JohnRingo wrote: »

but really it is alot on US as the players why PVP has became UNFUN AND ZOS NOR THE DEV TEAM CAN FIX OUT BAD HABITS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND MAYBE ITS TIME TO FACE UP TO OUR ADOLESCENT AND BEOME ADUTS THAT WORK TOGETHER TO BETTER SOMETHING WE ALL LOVE and put down our broken sets and unbalanced game play and bring PVP back to an fun place to come kill and be killed ( as dying only teaches you what not to do next time )

Grey Host has always been a competitive environment where people optimize within the rules that exist. Dying, learning, and adjusting is exactly how PvP stays alive—but that adaptation has to happen at the player level, not by asking others to voluntarily handicap themselves. The game improves when players improve, not when effectiveness is treated as bad behavior. Try harder. Just like the rest of us had to.

katanagirl1 wrote: »

AScarlato wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

AScarlato wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I made sure to not do the romance option at the end, it just did not make sense for me. Darien just lost someone he loved and jumping in the sack with my Khajiit who has been has fighting companion through all of the content was not what I would have chosen. I suppose those who wanted that option could justify it in someway that made sense for them. I would bet that the content would have been rated even higher if it had not been split so that is was more timely and coherent.

It made sense to me. Darien cared for Gabrielle but he met her around the same time we did in DC. After the events of Summerset, the Player Character became the person he cared about the most and he states as such in the letter. Gabrielle was absent for all of these pivotal events.

It also makes sense that if you are playing a character who does not have this level of history with him, the romance is simply not on the table.

Naturally, this all hinges on the player's interest in Darien as a romance option, since if you are not then you simply can not pursue it, and it's fairly easy to just ignore those dialogue options if that is the case.

He chased after Gabrielle’s ghost in one story quest in Solstice and seemed distraught about her. Romance is completely unreasonable at this point in my opinion, but other people may disagree.

I'm not really going to argue over your opinion as to whether the romance makes sense for you. But the characters are in a setting where their lives in theory could end at any time. (The game mechanics of there being no actual threat in the story are another matter.) If you cannot foresee romance between two characters that come into each other's lives on multiple occasions, often under intense stress and life & death situations and for one of them, some of the most important moments in their existence, then so be it.

One can also care deeply about someone they are close with and still be in love with someone else. Hence Darien acknowledging Gabrielle but placing the player character above her in the Summerset letter. Darien's caring for Gabrielle should not be confused as being on the same level that Gabrielle pined for Darien.

Anyway, I just disagree that the narrative is "completely unreasonable" as there are obvious reasons why the romance is actually "reasonable" if a player/character is interested in the romance.

I did say it was unreasonable from my point of view, of course it might be different for others like you.

I guess the whole thing would have made more sense to me if Darien had stayed the ladies man he was before he got attached to Gabrielle, then romance with the player character would have been more believable for me.

• Charm is the pinnacle of the bloated skill issue in the game. Take healing soul alone and its a strong heal. Take healing soul with major vitality and it IS the strongest heal. Take healing soul and give it an 8m ultimate worth effect like aoe charm and its a no brainer choice on every build. >> reduce to minor vitality and change warden mastery to a single purify. Put the charm on the unused warden healing ult for group play coordination.
• Rush of Agony is the pinnacle of bloated proc effect sets doing multiple paragraphs of effects (that definitely doesn't lag the server one bit....LOL). This set could be reduced to simply just the CC with a long cooldown. IMO there are far more steps that should be done for play/counterplay telegraphing but I dont want to write out another 5 paragraph essay here.
• Subclassing is the result of launching the ship without patching up all the holes. When you move to a classless skill system each of the skill lines needs to be balanced as if it is its own standalone class. Things like major buff conflicts should be moved to other systems for balancing like putting resolve on armor skills. Revamp the potion system to give major buffs instead of unique buffs. Revamp poisons to do minor debuffs. Doing this would drastically cut down on the unique proc calcs while also bringing more weight out of skill line choice depending on what passives each line gives.
• Monomyth, this is just a flat power creep P2W if you want to be relevant, just like how scribing healing soul was. Remove the minor buffs atleast to start. If its too strong make the minor debuffs into majors. Problem solved in 2 patches.
• Rallying is the pinnacle of group set issues with the game. Do you all realize the set incentivizes and benefits ballgroup/zergs to spam aoe dot heals........literally the worst performance inducing skills possible. How about you tie the proc effect to something like a purge or a single target aimed heal. There are hundreds of ways to make this set more performative lag wise.
  Now talking stat wise the 2-4 line isnt crazy. Critchance isnt great in pvp theorycraft wise because of how stat balancing was done. Max mag for stam builds is wasted damage wise. Even for mag builds it comes out to only being worth about 85sd/wd towards your damage. For the 5 piece it is worth hundings+impreg 200% uptime (the cooldown and proc conditions are pointless calcs on the server) The group decay is such that at 10 players this buff is reduced by half, which HARDLY keeps smaller groups competitive vs larger groups, but it atleast balance wise is better than something like olorime. Lag wise it is atrocious though having to constantly calculate group size, aoe, timers, etc.
• Wretched.......I honestly dont understand why people run regen sets because you should be getting your sustain through better sources like using food to trade off max stat or potions or mundus for efficiency. Otherwise the 5 piece is 780 total regen which is equivalent to 780wd as a flat bonus all the time (EXCEPT IT ISNT A FLAT BONUS.........IT IS A PROC THAT ADDS MORE CALCS ON THE SERVER!!!)
• Ballgroups, idk just see my rallying cry rant. IMO at this stage in eso population they should be designing combat in pvp around making 4 man groups the most efficient stat wise. For "ballgroups" or larger groups combat should be dictated by who coordinates crucial skills/ults better, not just by who slots the 12 BIS passive builds that go Brrrrrrrr. For instance move more group mechanics onto unused ultimates. NB siphoning ult for example should be as crucial as negate for groups. Right now ballgroup builds are a byproduct of dumbing down the combat in the name of "Accessibility for the less fortunate"
  
  Then make cyrodil or the new pvp game mode designed to incetivize small man teams spreading out during fights. Zos really screwed the pooch when they did the old resource/ap changes and turned cyrodil into a PvDoor waiting room bunching people up with the hammer.