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Re: random daily dungeon infiltrated by dlc dungeon....
I think even among dlc there's a distinct gap between the dungeons with 3 hardmodes vrs 1.
Re: random daily dungeon infiltrated by dlc dungeon....
There are already people who just leave a dungeon (or log out) without leaving the group, wanting to get kicked rather than leaving the group. This would just lead to them doing that even more.Rewards/punishment should be jumped up. Leave kicking as it is to a vote but if you abandon then a 24 hr penalty on all dungeons, account wide.
Re: random daily dungeon infiltrated by dlc dungeon....
Every time this gets brought up people argue dlc queues will never fill but now more than ever we should have a split queue. I don’t want to do nondlc and I don’t want to do dlc with people who don’t want to be there.
Soarora
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Re: random daily dungeon infiltrated by dlc dungeon....
No, I don't agree. The whole point of random is that you're willing to fill for a group that needs players rather than pick a dungeon yourself. DLC dungeons need to be able to fill so that players can actually do them. The transmutes are payment for your time. Anyone who is queuing for something they don't actually have the intention to do should get a leaver penalty. It's easy enough to shrug off anyway but deters enough people from leaving to make to worth it. And some of them even end up enjoying themselves or realizing normal dlc dungeons aren't that bad.
spartaxoxo
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Re: Monitization
You can unlock all content, except for a couple quality of life features. You will not get an infinite material storage, you will have less bank and housing storage, as well as fewer furnishing slots inside your houses. You will lose a tiny boost for some currencies and XP (10%) and some wallet space for a specific currency. Lastly, you won't get certain premium shop discounts (for cosmetics).
But again, you can access all content you bought permanently and you can perform at full capacity. If your sub expires you wont lose any items or currency on the slots from ESO+, but you will not be able to go over capacity.
But again, you can access all content you bought permanently and you can perform at full capacity. If your sub expires you wont lose any items or currency on the slots from ESO+, but you will not be able to go over capacity.
Vaqual
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Re: No crates for September?
I think OP means that it seems strange that there is no returning crate in september. Most of the time we have a returning crate (for a few weeks) besides the new crate. So it might seem strange that since the Unfeathered Crates has been out of the shop for a few days now and there isn't any retuning crate planned for september. So it will be more then a month before we see another retuning crate.
Re: Sword and Board and Restoration proccing glyph
Healers and tanks don’t need to proc their frontbar glyph. Tank frontbar glyph is only half value anyways so, say, if they do frontbar weakening and healer does backbar weakening its actually overall worse because they don’t stack.
An ongoing complaint is the game is too easy and being made even easier. Weaving in restro heavy attacks for the passive & enchant and light attacks for enchants are a part of the progression curve into being a very good healer. Pearls got taken, ultgen passives got taken, healers hardly have cool mechanics in most content, what will they have left?
It's not for you to determine how others want to play their characters, though.
The point is to provide players with options and then let them use their own minds.
Currently, the design says, "Sorry friendos, you can't use these as you'd like to because [insert arbitrary reason or no reason entirely]".
Re: Can we revert oakensoul/buff it, now that subclass is a thing?
I could be wrong but Oakensoul builds now see pure Sorcerer or Sorc + Assassination being way ahead of others, right?
I've seen parses of around 110K on those builds but I don't think that's realistically what the average Oakensoul player achieves, and that's where people's opinion differ.
Giving Major Berserk and Major Courage to an already 110K parse would take it really high. However, my build reaches 55-60K on Trial dummy, which I think is more like the average Oakensoul player, not the min/maxer.
On builds such as mine, adding Major Berserk and Major Courage would make a lovely difference without making us OP, really.
The ideal solution I guess would be "balancing" - how? It's beyond my knowledge.
Edit: at Oakensoul's launch my build used to hit 70-75K so over time it definitely took a hit.
I have said it many times, but I will repeat it here again: Gear balancing has to be based on the potential of an item, not on arbitrary performances of individual players. Ease of use is a significant factor in balancing and it has to be accounted for. Rewarding bad performances is one of the greatest motivation killers for many players, both in PvP and PvE. If effort, planning and skill become optional, challenging content turns into conditionally challenging content.
Oakensoul is acceptable if it allows the player to bridge some shortcomings. If you lack skill it can help by simplifying the playstyle. If you can't be bothered to make an appropriate build it offers versatility. If you can't learn the encounter to the point of perfect execution of mechanics it can make fights more forgiving. But it can not and should not do so much that a player needs to bring nothing.
I can't think of a single thing that would make the game less attractive than being completely outperformed by a player who does nothing besides holding down his left mouse button. The original Oakensoul performed far above any healthy level. The "average player" has to play by the same rules as everyone else, otherwise there is no point in ESO being a multiplayer game. The balance being in shambles is no reason to inject more power into this item.
And you are really saying all this in response to a comment which express the desire to be able to achieve again 70K DPS when there are a lot of other builds, non-oakensoul, that reach 130K... Ok.
I say it as my general contribution to this thread, which has been motivated by your post, because it is a good example for the unreflected perspective on balancing many Oakensoul advocates on this forum have displayed. While some players view difficulty as an obstacle, it is an important motivator for others. There is no reason to pretend that it wouldn't feel invalidating, if content can be beat by holding down one single button. For many, a challenge is no longer worth conquering, if there is a fully effortless way of doing it. Oakensoul can do enough in its current state and that should be clear. There have to be boundaries, to preserve the interests of all different player groups. ESO has not been advertised as click and point adventure.
Vaqual
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