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Re: Akatosh Living Armor Senche - Free?!??!?!
Carcamongus wrote: »The problem isn't that the mounts are labeled as "free", which they technically are if you meet the requirements. The problem is that the requirements are steep and depend on awful odds, meaning a lot of money being spent. You spend gems or crowns to buy crates in order to (maybe) obtain the required items and then, with that (maybe) completed, you have the option of claiming the mount without spending anything else. Again, what truly deserves criticism isn't the use of the word "free", but the absurd requirements to obtain the free mounts. I don't usually complain about crates, but this novelty is a new low.
I was not criticizing the word "free" in as much as I was criticizing that "free" in this example is not "free" because it requires purchases as I illustrated.
And I agree, this is a new low.
Re: Please let the mammoth stay
It's entirely your choice of course, and we have no idea what your situation is, but if you need to wait for your salary payment to be able to gather a few tens of dollars to spend, it sounds like you might wish to reconsider whether a purely cosmetic item for a computer game is really the best use of your funds? Naturally value and enjoyment are different for everyone, and this is coming from someone who just doesn't think this cosmetic is worth this amount of real-world money even when one can easily afford it.
JeroenB
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Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Watch Amazing Livestreams & Earn a Special Pet at QuakeCon 2025"
If you reply linking this forum thread (and I also uploaded a screenshot of Kevin’s post specifically) they will escalate it. I can’t check to confirm items were received because I am out of town right now, but I got a support email that implies kindly pointing out this thread had the intended effect.
Checking on Underwater content
Long time absent player just wondering if they added underwater content yet.
Does ESO have underwater swimming, quests, or treasure?
Does ESO have underwater swimming, quests, or treasure?
Gidorick
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Re: Writhing Wall Event which server will win.. but???
katanagirl1 wrote: »I wonder how the timing of the wall coming down will work. What if it’s 3 am my time? I would miss it.
I mean, can you even predict when it will happen?
We will have guidance to make sure everyone is aware of their server timing for this. This should be outlined in info shared next month.
Re: Please tweak Rajhin. I just got out of an 80 minute match vs it (not uncommon).
Just make it like crow - if it points at you then you cant use it.
Re: Please tweak Rajhin. I just got out of an 80 minute match vs it (not uncommon).
Every time you give the opponent a bewilderment, you get one too.
Re: New Mythic Concept item: Lariat of the Long Winter
tomofhyrule wrote: ».YandereGirlfriend wrote: »ESO_Nightingale wrote: »I can imagine this being OP in Nunatak Winter's Embrace builds in PVP.
I don't really see the gameplay justification outside of the desire for frost themed high damage build. I like that frost and fire damage have different identities and mechanics that can compliment each other in group compositions.
Does there need to be more gameplay justification than that? mythics have been created with more niche purposes than this that see no play at all.
Yes, I think there absolutely should be a gameplay justification for gameplay changes. Especially in a game in the midst of a gameplay crisis.
Frost is already very strong, even if a lot of players posting in this thread can't see it based on their recommendation of a 25-50% damage buff(!!!)
I think ZOS did a good job of making all elemental damage types relevant -- and in the larger picture, all damage types. I especially like how Frost is brittle themed.
Plus Winter's Embrace is obviously one of the best skill lines in the game.
Yes, Winter's Embrace. Run by all the top parsers in the game! Oh wait....
If your metric for "good source of damage" is "run by all the top parsers," then I feel we should talk about how underpowered fire is because none of the DK lines are used either. In fact, if you're not running Fatecarver, Grim Focus, and Radiant Oppression, then you're super underpowered, right?
Ardent Flame is actually pretty great - this 178K DPS build with Ardent Flame, Herald of the Tome and Assassination is a good example of a build that uses it. And with the upcoming nerf to Grim Focus, it looks like Ardent Flame might be better than Assassination on builds with Fatecarver as well. See this 155K DPS parse on the PTS, for example.
When it comes to Frost DPS - I'm definitely no top parser myself, so I only did 158K DPS on the current PTS with that same Ardent, Herald and Assassination setup. It dropped to 149K when I swapped Ardent Flame for Winter's Embrace, though. While that might still be alright, I just tried to turn it into a full-fletched Frost Damage build with two Ice Staves as well and only did 129K DPS (and the sustain was horrendous to boot). Even with this hypothetical mythic, such a build would still be relatively bad.
BasP
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Re: New Mythic Concept item: Lariat of the Long Winter
YandereGirlfriend wrote: »ESO_Nightingale wrote: »I can imagine this being OP in Nunatak Winter's Embrace builds in PVP.
I don't really see the gameplay justification outside of the desire for frost themed high damage build. I like that frost and fire damage have different identities and mechanics that can compliment each other in group compositions.
Does there need to be more gameplay justification than that? mythics have been created with more niche purposes than this that see no play at all.
Yes, I think there absolutely should be a gameplay justification for gameplay changes. Especially in a game in the midst of a gameplay crisis.
Frost is already very strong, even if a lot of players posting in this thread can't see it based on their recommendation of a 25-50% damage buff(!!!)
I think ZOS did a good job of making all elemental damage types relevant -- and in the larger picture, all damage types. I especially like how Frost is brittle themed.
Plus Winter's Embrace is obviously one of the best skill lines in the game.
Yes, Winter's Embrace. Run by all the top parsers in the game! Oh wait....
Furthermore theoerycrafters for years made strong frost warden parse builds that were very close to the damage meta, both with and without frost staffs.
The first one was in u42, when ice staves boosted piercing cold so it was actually the best weapon for a warden. Now, this parse wouldn't be possible
The second one is a highland/siroria build so of course it would get high dps. Sure, it's good, but a sorc would have gotten more dps
The main thing to look at, though, is subclassing : while meta builds have gotten way better, frost builds haven't really improved.. there's still only one frost damage line, and taking bone tyrant for ghoslty embrace (zos please give us back the cc on this one) doesn't make sense for parsing. You can't really subclass into another line without having to use non frost skills to deal damage, so frost DDs didn't get the huge dps increase everyone else has access to. That's why a 25% boost to frost damage isn't crazy, especially with a 10% debuff to the other damage types
