ESO Live - Ask Us Anything!

Treasure_Goblin

Will crafting abilities and horse stats ever be account shared? Why not?

Ourorboros

The recent change which blocks banking of monster collectibles essential broke the associated achievements. Between the uneven drop rates, level restrictions, and limited or group-locked monsters, it is virtually impossible for a character to complete these achievements without being able to use the bank to transfer collectible found with an alt character.You started in the right direction when jackals were added to Craglorn. More of this type addition is needed. Adding a better description to items seems a better solution to addressing any player confusion between trophy collectibles and monster collectibles and the difference in console vs. PC implementation. What is the point in having achievements that have been rendered virtually unattainable and obsolete?

Wicked_Wolf

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

dudenamedchris wrote: »

Character names don't seem to matter since it doesn't show the character names to other players

Except when you craft equipment or join a guild.

Wicked_Wolf wrote: »

Thank you for the response UltimaJoe. However, I was actually talking about the armor from the ESO trailers, not the faction Telvar armor. They are shown here:

http://elderscrolls.net/2015/08/14/14326-tes-online-budushhee-magazina-tovarov-za-krony-patch-2-1-1/?from=eso-forum

That page doesn't really help (for me at least) since it lists a bunch of different things but hopefully someone can help you sort out your answer from that lol

ZOS released a bunch of cgi trailers for the game. In the trailers, there were three main characters; one from each faction. The armor that they are wearing in these trailers is what I'm referring to. On that page they are the ones listed as "nord, Breton, altmer hero" at the top. I asked a question on ESO live a couple months ago about them and they showed the concept art for it and confirmed it would be in game at some point. Since then, we haven't seen or heard anything about it so I was curious. I always figured they'd release it with Imperial City given the cgi trailers being related.

Iluvrien

Treasure_Goblin wrote: »

Will crafting abilities and horse stats ever be account shared? Why not?

Because these are all character specific?

"Horse stats" is actually character riding skill. Which means that since you aren't training the horse, it makes sense that the abilities one of your characters is something that another character automatically has.

With regaerds to crafting abilities? See the above. These are personal skills and passives that a particular character gains/unlocks. Why would they be shared between different people?

Bank space make sense, in the sharing sense, as it is a physical space that is independent of the character. CP being shared doesn't make sense, but ZOS has specified this as something to make levelling alts less arduous and painful. I wish this wasn't the case, but there it is. No need to make it worse by making other nonsensical things account-wide.

Gilvoth

when will we see Vvardenfell and morrowind expansion in eso?

Alucardo

When will we see a stamina morph of Dragonknight's Lava Whip that scales off max stamina and weapon damage?

rowanwatkins3

Has there been any thought or plan to bring in a form of mounted combat into the game?

Alucardo

Wondering if there will ever be an official ESO API available to developers? Some things it might include:

- Feedback on current Cyrodiil map status
- Leaderboards (So if you're going for emp, you're at work and notice someone catching up you can call in sick and go home)
- Skills/Morphs (Will make it easier and more reliable for fan sites to create build generators with up-to-date abilities)
- Quest locations
- Allow an in-game user to generate a token, allowing the API to get basic character information. This will allow them to check trait research, riding training times, bit an ally status, and anything else that might take time.

Overall this could promote more community sites and make them more consistent with each other. It will also give you the security of knowing all the information is correct as it's coming from ESO itself, and doesn't rely on someone updating the stats manually.

The idea of being able to create a mobile app with live notifications of war status seems pretty damn cool too. The app could also provide handy things like notifying you when a research trait is done and you're not currently logged in.

Oh, and with the user generated token, this would obviously let them get more detailed information on the spells/morphs by checking out their stats, equipped weapons and level.

EDIT: For the love of God please use json instead of XML

UltimaJoe777

I posted many questions over the last couple of weeks hoping for answers from the last live feed but was disappointed to find out it did not showcase this segment... In order to make sure my questions are not ignored for being posted too far back I will post a collaboration of them and some new ones here minus some that have already been answered. I hope they get looked at and at least some of them answered!

