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Re: Is "teabagging" [still] considered Trolling and/or Toxic?
Out of curiosity, what about two players crouching and uncrouching repeatedly bothered you, exactly?
I know what the act is intended to represent, yet the way I described it is what they were actually doing. How did this affect you?
My theory is that there's like a small minority of players that for whatever reason, were not properly socialized growing up (e.g. sent to private/religious schooling instead of public schooling). Thus, they're overly offended by naughty/adult words and actions like t-bagging. Personally, I would have no problem with that, but since corporations cater to them even on rated Mature games, we all have to walk on eggshells/have our spaces invaded and ruled by their version of morality. It's frustrating, but what can you do.
More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
Just poster by Hack the Minotaur on YouTube, it will open your eyes.:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfK7ysMR_A8
It is bad and also very sad, not only for us that love this game. but also for the folks that gave it to us. I am of an age that has faced sudden unemployment from events beyond my control. Not once but twice, and it is life changing. The day that Microsoft took over ZOS was not the godsend that it first appeared to be, but the exact opposite. The corporate world is brutal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfK7ysMR_A8It is bad and also very sad, not only for us that love this game. but also for the folks that gave it to us. I am of an age that has faced sudden unemployment from events beyond my control. Not once but twice, and it is life changing. The day that Microsoft took over ZOS was not the godsend that it first appeared to be, but the exact opposite. The corporate world is brutal.
Re: Is "teabagging" [still] considered Trolling and/or Toxic?
DominicanaDi wrote: »Recently, I reported some players who were taking turns and positioning themselves on top of my toon's and proceeded to repeatedly crouch on my character's body or what is commonly known as teabag. After ESO reviewed the video evidence, they determined that their behavior was not considered a violation of their Code of Conduct. As a response, I have been asking if "teabags" is not considered toxic anymore; more specifically, if this is *now* allowed, but no one has responded yet.
Yes, Di, they are allowed to Teabag you. UNLESS:
1. They Teabag you once and you send them a message asking them to stop.
2. You save that message with the time stamp.
3. Then the next time they teabag you, you get video evidence with a timestamp showing that they Teabagged you AFTER you asked them to stop.
If you do this, there will likely be disciplinary action taken against that player. At that point, it is more about the "targeting" of a specific player for what they deem harassing behavior, and it is less about the Teabagging.
Re: Can we PLEASE have an actual YELLOW dye?!?
Well, reposting this: more good yellows, more good oranges, more matte browns please! 
It is weird that there’s colors only possibly obtainable by wearing an un-dyed motif. Makes it hard to make multi-motif outfits. I think it’d be good to start there with what colors to give us: the house monard yellow and the warm brown the Storm Shark NPCs have.
It is weird that there’s colors only possibly obtainable by wearing an un-dyed motif. Makes it hard to make multi-motif outfits. I think it’d be good to start there with what colors to give us: the house monard yellow and the warm brown the Storm Shark NPCs have. 
Soarora
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Please release the Lich Crown as a style page, Dont want to lose Monster set bonus
From Crypt of Hearts, I love the style but since its a dungeon piece and not a actual style page I have to lose my hat slot for it instead of Monster Helm set.
Please ZOS add it this year because would go well with the worm cult dilemma that's going on with latest chapter.
Mr_Madness
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Re: Please release the Lich Crown as a style page, Dont want to lose Monster set bonus
I've been asking for this since the inception of the transmog system. It just ain't gonna happen at this point sadly.
Re: Is "teabagging" [still] considered Trolling and/or Toxic?
SilverBride wrote: »Whether a player finds teabagging offensive or not, it does create a LOT of conflict that could be eliminated if the crouching animation was just changed. They could make the player semi transparent, for example. Anything other than what it is now.
The way is it now is just creating a lot of work for customer service, and this conflict isn't going to go away unless this animation is changed to something different.
How do you know it's causing "a lot of work for customer service".
Based on the never ending cycle of these threads, usually created by the same people, I'm sure there is a core handful who are the "reporters in chief". Aside from those select few... I highly doubt it's anything substantial.
If anything CS is bogged down with chats being flagged... not this nonsense.
LadyGP
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Re: Elemental Explosion seems really bad...
As far as I remember, my main gripe on release was that you select the target location at the beginning of the cast. It's a big issue in PvP. If the ground target selection was floating and only finalized at the end of the cast, that would improve the skill significantly for PvP and, perhaps, marginally for PvE. You might use the knockback option in PvP, for example to evict ballgroups from a keep wall.
fred4
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Re: Sorcerer review and Update 47
Suggestion for improving Daedric Summoning pet abilities
I'd like to propose a change to the Daedric Summoning pet skills. A frequent complaint is that pet skills occupy a slot on both ability bars, yet their impact doesn't justify the space they consume. My suggestion is that each pet’s activated ability should behave differently depending on whether it's activated from your primary or secondary weapon bar.
