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Re: Account has been banned for over a week now with ZERO explanation
@ZOS_Kevin can you help this guy out. I can't see how it's ok to ban a player with zero reason as to why and no response at all for him to appeal the decision.
Account has been banned for over a week now with ZERO explanation
My account has been banned for the third time, and as a result, it says that it is permanently deactivated. I've submitted two tickets, and have received no response or explanation as to why this occurred.
This is really unacceptable because the last ban that I had was a 3 day ban, and again, I did not receive any explanation as to why the second ban occurred before the ban was up, which denied me any meaningful right to appeal that ban, and thus, when this ban occurred - again without explanation, it resulted in the permanent ban.
Can someone please message me and explain the reason for the ban so that I can begin the appeals process?
Also, can we please not ban any other accounts without any human interaction or involvement? It is unacceptable for a paid-for game (and especially those of us who pay the monthly subscription) account to be deactivated without notice, without explanation, and apparently, without any human involvement.
This is really unacceptable because the last ban that I had was a 3 day ban, and again, I did not receive any explanation as to why the second ban occurred before the ban was up, which denied me any meaningful right to appeal that ban, and thus, when this ban occurred - again without explanation, it resulted in the permanent ban.
Can someone please message me and explain the reason for the ban so that I can begin the appeals process?
Also, can we please not ban any other accounts without any human interaction or involvement? It is unacceptable for a paid-for game (and especially those of us who pay the monthly subscription) account to be deactivated without notice, without explanation, and apparently, without any human involvement.
Re: New Community Input Dashboards
I like the idea of these boards. I do think making them default to "New" would help a little with curbing first-seen biases. I'm also wondering if there's a way to voice your opinion if you really dislike a proposed change. In the past, I know there have been some hotly debated changes proposed and even implemented in the game with a large group of people supporting the change and an equally large group of people against the change. The way these boards work right now, a controversial suggestion of that nature would have a lot of upvotes but no way to see the "downvotes," which would tell a skewed story.
Kallykat
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Re: New Community Input Dashboards
There should be a pointer to this in the menu at the top of this page next to Forum or Support, otherwise you'd never find it. We've been spreading the word on Discord but it's hard to find even if you know it's there without the link.
Aashiana
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Re: U51 Feedback Thread for Item Sets
+1 on revert Draugrkin changes. The set was never the problem and is one of the few sets that can combat permablocking infinite sustain builds.
Re: U51 Feedback Thread for Classes and Abilities
LordDragonSlayer wrote: »Most WWs have about 15 to 18k mag and stamina and about 40 to 44k health. With these new numbers they will be out of resources in seconds. They do not have burst damage
I think that' the point and what ZOS was going for. If you choose to build with that little bit of resource pools, you'll now suffer the consequences like everyone else that does. 15k to 18k mag and stamina and that much of a lopsided build would be bad anywhere in the game, esp. in a PvP environment except on certain "special" builds.
That it wasn't before actually proves that the costs were too low in the first place regardless of what you or the others that enjoyed paying next to nothing for skills without any investment want to claim.
That's why they did it. Because putting the requirement to either build sustain or get good enough not to have to do it will put a limit and cap on the defensive or offensive power that's possible with your build. Which is the cap that everyone except DK abides by (though even DK needs to build into resource pools, though again, there's other builds possible that can bypass it).
The probability of you convincing them is likely 0. Skill costs should have never been that low in the first place. Literally proving that sustain was previously far too easy and ignorable with that comment, not that anyone here didn't know so already.
You don't 'suffer the consequences'. You just run sorc and potentially Arteum and you're set. In a '1 v 1' dueling parse or 'on a practice dummy', nothing meaningfully changes in these scenarios, even post-nerf. Even still, the stamina values from your own perspective do not make sense with PTS werewolf either.
I want to build 30k health on my wolf like I used to before DK rework... but I can't when a non-corro whip can easily land for 15-18k on a crit and a corro whip can near take my entire health bar with 27k. Even if I wanted to build less health, my heals across the board become worse in PvE and PvP in just about every way.
Every other class has access to 'easy' defensive buffs like minor protection (I have to lose significant damage with my roar morph to access), minor resolve (which wolf is incapable of gaining), major protection from Monomyth (which I am incapable of properly using due to bugs especially; can never gain both components), sword and board backbar (which I cannot access without tanking my damage even further; I don't receive all defense passives from this), and much more.
Meanwhile, if I want to recoup more damage from my 'damage healing howl', I essentially use a heal that provides no meaningful healing value (even if I stack nothing but stam and wep/spell damage sets; definitely not enough to outheal 15-27k whips depending on setting) and up to a 12% increase in damage taken. Werewolf berserker (as mentioned) completely forgoes my major protection as well and my overarching reward for an 'even' major buff is a 1 second, highly unforgiving dot.
These are mediums of defense (and offense via buffs) that everyone is able to adhere to that I am fully excluded from on a werewolf.
I get that you have disdain for werewolf, but please try to be logical and objective to at least what I'm clearly stating above. 'Being 1 bar' doesn't magically provide me some intangible benefit that makes up for these glaring deficiencies that the current, efficient PTS stat spread disallows appropriate remediation on.
You are saying to be logical and “objective” but every one of these issues that you are claiming are *relative* to DK. Dk doing 20k whips is unacceptable, yes. But do not base ww balance on something as bizarrely overpowered as DK. Ww is relatively more powerful than just about every class other than dk and maybe sorc.
