AvidNecro wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

As a content creator I often think of topics to discuss either on stream or in the next video but I thought this would be more suitable on here.

With the huge power creep added with subclassing, I would like to propose an idea around battle spirit. What if battle spirit only allowed crafted sets in PvP. This would allow easier balance to be done on both the dev side and with how the current meta is. Not to mention giving some much needed attention to the hundreds of sets that are being neglected in the game. I think all these other sets that are farmed are better suited for harder continent like PVE and would eliminate the nonsense that happens on a daily basis in PvP.

Also… stop cross healing in PvP all together, or put a cap on it. Only people in your group up to a max of 6 players, and the more players you have to heal the less healing they receive. Creates a diminishing return.

Join me in the graveyard on Xbox NA.

I’m not so sure how I feel about “craft only” sets in PvP, simply because one of the key elements of ESO is build diversity. I don’t know that we want to do anything that necessarily starts killing theory crafting, moreover, I think what we need with Subclassing is simply to address the most impactful elements in PvP.

Consider these suggestions:

1) Healing: Adjust critical healing so that heals taken on a players SELF only crit at a max of 25% rather than scaling off of the existing crit modifier. This would ONLY apply to heals a player casts that affect THEMSELVES and only when Battle Spirit is active. A healing player who is outwardly healing members of their group would continue to scale critical healing as normal, however, they would only be subject to the 25% on themselves. This would still enable strong group healing but would also re-introduce the aspect of strategy. Groups would need to be more attentive to their healers as nobody would be ablet to self heal for sky high values based off their own high crit modifiers.

2) Critical Resistance: Add a named Major & Minor buff that specifically addresses critical resistances. Similarly to how Major & Minor Resolve affect base resistances these buffs would affect attackers crit modifiers by reducing them by more significant amounts. This is essential because it's become more commonplace in PvP for players to achieve critical damage modifiers so high above the soft cap that even with 7 pieces of Impen & Rally Cry that an attacker is still at or near the soft cap; which means players are allocating significant resources to protect themselves which are having near zero affect. Nobody should be committing to 7 gear traits plus a full 5 piece gear set, specifically to address crit damage and then still taking the full brunt of someone's crit.

Leave sets alone. Some of them have some significant benefits and procs but even those have factors that need a player to build or play into them. Balorgh is a common one that can benefit a build that’s low on pen and damage for intermittent offensive bursts. Zaan is another propeller choice but requires consistent proximity and PvP has always had a mobility focus.

I don’t think sets are the major downfall in PvP in the subclassing environment. In playing and testing we’re seeing a consistent over-use of skills and mechanics and if we look at why those are being used we can trace their popularity to crit factors. If we start by simply adjusting the crit & crit healing for self factors and then step back and look at the impacts I think we start to see more strategy oriented combat rather than the spam oriented we have now.