For example, here is the current description for Summon Unstable Clannfear:
Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric clannfear to fight at your side. The clannfear's headbutt deals 358 Physical Damage, while its tail spike hits nearby enemies for 358 Physical Damage after 1 second. Once summoned, you can activate the clannfear's special ability for 4320 Magicka, healing you for 5121 and the clannfear for 2560. The clannfear remains until killed or unsummoned.
My proposed revision for Summon Unstable Clannfear:
Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric clannfear to fight at your side...
(same base damage and summon description as above)
Once summoned, you can activate the clannfear's special ability:
On your Primary Weapon bar: costs 4320 Magicka; heals you for 5121 and the clannfear for 2560.
On your Secondary Weapon bar: costs 3510 Magicka; applies Minor Cowardice (duration of Minor Cowardice on the enemy 5 seconds) every 4 seconds for 20 seconds to enemies near them.
Of course, these specific numbers and effects are just illustrative. The core idea is to give pets different active abilities depending on which bar they're used from. That would make them more flexible and meaningful without needing additional skill slots.
I'd like to propose a change to the Daedric Summoning pet skills. A frequent complaint is that pet skills occupy a slot on both ability bars, yet their impact doesn't justify the space they consume. My suggestion is that each pet’s activated ability should behave differently depending on whether it's activated from your primary or secondary weapon bar.
For example, here is the current description for Summon Unstable Clannfear:
Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric clannfear to fight at your side. The clannfear's headbutt deals 358 Physical Damage, while its tail spike hits nearby enemies for 358 Physical Damage after 1 second. Once summoned, you can activate the clannfear's special ability for 4320 Magicka, healing you for 5121 and the clannfear for 2560. The clannfear remains until killed or unsummoned.
My proposed revision for Summon Unstable Clannfear:
Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric clannfear to fight at your side...
(same base damage and summon description as above)
Once summoned, you can activate the clannfear's special ability:
On your Primary Weapon bar: costs 4320 Magicka; heals you for 5121 and the clannfear for 2560.
On your Secondary Weapon bar: costs 3510 Magicka; applies Minor Cowardice (duration of Minor Cowardice on the enemy 5 seconds) every 4 seconds for 20 seconds to enemies near them.
Of course, these specific numbers and effects are just illustrative. The core idea is to give pets different active abilities depending on which bar they're used from. That would make them more flexible and meaningful without needing additional skill slots.
Re: skills that need to be buffed, suggestion discussion
Oh boy skills that I think need to be buffed? Sit down and grab a drink. I'll limit this to the skills that really need updates.
Bone Tyrant
Soul Magic
I'll start off by saying I'd like to see this skill line fleshed out with 2 more passives and 3 more skills, but that isn't the focus of this thread.
Vampire
I'll preface this section with the can't be healed by others drawback needs to go. You can lower the amount they receive, but just cutting it entirely shuts out the Vampire playstyles from many areas of gameplay.
Honorable Mentions
Skills that we haven't used in years that need adjustment and updates to match the current power level of the game, but I don't have suggestions other than make them something we could consider slotting.
Bone Tyrant
- Bone Totem Needs to be turned into the Necromancer's domain. The class has no mobility or reliable cc to lock things down so it needs an area where it holds the advantage. Bone Totem should be 12 meters and lasts 20 seconds. Enemies in the area are snared and inflicted with Major Cowardice and Minor LIfesteal while the caster and allies get Minor Protection and increased recoveries. Increases the damage of your pets in the area by 15%. The morphs additions can stay the same, but I'd like to see the Agony morph work as a self synergy too.
- Empowering Grasp to Grasp of the Dead A good AoE hard CC with a 8 meter radius centered on the caster. An instant fear with a frost sticky DoT component and guaranteed chilled if those affected can't be feared they are immobilized instead. (The separating damage and cc from U44 dev notes doesn't hold water when you have skills like Streak, Burning Talons, Crystallized Slab, Artic Wind, Warden Charm, Incap, Crippling Grasp, Abyssal Impact, Rune of Displacement, Piercing Javelin, Focused Charge, Unstable Core, Petrify, and I probably missed some. Point is there are more CC with damage than without so why put more restrictions on the Necromancer CC that isn't even guaranteed to land? Give us a reliable CC we've waited long enough.
- Expunge This skill and morphs needs more value. I'd replace the 3% cost reduction with Minor Intellect and Endurance while slotted on either bar. For Expunge and Modify I'd keep the restoring 515 Magicka/Stamina and add Major Expedition for 4 seconds with an additional 4 seconds for each negative effect removed. For Hexproof it still removes up to 4 negative effects and gives Major Evasion for 5 seconds with an additional 5 seconds for each negative effect removed. You never see this cleanse ran compared to its more bang for your buck contemporaries Betty Netch and Extended Ritual. Why is that? In this era of ESO even more now with subclassing people are slotting skills that do multiple things.
