@ZOS: Formal Request Regarding Patch Notes

GrimlockSaves

Dear ZOS,

SMALL REQUEST FOR PATCH NOTES BE STRONGER (DESCRIPTIVE LIKE) WHEN COMMUNICATING VALUE CHANGES. THIS TRUE ESPECIALLY WITH CLASS CHANGES. EXAMPLE FROM LATEST PATCH:

Combat & Gameplay
General

• Vampire Nightblades can no longer stealth and feed on boss monsters during combat.
• Reduced the ultimate gain on all critical strikes to 1 from 3. ME LIKE!!! VALUES GOOD!

Dragonknight
Earthen Heart

• Magma Armor: Reduced the duration of this ability. IT WOULD BE BETTER LIKE THIS: "Reduced duration of this ability from X to X"

Ardent Flame

• Standard of Might: Reduced the damage bonus and damage reduction of this ability. SAME THING HERE... IF "from X to X" NO WORK, THEN MAYBE "by X%" WORK... ME NO CARE AS LONG AS VALUE IS COMMUNICATED

SIMPLE AND SMALL REQUEST FROM A BIG PLAYER THAT LOVE YOU.

REGARDLESS, ME GRIMLOCK THANK YOU FOR MAKING GREAT GAME AND FOR SMASHING BUGS QUICK! SMASHED BUGS ARE THE BEST! ESO WILL LIVE FOREVER, OR ELSE!

Sincerely Yours,

GRIMLOCK
SAVIOR OF UNIVERSE

Jaxom

Agreed. I was just thinking this. Glad you made this thread. I would think this is easily fixed since it's just giving us the info they already have.

Gedalya

The more info, the better.

NerfEverything

You are asking for a lot here. I would just be happy if the patch notes actually contained all the major changes.

For example, the stealth biting jabs nerf in the craglorn patch was not in the notes, and added a 2 second GLOBAL cooldown (which Zen promised would never be added to the game), essentially made the skill and instant suicide button. Pretty much every VR templar that logged in after the patch died to the first mob they fought.

ipkonfigcub18_ESO

Meh... You know you're asking a bunch of developer engineers to provide us details, right?

Those things don't happen in real life.

theweakminded

NerfEverything wrote: »

You are asking for a lot here. I would just be happy if the patch notes actually contained all the major changes.

For example, the stealth biting jabs nerf in the craglorn patch was not in the notes, and added a 2 second GLOBAL cooldown (which Zen promised would never be added to the game), essentially made the skill and instant suicide button. Pretty much every VR templar that logged in after the patch died to the first mob they fought.

that was not why we logged in and died. After the mob bug was fixed, the stat one, I had no issue wit the change other then it feeling a bit clunky. 1.2sec is not 2sec.

Maverick827

Even better, I'd like to start seeing this stuff in patch notes:

Combat & Gameplay
General

• We didn't do anything to the amount of ultimate gained from critical strikes because we plan to have an open discussion with our players about it first.

Swordguy

at first I was thinking that this is a long shot, but I recall many-a-patch note from funcom for all their games, where they gave specific numbers for skill changes. sadly, they too suffered from ninjapatch-itis, but specifics reveal organization of thought and teamwork on the developers end, so bump for this, even if I barely play anymore.

GrimlockSaves

Swordguy wrote: »

at first I was thinking that this is a long shot, but I recall many-a-patch note from funcom for all their games, where they gave specific numbers for skill changes. sadly, they too suffered from ninjapatch-itis, but specifics reveal organization of thought and teamwork on the developers end, so bump for this, even if I barely play anymore.

YES - ORGANIZATION OF THOUGHT AND TEAMWORK VERY GOOD FOR DEVELOPERS AND PATCH NOTE PERSON.

GrimlockSaves

ipkonfigcub18_ESO wrote: »

Meh... You know you're asking a bunch of developer engineers to provide us details, right?

Those things don't happen in real life.

THIS NOT REAL LIFE, THIS TAMRIEL! HAHA. BUT EVEN IN REAL LIFE THEY HAPPEN. ZOS VERY SMART AND RESPONSIVE, MORE THAN DEVELOPERS AND ENGINEERS OF OTHER GAMES. ZOS IS ELITE, WORKING HARD AND LOVE US AND YOU.

Noswell

Hear, hear. Let the orc write the patch notes, I say.

LordEcks

Maverick827 wrote: »

Even better, I'd like to start seeing this stuff in patch notes:

Combat & Gameplay
General

• We didn't do anything to the amount of ultimate gained from critical strikes because we plan to have an open discussion with our players about it first.

LOL.

Keep dreaming.

Thevampirenight

Vampire Nightblades can no longer stealth and feed on boss monsters during combat. ok why did they do this?

GrimlockSaves

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Vampire Nightblades can no longer stealth and feed on boss monsters during combat. ok why did they do this?

ASKING WHY THEY DID SOMETHING WITH LAST PATCH NOT TOPIC OF THIS THREAD. ASK IN DIFFERENT THREAD. HERE ASK ABOUT IMPROVEMENT OF PATCH NOTES.

Aaklor

I'm pretty sure whoever writes the patch notes was also in charge of the tooltips for skills/morphs, as they have the same kind of vague description.

Thevampirenight

GrimlockSaves wrote: »

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Vampire Nightblades can no longer stealth and feed on boss monsters during combat. ok why did they do this?

ASKING WHY THEY DID SOMETHING WITH LAST PATCH NOT TOPIC OF THIS THREAD. ASK IN DIFFERENT THREAD. HERE ASK ABOUT IMPROVEMENT OF PATCH NOTES.

sory if misreading the topic

GrimlockSaves

Gedalya wrote: »

The more info, the better.

AGREED