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Re: Can we PLEASE have an actual YELLOW dye?!?
Okay, I'm gonna repost this as well though. To continue the echo of less tan yellows, we would like the house mornard yellow. Here is a hue comparison between goldenrod and house mornard.
The issue I have mainly with the current selection of yellows like i said in my original post is also the golds arent great on most motifs cloth or leather. I tried gold leaf recently on some motifs too and that ends up being too pale/desaturated for my liking, and sometimes more brown than yellow(on the tsaesci motif, the cloth literally turns brown), albeit nicer than dominion fisher, still not to the mornard yellow we are all wanting in the thread.
What is odd is that patrons gold becomes yellowy on silk, but turns orange when applied to leather or cloth. This is exactly what happens with the other golds.
My suggestion, there is a red dye in the game that stays matte red throughout all material applications and motifs, with the same crayon tone, so i say give us mornard yellow exactly like that red dye, and it would be the same consistency.
I would like to look like a dandelion, daffodil, or coltsfoot for sure!
The issue I have mainly with the current selection of yellows like i said in my original post is also the golds arent great on most motifs cloth or leather. I tried gold leaf recently on some motifs too and that ends up being too pale/desaturated for my liking, and sometimes more brown than yellow(on the tsaesci motif, the cloth literally turns brown), albeit nicer than dominion fisher, still not to the mornard yellow we are all wanting in the thread.
What is odd is that patrons gold becomes yellowy on silk, but turns orange when applied to leather or cloth. This is exactly what happens with the other golds.
My suggestion, there is a red dye in the game that stays matte red throughout all material applications and motifs, with the same crayon tone, so i say give us mornard yellow exactly like that red dye, and it would be the same consistency.
I would like to look like a dandelion, daffodil, or coltsfoot for sure!
Faltasë
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Re: Scroll reset timer adjustment.
Ironic that someone that plays in one of the biggest zerg blobs in pceu, known for avoiding fighting other groups and run away as much as possible, ask for changes that would remove reasons to fight over objects of interests. Can't make that stuff up 
Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
Vonnegut2506 wrote: »If you look at the Steam charts, the game traditionally loses players during the summer through September. It isn't anything new, and the numbers will probably start going up again later in the fall and winter. People are vacationing, camping, beaching, enjoying the summer weather for the most part. I spend more time on ESO in the summer because I have time off, but that isn't the norm for most people.
If you look at the history, you notice that December 2024 was the most recent time the daily logins average below 10k players. The last time it was this low was in March 2018, more than six years previously.
Why I bring this up is that July 2025 was on 10.2k and the trend is dropping, suggesting that August 2025 will be another month where the numbers drop below 10k. If this is happens, it will be less than a year since two record lows and is not the norm for ESO.
Re: So ICE will never have that ‘dragon knight’ class? :(
Fun fact, but DK actually used to have a ton of generic Magic Damage abilities. But a few years ago, the devs swapped them properly to Flame Damage.
This approach should be taken for Warden and Sorcerer as well.
This approach should be taken for Warden and Sorcerer as well.
Re: Concerned about the potential use of AI on loading screen artwork
As someone who has had to transition from using PS & Blender for all work-related image, scene & video creation, to a mixture of traditional+AI and AI-only content (the company I work for is keen to demonstrate how AI makes creativity more accessible to our community), and has been working with AI for the past three years.... whoever did those edits either doesn't know how to prompt out-paints/paint-overs properly, doesn't have an eye for detail, or had to do a "one and done" because of severe time constraints.
I support a solo dev who is building a multi-faceted Discord RPG game, and he's using AI to both help him with trickier aspects of the code, and incorporating it into NPCs so they can travel autonomously around the game buying, selling, interacting, etc in different, evolving ways. Some of the things he's managed are pretty mindboggling to be honest - including a space travel system where the location of the solar system's planets & current major comets are accurately mapped in realtime via cartesian coordinates - and despite the fact that he's a damned good coder, I doubt he could've produced some of the things he has without the assistance of AI.
