BretonMage wrote: »

You should lose the companion that you feed on. No one should have to put up with being eaten (can't believe I have to spell out the obvious). Also, lore-wise, they're not like a player, who's a vestige, when you feed on them, they die. It's not like a vampire, who can just drain a little blood.

Why is it that Companions can be revived with Soul Gems? They're not the Vestige, so the reason has to be about gameplay mechanics. Yet, certain Companions will have dialogue when you revive them, meaning that their death and resurrection is canonical. Also, how can a Companion just revive on the spot after combat ends? This is an inconsistency that, ultimately, doesn't mean much.

It shouldn't matter if the player consecrates the Companion's soul (via Repentance) or siphons the life from their corpse (via Restoring Tether) or devours their corpse, if there is no consequence to the Companion dying in the first place. Their body and soul do not change whatsoever.

So, in an effort to make Companions more consistent with the combat system, their bodies should be eligible for use with corpse consuming abilities, up until the point where they are revived. That's how it works for players.

We bring up finishing hybridisation every update and there was a “we’re doing pots soon!” And then nothing and just now this response.

It’s been 4 years.
16 updates, 4 of them chapter size. I think the part of the community that cares about such things is entitled to be a bit fed up and hostile now

i11ionward wrote: »

Hi @ZOS_Kevin ,
I shared this idea in the survey, but I also wanted to bring it up here.

Has the development team ever considered running a Closed Beta Test (CBT) before launching the PTS for a new update? As we all know, by the time the PTS goes live, many of the changes are already finalized for the live release, which means there’s usually little room to make meaningful adjustments during the PTS cycle. Because of this, a lot of feedback from the PTS may end up being overlooked simply due to time constraints.

What if, before opening the PTS, there was a CBT with invited players—experienced and respected members of the ESO community—who could provide more objective feedback and suggestions on the new content? That way, the dev team would have more time to react and make adjustments before the PTS phase.

What do you think about this idea?

This was part of my feedback in the survey as well (well not specifically a closed beta test), but at least running the PTS for longer to allow the team more time to look at, consider and potentially implement changes given in feedback that is given on the PTS (and on the PTS section of the forums here).

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi everyone! We put together a short survey to help us better understand ESO Public Test Server (PTS) participation, and how we can improve the overall experience. This survey will be open until the end of September 25. We’d love to hear from you even if you’ve never participated in the ESO PTS. Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts with us!

Link to the survey: https://beth.games/46niSAe

Thanks for posting this survey, I have left my feedback as well, mostly to add to what others have already mentioned here.

I just want to also add my voice, that there are some players and content creators who are extremely dedicated to ESO that would be well worth sitting down with and having an open and honest talk with them on some topics.

As @Destai mentioned above, I believe @skinnycheeks has offered in the past to sit down with the team and discuss many things about ESO in-depth (most recently gear sets) and it would be a shame to see such an easy win for the team in terms of creating an (open and honest) discussion on multiple topics with respected and knowledgeable members of the community go to waste.

In the past there were other respected content creators who also offered to sit down with ESO staff (dev team, and/or community managers) and have an open and honest but also fair and respectful discussion about ESO about various topics, yet those interviews/discussions never eventuated/got cancelled, despite being such an awesome way for ZOS to reach out to the community in regards to very big issues within the game at those times. I would hate to see ZOS fumble this same opportunity again, especially since it is such a easy win not only for ESO, but for ZOS as well, especially to see things from the discussion be allowed to be shared with the community.

Ilumia wrote: »

I guess the spirit of this thing is to remind us that in spite of complaints making up the majority of the forum, that does not mean the majority of the playtime is spent feeling down about the various issues (although sometimes that will be the case). The reason we complain is that we care enough to wish for changes and improvements.
But with dungeon runs there's a new thread about fake roles regularly - mind you, fake roles can absolutely present a problem - and though it is a real issue sometimes, it still doesn't happen more than the good experiences in runs - so thanks for also taking initiative to talk about the truly awesome experiences.
I have so mamy of those in eso through meeting fantastic people. I am not always in a good place (mostly since my house burned down, and other disasters like a long illness and loved people suddenly dying). But those great experiences that often arise because of people, I share with really funny, genuine or nice people and they are extra important because they remind me of how good people actually can be, and how good I can be, and it just warms and gives much needed hope.

I agree.
Forum is also meant for bringing up issues, like fake roles, which is a real problem, one that is persistent and very annoying indeed.
So there’s nothing wrong with coming here to complain.
It becomes a problem when players only ever post about negative experiences with either the game or the devs. That projects a picture of a game broken beyond hope which simply isn’t true.
We should have more courage to share our great experiences here as well, to encourage newcomers and to break this vicious circle of negativity.

If you consider the amount of armor sets has at least doubled since the introduction of the sticker book, i think we are well over due an extension to the amount of storable tranmutes from a functionality perspective.

However like anything inventory wise, there will always be people that have issues irrespective of where they set a limit.

When i hit 1000 i tend to farm a bit of nirncrux or other materials from them.

i want it to be good in pve. if it dropped a frost damage field, or even a magic damage field instead of an annoying charm, that'd be better for everyone.

Whilst I dislike many of the decisions made by the combat team and think some of those decisions have genuinely made the game worse this is a recurring problem of playerbase vs combat lead.

We've gone through cycles of hate with basically all the combat leads / devs the game has had. I kind of feel at this point it's more of a communication issue than anything else.

ZOS seems to run on the principle of give the players what they need not what they want.
I.E The Dev's know best and will implement what they want rather than what players suggest.
I think in a lot of cases there is merit to this, a lot of player requests are truly terrible and would make the game even worse. However to be managed well there needs to be a lot of communication with the players as to why changes are being made and what 'the plan' is. This is what is mainly lacking when changes like class sets, then scribing then subclassing which all seem to contradict each others vision and remain 1/2 done.

Also as a note from personal experience of a brief chat with @ZOS_BrianWheeler he seemed like a nice guy who cared a lot about PVP and so has a positive vote from me, just wish there was a bit more communication and consultation before changes were considered/worked on.

I just got one of the new Opal Scourge Harvester pages from a purple event coffer, after having gotten an older Opal Swarm Mother pages in the golden event coffer, so you should be able to grind for the new pages by farming purple event coffers.