Tendo163
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Re: Give ESO the Oblivion treatment
Heya, Unreal Engine game dev here. The thing fundamentally stopping this approach is budget and time.
Even if you do the Oblivion approach of pairing the two separate engines and having ESO's code run as-is and piping the rendering through Unreal Engine with brand new assets, you still have to make those assets. And boy oh boy, are there a lot of assets. You've got concept art, sculpting, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, materials, shaders, particle effects, so much more. There's also loads of debugging and playtesting work to do to make sure it functions and runs well.
As you can see, ZOS doesn't exactly have the capacity to support that workload.
Even if you do the Oblivion approach of pairing the two separate engines and having ESO's code run as-is and piping the rendering through Unreal Engine with brand new assets, you still have to make those assets. And boy oh boy, are there a lot of assets. You've got concept art, sculpting, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, materials, shaders, particle effects, so much more. There's also loads of debugging and playtesting work to do to make sure it functions and runs well.
As you can see, ZOS doesn't exactly have the capacity to support that workload.
Re: DK will continue to reign in U51. What a complete disaster
Alchimiste1 wrote: »VinnyGambini wrote: »Wrong skill chief, core of flame
Also lets please add Conservation of Energy to the mix.
No need to go from a dk/ww/sorc meta to sorc only meta
For Sorc nerfing the healing is actually a better move. If you nerf the sustain from conservation sorc will now be stuck with old bars and limited builds. No bueno
Don't be selfish. Both Conservation of Energy (healing AND sustain) and Heart of flame (sustain) must be disbled in PvP.
I'm not being selfish lol. It's one or the other, not both. I have already tested fighing without that passive in PvP and the result was not good.
On this we will have to disagree. HOF should sustain definitely needs a nerf but so does the sorc class mastery. I’m not saying to remove it but it should be adjusted.
It does, and I made an entire thread about it:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/691944/conservation-of-energy-needs-to-be-adjusted-for-the-health-of-the-game#latest
I suggested these:
1) Either remove the interaction with Blood Magic and introduce a fixed heal tooltip upon activating a cost (around 1k - 1.5k) OR making Blood Magic scale off offensive stats only. This ensures that the extreme cases of manipulating this skill are removed, while also providing a decent "heal over time" for people with less experience in PvP
2) Reintroduce the fixed 1k stam and mag value per proc to allow for more fluid game play.
Granted that my suggestions were a while ago during the PTS cycle and things have changed, I still firmly believe that, strictly for sorc, the sustain from Conservation allows for more build diversity, which is a good thing for the class. Sorc has struggled with bar space for a long time and was limited to running a few builds because it had to slot Dark Deal and waste an entire slot. Nerfing the heal would be a much better approach while keeping the build options.
Some people want that entire passive removed though, and I have to disagree with them. But let’s say we did remove the entire passive. I would just switch to Calculated Defense instead and gain 6% WD (100% uptime) and a fat HP scaling shield every time I use a Sorc ability or one with a cast time. I tested this btw and found that my survivability was mostly untouched, while that extra 6% WD let me use 2-3 recovery glyphs anyway. But guess what? Build options became limited because you’d have bar space issues, so Sorc went back to pre u50, just with more tankiness lol.
The most ideal fix for this passive imo would be to make Blood Magic give a fixed heal tooltip (maybe 1.5k per proc) and a fixed stam + mag return. This value can be adjusted.
You just want infinite sustain with sorc using streak, dark deal/exchange, and CoE.
That is not healthy gameplay any more than CoF is healthy gameplay. Why is sorc the only in your equation that maintains near-zero risk, high sustain 'for free'?
If anything, they're even the most apt to abuse given they have a multitude of various burst moves that can be comboed for no apparent reason and yet another mastery that heavily rewards them for max-mag stack. There is a reason after all that they are widely considered 'top 3' despite not even being a reworked class.
They should either rework CoE or heavily nerf all health/stam/mag values received as a result of this passive.
Wuuffyy
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Re: Games graphics and current gameplay keep new players away, and should be ZOS top priority
ESO's problems don't stem from its graphics; on the contrary, there are plenty of other issues that might deter potential new players.
The graphics are fine as they are; newer zones, in particular, are closer to modern visual standards. Unfortunately, ZOS's plans to revamp older zones only got as far as the starter areas, and I don't see that work continuing given the current staffing situation.
An advantage of the "outdated" graphics is that the game runs smoothly on lower-end hardware—maintaining a fluid 4K/60 FPS experience even at Dolmens crowded with dozens of players.
By the way: ESO's engine is NOT the HeroEngine; that was only used for internal prototypes. ESO runs on a proprietary engine built from the ground up specifically for the game.
The graphics are fine as they are; newer zones, in particular, are closer to modern visual standards. Unfortunately, ZOS's plans to revamp older zones only got as far as the starter areas, and I don't see that work continuing given the current staffing situation.
An advantage of the "outdated" graphics is that the game runs smoothly on lower-end hardware—maintaining a fluid 4K/60 FPS experience even at Dolmens crowded with dozens of players.
By the way: ESO's engine is NOT the HeroEngine; that was only used for internal prototypes. ESO runs on a proprietary engine built from the ground up specifically for the game.
Re: Give ESO the Oblivion treatment
Maybe one day, but for now I'm happy that people with potato computers can run ESO. They're part of the community, and new computer parts are more expensive than ever, even in countries with better exchange rates.
Improvements for higher end players make sense, as well as a way to uninstall 4k texture packs for those who can't use them.
Improvements for higher end players make sense, as well as a way to uninstall 4k texture packs for those who can't use them.
