PTS Patch Notes v1.6.4

ZOS_GinaBruno

DEUTSCHE PATCHNOTIZEN


OVERVIEW

The Elder Scrolls Online v1.6.4 is the next incremental patch on the PTS, and addresses additional issues surrounding gameplay, UI, the Crown Store, and more.


KNOWN ISSUES
Audio

• You may lose all audio after playing for a period of time. Completely closing the client and restarting will fix this.

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

Alliance War
General

• Fixed an issue where Flaming Oil was costing less for members of the Ebonheart Pact. This trade inequity has been resolved with expedient prejudice.

Art & Animation
Animation

• Fixed an issue where idle animations when using a UI screen (such as the map) would not display properly for other player characters.

Crafting & Economy
Crafting

• You will no longer receive two forms of water from certain water sources, and will instead just receive one.
• Obtaining alchemy water from scaled instances will no longer provide dramatically more than the normal amount.
• Runestones no longer drop belts when harvested.

Crown Store
General

• When you purchase a Crown Store consumable, a new tutorial will appear that provides tips about the different Crown Store consumables.
• Fixed an issue where the Crown Store and Collections screens would sometimes not be available after performing a jump with your character.
• You will no longer get a “Transaction Completed” message when a Crown Store purchase fails due to lack of inventory space.
• Fixed an issue when previewing mounts if you opened the Crown Store with your weapons unsheathed.

Combat & Gameplay
General

• Fixed an issue that was resulting in player characters being capable of greater damage, defense, or movement speed than intended.
• You will now remain on your mount when traveling across a border between zones.

Nightblade

• Shadow
  • Mass Hysteria: Minor Maim buff from this ability no longer stacks with other sources of Minor Maim.

Sorcerer

• Summoning
  • Volatile Familiar: Fixed an issue where Volatile Familiar would sometimes not toggle off.

Alliance War

• Support
  • Cleanse: Increased the cost for this ability and its morphs back to their equivalent cost from Update 5.

Champion System

• Thief Constellation
  • The Tower
    • Bashing Focus: Increased the cost reduction of this ability from 6.3% at 100 ranks to 25% at 100 ranks.

Dungeons & Group Content
Dungeons

• Tempest Island
  • Eye of the Storm: You will now correctly get credit for clearing the beach of Lamia before accepting Eye of the Storm.

Exploration & Itemization
Itemization

• Actually increased the value of the Nirnhoned Trait so it is 50% stronger than the Reinforced trait for armor, as mentioned previously.

Justice System
General

• Updated stolen items to be more consistent in their stacking behavior. White quality items will stack to 100, greens to 20, blues to 5, and purples will not stack.

Quests & Zones
Betnikh

• Carzog’s Demise: Fixed an issue where it was possible to block group-mates by killing Vardan while your group members were not present in the Inner Sanctuary.

UI
General

• Updated the art for the login and loading screens.
• The default setting for Compass Quest Givers is now set to On.
• Fixed an issue where the overhead health bars and alliance indicators were not displaying.
• Fixed an issue where vendor UIs would not default to the 'All' tab when they were first opened.
• Fixed an issue where you could be 'rubberbanded' when moving with a UI window open, then closing it.

Character Selection

• Fixed an issue where your Character Creation settings would get reset when you altered other settings.
• Fixed an issue in Character Selection where your character would initially face the wrong way.
• Fixed an issue in Character Selection where the background did not change properly when switching characters.
• Fixed an issue in Character Selection where characters would take a long time to load in.
• Fixed an issue in Character Selection where using the 'hide helmet' option would change your appearances to the default setting.

Asgari

Well this is disappointing ...

Flaminir

Nirnhoned possibly interesting?

Other than that....

So.... the big question is, with a patch on a Saturday, does this mean that 1.6 goes live on Monday now?

Vis

I understand it takes time to implement sorc changes. I eagerly await more information.

As for the alchemy water nerf, called it. One way to sell more convenience items is to make the current items less convenient.

Scotia

that's it!!! Time to test the damage and block and see if it works!

Charadras

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Is this the last incremental patch before update 6 goes live or we will see other to balance class skill ?

klink012

What was all this talk about we'll have answers for Sorcs this weekend??

thedragonlorddnub18_ESO

Thank the Divines. I couldn't even create a template character to play with and not get reset.

Ancile

And sorcerers? You are not going to throw us into live in our current state, right?

ZOS_GinaBruno

Vis wrote: »

I understand it takes time to implement sorc changes. I eagerly await more information.

Thanks for understanding. We'll get you guys some information about our plans for Sorcerers as soon as we can.

Vis

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Vis wrote: »

I understand it takes time to implement sorc changes. I eagerly await more information.

Thanks for understanding. We'll get you guys some information about our plans for Sorcerers as soon as we can.

Awesome! Thanks for letting us know.

Dominoid

Vis wrote: »

I understand it takes time to implement sorc changes. I eagerly await more information.

