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Re: Returning player: who makes the best eso builds right now?
You could also check out Charles' videos for PvE builds.
BasP
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Re: * Very * alarming interventions over guild names in recent weeks
There have always been, and still are a -ton- of guilds with names like Zenithar's Builders, or such. None of these guilds are being targetted or actioned, so I'm pretty sure that they are fine, and OP's guild name should be permitted.
JavaRen
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Re: Share Your Subclassing Builds!
Very boring compared to some of the above, I just wanted to remake my old Affliction Warlock from the game that must not be named, all beams and DOTs - Necromancer / Arcanist / Nightblade - Works very well and a blast to play.
Re: Returning player: who makes the best eso builds right now?
Xynode. 10000% check him out.
Djennku
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Re: How? It is WILD in 2025, for a 10 year old game to have such POOR PERFORMANCE
And: Over 120fps before 25 June; and now? 70sth erratically dropping to 4 (!!) and to 20sth back to 70sth, 15 etc. Nothing my end has changed. What gives?
This is what's happening to me, and that is the day it changed. Whatever they did on June 25th maintenance seriously impacted performance. So ZOS knows the day it changed and what they did. So they can revert the change. So why haven't they?
Re: How? It is WILD in 2025, for a 10 year old game to have such POOR PERFORMANCE
Agreed. Performance was pretty unreliable before June 25th, but they made some change server side that seriously tanked performance and they haven't done anything since to rectify whatever they changed. Now even FPS is determined server side and both lag and fps are bottoming out at the tiniest of battle, even in PvE lands, and especially when porting to new zones.
I keep thinking ZOS couldn't do any worse in the performance department, but they keep proving me wrong.
I keep thinking ZOS couldn't do any worse in the performance department, but they keep proving me wrong.
What happened to Crown Store Showcase?
It's been few months now those showcase don't really show anymore things. Now it's mostly a list with some pictures.
We got list of stuff that we know it will be available but for most of those we cannot know how they look.
So now it requires to search on alternative sites to know what is what because of the missing pictures of the stuff "showed".
It become barely pointless and I don't understand why it's like that now when it wasn't before...
We got list of stuff that we know it will be available but for most of those we cannot know how they look.
So now it requires to search on alternative sites to know what is what because of the missing pictures of the stuff "showed".
It become barely pointless and I don't understand why it's like that now when it wasn't before...
MATH_COW
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Re: * Very * alarming interventions over guild names in recent weeks
This is horrible. It looks on the face of it plain bigoted bullying. It might not be relevant, but I've noticed that CS seems to have difficulties with LGBTQ+ issues overall. I reported someone in zone chat for calling a Pacrooti's Hirelings recruiter mentally ill for being gay, and I was told by CS this didn't violate any policies. It gave me pause at the time, but I left it alone. Now, with this, I wonder if there's a larger cultural problem in the CS department.
That's actually very concerning.
It's hardly specific to LGBT+ issues, though. In my experience, "not a violation" is the usual response until you appeal.
I went through 4 months of back-and-forth with Support over whether the c-word used as an insult violates the ToS/CoC. (They said it did, finally.) Two months with them over a character name that blatantly ridiculed handicapped players.
A friend of mine said Support declared that someone calling her a b-word was "not a violation." She hates the word and would never consent to being called it, which she explained in her report. Still "not a violation."
It's also not a violation to tell someone to "Alt F4" when they ask for help in chat. "Not a violation" to threaten someone in DMs or verbally abuse zone chat for months on end.
When I asked that a post referring to a player's body part (out of the blue, simply for puerile humor) be moderated, I was the one accused of abuse by support. I still haven't had a follow-up on that, and it's been months.
There is a systemic issue, but it's not limited to a particular group. Lots of demographics are covered here.
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.
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.
Stamicka
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Re: Sorcerer review and Update 47
Why exactly is there an entire thread dedicated to buffing what are already the strongest offensive & sustain skill lines in the game?
Because they are essentially absent in PvE content, which is why the bulk of the suggestions here focus on increasing Sorc's PvE viability. Skill lines should be legitimately viable in both environments, and not just in niche cases (e.g., needing to streak to door in vAS or running an MK sorc). And even in PvP, I wouldn't call Storm Calling the strongest offensive line. Surely Animal Companion and Assassination are stronger.
Dark Magic on the other hand is extremely underrated for sustain and on a meta sorcblade Crystal Frags very often outperform Merciless Resolve in damage done, while also offering cost reductions & Blood Magic heals. This is due to the buff the skill received in previous patch where it can now proc while on the back bar as well, resulting a lot more frequency in which you can cast it.
Again, there are no "meta sorcblades" in PvE, and no one is using Frags in PvE because Dark Magic is very weak. And even if Frags can outdamage Merciless proc for proc, Merciless is giving you weapon damage and bonus crit chance (at least on the live server), and can heal you in melee range.
The real strength of this skill line however lies in the sustain aspect of it. It is absolutely wild to call Dark Exchange a bad ability because it "has a cast time" when the same ability also:
- Provides a burst heal (8/10k Base Tooltip+Blood Magic passive 3-4k~).
- 3600 Stamina (20 seconds of Warden Netch or 15 seconds of Templar Rune instantly)+additional 240/second for 10 seconds or 4500 Magicka instantly (26 seconds of Warden Netch or 18 seconds of Templar rune instantly)+additional 150/second for 20 seconds.
- Minor Berserk (+Minor Force currently)
Even if Dark Deal isn't a bad skill, Netch is free, cleanses you, gives you 5% crit damage, and can provide and extra 5% damage done on top of activating Flourish. Plar rune heals you (potentially for a lot if you stand in it) and can be used to activate Sacred Ground on top of providing Major Resolve. I think Dark Deal lags behind both of them.
There's a whole lot of other nonsense here
I'm sure there is /s
Other than that, sorcerer skill lines are more than fine and all of them see use in PvP (yes, even Daedric Summoning).
Again: a skill line's utility should not be limited to PvP. Even so, I don't think PvPers are going to complain about more skills and morphs being good within trees that are already good.
