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Re: Time-consuming Daily Endeavours
I always go to Murkmire for the amorphous foes. Not only do voriplasms count, but so do the voriplasmic corpses.
One thing they need to fix is that mirrorplasms don't count, for some reason.
One thing they need to fix is that mirrorplasms don't count, for some reason.
Re: Merciless Resolve, Merciless Resolve, Merciless Resolve
AngryPenguin wrote: »agelonestar wrote: »Bring on permanent Vengeance in Cyrodiil.
I'm tired of broken builds and out-of-balance skills.
Vengeance will be the death of PvP in Cyrodiil.
Why do you say that? During both Vengeance tests so far, PVP numbers were great. Big battles, a relatively level playing field, and lots of fun. Even new people trying and getting into PVP for the first time.
Are you suggesting that PVP only works when you can essentially take advantage of broken builds and imbalanced skills?
Re: Sellable/tradeable surveys
Lydawobbles wrote: »Will one of you lovely pc people let us know how it works out on Monday?
From the PTS:
This is what an unopened one looks like, a simple item that is tradable:
Opening it will generate a random bound survey:
Re: Merciless Resolve, Merciless Resolve, Merciless Resolve
Nope U47 does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to raise the power of underused skill lines or curb the power of the most overused skill lines in PvP in fact expect even more spec bows since Relentless Focus can now be used 3 times in a row. They sure love their special muffin.
Another 3 months of everyone using Assassination and Storm Calling, but with the addition of Major Prophecy and Savagery to Grim Focus they just got a free skill slot to add even more power. U48 needs to have a combat and abilities section 5x the size of U47 mainly focusing on adding power to weaker skill lines and then actually bringing the over performing ones in line.
After the most disruptive change to combat balance in this game's history with subclassing U47 has turned out to be the exact opposite of what I was expecting to see.
Another 3 months of everyone using Assassination and Storm Calling, but with the addition of Major Prophecy and Savagery to Grim Focus they just got a free skill slot to add even more power. U48 needs to have a combat and abilities section 5x the size of U47 mainly focusing on adding power to weaker skill lines and then actually bringing the over performing ones in line.
After the most disruptive change to combat balance in this game's history with subclassing U47 has turned out to be the exact opposite of what I was expecting to see.
Deimus
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Re: -10% of damage on a havy armor parts
JustLovely wrote: »I wanted to praise the subclassing and the entire update until I reached the highest mmr on BG on new acc. And it's about what happened to heavy armor. Or rather, what kind of damage can now be taken in full heavy armor. Due to the possibilities of sub-classing, as well as the reduction of damage scaling after a certain number of spd/wpd, we have equal damage for 3-5 parts havy armor playrs and playrse in middle/light armor. And that's not even taking into account the new bash builds. Vampire builds that reduce your health from 50,000 to 30,000 and deal a lot of damage. and that not normal. Havy armor cant give get damage level middle/light armor with only 5% speed debuff its not normal.
My suggestion is to add -10% damage to each piece of heavy armor in their debuffs. It doesn't affect PvE in any way. However, in PvP, it removes the ridiculous similarity in damage between medium and heavy armor. Alternatively, it can be used to remove the scaling reduction.
I like the idea, but I think the scale should be different. I'd say a 2% dps cut for each piece of heavy armor would be more than enough. So a tank with 7 heavy pieces would have 14% less dps, which might not sound like that much, but it's a ton. Also, most of us PvP mains only wear 1-3 pieces of heavy armor anyway.
it's too little. Your debuff will override buff from lithning stuff or Merciless Charge.
Yes 50% for 5 parts. m/l armor can be tanky no problem with it.
Heavy Armor doesn’t decrease incoming dmg by nearly 50% so shouldn’t decrease outgoing dmg by 50% additional to not having medium(/light) armor dmg passives that are already enaugh for most PvPer to use medium armor. 50% less damage would make heavy armor unuseable for anyone but pure tanks.
But as you say yourself you have no problem with medium/light armor beeing tanky like heavy armor it seems you just want destroy heavy armor not for balance but personally disliking it.
