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Re: Chef Arquitius' Lost Thesis post-update 44
The materials are too rare, and the recipe even more so. I picked up the molten torte recipe, and they aren't really worth crafting either.
Re: Team Play
Uhhm, aren't you seeing this the wrong way around? Wouldn't it be real 'sportmanship' and 'adult' to NOT spawncamp enemies that already can't win, and allow them the opportunity to re-group? Real sportmanship/adult-behaviour would mean the team that is crushing the other team, would allow the enemies to re-group.
Ofcourse your enemy is not going to help you slaughter them!
Nope. Speaking as someone who is mediocre to poor at PVP in this game- absolutely not.
Get Good as the saying goes. Anyone with the decision to focus can be good at this aspect of the game if they decide. Because my focus is PVE an housing and I have neglected to develop any pvp skill to speak of- If I click that button to play PVP then it is on me to develop my skills. Not cry on a ledge because I have stepped into the lion's den.
I mean what does this even look like? Letting you live because you suck? lol.
No. Just...no.
Re: Quakecon ESO Wallpaper -please make this a painting
Seconded. I would also like this good boi please 
Grec1a
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Re: Can we nerf the healer scoring in BGs yet?
licenturion wrote: »Don’t agree. If I help my team getting two chaos balls by healbotting the zerg group and then keep those 2 guys with the ball alive for minutes and defend the and eventually take over a ball for 3 minutes when they die, I did have a major impact on the match and deserved my medals more than the guy with 38 kills that ran past every objective in an objective based round.
Again I'm saying a small minority are healing for scoring. Most healers are like you and contribute heavily to the benefit of the group and we appreciate it! My main point is that it can't be ignored how heavily weighted the scoring is for healing. I'm willing to bet those guys with 38 kills had very few points anyways for ignoring the objective which makes sense.
It's the type instances where odd scoring happens when objectives are met and the winning team has substantially fewer points than opponents getting crushed. Like how can there be instances where the losing team has thousands of points higher than the winning team in matches where they accomplished 0 of the objectives.
Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Classes & Abilities Changes
madmufffin wrote: »MincMincMinc wrote: »
The big problem is that I don't see how this can be fixed. Either sorc should have all their dps passives shoved into one skill line so they can compete with other classes, or arcanist, necro and probably nightblade need their skills and passives dispersered across the class skill lines.
Essentially the design philophosy for the DLC classes is the exact opposite of what they are now suggesting the direction of balance with subclassing should be.
Bingo, the some classes were designed to be clear and easy to learn with a clear damage, tank, heals line. Now they would have to be rebalanced such that each line offers the trinity on its own to convey a playstyle. Otherwise there is nothing stopping us from slotting 3x highly efficient damage lines like Animal, Assassin, Aedric spear
As for the more original base classes they need to be altered to have stand alone skill lines that can operate on their own. Stormcalling as a good example having raw responsive damage, healing while aggressive, and tankiness from mobility which pairs well with the responsive damage. Dark magic is the bad example, where it gets damage from frags, but the general playstyle of a frags magsorc normally needs mages wrath, curse, and ward to function. Daedric summoning also falls flat on damage, The damage morphs of pets could be reworked to pair up better or if ward/curse got traded with encase/mines, A skill like encase on petsorc could be used as a temporary pet buff or pet attack skill.
I mean it feels like a uniquely sorc issue at this point tbh. Nightblade and Dragonknight are both pretty much segmented between DPS/Tank/Heal(Utility) and Templar has a very obvious heal line with two strong DPS lines (one of which is kinda tank oriented). Sorc is just a jumble of junk spread across 3 lines that is usable but worse than other classes in every facet.
Uhh... what?
Ardent Flame: DPS ultimate, 3 DPS skills, 1 tank CC that can morph into a DPS gap closer, and 1 DPS skill that morphs into a heal. 3 DPS passives and 1 passive that increases damage and sustain.
Draconic Power: DPS ultimate, 2 tank skills, 1 CC that has a damage and a tank morph, 1 self heal, 1 DPS skill. 3 tank passives and then 1 generic health recovery passive
Earthen Heart: Tank ultimate, 1 DPS skill that has a healing morph, 1 healing skill that has a DPS morph, 1 CC, and 2 group buffs. 2 sustain passives, 1 group buff passive, 1 duration extender passive that affects all three roles.
All of the basegame Classes have necessary skills spread across all three lines. Even if a line has a few things that seem like "this is the DPS line with some other stuff mixed in" like Ardent Flame, that still isn't as clear-cut as something like Herald of the Tome. A DK of any role would have to give up skills they'd use to Subclass. The only basegame Class lines that are obviously designed for one role and one role only are NB's Assassination and Templar's Restoring Light (and you can even make an argument against Restoring Light since Ritual has a DPS morph and there are some self-only buffs in there).
