I'm still looking forward to Update 44.

That’s been the plan for sometime. DPS levels for much of the high level content is considered way too high for the level of difficulty that is supposed to exist. Trials should typically be as difficult as Vet Vateshran for all players involved. Monstrous DPS makes it easier than it should be. Most trials are typically balanced with around 50-60k DPS per damage toon tops. Yet, players are getting double those numbers and some almost triple.

The slow nerfing of damage each patch is not devs ignoring players… it’s following their objective.

Now, personally I don’t think this is the correct tactic to take. I would much rather they add an Expert difficulty for the end game content and try and control any further power creep.

Then I would deviate build diversity instead of streamlining it. Maybe add some extra CP nodes that come with great rewards but severe penalties. Example:

Increase your damage with non-applied damage over time effects and status effects by 60%, but reduce all other direct damage by 80%.

Just an example, but stuff like this is what really spreads out the play styles and makes the game more interesting both in PVE and PVP. Numbers in the above example may seem extreme, but they kind of need to be to really impact things.

I do not agree here. U35 was a huge blow to the numbers of active playerbase who engaged in harder content the game had to offer, this one is more like... Nothing? There's surely stuff to be upset about as always but it's biggest blow might be just another of the patches that gives close to nothing so feeding into apathy that formed already.

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colossalvoids wrote: »

I do not agree here. U35 was a huge blow to the numbers of active playerbase who engaged in harder content the game had to offer, this one is more like... Nothing? There's surely stuff to be upset about as always but it's biggest blow might be just another of the patches that gives close to nothing so feeding into apathy that formed already.

I agree. This just feels like a normal nerf cycle with some new game feature to play with. The apathy in here seems to be based in performance, and to a lesser extent, bugs. Replacing battlegrounds and adding the Golden Grind is not going to fix either of those. They might distract for a while, though.

I look forward to HDR and the vibrancy setting. Maybe I can drop ReShade now.

And the solo only queue and reworked battleground stuff looks interesting too.

As a pure PvE player non of the patches have been bad yet because buffs or balance changes aren't that much of an issue.

Since nothing is being done about the ball groups and with most of these changes not being PvP friendly, combined with all the rudeness and lack of people really wanting to work together in PvP, I'm pulling out of Cyrodiil completely.

I'll give BGs a try and maybe play IC once in a while but other than that I'm done. I doubt BGs will hold my interest for long but I can understand them wanting to fix that situation, Teams were getting kind of rough. Cyrodiil needs some serious help with these ball groups just consuming the place like locusts. Until that gets fixed I don't want any part of it.

For me U44 basically reads "saw people playing as Templar, took steps to try and resolve this problem"

So that's my sub canceled.
Hope for the love of all that is holy that the 2025 roadmap has More than 2 bits of content in it.

notyuu wrote: »

For me U44 basically reads "saw people playing as Templar, took steps to try and resolve this problem"

So that's my sub canceled.
Hope for the love of all that is holy that the 2025 roadmap has More than 2 bits of content in it.

Given the record so far, there'll be a new zone with the chapter in 2025 and... that's all. The rest will require an ESO+ sub.