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Re: Cyrodiil Needs Solo Only
Cyro would be way better if they just massively reduced the cross healing. The approach they did was right but it needs to be increased heavily. Reduce all cross heal by 50% on top of battle spirit and limit the overall healing effects per target.
They mentioned this in a thread or two and the ball group players swarmed it crying about how unfair it was so they never did it, lol
Because the original proposal of -50% at 3 "HOTs" (which includes a ton of regular class abilities like Templar Rune) was completely insane and would penalize like all competent players in Cyrodiil rather than only comped groups.
Re: Should Female Werewolves Have Small Chest Bumps?
Okay as a female in RL who has some quite "busty" ladies in ESO, this is not about attacking femininity it's about how some of us expect a cross between a human and wolf to actually look.I wanted to make one final post about this, though I'm not surprised by the reception as a lot of people seem to wish to delete femininity these days, which as a woman is a little discomforting but, anyway. Not the main point.
When I say bumps, I don't mean full on head-sized breasts with visible... you knows. I was truly just meaning small bumps. To toot my own horn a little, this is the female model of a werewolf replacer I helped make and refine for Skyrim, in which I did the adjustments myself, including the chest.
This isn't sexualized or gross or suggestive nudity. It's just respecting and reflecting that this is a female werewolf, and showing off a human aspect of what that looks like. I did other small adjustments too but I won't go into that here.
I'm happy when there isn't always an emphasis on making a female character meet the stereotypical "female beauty" body shape that is often used. If you look at women who are fit and strong in RL like athletes, you'll see many who don't have a large cleavage. But they're still feminine, because a woman who is strong isn't less feminine because of her cup size. This alone supports the smaller chest size on a WW because they are clearly intended to be muscular and strong and the smaller chest is actually appropriate.
In RL I have a husky who looks incredibly like a wolf, so I'm really keen on the WW aesthetic. But while you might want a human x wolf to have breasts more like a human, it's equally valid to say this is only half human and therefore the expectation is that the chest area is much more subtle. Dogs, even when feeding pups don't show anything like what female humans do in the chest area. After weaning they practically disappear
So in your image I just see something that looks really out of place giving this is a dog-human hybrid with a fully human chest. It's the same as with Argonians and Khajiit. I shrunk those ladies right down almost to the opposite end of the slider from my human/elf alts, because it looks strange otherwise.And I'll say again, I don't mind if there's a choice to have or hide boobs on female WWs, I just don't think this argument is about having an issue with femininity.
Re: Should Female Werewolves Have Small Chest Bumps?
There are no children in the game, I am not sure if lactation is part of the lore canon.
Vaqual
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Re: Should Female Werewolves Have Small Chest Bumps?
The fur doesn’t look as bad as it did in the concept art but yeah… most women have breasts. That’s just a fact of life and, well, mine certainly are important to me. Can have them exist and it still be tasteful.
Soarora
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Re: Wisteria's motivation? (Tanlorin's questline, text includes spoilers)
Honestly? It's a story about an absolutely untamrielic Mary Sue character depicted as being perceived as perfect and absolutely brilliant in any regard, super talented and intelligent of course, well-respected by everyone (except for the baddies), drinking lots of wine and having many sexual conquests - while having the mindset and intelligence of a small child, asking where cloth comes from, randomly making roaring sounds, and pretending to be a beaver while chopping wood (a contrast which feels super creepy, by the way; or at least where I come from, someone who thinks and acts like a child getting drunk or having "dates" would be perceived as absolutely questionable).
Also using pronouns that clearly differ from the physical form, which is a rare thing in Tamriel - but still, instead of going by the body shape, everyone knows the correct pronouns immediately and uses them correctly, including enemies.
Put short: There is no logic.
At least the same year also had Zerith-var, whose story was much more mature, provided us with wonderful new lore and absolutely fit into Tamriel. This is what I, and I know also many other people who are here for stories and lore, want to see more of. Not quirky, meme-y nonsense that doesn't even fit into the fictional world and its cultures.
Also using pronouns that clearly differ from the physical form, which is a rare thing in Tamriel - but still, instead of going by the body shape, everyone knows the correct pronouns immediately and uses them correctly, including enemies.
Put short: There is no logic.
At least the same year also had Zerith-var, whose story was much more mature, provided us with wonderful new lore and absolutely fit into Tamriel. This is what I, and I know also many other people who are here for stories and lore, want to see more of. Not quirky, meme-y nonsense that doesn't even fit into the fictional world and its cultures.
