Best Of
Re: Gatekeeping and the Beam Meta
moderatelyfatman wrote: »I wonder how much of this is due to the general decline in the skill level of the playerbase?
There seems to be a much higher number of players these days who are doing hard modes in dlc dungeons with only 300 CP on arcanists.
Yeah, i think theres a plague of "i can parse high on dummy, so i must be good" going on.
I am seeing a lot of high value parses from new players. But their build is like pure single target. I believe it is a bit misleading for player understanding of damage because most of the latest raids relies on area damage to clear easily. So this single target builds will not do much. Where some raid setup does less damage then this pure single target in dummy.
Edit: Grammar
Treeshka
2
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Brave Tamriel’s Dungeons During the Undaunted Celebration"
DenverRalphy wrote: »
Solo players pay full price but only get half the game.
Your version of the truth would mean that there is already challenging content in the game, some folks just choose to make it easy by wearing powerful gear. Right? That nonsense aside, group activities are gated by gated by toxic players so it is not an actual choice if one does not have elite gear.
shadoza
1
Re: West Weald Treasure Map Leads are Bugged
For me the 'death knell' of this mechanic was the event that rolled the loot from treasure maps twice.
Even doubling the 'rolls' per map there was no improvement on the drop rate of leads and at the time the devs said that it was 'working as intended' (which is still to this day the official line).
When considering the system as a whole:
- Treasure maps do not stack and are 'unique' items; this results in a ludicrous amount of busywork regardless of the approach (trying to 'store' them using the mail system, alt accounts etc or 'unearthing' them as they come).
- Treasure map pool is beyond diluted now, and at least regarding zones that only have two treasure maps levelled lists seem to be weighed to favour S.Elsweyr/Galen.
- Antiquity furnishings are often multi-lead affairs.
- Lead drop rate (beyond the first 'set') is atrocious.
You get four layers of inconvenience/adverse odds stacked on top of each other (with the last layer taking the moldy, stale cake in that regard).
If this is 'working as intended' - as the devs insist on - I can only conclude that whomever this is intended for that player is not me and the only sane course of action - in my case - is to disengage.
Completely agree with you ! i recently scream loud enough, that @ZOS_Kevin said that they will test that again.
We'll see, but i won't stop until this is fixed, i invested too much money in this to give up
Asdara
2
Re: West Weald Treasure Map Leads are Bugged
I also stoped buying maps, unless they are really, REALLY cheap.
Also, no Solstice leads for me, nor non-structural plans, the drop rate is too low to loose my time. At some point, if we burn more time grinding than building, something is wrong. While some grind may be necessary or tolerated, this is not the main activity I log in for.
Also, no Solstice leads for me, nor non-structural plans, the drop rate is too low to loose my time. At some point, if we burn more time grinding than building, something is wrong. While some grind may be necessary or tolerated, this is not the main activity I log in for.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Cyrodiil Cries Out Again for PvP Vengeance!"
Why would you put a pvp event without golden pursuit during the biggest pve event of the year.
I'm not touching that thing
I'm not touching that thing
Asdara
3
Re: How long is the penalty for leaving a dungeon? Please read
They need to get rid of the leaver penalty altogether
Re: How long is the penalty for leaving a dungeon? Please read
It's probably the support bug.
You say you're queueing as a healer. There's a bug that continues to surface no matter how many times they squash it that sometimes supports just can't queue. If you're in a premade, it pretty well has to be the DPS queueing. If you're going solo, sometimes it'll just show everything as locked and you just need to reset - I don't know what works if you're solo (in a group you just pass lead), but it's likely something like porting or relogging.
You say you're queueing as a healer. There's a bug that continues to surface no matter how many times they squash it that sometimes supports just can't queue. If you're in a premade, it pretty well has to be the DPS queueing. If you're going solo, sometimes it'll just show everything as locked and you just need to reset - I don't know what works if you're solo (in a group you just pass lead), but it's likely something like porting or relogging.
