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EP Sabotaged!
Two things whilst in Gray Host last night.
Whilst in a keep that was under attack, the amount of EPs just standing around doing nothing was ridiculous. It was then I was told that other alliances, if they are not actively taking part in the game, would login to Gray Host with their EP characters and fill the keeps with useless AFKers just to fill up the cap for EP, Some even have second accounts just for this purpose. Does anyone know if this is true? It certainly looked that way.
Second thing, some person put a forward camp over the well near Aelswell Castle, so if you used it, you were stuck, you could not move and if under attack couldn't even use a recall stone. We couldn't take much damage, so we couldn't die to respawn. The only way to get out would be kill the game. Some DC took pity on us and managed to kill us with a CF ballista. I put a message in zone chat asking not to put forward camps over wells and got a reply XD from someone, so I assume they did it. This cannot be done accidentally.
Are EP so feared that other alliances have to resort to these tactics?
Whilst in a keep that was under attack, the amount of EPs just standing around doing nothing was ridiculous. It was then I was told that other alliances, if they are not actively taking part in the game, would login to Gray Host with their EP characters and fill the keeps with useless AFKers just to fill up the cap for EP, Some even have second accounts just for this purpose. Does anyone know if this is true? It certainly looked that way.
Second thing, some person put a forward camp over the well near Aelswell Castle, so if you used it, you were stuck, you could not move and if under attack couldn't even use a recall stone. We couldn't take much damage, so we couldn't die to respawn. The only way to get out would be kill the game. Some DC took pity on us and managed to kill us with a CF ballista. I put a message in zone chat asking not to put forward camps over wells and got a reply XD from someone, so I assume they did it. This cannot be done accidentally.
Are EP so feared that other alliances have to resort to these tactics?
Re: Will ESO+ members get any compensation for the downtime during maintenance?
I sincerely doubt it.
It's never apologies for the inconvenience but always thank you for your patience - as if we have any choice but to be patient.
It's never apologies for the inconvenience but always thank you for your patience - as if we have any choice but to be patient.
Raanbury
5
Re: Cross Save / Cross Platform / Cross Play coming?
Just because ZOS said they were looking if it is possible (with no additional updates since then), doesn't mean it is confirmed to be coming any time soon. It is a huge mess to deal with as I have mentioned in previous threads:
1. What to merge, the regions or platforms? If both EU & NA are merged, then depending on where the servers physically are located (Texas for NA, Germany for EU), most players are forced to deal with an increased latency (as if the OCE/SEA players don't have enough already). And are Sony and Microsoft willing to cooperate to make a platform merger possible (since MS basically refused to do that during the PS3/XB360 era)?
2. Shared character names on different accounts and servers. Who gets to keep the name, someone who had it longer or someone who manages to log in first, forcing the other player(s) to use a name change on their character(s)?
3. Shared guild names on different servers. There is no way to change the guild names without disbanding them.
4. Character cap for multi-platform players. Is doubling or tripling the limit a solution considering the many cuts (guild trader sale times, mail expiry times causing to take nearly Exabytes (from what I read somewhere once) of space (1 EB = 1000 TB = 1 000 000 GB) they had to make to improve performance over the years?
5. Housing projects potentially getting erased if someone creates something in Grand Psijic Villa on one server, but completely different in the same house on another server.
1. What to merge, the regions or platforms? If both EU & NA are merged, then depending on where the servers physically are located (Texas for NA, Germany for EU), most players are forced to deal with an increased latency (as if the OCE/SEA players don't have enough already). And are Sony and Microsoft willing to cooperate to make a platform merger possible (since MS basically refused to do that during the PS3/XB360 era)?
2. Shared character names on different accounts and servers. Who gets to keep the name, someone who had it longer or someone who manages to log in first, forcing the other player(s) to use a name change on their character(s)?
