ArchMikem wrote: »

Gegensmith wrote: »

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Do you enjoy being as insulting as possible within the confines of civility?

I think that kind of response was incited by the categorization of things that some of you don't personally like.
People might find their choices being defined as "cancer" to be insulting, yes?
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There are still battlegrounds in ESO? (sarcasm)

I've played about 5 two team BG's. Thanks, but no thanks. The two team format killed battlegrounds for me. I like the 4x4x4 format but two teams is just crazy unbalanced with no buffer to mitigate high skilled players/teams from the lower level players/teams.

Did your ability to play and/or complete certain types of game content improve after the launch of Update 46?

No. It has absolutely obliterated my ability to play in the content I used to enjoy.

If so, prior to the launch of Update 46, what was your character build?

I had various builds depending of what was needed in my prog groups, typical arcanist dd for the most part, but with a quantum of diversity, bowplar, zenkosh dk, mkeccro, ...

What did you change to your character build when Update 46 launched that allowed you to play or complete content that you had trouble with before?

I did not touch their builds. I could complete the co tent before U46. I do not want to subclass. I liked the identity of my characters.

What game content was it?

Trial trifectas. We got SBS, PB and GS before U46. After the update released I was pushed out of the group for not wanting to subclass.

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I still can't wrap my head around how U46 could have been released in that state. There has pretty much always been a rampant issue of powercreep along the years, which apparently was being addressed and appeared to be such a problematic issue that it lead to the infamous U35 Lost Depths update.

Now let's put into perspective U46, a 30% to 50% damage boost, if surrendering to subclassing, happened overnight, which apparently was an acceptable power bump.

Then there is the issue of diversity. The harder the content the less diversity. I'll admit this is to be expected to some extent, it is a hard task to balance everything and that some things will be better than others. Build diversity already took a blow when hybridisation was released. The distinction between magicka and stamina based builds was roughly determined by your spammable. Then arcanists were released, they became a must have unless you were extremely good in the other few required roles as DD. But now...? There is at most a handful (if not just a single one) of optimal DD build variations for endgame raiding. What is the point exactly now of having different toons with different base classes knowing that if they don't happen to have one of the few correct base classes they will forever be unfit for the gameplay I built and enjoyed them for ? Should that level of damage be maintained, a quick, easy and dirty fix would be to apply a flat 30-50% (adjusted to the best subclassed build per class) damage boost active only when pureclassing so that endgame players who do not wish to subclass could still enjoy the game the way they want to and be relevant.

Then I have to question why all the feedback the playerbase provided has been blatantly ignored. During the PTS cycle a lot of feedback was provided and yet we now know how U46 went live.

I will now quote a an excerpt from Steam's "ESO’s Developers Share Subclassing System Secrets" post :

In ESO, players can change their appearance, names, races, and even faction, but this has not been true with class

...the equivalent is a change token. There is no subracing, subfactioning etc. The subclassing equivalent to subracing would be taking the arms of a dark elf for the corresponding passive, the head of an orc, etc.

I used to enjoy raiding in eso, now I've basically stopped playing. I still do some daily endeavours and get the occasional event tickets, but I'm getting bored fast and I don't know for how long it will prevent me from moving on from eso entirely.

Personally I think U46 was singlehandedly the worst update that ever happened to eso. There are a few easy ways to mitigate the shortfalls of this update, but if nothing is done I'm afraid I'll simply move on from eso.

Is there ever going to be an option to shut off the annoying visual clutter, lightshows, and explosion noises on our end?

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hey all, we've checked in with the team working on this and they are making good progress. We do apologize for the wait and interruption to your playtime. We will provide another update within the next hour.

Apologies aren't enough. After all these months of being unable to play, we paying players deserve appropriate compensation. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom , how come in other free games players get compensation for much less, but here you never give us anything, just constant and recurring bugs that never get fixed?

Honestly 100% TRUE,You couldn't have said a truer word,they don't care enough about the playerbase here ,it is all about the money,very true indeed i have played multiple games and even 30 minutes over maintenance they always give us something for fre/compensation.
Here we get absolutely nothing,never really have done and probably never will either NOT Even a proper apology either,just xcuse after excuse.

Most games don't care about immersion since 2020.

I was playing call of duty the other day and this mil sim is full of cell shaded Beavis and Butt-Head, Seth Rogen and the puppet girl from Squid Game red light/green light.

The irony is that the power to stop this nonsense was in the hands of the players. Yet, most people keep buying. So don't expect changes anytime. It will get worse.

"Oh no! There are other people in my MMO! Ghastly!"

Hi all,

Wanted to follow up here. The goal is always to provided a balance of more grounded yet cool items and more fun/ fantastical items as well.

We have taken note and shared feedback when some items may push that balance a bit far, like our 4-sword horse friend. (I find this mount fun, but totally understand it can be super jarring.)

However, the item selections are meant to give you the player tools to be creative and have fun. Sometimes player choice will lead to a dancing Molag Bal, as jarring as that can be. But between the Crown Store items, in-game items and in-game event items, there are plenty of choices to make a more grounded experience for yourself and for others if they so choose. Some may go down the route of Sheogorath for a more maddening experience, but they should have the option to do so as well.

All that being said, happy to take any additional feedback to the team for their consideration. Is there a style or kind of cosmetic we have made in the past that you would like us to lean more into?

Thanks for any feedback give here. And please be mindful when submitting feedback that you remember community guidelines.