Iriidius
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Re: drop trolling
You caught me, I do enjoy running content in the game I enjoy. Neither seems true for you.
Drops are curated, you're guaranteed to get it eventually. Guildmates can help, form a group for gear farming, speeds it up a lot.
oh ya i dont like farm. one for one run one dunge its for [snip]Only 6 runs is really not much.
It is not enough to be considered a statistical anomaly.
Keep at it, but don't expect to get a single piece like Caluurion's dagger quickly. THAT would be a statistical anomaly.
i know 6 not muth but fact is fact 2 other set already have all cloth when needble set have nothing. this opinion that farming is normal is strange to me. The game is paid not free to play, and I clearly didn't pay for stupid farming in a loop. It's high time to at least choose the weapon that is given for the quest. In this particular dungeon, for some reason, I received a shoulder pad instead of a weapon from the quest bag. This should be considered a bug. I play exclusively for PvP, and everything else is secondary. Therefore, the longer I don't receive the desired weapon, the longer I don't truly enjoy the game, as I'm forced to engage in activities that I'm not passionate about. I've been building this build with Belkharza for a week now. If it's normal for you to spend an entire evening or another part of the day and not get even half of the necessary parts for your build, then I don't understand where you're getting so much time from.
Look, I'm all for you receiving freely what you want from pve, so you can PVP all you want.
But then, I want to receive freely the rewards frow PVP without setting foot in Cyrodiil, IC or battlegrounds.
See? Works both ways, right?
i'm sorry you feel that way, but in no mmo can you expect to be fully geared in a single evening. Eso is even very, very, VERY lenient on the matter compared to every other games I played.
On the bright side, since the drops are curated, and you have the body pieces of everything else, you will drop them next time without fail, as all bosses except the last drops body pieces.
On the not so bright side, weapons will still take a while except if you are lucky, of if you find a guy that "sells" them
Re: Overland Content Feedback Thread
I 100% agree with everything in this post and I appreciate you taking the time to register on a forum for a game you quit to express your grievance here. I see it often outside these forums whenever TESO is discussed. A lot of people here need to understand that the forums itself are a barrier to entry, and also have quite a bad reputation, so you're not getting the full picture if you're only engaging with it here.This whole thread is essentially anecdotes against anecdotes, but I would love to see the official stats, because I have a feeling most people quit during the first 10 levels, or shortly after engaging a bit with the dungeon finder.
Saying this game is easy is a massive understatement, I have played games for a long time and never have I played a game where the lack of difficulty was such an obvious issue. I would be willing to bet my life savings that this game has lost at the least tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of potential players, because the game insists that you don't have to engage with it's mechanics in any way. Expecting the average player to have to slog through 100 hours of content before being presented with a challenge or having to engage with CORE mechanics is NOT reasonable, and I think many here vastly underrate the skill level of the average gamer if they think this is a good introduction to the game.
There are entire solar systems between the difficulty of this game and Dark Souls, so fearing that the game will suddenly become too hardcore I find disingenuous. Even other TES games like Skyrim or Oblivion are 10 times harder than this game. The fear that it will simply take longer to get rewards, I also find odd. You don't judge the quality of video game by the frequency and ease of which a player receives rewards, it's not a slot machine, it's a video game and video games are supposed to be engaging.
The point made by the opposers I sympathise the most with is the accessibility issue, I really do understand that if you already find the game difficult because of age or disabilities that a difficulty increase is concerning, but unfortunately I also think that if a game has skills, blocks, dodges ect. it is reasonable that the game is balanced around utilizing these, I know it sounds harsh, but at the end of the day it is an ARPG. Luckily it seems vet overland is going to be opt in as to not make things more difficult for these players.
I would love to get back into this game, and buy it for my friends so we could play it together, but as it stands this game is so mind numbingly easy making core mechanics of the game irrelevant, and making progression feel unrewarding as you basically steamroll everything by level 1, so you never feel any need to get stronger. All of it becomes meaningless, it essentially makes all the core content of the game wasted content, because many of the bosses ect have abilities that never end up mattering which makes one wonder why they were implemented in the first place. I would love for ZoS to make a vet server, with difficulty more appropriate for the average gamer, because I can say confidently that the way this game is balanced currently is not for us.
