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Re: How necessary are player character backstories to you? (anonymous poll)
Combat mechanics is what matters to me. Couldn't care less about lore and housing and all that stuff.
Re: Please help me out understanding how to become eligible for gifting.
Just wanted to follow up here. This issue has been resolved and @Liukke has been granted access. Thank you for your patience as we worked with customer service to resolve this.
Re: Unnecessary and inconsistent nerf to Coral Riptide
Weapon and spell damage buffing barrier is the main issue. Its interaction with brutality and sorcery is probably the other cause. I think overall the change is pretty fair as it was pretty overtuned before and with the higher max value threshold it would be either broken or worthless depending where they kept the damage number at.
Re: Why does Scorch hit for so much damage when it's an AoE that can roll-catch?
MincMincMinc wrote: »They have had so many positional issues with the game engine, we would need to go to unreal or a completely new game engine to even attempt to make that work lol.
We hardly have functional single targets that dont miss because of positional issues.
Those issues don't go away because you change game engines. They are a fundamental limitation of the universe in which we exist. The only thing you can do is try to disguise it and maybe have some 'after-the-fact' corrections made. But these are all based on the implementation the devs decide to go with - hence why changing engines won't fix it. The devs need to change the design of the game itself.
Sluggy
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Re: Why does Scorch hit for so much damage when it's an AoE that can roll-catch?
YandereGirlfriend wrote: »MincMincMinc wrote: »sorch is just a vastly better curse.
The only redeeming part is that it missed alot of the time, but now wardens have easy access to multiple stuns that go through block or roll dodge, so ehhhhh. I see people running the charm, streak, javelin all on the same build. Its more common now adays to have stuns that go through counterplay than stuns that don't.
Which is perhaps an argument to have more Blockable Stuns.
That's a fair point, my largest gripe is that it hits ontop of unblockable/undodgeable stuns, giving guaranteed damage with no counterplay.
Streak is by far the biggest offender. I see a lot of 2/3man groups just sitting on the edge of a fight pre-casting Scorch and then fishing for Streak hits.
Re: DPS makeup of vKA HM runs on ESOlogs, Updates 43-46
Well you're just a player, you see that graph in a negative way.
An investor sees that as successful engagement in their accessibility class.
That's the arcanist, it's meant to have casual people join the game and do any content without putting any effort.
We are players, we are useless, the numbers make the investors happy and changing the banner is just the placebo for us, it's the smallest dent which won't change absolutely anything in this dynamic.
Expect more arcanists in the next update, just as they spread the word of how easy this game has become and those from Fortnite come here
An investor sees that as successful engagement in their accessibility class.
That's the arcanist, it's meant to have casual people join the game and do any content without putting any effort.
We are players, we are useless, the numbers make the investors happy and changing the banner is just the placebo for us, it's the smallest dent which won't change absolutely anything in this dynamic.
Expect more arcanists in the next update, just as they spread the word of how easy this game has become and those from Fortnite come here
Liukke
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Darloc Brae set in 1st person
Hello,
it is one of the few sneak and RPG sets. But in 1st person the visuals are to strong and should only fill the lower or upper part of the screen.
We are still playing... unarmed or no-CP, sneaky and use Blade of Woe, torches or Almalexias light in dark HDR10 environments. Using Darloc or Druids Braid and in 1st person
it is one of the few sneak and RPG sets. But in 1st person the visuals are to strong and should only fill the lower or upper part of the screen.
We are still playing... unarmed or no-CP, sneaky and use Blade of Woe, torches or Almalexias light in dark HDR10 environments. Using Darloc or Druids Braid and in 1st person
mague
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Re: Will there be crown 'sale' this Quakecon?
very likely, but it usually gets announced on the day it starts
Re: Will there be crown 'sale' this Quakecon?
Quakecon starts on August 7, so likely the crown sale start the same day.
Mansk90
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Re: DPS makeup of vKA HM runs on ESOlogs, Updates 43-46
The main issue as I see it is not that fatecarver is too easy or too strong, but that we no longer have multiple viable options that would/could have competed with Fatecarver for differing skill levels, allowing other classes to make a niche for themselves as additional "in-between" options of full weaving builds and Heavy Attack builds, just to different levels of complexity.
Plar (pre-U35) had old Jabs (closest to fatecarver in the mix of supreme AoE + offense + defense, but was melee so more risky than fatecarver)
Sorcerer (pre-2020) had Crystal Blast (still required good weaving and casting it every GCD with no bonus defensive utility, but provided strong ranged AoE option)
Necro (pre-U41) had stalking blast bones (in between the other 2, since it's once per 3 seconds but required doing other things in between casts)
All 3 of these abilities have been either completely removed from the game (Blast and Stalking) or reworked to not only be worse than before, but also significantly worse than fatecarver (new jabs).
