Hotfix nirn immediately, please.

trimsic_ESO · July 2015

Mr_Nobody wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

trimsic_ESO wrote: »

I always thought that nirn was working as intended, as a mean to mitigate magical damage, especially in Cyrodiil. Indeed, if nirn did not exist, magical damage would be out of control, and when you remember that the best defensive skills are class skills using magicka, you realize that magicka builds are extremely powerful both in attack and in defense.

But I heard Erik say it was not working as intended and it will be tuned down in the next big patch. I hope the combat team has something in its plans to make sure that magicka builds will not be even more powerful than they already are.

Would you care to explain how magicka damage would be "out of control" relative to stamina-based damage?

~ Because 70% Armor Penetration that nearly every stamina user abuses, is not out of control.

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Could be 70%, 80%, 90%, or even 100% with corrosive armor, these numbers do not matter. The only thing you should talk about is how much damage caused by stamina skills you take when shielded. Can you remind us with these numbers? Oh yes, a flat zero, because no one can take down 20-30k damage shields when these abilities are perfectly timed and well played.

Defilted · July 2015

Baphomet wrote: »

How do you explain how other MMO developers push out hotfixes for similar issues within days or weeks?

Best answer I can offer would be internal resource issue at ZOS. Meaning that they do not have a large team like another game company fixing these defects. I could speculate all day long about why they are deliver things at a slower pace. I could makes some assumptions based off of what I know of the software industry as a whole, but this would not be a healthy way for us to spend our time.

I know that most people on a individual basis are passionate about what they do. This is very true when it comes to "Most" developers that I know and work with. So know that the people working on these issues really do want to help in general and make the game better, but just might be limited on how fast it can happen.

Sykis · July 2015

I would say that they already have that fix on the schedule. Pushing emergency hot fixes are generally never scheduled. They are aware of this one and plan to fix it. If you don't want to play till its fixed then put the game down for a bit and go play outside or quit whining about it as they already informed to public of the fix. Trust me you will survive till next month.

Sharee · July 2015

As broken as nirnhoned is right now, my full-heavy DK with capped spell resists still gets hit for almost half his HP by a single crystal shard if i don't block it.

So i say, fix nirnhoned at the same time the overall cyrodiil damage gets nerfed (i.e. with the IC patch), not before. It's broken, but currently the only counter to other things that are just as broken.

Ezareth · July 2015

Baphomet wrote: »

There's supposed to be a hard cap for mitigation at 50%, right?

Nirn far exceeds that hard cap, and that's a bug in my book - can't be working as intended.

The hard cap is only for the Armor/Spell resist portion of mitigation not mitigation itself.

You can stack Armor/SR with other forms like Champion Passives. Set bonuses, Shield Blocking reduction etc.