Betty Netch a free cast and forget periodic purge with sustain, Major Brut/Sorc, unique 5% damage boost, and a heal when it ends or you recast it is amazing value. It can be spammed cast to get rid of multiple affects and gives you a heal each time you cast it.
Ritual an expensive group purge with a great HoT that last 30 seconds over a large area with a synergy is an amazing tool. Self purge that costs health and only gives you a slight cost reduction when you are on that bar not great value.
Compared those to Expunge a self purge that costs health and only gives you a slight cost reduction when you are on that bar. That isn't great value, bar space is limited not free real estate can't waste time with a one trick pony in this era. Another is the passive vs active benefit. The other two cleanses do things for a decent duration after you cast them while after you press the button to cast Expunge and its morphs the skill is over. - Render Flesh Time to remove the Minor Defile or boost the healing of this skill and its morphs to make the drawback worthwhile. The Curative Curse passive should be changed to when you have a Living Death skill slotted or active your healing done is increased by 12%. With the change to Minor Defile it also discourages Necromancers from running shields since the Curative Curse passive doesn't boost shield strength by 12%. Currently you're better off running Healing Soul as you'll always have a negative effect on you and you can get 12% extra healing + Major Vitality.
Soul Magic
I'll start off by saying I'd like to see this skill line fleshed out with 2 more passives and 3 more skills, but that isn't the focus of this thread.
- Soul Trap This skill and morphs could use either A a damage buff or B execute scaling on the DoTs it could be similar to Anchorite's Cruelty with an Oblivion damage component or scaling up to 100% more damage the lower hp the target is.
Vampire
I'll preface this section with the can't be healed by others drawback needs to go. You can lower the amount they receive, but just cutting it entirely shuts out the Vampire playstyles from many areas of gameplay.
- Blood Frenzy A horrible and too niche of a skill. Only usable by gankers (maybe some bombers) and not everyone who wants to be a Vampire wants to be a Nightblade. Until next patch it gave you the passive bonus weapon and spell damage of Grim Focus does with none of the drawbacks to put in frame how bad of a skill this is.
So for the base skill remove all of the downsides the health draining and the can't be healed by others. Turn this skill from a toggled skill into the Vampire burst skill. It passively gains up to 7 stacks (for wiggle room) every second in combat while on either bar and gives you a 5% damage bonus to bleeding targets or Increases the damage you deal with Hemorrhaging by 100% (the frenzy). Casting the skill consumes 5 stacks and deals a vampire bite melee ranged burst attack giving you the stated effect for 5 seconds which acts as a HoT. When the HoT ends or you reach full health you start gaining more Blood Frenzy stacks. One morph can increase the healing while the other increases the damage. - Mesmerize Remove the facing your direction requirement. That one thing makes it a horrible skill as you can't stop someone that is running away from you. Like with Bone Totem and Grave Grasp NOBODY wants an unreliable CC, it's the subclassing era no room on our bars for unreliable or simplistic skills when there are alternatives that do 2 other things and sticks the landing. Giving us many options, but only one real choice. Options 1 and 2 are half eaten burgers while 3 is an untouched burger that comes with fries and a shake.
- Mist Form Make it work like Streak. No clunky ground circles that sometime double cast when you have autocast ground abilities turned on. Let us use Mist Form over uneven terrains and gaps just like Streak, we aim in the direction we want and poof. For the base skill and morphs it should have a remove snares and immobilizations and gives you immunity for them for 2 seconds after casting while becoming corporeal. It just doesn't make sense for a cloud of mist to be trapped.
For the Blood Mist morph the damage needs to be increased and the healing should be scaled to 100% of the damage done. As it is now Blood Mist is hitting players for around 350-600 damage every 2 seconds and healing for around 280-400. That's just too low.
Honorable Mentions
Skills that we haven't used in years that need adjustment and updates to match the current power level of the game, but I don't have suggestions other than make them something we could consider slotting.
- Armor Skills Unstoppable, Evasion, and Annulment All three require an investment of 5 armor pieces of their respective skill lines to be worn before you're able to use the skill. The skill are pretty underwhelming taking this into account especially Unstoppable that comes with the downside of a 65% snare. Out of the group Evasion is probably the best, but still outclassed by skills like Quick Cloak that don't require a 5 armor piece investment.
- Trapping Webs under the Undaunted skill line might be the worst skill in the game. A 4 meter radius and 10 second delay for burst. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually forgot this skill existed.
Deimus
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