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Re: Enough of the Terrier Bones!!!!
Aren't we privilegied though?
Such a glorious event ! With so many people cluttering guild stores with scores and scores of worthless style pages and bones ! Ah, what a time to be alive !
Tou might as well increase the npc sales value of the style pages to 300g. That would makes it less horrendous to browse guild store, as people would vendor them.
Such a glorious event ! With so many people cluttering guild stores with scores and scores of worthless style pages and bones ! Ah, what a time to be alive !
Tou might as well increase the npc sales value of the style pages to 300g. That would makes it less horrendous to browse guild store, as people would vendor them.
Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
Evil_Rurouni wrote: »One word:
Multiclassing.
Many dedicated PvP players won't have finished leveling up their new Multiclass PvP builds yet so aren't taking part as much or at all.
A great many more people who usually don't play PvP outside of events won't have even thought about designing a Multiclass PvP build and were caught completly unprepared.
Others will have decided that its just not worth the effort of leveling a Multiclass PvP build just for events.
Other players are playing ESO itself less or not at all for a few patch cycles while waiting for the Multiclass Meta's to stabilise, so there's less players around to start with.
There'll also be plenty of people who expect PvP to be an absolute train wreck of busted OP Multiclass PvP build like how PvE's DPS is and just gone "lolNOPE!".
Honestly, I have a different take on this post.
Because I know for a fact the hardcore dedicated PVP players ground their tails off leveling up subclasses to be ahead of the curve in PVP. 3 days after Subclass came out, we were seeing people on DK's or NB's running beatles from Warden, or templars using Sorc abilities, etc. So I know for a fact that most of the hardcore PVPers were on it leveling up their subclasses. But I do believe subclassing plays a part as to why the event turnout was low. The reasons for it?
1) Server performance. It has been particularly bad this event, and while it is probably not the ONLY culprit, I can't help but suspect that as Zos continues to make changes and "upgrades" to this game without upgrading their engine and server, performance continues to degrade.
And
2) Right now, with subclassing, damage is so disgustingly high that PVE players and casual PVP players don't stand a chance against the hardcore PVP players. I'm not going to toot my own horn, but I know that I have seen small groups of 4-6 who are nigh unkillable because of the subclassing changes allow them to literally have it all - tankiness, survivability, sustain, and burst - with zero downside. I'm a regular PVP player and sometimes it can get frustrating, and so I can only imagine how the less dedicated PVP players feel about the situation.
Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
I've pvped quite abit so far and I honestly think subclassing is the problem.
It puts such high requirements on having a decent time; because just using your main class is too weak.
Also the 30-45 min que on Grey Host + combination of lag.
I do not think we're ''short on players'' cause the turnout on peak times isn't that bad
I think they need to return vengeance campaign and do it without subclassing.
Back to the basics
Good point.
I'll say this as someone who has been in Cyro 5 times a week (min) for like... 7 years straight... I took a solid 10 months off and came back post subclassing.
My typical dk build that slapped in Cyro just 10 months ago has me getting absolutley dumpstered. It's night and day how far the power curve is. My first day or two were not fun AT ALL. I'm still not having fun but... it's not as bad as it was lol.
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Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for New Item Sets
Burning spellweave may as well be 100% uptime at this point with how much power creep there has been. Fix frostbite and make a worthwhile shock set and we can at least pretend we're allowed to have fun.
Re: Monthly rewards
It's because the GP this month will be handing out some nice goodies. Like attunable crafting stations.
Re: What is there to look forwards to?
Plenty. New systems and additions to existing systems!
I am also cautiously optimistic about the actual response to some of the PTS feedback from this cycle being listened to (of course, there are still some bad changes like the random Dark Cloak nerf).
Perhaps we are entering a new phase of development where the PTS and approaches to balance are less of a "here it is, take it or leave it" and more of an actual back-and-forth with the players.
I am also cautiously optimistic about the actual response to some of the PTS feedback from this cycle being listened to (of course, there are still some bad changes like the random Dark Cloak nerf).
Perhaps we are entering a new phase of development where the PTS and approaches to balance are less of a "here it is, take it or leave it" and more of an actual back-and-forth with the players.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Introducing ZOS’s New Studio Head, Jo Burba"
It’ll be interesting to see where things go next.
The letter mentioned some core tenants that guide ESO’s development.The core tenets that we have learned over the years haven't changed. These values are the stars that guide us through difficult times:
- People first, game always.
- Turn square corners—integrity is our guiding light in all we do.
- All hands on deck when the inevitable storms happen.
- Own our mistakes and make repairs quickly.
- Get a little bit better every day by being open to feedback and focused on learning.
- Everyone has a place in our studio and in our worlds.
I would love to see these tenants genuinely reflected in ESO’s development, beyond just reassuring messaging.
"Own our mistakes and make repairs quickly. "
This has never been a strongsuit of the studio, so hopefully it's something the team actually plans to prioritize moving forward. I could list a dozen examples of things being broken and remaining that way for entire 3-4 month patch cycles (or longer), and even more examples of extremely poor balancing decisions that were made and never revisited or justified.
Balancing decisions are not "mistakes", as much as we wish they were considered mistakes.
Crown Store prices being too high or low than intended or character data being copied from the PTS to Live are "mistakes", and those were swiftly repaired as ZOS owned up to those mistakes with compensation.
Some more clarification from ZOS on what exactly constitutes a "mistake" would be appreciated for future clarity. Otherwise we could say any unfavorable change was a mistake and we'd be complaining to ZOS for months to remedy something that they don't consider to be a mistake.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Introducing ZOS’s New Studio Head, Jo Burba"
I appreciate Jo Burba's introduction and reassurance that ESO is in a stable state, with longevity in mind!
I hope that the employees at ZeniMax will prevail in this tumultuous, turbulent time in the business cycle.
I hope that the employees at ZeniMax will prevail in this tumultuous, turbulent time in the business cycle.
