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Re: When will part 3 of Q&A be posted?
We are still working on this. There have been quite a bit of questions to get through while also supporting U46 PTS and general day to day tasks. But this is still being worked on. We had a chat about this last week around working to get the next round of questions fully answered and translated. No ETA at the moment. We would like to complete some more work on it before confirming a date. That way, we can give you more accurate information.
Re: PTS Patch Notes v11.1.3
General
- Based on player feedback earlier in this PTS cycle, we are reverting the week 1 adjustments to class ultimate generation passives. They now all generate a unique form of Ultimate again – however these effects put all similar passives on cooldown, so they cannot be stacked.
- Affects the following: Prism, Transfer, Mountain's Blessing, Savage Beast, Implacable Outcome, and Corpse Consumption.
- This cooldown works by taking the first effect to activate and using the cooldown of that effect to prevent any of these other effects (including itself) from activating for the listed duration. If you have Corpse Consumption and Prism and trigger Corpse Consumption first – you will not be able to trigger either for 16 seconds. If you trigger Prism after that cooldown window, the next cooldown would be 6 seconds.
- Fixed an issue where sprint could fail to deactivate if you had a combination of settings that changed behaviors of sprint toggle and walk toggle.
Class Abilities
- Nightblade
- Siphoning
- Catalyst: Reduced the Ultimate generated by this passive to 11/22, down from 15/30.
- Siphoning
- Sorcerer
- Daedric Summoning
- Bound Armor: This ability and its morphs have been partially reverted to grant Minor Protection rather than Major Resolve. Bound Armor and Aegis' duration are now based on your combined Physical and Spell Resistance - 1 second for every 10000 rating. Minimum duration of 3 seconds, maximum duration of 15 seconds (if you for some reason decide to stack that insane amount of Resistances).
- Bound Aegis: This morph now increases your block mitigation by 50% at rank IV, up from 40%. This morph no longer passively increases in duration directly, as it does indirectly from the Minor Resolve granted.
- Bound Armor: This ability and its morphs have been partially reverted to grant Minor Protection rather than Major Resolve. Bound Armor and Aegis' duration are now based on your combined Physical and Spell Resistance - 1 second for every 10000 rating. Minimum duration of 3 seconds, maximum duration of 15 seconds (if you for some reason decide to stack that insane amount of Resistances).
- Dark Magic
- Blood Magic: This passive now only heals you if you are not at full Health. If you are at full Health, it now increases the higher of your Max Magicka or Stamina by 5/10% for 10 seconds.
[Developer Comment]We’re taking the passive slot effect from Bound Armor and its morphs and placing it here to ensure base Sorcerer classes can retain the effects (and get a small boost in some cases), while also moving it to a less utilized skill line. We know this isn’t a silver bullet to making Dark Magic a desired skill line – but we’re using this as an experiment to see if this sort of shuffling of power is seen as a good thing or not in the brave new subclassing world. Definitely give us your feedback on this.
- Blood Magic: This passive now only heals you if you are not at full Health. If you are at full Health, it now increases the higher of your Max Magicka or Stamina by 5/10% for 10 seconds.
- Daedric Summoning
- Storm Calling
- Lightning Form: This ability and its morphs have been reverted to grant Major Resolve, rather than Minor Force.
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Grimoires
- Banner Bearer: The Class Mastery script when paired with this Grimoire as an Arcanist now generates 3 Ultimate if the effect did not generate a Crux. This is in an effort to offer a universal/role agnostic reward in cases where you already have a Crux.
[Developer Comment]Our original goal of limiting passive Crux generation remains, as we’ve seen the significant power gains and simplification of an already simple gameplay experience from having too much of it.
Re: Is "teabagging" [still] considered Trolling and/or Toxic?
Out of curiosity, what about two players crouching and uncrouching repeatedly bothered you, exactly?
I know what the act is intended to represent, yet the way I described it is what they were actually doing. How did this affect you?
I'm sure this will lead to a helpful and informative discussion.
JavaRen
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Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Classes & Abilities Changes
Joy_Division wrote: »I'm not sure the "shuffling power experiment" will work out as intended.
If a good/strong class line has some of its power shuffled to a weak/unpopular line, the result will be two average lines. Each line is competing against 20 other alternatives. We've already ditched class identity with sub-classing. Why would I hand onto a nerfed/shuffled line rather than just replacing it with something stronger?
