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Re: Will there be a discount on the 2025 Content Pass?
I would be shocked if there is not a discount during Writhing Wall event. They always have a discount on latest content in the fall during the related community event (kill dragons for Elsweyr, dig up antiquities for Western Skyrim, etc.)
Re: Slayer of Death itself achievement- how?
Guys, wait till tomorrow (PC). They are rolling out a fix fir the spawn bug.
Djennku
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Re: Slayer of Death itself achievement- how?
I tried to get some reapers after maintenance, found none and gave up entirely. At least in Mass Effect they came after you, especially the third game, in which I'd have them chase me to the sound of that famous Benny Hill song.
Re: What caused you to keep playing the game when you first started?
When i started i was solo questing alot, but this seemed overly easily and it was getting boring. So I decided to explore other areas of the game, aroudn this time there was a bug that meant I couldn't buy the recipes i needed from the chef or brewer, so I had to join a guild and ask people. The person that responded invited me into another guild that ran trials and i was hooked, i subesquently became a guild officer and now the co-GM with that person that responded to the guildie noob of about 3mins who was aksing for a Banana surprise!
Since then the team play elements of PVE have me well and truely hooked, either helping new players get into trials, running in pugs, running guild trial events, or participating in trifecta groups it's all been great fun. Relatively recently I've also gone back to do achievement runs on dungeons with a fixed group, and thats also been great fun.
If i encounter boredom now, i try some PvP or ToT or Economy or Housing or Theorycrafting or refocus on a new role for a period of time or go back to questing for a bit, but the team PVE always come back to the centre of how I play pretty quickly, either advancing myself or helping new players into it.
Since then the team play elements of PVE have me well and truely hooked, either helping new players get into trials, running in pugs, running guild trial events, or participating in trifecta groups it's all been great fun. Relatively recently I've also gone back to do achievement runs on dungeons with a fixed group, and thats also been great fun.
If i encounter boredom now, i try some PvP or ToT or Economy or Housing or Theorycrafting or refocus on a new role for a period of time or go back to questing for a bit, but the team PVE always come back to the centre of how I play pretty quickly, either advancing myself or helping new players into it.
Re: Herald of the Tome - Remove Fatecarver
another nerf beam thread. yay!
honestly. please leave the beam alone. its fun, a signficant amount of people love it and have adapted to it
remove the beam, you remove joy from the game. and this game is not in a place where it can afford to remove joy from the game right now IMO
you would be better off buffing other skills to compensate, not killing fun.
people don't use it because it's fun. You included.
People use it because it is overpowered.
If it is nerfed, it'll still be equally as fun to use, but magically, people will stop using it.
So, let's not remove fatecraver, that's too much. Let's nerf it to put it on par with everything else.
And no, we can't really buff everything else, because damn .. power creep is already an issue.
Im afraid your're wrong. I use it for fun. Because i want to enjoy the game. its not actually that overpowered. its just situational. in trashpacks (and certainly pvp) there are better skills.
you can buff other skills without a problem - because in your words - power creep is already there - - and guess what, you'd have more variation of builds .
not everyone does 140k damage. some people barely scratch 40k . remember that before your call for nerfs.
by the way, the constant nerfing of this game is what is keeping people away. people need to be careful what they wish for - too many people leave.. noone will be left.
Well, if you use it for fun, then I don't see why you are against the nerf. It will still be as fun after being nerfed.
Also .. in trashpacks there are better skills? Nope, there isn't, Fatecarver, is, in trash packs, the absolute best skill, so far ahead of all the others that there is no possible comparison. You can't possibly be serious saying such an enormity. It's an outright lie.
I don't mind other skills being buffed ot fatecarver being nerfed. I just say fatecarver is overperforming by the largest marging you can possibly imagine. That must stop, and let's be real, they won't buff everything. So, yes, nerf beam. And please. Even with an heavy nerf, it would remain an excellent skill.
As for the 'not everyone does 140k' bit. yes, sure .. it's totally beside the point, but..sure?
I won't even dignify your last sentence with an answer. That kind of doomsaying is used on the forums since launch. It is deluded and asinine, at best.
Re: Rate my Cryomancer Themed Build
Apart from the obvious things like getting the right traits (Blodthirsty and Divines), I'd like to add that most of your damage will be your skills and the rotation. @ArchMikem Could you please give some info on these? A rating of your build would be incomplete without that info.
However, let me comment on a few points.
Your stats look a bit odd, so I am assuming that you show non buffed stats in the pictures atop. My biggest concern is the low Weapon and Spell Damage. 3712 (assuming Maj Sorcery) is really low. You should break at least 5k when you are on a SOLO build. 6k is better.
Personally, I am unwilling to drop frostbite only because of that bugged 4% damage. The 8% and 2% damage increases to all frost damage are still huge on a full on frost damage build.
Obviously, if my damage sources would be poison, bleed, disease, physical, etc. and not just frost, than I would drop Frostbite as well.
