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Re: ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?
I am PVE only and yesterday was bad in Malabal Tor. Trying to complete quests was quite painful. I gave up after finishing the quest for the Silvenar's wedding. Went upstairs to save the three mages and the NPCs just stood there. They could damage me but nothing I did damaged them. They didn't even go hostile until I hit them with a spell, me standing right there by them.
I don't know what happened with this last update, but sadly what was fixed for me, is now broken again. Not to mention I still cannot close the dang game anymore!!!!
I don't know what happened with this last update, but sadly what was fixed for me, is now broken again. Not to mention I still cannot close the dang game anymore!!!!
Seravi
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Re: Pierce Armor - Failure to Fire
Yeah this has been happening to me with numerous skills - across multiple dungeons, and seems to relate to specific enemies.
To boil it down to one specific example - the final boss in Volenfell, with the 3 centurions...
If I target the guardian's strength or the guardian's soul, everything works normally. As soon as I attempt to target the guardian's spark, most of my skills simply WILL NOT work - nothing happens at all. This includes skills like arcanist flail, or templar sweep that don't even require a target. As soon as I stop targeting the guardian's spark, these skills work normally again. It's also not some kind of LoS issue because light and heavy attacks still work.
But that's just an example. There's a random storm atronach in tempest island with the same issue. And I've had it happen in other dungeons as well - just a moment ago in spindle II (though I couldn't tell which specific enemy was the issue there, too much happening). As far as I can tell, it always relates to targeting the same specific enemies, but there may be other ways that the problem gets triggered. I honestly don't play enough or care enough currently to spend any of my time trying to test further.
I don't know what zos did, but something is severely broken yeah.
To boil it down to one specific example - the final boss in Volenfell, with the 3 centurions...
If I target the guardian's strength or the guardian's soul, everything works normally. As soon as I attempt to target the guardian's spark, most of my skills simply WILL NOT work - nothing happens at all. This includes skills like arcanist flail, or templar sweep that don't even require a target. As soon as I stop targeting the guardian's spark, these skills work normally again. It's also not some kind of LoS issue because light and heavy attacks still work.
But that's just an example. There's a random storm atronach in tempest island with the same issue. And I've had it happen in other dungeons as well - just a moment ago in spindle II (though I couldn't tell which specific enemy was the issue there, too much happening). As far as I can tell, it always relates to targeting the same specific enemies, but there may be other ways that the problem gets triggered. I honestly don't play enough or care enough currently to spend any of my time trying to test further.
I don't know what zos did, but something is severely broken yeah.
Re: How can we avoid having our human right to our data/privacy violated without deleting our account?
DenverRalphy wrote: »One thing many end users of those agreement don't realize, is that it's more for legal reasons. ie.. processing payments to a bank may necessitate your data (name, payment info, etc..) crossing international/country borders. Content posted to forums can be viewed worldwide, so that data too crosses borders. Publicly posted content on the forums can be shared to social media by anyone, not just the site owners, so that needs to be covered legally too. etc.. etc..
But when read out of context, anything can look suspect and super scary.
You didn't read the EULA very closely apparently. Or you skipped over the part where they outline that they do collect user data and make it available to third parties at their discretion. That means ZOS is collecting and almost certainly trading/selling our user information to third parties. It's right there in the EULA.
Re: Oversight with Subclassing and Templar's Class Mastery
Simple suggestion?
Change the class mastery requirement to something like:
"While under the effect of a self applied Templar skill"?
Biting jabs, focused charge + morphs, sun shield + morphs, sun flare + morphs, solar flare + morphs, and living dark all apply some sort of effect on the caster that could be used to proc the class mastery without relying on restoring light.
Change the class mastery requirement to something like:
"While under the effect of a self applied Templar skill"?
Biting jabs, focused charge + morphs, sun shield + morphs, sun flare + morphs, solar flare + morphs, and living dark all apply some sort of effect on the caster that could be used to proc the class mastery without relying on restoring light.
Re: Vengeance test key metric - player interest
I did benefit from those tests that led to no-proc RW - it resulted in a new player friendly environment to learn pvp and I was able to improve, although not as far as I would like to because it got aborted.
