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Re: The Night Market event is already dead?
spartaxoxo wrote: »There's a cap of 36 people per instance. So, it's easy to end up in a dead one. They need to fix that the next time it comes around.
Yeah, I seem to be ending up in "dead" instances a lot. Didn't the Writhing Wall have an issue at first where the servers weren't shutting down instances properly, or something like that, such that players entering the Writhing Wall event zone often found themselves in "dead" or bugged instances? I'm wondering if there might be something similar going on here, where there are a lot of underpopulated instances because they got added when there were enough players to fill up an instance, but then as players left the instance it never got shut down. My thinking is that the Starlit Plaza and the three precincts should be treated as four separate zones, and whenever an ungrouped player goes from one zone to another the server moves them into an instance that has an appropriate number of players. Grouped players would need to be treated differently, since you'd want to keep everyone in the group in the same instance.
BardokRedSnow wrote: »these posts are so funny lol every time i check groupfinder there's over a dozen different groups running around. Or I make one and it fills up in seconds.
The time of day you're playing, on whichever server you're playing on, is probably a significant factor. But if there is indeed an issue with empty or nearly-empty instances not being shut down or merged together properly, then joining a group through the group finder probably bypasses that situation by making sure that any players joining a group will be moved into the same instance as the rest of the group.
[Bug] 'Fractured Facets' Achievement - Faceted Foes may have stopped spawning in Night Market
Hi everyone,
I’d like to report a potential bug regarding the “Fractured Facets” achievement from the Night Market event zone.
Issue:
The achievement requires you to “Defeat a Faceted foe in the Night Market. They can appear in districts with a green or gold glow and provide increased rewards when defeated”. Based on reports from players I’ve seen, it appears that these Faceted foes may have stopped spawning altogether.
Observations:
The players I’m aware of who managed to encounter a Faceted foe did so within the first two days of the Night Market opening.
I haven’t seen any reports of successful encounters since Day 3.
Hypothesis:
My suspicion is that the spawn rate for these enemies is glitched and may be tied to zone instance resets. It seems they only spawn normally in fresh instances immediately after a reset, and as time passes and instances age, their spawn rate drops to near zero. If this is the case, it would explain why encounters were possible in the first two days but have since dried up.
Potential Connection to a Previous Bug:
There’s a supporting precedent for this kind of issue. A similar bug previously affected the “Slayer of Death Itself” achievement, which requires you to “Destroy 25 of the Worm Cult’s soul reaper devices deployed across Tamriel.” During that incident, players reported that the soul reaper devices would spawn normally only in newly created instances, but would eventually stop appearing as those instances persisted, suggesting a problem with how spawns are handled in older instances.
This seems to follow the same pattern: spawns work initially in fresh instances, but then the mechanic fails over time in those same instances without a reset.
Has anyone else encountered a Faceted foe since Day 2? Any additional data points would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading, and hopefully ZOS can take a look at this.
I’d like to report a potential bug regarding the “Fractured Facets” achievement from the Night Market event zone.
Issue:
The achievement requires you to “Defeat a Faceted foe in the Night Market. They can appear in districts with a green or gold glow and provide increased rewards when defeated”. Based on reports from players I’ve seen, it appears that these Faceted foes may have stopped spawning altogether.
Observations:
The players I’m aware of who managed to encounter a Faceted foe did so within the first two days of the Night Market opening.
I haven’t seen any reports of successful encounters since Day 3.
Hypothesis:
My suspicion is that the spawn rate for these enemies is glitched and may be tied to zone instance resets. It seems they only spawn normally in fresh instances immediately after a reset, and as time passes and instances age, their spawn rate drops to near zero. If this is the case, it would explain why encounters were possible in the first two days but have since dried up.
Potential Connection to a Previous Bug:
There’s a supporting precedent for this kind of issue. A similar bug previously affected the “Slayer of Death Itself” achievement, which requires you to “Destroy 25 of the Worm Cult’s soul reaper devices deployed across Tamriel.” During that incident, players reported that the soul reaper devices would spawn normally only in newly created instances, but would eventually stop appearing as those instances persisted, suggesting a problem with how spawns are handled in older instances.
This seems to follow the same pattern: spawns work initially in fresh instances, but then the mechanic fails over time in those same instances without a reset.
Has anyone else encountered a Faceted foe since Day 2? Any additional data points would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading, and hopefully ZOS can take a look at this.
Re: Necro class mastery passives are disappointing
Urzigurumash wrote: »We all agree with your sentiments and I admire your devotion but you gotta pick a new class if you wanna enjoy the game. There is no alternative. Sorry just being real with you.
