SilverIce58 wrote: »

I would like to see Undaunted get an Ult but I do NOT want it to be a Shout. You're not a Dragonborn, you're the Vestige. You want to shout, go play the only Elder Scrolls game to have it.

Tbh you don't have to be Dragonborn to learn shouts. It just takes a lot, lot more time, AKA the perfect type of grind ESO likes to impose.

My burly, greatsword-wielding Nords aren't specially gifted mages either, and yet here they are, slotting Psijic spells. From a secretive guild that's supposed to only allow the most adept of mages in. Not even the naturally-gifted Altmer can just apply. It's that special.

I'm not advocating FOR it, mind you. I'm just stating ESO has tossed the Lore out of the window many, many years ago. What's one more absurd step?

Thanks Kevin! Great to see yall gathering feedback about the PTS experience. Definitely a lot of improvements that can be made here!

Do you have the Shadow Rider passive (Dark Brotherhood line) active? It helps to mitigate this.

Shadow Rider - Aggression radius from hostile monsters is decreased by 50% while mounted.

welcome to eso

This bug is as old as the game itself.

Two copies of the same enemy at the same spot and players can only interact with one sounds way more immersion breaking than occasionally running into someone who is hitting harder than you in a multiplayer setting, imo. Then again, because this isn't a single player game, I don't expect to always be the strongest on the map.

Personally, I'd expect sharing to be annoying at first when everyone is flooding the zone to try the new stuff. And then for excitement to die down and things to proceed how they already do on overland. You only occasionally run into someone on the same quest.

An Undaunted ultimate should perhaps be a berserker mode? (Deals more and takes less damage for n seconds)

Ride a mount past an add that growls at you, in combat
Ride a mount past an add that tries to hit you, in combat
Ride a mount past an add that looks at you funny, in combat
Ride a mount past an dd that hits you, is too slow to catch up, in combat

And then you sit there next to the wayshrine, not able to travel because you are in combat until the add runs up, gives you a high-five and runs away. Because THAT is combat in ESO

Sigh.

I've been playing since 2018. I have a Breton DK tank that I use 99% of the time as my main, and my two heavy armor sets have passives that do damage so I'm really happy with my build.

I don't want to have to haul out the armorer to screw with my build constantly.

I don't want to use subclassing to screw with all my builds that I've been working on for 7 years.

I don't want to learn scribing to screw with all my builds that I've been working on for 7 years.

I'm here to play a fun game, not take college courses and spend 60 hours watching YouTube videos just so I can "keep up" with the players using all these new and very complicated mechanisms to eviscerate everything by tapping a couple keys. I don't think that's a fun way to spend what little non-work time I have.

You know what would be a very simple way for us to customize our builds?
- More morphing options of existing skills and bigger skill trees within the skill system (which we've been asking for)
- No more "slottable" champion points as a chokepoint, just let us put points where we would like the most points. Done.

On balance: It always makes me a bit sad when I'm doing something like a dolmen and a green laser beam suddenly cuts everything in half and then runs off. Like... why was I even doing that when an Arcanist just did a drive-by and made me feel like an infant? And it's been like that for ages -- if ZOS actually cared about power balance, that'd be a place to start.

Unfortunately, now that we have all these ridiculous fiddly drill-down methods for tweaking everything (almost entirely for DPS) they won't or can't go back to something simple like a better skill morph tree for all roles and classes.

Honestly? It feels like so many corporate systems these days -- busywork for devs who keep inventing new complicated stuff nobody asked for so they have job security. *coughtalesoftributecough*

One final note: I don't use Reddit. I don't even have an account. I'm not going to swim around in sewage for the convenience of the spreadsheet team that barely listens to us anyway.

Sigh.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Also wanted to follow up here. Thank you for the feedback on the AUA. We are taking this feedback to the team to see how we can improve these in the future. The goal with these is to provide a pipeline for communication. Especially with recent changes to leadership, we felt it was important to have an AUA that covered a wide mount of topics. But we are taking in the feedback to improve these in the future along with some of the commentary about the game to share with our team for continued improvements.

They've all been a part of the studio and community for years, right? They should have some sense of the community's expectations when it comes to how things are communicated. Most of what was said felt like vague, safe, corporate responses - despite people asking for otherwise.

And you guys can say "things are in the works" all you want, but that's not being believed by a lot of folks. It's just frustrating to see that at this point. It seems like you guys prefer to deal with that frustration, rather than managing sentiment if/when plans change. Even though the community's largely united in saying, "tell us your plans earlier, we're ok if plans change"; it seems like you're unwilling to do that.

Also, there were a number of hardball questions that really needed to be answered but weren't. I asked quite a few myself - like what did you guys learn from U35. Of course, no answer. If you guys are gonna post in blogs about how you learn from your mistakes, then you need to be prepared to openly discuss them. You will gain credibility if you do.

But the biggest controversy here is combat and how it's handled. People are asking ZOS to stop having that spreadsheet dictate how every change is handled.

I walked away from the AUA thinking that SkinnyCheeks can better articulate more about the combat system than the studio running it. There's just not a lot of confidence in how combat is managed. It's absolutely clear ZOS needs combat feedback way earlier - like fresh off the design board.

Anyways, I'm hoping more AUA's can happen in the future and hope these lessons-learned are applied. Maybe the next AUA can be focused on combat. That's been asked for since you guys started your deep-dive series.