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Re: stuck in character load
The bar is on the floor and we have entered hell.
No clue what they did on the June 25th patch day but man, it certainly did SOMETHING to tank the performance so badly.
The first few times it happened I suspected DDOS attacks, but now I'm not so sure anymore. I really wished ZOS would communicate with more transparency on the matter.
No clue what they did on the June 25th patch day but man, it certainly did SOMETHING to tank the performance so badly.
The first few times it happened I suspected DDOS attacks, but now I'm not so sure anymore. I really wished ZOS would communicate with more transparency on the matter.
Re: get a real anti cheating security for all pvp lmao
Neither, it's a bug that has been in the game for years.
As far I know there is no way to purposefully cause it, it just happens occasionally. Most commonly I see it with Streak, or Burning. The burning doesn't actually do any damage, but Streak does cause you to be unable to bash as it always breaks free.
Changing instance fixes it, so after the BG or leaving Cyro, i.e going into Cheesemongers Hollow.
As far I know there is no way to purposefully cause it, it just happens occasionally. Most commonly I see it with Streak, or Burning. The burning doesn't actually do any damage, but Streak does cause you to be unable to bash as it always breaks free.
Changing instance fixes it, so after the BG or leaving Cyro, i.e going into Cheesemongers Hollow.
Re: PvP problems in TESO
SnakeCrasher wrote: »Your PvP campaign, Vengeance, is terrible. There's nothing to do there except for going in a group, but if you want to play solo, you should take the NB because you've made it the strongest and most unbalanced class. You've given it advantages that make it easier to play solo. It has its own speed buff, the ability to go into stealth, and good damage multipliers, while other classes don't have anything like that. I've been playing PvP since 2016, and I can definitely tell you that there are too many problems with PvP, and you don't want to deal with any of them. Instead, you're just running more tests. You have a lot of cheaters, players who use macros and game bugs, and they've adapted to the realities of ESO so well that they've been breaking your game for years, while all you can do is run tests. You don't have a proper anti-cheat system, and the one you do have doesn't work properly against dishonest players. To be honest, you don't even want to balance the game properly. Before the introduction of subclasses, the Sorcerer was the strongest class in PvP, and almost every second player played as a Sorcerer, but the Necromancer was the weakest class, so weak that almost no one played as a Necromancer. And so you decided to introduce subclasses, but you didn't fix the previous problems with the classes, and as a result, we now see that almost everyone still plays the same combinations: Sorcerer, Nightblade, and Warden. The other options are rarely used. So where is the diversity? There isn't any, and there never will be. You've somehow eliminated the uniqueness of the classes and made one class the strongest and the other the weakest, but with the introduction of subclasses, the situation has become even worse. I don't know what's on your mind or what your tests will lead to, but I sincerely hope that you will finally see the game's problems and start addressing them.
I agree with everything except the vengeance part I actually love that mode, it’s super fun. But yeah, way too many cheaters and seamless bug abusers exploiting while gaslighting everyone. There’s zero anti-cheat, and the server-side is a joke easily cracked. I’ve got no hope they’ll ever implement real security. ZOS is clearly struggling after all the layoffs, and the content’s stale and boring with an overpriced, trying-to-fool-you price tag. It’s not looking good. I still PvP daily, mostly in BGs now. Got everything I wanted from Cryo and IC already.
Dock01
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Re: stuck in character load
This!PurpleScroll wrote: »Still no word from ZoS and this has been ongoing for at least 3 hours? Good grief.
3 hours?
Don't you mean 3 weeks.
During database maintenance on June 25, ZOS made some changes. Since then, performance has been affected and errors have increased — and why are the EU servers mostly affected?
Because we are on the EU servers and only the NA counts. I believe that we are counted as non-persons and of no account. At least that is the impression that is being sent out.
Re: stuck in character load
Many thanks to ZOS for making the "Seasons of the Endless Loading Screen" available for free to all players on the EU servers. Why this season isn't available to players on the NA servers is beyond me.
What a great experience! /s
What a great experience! /s
TomCat
12
Re: Upcoming U47 PTS changes, based on feedback
I'm a bit disappointed to see no mention of Grim Focus here.
The change is a pretty significant nerf for pure NB, because of how the class line is being used in subclassing.
I do agree that the ability should be active and not just a passive, and ironically, U46's change to allow it to stack to 10 was a major part of shifting this skill into a passive.
If reverting the 10-stack is not something you want to do, then perhaps another option is to grant X weapon/spell damage for Y number of seconds whenever the bow is fired.
NB never needed nor deserved that ridiculous giga-buff when it happened. Justified nerf is justified on an already overloaded skill.
While we're at it, restore the Pen bonus to flanking so that it does not continue to contribute to PvE power-creep. That was another ridiculous and unnecessary buff, particularly with how jealously ZOS has guarded Crit Chance over the last several years. To just hand out a giant unique tranche of Crit Chance was completely bewildering in U46.
