Lol is that a joke? What the hell are they trying to do to this game....

Maybe they were trying to make something for those who don't have the xivkyn motif who wanted a floating shield


This still needs fixing as the images were taken just now on the pts.

Or maybe floaty things are the new trend ZOS are trying to set, like with the Breton light shoulders which got broke and haven't been fixed in forever

Or the new levitating Molag Kena shoulder which got broke when we got thieves guild and has still yet to be fixed


Clearly the development team had no time to fix these things but had time to implement a useless change that no one wanted nor needed. All they had to do this update was to introduce Dark Brotherhood, remove veteran ranks, and to work on stamina improvements for certain classes.

Instead they gave us useless things like this, replaced all potency stone nodes with nightshade ones - which in all likelihood is what happened and why rune nodes got changes, messed around with the CP tree with seemingly little understanding of what they were actually doing to it, and didn't raise the CP cap so that people could use their locked points to compensate.

On top of that they reduced the length of shields so that people will most likely spend more time recasting them than doing anything else and a billion other changes that were not needed. So much for them not wanting to make an overload of BIG changes all at once as once said by Rich Lambert on ESO live.

I really must apologies for the rant but I've been an Elder Scrolls fan for a long time, been playing this game pretty much every day since early access and I'm fairly passionate about it. The development team do so many good things, they really do, but then those good things tend to get overshadowed by the things they mess up.

At one time the developers used to have a clear direction for this game and conveyed that direction to the players, the developers actually understood the game and how it worked, they were passionate about it. Now though Its as if the changes being made are being done by someone who's never stepped foot inside the game and the passion and direction for the game, once there in abundance from ZOS, is now seriously lacking. I can only hope it will all eventually return.

If you want to add it in do so AFTER you've programmed a way to make it toggle-able, along with toggle-able other animations (like the glowing feet). Having a minimalist UI was great and keeps the game feeling like Elder Scrolls for questing, but it's also completely pointless if you move all those UI elements into always-on animations. My buff tracker is at least in the corner, out of the way, and I can turn it off.

The no votes in this thread areoverwhelming...hint hint zos

Hey Feynn!

I really don't get the need for this animation...I already know when I am blocking because you know...I'm pressing the button! Was this change mentioned in the natch potes btw? It could be unintentional. Here's hoping they respond soon.

Make it toggleable. I will gladly disable it.

I really dislike it. It's unimmersive and unecessary. ESO shouldn't have ui-like confirmation thingies on the character, this feels more like a science fiction thing or something from a Streetfighter game or so. Please add an "Off" button for that.

See also my own thread about that:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/262956/about-that-magic-shield-when-i-block-now#latest

Baconlad wrote: »

The no votes in this thread areoverwhelming...hint hint zos

Points ^^ (up) for @ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, @ZOS_MattFiror, and @ZOS_RichLambert to see the above quote...

Let us see how smart @zos is?

1) If @zos is smart, they will remove it or at the very least make it an optional
2) If @zos is dumb, they will keep it and have no option to remove the stupid crappy idea

Do you think @zos is smart or dumb?

In the good old days when the game was launched, one of the selling points was its minimalistic and immersive UI. I hope they bear that in mind and return to that philosophy. It's nice to allow modders to create add-ons to change the UI, or even to give players in-game options to add more information to their UI (like tracking buffs and damage, for example), but these sort of things should be left as a toggle. Go back to the roots of the game, Zos!

New?

Does it not look like this playing normal mode? Cause it's been this way for me probably since they introduced Game Pad mode.

Personally, I really like it.

Rat-King wrote: »

Give me an option to turn it on and off and all is good!
Having options makes us happy.

Hahahaha ^ This

If I'm holding block, I know that I'm holding block. I don't need a visual cue. This goes for the visual on dodge as well, I know I just did a dodge! This is a no-brainer ZoS!

Goodness. Step by step this game seemingly moves further away from it's Elder Scrolls roots.

Toggle toggle toggle, please.

Lokryn wrote: »

If I'm holding block, I know that I'm holding block. I don't need a visual cue. This goes for the visual on dodge as well, I know I just did a dodge! This is a no-brainer ZoS!

the visual for dodge I believe means you are going to be charged more if used again before it wears off.

ESO being an MMO means there is a natural setback concerning immersion anyway (like respawning enemies, vanishing bodies, no physics, targetglow (which _is_ toggleable!) and so on. We can't have hypothermia and all our favourite Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim mods here. But the game is beautiful and can be pretty immersive nontheless, which is also why I really love it. Immersion in ESO is mostly about visuals, and I guess that's one reason why we want to have as little as possible UI clutter and things like this shield.
This shield is an unnecessary addition to a simple move, also one that indicates magic (or more intrusive: a ui element). For PvP it's useful I guess. Thus: toggle.