This creates the issue where the top tier players who could likely clear trifecta content with no gear equipped remained unaffected by the loss of these abilities, the players who never engage with end-game content remain largely unaffected outside of losing something they enjoyed using/liked the theme of, but the middle-tier player (which would be 90% of those who want to get into end-game content which is most prog groups and most "social" groups that also do the harder content) were left with only 1 option. Fatecarver, whereas if ZOS had not removed those other abilities, these mid-tier players would have multiple options to choose from to work their way up to becoming an end-game player/progressing into the more complex weaving builds via steps, not just 1 giant leap. i.e. there would have been a clear progression path for these players, starting with Oaken heavy attack builds (most forgiving playstyle), moving onto non-oaken HA builds, then onto fatecarver, then moving onto jabs (more risk due to melee and healing instead of shield), then moving onto necro (or sorc) (much more weaving and no defense utility on the spammable but strong ranged AoE that compares to fatecarver for cleave heavy content), then onto a full complex min-max top DPS weaving build.
These clear stepping stones, if they weren't removed, would have also allowed these mid-tier players the option of still participating in end-game content while remaining at any of these stages of "difficulty" (in-case they hit a wall, or simply don't enjoy harder/more complex rotations) because all of these options were/would have still been viable for the cleave heavy content that is being designed today to account for fatecarvers existence.
TL//DR:
We used to have multiple mid-tier options between HA/Fatecarver builds and weaving builds, but the abilities these builds were built around got removed/adjusted over the years and as such, the mid-tier players, that such changes in this game over the years has driven away in droves, feel as though there's nothing in the game for them, outside of fatecarver (which many may not like for different reasons, such as became bored of the playstyle, don't enjoy the playstyle at all, don't like the theme, etc.).
ZOS needs to look into bringing back some of these old/removed abilities that enabled these solid stepping stone builds that allowed players to progress through to end-game without needing to surmount this giant chasm that exists between HA/fatecarver builds and the complex weaving builds with nothing in-between.
Plar (pre-U35) had old Jabs (closest to fatecarver in the mix of supreme AoE + offense + defense, but was melee so more risky than fatecarver)
Sorcerer (pre-2020) had Crystal Blast (still required good weaving and casting it every GCD with no bonus defensive utility, but provided strong ranged AoE option)
Necro (pre-U41) had stalking blast bones (in between the other 2, since it's once per 3 seconds but required doing other things in between casts)
All 3 of these abilities have been either completely removed from the game (Blast and Stalking) or reworked to not only be worse than before, but also significantly worse than fatecarver (new jabs).
This creates the issue where the top tier players who could likely clear trifecta content with no gear equipped remained unaffected by the loss of these abilities, the players who never engage with end-game content remain largely unaffected outside of losing something they enjoyed using/liked the theme of, but the middle-tier player (which would be 90% of those who want to get into end-game content which is most prog groups and most "social" groups that also do the harder content) were left with only 1 option. Fatecarver, whereas if ZOS had not removed those other abilities, these mid-tier players would have multiple options to choose from to work their way up to becoming an end-game player/progressing into the more complex weaving builds via steps, not just 1 giant leap. i.e. there would have been a clear progression path for these players, starting with Oaken heavy attack builds (most forgiving playstyle), moving onto non-oaken HA builds, then onto fatecarver, then moving onto jabs (more risk due to melee and healing instead of shield), then moving onto necro (or sorc) (much more weaving and no defense utility on the spammable but strong ranged AoE that compares to fatecarver for cleave heavy content), then onto a full complex min-max top DPS weaving build.
These clear stepping stones, if they weren't removed, would have also allowed these mid-tier players the option of still participating in end-game content while remaining at any of these stages of "difficulty" (in-case they hit a wall, or simply don't enjoy harder/more complex rotations) because all of these options were/would have still been viable for the cleave heavy content that is being designed today to account for fatecarvers existence.
TL//DR:
We used to have multiple mid-tier options between HA/Fatecarver builds and weaving builds, but the abilities these builds were built around got removed/adjusted over the years and as such, the mid-tier players, that such changes in this game over the years has driven away in droves, feel as though there's nothing in the game for them, outside of fatecarver (which many may not like for different reasons, such as became bored of the playstyle, don't enjoy the playstyle at all, don't like the theme, etc.).
ZOS needs to look into bringing back some of these old/removed abilities that enabled these solid stepping stone builds that allowed players to progress through to end-game without needing to surmount this giant chasm that exists between HA/fatecarver builds and the complex weaving builds with nothing in-between.
