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Re: Update 47 and Frost Damage Builds
I think the biggest problem with frost damage (mainly Winter's Embrace) is the time. Its passive abilities are currently balanced. Unstable Wall of Elements 10 seconds, Elemental Blockade 15 seconds, Spear Shards 10 seconds, Liquid Lightning 15 seconds, but Winter's Embrace's Impaling Shards 12 seconds, Arctic Blast 2 seconds delay + 18 seconds duration, which makes it difficult to weave with many dots in PVE.
In addition, the two morph functions of Frost Cloak are too similar, maybe one of them can be redesigned into a damage version. The same is true for Frozen Gate, one of the morphs should be a more effective output ability.
For example: Expansive Frost Cloak is merged with Ice Fortress, and Expansive Frost Cloak is redesigned to "cause frost damage to enemies within 8 feet every two seconds for 20 seconds. Each successful damage to the target increases by 20 wd, up to 10 layers."
The same is true for Frozen Gate, which merges Frozen Device with Frozen Retreat and redesigns Frozen Device to "Summon an ancient portal, causing frost damage to the designated area and summoning a Frost Atronach for 30 seconds. The Frost Atronach attacks once every 2 seconds, causing frost damage to the fan within 7 feet in front."
In addition, the two morph functions of Frost Cloak are too similar, maybe one of them can be redesigned into a damage version. The same is true for Frozen Gate, one of the morphs should be a more effective output ability.
For example: Expansive Frost Cloak is merged with Ice Fortress, and Expansive Frost Cloak is redesigned to "cause frost damage to enemies within 8 feet every two seconds for 20 seconds. Each successful damage to the target increases by 20 wd, up to 10 layers."
The same is true for Frozen Gate, which merges Frozen Device with Frozen Retreat and redesigns Frozen Device to "Summon an ancient portal, causing frost damage to the designated area and summoning a Frost Atronach for 30 seconds. The Frost Atronach attacks once every 2 seconds, causing frost damage to the fan within 7 feet in front."
Re: Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
From Cyrodiil PvP perspective, ESO combat has always been a mess with all these animation cancelling, nonstop jumping/circling, la weaving, proc sets, OP builds going on. The latest changes scribing and especially subclassing have finally completely burned any hope that was left for this game's combat (congratulations!). Everyone running the same corpse + overload + merciless + streak combo with any number of proc sets (kjalnar being a favourite one).
That you can combine this stun, unpurgable, unblockable, stackable 40k+ damage (that you can cast from 30+ m away) and then still have 40k hp, be at speed cap, cast 6 times streak to get away or chase... There are thousands of combinations right now, but everyone plays a single build out of all. And when you nerf it, everyone will shift to another same build. There were at least some other skills and playstyles, classes in the game, now there is only 1 build everyone runs. And that the outcome would exactly be this was crystal clear the moment these brilliant changes where announced. What a joke, this game's pvp...
That you can combine this stun, unpurgable, unblockable, stackable 40k+ damage (that you can cast from 30+ m away) and then still have 40k hp, be at speed cap, cast 6 times streak to get away or chase... There are thousands of combinations right now, but everyone plays a single build out of all. And when you nerf it, everyone will shift to another same build. There were at least some other skills and playstyles, classes in the game, now there is only 1 build everyone runs. And that the outcome would exactly be this was crystal clear the moment these brilliant changes where announced. What a joke, this game's pvp...
Re: Should Vengeance add Subclassing?
Nope, subclassing wrecked balance which was never their strong point and it ironically slashed build diversity. Give us thousands of choices, but only a handful are worthwhile then that's all you will ever see. Even if they improve performance of the current campaigns if the feel of Cyrodiil stays like Gray Host is now it's not going to attract more players. The players love Vengeance aside from a vocal minority because it brings back the huge fights and makes skill a bigger factor than proc sets and cramming as many of the combat dev's favorite skills onto their bars.
Subclassing along with heal stacking (and a good chance sets could too) will kill the appeal of Vengeance. As every player will just run the same mashup of 4 or 5 out of the 21 skill lines like they currently are. Instead of 7 classes using a handful of sets all we have are Sorcdenblades, Nightplardens, Nightsorcplars, or Arcdenblades using a handful of sets.
Subclassing along with heal stacking (and a good chance sets could too) will kill the appeal of Vengeance. As every player will just run the same mashup of 4 or 5 out of the 21 skill lines like they currently are. Instead of 7 classes using a handful of sets all we have are Sorcdenblades, Nightplardens, Nightsorcplars, or Arcdenblades using a handful of sets.