3. Shared guild names on different servers. There is no way to change the guild names without disbanding them.
4. Character cap for multi-platform players. Is doubling or tripling the limit a solution considering the many cuts (guild trader sale times, mail expiry times causing to take nearly Exabytes (from what I read somewhere once) of space (1 EB = 1000 TB = 1 000 000 GB) they had to make to improve performance over the years?
5. Housing projects potentially getting erased if someone creates something in Grand Psijic Villa on one server, but completely different in the same house on another server.
Maitsukas
18
Re: Dev Team Request: A Top 5 List of Bugs and Pain Points You Would Like Addressed
Top Bug
Only 1 - Stuck in combat. Regularly in dungeons you miss that single add, left 3 rooms away, and you're still considered in combat. Everyone waits in front of an unusable door for ages. Sometimes that single add is just not there.
Top Pain Points
1 - Let me use a damn gamepad with the NORMAL UI. I don't understand why I have to have a painful experience just because I want to use a gamepad...it's 2025, there are so many hybrid controllers (I use an Azeron Cyborg) that let you play with an analog stick for immersive movements and mouse for precise aiming. Still, I'm forced to have a pathetic interface, with books that become children versions and have extra huge fonts...nameplates are bigger and ALWAYS with the account, not the character name, the immersion is completely shattered and thrown into the toilet.
Please don't consider all gamepad users as disabled, lots of them can read fine and play on a monitor.
2 - General queueing? By now every class can solo normal dungeons, even veteran why not...still waiting for 2DPS 1 tank and 1 healer feels ridiculous and adds nothing to the normal dungeon experience. There will always be that single player who runs away and probably queued as a tank/healer, helping nobody and just teleporting the group to the next boss while ignoring all the adds. Just let us queue as is, and create a separate queue for whoever wants to do dungeons in a regular formation.
3 - Arcanist? Seriously do something about that class, just check the leaderboards...DK leaderboards barely go above 15-20 people, the arcanist stops at 100 just because it can't display all of them. There's a clear imbalance that just nullifies the whole experience for all the others, every random dungeon has one or more arcanists, every dungeon ends with beams all over the place, feels like a Fortnite match, nor a group experience anymore.
4 (or 3b) - The difference between DoTs and direct damage is just embarrassing...DoTs are completely useless, every good build by now is either beam based, jab based or heavy attack (with ALWAYS the lightning staff). There are classes that are literally barred out of any content, it's impossible to do anything as StamDK, why should I go through the effort of throwing 6-7 DoTs on a complex double bar rotation for barely 83k dps when a sorcerer just holds a button and goes 110k+? Wake up people, there's half the gameplay that is just not worth it here...
5 (or 3c) - Subclassing made pure class completely obsolete. There is not a single scenario where staying with your class' skills is worth it...it's not a different playstyle, it's just a better version. Needless to say it's immersion breaking and leaves those who want to play a fully thematic build behind, lightyears behind. Especially when considering that an already weak dps as StamDK has now been nerfed considerably because the only good 2-3 skills it had were "too good for the others".
Yeah, fantastic, thanks. Can't you just boost (A LOT) the skills of whoever decides to stay with a pure class?
Just work on something come on, in the last years, between scribing and now subclassing, the average dps even for casuals has tripled, and funnily enough, we see the same builds everywhere...it was supposed to add diversity but has only brought even more beams.
Only 1 - Stuck in combat. Regularly in dungeons you miss that single add, left 3 rooms away, and you're still considered in combat. Everyone waits in front of an unusable door for ages. Sometimes that single add is just not there.
Top Pain Points
1 - Let me use a damn gamepad with the NORMAL UI. I don't understand why I have to have a painful experience just because I want to use a gamepad...it's 2025, there are so many hybrid controllers (I use an Azeron Cyborg) that let you play with an analog stick for immersive movements and mouse for precise aiming. Still, I'm forced to have a pathetic interface, with books that become children versions and have extra huge fonts...nameplates are bigger and ALWAYS with the account, not the character name, the immersion is completely shattered and thrown into the toilet.
Please don't consider all gamepad users as disabled, lots of them can read fine and play on a monitor.
