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Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
As much as I personally dont like the dancer/dancing personality(something about it irks me, not sure why), I dont think ESO has done anything truly immersion breaking. Everything in the store is set within the Elder Scrolls universe. We dont get any other non TES licensed things, which is good.
Personally, and I know im in a minority, I love the Symphony of Blades mount. I mean, its based of the Symphony of Blades boss, one of the coolest looking bosses we have in a dungeon.
If you dont like the more flashy things, just pretend they are not there. As I do when I see other players with rediculous character names.
Personally, and I know im in a minority, I love the Symphony of Blades mount. I mean, its based of the Symphony of Blades boss, one of the coolest looking bosses we have in a dungeon.
If you dont like the more flashy things, just pretend they are not there. As I do when I see other players with rediculous character names.
Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
SilverBride wrote: »ESO has completely lost all sense of identity, not just with its classes, but with everything in the game.
Add all this to subclassing and it's going further and further away from the original game.
It's still something I will play at this point, but I don't recognize it as the same game any more, and I hope it finds it's way back to the Tamriel that it used to be.
You must not been around at launch. This game barely felt like an Elder Scrolls game at all. Its much better than what it was.
That said, I don't play for Elder Scrolls Lore. I play to have a good time. And ESO achieves that for me.
Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
And it’s not just about cosmetics. The introduction of subclass systems has only made it clearer that something is off at the core of ESO. The distinct identity that once defined each class has been diluted to the point where it no longer feels like Elder Scrolls game. That sense of immersion and uniqueness is fading. Has the team given up on preserving that identity? Has the creative drive been lost? Because right now, it feels like the soul of ESO is slipping away and many longtime players feel the same.
Subclassing is Elder Scrolls at its roots. Distinct classes are not an Elder Scrolls staple and was simply a byproduct of making an MMO. You could pick classes and types of characters but you weren't bound to those decisions and can learn anything you want in the single player games
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Re: PSA: Mammoth Mount 4K, Snow Bear Style 1.8K in store! 5-12/08/25 - praise marketing team
spartaxoxo wrote: »Regardless of how one gets the crowns though. They set the price at 40 dollars.
Which is still better than 50, or an unknown amount hidden behind gamble. Let a man be happy XD
Re: PSA: Mammoth Mount 4K, Snow Bear Style 1.8K in store! 5-12/08/25 - praise marketing team
~ 40 dollars for a mount.
On sale (which is happening these days) 4.000 crowns are equal to 14 euros if you buy the biggest bundle.
ESO Plus gives "free" crowns.
You can buy crowns for gold from players.
Hardly anyone would end up spending 40 dollars for 4.000 crowns - be honest.
Re: Scroll reset timer adjustment.
That player will not be popular, and because of that it will also not happen very often.
Whatever gave you this idea that players have a desire to be popular among their opponents?
Also, your entire proposal is inspired by preventing certain parties from using the scroll to farm instead of letting you run it home and complete your quest. Yet you dismiss the possibility of people ruining your scroll run in 'your' system with the notion that people wouldn't do it because it would make them unpopular. ???
Re: PSA: Mammoth Mount 4K, Snow Bear Style 1.8K in store! 5-12/08/25 - praise marketing team
i agree those are awesome items
Re: Scroll reset timer adjustment.
Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »You just want to remove a fundamental part of PvP. Probably just to make it easier to retrieve a scroll from an enemy castle. That's just total nonsense. The fights for the scrolls are more important than a castle like Drake.
If your group or alliance is unable to secure and return contested scrolls, there are other reasons for that that have nothing to do with the game design.
So that will never happen.
It will not make it easier to get scrolls. What will change most is the stupid farming with the scrolls by players that know the game can't handle it. 30 min run time instead of 60 min would solve a lot of hasle. Scrolls need to be run directly and can still be stopped. The reset after 30 min makes sense. Fighting for 5 min after dropping is also long enough and is meant to stop the scroll and will reset it.
The current scroll conditions are not clever enough and lead to problems.
Still waiting for a video of one of your scroll runs for context of your point. The current scroll mechanics are good for a 3 faction system. If you want to try and prove otherwise you need a better argument than just 'Because I think so'.
If you really insist on a video. I "scrolled" through some recordings. Here we placed Chim back within 9 min. A scroll reset after 30 min would be fine. Even with a full population.https://youtu.be/5SLaHzF7-OU
Placing a scroll is not a video of scroll run, but looking at this it appears to be on blackreach which is a known low population campaign. You can also tell this by the fact that there is barely any activity on the map based on your CyroHud.
I agree the video of a placing a scroll is showing that it was after running 9 min. The causality of a higher population dispite which campaign does not matter as in the current state the same arguments can be used.
The reduction of useless farming with scrolls by 30 minutes in combination with abolishing stealing in the field will be a game changer as a punishment would be more in place. ZoS consider a justification.
Population is completely relevant, anyone can speed run a scroll on a dead campaign.
Your idea is just completely flawed.
Another example is - lets say as a faction you siege the keep with 50 other people whilst 5 people are defending against you. Yet a sneaky player from the 3rd faction makes it inside the keep and picks up the scroll before your 50 players can, now you can't pick up that scroll once you kill that player and it will respawn at a further away keep because it will reset.
