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HOT TAKE: Make RAVENWATCH NO-PROC again
I'm reading the overwhelmingly obvious gushing for vengeance being a good thing and it makes me wonder....
If the vast majority of you all enjoy a more SIMPLE Cyrodiil...where were you when RAVENWATCH was no proc? We had a solid small community that really enjoyed the simplicity of NO-CP and NO PROCS. I am seeing comment after comment how the main CP+Proc campaign is not "FUN"...uhhh AGREED and that's EXACTLY why we loved old RAVENWATCH!!!!!
The previous ruleset was great in my OPINION because it did the following:
1. Simplified gearing. No new DLC sets to worry about "breaking" PVP, just oldschool stat sets with some mild procs and a few selectable mythics
2. NO-CP. Just like BATTLEGROUNDS (which many enjoy for PVP) it didn't matter how much CP you had, because it was disabled. Just get your 160 for gear, easy!
3. New players: I personally got several people not only into ESO, but into PVP. Getting them a lvl 50/CP160 character was low effort compared to grinding out DLC dungeons and CP to be "meta"
Now if you want to make Cyrodiil PERFECT (according to me) this is what we need:
1. NO-CP
2. NO procs (like before)
3. Expand the allowable list to include group buff sets and food/drink sets ie: Nearby group members gain x health or mag recovery, etc. That's not exactly a "proc"
4. Remove Volendrung for the love of GOD (especially in low population scenarios). Its a meme and its annoying
5. Improve base DEFENSE mechanics, especially for HOME TRI KEEPS! this gives under-populated factions a chance versus larger zergs.
6. Expand on the Lumber Mill, Farm, Mine mechanics and keep leveling system to reward defenses further.
7. Keep a running list of no kidding approved sets made available to the community so there is no confusion of allowed sets.
If the vast majority of you all enjoy a more SIMPLE Cyrodiil...where were you when RAVENWATCH was no proc? We had a solid small community that really enjoyed the simplicity of NO-CP and NO PROCS. I am seeing comment after comment how the main CP+Proc campaign is not "FUN"...uhhh AGREED and that's EXACTLY why we loved old RAVENWATCH!!!!!
The previous ruleset was great in my OPINION because it did the following:
1. Simplified gearing. No new DLC sets to worry about "breaking" PVP, just oldschool stat sets with some mild procs and a few selectable mythics
2. NO-CP. Just like BATTLEGROUNDS (which many enjoy for PVP) it didn't matter how much CP you had, because it was disabled. Just get your 160 for gear, easy!
3. New players: I personally got several people not only into ESO, but into PVP. Getting them a lvl 50/CP160 character was low effort compared to grinding out DLC dungeons and CP to be "meta"
Now if you want to make Cyrodiil PERFECT (according to me) this is what we need:
1. NO-CP
2. NO procs (like before)
3. Expand the allowable list to include group buff sets and food/drink sets ie: Nearby group members gain x health or mag recovery, etc. That's not exactly a "proc"
4. Remove Volendrung for the love of GOD (especially in low population scenarios). Its a meme and its annoying
5. Improve base DEFENSE mechanics, especially for HOME TRI KEEPS! this gives under-populated factions a chance versus larger zergs.
6. Expand on the Lumber Mill, Farm, Mine mechanics and keep leveling system to reward defenses further.
7. Keep a running list of no kidding approved sets made available to the community so there is no confusion of allowed sets.
ADawg
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Re: What bookshelves can accommodate the Dwemer lore books?
you could put a few in a druidic bookcase, tall stone.
i believe they clip in every other bookcase
Oh wow! I really wish the furnishing version of these had been scrolls like the originals!
Thank you!
Re: Why do you guys nerf everything but never buff anything? Update 47.
50k, 6-8 buttons parse, 2017
117k, ONE BUTTON parse, 2025
178k, full rotation parse, 2025
What nerfs?
Rune boss in vet Moon Hunter Keep drops dead before the dude even finishes his Hulking werewolf transformation.
i remember 2017 they add oldest trial dummy,this patch dummy no any trial buff so 2017 your 50k close 100k in u46(like 6m dummy double),so it why you can see 100k parse in u22 arto log
so mean zos use 8 year add 30-40k dps(u45)
and use 1 month add 60k (u46)
if you not meta subclass ,your non-meta really got nerfed, because most subclass weak than 2017 some dps build..if they not use meta and use got nerfed skill line and ult passive
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
They made the decision not to develop a conventional chapter last year. The staff who would normally work on new assets for chapters were probably either assigned to other Bethesda projects or Blackbird.Imperial_Archmage wrote: »I feel for the folks impacted by these layoffs, I really do, but at the same time I can’t help but ask myself what is that they were doing before they were fired? The so called “Season of the Worm” has been nothing but rehashed old content that adds nothing new to the game.
I see that as the real sad part of this plan. I am sure that devs moved from ESO to "Blackbird" simply because the new game needed more skilled developers than ESO. ESO needs skilled developers, but it is an established game, so not as many. They were not forever lost to ESO, since they were just across the room (so to speak), but they were working on the other game. I would not be surprised to learn that this had been going on for years. Then, Microsoft comes along and trims out all of those skilled developers and lays them off.
That is doubtful. Many were Arkane staff who were assigned to help with Gold Road after Arkane was shut down. The hard push for Blackbird was probably an attempt to avoid layoffs after it was decided ESO would enter a new phase.
