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Re: Add More Major Resolve Sources for PvP
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Maybe they just don't want people to choose 3xDD skill lines without making a sacrifice?
I do think healing skill lines should have major resolve and not just restoring light.
I'm using Chudan right now because Assassination, animal companions and earthen heart skill lines don't have Major resolve. But I guess that's the sacrifice I have to make in order to be able to use fossilized unlockable stun and Corrosive armour with relentless focus and cutting dive.
I also have to use Night Mother's gaze just to get a reliable source of major breach.
Except the benefits of sacrificing a major resolve line like restoring light or storm calling isn't worth it to use 1 extra skill and Chudan. Meta builds will have the bar space to get everything needed on 1 build, so Chudan is unnecessary. Meanwhile non meta builds need to use Chudan. Adding a universal major resolve will make non meta builds slightly more competitive by using a good monster set and open up more build diversity.
This proves my point. No offense but this isn't a good build. You aren't using a set like bloodspawn to get higher ult gen. The time between your corrosives will be too long. If I was fighting this, I'd just turtle up during your corrosive and then afterwards I'd have like 30 - 40 secs or more to play offensive before your next corro. And if I was hit by your fossilize I'd break free and immediately roll dodge your relentless.
You don't need corrosive. You have enough burst with deep fissure, merciless, spammable and incap. And if you still wanted a unblockable stun, there's streak in storm calling along with major resolve source. Or even warden charm on healing soul.
No reason to use earthern heart with those lines and with storm calling or restoring light you can use balorgh for more pen, then you can kill anyone in 1v1. Why are you using nmg when you have access to animal companions deep fissure with major and minor breach?
You don't need fossilize anyway because you are using cliff racer or could use surprise attack - both of these can proc off balance. You can stun an off balance target with a medium attack. SA into medium weave relentless/ merciless with fissure and ult will kill almost everyone. And if you wanted it to be unblockable/ undodgeable either use healing soul with charm or streak.
I myself use dizzy off balance medium into db and merciless. I use warden charm for the combo to be unblockable and undodgeable. See for yourself if interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEN5NwUHzg8
Namacc
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
Hopefully once they figure it out they'll let us know. We shall see.
They already did. They told us at around the beginning of the year how ESO is changing. They ended the chapter model. We can see the result in the game right now.
I keep repeating myself because I'm amazed that people can't see what's right in front of them. They didn't just change the name of the annual update for no reason. ESO has entered a new phase.
It's an 11 year old game, so this kind of thing is to be expected.
Desiato
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Please take the taunt in Runic Jolt away from Arcanist!!
It's getting more and more annoying Tanking with all META arcanists in PUG's stealing Taunt and not even knowing they are doing so. I just watch the taunt counter. I am letting them die now instead of taunting back the enemy, so they learn. Arcanist do not need a taunt...
Re: Ongoing EU Megaserver Issues – Request for Transparency
Here we go again let’s pay even more for the worst service a gaming company offers ever
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
nathamarath wrote: »
Blackbird was an internal ZOS pet project that only started to make progress recently, after ESO was set on its new path. This has been leaked previously and we can deduce the decision to end chapters had to happen last year because the content pass lacks new art assets. It is probably why the anniversary tour was cut short.
They would have made the decision to end chapters independent of outside considerations.
It was cut short because MS has no sense of flair for the history, tradition and being of the companies incorporated. For the same reason seasons was introduced. It is MS' distribution habit including naming to unify it with their own flavour.
I'd argue seasons were introduced because they knew they were phasing down on content (and their resources and personel were shifting to other projects), they knew they were slowly transitioning to a more maintenance mode approach, and they knew they had a ton of technical debt built up over the years (how many posts are there where people say stop adding new things and fix the bugs/balance, etc etc).
Moving to seasons gives them a second to take a breath and do just that. I don't think seasons really had anything to do with Microsoft. Why would it? They make lamost all their money from ESO+ and then the big content drops that they sell for (too much money IMO).
ESO+, crowns, and crown crates are how ESO is so dang profitable. Everything else is just penies on the bottomline.
LadyGP
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
If they thought Blackbird would be successful, of course they would not have shot themselves in the foot by cancelling it.