Re: Vengeance Server
MincMincMinc wrote: »Well you should at least be accurate in your comparison. Vengeance pop lock is 4x the population. So vengeance at 1-2 bar is going to be pop lock on greyhost. If anything there is the same amount of people playing, however it should be noted that a good portion of pvp players are boycotting the test because they are worried zos is going to replace live pvp with vengeance as it is. So even if the population was about even with live pvp most of the people playing are probably newer players who normally wouldn't have played cyrodil. (kind of a good thing knowing there is an untapped market of new pvp players waiting for pvp to be playable)
Who knows if zos planned this or not. They didnt add much this test, so maybe they are using the undaunted event as a way to gauge how much of the vengeance population was PVE specific players.
Test 4 is going to have a week of overlap too where greyhost is available. So then they would be able to gauge how much of the population would be pvp specific players. During that test we would see how many people solely like vengeance on its own.
It would be better to just replace u50 and nocp with a permanent vengeance campaign. Its good to combine the dead servers so new players have a more populated campaign to learn in. At the same time zos could keep adding to vengeance and do simple one or two day incentivized test events instead of full weeks.
It’s not that PvP players are “boycotting” Vengeance. We’re simply not playing it because we don’t enjoy it. The whole design feels like a separate mode being built from the ground up rather than a testbed to improve Cyrodiil.
And that’s where the concern comes from: since the very first test people have asked whether ZOS intends to use Vengeance to replace live PvP, not just experiment with mechanics for Greyhost. The fact that ZOS hasn’t doubled down on saying “these tests are to make current Cyrodiil better” leaves the community with a lot of uncertainty, and that uncertainty, combined with a mode many of us find terrible, is why you see the backlash. If the goal really were to test improvements for current PvP, most of the community would happily participate to help ZOS improve Greyhost. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
It’s also very clear after the day one populations that the PvP playerbase does not like Vengeance. There simply aren’t enough PvP players overall, and even fewer who want to play this watered-down version to sustain the kind of populations it was supposedly designed to attract. Even when it’s enforced as the only option, the numbers just aren’t there. A permanent implementation of this campaign will never work.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Brave Tamriel’s Dungeons During the Undaunted Celebration"
Araneae6537 wrote: »This event is an insult. It isn't even possible for player to get the simple level 2 reward unless they play group content. I left the game this day without playing. <== my opinion. Why should I pay full price for the game when I am only getting half the game?
Many of the base game group dungeons are easily soloable with a companion! There’s nothing in the requirements of needing to complete any of the objectives with a group (with the possible exception of one of the specific dungeons — I don’t recall which all are listed).
Soloable by whom? Those that do group dungeon and have the better gear and pots from doing group dungeons? Forgive but I place this in the same bin as 'I can do the whole game naked' claim. I don't believe it. I have not been able to duplicate the claim.
I am by no means an elite player, certainly not when it comes to DPS. I’ve normal Fungal Grotto, for instance, with a character as I was leveling so I could join the Undaunted and start leveling that line. I ran it with a companion. I think I focused on damage and heals and had my companion focus on aggro and staying alive. I think I used tri pots from log in rewards and similar food — nothing fancy. I had my crafter make gear for my level so I was wearing whatever sets I thought helpful — no dungeon or trial sets, nor PvP or overland. It’s not going to be the fastest way to run the dungeon, but it was fun and I like to run through the whole story and dialogue sometimes.
Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
The most annoying thing about "Joining encounter..." is getting dragged away when you're opening a chest. It doesn't give you the few seconds to complete the task you're currently busy with.
On the plus side, you no longer miss a pledge because the speedrunner killed the last boss while you tried to catch up, but were slowed down by all the trash mobs that person left behind for you to fight through.
But there should be a few seconds delay or at least a prompt that grants you five seconds or so before being dragged away.
On the plus side, you no longer miss a pledge because the speedrunner killed the last boss while you tried to catch up, but were slowed down by all the trash mobs that person left behind for you to fight through.
But there should be a few seconds delay or at least a prompt that grants you five seconds or so before being dragged away.
joergino
2