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Re: It's time to reshuffle the other three base game classes
madmufffin wrote: »GloatingSwine wrote: »madmufffin wrote: »Daedric Summoning(Tank) - Add Rune Prison or Encase. Either would work but I'm leaning towards Rune Prison as the cc component feels more tank oriented and taking the only outright heal from the class out of the healing line feels icky. I'd revert the nerfs to Bound Aegis as well since major resolve is in no way more valuable than 8% mag and minor protection. Passive wise the line already is pretty tank oriented, so I don't think it needs much change.
There's a problem with Daedric Summoning as the tank line which is that summons demand a slot on both bars and "what am I going to do with all these spare skill slots" is not a question tanks get to ask.
So even if they brought utility to the table for tanks you wouldn't be able to use them, and the only tank utility on this line right now is Atronach for team berserk.
Yeah the summons are largely worthless, but historically Clanfear has been the tank pet. Add in bound aegis, hardened ward, rune prison/encase, and atro and it makes it so that flappy bird is the only kinda dead slot as a tanking option.
Clannfear would be the tank pet because of the self heal, but you can source self heals now without tying up two bars, and your other changes functionally kill summoner as a viable thing, because the command-the-summons skill is now not on the summons line.
There isn't really an easy fix for this whilst summons retain their slot greed.
Re: It's time to reshuffle the other three base game classes
madmufffin wrote: »GloatingSwine wrote: »madmufffin wrote: »Daedric Summoning(Tank) - Add Rune Prison or Encase. Either would work but I'm leaning towards Rune Prison as the cc component feels more tank oriented and taking the only outright heal from the class out of the healing line feels icky. I'd revert the nerfs to Bound Aegis as well since major resolve is in no way more valuable than 8% mag and minor protection. Passive wise the line already is pretty tank oriented, so I don't think it needs much change.
There's a problem with Daedric Summoning as the tank line which is that summons demand a slot on both bars and "what am I going to do with all these spare skill slots" is not a question tanks get to ask.
So even if they brought utility to the table for tanks you wouldn't be able to use them, and the only tank utility on this line right now is Atronach for team berserk.
Yeah the summons are largely worthless, but historically Clanfear has been the tank pet. Add in bound aegis, hardened ward, rune prison/encase, and atro and it makes it so that flappy bird is the only kinda dead slot as a tanking option.
Clannfear could provide like Major Vitality while summoned or something. Right now, it's just a two-bar burst heal that every other tank class gets in a single bar slot. So it needs some extra pizazz.
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
spartaxoxo wrote: »
As one tech CEO put it, to paraphrase, AI is always available, it never needs to eat or sleep, and it doesn't need benefits.
And that's frankly an alarming mindset for all people because the scale of job loss that this can create if left unregulated and unchecked is unprecedented.
As a 30-year full-stack developer who uses "AI" every day, I don't know what these people are smoking. I have to fight with it to get it to do even simple things most of the time, and half the time it looks right, it's still wrong in subtle ways. I'm good at what I do because I understand the problem domain intimately, and can ask the right questions. Coding the answer is a relatively small part of the solving the problem. And yet I'm worried that I, too, will be made redundant because some middle manager thinks I am replaceable with a Copilot subscription.
Re: Server Performance for MYM has been really poor
I agree, the performance has been MUCH worse than in previous MYM. What's odd to me too is that it feels like they lowered the pop cap. I have no data to back this up but I've never done a MYM before that felt this dead. Aside from the 1-2 hours during prime time the rest of it's just... nothing. I played for 4 hours last night and literally there was only one keep fight that happened during the whole thing - and when it did performance was brutal.
I didn't have any rubberbanding or anything and it's somewhat hard to describe. It almost feels like server fps is nuking... then my FPS nukes shortly after. I'm running a 4090 with a 7800X3D and I can keep a constant 90-100 fps in GH no problem.
This MYM I'm lucky if I'm above 35. Something changed...
I didn't have any rubberbanding or anything and it's somewhat hard to describe. It almost feels like server fps is nuking... then my FPS nukes shortly after. I'm running a 4090 with a 7800X3D and I can keep a constant 90-100 fps in GH no problem.
This MYM I'm lucky if I'm above 35. Something changed...
LadyGP
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Re: The dungeons on TESO have therefore become fast food... what if, a solo dungeon?
Yes. And on top of that, I think everything that requires a group must have a solo option (looking at you, Craglorn. I hate you, Craglorn).
Craglorn doesn't require a group. I think they should just remove the "entering group area" pop-up. It's never stopped me. I think its leftover from when it used to be the endgame zone.
Soarora
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Server Performance for MYM has been really poor
I don't know if Zos just dusted off the old servers and decided to deploy them for MYM, but it certainly seems that this is what they did, because the server performance is even worse than your average non-event day in Blackreach or Grey Host - and with far less people populating the server. I've been playing Evergloam primarily to take advantage of some AP bonuses, and even with the server at minimal bars, I get frame rate drop and rubber banding, I've been kicked from server a few times, and skills are not firing when I want them to fire. Overall, the server performance has been really really poor. I'm not the only one who has complained about this, as I've had guildies experience the same issues. But this is definitely the worst I have seen the servers in the past 3 months.
