ADarklore wrote: »

What I find disturbing, is when I heard that PC NA was supposed to be in last place... this should also be VERY disturbing to ZOS! The fact that their largest player base is not even competitive (if true), should be worrying indeed.

This is completely manipulated though.

If I were ZOS, I'd absolutely try to set it up that a console server 'won,' especially since the winner gets to be the first to get into ESolstice, and Console is always getting things 2 weeks behind in the first place. It makes perfect sense for them to want to get a console server to win it so the consoles don't feel left out.

I wouldn't have the PC servers fully last though; that does make it look completely contrived. Also the NA servers are already feeling quite put-off because of the lack of an in-person event (when EU had their anniversary one, and then they still get yearly Taverns while NA only gets small things that attached to other conventions in the middle of a week with barely any notice. That means the only people who can go to NA 'events' are full-time content creators, while normal people can go to EU's events), so it does seem strange that they set it up such that all the NA servers are behind all of the EU ones.

lostineternity wrote: »

"Subclassing will provide infinite diversity" they said

It does, but what ZOS continue to fail to understand is that at high difficulty end-game min/maxers rule the roost. You don't need the meta to actually complete a trifecta trial, but players will typically go the route of least resistance.

Of course there is a problem with that player philiosophy, they confuse max damage potential with efficiency. On a spreadsheet Arcanist is king, but some people may not gel with the playstyle, may be bored by it meaning they aren't engaged, and so end up doing worse on an Arcanist than on say a DK or Templar or Sorc etc.

Clean up the useless sets to reduce new player confusion and allow greater choice in gear diversity.
Make class lines interesting and impactful.
Better balance difficulty levels by testing them against 3 established gaming styles, not casual vs top 2% of playerbase. Make it casual, 30%, 10%. Consistently. Test.
Improve the graphics.
Integrate Subclassing, Velothi amulet, and so forth, properly into base game. Why do players have to wander so many places to accomplish what they want? Why is pre-existing knowledge required? Why go to Summerset to unlock Jewelry Crafting (still)?
Integrate social aspects, such as the option to be alerted when a friend or a guild mate posts a group finder, or to alert those groups (assuming they have their alerts enabled).

...Stop work on ESO1, clean up the code, and move to ESO2.

PapaTankers wrote: »

For the love of god zos. Just put skinnycheeks in charge of your combat team already.

Don't think the insertion of "our people" would be helpful replacing devs that were an integral part of the game for the better part of the last what, almost two decades of development process for some?

We already had couple of very influential and more than capable people hired by ZOS, it didn't helped ultimately. The abolishing of programs like Class Representatives is an issue though, as those were in a sense our safeguard against things we're experiencing nowadays because it u35, subclassing etc. as even though NDA's we know from some of them that some decisions the ZOS team proposed and discussed with them were absolutely, astonishingly out of touch and destructive. Without such a safeguard we had previously there's literally no way of getting anything scrapped early as their policy of not touching things that's already went live server and PTS nowadays is purely cosmetic marketing tool.

If they want our trust, money and participation back we need some similarly structured team back in some form or another, obviously a purely cosmetic/scapegoat team won't do either. That's where people like skinny would do wonders, if they're still even interested or have passion for ZOS's product. Doubt most old reps would wanna go back to it after all the things at the end of the system and treatment of some prominent community members, uninspiring dev talks etc.

I still vote NO, and I think this screenshot can explain why.

Hybridization and subclassing has ruined the game. Classes have no identity, and it's honestly depressing. They've killed playing as a magicka sorcerer by destroying the morphs (making them stamina based). ZOS should have created more in-between classes, like battle-mage etc. It's just sad that arcanist beam is everywhere when doing the writhing wall defence fights.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

PapaTankers wrote: »

I dont know about guild wars 2 as I havent played it, but I do know skinnycheeks spent months to rebalance every old set in the game. Only for zos to reject him.

... because it's a really silly idea. All sets are not supposed to be all used at end-game. Most of the sets in the game are progression sets, used to get you to the next tier.

This would become far more apparent if ZOS were to, for example, lock later content until you complete the earlier content. But obviously they don't so anyone can go to any content and get the latest desired set. If people played in chronolgically order, waiting a year before going on to the next Chapter/DLC then the sets as they are hold up.

That's not to say there aren't bumps in that road, with SPC (a fairly early set) still being the king of healing sets, but that's more to do with later sets not progressing like tank and DD sets do.

Im not asking to for every set to be meta. Im asking every set to serve a purpose other than just being bloat.

Even if we were to follow chronological order then what excuse would be adding useless sets to new trials and dungeon?

All those sets we have in the game now and there are still very little actually decent options. There is almost no need for theorycrafting because all alternatives are nothing more than bloatwear.

ESO_player123 wrote: »

The boss is very annoying, I agree. For me, it's also becomes quite laggy during the fight even if there is only a handful of players participating in it(the only area where I experience it). However, I do not observe any blinding effects that cover the entire screen. The AoE cover most of the ground, but that's about it. Are you playing in first person mode by any chance?

No, I'm playing in 3'rd person, but I don't zoom out like some other people, where it's bird view of the character. So much is happening on my screen with all the effects going off while in the center of the fight, adds swamping you etc. It's just a miserable, miserable boss, and for the life of me, I can't understand how anyone at ZOS thought that this was good boss design.

This boss (and a few others) cause me actual literal pain due to the effects. There have been many posts over the years about having options to turn down/off effects, including my own recently, and zero response from ZOS - accessibility obviously means something different than I thought it did.

While we're at bugs: The story quest also has an optional stage telling us to meet with Mirmal at the lens and talk to him. He doesn't show up there, so that dialogue bit is missing.

Also, the German translation has some text problems. The Camp's wayshrine name is untranslated, and there are several weird interpunctuation marks in different event-related quest achievements (both listed under the main game achievements / Season of the Worm Cult as wall as in the "Writhing Wall" achievement menu beneath the Golden Pursuits) that don't belong there (seems like there was some placeholder text before and it wasn't correctly overwritten).

With the ones I mentioned earlier, I'm not sure if I ever came across this amount of bugs in an ESO event before, sadly.