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Re: What's up with the outfit design? Pauldrons, tassets, and faulds keep being thrown on everything
GloatingSwine wrote: »Here's a suit of 15th century gothic plate armour with faulds. Notice how they're in exactly the opposite place to where they would be on ESO armour. The flappy bits on our armour are in all the places the real armour isn't and the one place they decided needed extra protection is exactly where the flappies miss!
We are in bizarro-world armour.
Ever considered that 15th century armour was badly designed?
A youtuber named Skallagrim, specialized in historical weapons, has said in a video years ago that some swords, axes and even armors designs really look like one another because they were practical and effective, and because uneffective gear wouldn't be used, reproduced and kept along the centuries.
So, no, this armor isn't badly designed. It's effective even if quite light on the wearer, with a well balanced weight, you can fall on your back or fall from a horse with it and get up again without any problem, you can move freely, the only problems I see is that you would have heat problems and wouldn't see much with that helmet.
Re: New PvP Campaign
acastanza_ESO wrote: »They told us they were working through the rest of the skill lines and testing adding various features back in to see where the degradation is coming from. They're literally doing the exact things they told us they were going to do from the very beginning.
I don't see why people are confused by ZOS.... doing what they've told us they were going to do...
Because they keep asking us whether Vengeance is fun, whether we like the simplified skills, etc. I don't see no reason to ask whether players enjoy a setup that is supposed to focus exclusively on technical issues. If this is purely a performance testing setup, then it doesn't matter at all whether it is fun or not, since it will cease to exist once problems are solved.
Re: Hardened ward
Why try and save ward? Next round of nerfs may make ward useful again. But with the levels of health, armor and crit resist you can achieve while still keeping 7-8k spell damage, with high pen and crit, it makes zero sense to build around harden ward.
Healing is superior.
Healing is superior.
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Re: "Whip It Knight" - My 1H&S Stamina Dragonknight Damage Dealer Build
Zodiarkslayer wrote: »You are completely neglecting penetration?
Noxious gives Major Breach. That 6k-ish is enough to get by easy.
But, upon thinking about it more, a simple fix would be swapping out the Balorgh shoulder with something like Valkyn Skoria.
Weapon Dmg only drops to 5218 but Penetration increases to 2135, plus Major Breach makes it a combined 8,083 pen.
I guess id call that a good tradeoff.
Re: PvP's getting shafted again.
Ugh PvP, why would anyone want to subject themselves to fighting all the Warden/Templar subclasses that are tankier than Vet HM raid bosses.
Re: My problem with Solstice so far
My thought is they have become too conservative in the last several years by avoiding making any real decision that really matters and is meant to be permanent. Such as a character's death. The stories to me are bare and vanilla. They always talk about making great stories, and I always laugh at myself whenever I hear them say that. Each year’s stories can literally be written on one page. Sure, not all the dialogues, but the meat and potatoes of the story.
We all know the other game ZOS was making did take a lot of resources and people away from ESO. Feel bad for those that lost their job and livelihood from the cancellation. My hope is it will refocus ZOS and double their efforts back into ESO and stop phoning in the stories and environments.
One of the reasons I am unhappy with one of the new dungeons is that it requires a group to even see all the dungeon. Since we are getting so little new stuff, it would be nice to be able to take my time and enjoy the story and environment without the feeling of having been on a timer since others could be waiting on me so they can continue their own story as well.
Stay safe
We all know the other game ZOS was making did take a lot of resources and people away from ESO. Feel bad for those that lost their job and livelihood from the cancellation. My hope is it will refocus ZOS and double their efforts back into ESO and stop phoning in the stories and environments.
One of the reasons I am unhappy with one of the new dungeons is that it requires a group to even see all the dungeon. Since we are getting so little new stuff, it would be nice to be able to take my time and enjoy the story and environment without the feeling of having been on a timer since others could be waiting on me so they can continue their own story as well.
Stay safe
Re: My problem with Solstice so far
I came back to the game after a 7/8 month hiatus, after playing through Solstice I was bored to tears. This was the most uninspired DLC in ESO's history. It's basically as if Murkmire and Blackwood had a baby and all content was stripped out of it. If this is the future of this game, it's not very bright.
