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Re: Greyhost and Vengeance
Because there is nothing simple/easy/cheap about a massive rebalance or mechanical alteration like that. This is the sort of layperson ignorance I was referring to above.SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »ZOS still hasn't even tried limiting heal stacking
So your assertion is that it's easier to build a whole new system from scratch than it is to make a few minor adjustments to an already built system?
It's become pretty plain you aren't arguing in good faith on this issue. (as evidenced by your insulting closing you have nothing left to add to the discussion)
Re: Honestly - Is Vengeance Viable?
Artisian0001 wrote: »Artisian0001 wrote: »What is unbalanced currently in Cyro, can you even name anything in Greyhost that is unbalanced? Ballgroups are not unbalanced if that is your only answer, groups of coordinated people who are optimized should win fights. Do you have any actual issue with balance?
Surely you aren't trying to tell me that nothing is unbalanced in Cyrodiil right now...
And no ballgroups are not balanced and even the other people here who hate Vengeance wouldn't ever try to say that.Artisian0001 wrote: »The "full version of the game" is tri pop locked every single night despite latency issues and another campaign being available.
Wow, one single campaign reliably gets just over 300 players in it per night! PvP must be thriving.
Unresponsive to the question. Try again. Name what you think is unbalanced. Try not to say "Wow surely you can't be serious" this isn't an answer to the question
There are many many posts on these forums pointing out balance issues in PvP. There's a long list of balance issues and many posts that elaborate on them. I've named a few of them in this thread.
First, subclassing is not balanced whatsoever. There's only a few viable ones in PvP, and some skill lines like Restoring Light are extremely problematic with subclassing. Sets aren't balanced with each other, just look at something like Amberplasm vs Wretched Vitality for a blatant example. I think status effects give way too much free damage. Proc sets are still a big issue. Heal stacking is absolutely broken. Health pools are way too high, it's not uncommon to see 40k health "damage" builds. Group buff sets are also broken, They can often be single barred and give benefits to the entire group without drawback. SPC or Olo for small groups gives 430 weapon damage, which alone would be good for a solo player. It only gets stronger the more people you add to your group.
Hybridization was a mistake, everyone has access to vigor and a burst heal and then a 3rd heal if they want. Scribing let's people have major vitality on top of all that.
All of this combined means that some players are like emperors compared to others. Especially when it comes to ballgroups. There's a lot of other stuff I didn't even touch on.
Point is, a lot is unbalanced, most people agree that it is unbalanced, and it has stayed unbalanced for several years now. If you really are making this claim in good faith, all it takes is reading the forums and you'll find great friends from different people highlighting balance issues. I have a hard time believing anyone thinks that PvP right now is balanced though.Artisian0001 wrote: »It's the biggest form of PvP in the game, more than the dying vengeance that was made solely to house more people, dead on it's own mission statement. Pop locked every single night on all 3 factions despite the added competition and performance issues.
The biggest form of PvP in the game has less than 400 players (and dropping) participating nightly down from 1000s. The bottom line is almost no one wants to PvP and there are very clear reasons for it. It won't improve till things are addressed.
What is unbalanced about subclassing when everyone can have access to it? You aren't doing well in substantiating it. Subclassing is strong sure, but every single perron can get access to it. Sets are not all equal, correct, that doesn't inherently make PvP imbalanced. This is another moot point. "Oh well PvP is imbalanced because hundings rage exists which gives 300 weapon and spell damage but another set exists which gives more" Okay? Use that set then. That is not what something being imbalanced means definitionally when it comes to PvP. What proc sets are a huge issue?
You are saying all the combinations of these things can make someone an emperor, but literally every single person can do this except for people in groups, and guess what my entire first point was? People in groups will be strong. Sure, you can argue the ramping return of sets that give stats to people while only being on one person is strong, that is the only valid argument you made in your entire wall of text, but this is an MMO, play with friends.
"The bottom line is almost no one wants to PvP and there are very clear reasons for it." Tri pop locked, every single night, despite competition from a campaign you advocate for, even while that campaign is newer and has been advertised plenty, and has less people. Don't you see the irony there?
Re: Happy Holidays & See You In 2026
Kevin just wanted to say thank you guys for all the hard work that the Community Management team has done in putting out the fires of 2025.
I’m excited to see what 2026 brings.
I’m excited to see what 2026 brings.
Re: Is there a "Black List" of players
Unreal, can belive it, have just been smashed 71-7 in abiut 6 hands by opponent getting rather a lot of Duke of Crows and a cpuple of Psijics cards
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Re: Is there a "Black List" of players
I'm pretty sure I'm on that black list. I'm having similar experiences to others in this thread.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "New Life Festival 2025"
I second this. There are three quests (that I've gotten, maybe there are more), potato, banana surprise, and carrot soup. All of them require you to make new food even if you have the food in your inventory from a previous day.WolfStar07 wrote: »I'm pretty annoyed with the Food for New Life quest. It asks you to craft Banana Surprise. That's not an issue the first time you run it, although the Chef passive means you automatically craft up to 4 of that food. The problem is the next time you run the quest, it asks you craft Banana Surprise again instead of skipping that step if you still have some in your bag left from the last time you ran the quest.
Please fix this!
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "New Life Festival 2025"
Might I make a small request? The Stonetooth Bash on Betnikh at the step where you drink from the barrel - can you either move the backpack in front of it or make it so that clicking on it by accident doesn't cause you to steal in the middle of an Orc Fortress? I know its a small thing but it would be helpful. Thanks and have a great Holiday!
Re: Will AI ever be implemented
AI is not accurate. Type a question into Google and check what AI has to say about it. Then type the same question only worded slightly differently. We often get a very different answer.
Re: Housing should "do more"
we've seen throughout this year the reports of players finding the world much emptier than it used to be.
I've seen comments like that too, but they were about the decreasing number of interactable npcs and quests. Indeed, most npcs on Solstice don't even have idle dialogue and most doors on the whole island are locked, even in places that are supposed to be normally inhabitated (without any incident going on). Quest number has also severely decreased with only 13 overland-related (non-mainquest) quests in East Solstice, 4 of them extremely short (one literally took only seconds, I'm not even sure what purpose that was supposed to serve), another 4 are simple fetch quests. There's just lots of landscape but it feels lifeless. Even delves, while beautifully designed and big in terms of space, feel empty. Random players running around won't change that.
The lack of other players causes a different problem, of course - no one being around for world bosses and incursions, and soloing everything takes so long, it's just annoying. Though I don't think not giving people activities to do inside their homes will improve anything about that - either I'm in the mood for incursions or world bosses or not. If I'd like doing something with housing (which is a calmer, slower activity compared to combat) , I'm not. And the lack of housing activities won't make me farm world bosses instead. More likely I log off and do something else. It's just completely different activity types; there's no competition between them.
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Re: Happy Holidays!
I wish. 🫠
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You tell yourself, I’ll go to bed after I get this snowman just right, then you look to your right and there’s a tree that looks like this //…