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Re: Is copying over live characters necessary for the test process?
Note that the PTS is not for testing over an extended period. It's running much too quickly for that because the feedback needs to be submitted and sent in time for the patch.
If someone is testing quests, it is kind of expected that they do the questline within that week and give feedback on it immediately. Pretty well every questline can be slammed through within a few days at the exclusion of everything else (which again, is the expected use of PTS). The PTS is not really for extended playthroughs.
However, there is a lot they could do to make the setup of template characters a lot less arduous, like changing the nested box system (which was a relic of before stickerbook was a thing) to just have stickerbook unlocked with templates.
If someone is testing quests, it is kind of expected that they do the questline within that week and give feedback on it immediately. Pretty well every questline can be slammed through within a few days at the exclusion of everything else (which again, is the expected use of PTS). The PTS is not really for extended playthroughs.
However, there is a lot they could do to make the setup of template characters a lot less arduous, like changing the nested box system (which was a relic of before stickerbook was a thing) to just have stickerbook unlocked with templates.
Re: For the love of Zenithar, add a search bar to furniture crafting!!!
NoticeMeArkay wrote: »This. Just the title.
I'm browsing for an hour to find the right furnishing to craft, pendling between all stations on my quest to find the one that holds the necessary knowledge.
Returning to the first choice yet again because MAYBE I just didn't spot it.
My eyes are tired, trying to pin them on an everscrolling list of furnishing plans over and over and over again feels like I'm actively ruining them.
It's the absolute opposite of clever design in this case. It's an overlook that I dearly request to be looked at!
The grandmaster crafting stations came with a search bar for craftable sets, but as soon as I move over to the furnishing tab, it disappears. Why?
I learned way over 1000 different furnishing plans, a lot more than that even.
How is there still no search bar? We've been farming and consuming hundreds of furnishing plans with each DLC release. With every quarter update for dungeons, more are getting added to the list. Finding the plan I need in order to craft it is the utmost tedious task of this whole deal!
I can't check ingame which plans I'm missing without the usage of addons or browsing the internet, trying my best at translating the plan I'm looking for into english and clicking through several different sides for the answer, always ending up just squinting at my screen and trying to decipher if the 16x16 icon shows the alchemy or tailory symbol.
And once I figured out which station I'd have to check, I find myself clicking through a dozen different categories, scrolling through their contents until my eyes start tearing up and I quit the whole thing.
The necessity of third party applications or putting a trustfund into the community to have constructed a proper source for research is not ok.
You'd expect a search bar, a collections tab entry or just something that tells you, the player, ingame what's up.
- 7 Crafting tables
- 13 Categories
- Thousands of furnishing plans
- 1 pair of functional eyes
For the sake of my eyes and nerves, add a bloody search bar, please.
It's been 3 years since I opened this thread. 3 more years of furnishing plans being added to the list and 3 more years without a search bar.
Re: Nerf Range Ganking!
I don't think that a ranged one shot build makes any sense, especially if it is heavily related to a game defect, that is desync. First of all, there is literally few things one can do against a build like this in certain situations: at BGs, a one-shot build can just climb a platform or terrace and delete half the other team, in Cyro the situation is even worse with the range increase and forts. It is an issue of game balance, when someone wearing the heaviest of armor and investing into other defensive factors can in any situations, be one shotted.
Secondly, desync is its own other issue, and it is an issue indeed which is a technical challenge the DEVs definietly have to face. Other online games like Mordhau achieved way better performance and way fewer similar issues, so technically it should be possible to upgrade ESO's engine to adapt itself to more modern standards.
Secondly, desync is its own other issue, and it is an issue indeed which is a technical challenge the DEVs definietly have to face. Other online games like Mordhau achieved way better performance and way fewer similar issues, so technically it should be possible to upgrade ESO's engine to adapt itself to more modern standards.
Usureki
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Re: Malacath's Band of Brutality
-50 % & basic player crit resist of 20 % mean that you'd pretty much need to run a dedicated crit build to actually get some worthwhile crits. In that sense I do not at all feel that the current version offers any edge over the original 25 % design. I'd say that the curse almost always outclasses the kiss on this item, the way the numbers are configured currently. And that is the most fundamental issue, that with those Mythics from SSC onward the drawback aspect of Mythics has gradually faded, while the power they offer has become more and more absurd for 1 piece sets.
Vaqual
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Re: Malacath's Band of Brutality
Militan1404 wrote: »Necrotech_Master wrote: »would definitely agree something needs to be done with this mythic, i think it was overnerfed originally and its only gonna get weaker due to the calculation fix for %dmg increases
Is the new calculation for both pve and pvp or only pvp?
assuming it applies to everything, since its the dmg calculation
Re: Night Market - Week One Notes
spartaxoxo wrote: »It's amazing to me how a singular update not catered to solo players during the quarter that has literally never catered to solo players has suddenly become ZOS abandoning solo players. And it's not any one person, it's a sentiment being expressed many places. I have no idea where this is coming from but quarter 1 has literally not been solo content for like 10 years.