I prefer to leave the game then. If I pick a new class, then the devs have won, and the Necro will remain unplayable.
Re: Official Night Market Feedback Thread
As a player who enjoys difficult content and grouping, this event was a blast
However, the event was not presented within the game as something you’d have to group up for (or run a solo vet build)
I feel like the reception would have been way better if there was a popup when trying to enter solo that would point players towards the “Event Zone” category in group finder, or even a special Night Market queue that puts together a group of 12 in the same target zone.
However, the event was not presented within the game as something you’d have to group up for (or run a solo vet build)
I feel like the reception would have been way better if there was a popup when trying to enter solo that would point players towards the “Event Zone” category in group finder, or even a special Night Market queue that puts together a group of 12 in the same target zone.
Re: Official Night Market Feedback Thread
I can't find a good place to ask this.
There are three weights of monster set for the night market. You can buy all the shoulders from the vendor, but not the heads. Do we get ALL missing pieces in the end of event rewards, or just one head and one shoulder piece? None of the literature is clear on this.
If it is one of each, how can I get the other two weights for the monster head???
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KevinO
I would appreciate some clarity over the language please.
There are three weights of monster set for the night market. You can buy all the shoulders from the vendor, but not the heads. Do we get ALL missing pieces in the end of event rewards, or just one head and one shoulder piece? None of the literature is clear on this.
If it is one of each, how can I get the other two weights for the monster head???
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KevinO
I would appreciate some clarity over the language please.
timparr
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Re: Nerfing WW further in Next Update for PvE?!
Turtle_Bot wrote: »people out here complaining about 1 bar WW parsing 140k+ without signet, yet sorcs barely parse that same number (if they're uber lucky with insane crit rng) on a 2 bar full weaving setup once sorcs parse cheese (signet, overload, travelling knife and monolith) has been completely removed, yet every non-sorc out here crying about a clickbait 220k (that has since been nerfed to sub-180k) cheesed parse and that sorc needs even more nerfs despite that cheesed parse no longer being possible with the existing nerfs that took even parse cheese sorcerer to below even warden and NB DPS levels...
And I resent that they want to buff Static Reverberation back up to fix this, which is just too broken in pvp on some builds instead of raising Font of Power, which is very low in value on the majority of builds and healthier to raise than Static.
I get 850+ weapon damage on my magsorc. I dont understand why you keep insisting its weak. Its a really strong passive, the single strongest weapon damage passive offered to pure classes because its a mainly selfish passive. Ofc its not strong on 25-26k resource pool but you can easily reach 40k stamina or magicka with 0 trouble, not even using max mag or stam items, just race and food and hakeijo enchants. I dont get at what threshold you would be satisfied at, 1.2k weapon damage at 40k resource pool?
Though i agree that static should 100% remain at 0.5 sec cd with battle spirit active, that would be a goated change if the dev team makes that seperation between pve and pvp.
Because Font of Power is indeed very weak, a simple comparison with other mastery classes will make this clear.
An Eye for Exploitation: Grants up to 2000 weapon damage and 12% damage reduction based on the target's health (according to Week 3 Summary).
Wild Adaptation: Increases by up to 1665 based on the target's status effects.
Glacial Obstinance: Grants 15% weapon damage if the target is at full health.
Judment’s Brand: Increased the damage by 1500.
None of these masteries require players to stack a weak attribute. In other words, these classes offer more equipment options, allowing for more critical, critical resistance, and penetration stacking. These are attributes that Sorc lacks; Sorc's passives don't even offer any critical or penetration bonuses.
As for weapon damage... frankly, it's a relatively minor attribute (compared to critical), and in PvP, its importance might even be less than penetration (which is why Onslaught is so strong).
Please make "scaling parameter" or don't make too much huge housing object.
Please make "scaling parameter" or don't make too much huge housing object.
Recently, dev team make too much huge housing object. There're not much suitable place
to put it in even the big housing place. Just make it usual pillar size, or add "scaling parameter".
Very please.
Recently, dev team make too much huge housing object. There're not much suitable place
to put it in even the big housing place. Just make it usual pillar size, or add "scaling parameter".
Very please.
Re: Nerfing WW further in Next Update for PvE?!
Turtle_Bot wrote: »people out here complaining about 1 bar WW parsing 140k+ without signet, yet sorcs barely parse that same number (if they're uber lucky with insane crit rng) on a 2 bar full weaving setup once sorcs parse cheese (signet, overload, travelling knife and monolith) has been completely removed, yet every non-sorc out here crying about a clickbait 220k (that has since been nerfed to sub-180k) cheesed parse and that sorc needs even more nerfs despite that cheesed parse no longer being possible with the existing nerfs that took even parse cheese sorcerer to below even warden and NB DPS levels...