This is what creatives need to understand and embrace. There's a lot of (justifiable) fear at the moment regarding the future of peoples' artistic careers, but frankly I see it as an opportunity to reestablish the value of "created by a person". Freelance artists have been constantly undervalued for decades (the percentage of people who have expected me to spend hours of my time creating a piece for them for the equivalent of £1-2 an hour, or worse for "exposure", is ridiculous); now is the time to change that, and there's a plethora of strategies artists can use to endear potential buyers/clients to their hand-crafted work.
MincMincMinc wrote: »For AI and gaming, the plus side is that smaller indie dev companies will be able to accomplish much more. Like the ai asset generation tools could be huge for a small high performance dev team to spit out an mmo. AI voice acting as well. Imagine a point where dialogue with NPCs requires you to type and ask questions to find out info
I support a solo dev who is building a multi-faceted Discord RPG game, and he's using AI to both help him with trickier aspects of the code, and incorporating it into NPCs so they can travel autonomously around the game buying, selling, interacting, etc in different, evolving ways. Some of the things he's managed are pretty mindboggling to be honest - including a space travel system where the location of the solar system's planets & current major comets are accurately mapped in realtime via cartesian coordinates - and despite the fact that he's a damned good coder, I doubt he could've produced some of the things he has without the assistance of AI.
Even if this isn't the work of AI, AI is certainly going to be used. I don't think it's going to replace the eye of the artist though. Show me an AI that can paint like John Singer Sargent and then I'll believe it.
This is what creatives need to understand and embrace. There's a lot of (justifiable) fear at the moment regarding the future of peoples' artistic careers, but frankly I see it as an opportunity to reestablish the value of "created by a person". Freelance artists have been constantly undervalued for decades (the percentage of people who have expected me to spend hours of my time creating a piece for them for the equivalent of £1-2 an hour, or worse for "exposure", is ridiculous); now is the time to change that, and there's a plethora of strategies artists can use to endear potential buyers/clients to their hand-crafted work.
Lalothen
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Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Introducing ZOS’s New Studio Head, Jo Burba"
I appreciate the letter, but would’ve preferred something more personal like Jo posting something here himself. Hard to feel like it's Jo when CMs are editing it. IMO, you guys really need to move from rehearsed and polished letters like this, to more candid communication. Still, there was some good information and comments.
There were also some things that caught my eye in that article, and warrant a response.
I think there's a tone problem. It feels like when mistakes are made, we're still being talked at, rather than talked with. The anniversary year had some really big issues with events, and I don't feel like they were handled in the warmest fashion. It seems like in a lot of those circumstances, we get this paternalistic tone from CMs, rather than gratitude and honest reflection. Imagine going to a restaurant, they mess up your order, you send it back, and they give your order back 45 minutes later and say, "be grateful we didn't kick you out".
When you guys "own your mistakes" - will that reflection be community facing?
I wish you guys well in learning, sounds like there's going to be a lot of upskilling. Please just take it slow with changes while that confidence is built. Truly hope there's some much needed culture changes.
In any case, looking forward to the future. Hope ESO's around another 10 years!
There were also some things that caught my eye in that article, and warrant a response.
That's a nice slogan, but what does it actually mean? Which people and which circumstances will this apply to? I'm assuming this is a "customer first" kind of slogan. If so, this is a welcome change. Is this something that CS and moderators teams will be embracing? There's room to improve on feeling gratitude from ZOS that we're your customers.People first, game always.
Can we get some examples where integrity guided a decision? Example where it’s often not: the crown store. IMO, having a system where so many utilities (armory and outfit slots) are character bound, timed deals, and RNG crates doesn't seem like integrity is the guiding light. Feels like the guiding light is creating enticing products. There’s also quite a few items that target vulnerable new players. Based on previous streams, I don't feel like this feedback was well received. I certainly haven't any changes made.Turn square corners*—integrity is our guiding light in all we do.
Aside from some of the reversals in U47, I can’t think of many times where repairs were done quickly. And even more, I'd love to see a list of what you guys actually consider mistakes.Own our mistakes and make repairs quickly.
