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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.
Re: Would you like to see the addition of follower dungeons akin to WoW's system? (Explanation below)
I just want something to be done so people stop complaining all the time.
There is SO much of ESO that isn't designed for a player like me and I never stress about it. If I run out of things to do in ESO, I do something else. I'd never, ever, even consider advocating major changes that directly affect things other players have been enjoying for years. Content designed for a completely different kind of player. It's okay that it exists. It shouldn't be offensive to anyone that it doesn't work for them.
IMO, it is a fundamental level of respect that has gone AWOL and a big reason why things are the way they are right now.
I don't stress about not doing dungeons; I just don't do them. If a mode were added for me to be able to complete them without relying on other people, then I would do them. I'm not sure how adding a solo/story mode for dungeons would take anything away from people who play dungeons. The dungeons would still be there, in all their versions, for people to enjoy.
People requesting a feature they would enjoy isn't being disrespectful to others; it isn't people complaining; it isn't people being offended. It's just people wanting more fun in their game.
I disagree. I think it's incredibly disrespectful to request a change that would have major negative ramifications for an entire community.
ZOS has already bent over backwards completely refactoring this game for ultra-casual solo players. There is so little content untouched by the wishes of this kind of player. And they're never satisfied. They won't be until everything is accessible to them on their terms.
Desiato
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Re: How? It is WILD in 2025, for a 10 year old game to have such POOR PERFORMANCE
I started playing in late May 2025, right before the update that broke the performance. My PC hasn't changed, my workload hasn't changed, my internet is the same and it's fast and stable (1 gigabit). I never used and don't plan to use addons.9 times out of 10 when someone has issues running ESO on pc, it's on the user's side, not the server. Often the problem is anything from a bad internet connection, overloading the pc's hardware, or even addons, which ZoS is not responsible for.
Before the June update, everything was fine. FPS was higher, there was no input issues, no audio delay issues, nothing. And yet it's still my fault somehow? That's just gaslighting.
Versalium
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Re: Playing through Summerset story in 2025 is wild
valenwood_vegan wrote: »SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »[snip]
I mean the forum rules do clearly state that discussions of real world politics are not appropriate on the forum. Personally I'm happy about that, as at least in the US, it's shoved in our faces 24/7.
As for the topic at hand, many Altmer being supremist and generally awful was not at all new or unique to Summerset. As mentioned, it was also written into the story in Auridon, years before Summerset. The Thalmor were central to the main story in Skyrim. And it's been discussed in the lore much earlier than this.
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Agreed 100%
Don't know why people feel the need to interject IRL politics into this game sometimes, always bizarre
Re: How? It is WILD in 2025, for a 10 year old game to have such POOR PERFORMANCE
My issue is the lack of transparency. What is being done to resolve this? We've been made aware of what is causing it - but nobody is telling us how longterm this is going to be rectified? Is connection issues the new norm now? I for one do not feel like playing a game where connection is available at the flip of a coin.
Raanbury
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Dark cloak NERF - seriously!?
It used to be one of the worst healing abilities in one of the worst skill lines in the game, there was almost no reason to use it ever, yet you give it 2 massive nerfs? What??? Making it only heal you when you're standing still was a massive nerf that made it useless, now you need to be HOLDING BLOCK for it to heal you??? So you can't even get it's healing when you're stunned, when you need it the most, and on top of that it's duratin is decreased to 3 seconds... You could increase it's duration to 10 seconds at this point and it would still be a bad skill, but you make it 3... At this point this hot is soo bad that it's not worth pressing because it will heal you less than a burst heal and will cost just sligtly less
Prionyx
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Re: Why are the so few companions?
I grew up as an American using "they" for when I don't know the gender of who I am referring to.
People keep bringing this up, missing the fact that we DO know the gender of each of these characters.
