ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

This is the official feedback thread for any new Scribing updates in Update 43. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

• What did you think of the new Skill Styles, and what Skill Styles would you like to see next?

Before I test anything, I just want to answer this.

The one thing I want from Styles: LET WEREWOLVES CHOOSE THEIR FUR COLOR
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/657694/please-give-us-skill-styles-for-werewolf-transformation#latest

I really wish I could have my pup have brown fur and morph the skill

I chased all 5 fragments for Roar, Verdant Green. I'm glad there was a 100% drop chance for each source; I was able to solo all 5 sources with a Companion and obtain the Skill Style in a reasonable amount of time.

Regarding the appearance, a lot of people are comparing this to bad breath or bile, which is frankly insulting. I would've expected Hircine's Bounty to get a green Skill Style instead of Roar, as it's a much more colorful skill. Why is it that Werewolf's first Skill Style makes them look disgusting?

However, given the VFX of each morph...

...it's understandable why the saliva had to also be recolored. It can't be helped if it's the only VFX that the base morph of Roar has.


Also, as has already been mentioned above...

tomofhyrule wrote: »

The one thing I want from Styles: LET WEREWOLVES CHOOSE THEIR FUR COLOR
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/657694/please-give-us-skill-styles-for-werewolf-transformation#latest

Skill Styles for the Werewolf Transformation Ultimate itself would be incredible. I'm still holding out hope that we'll get a couple for changing our fur color.

So this is new



Same deal for soul burst.

Can we get a list of changes made to scribing?

I take it all back. This update is AMAZING for scribing



all my major gripes have been addressed

RaptorRodeoGod wrote: »

Having Brutality/Sorcery/Prophecy/Savagery lasting only 10 seconds feels kinda bad, especially on the cast time scribed skills. Most skills that give these major buffs either give it longer.

Yes, this is okay duration for less common major buffs, like vitality and defile, but for "mandatory" buffs like sorcery/prophecy/resolve doesn't feel good, especially if you go with situational focus, like pull or stun which you don't always want to do on cooldown.

I am very worried about the duration reduction for major buffs. The vast majority of pvp builds rely on skills to give them the fundamental majors, such as brutality, savagery and resolve, because they need the potion slot to run other potions than spell power pots. Currently most classes have access to these major buffs - but not all.

I see the scribing system as providing a crucial alternative to players in sourcing these fundamental major buffs, so that they are not reliant on very specific class skills, and are not forced into specific skill lines, such as Mages Guild for Degeneration. The standard for these fundamental majors is around 20 seconds. Reducing the duration of the fundamental majors gotten from scribing skills to 10 seconds makes the scribing system borderline unusable for providing these fundamental majors.

As a consequence the scribing system will become worse at providing build variety, something the system was explicitly designed to do.

The obvious solution would be to increase the duration of the fundamental majors back to 20 seconds.

ps.
An even better solution would be to increase the duration of these fundamental majors to an even longer duration and bring them in line with Molten Armaments. This is more of a personal preference, but I don't want to miss the opportunity to present my argument here. The fundamental majors (crit, damage, resolve) do not represent situational buffs that are used to give the player a momentary and situational advantage in battle. Instead they represent a semi-permanent buff to your character. Both in pvp and pve you are realistically required to keep those buffs up 100% of the time for a functioning build. And having to recast them every 20 seconds is simply not fun. Simple as that. It's so refreshing when playing as a dk with molten armaments or with an Oakensoul ring, when you only have to worry about these standard buffs once every minute or not at all. It just makes the game more fun, because it allows the player to spend more brain capacity on the part of the game that is actually fun. I believe increasing the duration of those fundamental majors to 60s across all skills will make the game more fun and will lessen the gap between average players and good players.

Any word on making Scribing more manageable on alternate characters?

while it is nice ink drops will come from additional sources, the actual drop rate of ink is so bad its turning many people who were interested in the system away from scribing as a whole

Major buffs like resolve, savagery, brutality should be kept as 20 seconds duration please.
Remember when you guys said you wanted to make buffing less intensive so people could spend more time casting other things? Having 10 second duration for major buffs is not how you do that.

Few suggestions:

1) Add flame damage type to Wield Soul and Soul Burst and Shock damage type to Contingency.
2) All buffs and debuffs from single target ability should last 20 seconds and from aoe abilities 10 seconds.

techprince wrote: »

Few suggestions:

1) Add flame damage type to Wield Soul and Soul Burst and Shock damage type to Contingency.
2) All buffs and debuffs from single target ability should last 20 seconds and from aoe abilities 10 seconds.

how about they stop putting rules on what can be used with what.

"Affix durations now follow a simpler and streamlined rule where Major buffs and debuffs last for 10 seconds, while Minor buffs and debuffs last for 20 seconds."

Major Savagery, Prophecy, Brutality, and Sorcery have no excuse not to be to be 20 seconds like every non-scribing ability that gives them. If scribed skills are incapable of being even close to as good as other abilities, why would anyone interact with the system? Not to mention: No the incongruency between buff times is not "an important and conscious decision that should be pondered..." its just annoying. Doubly so since there are plenty of major/minor buffs that are treated as equal everywhere else despite the label.

Making the damage types more available is encouraging, but still has a long way to go. Given the nature of the system, there's no reason not to have options for each damage type on all grimoires. As it is certain classes benefit far more than others from the system, depending on if their class buffed damage type is present on the good grimoires or not.

Wield Soul + Druid's Resurgence needs reduced cost or it's not worth as a spammable. There is zero passive with the soul magic line and the only reason I'd use it is for Druid's Resurgence to reduce spammable cost. With 600, I'd just use my class skills or vampire's.

DrNukenstein wrote: »

-Can we get a more interesting trigger for ulfsilds, and make its buff affix apply on cast?

I am against changing the activation trigger for "Ulfsild's Contingency".
Full understanding of "Ulfsild's Contingency" allows for a variety of cool combos.