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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Classes and Abilities
I have some issues with this change in general, but I want to focus in on Empower because it's a very big % value, tied to a very specific playstyle whose main numbers are clear. There are two ways people use empower, as part of oakensoul and with voidmantle, on heavy attack builds. That means that at the very least, with oakensoul you had Minor Slayer and Minor Berserk and on any reasonable build Weapon's Expert CP. There are other CP and other buffs you could have, but these would be the baseline. Minor Berserk and Slayer are also not hard to source so pretty expected buffs in a voidmantle situation.Fixed an issue where some bonuses that granted “damage done to monsters” were multiplicative with other damage bonuses, instead of additive. Affects the following;
Empower
[Developer Comment]
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This fix will result in the affected effects to be reduced in power when used in tandem with other percent based damage bonuses. While we've gently increased some of the affected effects, some of these remain untouched until we get more data on average value impacts (since the change in power was dependent on what other bonuses were being ran in tandem), which we can rectify during PTS or in a future update if necessary.
For an oakensoul baseline user we went from 1.36*1.7=2.312 coefficient to 2.06 coefficient.
For a voidmantle user we went from 1.86*1.7=3.162 coefficient to 2.56.
These are big nerfs to builds that are nowhere near meta. You could change empower to 100% from 70% and it would be barely a slight buff to baseline oakensoul users (and a slight nerf to most real oakensoul users) and still a noticeable nerf to voidmantle users.
I know there are some other variables going on in there, but I don't see what you need to wait and see to realize at least some buff needs to be made. You could have changed empower to 100% and then see where it lands and decide if it needs further buff. Starting from no change makes me doubt that a proper adjustment is going to come in the next few weeks. Empower has worked as multiplicative for almost 4 years, the power is what is expected and what heavy attack builds have been balanced around, if the buckets were an issue, it was an issue that informed the numbers you chose for empower in the first place.
BTW I did a quick parse test on a voidmantle build I tried 2 days ago and the last tick of the heavy attacks did go down about 25% so this isn't just theoretical. I also did a parse on an oakensoul build and the last tick of the heavy attacks are down about 16% from the exact same build on live.
Both of these parses were under 100k, btw. I'm sure a fully optimized voidmantle build could still get over 100k, but it would still be miles away from la builds. Empower doesn't affect PVP either, so there's no real fear of this ending up overpowered if you buff empower significantly.
Re: A kind of heads-up for Z.O.S. that they may not be accurately aware of.
Keeping this on the first page until someone in the Dev team acknowledges.
Re: A kind of heads-up for Z.O.S. that they may not be accurately aware of.
I hope you will be able to cope with the physical pain, that drugs can remove it.
The woman I wanted to marry died 6 years ago, just 33 years old, from a short but heavy cancer.
I am much older, and was destroyed for 3 years, since then I was able to slowly accept to live alone again.
What helped me a lot, was ESO. You dive into a virtual world that helps to put aside the grief and sadness for some hours.
You even have situations where you laugh, or at least smile, an emotional reaction you would not have in the "real world".
I have COPD, luckily can cope with it, just had extreme getting out of air only once during a fever. It lets me have a vague guess of what you must go through with blood clots in your lungs.
I hope the remaining time you have will be mostly comfortable, and that you will be able to distract yourself as long as possible by playing the game, and the social interaction you have with it.
Wish you all the best.
The woman I wanted to marry died 6 years ago, just 33 years old, from a short but heavy cancer.
I am much older, and was destroyed for 3 years, since then I was able to slowly accept to live alone again.
What helped me a lot, was ESO. You dive into a virtual world that helps to put aside the grief and sadness for some hours.
You even have situations where you laugh, or at least smile, an emotional reaction you would not have in the "real world".
I have COPD, luckily can cope with it, just had extreme getting out of air only once during a fever. It lets me have a vague guess of what you must go through with blood clots in your lungs.
I hope the remaining time you have will be mostly comfortable, and that you will be able to distract yourself as long as possible by playing the game, and the social interaction you have with it.
Wish you all the best.
Re: A kind of heads-up for Z.O.S. that they may not be accurately aware of.
I thank you for this.
I hope that your light will never fade.
I hope that your light will never fade.
Re: A kind of heads-up for Z.O.S. that they may not be accurately aware of.
A world without pain, without forgetting
Time suspends its course
Only for a moment you are there.
i will never forget you
Time suspends its course
Only for a moment you are there.
i will never forget you
Lauranae
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Re: How are premium tokens and caches of tome points calculated? Seems bugged
It's kind of weird they're doing it by full months since it's not how it's sold.
It should just go by what you purchased. You bought a 1-month sub? 1 token. You bought a year sub? 12 tokens. Why make it confusing and difficult?
It should just go by what you purchased. You bought a 1-month sub? 1 token. You bought a year sub? 12 tokens. Why make it confusing and difficult?
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
Most of this is just great.
However, what's the deal with the colorful highlights though? I understand the glowing eyes, but I think the highlights are too dominant and tacky. I hate to be this way about it, but the highlights ruin the work you did on the model. That bright red on the arms of the berserker and those rainbow colors on the Pack Leader are not a benefit to the look and feel.
