Design flaws of ZOS are always "intentional"

likewow777 wrote: »

I have many thoughts on the subject, and I do believe that bug-fixing would go a long way in helping Templars. That said, the thing I can't get away from, and the reason I voted the way I did, is this:

One by one, they seem to be declaring bugs as "working as intended".

Perhaps ZOS doesn't really know what that phrase means. If you say something is working as intended, but it doesn't work well, you really need to reevaluate your intentions. Your premise is flawed. Your design is wrong. Charging the player with the job of dealing with GCDs and animation delays, using weak justifications such as what Gina wrote, is so angering I can hardly speak. In fact, I remember my jaw dropping when I first read it.

Maybe they are indeed understaffed, I don't know, I have no insight into that. I'd like to think that they say things are working like they should because they just don't have the manpower to fix everything. At the very least, it would be an actual explanation.

*sigh*

EDIT: Wording

I was about to type that as a response. Zenimax's history of claiming bugs are "intentional" or obvious design flaws are "intentional" is a poor excuse to justify the lack of improvements to the game.

Usually their fixes are not much better: Veteran Zones last year were imbalanced. A three man mob with the right composition would be impassable, while others were no problem. Zoning as Templar when they were by far the weakest in the game, I thought that only the NPC's healing, leashing and agro needed to be looked at. Instead, flat percentage nerf across the board.

Or Impulse and Bat Swarm that was a huge issue at release. Instead of looking at these abilities, all of AOE abilities were changed to only hit six enemies at a time.

Or off-hours Cyrodil keeps were taken too easily so they bumped all NPC's to VR levels, which really defeated the entire purpose of VR levels and ruined PVE for my Templar for months in there.

The combat bug that locks all of your abilities and attacks, leaving you only to run (not sprint, cannot do that) has been in the game since launch and still not fixed. I guess that will be called intentional at some point too. Zenimax will likely say that not being able to CC break out of falling from a horse is intentional too. Why should we be able to use an abilities when a Nightblade is macroing six or seven abilities on us all at once while we're stunned?

I completely changed how I play my templar to adjust for 1.6 but it really still seems they are underperforming. What could really help is giving Templars back regeneration passives.

the class just plain plays like ***, at the moment the bugs aren't even that bad.

The worst part is the clunky design, flaky animations that lock you out of actions, even weapon switch.

Weapon switch is responsive on my other characters but frequently it gets me killed on my templar because a skill on my previous bar is activated on the wrong weapon set.

1.6 broke templars so badly in pvp it's ridiculous.