Blackbird was an internal ZOS pet project that only started to make progress recently, after ESO was set on its new path. This has been leaked previously and we can deduce the decision to end chapters had to happen last year because the content pass lacks new art assets. It is probably why the anniversary tour was cut short.
They would have made the decision to end chapters independent of outside considerations.
I have stated my opinion for months. ESO has been the vehicle for single player TES main story content for years and the end of chapters signifies the end of this. I see their hints of future content to mean smaller and more episodic content like the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLCs, probably built largely with existing art assets. This year the Morrowind Remaster was the main TES Story content. Maybe they are choosing to take a year or two to build anticipation for the next big TES game. I'm not suggesting when it will happen, but the arrival of TES6 was always going to mean a new role for ESO.
Sure as fans, we can be disappointed, but it's not reasonable to demonize a company for following basic logic. If a company doesn't need staff anymore, then they need to downsize. If they thought it was in their best interest to continue chapters and/or Blackbird, they would have. They're not acting irrationally. If Microsoft operated all of their divisions with a bleeding heart, they would be out of business by now.
Yes, it's sad for all those affected like it always is when someone loses their job. When a mine runs try and closes down in remote area, the town that supported it necessarily does too because there is no other practical reason for it to exist -- unless they can find one. This is just a practical reality.
Again, this is an industry-wide thing with multiple factors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022–2025_video_game_industry_layoffs
That page includes detailed quotes from Phil Spencer.
Desiato
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Re: [Solstice Spoilers] Really Appreciate ZOS Bringing Him Back
She can't be dead-dead because she is still sending me antiquity messages for the codex.
Katheriah
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Re: Hello, lightning form? U47 Sorc discussion
madmufffin wrote: »madmufffin wrote: »I'm pretty confident 10% more shock damage isn't going to add anything crazy to sorc's pvp kit given how weak the shock spells are and how out of meta magsorc is
So we’re just gonna ignore that Shocking Soul exists? Lol? In my PvP builds I can get Shocking Soul tooltips to be as high as Dizzying Swing, and that’s just with the 5% shock and physical bonus. Let’s not downplay it now. This is exactly why we got U41 Sorc in the first place.
And it doing 10% more damage isn't going to fundamentally break the game or even put it on parity with acuity builds. It will however at least make it so other skills could maybe be usable in PVE, but even then may not because shock damage skills all suck. If shocking soul was actually a good skill, magsorc wouldn't be god awful right now.
Why are you comparing shock damage with acuity builds? 1 is a damage type, while the other is a specific setup. If you want to compare that, at least compare it with other damage types.
Corrosive DK with Deep Breath + Flame Contingency + Fossilize + Whip can 1 shot people in an acuity setup. Does that mean Flame damage is broken? Did you know you can also achieve almost the same thing with Conduit synergy + Shock Contingency + Curse/Cwep + Spin2win in PvP?
Shocking Soul IS a good skill. It has the same base tooltip as Elemental Weapon, and can be improved with class mastery or a DoT, and can also apply Major Defile/Maim/Cowardice/Vitality/etc. In PvP it is one of the best ranged spammables for magsorc. If I give it another 10% extra damage, then it’s literally going to have a higher tooltip than Dizzying Swing, which is already one of the hardest hitting spammables in the game, while being instant cast and having a 22m range. I would slot that instantly on my melee Sorc if that was the case.
hoangdz
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Re: Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
colossalvoids wrote: »karthrag_inak wrote: »Name one please - name a single generic fantasy mmo that focuses on skills and not classes. That has, after all, always been the Elder Scrolls approach- focus on skills not classes, and if there were others (and surely there must be many for them to rate as 'generic ') khajiit would l9ve to check them out.
I'm a TES player, not an MMO one. Tes had classes from the very start, true that those are more of a guiding line rather than set in stone profession but I'd argue that most players definitely roleplayed one archetype each play through which is more akin to have a class, your warrior nords, khajiit magical assassins, dunmeri mages etc.
Now we have meridia devoted templar-assassins who worship HM at the same time most of the time I see another player. It has nothing to do with having separate skills - it's abilities designed for a specific archetype.
Khajiit must disagree regarding classes in Elder Scrolls games - it is known, in fact, that while Skyrim simplified much of the gameplay that was considered superfluous in earlier games, such as removing skills, they completely did away with classes because, obviously, the Elder Scrolls are not about classes, but rather about skill development, and "Freedom-of-choice". If one's choice is to play multiple Daedric Princes off against each other, taking the power they offer and using it for one's own ends, well, that's kind of the point, yes?
Khajiit is also a TES player more than an MMO player. Attached is an image of khajiit holding the disks to Arena he purchased when the game was first released, and subsequently played through completely, along with every other TES game since (even Battlespire, but not Redguard because not khajiit), and the one constant across all those games (perhaps this is because khajiit is Gen X and naturally contrary) is that this one has -never- enjoyed anyone telling him what to do or to be, and has -always- known better than some "game designer" how he wished to play through a game. Games that inflict their designers' visions upon the player do not get much attention from khajiit.
So khajiit will reiterate. Adding the ability to mix-and-match nearly every skill and skill combination on every character is the closest this game has come to the spirit of the Elder Scrolls games than it has ever done before. This one could not be happier.
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
It would be reckless to operate a business otherwise, and they could actually be legally liable if they did so.
Where did I say anything about capitalism? I'm talking about basic things like employers should have to give notifications to people that layoffs are coming and that they have been laid off rather than people just suddenly finding themselves locked out and completely confused.