As for the alchemy water nerf, called it. One way to sell more convenience items is to make the current items less convenient.

What? They stopped a bug that gave both filtered and cloud mist from the same node(as an example). They didn't nerf anything.

Rook_Master

War Horn Damage Bug Fix?

Let's hope it works...

Arkadius

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Alliance War
General

• Fixed an issue where Flaming Oil was costing more for members of the Ebonheart Pact. This trade inequity has been resolved with expedient prejudice.

Hope this is a typo. EP was paying less than ACD/DC.

vortexman11

Noooo why did you have to fix oil pricing! Whyyyyyyyyyy

Seraphyel

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Vis wrote: »

I understand it takes time to implement sorc changes. I eagerly await more information.

Thanks for understanding. We'll get you guys some information about our plans for Sorcerers as soon as we can.

So just a clarification: we won't see anything relevant with 1.6 for Sorcs besides the things that were posted in 1.6.1-1.6.3?

Exstazik

aaaa that's it....plans will be put on table with spellcrafting ....

Sacadon

davedwildebeast wrote: »

Nirnhoned possibly interesting?

Other than that....

So.... the big question is, with a patch on a Saturday, does this mean that 1.6 goes live on Monday now?

Let's hope not, but I fear this may be true.

Erock25

I was really hoping for SOMETHING for sorc. It is a damn shame the state stamina sorc are going to hit live in. Feedback was provided and harped on for weeks now and MANY other things were tweaked around, but sorc is stuck with zilch when it comes to stamina options.

Grao

What a disappointing patch...

I can only hope this is not the last patch before 1.6 is released to Live. If it is, I foresee having to force level a templar or simply giving up the game.

Please Zenimax, don't make 1.6 the last nail on the sorcerer's coffin.

Asgari

How can you state you will have options this weekend and then now say when we have something? Sounds like a terrible PR sceme to get people to hush up for a few days until it starts again.

This is by far the worst customer service I've ever dealt with coming from any industry. So glad it's free to play in a few weeks.

Turelus

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Alliance War
General

• Fixed an issue where Flaming Oil was costing more for members of the Ebonheart Pact. This trade inequity has been resolved with expedient prejudice.

Excellent, I look forward to our 400 AP oils.

Vegaroth

Finally, fix to health bars

ZOS_GinaBruno

Xiana wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Alliance War
General

• Fixed an issue where Flaming Oil was costing more for members of the Ebonheart Pact. This trade inequity has been resolved with expedient prejudice.

Hope this is a typo. EP was paying less than ACD/DC.

Whoops! Yes, that's a typo. We'll fix it now - thanks!

Elsonso

Dominoid wrote: »

Vis wrote: »

I understand it takes time to implement sorc changes. I eagerly await more information.

As for the alchemy water nerf, called it. One way to sell more convenience items is to make the current items less convenient.

What? They stopped a bug that gave both filtered and cloud mist from the same node(as an example). They didn't nerf anything.

I think this is what was being referenced:

"Obtaining alchemy water from scaled instances will no longer provide dramatically more than the normal amount."

Dracane

Erock25 wrote: »

I was really hoping for SOMETHING for sorc. It is a damn shame the state stamina sorc are going to hit live in. Feedback was provided and harped on for weeks now and MANY other things were tweaked around, but sorc is stuck with zilch when it comes to stamina options.

Hey, not only stamina Sorcs are waiting for love ^^ don't be so dominant.

Elsonso

Exstazik wrote: »

aaaa that's it....plans will be put on table with spellcrafting ....

This is hardly a revelation. While all classes should benefit from Spell crafting, Sorcerers should top that list.

Fizzonance

Exstazik wrote: »

aaaa that's it....plans will be put on table with spellcrafting ....

That + your signature would make my day. Or week... or month.. no, year!

Seraphyel

lordrichter wrote: »

Exstazik wrote: »

aaaa that's it....plans will be put on table with spellcrafting ....

This is hardly a revelation. While all classes should benefit from Spell crafting, Sorcerers should top that list.

Spellcrafting? Isn't that the thing that recently was put on hold and will never be implemented?

Samadhi

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Vis wrote: »

I understand it takes time to implement sorc changes. I eagerly await more information.

Thanks for understanding. We'll get you guys some information about our plans for Sorcerers as soon as we can.

Thank you all for your continued hard work, am interested to see what comes of it, but already quite satisfied with the changes made since 1.6 so far.

Please send my best wishes to the teams working on this; am certain it must be stressful to try and meet up with demands.

madangrypally

Seraphyel wrote: »

So just a clarification: we won't see anything relevant with 1.6 for Sorcs besides the things that were posted in 1.6.1-1.6.3?

The bad thing is it will go live with no changes and once live they will be to busy fixing all the bugs/exploits. I would not expect any changes for at least 2-3 months after this update goes live at the earliest.