BXR_Lonestar
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Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
IMO on PC NA only one campaign has fun fights. Once queue becomes more than an hour for it, it is time to do something else.
ZOS as someone who actually likes PvP, do not let the low turn out make you think that vengeance is the solution. Vengeance can exist as its own thing, but it is not a proper replacement of the exhilaration of Cyrodiil when it works.
Turnout this bad points to mass dissatisfaction though. Almost no one likes Cyrodiil in it's current state and it shows. You might find a few people that say that this patch is great, but they will soon find themselves among the few people left in Cyrodiil.
I don't think Vengeance as we last saw it is the solution, but I think that a Cyrodiil with pure stat based sets only (that are balanced with each other), higher population caps, lowered barriers to entry, and skills more in line with early ESO (like frags stunning or merciless resolve requiring more management) would be far more successful than the mess we have now.
ESO's 1.0 and 2.0 eras had huge PvP populations for a reason, even with some of the performance issues that existed back then. The current developers should take notes on why that is.
Stamicka
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Re: Rush of Agony
Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »Nope, because you have a very clear (and cool, I might add) visual indicator for the area... You can actually see if you're in the radius where you get pulled or not.
How it works on Live is that someone can gap close someone away from you, sprint towards you and pull you because it considers pullling player's position rather than a static one.
This is very prone to positional desyncs because the servers have a hard time figuring out actual player locations, hence why dawnbreakers and other AoEs can miss point blank, why you often can't land abilities on someone running around a pillar even if they're in your range etc.
Think of the new one as Dark Convergence, just different proc timer/visual.
Except that Dark Con applies CC immunity and was nerfed from 7s to 25s because ZOS considered it too strong.
Rush of Agony is now essentially a 7s 'targeted' Dark Con AND you can combo it with Warden charm so people get pulled in and almost instantly charmed whilst you're free to use a damage skill
The only drawback is that you might get some less perfect pulls because someone might not be standing in the spot you would ideally like to pull.
I mean, even with the current Rush of Agony that has a very problematic pull there's a lot of builds that are better off running Dark Convergence instead.
What you proc something off of is very important, and very often running a gap closer does mean you sacrifice something more valuable in the build.
Rush is generally used in 2 scenarios
1) Group pvp
2) Bombing (both solo and smallscale bombing)
In both cases you can afford to easily slot a gap closer if required. Dark Con vs just pugs has always been kind of better the only factor was that Rush you can pull on every proxy countdown. Where as for solo bombing you often need to wait for ulti anyway so the longer cooldown of DC is fine.
The issue which I think people complain about generally with Rush is that it was difficult to see when someone nearby you is jumped to - and this then causes you to get pulled in because you don't block in time.
The problem isn't that you get pulled in in that situation. The problem is that you can get follow up stunned AFTER the pull. This situation isn't going away with this patch so it will still be a problem.
There should be a CC cooldown if you are affected by a CC like a pull. No Exceptions.
Additionally if you are solo the warning addons didn't work unless it was you that got jumped to and some still work just AgonyWarning doesn't
Re: ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?
Given ZOS's inability to have good performance across consecutive weeks, this thread is never going to die! 
Re: Shalks needs an Indicator
I spent +6 hours in IC and Cyro during the current Whitestrake event.
Literally 90% of people are playing: assassination (merciless/surprise), animal companions (deep), storm calling (streak/overload). Previously, each class had one, maybe two, three, builds, which most considered endgame. Now, all classes use the same one, and consider one skill line an extra, unless they're in one of the above. Today, in IC, out of 25 fights I fought, only one didn't use streak
No one can convince me otherwise. Anyone who participates in the event can see what's happening. It looks more like the game has been reduced to a single class.
Don't get me wrong, I've been anticipating this since the meetings with the developers when this sub update was announced – questions about balance ended with "we'll keep an eye on it," which is why it looks the way it does (besides the rapidly declining player count, there are a lot of new negative reviews on steam).
I really like this game, but good luck finding the golden mean now - it's definitely not crossplay, because at the end of this road everyone will come to the same conclusions. I wish for myself and you that the situation will improve, although I am starting to doubt it
Literally 90% of people are playing: assassination (merciless/surprise), animal companions (deep), storm calling (streak/overload). Previously, each class had one, maybe two, three, builds, which most considered endgame. Now, all classes use the same one, and consider one skill line an extra, unless they're in one of the above. Today, in IC, out of 25 fights I fought, only one didn't use streak
No one can convince me otherwise. Anyone who participates in the event can see what's happening. It looks more like the game has been reduced to a single class.
Don't get me wrong, I've been anticipating this since the meetings with the developers when this sub update was announced – questions about balance ended with "we'll keep an eye on it," which is why it looks the way it does (besides the rapidly declining player count, there are a lot of new negative reviews on steam).
I really like this game, but good luck finding the golden mean now - it's definitely not crossplay, because at the end of this road everyone will come to the same conclusions. I wish for myself and you that the situation will improve, although I am starting to doubt it
P0m3k
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