Same here. It started with looooooong loading screens when switching zones and porting to player house. Eventually endless loading screen so I had to quit game. Now I can't log in again.
Edit: While I was writing I managed to log in finally. But still a unusual long loading time.

Yeah It started with me trying to enter one of my houses only to sit and watch Oroborus spin for 20 minutes. Restarted game and couldn't log in.

Update: It seems to work fine now. No more unusual loading times.

Most games don't care about immersion since 2020.

I was playing call of duty the other day and this mil sim is full of cell shaded Beavis and Butt-Head, Seth Rogen and the puppet girl from Squid Game red light/green light.

The irony is that the power to stop this nonsense was in the hands of the players. Yet, most people keep buying. So don't expect changes anytime. It will get worse.

It only revealed the wayshrines in one zone. Is this intentional? The description made it sound like all of Tamriel. If its only one zone I would rather have used it in Reaper's March. I got it from a special Golden Pursuit for a returning player account and wasted it in Auridon.

ESO_Nightingale wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I feel like one of the main reasons that people are not taking this seriously is the comparisons and reasonings that are being given. You say "We want frost to be viable for DPS like fire is," and then make all of your comparisons to the current meta. You do realize that the meta isn't a pure fire mage, right? That green beam is not a DK skill, nor does it do flame damage. Heck, you can even recolor the current meta to look like an ice beam, not a fire beam.

Essentially, you're saying "I want my [themed build] to be as strong or stronger than [the meta]" instead of "I want my [themed build] to be as strong or stronger than [similar themed builds]."

We absolutely should compare parses... but not "dual frost staff/Frostbite/etc." to "Arcbladeplar." That should be compared to a pure DK with dual inferno staves and BSW/Encratis. And yes, I'm positive that frost is still going to not match up... but it'll be a lot closer of a matchup than the meta build, because a pure fire mage is also not at all the meta.

Yes, there are things they could do to frost as well, that would also not take away from tanking (since frost - even in Skyrim - did live in a CC area more than a DoT area like fire). I think it'd be interesting to add an Engulfing-style frost-damage-taken debuff to Impaling Shards, or maybe modify the Brittle debuff to also take more damage from frost. Yes, there should be a specific Monster Helm set for each damage type and not just fire. And for the love of Kyne please give Arctic Blast its heal-on-demand back (Polar is the problematic morph in PvP, not Blast).

I agree with you on a lot of this. But i think that theres a lot that should be done in addition to something like this mythic existing, (see one of my many other posts). But where i differ is that I think that theme builds should be able to be similar to meta builds in terms of not just dps but also skill and rotation complexity, and should even have their shot at being the meta. As far as this mythic goes. It's just 1 small part of that and could even become a tuning knob for such a build later down the line. Its an ambitious goal given that I'm not a developer, but we're always inching closer to it.

Don't get me wrong - I hate the idea of a "one meta to rule them all." U46 and Subclassing were a massive step backwards in making a handful of meta builds be reduced down to one single build, all in the name of giving people more freedom.

In a perfect world, all of these builds would be equally viable - even ones that are more support-based would have their place. But as it stands, we're in a world where raid leads just shove everything they can onto the supports because who cares what they want to play, and that means that the DPS are expected to run only the highest damage things and nothing else.

Hi all,

I have some concerns about the game currently; more specifically how breaches of ToS are investigated and how bans are made.

3x of my friends have recently been banned for perceived exploitation and had them reversed on appeal. All they did was run around certain areas collecting resources, no add-ons or mods, no third party installations etc, and then woke up to emails advising them their accounts have been permanently deactivated.

My friends and myself also find it quite relaxing to run around collecting resources. We call it collecting shinies (due to them shining when it's dark in the game). We don't all have tonnes of time to play the game so when we only have an hour or two to commit, we might sometimes just run around collecting every resource we see (not together of course) or loot every container, as one cannot have enough resources for crafting. I personally like running around Bal Foyen as it's relatively small and the abundance of resource there is quite high in the small space. I loot every resource I see, and do it more often now due to the introductions of add-ons/mods on PS5 which highlight resources more clearly. However, now I'm worried I could potentially get banned at some point too, and wondered how ZOS enforce this? I'm not saying I fear I've been reported etc, I just worry because this is something I do each week without fail.

Please note, I appreciate and understand that ZOS cannot divulge specifics relating to other peoples bans - that's not what I'm asking - I'm asking for an understanding of how they process these things, as quite frankly, I cannot understand why they were banned in the first place. Cursory research shows that humans handle all bans, but if their bans were reversed on appeal, based on no evidence of a breach, why were they banned in the first place? Is there an element of AI in dealing with bans etc?

Also seen some posts on the ESO Reddit today with almost identical circs, I.e. ban with no explanation.

I just want to ensure that I am not at risk of waking up to an email to say I've been banned when all I'm doing is collecting resources. I've reported my fair share of bots on my travels and it's usually very apparent they're a bot (sorcerer with pet, no clothes, usually level 3). How do I differentiate myself from a bot - should I kill the odd mob during my travels? Should I need to?

This seems to be alchemy's equivalent for how you get higher amounts of mats from survey nodes of higher tiers when it comes to other crafts:

Lower tier nodes (e.g. iron [1/10] and pewter [1/10]) give 12, 14, or 16 without Plentiful Harvest.
Middle tiers (e.g. nightwood [9/10], ebonthread [5/10], and electrum [4/5]) give 16 or 18 without PH.
Nodes of the highest tier (rubedite [10/10], ruby ash [10/10], platinum [5/5]) give 18 or 20 without PH.

(Furrier's traps have their own quantities, as there's only two of those nodes per survey, but the pattern appears here as well.)

The tier of those nodes depends on whether the node rolls for being based on the character's level or the character's rank in the respective passive. Increasing the rank in the respective passive increases the tier - and therefore the potential quantities dropped by the node - for the spawns that are based on rank.

Alchemy nodes don't have tiers like BCJW nodes do, so instead it seems the chances of dropping the higher of the two potential quantities (6x rather than 4x) scales with the character's rank in Solvent Proficiency.

Maitsukas wrote: »

Just because ZOS said they were looking if it is possible (with no additional updates since then), doesn't mean it is confirmed to be coming any time soon.

This is worth repeating for emphasis. They've said various versions of "we're looking into it", "we're working to see if it's possible", "we know people want it and we'd like to do it". This does not mean crossplay is confirmed to be happening in the next (Q4) update, or even in the next year. I mean I could say the same thing Matt says below, about putting humans on mars - "We're working on the underlying technology to make it possible".

See this video around the 25:00 mark for a recent discussion.

I wouldn't get too excited until something more tangible is confirmed, it could still be a long wait, or it could fail to materialize. I'm not going to drag the studio through the mud, but I will say there's some history of things being worked on and then quietly being abandoned. And they've just gone through a major shakeup. I mean at least in the video clip I shared, I felt like Matt seemed fairly optimistic about it... but also keep in mind that he's now gone.