I don't think these are bad design, the "keep alive" mechs just didnt keep up with power creep. Double or even triple the adds health just so the hms can be completed at all. I've accidentally killed wraiths on my tank just from taunting them.

Well I have a solution! My friend, @Azteka, is collecting ALL of the breton terrier mammoth bones that you don't need! Any amount works! If you have multiple and want to send them in several mails, that works too!

Dude just really likes bones

Thanks,
KM

MissNoir wrote: »

My little vampire outside her castle.

My castle

I agree with a lot of these points, the beach areas are very bare. There could be more palm trees and grass, coastal areas tend to have vegetation to prevent erosion if not disturbed by humans. Flora and fauna especially are often placed in zones that make no sense to me. Sure, I could see Reef Guardians but Lamia? Why would they be there? What about Voriplasms? This is an island but it doesn’t seem to be swampy like Murkmire. I don’t even know if small islands can have swamps in real life. Tamriel as a whole would be more realistic if plant species and animals fit the geography and climate as a whole.

The main story is building up to something but we don’t know how it will end, so I have to take a rain check on that decision. I did enjoy the story in Tainted Leel, and the story behind the Tide-Born is really intriguing. You have to read the lorebooks and listen to the npcs to get that info, though.

The reuse of Summerset architecture is going to be a plus for those who want more Alinor structural furnishings, so I am happy for that. The Tide-Born furnishings are a nice sea-themed version of Argonian furnishings so I hope to get more of those as well, including a house later on. Unfortunately, any house would be a year or more in the future, I am afraid. They are just now putting Colovian houses in the Crown store and everyone is probably done with that zone, I know I am. I am excited to decorate in the new zone now and a year from now that excitement will have cooled. I wish they would realize that timing these things better would net them more Crown sales.

Anything that's not tank'n'spank is bad game design. Got it.

This is veteran content. Veteran... as in "not supposed to be easy". Veteran as in "not designed for PUGs with no or limited knowledge". How can we possibly expect players to get used to more complicated trial mechanics if we dull down each and every opportunity to teachand practice by removing even the easiest mechanics and allowing them to burn everything?

Alinhbo_Tyaka wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I don’t think much of it is true random rolls. Just look at something like the stickerbook, there are more weapons than armor but the weapons always drop last. There has to be some probability assigned to each type to get what I have experienced.

This is because different types of monsters drop different items.

For example, in overland:

Delves: belts and boots
Public Dungeons: Shoulders, Gloves and Weapons (bosses)
World Bosses: Head, Chest, Legs and Weapons
^ this was a general rule before, I can't say for certain it applies to every zone, but I know it's still generally true from recent experience.

The same goes for dungeons and (conventional) trials with minibosses, bosses and final bosses having different loot tables. Final bosses only drop jewelry, weapons and shields. The mini-trials have different loot rules.

On top of that, I think account ids factor into seeding because it's pretty common to repeatedly get the same drop from the same kind of encounter if they're not added to a collection. I haven't studied this at all, it's just a guess. There could be other reasons for that.

On the greater topic:

I don't think the rng is that bad in terms of percentages, but it can seem that way because of the sheer number of rng drops in the game necessarily means that we sometimes fall into outlier territory.

I often wondered if there isn't a problem with the game's pseudo random number initialization since random() will give the same sequence of numbers for the same seed value. Whether it's an uninitialized variable, a calculation, using the system clock, etc I can't say but it feels like other times I've run across pseudo random number problems similar to this game's RNG. It could also explain why some players seems to be more affected bad RNG compared to others since any of the items I listed are machine dependent.

It was explained here on the forums way way back that supposedly each day, each character is assigned a seed the first time that character logs in each day. How far out the RNG system stretches out that seed I have no idea. But I'm guessing it's pretty long because it was also demonstrated how with the loot table systems, it's conceivable that a player can go an entire day without seeing a favorable loot roll. As well it can also result in a character having incredible loot rolls if all the favorable results are generated early in the seed.

Which is why many players maintain numerous alts. So if a player is looking to farm a specific lead, it behooves them to grab a bunch of cheapo treasure maps and run out with each character until they find one where leads dropping seems a trivial matter within the first 4-5 maps (not too many because you don't want to waste good loot rolls). Then use that character to chase the lead they're on the hunt for.

Some players insist that this is a bunch of hooey. But I use this approach for farming pretty much anything farmable in game, and most of my friends/guildies like to poke fun at how I have uncanny luck. Despite my always explaining that luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

NightravenG wrote: »

I got a problem with the Groupdungeon Bedlam Veil. When porting in I can not get an enemy in target and can not do heavy attacks or casting skills at them. so i can not do damage or spot them. Unfortunately I think it is connected to an addon. So if I go in without any addon active I can get enemies in target and can activate the addons again and can target enemies. but sometimes after the first trashgroup the bug reappears.
Also I can not figure out which addon is causing this. Has anyone the same problem? Every help appreciated

Same issue has occurred for me a few times this year specifically, I don't think I had the problem until this year. Can happen anywhere, not just Bedlam Veil.

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