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Magsorc solo survivability in bigger fights destroyed
I return to PvP for the event after taking a break, and imagine my surprise when healing was removed from Magsorc shields. Does anyone at ZOS actually take part in fights?? We NEED the healing in order to be able to fight, especially in tight areas around flags! How many heals do we now have to slot, because Dark Conversion sucks! Drained stamina is horrific when every single skill in this game can cc you! I have to use my stamina in order to heal myself, just to be made unplayable by not having any stamina to break free in intense fights.
Good job ZOS, good job. Any other Magsorc ruinations upcoming? Would be good to know before I start playing another game instead.
Good job ZOS, good job. Any other Magsorc ruinations upcoming? Would be good to know before I start playing another game instead.
Quackery
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Re: What subclassing builds are you planning on using?
I'm planning on mixing Nightblade with some Warden goodness...since there really is no ranger class in ESO
Re: Elemental Explosion seems really bad...
Cast times don’t belong in eso, they never feel good they just feel clunky and out of place.
This skill should just be an instant cast aoe
This skill should just be an instant cast aoe
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
It's very common in North American businesses, especially with certain roles or access levels.
But even if it is common business-practice, as a European I find it strange and I am glad that things are usually different here, because I consider such behavior against former employees as disrespectful.
Exactly.
Just because it's that way in America doesn't mean it should be that way. That's why workers in Europe, Australia and other first world countries tend to be so much happier than workers in the US, not to mention being better paid with better vacation and sick leave as well.
AngryPenguin
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
katanagirl1 wrote: »Human beings sacrificed on the altar of shareholder value. How can you not feel for them?
Well said.
Usually big companies are not willing to take big risks, though they certainly have the capital to do so compared to smaller companies. That is what is surprising here. The new IP sounds like it was relatively low risk. AI is a huge risk and a huge amount of money to invest in, though it is the trendy thing to do nowadays. Humans are creative though, and can come up with remarkably novel ideas, but AI is not very creative, it just iterates on what it has been fed. Remember neural networks and how it was going to be the solution for everything? You don’t hear much about that anymore. What if AI cannot deliver?
I see this as the ultimate FOMO. Not only the potential for an enormous benefit, but the fact that everyone else is doing it means that they probably see not investing in AI as the bigger risk. Not defending it though; I quite honestly detest AI for many reasons, so I think it's a gut-wrenching tragedy what is happening right now.
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
TheMajority wrote: »"this is how our society functions" Yeah, and we don't have to take it we can fight back and speak against it, because it's wrong and people have suffered because of it. Bending over and saying "this is just how it is" is how things get worse. And no, I don't think you understand the global economy if you think we've seen "unprecedented prosperity". Microsoft is in the wrong. The shareholders are in the wrong.
The resistance won't be organized here.
Any form of speaking out, to any injustice, is arguably better than being silent and leaving it to "the resistance" as you put it. We don't have to be part of some ultimate solution in order to take a short moment to speak out.
I feel what you're saying, I think I really do. But why try to talk down other people who are just putting their feedback out that something done seems wrong?
If you're trying to discourage people out of some sense of pragmatism, then you are actually part of the problem.
Go live a defeated life which is operated by a sense of only others' order, and let us say "wow, this is messed up" to messed up situations.
Malyore
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
It is an opinion whether or not the way this was handled was unjust and unfair. And certainly one that I do not share. If the best we can say about someone's conduct is that was not literally illegal, then I'm not inclined to call that good behavior.
Re: How many players are playing PvP at these times?
I think that @Desiato has it right. ESO PvP does not appeal to the actual demographic that it needs to appeal to in order to thrive. That demographic is actual competitive PvPers. There’s a lot of reasons for this that would take forever to get into, but I’ve written about it in the past:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/658954/the-real-reason-pvp-and-end-game-pve-are-so-niche/p1
Anyway, ESO lost the trust and attention of the more competitive PvP crowd many years ago. The people who still regularly sweat ESO PvP are usually sweating against people who aren’t even very interested in PvP. They also seem to love and defend ESO’s horribly uneven playing field.
I’m not sure what kind of competitive player is content with constantly fighting people who aren’t competitive themselves or even on the same playing field. It’s kind of like a “pro” basketball player who only shows up the their local park to dunk on people playing casually for fun.
It’s actually pretty anti-competitive to support an environment that allows such massive power gaps and to only fight those who are way less experienced.
You've posted on this forum numerous times lately stating clearly that you are not a PvP player, at least not anymore.
ESO’s PvP doesn’t appeal to me whatsoever in its current state, although it once did. I’m not sure what you’re trying to point out here. I also don’t know what posts you’re referencing cause I don’t remember clearly stating that I’m not a PvP player.
I’m sharing my opinion as a player who used to love PvP and wants it to improve (although my expectations are low).
Stamicka
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Re: how Zenimax killed PvP to reduce the number of players in Cyrodiil
SeaGtGruff wrote: »AngryPenguin wrote: »Vengeance is what we needed all this time. Cyrodiil was clearly on a skeleton crew if that, and No-Proc was a half-baked (if we're being charitable) attempt at helping performance. Instead it just confused everyone, nothing was clear, and Zenimax did not even do the bare minimum to clarify things.
But Vengeance? They're now quickly iterating on huge changes to the game's skill lines (WITH PVP-ONLY CHANGES!), a tripled population cap, and pushing a higher skill ceiling on strategy rather than pushing higher stats on gear & skills. I gave up completely on ESO until I heard about the vengeance tests, and had an absolute blast on the 2nd testing phase. If that comes back, I'll be back to playing it as my main game.
Cyrodiil kept my interest for hundreds of hours, but it was rotting over the years. And Vengeance had constant fights that were just as entertaining as my peak experience back in 2017 when defending Chalman and Sejanus. The fights were glorious, and it brought back a bunch of Pact PvP guildees for that one week. We all had a turn with being amazed at how fun Cyrodiil was again and how it felt like the good old days.
Vengeance will be the death of PvP if implemented as the only option. It's for the PvE crowd that won't stick around for any mode of PvP for any significant amount of time.
Vengeance is for testing possible ways to reduce problems and improve performance in Cyrodiil. It is intended for the PvP crowd who have been complaining for years about performance issues in Cyrodiil.
What changes has ZOS made to live Cyrodiil PvP as a result of what they've learned from vengeance? Any?
Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Classes & Abilities Changes
Nag1saKaw0ru wrote: »YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Grim Focus - if this goes live then there's no reason to use this skill. A spammable will give you more damage and you can get major savagery from many, many other sources. Just because you don't like how it's being used by non-NBs, you're ruining a unique, class-defining skill. There are plenty of ways to change this to achieve your ends without killing it. DO BETTER
Smashing X to doubt this claim. The Bowproc is tuned like an ultimate not a spammable.
If you hate subclassed characters using Grim Focus it doesn't mean pure NBs have to be nerfed. It's about Weapon freaking Damage. Which hurts non-"endgame" players way more than the 1% running trials.
No, it was a crazy and undeserved giga-buff when it happened. Way, way before subclassing was a thing. It is good that it is going away.
The "power" just needs to be reinvested into Shadow so that pure NBs aren't penalized (as Shadow is a dogwater tree and needs all the help that it can get).
