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Re: Companions skill order?
I run companion tanks as well. Companions do look at the order of their skills first, but if the conditions are not met, they look at the next skill.
I typically slot (in order): Heal if below 75%, gap closer if within 22 m, provoke, shield.
If I tell her to charge from 30 m, she will skip the first three skills due to health/range considerations, start running to the enemy and cast her shield until within 22 m then use her gap closer followed by provoke.
If I didn't have the gap closer, she'd cast her shield and run all the way up to provoke range.
So. . . if you want her to get in to the action as soon as possible, consider slotting a gap closer to speed things up.
Good luck!
I typically slot (in order): Heal if below 75%, gap closer if within 22 m, provoke, shield.
If I tell her to charge from 30 m, she will skip the first three skills due to health/range considerations, start running to the enemy and cast her shield until within 22 m then use her gap closer followed by provoke.
If I didn't have the gap closer, she'd cast her shield and run all the way up to provoke range.
So. . . if you want her to get in to the action as soon as possible, consider slotting a gap closer to speed things up.
Good luck!
Re: Revert Arcanist Class Mastery Script Banner Changes Until You Ease Crux Restrictions
Put banner bearer back to how it was and nerf the beam. I don't understand why the devs find this so difficult. The beam is the issue but they nerf everything else. It just doesn't make sense.
Banner is the bulk of the problem. Fatecarver is a good skill, but it's so good because it's buffed by 33% per crux. The developers' stated intent was for crux to be gained by using active "builder" skills before using a "spender" skill like Fatecarver, aside from some very limited cases (like going from no crux to 1 crux passively via Inspired Scholarship). The passive crux gain from Banner-Bearer allows players to effectively circumvent the bulk of the "building" minigame when paired with Inspired Scholarship, which arcs were already using because it's a good skill. Only needing to hit Cephaliarch's Flail once instead of twice to get a fully-charged Fatecarver dramatically increases the number of Fatecarver ticks you get in a prolonged fight; those Flails you get to skip really add up. In the absence of the extra crux from Banner-Bearer, the gap between Fatecarver and non-Fatecarver builds gets much smaller.
The rest of the problem, which many have pointed out, is that builds not based on Fatecarver generally have a hard time keeping up with it because of its length and breadth. Even target-capped, Fatecarver can hit a lot more enemies than most skills other classes have at their disposal. It cleaves extremely well, and cleave is what a lot of newer content calls for. I don't think nerfs to Fatecarver are the answer, though.I think it's acceptable for Fatecarver to be BiS in scenarios where extreme AoE burst or burst damage along a line of enemies is required. But other builds need to be able to pull as close to Fatecarver in AoE as Fatecarver does to the best single target setups. There are tons of opportunities to buff elements of other classes' toolkits to bring them in line with what Fatecarver is capable doing and stop it from dominating the PvE meta. There are plenty of essentially dead passives and morphs to buff.
That said, I think Randconfig is on to something in advocating for more active methods of crux generation. Allowing weapon skills to generate crux on cast (we don't want Hail, Wall, or Stampede to be a new Banner-Bearer) when Inspired Scholarship is up isn't a terrible idea IMO. Flexibility is a necessity in the era of subclassing. And "Play how you want", "You belong", etc. as mantras seem to suggest that flexibility is the developers' intent, anyway.
How many players are playing PvP at these times?
Subclassing must have helped refresh ESO and bring back all the old players
13 AP and rank 169
It is safe to say about 1000 player/month go to PC EU Cyrodiil/ month on the best assumption
I remember times when it was 1000/day
13 AP and rank 169
It is safe to say about 1000 player/month go to PC EU Cyrodiil/ month on the best assumption
I remember times when it was 1000/day
Waseem
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Re: Playing through Summerset story in 2025 is wild
It's not a "new thing" adapted/written according to what's currently happening in our world,
Altmer have been like that for ages:
"(...) High Elves are often perceived by other races as proud, aloof, or even arrogant. These perceptions are reinforced by centuries of cultural insularity and the perceived superiority of their customs, ancestry, and intellectual traditions (....)"
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Altmer
Altmer have been like that for ages:
"(...) High Elves are often perceived by other races as proud, aloof, or even arrogant. These perceptions are reinforced by centuries of cultural insularity and the perceived superiority of their customs, ancestry, and intellectual traditions (....)"
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Altmer
Re: * Very * alarming interventions over guild names in recent weeks
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You may think it's "definitely a violation," but ZOS representatives have already stated that it's fine, and ZOS is the final arbiter of what constitutes a violation and what does not.
Have these guilds used chat or discord to attempt to mass report players for homophobia or anything? Some kind of homophobic or revenge attack is literally the only way the guild being LGBTQ could have anything to do with this.