I've been posting in this thread for approaching 4 years... And this whole time the naysayers of increased overland difficulty have claimed 'the data' doesn't support the demand for overland difficulty. Meanwhile I've asserted that there's a silent majority of lapsed players who quit the game without expressing their frustrations. One of the primary complaints being a lack of overland difficulty.
The solution? Let's see the data. Until that happens, it is infuriating to see it cited in the opposing argument because none of you know any better than we do and only one side of this debate is advocating for any transparency on the matter.
How awfully convenient that we have to argue against the unknowable.
This has been the most aggravating discussion I’ve ever been part of in over 25 years of online gaming. I completely understand why players silently quit rather than engaging in the discourse here. I honestly wish I didn't care as much as I do.
spartaxoxo wrote: »This is wildly ableist.
The actual fact is that difficulty is subjective. And that people who struggle with disabilities and their loved ones are not wrong or "disgusting" for raising awareness of their experiences with the game. Many of the various accessibility options that video games utilize come from people discussing those experiences.
I think you're misunderstanding the point being made. I would agree that a lot of people here are using 'accessibility' in a completely disingenuous way to get what they want and maintain the status quo of (nonexistent) overland difficulty. I would also say it is quite ableist in itself to speak on the behalf of those with disabilities defending that same status quo, as if they all need a game where it takes a minute and a half for a bear to kill you on a completely naked, statless low level character straight out of the tutorial.
Re: Overland Content Feedback Thread
Unfortunately, there is a lot of people that "engineer" their ESO experience just to prove the point that does not exist.
The fact is that game is too easy.
Your opinion is not a fact.
Honestly, I am disgusted over disability claims that often make appearance on forums or reddit etc. Using someone's state to prove some kind of point is ridiculous and it happens so, so, so often.
The actual fact is that difficulty is subjective. And that people who struggle with disabilities and their loved ones are not wrong or "disgusting" for raising awareness of their experiences with the game. Many of the various accessibility options that video games utilize come from people discussing those experiences. It is ableism to treat their commentary as somehow exempt from the same sharing as everyone else.
I am glad they are making increased difficulty optional. And that others won't be forced into a harder overland.
Re: Preserve class balance AND class identity - alter skill lines only when they are used as a subclass
Rkindaleft wrote: »Just move the W/SD to Shadow. Nobody who subclasses Nightblade takes that line for DPS and pure NBs wouldn't end up getting a nerf. According to a user poll it's the least picked subclassed line in the whole game and could use a buff anyway.
Subclassed build gets a nerf, pure build retains effectiveness.
The best way to balance Subclassing vs Pureclassing is to split the buffs up between the three skill lines of a Class.
For instance, Bone Tyrant offers buffs to the summons in Grave Lord and Living Death, which you can only make use of if you're a Necromancer.
The original 4 Classes split their DD/Healing/Tanking skills between their skill lines. This is another way to balance Subclassing; the 3 DLC Classes are not the way to balance Subclassing. Winter's Embrace is both a damage dealing and a tanking line, which is the sort of direction other skill lines should take.
That is to say that we shouldn't have another Arcanist. Cleanly splitting skill lines into DD/Healing/Tanking roles is how you get people to double or triple up on a particular role.
I would much prefer if future Classes (which we will eventually get) go back to prioritizing theme, while splitting the necessary tools for DD/Healing/Tanking across the three skill lines, like how the original 4 Classes were balanced. Then overperforming skills in any individual Class skill line for any Class can be adjusted to make alternatives more viable.
Re: If ZOS added new weapon classes, would you care if they ignored existing Motifs?
As long as the new Weapons exist, I don't care how they do it.
*cough-an Unarmed Skill tree doesn't need any new models-cough*
*cough-an Unarmed Skill tree doesn't need any new models-cough*
