote: »

Maitsukas wrote: »

Just because ZOS said they were looking if it is possible (with no additional updates since then), doesn't mean it is confirmed to be coming any time soon. It is a huge mess to deal with as I have mentioned in previous threads:

1. What to merge, the regions or platforms? If both EU & NA are merged, then depending on where the servers physically are located (Texas for NA, Germany for EU), most players are forced to deal with an increased latency (as if the OCE/SEA players don't have enough already). And are Sony and Microsoft willing to cooperate to make a platform merger possible (since MS basically refused to do that during the PS3/XB360 era)?

2. Shared character names on different accounts and servers. Who gets to keep the name, someone who had it longer or someone who manages to log in first, forcing the other player(s) to use a name change on their character(s)?

3. Shared guild names on different servers. There is no way to change the guild names without disbanding them.

4. Character cap for multi-platform players. Is doubling or tripling the limit a solution considering the many cuts (guild trader sale times, mail expiry times causing to take nearly Exabytes (from what I read somewhere once) of space (1 EB = 1000 TB = 1 000 000 GB) they had to make to improve performance over the years?

5. Housing projects potentially getting erased if someone creates something in Grand Psijic Villa on one server, but completely different in the same house on another server.

Would also have to deal with economies. Being able to purchase cheap goods on one server then list them for higher prices on the other server would wreak havoc on the economies for a good long while if we were able to transfer items. The economy may eventually find equilibrium but it would but brutal for a while.

The economy would kinda fix itself wouldnt it? But also maybe there are ways to help like stable prices idk

ESO_Nightingale wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

It's not shooting it down, it's warning that you're building a house on a one legged table. You can't have a mythic be responsible for so much of your builds power and expect other aspects of your character to not be impacted. Actually sitting down, going 'this thing wants X to work best' and providing players the ability to do build around X is a way to promote build diversity, rather than 'this mythic makes your frost skills super good for a not really noticeable hit to a damage type you may not be using.'

For example, I love Soulstone Suriviors. In it status effects can stack, and you have some special kind of skills. For ice builds, your status effects are slow and paralyze, and some ice skills deal damage based on the number of stacks of those debuffs on enemies. You build into stacking as many of those debuffs as possible and use a single payoff skill to cash in all those debuffs as damage? Voila, a strong build that can go far. Other debuffs like burning and poisoned deal damage, and not only are there skills that deal damage based off the number of stacks, but some skills clear all instances of the debuff and deal a % of their potential damage instantly, like, 300%, or more. Those kind of abilities allow players to go all in on a single elemental type and status effect and make powerful builds, not just the builds that cast their skills 40+ times a second.

Translating that into ESO, imagine this. A scribed skill, and say for the frost skill, "You apply a frost rune to the enemy, any time they get chilled they release a frost explosion, up to once a second, once it detonates X times it detonates one last time, dealing damage based on the number of nearby chilled enemies." Something like that would be thematic, give ice a unique identity, wanting to chill large crowds, and would encourage that kind of focused "I want to do X on this build to reach my payoff." That same skill when set up with fire could instead "Up to once a second consume the burning status effect on the target, refreshing this skills duration and applying Intense Burns, stacks up to 5 times," and voila, fire gets a strong single target dot so long as they keep applying burn to their target. That kind of thematic payoff would get me personally more interested in engaging with these kind of builds rather than a blanket "just make number bigger" one, and if they do that and turn up the dial you could easily still be left with builds that don't actually feel any different.

i have (on multiple occasions previously) suggested a very similar skill suggestion with my rework idea for frozen gate. that's 100% more important than this mythic idea. but this is just 1 of many of the types of things that needs to be done. this mythic isn't the only solution. it just makes up a portion of it.