Am I the only one who thinks vengeance tests are radically different from other tests that zos have run in the past?
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No you're not, it's just the outspoken few who want to continue dominating a small number of players with silly broken sets & skills (always the new stuff that came with the latest DLC...) don't want that changed.
As someone who has played on/off since 2016 ZoS has done nothing like this with PvP before. I'm still so thirsty for third vengeance now that I got a taste of what PvP could have been all these years.
Re: How can we avoid having our human right to our data/privacy violated without deleting our account?
Forcibly gaining user acceptance of terms and conditions is very widespread, it's quite impossible to function online without agreeing to these rather wide ranging contracts. Unfortunately this game is no exception but I think that they as other companies have to have the legal boilerplate agreed to by users as a legal hail mary.
In many cases this boilerplate does not stand the legal heat in an actual court case.
In many cases this boilerplate does not stand the legal heat in an actual court case.
Re: How can we avoid having our human right to our data/privacy violated without deleting our account?
JustLovely wrote: »DenverRalphy wrote: »One thing many end users of those agreement don't realize, is that it's more for legal reasons. ie.. processing payments to a bank may necessitate your data (name, payment info, etc..) crossing international/country borders. Content posted to forums can be viewed worldwide, so that data too crosses borders. Publicly posted content on the forums can be shared to social media by anyone, not just the site owners, so that needs to be covered legally too. etc.. etc..
But when read out of context, anything can look suspect and super scary.
You didn't read the EULA very closely apparently. Or you skipped over the part where they outline that they do collect user data and make it available to third parties at their discretion. That means ZOS is collecting and almost certainly trading/selling our user information to third parties. It's right there in the EULA.
Of course they make data available to other parties. How else do you think your data travels back and forth between you and the game servers, account servers, payment servers, etc. without having a direct line from your gaming device straight to the game servers.
What do you think happens when your ESO account, Twitch account, PSN account, etc.. are linked? Twitch drops don't just magically appear in your ESO account. Purchases from Steam/PSN/XBox don't just magically know who to bill and from which account.
But it does NOT mean ZOS is "almost certainly trading/selling our user information to third parties." Sharing and exchanging data as needed perhaps, but trading/selling is a paranoid assumption.
Re: Would you want to play with people on other Platforms or in other Regions?
I play on both PC servers so I don't want to lose all the progress and crowns spent on DLCs to be lost.
People who spent on multiple servers should def get reimbursed crowns plus auto unlocking of whatever they have on one server and not the other. They track that ahit somehow so it can be done..several addons even do it.
I would like it all one, play with everyone on any platform. How they didnt think this would be something people would want is nuts. And the tech exists becasue other games do it.
Re: No more DLC dungeons
I think new dungeons are really a great thing. Doing the same old dungeons in the base game every day is super boring.
What we need, though, is a dungeon guide. Or a brief explanation of the boss mechanics that you can optionally get in the dungeon. That would be a wonderful addition. I often see players with CP 1000+ even in base game dungeons who don't have the faintest idea about mechanics. And when you have to explain the mechanics for the hundredth time, it's really annoying. Often explanations are not understood at all because people do not speak English.
A dungeon assistant would be cool. Maybe one of the Undaunted that you can summon when needed and ask for explanations.
I wouldn't want to miss out on the DLC dungeons. They are very well designed and not boring at all. It's perfectly fine that they are a little more difficult. That's why you need CP 300 for the vet versions. Maybe this limit should be raised a little.
What we need, though, is a dungeon guide. Or a brief explanation of the boss mechanics that you can optionally get in the dungeon. That would be a wonderful addition. I often see players with CP 1000+ even in base game dungeons who don't have the faintest idea about mechanics. And when you have to explain the mechanics for the hundredth time, it's really annoying. Often explanations are not understood at all because people do not speak English.
A dungeon assistant would be cool. Maybe one of the Undaunted that you can summon when needed and ask for explanations.
I wouldn't want to miss out on the DLC dungeons. They are very well designed and not boring at all. It's perfectly fine that they are a little more difficult. That's why you need CP 300 for the vet versions. Maybe this limit should be raised a little.
Ardriel
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