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Re: Upcoming U47 PTS changes, based on feedback
Thank you for the improved communication, but since you are "solving the ultimate generation powercreep" can you un-nerf the Pillagers Profit set and Pearls of Elnofey nerf that were hit very hard in U46?
Re: Upcoming U47 PTS changes, based on feedback
As others have suggested, there is no need to have the maximum attribute exist in different skill lines of the same class at the same time. It is meaningless to split the same effect in half.
Suggestion: Change the Magicka and Stamina of Expert Summoner to 6/12%, which will be 1% less than the original 5+8, as a means of balancing Ward.
As for Dark Magic, although some people think it should be a healing line, its skills are not so suitable for healing (compared to skill lines such as Restoring Light), and abandoning Dark Magic as a dps line will also lose the fun of players playing as dark magicians.
I suggest making it similar to NB's Shadow line, a skill line that mixes damage, healing and utility. Shadow line has higher damage skills such as Twisting Path and Summon Shade, as well as self-buffs such as Blur and Shadowy Disguise, and healing abilities such as Refreshing Path and Dark Cloak. However, Dark Magic can be made more focused on giving debuffs to enemies rather than buffing teammates, to distinguish it from Shadow.
Suppression Field:
Increases the damage of this skill and removes silenced, instead giving Major Brittle to targets in range, making it a more reasonable damage skill and competing with Atronach.
Absorption Field:
Provides low damage and healing at the same time, and gives silenced, making it a composite utility skill.
Crystal Shard:
Slightly increases the damage of both morphs, making it closer to burst damage like Relentless Focus
Shattering Spines:
Removes immobilize and gives a dot that lasts 10/15 seconds to the target hit. Or increase the target's direct damage from the player himself by 5%. (Avoid letting an organized team buff the entire group with just one support in the trial. At the same time, because not all other skills and passive abilities of Black Magic are suitable for output, there should be no need to worry that increasing direct damage by 5% will cause too strong a reaction between Black Magic and Arc Beam. If necessary, it is reasonable to adjust it to 3%.)
Rune Prison:
Both morphs need to be reworked. Maybe one of them can make the target Stun three seconds after causing damage (instead of the current strange version), and the other can be centered on itself and cause Stun to everyone around after a delay of three seconds, instead of having to wait for someone to attack before triggering Stun.
Dark Exchange:
Remove the casting time, PLEASE.
Daedric Tomb:
Another almost dead skill that needs to be reworked. Maybe it can be made into a magic damage version of Fire Rune, but its effect is changed to: "After casting, it causes a violent explosion within the specified range every 5 seconds, a total of 3 times (15 seconds), causing X points of damage to the target within the range". To match the characteristics of Dark Magic that most of the damage is direct.
Blood Magic:
In addition to the original effects, new additions: Increases the healing you deal by 1/2%, or provides Minor Mending.
Persistence:
A very bland ability that needs to be reworked. For example: "When dealing critical damage or critical healing, restore an additional 1500/3000 maximum resources to yourself, this effect triggers once every 15 seconds"
Exploitation:
Gives it 3000 Offensive Penetration, or increases the direct damage it deals to the target by 5%. Makes it competitive with Hemorrhage.
I'm very happy to see that the official is willing to listen to player suggestions and make changes. This is very helpful in rebuilding trust between each other and is also a necessary method for the long-term operation of the game.
Suggestion: Change the Magicka and Stamina of Expert Summoner to 6/12%, which will be 1% less than the original 5+8, as a means of balancing Ward.
As for Dark Magic, although some people think it should be a healing line, its skills are not so suitable for healing (compared to skill lines such as Restoring Light), and abandoning Dark Magic as a dps line will also lose the fun of players playing as dark magicians.
I suggest making it similar to NB's Shadow line, a skill line that mixes damage, healing and utility. Shadow line has higher damage skills such as Twisting Path and Summon Shade, as well as self-buffs such as Blur and Shadowy Disguise, and healing abilities such as Refreshing Path and Dark Cloak. However, Dark Magic can be made more focused on giving debuffs to enemies rather than buffing teammates, to distinguish it from Shadow.
Suppression Field:
Increases the damage of this skill and removes silenced, instead giving Major Brittle to targets in range, making it a more reasonable damage skill and competing with Atronach.
Absorption Field:
Provides low damage and healing at the same time, and gives silenced, making it a composite utility skill.
Crystal Shard:
Slightly increases the damage of both morphs, making it closer to burst damage like Relentless Focus
Shattering Spines:
Removes immobilize and gives a dot that lasts 10/15 seconds to the target hit. Or increase the target's direct damage from the player himself by 5%. (Avoid letting an organized team buff the entire group with just one support in the trial. At the same time, because not all other skills and passive abilities of Black Magic are suitable for output, there should be no need to worry that increasing direct damage by 5% will cause too strong a reaction between Black Magic and Arc Beam. If necessary, it is reasonable to adjust it to 3%.)