1. Every Crafting Skill can make items of varying quality except Alchemy. Will Alchemy ever take that step as well?
2. How come we never got the ability to summon Flame and Frost Atronachs? For example I think Frost Atronach could be a more physically capable morph option for Summon Storm Atronach and Flame Atronach could be a morph option for Summon Winged Twilight instead of Summon Restoring Twilight. Likewise, will we get the chance to make Frost or Shock Runes as opposed to only Fire Runes?
3. The Undaunted Skill Line seems to gain a little experience sometimes just from grinding in just about any dungeon, even Delves. Could you please tell us all the ways to gain Undaunted experience?
4. I've always wanted to smack around more Daedric Princes than just Molag Bal. Any chance we will ever get this opportunity?
5. Is rubberbanding (tieing a rubber band to your controller to keep a button pressed at all times, usually the attack button on consoles, to grind while away from the game so you can continue to level and gain champion points without actually playing the game) something that can be reported as a type of botting?
6. Not so much a question but a suggestion if the above isn't a reportable offense in order to stop it: Make it so you cannot deliver back to back heavy attacks by keeping the button held down. If you have to release the button after the first heavy attack to do another rubberbanding will no longer be something anyone can do in this game!
7. Will there ever be seperate equipment slots for Pickaxes, Woodcutting Axes, and Fishing Rods so we can actually get and equip some, ultimately providing a means of getting special ones that aid us in gathering/fishing?
8. Any chance we can get something added into the game (perhaps an achievement?) that lets us know when we have discovered every single location in a region, like Auridon or Stonefalls for instance?
9. Is it possible to get any dropped set item at VR16? (For example a VR16 item that's part of the Akaviri Dragonguard set) If not will it ever be possible?
10. Can we ever hope to expect a way to keep trees from blocking our view? An option to fade the leaves at least whenever they are between the player and the camera would be nice...
11. Any plans to add a 4th Skill Line to each class? I'm sure this would make many people happy!
12. Is there anything in this game that can be permanently missed by a single character if not obtained at a specific point in the character's game and/or level progression?
13. Will the bug associated with crouching to go into stealth that makes you suddenly get detected rather than go hidden when you aren't actually detected ever be fixed?
14. Will we ever actually do anything with Achievement Points?
15. What exactly does the Champion Skill known as "War Mount" do? The text is rather confusing and the assumption is all Stamina usage outside of combat is completely negated but is this true?
16. Will Fighter's Guild and Mage's Guild Skill Lines ever get a 5th Active Skill?
17. Will Magelight ever become a duration buff rather than a toggle so it doesn't have to occupy 1 slot on both weapon bars?
18. Will console players ever get the option to actually customize their button assignments, rather than swap between templates?
19. Currently when a chest or gathering node is fully looted and vanishes it respawns after a set time. If the chest or node isn't fully looted though it remains as is until it is. Any chance of making it so the timer for respawning that usually initiates after the chest is fully looted is triggered upon picking the lock? For chests that have no lock perhaps give them one? Also any chance of making it so a gathering node begins its respawn timer upon taking the crafting material from it? That way people can't just leave the fishing bait and force the node to never respawn the crafting material.
20. Any chance console players can have "Need a Guild?" added to Quick Chat?
21. Do the Forum Mods and Admins have a way to see (without searching) if any posts have been edited after they last viewed them?
22. Many gamers, myself included, are big on nostalgia. When I went to Skyrim I was hoping to hear some music similar to TESV: Skyrim, but it wasn't quite the same. Any chance we can get some alternate music added for each area as it was used in past TES games? It could also come with a setting in Options to either use that music or the original TESO: TU music when adventuring.
23. Any chance we can get a single choice in Quick Chat where we can customize the message it sends? Just a small message we type in and can use to Quick Chat with, no emote necessary but I'm sure that would be a plus to some roleplayers lol
24. Do the chances to catch rare fish really increase with more people fishing the same hole? Doesn't seem like it to me...
25. How much headway have ya'll made in establishing a flawless Social System and how long do you think it will take to make it flawless?
26. Are ya'll ever going to expand on existing Skill Lines? If so will you increase their level cap beyond 50/20/10/6 to do so?
27. Any chance of ever getting a Voice Chat Channel's participant count to display without joining it?
28. Can we expect Mounted and/or Underwater Combat to be implemented into the game at anytime in the future?
29. Can you please increase the duration of Almalexia's Enchanted Lantern? It runs out halfway through the cooldown and it would be nice to be able to re-activate it sooner than later after it wears off.
30. Any chance we can get the stackable item limit increased beyond 200?
31. Aside from bar brawls as a possibility will we ever get any form of gambling in this game? An example is something like Vanity Pet Fighting (gives them a purpose other than following you around at least lol and since this kind of stuff is illegal in real life it could be held in Outlaw Refuges or risk getting a bounty or even busted by guards for holding the fights in public view) or Drinking games in Taverns.
32. Can we get an increase to Mount Jumping Height as a Stable Training stat?
33. What made Zenimax decide to use multiple player guilds and kiosks for in-game player marketing rather than a general market house of any sort that anyone can use and can access from any city? I know the global auction house concept is requested quite often but at the very least why did we not get this and use guilds for their traditional purpose, in which we also only join 1 per character/account?
34. You guys are always telling us what you are working on as we ask about it or as you are doing it, but what about the things you are NOT working on? Can you name a few of those for us?

That's all for now. I will edit this post if I think of anymore along the line until the next Ask Us Anything segment in ESO Live is aired.

Devs please keep an eye on my post here every now and then so you can see when I update it with more questions. I am doing this to avoid getting spammy with posts and to keep tabs on what I've already asked lol

I have updated my list to remove answered questions so whatever remains is unanswered. I hope @ZOS_GinaBruno , @ZOS_KaiSchober , and/or @ZOS_JasonLeavey can address more of these in the future!

keonimeyer

Will weapon skill lines ever get ultimates?

Auricle

1. Would you ever consider implementing a solo version of a Trial, in which there would be different dyes and achievements based on how fast you could complete it?


2. How are you planning on keeping IC relevant once Orsinium launches? It's an awesome DLC, but I'm worried that it'll become a ghost town once something new and shiny comes around, with better gear and pretty orc ladies.