It really shows the power of ideas when they spread through groups.
Anyway for anyone worried about this, remember much of the rest of the year will be solo friendly content. And that quarter 1 has always been dungeons. I hope the sage's vault is as fun as it sounds on paper.
Could you be overly focused on this one event?
Could you?
There are thousands of hours of solo quests in this game and most events are meant for soloing. I think the rest of this year which are questlines and solo-dungeons are for solo players. Once in a while group and PvP players are thrown an event and the PvP events get complaints too.
I could be, but I am not.
Do you realize that there is very little content that a grouped player cannot access?
That PvP is unbalanced because of enhanced group dungeon rewards?
You have access to groups, you just don't want to. So don't. But that is your choice and MMOs can't design only content for solo players if they want to maintain interest. ESO has never ONLY had content for solo players and that's how it should be.
Also, just as there is casual and vet group content, there is also casual and vet solo content. Solo actually doesn't mean "requires a low power level," in this game. IA, VVH, and VMA are all solo content also.
ETA
When I say casual I don't mean interest, game time, or passion level in this context. A casual player might be quite invested into the game. It's just I'm trying to describe different levels of play that's respectful towards all parties in terms of power as the gap in this game in terms of ceiling and floor is extremely high and it impacts things quite a lot.
Re: Night Market - Week One Notes
There are thousands of hours of solo quests in this game...
Yes, there's a lot of story content. The problem is that you aren't rewarded for repeating it. Dungeons, trials, and arenas have the sticker book. Daily dungeons have transmutes, and if you do the undaunted quests, you get keys.
The game offers absolutely no incentive to repeat the zone story content (main and side quests). Once a player has completed it, unless they want to repeat it on an alt (and since AwA, you don't even get achievements for doing so), there's no reason to do it again.
I don't have anything against the Night Market, and I'm not upset about it, so I don't care that a zone was added for groups (though I do object to "encourage grouping" - come on, it's 2026. Get over it, already!). But this notion that, hey, you solo players have a ton to do. Look at all the quests!!! Where's the incentive to do them once you've done them once? If there were no rewards for repeating group content except 20g and a piece of overland gear, only the diehards would ever repeat the content. But solo players are told they should be happy that they can repeat the same content for virtually zero reward.
There's only a ton of stuff for NEW solo players to do. A lot of solo players who have been here for a while don't have much to do.
Having said that, perhaps solo content coming later this year will have a repeatable REWARDABLE element to it. The story content will not. Maybe some other stuff will.
My message to ZOS: The bulk of the solo content in this game is questing, so figure out how to entice people to repeat it. Unfortunately you threw out a system that was an incentive (achievements), and you didn't replace it with anything.
And to posters who trot out the tired old, "But look at all the solo quests!!!!!" If you wouldn't repeat content for zero rewards, don't expect solo players to do so.
Now that the sticker book is curated it likely takes far less time to complete your stickbook for the few sets people care about than there is solo content. Collecting every set that will never be used for no reason other than collector's sakes I am sure appeals to some but not others. There are also solo overland sets to collect too, so there is that I suppose.
Most dungeons have no meaningful reason to return either unless some set is meta at the moment.
As far as there being a ton of stuff only for new players, that usually applies to most people in all MMOs regardless of interests. At some point you have all the gear and accumulated a stockpile or whatever stuff you need and there isn't much to look forward to once you play enough.
Re: Is copying over live characters necessary for the test process?
So you can compair your actual toon live to the upcoming content, DPS/skills/styles. Also you could make a cp3600 toon, with BIS gear and test your constant claims that these sets ruin you experiance as they give a massive DPS increase!
Re: Is copying over live characters necessary for the test process?
spend 3 hour make build or use 1sec log in your character and builds..
Re: PLEASE do something about the IA Dragons
SilverBride wrote: »BagOfBadgers wrote: »Never had a problem with them. It's getting all to common for people to ask that content that's reasonably difficult and needs skill, gets made easier because of a them issue (I'm considered disabled as I have the use of between 1 and 1 and half hands, depends on the day + other things that keep my life “interesting”).
Sorry if this comes off Elites, but I enjoy a challenge and I don't what to say it, but "if I can do do it so can you".
I find it admirable that you are able to defeat these Dragons and that you enjoy the fights. But to clear things up, I am not asking that they change the mechanics of the fights in any way. I just want a bigger space to fight them in.
Asking for a bigger space to fight actually is asking for them to change the mechanics. The dragons have a very limited arsenal of skills, none of which do any appreciable amount of damage or can't be blocked/avoided. The tail or wingslap is pretty much the only reliable weapon in its arsenal. Expanding the platform would effectively turn the knockback into little more than a nuissance. You're essentially asking to nullify the mechanic.
DenverRalphy
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