Really wish you'd consider dropping the highlights or making them less bright. It's sad that everything else looks great except that one thing. But this is same reason why I refuse to run the banner for scribing, because the effects are over the top and the bright spinning makes me nauseous, even though it's a great idea. This will also all blur together and look sloppy terrible when you have a bunch of WWs together.
Ya'll do good work but then you kill it with these tacky visual effects that are completely unnecessary.
However, what's the deal with the colorful highlights though? I understand the glowing eyes, but I think the highlights are too dominant and tacky. I hate to be this way about it, but the highlights ruin the work you did on the model. That bright red on the arms of the berserker and those rainbow colors on the Pack Leader are not a benefit to the look and feel.
Really wish you'd consider dropping the highlights or making them less bright. It's sad that everything else looks great except that one thing. But this is same reason why I refuse to run the banner for scribing, because the effects are over the top and the bright spinning makes me nauseous, even though it's a great idea. This will also all blur together and look sloppy terrible when you have a bunch of WWs together.
Ya'll do good work but then you kill it with these tacky visual effects that are completely unnecessary.
Vulkunne
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Re: Class Masteries, Sorcerer perspective
My worry is people often look at dummy parses with no understanding of how they translate into real content. Sorc has always parsed decently on a dummy, yet is basically never seen in organised PvE group content outside of support dips for atros.
Cleave damage is too important in most dungeons and trials, as is the ability to increase your own pen and supply various major buffs. It doesn't matter how good sorc class mastery is if the base class isn't ticking the boxes.
And parses relying on weapon skill line spammables should say a lot by itself.
Cleave damage is too important in most dungeons and trials, as is the ability to increase your own pen and supply various major buffs. It doesn't matter how good sorc class mastery is if the base class isn't ticking the boxes.
And parses relying on weapon skill line spammables should say a lot by itself.
Ezhh
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Re: When we had seals of endeavors there were more motifs to buy
I'm a bit confused, as there were never any Motifs that were exclusive for Seals. They're pretty much only for buying things in the Crown Crates (aside from those other occasional Featured things like the Spriggan Polymorphs) and the Crates change the same time they always have, which is roughly every three months.
Also the Seals didn't change at all, only the name did, so there aren't 'new' Seals.
As far as Trade Bars go, those replace Tickets for Events so there will be things to buy every Event just like before, and the Seasonal section of the Bazaar witll change every couple of months to offer new things.
Also the Seals didn't change at all, only the name did, so there aren't 'new' Seals.
As far as Trade Bars go, those replace Tickets for Events so there will be things to buy every Event just like before, and the Seasonal section of the Bazaar witll change every couple of months to offer new things.
Arunei
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Re: Class Masteries, Sorcerer perspective
MashmalloMan wrote: »That is likely it. Yet still, 1750 magicka per stack is a considerable nerf. I expected to see at 1250 or even 1000.
It's a nerf, but still powerful.
For PVE, every build has at minimum 32k resources or so, sometimes higher, especially with a group, so you just get a free, no nonsense, +20% w/s damage.
In PVP, if you built for Max Mag stacking for Hardened Ward like before subclassing, you're sitting at 22~28% w/s damage.
An average w/s damage/crit/proc build with 30k HP has around 22~25k resources, so 12~14% w/s damage. They should effectively have more raw w/s damage to scale in comparison to the Max Mag stacker, so it could be quite close in the end.
If you compare to the other class Masteries:
- Warden = 15% - great baseline, simple, no hoops, matches normal non Max Mag stacking Sorc multiplier
- Templar = 600 w/s damage - Sorc with +15% would need 4000 raw w/s damage to achieve the same result
- NB = 1~1250 w/s damage - x2 of Templar, but based on 1~100% HP
- Necro = 2-20% - Slightly higher than Warden, but requires build up
- Arcanist = 666 (based on ult) or 300 w/s damage (perma) - Weaker than Templar, same Sorc logic
So all things considered, Sorc's Mastery is equal, if not better to what I'm seeing on other classes, but it has no secondary effect like Max HP or crux, etc. I have no doubt the passive is still strong, I just wonder if it's enough in conjunction with Implosion to compete with some of the other 2x DPS Masteries available out there.
I spoke only on Sorcerer here since this thread is for Sorcerer. All of these passives mentioned are underpowered compared to the stats you get from subclassing.
Warden's 1650 spell damage for 6 status effects is powerful. (You did not mention it) This I consider truly potent and competitive, but like you said; this is not a no non-sense passive like Font of Power.
IMO, it isn't even about equalizing the stats acquired from subclassing but about the abilities. As there is basically no way to out-stat a class simply having bad abilities. And Sorcerer has mostly bad abilities.
No realistic amount of stats will ever overcome that, and, even if they could, would we really want Crystal Frags providing 10k Weapon Damage because that's what it takes to compete with subclassed DKs?
The roll-out of these passives drives home the point that classes without a decent backbone of abilities will never be competitive until their respective refresh fixes that issue with complete skill reworks a la the DK refresh.