Rune Prison:
Both morphs need to be reworked. Maybe one of them can make the target Stun three seconds after causing damage (instead of the current strange version), and the other can be centered on itself and cause Stun to everyone around after a delay of three seconds, instead of having to wait for someone to attack before triggering Stun.
Dark Exchange:
Remove the casting time, PLEASE.
Daedric Tomb:
Another almost dead skill that needs to be reworked. Maybe it can be made into a magic damage version of Fire Rune, but its effect is changed to: "After casting, it causes a violent explosion within the specified range every 5 seconds, a total of 3 times (15 seconds), causing X points of damage to the target within the range". To match the characteristics of Dark Magic that most of the damage is direct.
Blood Magic:
In addition to the original effects, new additions: Increases the healing you deal by 1/2%, or provides Minor Mending.
Persistence:
A very bland ability that needs to be reworked. For example: "When dealing critical damage or critical healing, restore an additional 1500/3000 maximum resources to yourself, this effect triggers once every 15 seconds"
Exploitation:
Gives it 3000 Offensive Penetration, or increases the direct damage it deals to the target by 5%. Makes it competitive with Hemorrhage.
I'm very happy to see that the official is willing to listen to player suggestions and make changes. This is very helpful in rebuilding trust between each other and is also a necessary method for the long-term operation of the game.
Re: stuck in character load
PurpleScroll wrote: »Still no word from ZoS and this has been ongoing for at least 3 hours? Good grief.
3 hours?
Don't you mean 3 weeks.
Weesacs
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Re: PvP problems in TESO
SnakeCrasher wrote: »Your PvP campaign, Vengeance, is terrible. There's nothing to do there except for going in a group, but if you want to play solo, you should take the NB because you've made it the strongest and most unbalanced class. You've given it advantages that make it easier to play solo. It has its own speed buff, the ability to go into stealth, and good damage multipliers, while other classes don't have anything like that. I've been playing PvP since 2016, and I can definitely tell you that there are too many problems with PvP, and you don't want to deal with any of them. Instead, you're just running more tests. You have a lot of cheaters, players who use macros and game bugs, and they've adapted to the realities of ESO so well that they've been breaking your game for years, while all you can do is run tests. You don't have a proper anti-cheat system, and the one you do have doesn't work properly against dishonest players. To be honest, you don't even want to balance the game properly. Before the introduction of subclasses, the Sorcerer was the strongest class in PvP, and almost every second player played as a Sorcerer, but the Necromancer was the weakest class, so weak that almost no one played as a Necromancer. And so you decided to introduce subclasses, but you didn't fix the previous problems with the classes, and as a result, we now see that almost everyone still plays the same combinations: Sorcerer, Nightblade, and Warden. The other options are rarely used. So where is the diversity? There isn't any, and there never will be. You've somehow eliminated the uniqueness of the classes and made one class the strongest and the other the weakest, but with the introduction of subclasses, the situation has become even worse. I don't know what's on your mind or what your tests will lead to, but I sincerely hope that you will finally see the game's problems and start addressing them.
I agree with everything except the vengeance part I actually love that mode, it’s super fun. But yeah, way too many cheaters and seamless bug abusers exploiting while gaslighting everyone. There’s zero anti-cheat, and the server-side is a joke easily cracked. I’ve got no hope they’ll ever implement real security. ZOS is clearly struggling after all the layoffs, and the content’s stale and boring with an overpriced, trying-to-fool-you price tag. It’s not looking good. I still PvP daily, mostly in BGs now. Got everything I wanted from Cryo and IC already.
I loved Vengeance too. It was a breath of fresh air to be honest. PVP in my server (XBox NA) had grown to be so toxic (and its back to being that way) with ball groups playing as super comped zergs, players either using cheats or at best exploits to basically desync on command, horrendous non-competitive tactics like going to steal scrolls/hammer and give it to another alliance, constantly coming into zone chat to whine and complain, and players actively seeking to try to get other players banned. It was a total cess pool (still is). And Vengeance gave us a break from ALL of that and it brought the fun back to the game TBH. Yeah, we lost a lot of fun stuff, but what we gained was the ability to have these massive fights predicated by combined arms combat. Players actually put down and used seige. Camp usage was up 10 fold!. And there were no bombs and ball groups working together to completely kill the campaign. I thought I would hate that part, but as I said at the start, it was a breath of fresh air. I can't wait for them to bring it back.
Re: SORT IT OUT!!!
For the love of God, pull yours fingers out and fix this ongoing problem.
they won't. It's a decade long issue
Eva13
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Re: Hello, lightning form? U47 Sorc discussion
Nemesis7884 wrote: »Minor force is the worst buff, so many sources now for it...