Indeed. Shuffling power only works if there was sufficient power in a class to begin with. Which definitely is not the case currently.
Re: Players Wish List :
- New class: Hunter would be great. There are so many cool animals in game that could be fun to get as pets. Works well in other MMOs. Would be great to see it here.
- Longer hair styles.
- Many double Khajiit facial piercings made for other races.
- Bathing emote. (It's in game, give it to us too)
- The barmaid house guest. Having her as a purchasable guest would be ideal.
- Hide Tassets option.
- A short stack race.
- A server dedicated just for ROLE-PLAYERS.
- Longer hair styles.
- Many double Khajiit facial piercings made for other races.
- Bathing emote. (It's in game, give it to us too)
- The barmaid house guest. Having her as a purchasable guest would be ideal.
- Hide Tassets option.
- A short stack race.
- A server dedicated just for ROLE-PLAYERS.
Re: How many players are playing PvP at these times?
I really hope you're lower barrier to entry and brining in the casual Pve person makes pvp thrive. I don't have confidence they will get a core group to stick around and keep the pop up.
Why would you be against a lower barrier to entry if you want the best for PvP? Accessibility has nothing to do with making the game easier or lowering the bar, it just means people shouldn't have barriers blocking them from playing something.
High bars to enter almost always decrease participation which is exactly what we don't want.
There's also the fact that casual PvErs can grow to love PvP if the experience wasn't so horrible. ESO used to do this very well in it's earlier years. Many PvPers started out as questers or more casual players.
The barrier to enter ESO PvP used to be much lower and the experience for newer or more casual players used to be much better. The game absolutely needs to get back to that if PvP is going to get anywhere.
ESO got it right in it's 2.0 era which lasted from console release to Homestead. Vengeance is a bit too barebones and unbalanced, but if we could get back to more of an ESO 2.0 environment, PvP would be doing much better.
Stamicka
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Re: How many players are playing PvP at these times?
SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »Mathius_Mordred wrote: »We play every Saturday as a guild. The Vengeance campaign saw maybe 30 of us having a right laugh. Last night, it was back to Grayhost and ball groups spoiling everything. Bombers too. In the end, we managed 3 people. I used the DC ball group in Arrius to get my max damage achievement, then we all logged out because, as usual, it was hopelessly one-sided when you're part of EP, Ball groups everywhere, and bananas just farming AP in towers, very boring.
I hope Vengeance will be finalised soon so it can be a permanent addition to the game. Oh yeah, at one point my PC which normally runs along great at 80-144 fps was at 10 fps during a huge seige by all three alliances at Fort Ash.
So I am a casual PvPer, I get a few kills but I'm killed more than I kill. My rank is just coming up to Colonel so I have a long way to go, I doubt I will ever see Grand overlord unless Vengeance is a permanent feature.
Your post shows how vengeance is preferred by those that don't PvP very often. It's popular with primarily PvE players.
The vast majority of the PvP mains loathe vengeance and will leave the game if vengeance is the only option. There won't be enough people left to play vengeance if it's mandated.
You don't realise it but you contradicted yourself. If Vengeance is preferred by those who don't PvP very often, as you state, then that's the majority of the game population, as the majority play and prefer PvE. If Vengeance is an option all the time, then vast numbers of people will be drawn into PvP, and this is exactly what we have seen the last two times it has been run; it's always very popular. Nobody said it would be the only option, PvP sweats, bombers and ball group gankers can still choose to play the other campaigns.
Aramrils Theater of War in Coldharbour Surreal Estate
Decided to try my hand at creating Aramils Theater of war in my Coldharbour house, still needs some tinkering with moore candles and books but now im poor, this was expensive 
xKyrio
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Re: Sorcerer review and Update 47
Major_Toughness wrote: »Quoted post has been removed
The movement speed cap isn't that hard to hit nowadays. Both Expeditions are easy to source on top of Celerity being a free 10% movement speed. Most PvP players are wearing mostly medium armor, giving them another substantial (12% at 4 pieces) bonus to sprint speed. In conjunction with the melee range increase to 7m for all classes, I don't think Streak is as effective as a pure movement tool as it used to be, especially with its ramping cost.
Streak is far from the game's strongest ability, at the very least because its utility falls off dramatically in smaller spaces. Condescending and wrong at the same time is a bad look.
