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Re: 600+ days played character is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing
licenturion wrote: »If you have all skyshards you don't need to reroll a character.
Just use your free armory station and make builds. It saves subclasses too now. You can switch between you competitive build and your fun build with the click of 1 button and back.
Since you have all the skyshards, you won't have any troubles unlocking stuff.
That's a lot of work. It's easier just to make a hyperbolic thread on the forum claiming that some feature has completely destroyed your game/character/immersion/soul.
Re: Where are the Actual Patch Notes?
It's really disappointing that they aren't focusing on buffing the weaker skill lines/passives up to bar with the meta ones. The system is already beginning to grow stale due to the lack of diversity at the top end, where the meta 5-6 skill lines are just drastically stronger than everything else.
To me, it just seems like a huge mistake to not immediately try to improve this system. Now at best it'll be 6 months from introduction before anything of significance is changed, and many people are going to give up on it by then. The PVP population on PC NA has already been the lowest I've ever seen it in history, and I'm not exaggerating. Can't see many people sticking around during U47 with zero positive changes on the horizon.
To me, it just seems like a huge mistake to not immediately try to improve this system. Now at best it'll be 6 months from introduction before anything of significance is changed, and many people are going to give up on it by then. The PVP population on PC NA has already been the lowest I've ever seen it in history, and I'm not exaggerating. Can't see many people sticking around during U47 with zero positive changes on the horizon.
React
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Re: Error 201 anyone?
SkaraMinoc wrote: »Microsoft fired everyone recently except Gina and Kevin. They're in the server room working on a fix but it could take a bit.
Edit: Sarah is logged into the server now fixing as well
Hallelujah, they finally fed the hamster.
Re: Error 201 anyone?
ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »Hey all, we've checked in with the team working on this and they are making good progress. We do apologize for the wait and interruption to your playtime. We will provide another update within the next hour.
Apologies aren't enough. After all these months of being unable to play, we paying players deserve appropriate compensation. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom , how come in other free games players get compensation for much less, but here you never give us anything, just constant and recurring bugs that never get fixed?
Re: ZOS, What's Your Viewpoint on Subclassing in PvP? Addressing the Unbalanced Meta and Low Midyear May
Even before subclassing released, I was very vocal about how it would be bad for the game and how it would reduce populations. So far my opinion hasn’t changed, in fact it’s even worse than I expected.
Subclassing led to homogenization as expected, it increased the power gap, made it harder to learn and get into PvP, and it’s nearly impossible to balance in the long term. It’s just a recipe for disaster in nearly every way. I think that subclassing lowered TTK in some cases, but a lot of people seem to slot Restoring Light and camp their rune. The TTK is as long as ever when you run into that sort of thing.
It seems like the TTK isn’t actually all that different between more experienced or properly built players, but it’s extremely low when it’s a properly built player against someone who isn’t. That’s like the worst case scenario and I don’t understand how anyone who values fairness, challenge, and competition (basically a real PvPer) can stand by a system like subclassing.
In a way subclassing is also selecting for players who like having a power advantage over others, but that will only kill the game faster. In the end, the inexperienced or more casual players will avoid fighting at all costs or they’ll simply never return to PvP. Honestly, part of the reason that Midyear Mayhem seemed so dead even in Grey Host could’ve been exactly for this reason. Players would rather sit afk or intentionally only siege empty keeps than engage in real PvP. At this point I can’t even fault them.
Not even theorycrafting with this system is very fun. You’ll just end up with a build centered around shalks, some flavor of Nightblade, or a defile DoT build.
ZOS should consider disabling subclassing in all PvP environments. It’s clearly not going well.
Subclassing led to homogenization as expected, it increased the power gap, made it harder to learn and get into PvP, and it’s nearly impossible to balance in the long term. It’s just a recipe for disaster in nearly every way. I think that subclassing lowered TTK in some cases, but a lot of people seem to slot Restoring Light and camp their rune. The TTK is as long as ever when you run into that sort of thing.
It seems like the TTK isn’t actually all that different between more experienced or properly built players, but it’s extremely low when it’s a properly built player against someone who isn’t. That’s like the worst case scenario and I don’t understand how anyone who values fairness, challenge, and competition (basically a real PvPer) can stand by a system like subclassing.
In a way subclassing is also selecting for players who like having a power advantage over others, but that will only kill the game faster. In the end, the inexperienced or more casual players will avoid fighting at all costs or they’ll simply never return to PvP. Honestly, part of the reason that Midyear Mayhem seemed so dead even in Grey Host could’ve been exactly for this reason. Players would rather sit afk or intentionally only siege empty keeps than engage in real PvP. At this point I can’t even fault them.
Not even theorycrafting with this system is very fun. You’ll just end up with a build centered around shalks, some flavor of Nightblade, or a defile DoT build.
ZOS should consider disabling subclassing in all PvP environments. It’s clearly not going well.
Stamicka
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Re: Error 201 anyone?
I don't want to be that guy, the occasional maintenance fine. But last month was full of all day maintenance and long periods of time you cant log in. Like some of us pay for the membership but getting playtime cut down. Especially if you have a job at certain times like i do. Not even some gold for comp... kinda sucks tbh
Re: Error 201 anyone?
randconfig wrote: »AardvarkMcG wrote: »
ESO's server issues are better than all the MMOs I've played in my life, and I've played at least 10 or more. Still it doesn't change the fact that the down time sucks, I really wanted to play ):
I would like to respectfully disagree that in my experience of similar longevity and number ESO has had more server issues than all other games I have played. Our player experiences with MMOs are very different.
Re: Error 201 anyone?
randconfig wrote: »
ESO's server issues are better than all the MMOs I've played in my life, and I've played at least 10 or more. Still it doesn't change the fact that the down time sucks, I really wanted to play ):
Are you for real? Would be rly interested about input of what MMORPGs you played since I played many myself and have never encountered even at all the slightest or worse or even same server issues than ESO had and still has in any other MMORPGs I played.
Don't get me wrong but your statement sounds so much pro zos that it makes it taste like you are advertising for this game with possible worst server performance in MMORPG history or you may rly work for this company. No front but that's one of the biggest problems ESO has, the denial of accepting the truth of esos performance state and kinda lying to the community about literal facts which are plaguing ESO since almost beginning till now which is the performance .......
Bubosh
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Re: Error 201 anyone?
GMdoghunter wrote: »Simple cure do as a lot of people have done,Don't renew your eso+ if you have it,at this point it is simply NOT Worth it at all,there is more downtime on the EU srvers than there is anythign else.
As per usual we are told absolutely Nothing of what is going on.
This is honestly beyond acceptable and ridiculous.
Fix your broken game,siomple as that we all p[ay you enough money.
Obviously enough though the money is NOT going on the EU servers or hardware.
Please remember that the European Directive 2019/770 on digital content and services clearly states that digital services must remain accessible and conform to the contract under normal conditions. When these obligations are not fulfilled, consumers are legally entitled to:
A price reduction
A partial refund
Or an equivalent form of compensation
Considering the increasing number of server outages and the ongoing inability to access the service — despite paying for ESO Plus — I strongly encourage all affected users to submit a formal request for compensation.
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