Or.... some in-group drama.
Because Pacrooti's Hirelings is definitely a violation, and the Catzputin name contains the word Putin which runs the risk of being mistaken for controversially political/also potentially violating terms.
Let's not jump to wild conclusions of "bigots" being responsible for your name change when you have presumably read the terms and conditions and ought to be aware of the violation. They are strict with names, always have been.
Sometimes it's a couple of days, sometimes it's ten years but player and guild names get changed all the time.
It is ridiculous to ask for protection against your own violation of terms.
You may think it's "definitely a violation," but ZOS representatives have already stated that it's fine, and ZOS is the final arbiter of what constitutes a violation and what does not.
Re: * Very * alarming interventions over guild names in recent weeks
@Gegensmith hi, just wanted to say that I share in your frustration with some participants in this thread and maybe partially offset it with this message. You have shown 15/10 levels of adulthood throughout this very painful - and in many places entirely useless - thread (not that I am a judge to "rate" someone's adulthood levels, of course xD). Objective information, evidence, facts separated from assumptions at every step, all assumptions justified by providing evidence, context, and reasoning, being cautious with what you think at every step and not jumping to conclusions - all in an extremely calm and collected way (well, desensitized). Too bad you have to overdo it to 15/10 levels and simply 10/10 isn't enough.
I really hope that ZOS learns and teaches their employees how to resolve these matters quickly and really efficiently, because fake reports / mass reports for whatever reason, as well as all other kinds of, say, miscommunications is an intense worry a lot of us have (I do agree that your guilds being openly LGBT+ welcoming makes these "bad things" happening a lot more likely. Stuff like that should be obvious, of course, I am saying it just in case.). It is objectively a really difficult task requiring intense competence and not tolerating any naivete. I hope that Zenimax has enough employees, and those employees have enough time and skill to be dealing with such pressing matters thoroughly.
Thank you for opening this thread, I'd say it has brought a lot of clarity and will be really useful for ESO in the future and is really useful for ESO already.
(this one is definitely an understatement, but we'll describe it when we see it, aye?)
edit: a minor typo
I really hope that ZOS learns and teaches their employees how to resolve these matters quickly and really efficiently, because fake reports / mass reports for whatever reason, as well as all other kinds of, say, miscommunications is an intense worry a lot of us have (I do agree that your guilds being openly LGBT+ welcoming makes these "bad things" happening a lot more likely. Stuff like that should be obvious, of course, I am saying it just in case.). It is objectively a really difficult task requiring intense competence and not tolerating any naivete. I hope that Zenimax has enough employees, and those employees have enough time and skill to be dealing with such pressing matters thoroughly.
Thank you for opening this thread, I'd say it has brought a lot of clarity and will be really useful for ESO in the future and is really useful for ESO already.
(this one is definitely an understatement, but we'll describe it when we see it, aye?)
edit: a minor typo
Re: What changed with June 25 maintenance that cause worse performance?
Thanks for bringing this up. You weren't the only one who noticed this after the June 25 maintenance.
What could they have possibly done to tank FPS? That's historically been set by the clients video card, but not in this case. It's not just lag from the server now, it's super low FPS too.
...just when you think performance can't get any worse....
What could they have possibly done to tank FPS? That's historically been set by the clients video card, but not in this case. It's not just lag from the server now, it's super low FPS too.
...just when you think performance can't get any worse....
Re: Please take the taunt in Runic Jolt away from Arcanist!!
NO!
I like my arcanist taunt.
I like my arcanist taunt.
Re: How many players are playing PvP at these times?
Why would a pvp enthusiast play eso in the first place? Why would they stay?
The bigger question is why any pvp main stays.
To be clear, I am talking gameplay. I know a lot of alliance loyalists who just enjoy the zone chat culture and hanging out with familiar faces.
Other players enjoy grouping with their friends in different kind of groups.
But at technical and gameplay levels, it's objectively bad. I think there are players who are seduced by the power fantasy derived from pugstomping pve casuals who are there to grind end of campaign transmutes on all of their alts without pvp builds. I don't consider them real pvp players though, because in my experience playing online pvp games for almost 30 years, true pvp players get bored by that kind of thing and will quit because of it.
And then on top of the technical and gameplay issues, there's the fact it's gated behind one of the most casual pve mmos ever made. Why would a pvp enthusiast bother?
How do I leave Cyrodiil though?
Re: Inaccessible skyshard in Hall of the Dead in Eastmarch
(This sort of thing--where a skyshard is placed in plain view in a deceptively close location but is actually only accessible via a long detour--is very common in this game, and the OP should not have been surprised to see this.)
The delve in Artaeum is infuriating because of this. I can never remember how to get to that skyshard, so I stopped acknowledging that delve's existence.