Personally, my guess would be that someone on the business side came to realize they'd just be competing with themselves. Of course, devs will see a new game project as a new challenge and new way to create and express but business people see it as a second dip into a completely saturated market where they already have a reasonably large grip.
Sluggy
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
They made the decision not to develop a conventional chapter last year. The staff who would normally work on new assets for chapters were probably either assigned to other Bethesda projects or Blackbird.Imperial_Archmage wrote: »I feel for the folks impacted by these layoffs, I really do, but at the same time I can’t help but ask myself what is that they were doing before they were fired? The so called “Season of the Worm” has been nothing but rehashed old content that adds nothing new to the game.
Many of the affected employees actually came from another Zenimax studio that was shut down last year, Arkane.I will never cease to be baffled (and, to some extent, disheartened) by people defending this horrid workplace and corporate culture.
Regardless of whether the layoffs made economic sense - while I doubt it, there is the theoretical possibility that they did - the style of firing people, how this is done, is just terrible.
And I really hope more people in that industry start unionising.
I'm not president of the world, and Microsoft doesn't make the rules they operate in either. Right or wrong, this is how our society functions. I would say it's largely good as until recently, the world had seen unprecedented global prosperity. But nothing is perfect and some would say the wheels are coming off this wagon for complex reasons that are beyond the scope of the eso forums.
If Microsoft didn't function in a fiscally responsible way, they would actually be in violation of their fiduciary duty to their shareholders. You might imagine them to all be residents of an ivory tower, but many are also individuals a who are either part of mutual funds or shareholders themselves who count on dividends to fund their retirement.
The bottom line is they are making decisions that they think are best for their stakeholders. Every responsible company operates like this. I doubt anyone making these decisions likes them.
It should be noted that ZOS employees are part of a union and though they can no longer access work systems, the last we heard the affected employees are still being paid with benefits.
Regardless, this is how our society functions and you can't blame a company for operating within its rules. If they didn't, they themselves would eventually be the target of an acquisition by another corporation that does.
I agree with everything you said here - and unfortunetly you're going to take heat for speaking the truth.
This is just how business operates. Two things can be true - you can absolutley feel gutted for the people who get caught up in the wash - you can also believe that MS (and companies in general) have a duty to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.
None of us will ever know the full scope/situation about BB and the reasons why it got cancelled. I will say... a game in dev for 7 years with nothing public to show for it is concerning no matter how amazing the game apparently was (I'm killing to have a Destiny 2/ESO mix up that would have been insane).
It's also true that when the economy is booming companies almost always over hire. Every job I've ever had.. when the economy is good.. the business is making top profits.. they always..always..always over hire. There ends up being so many jobs where you're like... wait what do you do.. do we really need 10 people doing that job 2 people were doing 3 years ago? You notice more people standing around talking... more meetings that end up accomplishing nothing...so it's understandable that at some point (regardless of how good profits are or not) that companies thin the heard a bit.
I'd also say the Microsoft is at record profits argument.. is kind of.. interesting. Their game pass and how they "make profits" from it... do a deep dive and the math doesn't exactly math. I don't think Xbox is as profitable as they claim.
LadyGP
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Cyrodiil Emperor needs to be re-worked
The emperor achievement is broken and being constantly abused. It should be a one time achievement so that once you've done it that's it - or at the very least it should only be achievable once per campaign.
Re: [Solstice Spoilers] Really Appreciate ZOS Bringing Him Back
Just chiming in here. The "gift of Death" turned out tobe a corrupted meridia lantern which got cleansed when activated in meridia's own realm.
Since Darian is (unconfirmed, but my impression so far), blood-related to Meridia, unless I missed some lore in summerset, who knows what might happen once part 2 drops. I am excited to see what happens, because even if the story is a bit pedictable, ZoS has always delivered with very cinematic-feeling final boss battles, which I am very much a fan of.
Since Darian is (unconfirmed, but my impression so far), blood-related to Meridia, unless I missed some lore in summerset, who knows what might happen once part 2 drops. I am excited to see what happens, because even if the story is a bit pedictable, ZoS has always delivered with very cinematic-feeling final boss battles, which I am very much a fan of.
Djennku
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