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Re: Subclassing Appreciation
*also*
“entry into content” - HMs should be hard, it’s taken many players months/years to progress through some of this content. A new player isn’t owed these achievements. The fact that this is a part of your argument is insane to me.
You’re living up to your name, you snuck that one in as an edit; so let me humor you.
Nobody is saying people deserve a free pass. What I am saying, is that even with a unique build, you need to learn mechanics and be the best version of yourself.
That’s the beauty of how hard mode is treated after Subclassing. You can now run a “Pure Class” that hits around 100-140k and someone with 170k will make your rotation feel lighter.
Now people can focus on running up the stairs in time and not dying to lava at Xalvakka.
PvE is not a competition, unless you’re pushing leaderboards, which have been notoriously non-rewarding… it is a good thing if your teammates have the ability to choose between survivability or hitting higher damage.
Re: Was This Plot Point Ever Explained? (Post-Solstice Main Quest Spoiler Warning)
it's also unclear why Mannimarco's soul can get hold of Wormblood's body in that situation when Wormblood's plan to use the artifact failed. If it's so easy without any artifacts, why didn't Mannimarco just possess him earlier?
Yep - that didn’t make any sense at all.
Can’t use artefact but then not actually needed (unless as a means to bring back Darian?) - so how does Mannimarco possess Wormblood?
And from that book - is Wormblood his nephew?!
Yep - that didn’t make any sense at all.
Can’t use artefact but then not actually needed (unless as a means to bring back Darian?) - so how does Mannimarco possess Wormblood?
And from that book - is Wormblood his nephew?!
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "The Daedric War Celebration Event"
Am I reading that right? There are no furnishing plans in the reward boxes?
Yep, that's when I decided not to participate.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "The Daedric War Celebration Event"
I am feeling absolutely exhausted from the Writhing Wall event. I have all sorts of mental health problems, and I further suffer terribly from FOMO. Playing Writhing Wall at the same time as the Witches Festival was torture, and being met with yet another event (when I also haven't personally caught up to the Daedric War storyline either) is making me feel like crying.
Please stop doubling up on events. I want to have fun when I play my favourite games, but this is stressing me out.
Have a look at the rewards for this next event. You won't have FOMO then.
Re: Elephant in the Room - The End-Game PVP Culture is Declining. How Can ZOS Mitigate This?
ESO PvP Is in Decline
Ball Groups Are Out of Control
The biggest elephant in the room is the state of ball groups.
Stacked heals, stacked buffs, stacked shields — it’s all gotten ridiculous. They can sprint through an entire keep, wipe entire factions of people without breaking much of a sweat, and shrug off entire factions because the sheer amount of layered defensive power is unlike anything else in the game.
There is no counterplay anymore. Except for another ball group and even that most of the time ends in a stalemate. It’s not even about skill at this point — it’s about stacking mechanics to the point of absurdity.
Speed Creep Has Broken Combat
ESO was always a game where line of sight mattered more than raw mitigation. But now?
People are zooming around keeps at speeds that simply break the intended flow of combat. (Remember when people actually using Gap closers) When the best defense is to outrun and LOS faster than abilities can even register, something has gone very wrong. Speed creep is outpacing the fundamental design of the game.
I’m saying it because I care about it. Many of us do— but it’s hard to keep defending a game mode that the developers seem reluctant to support.
There is something very strange about speed in the current PvP. Let's review this.
Run speed is 100%, sprint is 140%. The speed cap is 200%.
It is almost impossible to get to the speed cap without sprinting: Major= 30%, minor 15%, 3 swift 21%, celerity 10%. Without spring you are at 176%, not capped even with those build concessions (sacrificing 3 enchants and one red CP) But these players are at 200%.
Here's the thing: they need sprint...but...you cannot cast abilities when sprinting. These players are running super fast yet using abilities all the time.
My orc NB has 10% orc bonus to spring, 9% medium armor bonus to spring, equips major and minor and sometimes 1-2 swift and sometimes celerity. He is at the cap but frequently just cannot catch these players eg in towers.
Yes, there is something going on with speeding in ESO. That and not everyone can be wearing snow treaders, but nearly everyone seems to be immune to stuns as well. I think people have figured out how to speed hack and get free immovable status somehow.
Re: Mount Speed not working
The mount speed keeps appearing and disappearing whenever I fast travel or use wayshrines, no matter which zones I go to.
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Re: Subclassing Appreciation
BardokRedSnow wrote: »Actually can’t tell if satire or not…. can determine 100% bait though.
From my brief time paying attention to this place, I can see that anything one might disagree with is considered bait here.
I would still have preferred Subclassing be introduced differently but there's always time to address what I believe needs to be, for instance there needs to be incentive or good reason to pure class vs subclass, class mastery should be a more viable thing in the future, whereas subclassing should be looked at imo the same way scribing is, to augment people's preferred builds rather than outright replace them.
Something like allowing us to customize certain class abilities and maybe have them only be available if pure classed I think would be fair.
But in any case, whatever they do, I have come around a bit more now that I've had time to play with it. It has raised the power creep but we've been there before. As long as they work to try and maintain what eso was while also keeping and improving these systems, I think it'll be good for the game in the future, at least from a pvp aspect.
For PvE I dunno what they should do aside from I guess nerf beams. Perhaps offering scribable skills for pure classes could also improve the sameness of pve right now for dps. Beams beams beams definitely doesn't make me wanna do trials.
Again, can’t tell if satire.
We’ve never ever been this far apart.
The systems introduced demolished what ESO was and they haven’t done any tweaking to balance since subclassing was introduced.
If these are in fact satire, yall got me.
The only argument I see with Subclassing is, “it’s fun”. Here’s a comparison only a few will understand. NFL Blitz on N64, it was an awesome game. Then you learned the cheat code for infinite sprint, you literally couldn’t play the game without it. If whoever you played against didn’t get their code in on time before the game started, y’all quit and started again. ZOS never should have rolled it out, they probably can’t close the book on it now even though they should. There’s a lot of us who can rightfully be bitter about it cause it blew the game up, and likely forever which is hinted at ZOS’s silence or ambiguous Vengeance tests or surveys.
Literally every time a chapter introduces a crazy new mythic or system like the introduction of the mythic system itself, a new set etc, the power creep increased again and again and again, sometimes being successfully addressed with nerfs or more often simply countered with a new shiny system or armor set etc, so whatever your point of contention is with my statement besides just being upset someone likes what you don’t, I don’t see it.
As far as preserving what eso was, I mean they should work to keep class identity rather than destroy it despite the existence of sub classing which I outlined with my suggestions.
Y’all like drama here too much, maybe try to understand where someone else is coming from before disagreeing. I understand the issues subclassing introduces, it’s why I took a long break from the game. I have been a dk main since the game launched on several accounts. But denying that there’s good it introduces also that can be preserved with some improvements to both the subclassing system itself as well as fortifying the idea of class identity to me is unproductive.
Re: Floating Wizard Tower
AMAZING! I'm going to have to replicate this in one of my homes. Thanks for the inspiration!
Re: Event fatigue
I’d forgotten about the Daedric War event and had been looking forward to having nothing to do until New Life Festival.