2 - General queueing? By now every class can solo normal dungeons, even veteran why not...still waiting for 2DPS 1 tank and 1 healer feels ridiculous and adds nothing to the normal dungeon experience. There will always be that single player who runs away and probably queued as a tank/healer, helping nobody and just teleporting the group to the next boss while ignoring all the adds. Just let us queue as is, and create a separate queue for whoever wants to do dungeons in a regular formation.
3 - Arcanist? Seriously do something about that class, just check the leaderboards...DK leaderboards barely go above 15-20 people, the arcanist stops at 100 just because it can't display all of them. There's a clear imbalance that just nullifies the whole experience for all the others, every random dungeon has one or more arcanists, every dungeon ends with beams all over the place, feels like a Fortnite match, nor a group experience anymore.
4 (or 3b) - The difference between DoTs and direct damage is just embarrassing...DoTs are completely useless, every good build by now is either beam based, jab based or heavy attack (with ALWAYS the lightning staff). There are classes that are literally barred out of any content, it's impossible to do anything as StamDK, why should I go through the effort of throwing 6-7 DoTs on a complex double bar rotation for barely 83k dps when a sorcerer just holds a button and goes 110k+? Wake up people, there's half the gameplay that is just not worth it here...
5 (or 3c) - Subclassing made pure class completely obsolete. There is not a single scenario where staying with your class' skills is worth it...it's not a different playstyle, it's just a better version. Needless to say it's immersion breaking and leaves those who want to play a fully thematic build behind, lightyears behind. Especially when considering that an already weak dps as StamDK has now been nerfed considerably because the only good 2-3 skills it had were "too good for the others".
Yeah, fantastic, thanks. Can't you just boost (A LOT) the skills of whoever decides to stay with a pure class?
Just work on something come on, in the last years, between scribing and now subclassing, the average dps even for casuals has tripled, and funnily enough, we see the same builds everywhere...it was supposed to add diversity but has only brought even more beams.
Liukke
5
Re: EP Sabotaged!
If it is on purpose or not, I can't say, but considering EP always fights the green team instead of either yellow or blue, I wouldn't be surprised
Re: EP Sabotaged!
Amazing what people will come up with for conspiracy theories, as if players actually communicate enough to coordinate such an operation.
Re: Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
Except that the classes are not balanced, ESPECIALLY for "Pure" classes vs subclasses.
Subclassed skills should be a weaker...more "Watered Down" version of all non-class skills and abilities. Thus leaving "Pure" classes THEIR full strength skills/abilities.
Otherwise, there is no advantage too, or for any classes wanting to remain "Pure", as it is simply put, unfair to them.
Subclassed skills should be a weaker...more "Watered Down" version of all non-class skills and abilities. Thus leaving "Pure" classes THEIR full strength skills/abilities.
Otherwise, there is no advantage too, or for any classes wanting to remain "Pure", as it is simply put, unfair to them.
Rhonemus
5
Re: [Request] Let all characters do gendered dances
yea that'd be awesome. they could just be numbered like how the sit emotes are numbered
Re: One shotting in PvP and PvP in general
The damage is VERY healthy for PVP. The environment is far better when people actually die.
The thing about these combos is that they're all blockable and dodgeable. Outside of being ganked from stealth, you always have ample opportunity for counterplay to them. That is the exact kind of high damage we want to see - direct damage with good counterplay as opposed to dot/proc damage with no counterplay.
This game was at it's peak when anyone could one shot eachother with a dswing -> leap or incap -> bow style combo. It's nice to see we've made some progress back towards that meta.
Damage is healthy and players should be killable. Shouldn't be the same few combos though. Also we can't talk about timing counterplay if we don't include performance issues.
Not saying that we can or should balance for lag. I'm just understanding that there's something to be addressed when it comes to dealing with combos that require quick reactions.
I don't mind getting one shot. I just don't like it being from the same few combinations or when the server just decides to catch up and show me all this damage I didn't get a chance to respond to.