Combat Team: AoE caps are causing desubs. What is going to be done?

c0rp

Pretty much the title. I would like to hear SOMETHING from someone that works on this mystery "combat team" which has been apparently assigned the task of "aoe caps and blobbing". Is anybody home?

frosth.darkomenb16_ESO

Also interested in this.

Cody

for me, its the impulse blobs, and the fact my cloak has not worked since launch, that will get me to unsub. hopefully its fixed soon

rashkosh127ub17_ESO

Zerging is not a skilled tactic. Sitting in a doorway and spamming impulse isn't either.

Kego

Sounds good but with the removed AOE Cap, I hope EVERY AOE get at least a casttime of 1.5 - 2 seconds.

michael_bimson

Limited friendly fire in Cyrodiil for "blanket" AOE attacks e.g. Impulse as it is an indiscriminate explosion of flame or whirlwind (stabbing without looking) as opposed to a targeted AoE such as Sap Essence where an ability to differentiate between friend and foe is implied by the description.

ArcVelarian

Severe diminishing returns would be necessary for all AoEs, not just Impulse, if they were to remove the target cap.

wafant412b14a_ESO

Friendly fire will ensure griefing occurs throughout the playable world unless its designated for the pvp zone only. Even then no place would be safe.

Better fix would be radius damage reduction. IE closer to center the more damage you take

Xsorus

ArcVelarian wrote: »

Severe diminishing returns would be necessary for all AoEs, not just Impulse, if they were to remove the target cap.

Diminishing returns already exist for aoe, it's called moving out of the area

Harnesh

ArcVelarian wrote: »

Severe diminishing returns would be necessary for all AoEs, not just Impulse, if they were to remove the target cap.

Why? A zerg already has its advantage its call numbers when the 24 guys all stacked on top of each other rolls over the solo player or small group you take full damage with or without AoE caps. But with AoE caps when the small group tries to fight back 3/4 of the zerg are basically immune. I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand.

philip.ploegerb16_ESO

I'm too tired because of having complained about AoE caps for at least 2 months already now, so I only write that I'd also be interested in hearing anything from the DEV-front about AoE-caps.

Maybe next time they challenge us to fight them on the PTS, we should build Zergtrains and simply roll over them for the whole evening.

frosth.darkomenb16_ESO

There wouldn't be a need for nerfing.

The target caps causes stacking, but without it, there wouldn't be so many targets all at the same spot.

If you got lucky enough to be in large fights between forces not using stacking, you know that aoes don't often hit more than 4 targets.
I actually prefer single target abilities in those situations as they are instant and easier to aim.

There are situations where aoes are preferable, like when guarding a chokepoint, but that's good, each ability needs its niche.

Just removing the target cap would make the game better.

Of course, it may happen that there are abilities that become too strong, but this needs to be addressed individually.
No blanket changes like target caps will ever work.