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Re: U47 Changes
I know you think you are being clever... but, you don't realize that 90+% of your players are casual.
ZOS knows this very well. Did you play in 2014? This game was originally designed for all kinds of gamers, but mainly core and hardcore gamers. This is because development began in 2007.
However, after a failed launch, they pivoted to the ultra-casual skyrim fan. That is why 99.99% of the game is so trivial. This is why Matt stressed for years ESO is not a traditional MMO, but instead an Online RPG. The most expensive content -- voice acted quests included with chapters -- were designed to be played as a single player game. Because that's how the vast majority of ESO players play.
This game is SO MUCH MORE CASUAL than you seem to recognize. It is so casual the average player couldn't care less about even oakensoul or any balance change. The kind of casual you refer to is the casual enthusiast that plays somewhat like an MMO.
With all that said, this is a transitional period for ESO. Chapters are, at least for now, gone and they have expressed a desire to make the game more challenging again. They seem to recognize the enthusiast audience would prefer a greater challenge and may be pivoting in that direction. Only they know for certain.
They tried the Heavy Attack paradigm and it resulted in TERRIBLE gameplay. So after they introduced the beam meta via the Arcanist. It is between normal light attack weave gameplay and hold lmb 1 bar gameplay. They seem to want all 3 to be viable for different kinds of players. They have positioned beam builds for the casual end game player.
The problem is that the nerfs are disproportionately affecting casual players.
After patch 35, we had casual players in the guild asking why their templar jabs didn't seem to be working properly any more.
These players didn't follow patch notes or the latest meta so they never noticed the minor changes that came along but they did notice it in overland and normal dungeons when patch 35 arrived.
These same players ignored subclassing and thus experienced no damage buff with patch 46 but will received a significant damage nerf in patch 47.
Just look at nightblade, pure nightblade players are losing close to 500 weapon/spell damage and getting absolutely nothing in return.
Re: One of the prominent rewards from the current GP is leaving me... very conflicted
Said that getting rewarded with the artwork of someone whose employment was very recently terminated so unceremoniously, with no warning, no consultation, no communication, nothing, is leaving me... well, conflicted.
Hundreds of people just recently lost their job that way. Why does an artist stand out and deserve special treatment? Just because their work is more prominent or recognizable? They got paid as all the others who are gone and whose hard work and passion we still enjoy.
I think if you want to make a big issue of consuming products of a company that is treating their employees that way, you should do that in every regard and not just for the ones right in the spotlight.
So I think it´s rather disrespectful to mind only about the one person and ignore the contribution of all the others. To me that feels kind of hypocritical.
Thysbe
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Golden pursuit - quests
Hi there.
Shouldn't the scribing main quests be already marked as done, in the golden puirsuit, if you already collected the seals?
I mean, I suppose I could to the quests again with another character, but those are very long, and the replayability is quite poor.
Don't get me wrong, those are not bad quests, and I enjoyed doing them. But please, don't force me to play them again.
I have the seals, so mark those pursuit as already done.
Shouldn't the scribing main quests be already marked as done, in the golden puirsuit, if you already collected the seals?
I mean, I suppose I could to the quests again with another character, but those are very long, and the replayability is quite poor.
Don't get me wrong, those are not bad quests, and I enjoyed doing them. But please, don't force me to play them again.
I have the seals, so mark those pursuit as already done.
Re: Accounts banned from guild question
You are wrong about guild masters and officers not needing to act like a sheriff. That is precisely one of the roles of a guild master — to protect guild members from toxic players who have been banned. And yes, that means that a year later, following a name change, a guild master should still be able to identify that player. And yes, there are most certainly circumstances in which it is of NO IMPORTANCE whether that player has 'changed', 'matured' or whatever. You break the rules, you are blocked, and you should remain blocked and rightly so. It is in no way whatsoever a violation of that blocked player's "privacy" that guild masters are able to track that person and ensure that they are unable to rejoin.
Gegensmith
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Re: Please just nerf Fatecarver.
I don't think the casual player doing normal dungeons, questing and other overland content would notice much of a difference. The casual content in ESO is already by design very easy.
Re: i was about to ask for everyone's 3 favourite delves, but the mood seems neg
Khajiit particularly enjoys rubble butte, but then again, who doesn't enjoy butte rubbings?
Re: Can you PLEASE stop wrecking the game?
The nerf-buff rollercoaster won't end bc ZOS said it's their design philosophy. It's up to you to decide whether you want to continue to pay for the ride. I chose to get off. It feels bad to have my builds constantly gutted especially when I just spent a lot of time and effort on them.
Frayton
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Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Classes & Abilities Changes
the other issue with the bound aegis change is that even on pure sorc you don't have the skill slots to make the build work
here is a mag sorc build:
ele weapon, frags, prey, scamp, bird, flawless dawn
blockade, hurricane, crit surge, scamp, bird, atro
where do I put bound aegis? in the hurricane spot?
I could put bound arms in the frags spot, but then I'm literally locked out of major resolve
pure sorc can't get both resolve and prophecy for some reason that makes no sense
here is a mag sorc build:
ele weapon, frags, prey, scamp, bird, flawless dawn
blockade, hurricane, crit surge, scamp, bird, atro
where do I put bound aegis? in the hurricane spot?
I could put bound arms in the frags spot, but then I'm literally locked out of major resolve
pure sorc can't get both resolve and prophecy for some reason that makes no sense
Tannus15
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Re: PTS Update 47 - Feedback Thread for Classes & Abilities Changes
HackTheMinotaur wrote: »Also, all class Ultimate generating passives (other than Catalyst) are now dead skills for Oakensoul builds. This does not work IMO.
Not all classes. After all, Sorc has never been eligible for Ultimate generating passives.
Re: One of the prominent rewards from the current GP is leaving me... very conflicted
Imagine getting laid off and then a beautiful illustration you labored over was canned and never released just because you no longer work there.
Imagine if they deleted that work just because they thought a small number of fans might feel weird about it on your behalf.
Work isn't personal, but even so, there's nothing indicating disrespect here.
Imagine if they deleted that work just because they thought a small number of fans might feel weird about it on your behalf.
Work isn't personal, but even so, there's nothing indicating disrespect here.