Major crit chance would fit so much better considering crit surge needs you to have crit to work. It makes no sense to give stormcalling two skills that require you to get crit chance, when it has no way of getting critchance. Atleast without running assassination, except you likely cant since you now need major resolve.
Re: SORT IT OUT!!!
Transparency would be appreciated. ‘Issue resolved’ is just a lie when a few days later the problem is back.
Lissiexx
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Re: Oh Which Title/Achievement Are You The Most Proud?
Lord Potato
Took some time, but to be honest, I was born a potato.
Took some time, but to be honest, I was born a potato.
Re: Is it worth it to lose customers just to close threads that give feedback about ZOS?
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/categories/gamesystems
Game Systems is the forum category for Housing posts.
you can look at all the different categories here ↓
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/
ZOS closes down duplicate threads so they can more easily find feedback as it's then only in one thread. it's why there's an official Overland difficulty feedback thread.
The confusing part is they will also often ask you to instead make duplicate threads and close down current threads that have all sorts of good information, simply because the thread was made a while ago. I've seen ones that are less than a year old get closed and asked by mods for a new one to be made, which completely takes out any momentum in the discussion being had.
Malyore
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Re: Share Your Subclassing Builds!
I 'updated' my main build a bit. The primary class is Dragonknight. I kept Earthen Heart from the primary class and subclassed Aedric Spear from Templar (replacing Ardent Flame) and Shadow from Nightblade (replacing Draconic Power).I roleplay my main as a knight from House Indoril.
The primary class is Dragonknight and I replaced Ardent Flame with Aedric Spear.
Aedric Spear is supposed to invoke the close ties between House Indoril and the Temple and also can be seen as a blessing from Vivec, resembling his infamous Muatra spear. I use this skill line mostly for the Puncturing Strikes, maybe I'll add Focused Charge (replacing Shield Charge from One Hand and Shield skill line, that I use now). The passives are also pretty nice.
I kept Draconic Power and Earthen Heart skill lines for their fiery/magma themes, that are in turn supposed to invoke Dark Elves' connection to the volcanic nature of their homeland, Morrowind. I use these skill line mostly for utilities, of course.
I'm rather lazy so it's a rather simple one-bar build:
1. Biting Jabs (Aedric Spear) - for the Major Brutality and Major Sorcery (increased Weapon and Spell Damage) buff.
2. Pierce Armor (One Hand and a Shield) - for the Major and Minor Breach (reduced enemy's physical and spell resistance) and for the taunt.
3. Heroic Slash (One Hand and a Shield) - for the Ultimate generation boost.
4. Toppling Charge (Aedric Spear) - stunning the enemy and providing Major Protection buff.
5. Mirage (Shadow) - for the Minor resolve buff and the additional Major resolve buff from the Shadow Barrier passive.
R: Magma Shell (Earthen Heart) - quick Health, Magicka and Stamina restore, flame damage, damage shield and of course fiery visuals.
Additionaly, Shadow Cloak (Shadow) on the back bar for the passive Major Prophecy and Savagery (increased Spell and Weapon Critical rating), not using the skill actively and didn't morph it (in order to save two skill point for other stuff).
I tried for each skill line choice, additionally to of course being super useful in the game, to somehow correspond to the lore behind my character. As I wrote earlier, I roleplay him as a knight from House Indoril.
Aedric Spear invokes the close ties between House Indoril and the Tribunal Temple, the spear itself being a reference to Vivec's holy spear. I additionally use the Biting Jabs skill with the Ice Blue skill style active. While in the game Vivec is seen with the golden Aedric-like aura, I decided the blue colour gives this skill a more Daedric/Dark Elven vibe.
Earthen Heart is supposed to invoke the Dark Elves' connection to the fiery, volcanic nature of their homeland, Morrowind. In this context I see the Eternal Mountain and Mountain's Blessing passives as references to the Red Mountain, which is kinda central to Dark Elven culture and important in the Tribunal theology.
Shadow is supposed to invoke the more sinister aspects of Dark Elven culture, its Mephalian elements and traditions, as well as Vivec's duality as the Warrior-Poet (connecting the warrior and the rogue fantasy/rpg archetypes), with Mephala seen as Vivec's Anticipation in the Tribunal theology. Also, I use it for the dark red and black esthetics that can be generally seen in my character's look.
Ironically, when I was just beginning my adventure with ESO and tried to choose the class for my main, I was really torn between Dragonknight, Templar and Nightblade. I've seen all as rather matching the Dark Elven lore, and tried to play all three with a classic melee focused sword n' board knight build. Now, thanks to sublcassing, I don't need to make that choice which I find pretty awesome
m4niou
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