My solution was to use as many frost abilities, bonuses to chill procs and bonuses to frost damage as a whole as possible. And then have a as simple as possible rotation with the purpose of keeping as many buffs up as possible.
That in turn meant that I would have to use the Ring of the Pale Order and Ghastly Eyeballs. And that meant sacrificing a couple of Magicka glyphs to increase my Health. That looks suboptimal at first glance, but it somehow works really well.
When I go into group content, I swap RotPO for Mora's Whispers.
However, let me comment on a few points.
Your stats look a bit odd, so I am assuming that you show non buffed stats in the pictures atop. My biggest concern is the low Weapon and Spell Damage. 3712 (assuming Maj Sorcery) is really low. You should break at least 5k when you are on a SOLO build. 6k is better.
Personally, I am unwilling to drop frostbite only because of that bugged 4% damage. The 8% and 2% damage increases to all frost damage are still huge on a full on frost damage build.
Obviously, if my damage sources would be poison, bleed, disease, physical, etc. and not just frost, than I would drop Frostbite as well.
My expierience with SOLO Frost builds is that the damage potential is quite good right now (piercing cold is still giving 15%), but the sustain and ultimately survivability is the problem that you'll have to build around.I do everything but Trials, very much a loner.
My solution was to use as many frost abilities, bonuses to chill procs and bonuses to frost damage as a whole as possible. And then have a as simple as possible rotation with the purpose of keeping as many buffs up as possible.
That in turn meant that I would have to use the Ring of the Pale Order and Ghastly Eyeballs. And that meant sacrificing a couple of Magicka glyphs to increase my Health. That looks suboptimal at first glance, but it somehow works really well.
When I go into group content, I swap RotPO for Mora's Whispers.
Re: Why can't I open a thread on the housing sub-forum here?
I posted the thread linked above and Kevin answered with this.......
"Hi all. Thank you for highlighting this. This seems like unintended behavior. The idea was to give access to still view the older housing threads, but have posting happening in the main game systems category. We got user feedback that we had too many categories, so we tried to consolidate some. But Vanilla has some odd things happening on the backend that makes interacting with the category funky.
We will look into this, but I guess the follow up question I have is, would you rather just having the housing thread back? We were trying to accommodate feedback, but if the consensus is that you would rather the housing channel back, we can do that."
So some people can make discussions and post replies but it is unintended behaviour, the way to go is to post your discussion in "Game Systems" and add the prefix [Housing] at the beginning of your thread title.
If you would like the original Housing Category back please let Kevin know, either here or in my thread!
"Hi all. Thank you for highlighting this. This seems like unintended behavior. The idea was to give access to still view the older housing threads, but have posting happening in the main game systems category. We got user feedback that we had too many categories, so we tried to consolidate some. But Vanilla has some odd things happening on the backend that makes interacting with the category funky.
We will look into this, but I guess the follow up question I have is, would you rather just having the housing thread back? We were trying to accommodate feedback, but if the consensus is that you would rather the housing channel back, we can do that."
So some people can make discussions and post replies but it is unintended behaviour, the way to go is to post your discussion in "Game Systems" and add the prefix [Housing] at the beginning of your thread title.
If you would like the original Housing Category back please let Kevin know, either here or in my thread!
Re: If the servers are overtaxed and not functioning properly, everything else is a waste.
MincMincMinc wrote: »They have already gone over and upgraded the hardware with really no difference.
For about 6-9 months post-hardware upgrade, the game ran at a level I'd never seen in it's history up till that point (and since!). I was streaming often during this time and would frequently be in keeps where there were 50+ players present and on screen at once with zero ability delay whatsoever.
I wish they would explain why the performance suddenly degraded back to pre-upgrade levels just a short 6 months later. It was like someone had flipped a switch - they released a patch and suddenly the ability delay was back during prime time. Since they never bothered to offer any explanation for this series of events, we're just left to speculate on what occurred. Whether the sudden drop was related to the return of ball groups en masse, the spaghetti code compounding the issues further each consecutive patch, or a straight up reduction in server capacity for a reason not given to us.
But to say there was no difference at all is just untrue - the upgrade was genuinely the one single thing they've done in the history of the game that actually made a difference, and a massive one at that.
*Puts on tinfoil hat*
Likely throttling. A more efficient machine means they have the headroom to reduce processing to keep it effectively the same as before while consuming less electricity. Same goes for more efficient code. The sad thing is that even if Vengeance led to a new version of Cyrodiil that ran flawlessly, I'd only expect that to last for a few months at best.
*Removes tinfoil hat*
I dunno man. It's weird. Who really knows what is wrong?
Sluggy
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Re: Mammoth Legs Reversed on Character Select
What the F hahaha, It's like one of those optical illusions! 
Re: Slayer of Death itself achievement- how?
Have added to Bug Report Forum to hopefully get it noticed.
Tyralbin
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