3. Will there ever exist a motif that does not get offered in the Crown Store? I enjoy my crafting endgame and it's difficult to find the motivation to steadily work towards collecting the glass motif when it's just a click away. I know the CS is an important revenue stream, but it would be nice to have a motif or two that felt somewhat exclusive.


Thanks guys!

keonimeyer

Will werewolf berserker fur color get fixed? We still appear as an ordinary werewolf instead of a black fur berserker.

Geemarc

Can we please get a trade and LFG forum for consoles?

Alucardo

keonimeyer wrote: »

Will weapon skill lines ever get ultimates?

Dude, this was asked directly above you. Out of consideration I generally read the top few posts above mine..

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

10. Will Weapon and Undaunted Skill Lines ever get their own Ultimate?

NewBlacksmurf

Why don't you change the console announcement page to notify players of maintenance, patches, and server down times at all?
-Why don't you use the Xbox One social feature under your game to notify players of maintenance, patches and server down times?

Djeriko

Was it intentional for armor dyes on Glass armor to be so far off from their displayed or sampled colors?

When will we get the option to change race for long established characters before race changes?

If we get the race changes, will we get the option to stay the same original race but change our appearance and voice?

HeroOfNone

Any chance that facerig devs could be given permission to make avatars based on ESO? If they get permission they can build it =3

UrQuan

What was the rationale behind changing collectibles so that they cannot be transferred between characters? Did you give any consideration to the fact that this makes certain achievements effectively impossible depending on a character's alliance? This appears to be a change with absolutely no benefit, and which is wildly unpopular (there are mutliple threads about it, with hundreds of posts by over 100 unique posters, thousands of views, and virtually every post about it is critical of the change). Can you give us some insight into the thought process behind a change that has such a disproportionately negative effect on some players depending on their alliance?

CP5

Are there any plans to add more pieces to existing armor sets? Currently there are only a few sets that you can use together and a large number of interesting combinations are impossible because of different sets only having a few shared slots.

Also, will the werewolf's heal always scale off of magicka and spell power, or will it be changed to either scaling off of stamina and weapon power, or a choice from morphs?

Chrlynsch

CP5 wrote: »

Are there any plans to add more pieces to existing armor sets? Currently there are only a few sets that you can use together and a large number of interesting combinations are impossible because of different sets only having a few shared slots.

Also, will the werewolf's heal always scale off of magicka and spell power, or will it be changed to either scaling off of stamina and weapon power, or a choice from morphs?

Second the werewolf heal question!

Solace of Shadows

I would like to know I anybody has had any issues when summoning a Volatile Familiar and a Winged Twilight. I was fighting goblins in Cyrodiil and tried to summon one of each and ended up with two Volatile Familiars. One swiped with his (or her) claws while the other smacked the goblins with lightning. I took a couple screenshots but I don't know how to past them on the forums.

sagent64

No Crown store for Emperor costume Please .... it should only be unlock once you became emperor ....
unless this game is going to play to win ... and players who run for emperorship work hard for it ...

Danny231

When will we get some more, stuff in the Crown Store

Vac333

Please Please, increase jumping height

keonimeyer

Vac333 wrote: »

Please Please, increase jumping height

If you're talking about the crouch jump, they confirmed in the recent eso live that it was an unintended glitch, they're working on a fix for it but we might not see it till some time during or before orsinium

Swernik

Hey there,

I was very used to check my healthbars to see if my food or drink was still active.
Foor = longer bars
Drink = small moving arrows showing your regeneration is higher

Since the update this is gone,
Any way to get this back?

Thanks !!

Gidorick

HeroOfNone wrote: »

Any chance that facerig devs could be given permission to make avatars based on ESO? If they get permission they can build it =3

@HeroOfNone I'd prefer if the facerig tech be implemented in ESO to give our characters some pizzaz! I could see a "chat" function where two players can talk with one another (once voice-chat is implemented" and our view would zoom in like it does with NPCs and we could see one another as we chatted. ooh... this would open up possibilities of trading while you're doing that or play some games that could be implemented.... lots of possibilities!

Gidorick

What is the name of the Engine that ZOS developed for ESO?

HeroOfNone

Gidorick wrote: »

HeroOfNone wrote: »

Any chance that facerig devs could be given permission to make avatars based on ESO? If they get permission they can build it =3

@HeroOfNone I'd prefer if the facerig tech be implemented in ESO to give our characters some pizzaz! I could see a "chat" function where two players can talk with one another (once voice-chat is implemented" and our view would zoom in like it does with NPCs and we could see one another as we chatted. ooh... this would open up possibilities of trading while you're doing that or play some games that could be implemented.... lots of possibilities!

That would require work and coding on ZOS's part. The folks at facerig are more than willing however to make the avatars and incorporate it in their application (no work on ZOS'S part) but need permission to do so.

rootimus

Please can we have the LOL button back for forum posts?

Alucardo wrote: »

Wondering if there will ever be an official ESO API available to developers?

Totally not empty-quoting.

Gidorick wrote: »

What is the name of the Engine that ZOS developed for ESO?

Pretty sure they use Havok, what with it flashing up on the screen when you load the game.