I think there's a tone problem. It feels like when mistakes are made, we're still being talked at, rather than talked with. The anniversary year had some really big issues with events, and I don't feel like they were handled in the warmest fashion. It seems like in a lot of those circumstances, we get this paternalistic tone from CMs, rather than gratitude and honest reflection. Imagine going to a restaurant, they mess up your order, you send it back, and they give your order back 45 minutes later and say, "be grateful we didn't kick you out".
When you guys "own your mistakes" - will that reflection be community facing?
The subtext here feels like it's "we weren't open to feedback before, but are now". In any case, that's great. There's a lot of areas where you not only need to be open to feedback, but act on that feedback. Combat changes is the big one, so's the crown store. The issue isn't just being open to feedback, it's engaging the feedback. That's always been the bigger issue IMO.Get a little bit better every day by being open to feedback and focused on learning.
I wish you guys well in learning, sounds like there's going to be a lot of upskilling. Please just take it slow with changes while that confidence is built. Truly hope there's some much needed culture changes.
In any case, looking forward to the future. Hope ESO's around another 10 years!
Destai
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Re: So ICE will never have that ‘dragon knight’ class? :(
Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »Hi, I've always loved being able to play ‘ICE’ spells, but unfortunately (and yes, it's always this, but) MMORPGs very rarely offer a class as specific to this element, or when they do, it's very often ice = tank, but I don't understand why fire always has the privilege of being a class?
So yes, I can see you coming, to tell me ‘you have an ice branch with the guardian’ and ‘you have the mages guild branch’, yes, I agree, but if we look at DK the 3 branches of the dragon knight are all 100% fire thinking all maximizes fire, which is not the case with the guardian or only one branch is dedicated to ice and mainly think to be tank.
So my question is this for the devs, would it be possible to have the same fair equivalence to the DK class, but for ice elemental magic, this is what I expect more than anything now in TESO, I hope this dream will come true one day.
I think the demand is legitimate here, given that there are already some good examples out there. Will TESO finally be able to “break” this sad MMORPG tradition?
You already have an Ice class with subclassing. It's Winter's Embrace, Grave Lord, Herald of the Tome.
This complemented with scribing and weapon skills you can have every skill be ice.
ESO is now essentially a classless game with some relics of better years of class identity left behind.
Except that the problem, this branch is generally designed for a tank orientation.
If we look even more closely, Fire has its own class and the mages guild adapts to this element regarding the choice of weapon, so if it works well for fire, this should logically also work well for an Ice class.
The ice branch on the goalkeeper should (in my opinion) clearly have been associated with something like bramble/leaf.
Now, I don’t know if it could be considered, but I really hope that this class can see the light of day, it’s really something I’m waiting for the most in TESO now to have more fun coming back on the game. It’s really a shame that in the entirety of MMORPGs only a fire class has the right to exist, but not an ice cream...
The goal is to play the way you want not 'be competitive the way you want'.
Can you play a 'Full Ice build' - Yes.
This doesn't mean it has to be optimal.
Re: 600+ days played character is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing
If you have all skyshards you don't need to reroll a character.
Just use your free armory station and make builds. It saves subclasses too now. You can switch between you competitive build and your fun build with the click of 1 button and back.
Since you have all the skyshards, you won't have any troubles unlocking stuff.
Just use your free armory station and make builds. It saves subclasses too now. You can switch between you competitive build and your fun build with the click of 1 button and back.
Since you have all the skyshards, you won't have any troubles unlocking stuff.
Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
If you look at the Steam charts, the game traditionally loses players during the summer through September. It isn't anything new, and the numbers will probably start going up again later in the fall and winter. People are vacationing, camping, beaching, enjoying the summer weather for the most part. I spend more time on ESO in the summer because I have time off, but that isn't the norm for most people.
Re: Extremely Low Midyear Mayhem Turnout, Why?
subclassing has been really bad for PvP. That and vengeance mode has already driven off a lot of the few remaining PvP mains.
....still waiting on those caps on cross healing and shield stacking and limiting free pull sets to "monsters only".
....still waiting on those caps on cross healing and shield stacking and limiting free pull sets to "monsters only".
reazea
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