It can be said louder but not clearer. It is nigh time that this gets a QoL pass.

Personally I have given up on furniture leads that come from treasure maps because the drop chance is hilariously low.

Tangentially related, hyperioxes has a handful of builds on his website that are suited to solo every single WB in the game providing that the player doesn't have any accessibility-related issues that prevents them from using them.

I have soloed The Prime Cataloguer myself a number of times. The spawn mechanics (where it spawns shielded copies of itself and one has to run around to the four corners of the arena, multiple times 'per wave' if one doesn't have the DPS required to defeat the copy in one 'shield drop' cycle) makes it exceedingly tedious to defeat but is more a matter of patience than anything else. It only has one 'gotcha' mechanic and is clearly telegraphed.

Of course the fact that is tedious and time consuming to solo only compounds the frustration of the risible drop rate of the lead.

Asking people for help is often not an option either; is not a particularly enticing proposition given that it doesn't drop anything remarkable and is likely to be a multi-session affair.

There is also the additional compounding frustration of players that didn't much care for the lead and are there out of good will getting the lead and one remaining 'leadless'.

I experienced this multiple times on my ''''''chase''''' - as they like to put it - for the 'Twitching Eyeball' lead.

People came, people got the lead, people left because ICP can get incredibly tedious even if one only runs it up to the encounter with the Gravelight Sentry; in the end I had to solo it - thanks **** companions can interrupt - another 18-20 times until I got the wretched thing.

I have heard 'respecting player's time' mentioned in streams on a few occasions, please make it so because this is not it.

Diminish wrote: »

Coming from someone who spent upwards of 18 hours straight picking flowers in Shadowfen to get the Tide-Glass Beads for the Harpooner's Wading Kilt I personally think the drop rate on leads is fine. Most of them you get rather quickly (some would argue, too quickly). Don't take this the wrong way OP, but I don't see why a change to the drop chance is necessary because someone is having an issue getting their 3rd one to drop... If anything, overworld could use even more extremely rare items, rather via leads or not, to give people a reason to hang out in various zones more. Outside of a few very rare furniture items in just a couple zones, there really isn't anything to put a bunch of long-term farming into.

Mythics are nothing compared to antiquity furnishings. Their RNG is much more favourable than those for furnishings, and I've never spent more than a week farming for a Mythic. Also one never needs multiple copies of a mythic, unlike furnishings.

I fail to see why housing enthusiasts should be discriminated against in this game. Why should we be the ones burdened with impossible-to-obtain items? Our time is no less valuable than others'.

I agree. The antiquities RNG is the one thing that sometimes makes me want to just quit the game and do something more enjoyable and satisfying with my gaming time, i.e. play something else.

During the anniversary event, and because of the 1000 kill challenge, I tried to get a lead from a Hew's Bane WB. I killed that boss over and over and over and over and over and over and over... and no lead. And it's not one I can kill solo, so I've probably lost my opportunity to get it for a while.

There are times a lead will drop for me on the first try or quickly, for sure. But too often, especially with activities that are more difficult, there are leads that just won't drop for me. Yeah, we can buy them, but do you want me to spend time in game, or not? And how long do I have to wait for that lead to appear in the pathetic two vendors we have that only accept PvP and IA currency?

Anyway, we're probably shouting into the wind here.

Templar

And this will be my vote until they revert the U35 change to jabs animation. *NEVER FORGET!*

Diminish wrote: »

Coming from someone who spent upwards of 18 hours straight picking flowers in Shadowfen to get the Tide-Glass Beads for the Harpooner's Wading Kilt I personally think the drop rate on leads is fine. Most of them you get rather quickly (some would argue, too quickly). Don't take this the wrong way OP, but I don't see why a change to the drop chance is necessary because someone is having an issue getting their 3rd one to drop... If anything, overworld could use even more extremely rare items, rather via leads or not, to give people a reason to hang out in various zones more. Outside of a few very rare furniture items in just a couple zones, there really isn't anything to put a bunch of long-term farming into.

It's not just about one lead, this has been an ongoing complaint since the system came out. The oddities of the system are unfathomable.

For furniture - a non-gameplay changing item - you need 3 codex entries to unlock purchasing for gold, but for Mythics - a gameplay altering item - you only need 1 out of 3 codex entries for unlimited reconstructs with transmutes.

For Treasure Map leads you have two sets of RNG, one to get the map, the other to get the lead. When Solstice Maps were on sale in IA, someone bought over 300 maps to get all 3 codex entries for the antiquities and I think they were still one short. 300 Maps is millions in gold, or more than 100 hours of IA fortune farming. That's insane!

I spent less than 20 hours progging the Coral Aerie Hardmode (use the skeleton polymorph on the last boss btw - smaller hitbox, it helps). I've now spent more than 10 hours farming one lead in overland, not one antiquity - one lead - because ZOS put the drop on one of the toughest WBs in the game, in a zone that is now half-dead. That needs addressing. All the leads need addressing.

ssewallb14_ESO wrote: »

The other set is probably Draugrkin, as it scales up in burst potential with number of things that hit at the same time. I'm really surprised flat damage done sets haven't received the spreadsheet treatment yet.

That's what I was thinking. This setup is very similar to the status-effect DK build I ran a couple years ago. Basically, stack as many damage sources that can all proc simultaneously regardless of how little damage it looks like on paper. Combine it with a strong heavy attack at startup and most people are down to 25% hp by the time their client even registers that they are under attack.

EDIT: What made it even worse was that most status effects are direct damage so using this with corrosive would just melt some people. Now that we can do that on a high crit chance NB that is coming out of invisibility.... yowsa.

So, I finally got the chance to play on pts today. Over all I like alot of whats been done for werewolf. I think werewolf is in a position to do well in pve content again which has been a long time coming.

Sustain is quite easy and I do not lose form in combat or out of it and I dont have to spend time monitoring how much time I have left to stay in form.

Pvp wise I do not see werewolf in its current state being competitive. The biggest damage ability we have is claws of fury and its channeled. Which means any bash, fear, charm ect will interrupt it. Yes I can get the damage above 200k over 4.7 seconds but thats meaningless if someone can just spam bash and constantly interrupt it. The other abilities damage are sub par for pvp. I can hit 12k health recovery and do other things and stack loads of heals but other than being a parse dummy I dont see any real meaningful damage that will be competitive with average pvp players let alone meta pvp players.

The appearance is fine, I dont care for the glowing tattoos but you have gave us other options for fur and maybe we will get more in the future so that levels that out I think. Dire wolf damage is minimal and getting their snare back would be nice.

I also noticed our disease damage is gone so no more defile on enemy players which is kind of a bummer.

So in summary, great for pve content but no so good for pvp.

EF321 wrote: »

alternatelder wrote: »

There is no such thing as fake dps, just bad dps. [snip]

Random veteran dungeon, 40k SnB and taunting boss with puncture. That is fake DPS in my book.


Edit: found pic

I did few vet dungeons for class scraps this month, had three of these occasions with SnB "DD" taunting boss...

I have to agree. If a non-tank who queues as a tank is a fake tank, and if a non-healer who queues as a healer is a fake healer, then a non-DD who queues as a DD is a fake DD. This is not to say that there are not tanks, healers, and DDs who are simply bad (unskilled or uneducated) at their roles.

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