Deimus
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Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Classes & Abilities Changes
YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Nag1saKaw0ru wrote: »YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Grim Focus - if this goes live then there's no reason to use this skill. A spammable will give you more damage and you can get major savagery from many, many other sources. Just because you don't like how it's being used by non-NBs, you're ruining a unique, class-defining skill. There are plenty of ways to change this to achieve your ends without killing it. DO BETTER
Smashing X to doubt this claim. The Bowproc is tuned like an ultimate not a spammable.
If you hate subclassed characters using Grim Focus it doesn't mean pure NBs have to be nerfed. It's about Weapon freaking Damage. Which hurts non-"endgame" players way more than the 1% running trials.
No, it was a crazy and undeserved giga-buff when it happened. Way, way before subclassing was a thing. It is good that it is going away.
The "power" just needs to be reinvested into Shadow so that pure NBs aren't penalized (as Shadow is a dogwater tree and needs all the help that it can get).
Yes, say it louder for the people in the back!
I really hope ZOS won't turn a blind eye to this, after they promised to focus more on keeping pure classes viable :c
Re: Chef Arquitius's Lost Thesis
Wait, so it dropped from the blue “Rewards for the Worthy” drop, not from the purple one?Sythen88411 wrote: »
This might help
It dropped from the odd bal mail you get not any coffer. Just in the mail its self.
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
SeaGtGruff wrote: »Hopefully once they figure it out they'll let us know. We shall see.
They already did. They told us at around the beginning of the year how ESO is changing. They ended the chapter model. We can see the result in the game right now.
I keep repeating myself because I'm amazed that people can't see what's right in front of them. They didn't just change the name of the annual update for no reason. ESO has entered a new phase.
It's an 11 year old game, so this kind of thing is to be expected.
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It seems to me that ZOS has been bending over backwards for years listening to the playerbase and trying to give the people some workable version of what have they been asking for.
Are you being serious?
Ahem.....U35, jabs animation and such....and where is the limiting of shield and heal stacking in Cyrodiil?
AngryPenguin
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Re: Should there be a PvE only instance of Imperial City?
moderatelyfatman wrote: »Disclaimer: I am not advocating removing PvP from Imperial City, only that players have the option to go into a PvE only instance.
Every time Whitestrakes Mayhem appears, you have a significant portion of the playerbase who has no interest in PvP entering Imperial City. Many of these players get killed on quest points and never come back again.
Given that this zone is rich in PvE content and quests, would it be worth giving PvErs their own instance of IC? Future updates could then really expand on this zone with more quests and encounters.
(This is going to be particularly important with Subclassing which will create a much bigger gap between experienced and new PvPers).
Should there be a PvP version of every PvE zone?
Re: What's New?
update 46 which released in June. it introduced West Solstice and Subclassing.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/678310/pc-mac-patch-notes-v11-0-5-update-46#latest
its incremental patches 1 and 2
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/679135/pc-mac-patch-notes-v11-0-6-update-46-incremental-patch-1#latest
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/679825/pc-mac-patch-notes-v11-0-6-update-46-incremental-patch-2#latest
update 47 pts patches 0, 1, and 2,
the update will go to live servers on August 18 on PC/Mac and September 3 on Xbox and PlayStation consoles.
the update has 2 new dungeons and mount swimming.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/680228/pts-patch-notes-v11-1-0#latest
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/680622/pts-patch-notes-v11-1-1#latest
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/680949/pts-patch-notes-v11-1-3#latest
linked the patch notes so you can simply read about missed changes/additions.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/678310/pc-mac-patch-notes-v11-0-5-update-46#latest
its incremental patches 1 and 2
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/679135/pc-mac-patch-notes-v11-0-6-update-46-incremental-patch-1#latest
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/679825/pc-mac-patch-notes-v11-0-6-update-46-incremental-patch-2#latest
update 47 pts patches 0, 1, and 2,
the update will go to live servers on August 18 on PC/Mac and September 3 on Xbox and PlayStation consoles.
the update has 2 new dungeons and mount swimming.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/680228/pts-patch-notes-v11-1-0#latest
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/680622/pts-patch-notes-v11-1-1#latest
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/680949/pts-patch-notes-v11-1-3#latest
linked the patch notes so you can simply read about missed changes/additions.
