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Re: 600+ days played character is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing
ESO has always been very limiting with only one character.
I have 5 DKs of different races and played 4 of them in PVP.
I have 5 DKs of different races and played 4 of them in PVP.
Desiato
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Re: Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
- Did your ability to play and/or complete certain types of game content improve after the launch of Update 46?
I only now just touched the game after U46 launched, and I will say no to this. I grew weaker on the classes I played, and most everyone wants you to beam which is an entirely unfun playstyle. I played Magblade and MagDK in PvE. I knew the classes well enough that I could compete with pre U45 Arcanists in both ST and Cleave without much issue. Nerfs to DK sustain have made it harder to play, and NB receiving a PvE nerf in U46 and upcoming U47 is making the classes less bearable to play as if I'm forced to subclass. In PvP, I'm not feeling too much of a difference in my own abilities except against who I'm facing, especially in BGs. Everyone has access to streak which is annoying, and now that healing builds are even stronger, players can give up survivability skill lines in favor for more damaging burst combos to blow you up before you knew what happened.
Estin
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Re: Herald of the Tome - Remove Fatecarver
@Zyaneth_Bal banner appears twice in the logs due to being double barred, and it'll be drastically reduced down to 2 per group with this update.
There are 2 major problems with fatecarver imo:
1 - it's single target damage is way too high. it shouldn't be in the same ballpark as elemental weapon or force pulse with good light attack weaving, never mind cliff racer.
2 - you either run dread for spammables, or flail for beam. because of this you can't use beam for trash / cleave and runeblades for single target. arcanist is locked into a build due to the morph of flail that they take.
Simply put, arcanist doesn't have enough crux builder or spender damage options. the class mechanic is a nice idea, but it fell woefully short on options. It needs to be able to use non class spammables as crux generators and non class dots as crux spenders to make the whole thing more dynamic and interesting, instead of locking you into only 3 skills.
There are 2 major problems with fatecarver imo:
1 - it's single target damage is way too high. it shouldn't be in the same ballpark as elemental weapon or force pulse with good light attack weaving, never mind cliff racer.
2 - you either run dread for spammables, or flail for beam. because of this you can't use beam for trash / cleave and runeblades for single target. arcanist is locked into a build due to the morph of flail that they take.
Simply put, arcanist doesn't have enough crux builder or spender damage options. the class mechanic is a nice idea, but it fell woefully short on options. It needs to be able to use non class spammables as crux generators and non class dots as crux spenders to make the whole thing more dynamic and interesting, instead of locking you into only 3 skills.
Tannus15
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Re: So ICE will never have that ‘dragon knight’ class? :(
BretonMage wrote: »moderatelyfatman wrote: »I would like to see the Warden split into two classes and expanded. One class has 3 skill lines dedicated to Animals dps, Plant based healing and maybe a tanking one based around shapeshifting.
The other should be an Ice mage. All three skill lines based around ice with an Ice Elemental as a companion.
Yeah, the Warden was always an odd concept. I've never understood why they needed a class that was part druid and part tanky ice mage.
It works in this way to me: DK is fire and mineral, Warden is water and life. You may notice many of the skills are similar but with this thematic difference and a slight mechanical difference: Flies and Shalks are like a ranged Claw and Breath, Polar Wind is Dragonblood, Gripping Shards is Talons, and so on and so on. There's some biological element to DK with the Dragon and Venom references, but we can construe Noxious Breath being with Corrosive in a Noxious Gas theme, like the various Sulfides that occur in mineral deposits - although many of those are Biologic, like Hydrogen Sulfide in petroleum deposits, others are Magmatic.
Re: So ICE will never have that ‘dragon knight’ class? :(
The one thing I've never had any use for (uh... other than necromancer....) is an ice mage. Give me fire thanks....
TaSheen
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600+ days played character is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing
My main character, the one I've done all quests on and discovered all points of interest, found all skyshards, learned all crafting, etc. is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing. The builds that I need to stay competitive are no longer possible on my main class, so I must reroll another character and start fresh. Either that or buy skill lines from the crown store and switch characters anytime I need something crafted. You get the idea.
It's also been said before but Subclassing has distilled combat down to maybe 5 skill lines for the serious high-end competitive gameplay.
"oh wow, you're playing XYZ... how original" etc
It's also been said before but Subclassing has distilled combat down to maybe 5 skill lines for the serious high-end competitive gameplay.
"oh wow, you're playing XYZ... how original" etc
Re: I Would Like to Enjoy ESO Again—How to Bring the Magic Back
Before 1-tamriel zones were level (and alliance!) locked with associated graded difficulties and mats were zone specific. Unless you were at or below the required level for a zone you got pretty much nothing: no xp, no loot, no treasure. There might have been a tiny amount of gold from quests in those circumstances, I'm not sure. The only time you were guaranteed any kind of loot (trash by today's standards) was after completion of Cadwell's gold and in the final zone for that particular alliance. If you were ahead in terms of craft capability than your character level then tough - you probably weren't strong enough to farm the mats you needed to match that and guild traders were only available via keep capture and retention in cyrodiil (when pvp was rightfully the 'end' game). You spent a significantly longer time at any specific character level and craft level as a consequence. It was a pitiless grind.
It was the fact that many players found this setup 'too hard' (and consequently boring - why waste limited recreation time when there are other, simpler and more entertaining options with other products?) combined with the inability to group with friends due to alliance being central and limiting to character identity(you could only group with others of the same alliance and, to be effective, of very similar level) that resulted in 1-tamriel - originally and thankfully protoyped in Wrothgar, which is why when it went live it pretty much did so without a hitch.
As for what seems to me to be essentially a request to revert to most of that pre 1-tamriel setup, no thanks. I suspect any such reversions changes would render eso extinct as the remaining players abandoned it.
It was the fact that many players found this setup 'too hard' (and consequently boring - why waste limited recreation time when there are other, simpler and more entertaining options with other products?) combined with the inability to group with friends due to alliance being central and limiting to character identity(you could only group with others of the same alliance and, to be effective, of very similar level) that resulted in 1-tamriel - originally and thankfully protoyped in Wrothgar, which is why when it went live it pretty much did so without a hitch.
As for what seems to me to be essentially a request to revert to most of that pre 1-tamriel setup, no thanks. I suspect any such reversions changes would render eso extinct as the remaining players abandoned it.
Re: It's time to remove the ignore resistance effect of Javelin and its morphs
The skill isn't the issue it's the stacking of crit damage, just reduce crit damage to PvP to max 50%
Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
Q was 120 this evening for PC/NA Grey Host around 7pm ET ... yea low turnout.
Re: Server Performance for MYM has been really poor
No I agree with you. Usually MYM somehow we get much better performance for the event, then IMMEDIATELY AFTER the event ends its back to the usual laggy stuff. For some "reason" we're not getting the usual MYM perfomance boost! It's being used to advertise Vengeance lol Do you follow?AngryPenguin wrote: »This year's MYM was an advertisement for Vengeance's High Pop Gameplay and Performance
No it's not. You either weren't around for or are conveniently forgetting about how we've had good performance in the past during MYM events. Performance used to improve during MYM. (even with server side calculations) Then ZOS changed things on their end. ZOS could change things back to the way they were when we had decent performance in Cyrodiil. They're not doing the needed fixes for some reason.