If need be, shift the power to another skill or preferably another skill line altogether (such as the unloved and forgotten Shadow).
Re: Upcoming U47 PTS changes, based on feedback
Thank you for the improved communication, but since you are "solving the ultimate generation powercreep" can you un-nerf the Pillagers Profit set and Pearls of Elnofey nerf that were hit very hard in U46?
Re: Upcoming U47 PTS changes, based on feedback
As others have suggested, there is no need to have the maximum attribute exist in different skill lines of the same class at the same time. It is meaningless to split the same effect in half.
Suggestion: Change the Magicka and Stamina of Expert Summoner to 6/12%, which will be 1% less than the original 5+8, as a means of balancing Ward.
As for Dark Magic, although some people think it should be a healing line, its skills are not so suitable for healing (compared to skill lines such as Restoring Light), and abandoning Dark Magic as a dps line will also lose the fun of players playing as dark magicians.
I suggest making it similar to NB's Shadow line, a skill line that mixes damage, healing and utility. Shadow line has higher damage skills such as Twisting Path and Summon Shade, as well as self-buffs such as Blur and Shadowy Disguise, and healing abilities such as Refreshing Path and Dark Cloak. However, Dark Magic can be made more focused on giving debuffs to enemies rather than buffing teammates, to distinguish it from Shadow.
Suppression Field:
Increases the damage of this skill and removes silenced, instead giving Major Brittle to targets in range, making it a more reasonable damage skill and competing with Atronach.
Absorption Field:
Provides low damage and healing at the same time, and gives silenced, making it a composite utility skill.
Crystal Shard:
Slightly increases the damage of both morphs, making it closer to burst damage like Relentless Focus
Shattering Spines:
Removes immobilize and gives a dot that lasts 10/15 seconds to the target hit. Or increase the target's direct damage from the player himself by 5%. (Avoid letting an organized team buff the entire group with just one support in the trial. At the same time, because not all other skills and passive abilities of Black Magic are suitable for output, there should be no need to worry that increasing direct damage by 5% will cause too strong a reaction between Black Magic and Arc Beam. If necessary, it is reasonable to adjust it to 3%.)
Rune Prison:
Both morphs need to be reworked. Maybe one of them can make the target Stun three seconds after causing damage (instead of the current strange version), and the other can be centered on itself and cause Stun to everyone around after a delay of three seconds, instead of having to wait for someone to attack before triggering Stun.
Dark Exchange:
Remove the casting time, PLEASE.
Daedric Tomb:
Another almost dead skill that needs to be reworked. Maybe it can be made into a magic damage version of Fire Rune, but its effect is changed to: "After casting, it causes a violent explosion within the specified range every 5 seconds, a total of 3 times (15 seconds), causing X points of damage to the target within the range". To match the characteristics of Dark Magic that most of the damage is direct.
Blood Magic:
In addition to the original effects, new additions: Increases the healing you deal by 1/2%, or provides Minor Mending.
Persistence:
A very bland ability that needs to be reworked. For example: "When dealing critical damage or critical healing, restore an additional 1500/3000 maximum resources to yourself, this effect triggers once every 15 seconds"
Exploitation:
Gives it 3000 Offensive Penetration, or increases the direct damage it deals to the target by 5%. Makes it competitive with Hemorrhage.
I'm very happy to see that the official is willing to listen to player suggestions and make changes. This is very helpful in rebuilding trust between each other and is also a necessary method for the long-term operation of the game.
Suggestion: Change the Magicka and Stamina of Expert Summoner to 6/12%, which will be 1% less than the original 5+8, as a means of balancing Ward.
As for Dark Magic, although some people think it should be a healing line, its skills are not so suitable for healing (compared to skill lines such as Restoring Light), and abandoning Dark Magic as a dps line will also lose the fun of players playing as dark magicians.
I suggest making it similar to NB's Shadow line, a skill line that mixes damage, healing and utility. Shadow line has higher damage skills such as Twisting Path and Summon Shade, as well as self-buffs such as Blur and Shadowy Disguise, and healing abilities such as Refreshing Path and Dark Cloak. However, Dark Magic can be made more focused on giving debuffs to enemies rather than buffing teammates, to distinguish it from Shadow.
Suppression Field:
Increases the damage of this skill and removes silenced, instead giving Major Brittle to targets in range, making it a more reasonable damage skill and competing with Atronach.
Absorption Field:
Provides low damage and healing at the same time, and gives silenced, making it a composite utility skill.