Doesn't seem like great design to me.
Re: Scroll reset timer adjustment.
Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »You just want to remove a fundamental part of PvP. Probably just to make it easier to retrieve a scroll from an enemy castle. That's just total nonsense. The fights for the scrolls are more important than a castle like Drake.
If your group or alliance is unable to secure and return contested scrolls, there are other reasons for that that have nothing to do with the game design.
So that will never happen.
It will not make it easier to get scrolls. What will change most is the stupid farming with the scrolls by players that know the game can't handle it. 30 min run time instead of 60 min would solve a lot of hasle. Scrolls need to be run directly and can still be stopped. The reset after 30 min makes sense. Fighting for 5 min after dropping is also long enough and is meant to stop the scroll and will reset it.
The current scroll conditions are not clever enough and lead to problems.
Still waiting for a video of one of your scroll runs for context of your point. The current scroll mechanics are good for a 3 faction system. If you want to try and prove otherwise you need a better argument than just 'Because I think so'.
If you really insist on a video. I "scrolled" through some recordings. Here we placed Chim back within 9 min. A scroll reset after 30 min would be fine. Even with a full population.
Placing a scroll is not a video of scroll run, but looking at this it appears to be on blackreach which is a known low population campaign. You can also tell this by the fact that there is barely any activity on the map based on your CyroHud.
Re: ESO Developer Deep Dive - Core Combat Values
This is a whole lot of nothing post again.
The game is at its lowest point, people aren't playing, streamers aren't streaming. I log in for the daily reward and log out.
Combat has been downhill since the introduction of mythics, mix matching armour weights, hybridisation, scaling healing with damage instead of max stats (or having it's own stat), nerfing play styles (ganking, bows, bombing, shields, procs), adding over powered sets (only to nerf them a month later).... All of it takes away the "play how you want", class identity and the fun of theory crafting
One would have to agree with you. Unfortunately, instead of adding complexity to things, it keeps getting dumbed down more and more. Choice is a form of expression. How characters look, how they emote, what mount they ride, which companion do they like, etc. etc. All of this involves choice. The same goes for class selection. Appeasing the Elder Scrolls Critics because the game has classes (traditional ES single player games do not have classes) sailed long ago when a the game was released in 2014. They knew this then. Ruining the game now by subclassing to compete with the ease of other newer games that allow flip flopping classes...that is not ESO. Making real changes with new character ability content like weapons, chain mail armor, restructuring how damage/armor/resources etc (armor should not give damage bonuses, for example..only mitigate). We want NEW stuff. Not subclassing 10 year old skills. Plz - I wish they wouldn't do this. How many people have actually finished the content in all the zones? Most have not. They casually play and are attached to their characters. That is fun. No Question.
How about we just combine magicka and stamina into one 'Power' bar? lol. Along with that, let's get rid of the Fighter's Guild and Mage's Guild - just call it the it doesn't matter anymore guild - you want to be a warrior? Why? you can be an all powerful mage, too, just increase your weapon damage champ!!!(These two entities are so underdeveloped for mag/stam users. imagine the skills and things that could go through new quests etc. for these guild) Mythics, especially Oaken Soul, have destroyed the build strategy. Mythics are ok...a 5 set piece bonus? No. Too overpowered. Burst AOE's hurt the game...fighting skill, blocking, dodging, potion and resource management, these seem lost to spamming burst aoe's, lightning staff hvy attack builds that cost not resources, etc.
A few skill types should bee added to the Guild and World classes. An actual 20% dmg Major Brutality/Major Sorcery buff Like the Warden or DK have and dont require an attack to initiate. A stealth/invisibility skill in Legerdemain so all classes can do the thief/assassin quests. Add more pets to the game, through new stave types, or some extra skill, some way to allow more pets (each class should have them actually). Beyond those things, subclassing will accomplish nothing but overpower in some areas, and make 50% of all the skills obsolete. Like...who will use the Necro healing line of skills? Or who will use the Arcanist skills besides the overpowered beam? Not many arcanist tanks running around - the need for crux/corpses vs. casting abilities without those requirements make those classes tedious. Why bother. Resolving class issues would be better than the subclass idea. One Necro heal actually penalizes you for using it. Terrible.
All of what you mentioned should be reversed. Instead, we get subclassing hidden behind the curiosity 'what if' factor of mixing classes. However, there are not thousands of choices, only about a dozen after the dust settles. In the meantime, valuable skills for pure classes are already being changed. Changes to pure classes were not supposed to happen. With Guild and World Skills, combined with some other things, subclassing is not necessary. The class identities are liked by ppl. Subclassing will cause that realization - but once it is released...it will be too late. If some new overhaul was being done to everything, it would be great. However, subclassing is a cheap, dreamy premise that is not welcomed by probably 70% of the population. I have a little fun now and then thinking about subclassing and the pet builds, ultra tank builds, etc. etc. by combining classes. But it isn't worth it. The whole idea is being sold on this curiosity - but it is only that, and not substantive. After 6 months it will get very boring with no classes. Game Killer.
Sabre
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