Flangdoodle wrote: »

I said it before, and I'll say it again: the reason that the global cooldown APPEARED to result in the greatest performance gains, was that there was no one in Cyrodiil that week.

No, AD, DC and EP were full in NA / PC.
I have encountered many times when ball groups and PUGs fight.
In the 1st test, there was no lag and it was very comfortable.

red_emu wrote: »

It's a false data interpretation. Remember, that during shared global cooldown week, classes like Templar, Warden or Necro were pretty much gone from Cyrodiil. Testing is one thing but nobody is gonna want to play their class when it's unplayable compared to let's say Stamblade. So people went and played their single target alts instead. Servers might have been full but any specs that are AOE heavy were few and far between.

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red_emu wrote: »

It's a false data interpretation. Remember, that during shared global cooldown week, classes like Templar, Warden or Necro were pretty much gone from Cyrodiil. Testing is one thing but nobody is gonna want to play their class when it's unplayable compared to let's say Stamblade. So people went and played their single target alts instead. Servers might have been full but any specs that are AOE heavy were few and far between.

I kind of disagree that it is false interpretation.

If the thought is: AOE ability spam causes lag.

It doesn't really matter if the solution they are testing slows down AOE spam or causes players to play classes that don't rely on AOE spam. The end result is the server is clear of AOE spam. As long as the server is pop locked, or near it, lack of templars in Cyro is irrelevant. The end result is less AOE spam in the zone. Even if all players were nightblades, the same goal is achieved. Where class matters is with the actual solution, where they will need to rework skills to account for AOE changes if they go that route.

It's also a case of, our abilities don't work because of lag, so we'll make abilities not work to fix lag.

It's a flawed "fix".

master_vanargand wrote: »

Flangdoodle wrote: »

I said it before, and I'll say it again: the reason that the global cooldown APPEARED to result in the greatest performance gains, was that there was no one in Cyrodiil that week.

No, AD, DC and EP were full in NA / PC.
I have encountered many times when ball groups and PUGs fight.
In the 1st test, there was no lag and it was very comfortable.

During my time slot which is usually poplocked at the beginning, DC was only at 1 Bar during the first week On PC/NA--I think on Firday Night it popped to 2 bars for a bit and dropped back down.

And as the other poster said It's a false data interpretation. I personally don't know anyone but Stam Blades that played that first week in Cyrodil, and I play with a lot of different people. My friend's list and PvP guild Rosters only had Nighblades in Cyrodil--everyone else was in IC.

Nirntrotter wrote: »

xaraan wrote: »

It's also a case of, our abilities don't work because of lag, so we'll make abilities not work to fix lag.

It's a flawed "fix".

Agreed. In what world is gutting a substantial amount of classes/builds a reasonable approach to fix this? Last MYM clearly showed that reallocating resources on their end brought relief to the situation.

Relief, but no fix. I think the bitter truth is that ZoS is trying to find something to blame and AoEs are the current target after years of blaming everything else (like the deer). I think the other problem is ZoS is in denial of the actual problem that most of us deep down already know.

ssewallb14_ESO wrote: »

There were people playing on the first day, including a big zerg fight around Alessia and multiple ball groups.

It did help, and was the only one that actually did anything.

Unfortunately the blobs sat out for the rest of the week which was effectively the end of the test.

It didn't help, you just have yourself convinced that it does. Im not trying to be harsh, but its the truth.

The current test is basically test 1 with limited groups and group only healing. So if test 1 was the superior test then the current test which is more restrictive should be better right? The lag this week was the same as last week which was the same as before the tests.

I play during prime time when all of the factions are locked and at each others throats, and not a single test has resulted in any improvement that I could notice, if anything the lag has been worse since the tests basically force people to zerg in order to get anything done.

Ive said it before, if we have to sacrifice the bulk of what makes ESO combat fun in order to possibly get a slight decrease in lag, then we are better off with the lag.

Yeah greatest games because its not worth playing anymore lol