Syldras
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Re: Tomes weekly challenges too much work
They are super fine... i never needed more than 2 hours for them...gives me something to do
Re: It Appears Grey Host and Vengeance Will Exist Side by Side After All. Thoughts?
I'm perfectly fine with Grey Host and Vengeance being the two campaigns. The 3 current campaigns that aren't Grey Host are just dead. Vengeance gives a safe place for new players to experience and learn PVP without being completely obliterated by chronically online PVPers with hard-hitting builds and thus being discouraged from diving into PVP more. And Grey Host will still be there for the usual PVPers. I do feel if Grey Host is in much higher demand in the future, they'll open another campaign to ease the stress.
Re: Challenge difficulty is so much fun
randconfig wrote: »Honestly, there is only one way this challenge difficulty thing is going to work without separate instances:
Mark players and foes in vestige difficulty with an icon, and force any lower difficulty player into that difficulty the moment they join the combat. Do not let them grief and ruin my experience or the experience of my friends.
Otherwise, at least give us a pass on violating the ToS when we inevitably get into verbal fights with griefing players lol.
And why should the lower difficulty players be punished by being forced into a difficulty they did not sign up for?
Re: Update 50 PTS – Week 1 Summary
Ketryellowynne wrote: »
Let’s please address the elephant in the room. Healers. Supports, yes, but then you didn’t need to say tanks as well. Keep healers relevant.
For class passives specifically make something for every class that is determined by overheal (not heal). Reading the passives as they have existed to this point makes me terrified that you will end up writing healers as a role out of optimized end game entirely. We already see it in dungeons and arenas, running 3 DPS and a tank because “why would we run a healer if DDs can self-sustain and then we get more damage”? We already see it in current end game optimization where it’s common to run 1 heal, 1 tank.
My concern is that as DDs become more self sufficient and less necessity is placed on healing as a concept, end game groups will eliminate healers entirely because everything they provide can be provided equally as well by a support DD with 1 or 2 heals if necessary.
Example: Major Courage. As a very important buff, this has probably been the single most important thing for keeping healers relevant in the game since the best source (SPC) procs on overheal for 12 party members, no cooldown, potential 100% uptime with someone who plays it well enough. Adding this buff to a single skill on a werewolf is an enormous slap in the face. Where there aren’t specific heal checks, an optimized team can run a werewolf for Major courage instead of a healer at all. While this hasn’t been an issue previously (people choosing banners or Zenas, or soul burst or Yolna for minor courage instead of a werewolf in group), that was because it would be a net loss of damage to run a werewolf. In this case, with the emotional support doggo replacing the healer, it ends up a net increase rather than loss, assuming other buffs can still be sourced elsewhere.
Currently, the only buff that can only be sourced through healing is minor toughness. With Major courage more easily sourceable outside of healing, there becomes very few reasons to run a designated healer as opposed to only running support DDs in much optimized 12 man content.
KEEP HEALERS RELEVANT.
The class passives are an excellent opportunity to do this, but only if you model them with this in mind rather than just your damage or even just supports as a whole. Make a reason for a healer to be there instead of removing the existing ones.
(Edited for autocorrect sabotaging spelling)
You could probably solve this by allowing the WW Major Courage to only apply to other WWs.
So that it is a functional SPC replacement for all-WW groups, who otherwise have no means to source the buff group-wide, but it does not obviate the actual healer in more traditional groups.
Best of both worlds.
Re: It Appears Grey Host and Vengeance Will Exist Side by Side After All. Thoughts?
What achieved will be that Grey Host will be a ghost town in the long term and the campaign will be closed and all sweaties will have to shift to the new planned middle sized Cyrodiil Map, since there wont be enough population for a bigger map. There they will just grind their absurd builds/sets against each other while their dropping sweat ruining their gaming screen 1 inch away. And then eventually they will realise how much they actually got carried by their builds and sudden meta changes throughout the years and suddenly wont enjoy ESO PvP that much anymore since all players they are competing will be similar sweaties and there wont be any easy wins.
In the meantime we will enjoy a more controlled, structured, slow-paced and fair large-scale PvP experience in Vengeance together with normal people. And hopefully this time devs wont make the same mistakes they made throughout the years and wont butcher PvP every patch and instead just make slower and balanced iterative changes keeping concepts and systems faithful to originals and not trying to mix everything with everything.
In the meantime we will enjoy a more controlled, structured, slow-paced and fair large-scale PvP experience in Vengeance together with normal people. And hopefully this time devs wont make the same mistakes they made throughout the years and wont butcher PvP every patch and instead just make slower and balanced iterative changes keeping concepts and systems faithful to originals and not trying to mix everything with everything.