guarstompemoji wrote: »

While we've had kerfluffles with updates, these seem a bit odd. Something feels off. We've been reading MS was having layoffs and replacing folks with AI. Is that happening to ZOS? What happened? Are you guys okay? It is super not cool if they are doing that. We all love and care about ESO.

Well, I think the lead game dev and creator leaving the company earlier this year was probably a pretty bad sign.

Maybe they'll show up in phase 15 of the paywall event.

I also feel like there's 2 different groups of players: Elder scrolls fans and MMO players. The latter group might move on to some newer MMO down the line, but I think the game will have a loyal core group of Elder Scrolls fans for much longer, probably until the next Elder Scrolls MMO comes out. If you love this world it feels like home, and I've seen lots of people (like me) who got into this game because they love Tamriel, not because they were looking for an MMO.

I wouldn’t get any hopes up for any bugfixes this round. This seems like 100% a backend thing… which means we will be getting another maintenance once they can fix the combat bugs.

There’ll probably be another incremental patch on Monday, but if they’re going to wait until then to address the gamebreaking combat bugs while the Tribute leaderboards were a top-priority fix…

This is just another example of ESO’s skewed priorities. There is currently a bug affecting all combat by making several weapon passives fall off on barswap. This is a huge thing for anyone who does any combat in the game (which is everybody), so more people are affected than those who play Tribute. Even if we want to narrow it down to people who would actually feel the effects of this bug (aka people who play vet dungeons and trials and any PvP), that’s still more people than the number who play leaderboard Tribute.

Remember back in July 2020 when the game was down so often and then they actually put up a free bundle of goodies as an apology? https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/58493
…may be time to reconsider something like that. And not the same stuff - that’ll just be an insult to the people you apologized to before and still stuck it out.

Tornaad wrote: »

DP99 wrote: »

I'm confused.

Is Phase 2 just more of the same from Phase 1?

There was a small intro quest about supplies and nothing else.

Technically, they went from one siege camp running to two. It also feels (at least in the lower population times) that they increased the difficuly of the monsters.

I can confirm... Two sieged camps, and tougher monsters, quite hard without several players present, while the chest has the same (now) worthless loot.

Please make all cats cuddlable.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hamish999 wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback here, @MilesTailsProwers. These are really cool. Will share these with the team.

I have to disagree, I don't like a single one of these suggestions.

That's totally fine to disagree. Please feel free to suggest your own feedback regarding potential new systems. Always things we can look into and bring to our teams for consideration.

I agree with Hamish. I think that a lot of the proposed ideas would look stiff and contrived in Elder Scrolls. Even in the real world, it's not really fun watching others play board games or arm wrestle. An instanced "games house" like Silver Bride suggested might be a better place for those things.

As for a suggestion: One thing that has been requested before (years ago) that I think would promote socialising in a way that fits with the current ESO world is paired animations.

I've seen a lot of players doing fun emotes together, and it's always amazing to see them doing coordinated dances and music bands. But those coordinated dances and bands aren't easy to line up, and could use a more organised system. Say, someone starts a dance/social interaction, you could face them and respond with the paired emote, or something like that. The Alinor Allemande would have been perfect as a paired animation, for example.

There are 12 furnishing plans that drop from the craft coffers.

They are gated by profession, and each profession has one blue plan and one purple plan. While they can drop from either the blue or gold coffers, the blue coffer drop rate is very low and, for all practical intents and purposes, might as well be zero.

Blacksmithing:
Blue: Diagram: Breton Spyglass
Purple: Diagram: Cage Wall, Gated

Clothing:
Blue: Pattern: Flag, Tattered Red
Purple: Pattern: Stirk Fellowship Banner, Hanging

Woodworking:
Blue: Blueprint: Stirk Fellowship Wall, Defensive
Purple: Blueprint: Stirk Fellowship Tower, Defensive

Alchemy:
Blue: Formula: Meridian Lens
Purple: Formula: Meridian Lens Apparatus

Enchanting:
Blue: Praxis: Grave Marker, Soldier's
Purple: Praxis: Bonfire, Alliance Camp

Provisioning:
Blue: Design: Puddle, Wax
Purple: Design: Carnaval Fan

Because these things practically only drop from gold boxes (the drop rate from blue is too low to be worth serious consideration), but you can only get one gold craft box per day, it is worth re-rolling the crafting quest so that the first one you do in the day is from a profession where you are still missing stuff. (And yes, this is another point in the "this event's reward mechanics are poorly designed" column.)

Someone told me there’s more maintenance in ESO than there are players in Cyrodiil queues.
well, Maybe the servers are training for their own trial, The Sanctum of Scheduled Shutdowns or maybe ZOS is farming downtime achievements.