Re: The 10% max stam/mag proc condition on Blood Magic passive is a joke and needs to be removed
randconfig wrote: »YandereGirlfriend wrote: »MincMincMinc wrote: »madmufffin wrote: »ZOS regularly talks about making performative changes, then makes a horrible change to a class and adds in more checks for the combat system. Makes sense to me. May as well just be when you use a dark magic skill or just be a flat buff since the skill line is already dumpster tier anyways.
True, how do we have half the combat team working on vengeance and proving the combat system is too bloated with sets and effects.....then the other combat team is pumping out skills/sets that have paragraphs of effects and interact with handfuls of passives?
Think of something like the NB flanking passive.
Every single tick of damage dealt means checking the angle of the player to the target(s), which is so very computationally wasteful. Like cool concept, sure, but just way too expensive, particularly when every player in both PvE and PvP is running that line.
Remember when the unique % buffs to like Dunmer Flame Damage were stripped away and replaced by static Weapon Damage values because it was deemed too computationally extravagant to make the % calculation for every such Flame tick? And yet that was peanuts compared to the flanking passive and similar bloated procs that are not even tied to abilities or sets or CP.
This is why we needs programmers in the metaphorical room with the designers at all times.
I think the angle between you and your target is calculated every time you attack them, since it's used to correctly place and orient projectiles, proc set animations, character models, animations, etc. So this change to the passive doesn't require additional calculations.
Compared to homing projectile functions on everything its probably a drop in the ocean......but at the same time there are so many instances where zos makes choices to unnecessarily have these complicated conditions that will only keep adding to the game's performance issues.
Re: Storm Calling Mages' Fury Execute Range Needs Buffed
randconfig wrote: »YandereGirlfriend wrote: »randconfig wrote: »YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Minimum Travel Times, Cast Times on ultimates... things that the game never needed yet here we are dealing with them and their baggage anyway.
Personally I think these minor adjustments to abilities make sense, as they let the ability animation play out correctly, making the game better visually. A lot of people point out how the minimum travel time makes this ability feel bad to use, but the issue isn't the minimum travel time being so great, it's that the ability itself is so underwhelming/doesn't last long enough to feel good to use.
When they finally buffed the damage and added the corpse mechanic to Flame Skull necromancer grave lord ability, it went from being a meme to being a class staple ability, despite having the long minimum travel time.
Mage's Wrath was already a class staple ability when it's duration was 4seconds, the 2 seconds duration nerf is the reason the ability is trash now. The only way they could make this work is if the base damage of Mage's Wrath was equal to a standard spammable class ability, and the 2 second execute bonus damage was left in place.
I'm fine with either, revert the duration nerf to bring it back to 4 seconds, or buff the base damage to be equal to a spammable single target ability in addition to the 2 second execute bonus.
Going to agree to disagree that Mage's Wrath or the other morph were good or useful prior to the duration nerf.
Nobody used them in actual content, they literally were kill-stealing tools for low-tier players in PvP formats. Which is not good enough or broadly useful enough to continue justifying its existence.
As has been stated better by others in this thread, there needs to be a PvE morph and better execute threshold scaling.
You say "kill-stealing", I say "kill-securing or execution" ability. With the 4 second duration, you could time it for decent combos in PvP, which is a lot of the content I play. It's also useful in PvE when farming/killing large mobs of enemies.
The reduced cost morph I agree should be reworked completely since it has no purpose.
I mean, my experience is having about 40 zerglings spamming it on me in Cyro as their only source of damage, hoping that someone else does the actual work of getting it to proc. And back-line Sorcs in BGs doing the same thing.
It was done because it allows otherwise low-tier players to get kills when otherwise they would have no chance. To the annoyance of basically everyone else, teammate and enemy alike.
One morph definitely needs to remain as an execute but I would vastly prefer a more responsive instant-cast ability that kicks in at a higher % of health.
Re: Siege Damage
WaywardArgonian wrote: »Siege damage is already ridiculously powerful.
After this last week, I would disagree. It has not grown with the game, and IMO needs to be adjusted.
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