With CP 2.0 rework like 5-6 years ago, they promised the new system had the capability of expansion, nodes would be less powerful, but more unique. An objective to reduce calculation strain on the server by avoiding so many % multipliers. In the 1st year, they added a bit to the red tree, but I'd argue they probably had that content in development already, it just wasn't finished for the CP rework.

Not only have they ignored expanding the options since the 1st year, but the options we have are so incredibly boring it makes you wonder why they even bothered reworking it in the 1st place.

When they initially announced it, my hope was to see more things like: "Forked Lightning - whenever you apply the concussed status effect, deal x shock damage to 3 nearby enemies. This effect has a 1s cooldown."

Niche, but interesting. A way to improve your aoe DPS in a very specific way instead of what we have now; "+6% aoe damage". Zzzzzzz.

So yeah, I agree. Give us some pet nodes. Make Daedric Prey buff all pets, nerf it if you have to. Pet builds are not meta, nor will they ever be meta due to lower cleave, ai pathing/targeting issues, and the 2 bar requirement. Let people play how they want, but at least make it competitive instead of a shot in the foot.

ESO_Nightingale wrote: »

The cp rework is one of the worst things I've seen zos make particularly due to it's lack of iteration.

I like the idea of slotted cp but there's not a single unique node to pick. Nothing based on classes or skill lines or anything.

agreed, the current CP system feels unfinished. There are so many different unique nodes they could add so people can further specialize to gain more power within a narrower set of circumstances, thus creating really defined and specialized builds. Like additional fire damage perks, lightning damage perks, ice damage perks, etc. The perks would allow for greater damage when your utilizing a specialized build (i.e., all lightning build, fire mage, etc.).

This concept could apply to every type of damage out there - physical, poison, magic, etc. So at the very least, we could have much greater build diversity between damage builds.

I think they could probably take this further by having perks built for increased burst damage vs. increased sustained damage. Arguably, anything boosting crit damage is boosting burst already, but they could add DOT specific skills that increase the duration of your DOTS, tick rate, and area affected (by aoe dots). All of these perks would give us a lot more choices in build options.

T3vvy wrote: »

Honestly, im fine with pet builds being mediocre. Similar to oakensoul, I dont think builds that require you to press less buttons should be competing with higher skill ceiling builds.

I can’t say I fully agree and that’s because simply running two bars doesn’t inherently require more “skill”.

Todays crit based metas don’t require the skill or experience base to be competitive because the players are receiving so many passive modifiers: crit is always on or passively enhanced, ridiculous set procs provide benefits without active rotation management, subclassing gave builds access to more direct passives than ever before, subclassing also gave builds access to mechanics that they either didn’t have before or at a lower opportunity cost than before.

This has enabled more consistent spamming, not necessarily combat strategy.

As far as pets go, I do agree that they shouldn’t be overly powerful for the one simple fact that they act as a body block which is huge when it comes to damage avoidance. Even if the pet itself doesn’t deal significant damage or give significant buffs the fact that it will intercept a good amount of damage, and has no cooldown between uses, see pets doing a lot in terms of defense; they’re an ad hoc shield, but with a much higher cap and no uptime management required.

As for Oakensoul; Oak was nowhere near the top in PvP prior to U47, and since U47 it’s fallen even lower. Subclassing opened the door to a wider array of ability slotting, which is the one thing Oakensoul builds cannot take full advantage of.

Building an Oak build that’s competitive in PvP, in the current game state, is incredibly challenging. The power creep and resource requirements for PvP have had the bar raised. If you look at all of the items necessary for competitive PvP now you’ll struggle to get them into an Oak build. It takes a certain amount of experience now to use Oak and get yourself toward the top of a leaderboard in PvP anymore.