Crystal Shard:
Slightly increases the damage of both morphs, making it closer to burst damage like Relentless Focus
Shattering Spines:
Removes immobilize and gives a dot that lasts 10/15 seconds to the target hit. Or increase the target's direct damage from the player himself by 5%. (Avoid letting an organized team buff the entire group with just one support in the trial. At the same time, because not all other skills and passive abilities of Black Magic are suitable for output, there should be no need to worry that increasing direct damage by 5% will cause too strong a reaction between Black Magic and Arc Beam. If necessary, it is reasonable to adjust it to 3%.)
Rune Prison:
Both morphs need to be reworked. Maybe one of them can make the target Stun three seconds after causing damage (instead of the current strange version), and the other can be centered on itself and cause Stun to everyone around after a delay of three seconds, instead of having to wait for someone to attack before triggering Stun.
Dark Exchange:
Remove the casting time, PLEASE.
Daedric Tomb:
Another almost dead skill that needs to be reworked. Maybe it can be made into a magic damage version of Fire Rune, but its effect is changed to: "After casting, it causes a violent explosion within the specified range every 5 seconds, a total of 3 times (15 seconds), causing X points of damage to the target within the range". To match the characteristics of Dark Magic that most of the damage is direct.
Blood Magic:
In addition to the original effects, new additions: Increases the healing you deal by 1/2%, or provides Minor Mending.
Persistence:
A very bland ability that needs to be reworked. For example: "When dealing critical damage or critical healing, restore an additional 1500/3000 maximum resources to yourself, this effect triggers once every 15 seconds"
Exploitation:
Gives it 3000 Offensive Penetration, or increases the direct damage it deals to the target by 5%. Makes it competitive with Hemorrhage.
I'm very happy to see that the official is willing to listen to player suggestions and make changes. This is very helpful in rebuilding trust between each other and is also a necessary method for the long-term operation of the game.
Re: stuck in character load
PurpleScroll wrote: »Still no word from ZoS and this has been ongoing for at least 3 hours? Good grief.
3 hours?
Don't you mean 3 weeks.
Weesacs
7
Re: PvP problems in TESO
SnakeCrasher wrote: »Your PvP campaign, Vengeance, is terrible. There's nothing to do there except for going in a group, but if you want to play solo, you should take the NB because you've made it the strongest and most unbalanced class. You've given it advantages that make it easier to play solo. It has its own speed buff, the ability to go into stealth, and good damage multipliers, while other classes don't have anything like that. I've been playing PvP since 2016, and I can definitely tell you that there are too many problems with PvP, and you don't want to deal with any of them. Instead, you're just running more tests. You have a lot of cheaters, players who use macros and game bugs, and they've adapted to the realities of ESO so well that they've been breaking your game for years, while all you can do is run tests. You don't have a proper anti-cheat system, and the one you do have doesn't work properly against dishonest players. To be honest, you don't even want to balance the game properly. Before the introduction of subclasses, the Sorcerer was the strongest class in PvP, and almost every second player played as a Sorcerer, but the Necromancer was the weakest class, so weak that almost no one played as a Necromancer. And so you decided to introduce subclasses, but you didn't fix the previous problems with the classes, and as a result, we now see that almost everyone still plays the same combinations: Sorcerer, Nightblade, and Warden. The other options are rarely used. So where is the diversity? There isn't any, and there never will be. You've somehow eliminated the uniqueness of the classes and made one class the strongest and the other the weakest, but with the introduction of subclasses, the situation has become even worse. I don't know what's on your mind or what your tests will lead to, but I sincerely hope that you will finally see the game's problems and start addressing them.
I agree with everything except the vengeance part I actually love that mode, it’s super fun. But yeah, way too many cheaters and seamless bug abusers exploiting while gaslighting everyone. There’s zero anti-cheat, and the server-side is a joke easily cracked. I’ve got no hope they’ll ever implement real security. ZOS is clearly struggling after all the layoffs, and the content’s stale and boring with an overpriced, trying-to-fool-you price tag. It’s not looking good. I still PvP daily, mostly in BGs now. Got everything I wanted from Cryo and IC already.
I loved Vengeance too. It was a breath of fresh air to be honest. PVP in my server (XBox NA) had grown to be so toxic (and its back to being that way) with ball groups playing as super comped zergs, players either using cheats or at best exploits to basically desync on command, horrendous non-competitive tactics like going to steal scrolls/hammer and give it to another alliance, constantly coming into zone chat to whine and complain, and players actively seeking to try to get other players banned. It was a total cess pool (still is). And Vengeance gave us a break from ALL of that and it brought the fun back to the game TBH. Yeah, we lost a lot of fun stuff, but what we gained was the ability to have these massive fights predicated by combined arms combat. Players actually put down and used seige. Camp usage was up 10 fold!. And there were no bombs and ball groups working together to completely kill the campaign. I thought I would hate that part, but as I said at the start, it was a breath of fresh air. I can't wait for them to bring it back.