Also does seem interesting that the "tank" line for DK (you know, the one with the DPS ultimate) is outclassed in every way by other tank lines from other Classes, so the tank meta pretty much says "you need DK's healing line (assuming we can call it a healing line)"
Re: Fatecarver makes PvE DPS so boring now with subclassing
if you do not enjoy using Fatecarver then do not use it.
i like it and it is a fun skill to me. so i hope other skills simply get buffed.
Nerfing skills does not make the game more fun, for me at least.
i like it and it is a fun skill to me. so i hope other skills simply get buffed.
Nerfing skills does not make the game more fun, for me at least.
agreed.YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Are you in some demanding prog group?
If not, run something that you enjoy instead. With subclassing, there are tons of ways to reach a basic 100k, which, it can never be said enough, is wildly more damage than you'll ever need to do anything except exotic prog achieves.
Life is short. Eat the cookie.
Re: Enough of the Terrier Bones!!!!
Elvenheart wrote: »If we build a dog from bones, isn’t that necromancy?
And we all thought sub-classing was a new feature when its been here all along.
Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Housing & Furnishings
The cottage and the chapel are easily amongst the most beautiful houses in game, and some of the best released in years, too. The chapel's mist and elevated location felt truly magical. I think people who wanted a dawnwood plot are going to be very excited by it, and how it's free. It was interesting to me to see just how decorated the wildgrown chapel was compared to previous years' morph houses. I'm certainly happy about the change, but it made me wonder if the house was intended to be a crown store home originally. On the cottage: I'm thrilled to see zenimax is responding to player requests for more and updated medium homes, which have the best ratio of furnishing limit to space in the game. The animals make the house feel unique, and as someone who loves the Gold Coast's place in the setting, I'm thrilled that it's getting a new house. I'm certainly going to buy it when it's available. I do wonder -- was a bed intended to go between these nightstands in the furnished version? I'm likely to buy it prefurnished, which is why I ask.
The new Sunport structural pieces (walls, floors, doors, stairs, windows) are a fantastic addition to the Alinor tileset, and I really feel like the community was heard. Players have been wanting a completed Alinor tileset for years, and these are just beautiful additions. Same for the additional painting-related furnishings. It's just lovely that these requests are being fulfilled, and so well.
This isn't an urgent question or anything, just an idle musing, but I do wonder what portion of the housing community actually uses these Worm Cult/King of *** decorations. It feels like there's a surplus of furnishings that support decorating in a Slave-Lord style when I don't personally know anyone who's clamoring for those kinds of assets for their builds. Not that every dev hour needs to go into giving players everything they ask for, but when I think of underserved furnishing niches in ESO, I generally think of the Orc furnishings (we're never getting an updated set of Orc furnishings, are we?) over Molag Bal and his followers.
The new Sunport structural pieces (walls, floors, doors, stairs, windows) are a fantastic addition to the Alinor tileset, and I really feel like the community was heard. Players have been wanting a completed Alinor tileset for years, and these are just beautiful additions. Same for the additional painting-related furnishings. It's just lovely that these requests are being fulfilled, and so well.
This isn't an urgent question or anything, just an idle musing, but I do wonder what portion of the housing community actually uses these Worm Cult/King of *** decorations. It feels like there's a surplus of furnishings that support decorating in a Slave-Lord style when I don't personally know anyone who's clamoring for those kinds of assets for their builds. Not that every dev hour needs to go into giving players everything they ask for, but when I think of underserved furnishing niches in ESO, I generally think of the Orc furnishings (we're never getting an updated set of Orc furnishings, are we?) over Molag Bal and his followers.
xencthlu
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
This is really disappointing news. Stocks are up for Microsoft, so there's no financial reason this should be happening, unless shareholders are just demanding greater dividends/payouts/whatever (would NOT be surprised). The art and content creation for this game have always been impressive and I'm sad to see those people go. That's a big loss for this company, and I hope they realize that.
I've already commented on this before so won't do the whole thing again to avoid boring people but this simply is not how big groups make decisions. Whether a product makes money is not in itself determinative. The question is does it fit with the rest of what they're doing, is it an efficient use of their resources, are there better things they could do instead, where are they trying to get to longer term. As @spartaxoxo rightly says, Microsoft could make toothpaste and make money from it. Doesn't mean they're going to or that it would be a sensible use of their capital and time.
MS stocks being up, incidentally, likely has everything to do with their positioning in the cloud (Azure) and their attempting to gain first mover strangleholds by their deals with OpenAI and others while massively investing in the computational power (and electrical power) necessary to do this while they still can.
If you want the opposite example, for years Sony, once arguably one of the absolute biggest brands on the planet with their electronics the thing everyone wanted in their homes, allowed its divisions to operate as standalone silos whose every move got in the way of the rest. They made money, in the short term. But the longer term result? They lost their way in electronics, they missed the switch to digital media, etc. It took them about 20 years to right the ship.
