The majority of the AUA replies are just… corporate word sauce. They don’t answer anything.

“That’s a great question - we’ve been looking at this for some time now and while we cannot give a direct answer it is something we are working on and we will have some exciting news about it in the future but we cannot talk about it yet. We will be excited to talk about this another time though, especially because we are really working on this and on improving our communication with the community.”

Copy, paste, done.

Underestimating the importance and necessity of balancing changes is a grave mistake. I didn't expect them to launch subclassing flawlessly, but two patches in they haven't even really started to make adjustments on the required scope. I expected little, but the number of appropriate changes we have seen in the last months has been bafflingly small. This is simply not the right time to wait and do nothing.
Even if they have further adjustments planned down the line, they need to at least show that they are able to recognize the gravest issues concretely and show that they understand what has to be done. General statements are meaningless at this point. It doesn't hurt to aim, but at some point you have to shoot.

And another thing: If Vengeance is supposed to be judged like a test, then please do not peddle it like content.

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How any of the devs can, with a completely straight face, say that "every set in the game has its place" is baffling to me.

What is Amber Plasm good for? It's a straight downgrade of Wretched Vitality, as it's less recovery/less stat dense and requires that you double bar the set. It comes from a difficult dungeon (vs being a crafted set with Wretched) so you can't even use the excuses of "Oh well it's slightly worse but easier to get/better for newer players" or "Oh well it's in a more optimal armor weight", since literally anyone can ask someone to craft Wretched in any weight for them in Zone and they'd have it in 10 minutes tops for free. It's not even better uptime, as the proc condition on Wretched happens simply by existing and has no cooldown.

There are literally hundreds of sets like this that are strictly worse than other sets while also being harder to acquire. Wheeler stating that "every set has it's place" is so categorically false it's just disheartening to read that coming from a lead developer.

Editing to add: if the only reason for a set to be worse than another set is "in case the player doesn't know about the better set", that doesn't justify a set's existence; it means the set system is obtuse and confusing.

Hunt Leader vs Essence Thief

One requires you to farm an Arena, one requires you to farm a dungeon. One gives a free 10% damage for walking, the other requires you to work together with your pets to attack the same target without the 10%.

Tell me again how sets are fine, ZOS?
Don’t even get me STARTED on Beacon of Oblivion.

I really enjoy the game overall - that said the absolute ridiculous handling of the in game gifting has me so angry that I actively steer people clear of the platform.

I login to get the daily reward and log out - I may on occasion buy something from the store if I see something I like - I refuse the play the game any further tho or try to get others to join me on the platform because of the gifting policy.

It is truly the absolute dumbest solution to gifting related fraud I think I have ever seen in a game

There - now that I have let that out I feel better. Maybe some day the decision makers will pull their heads out of their behinds and put together a real gifting policy that works for everyone.

This might not be the exact thread for this, but it’s so frustrating.

When people ask for greater communication, they don’t just want more developer appearances on the forum and QnAs. They want the difficult questions to be answered and they want their issues actually acknowledged. All you need to do is scroll through the pages in General, Bug Reports and the PTS section to see dozens of the same topics being brought up constantly. If you want some examples of stuff that people wanted to hear communication about, well:

Why didn’t you take into consideration the feedback about the Templar jabs rework?

Why did it take literal years to address concerns regarding the Grim Focus perma glow?

Why was the decision made to not run the U35 QnA session despite the update getting near universal negative feedback?

What are the Devs intended goal when it comes to combat and what is the thought process behind the decision you have made? (This reddit post and the point about consumables is a great example of this).

Subclassing was a pretty divisive update. Lots of people love it and lots of people dislike it. Hundreds of players left feedback about the update on social media and here on the forums and the majority of it wasn’t taken into account. Why was that the case?

How can bugs that have been in the game for years go unfixed despite hundreds or thousands of reports?

If feedback isn’t taken into account on the forums, where should we go to give it?

Each of these issues has caused problems to players in some capacity. Yet, every time anyone brings these up it’s met with crickets. When people want an increase in communication this is what they mean.