And I resent that they want to buff Static Reverberation back up to fix this, which is just too broken in pvp on some builds instead of raising Font of Power, which is very low in value on the majority of builds and healthier to raise than Static.
I get 850+ weapon damage on my magsorc. I dont understand why you keep insisting its weak. Its a really strong passive, the single strongest weapon damage passive offered to pure classes because its a mainly selfish passive. Ofc its not strong on 25-26k resource pool but you can easily reach 40k stamina or magicka with 0 trouble, not even using max mag or stam items, just race and food and hakeijo enchants. I dont get at what threshold you would be satisfied at, 1.2k weapon damage at 40k resource pool?
Though i agree that static should 100% remain at 0.5 sec cd with battle spirit active, that would be a goated change if the dev team makes that seperation between pve and pvp.
It's not even close to being the strongest amongst class masteries. Have you looked at other spell/weapon damage masteries? And no normal and efficient damage build even has 40k magicka. To get 40k magicka, you already have to start making some inconvenient choices that nullify the damage gained. You always have to see it in relation and in the whole picture. Any amount of magicka you stack, also costs you weapon damage elsewhere, or crit damage.
So you do not truly gain 850 weapon damage. You already made some bad choice to get there, and the bad choices only mount as you go. Magicka is the worst way to raise damage, even for Sorc with all its modifiers. Other classes get their weapon damage without any altercations by just doing what they already do. Not to mention Warden and Nightblade, who get more than 2x this amount you mentioned.
So indeed, Font of Power needs a considerable buff.
Yes i did, the next best one is 600 with templar but ofcourse it also gives weapon damage to teammates so it makes sense that its weaker on the user. You also get 300 for arcanists, and imo 3 crux every 15 seconds doesnt make up for the raw weapon damage, what else is there really for weapon damage passives? The 1.6k warden one? Thats weapon damage to your skills, yes its strong but its not going to really help you with healing yourself unless you yourself have a billion status effects affecting you for example and 1 extended ritual and its all gone, not to mention the passive basically needs you to be on serpents disdain to even use properly.
Yes sorc has the best pure class weapon damage passive in the game and no i dont agree that it should be balanced on 25-30k range. Of course you arent going to be able to take advantage of the passive if you dont build into it, thats a given imo.
You are missing the point. Building into it is why it's so bad. Building magicka is the single worse decision you can make. Font of Power makes it less bad, but if you run the math per point of magicka compared to one point of weapon damage, it barely tips the scale because you also lost too much damage elsewhere to raise that fancy tooltip.
Font of Power changes magicka stacking from being a meme and self sabotage to being viable (only in pvp, mind you) but max mag sorcs still get farmed by normal builds. I have seen it plentifully on the PTS in Riften.
Why would you ever build for max magicka when building for pen, or crit or even just weapon damage is that much stronger? The only reason is to boost damage shields, which are still memes mostly. That's why almost no one uses them over HoT stacking.
Dracane
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Re: Nerfing WW further in Next Update for PvE?!
Turtle_Bot wrote: »people out here complaining about 1 bar WW parsing 140k+ without signet, yet sorcs barely parse that same number (if they're uber lucky with insane crit rng) on a 2 bar full weaving setup once sorcs parse cheese (signet, overload, travelling knife and monolith) has been completely removed, yet every non-sorc out here crying about a clickbait 220k (that has since been nerfed to sub-180k) cheesed parse and that sorc needs even more nerfs despite that cheesed parse no longer being possible with the existing nerfs that took even parse cheese sorcerer to below even warden and NB DPS levels...
And I resent that they want to buff Static Reverberation back up to fix this, which is just too broken in pvp on some builds instead of raising Font of Power, which is very low in value on the majority of builds and healthier to raise than Static.
I get 850+ weapon damage on my magsorc. I dont understand why you keep insisting its weak. Its a really strong passive, the single strongest weapon damage passive offered to pure classes because its a mainly selfish passive. Ofc its not strong on 25-26k resource pool but you can easily reach 40k stamina or magicka with 0 trouble, not even using max mag or stam items, just race and food and hakeijo enchants. I dont get at what threshold you would be satisfied at, 1.2k weapon damage at 40k resource pool?
Though i agree that static should 100% remain at 0.5 sec cd with battle spirit active, that would be a goated change if the dev team makes that seperation between pve and pvp.
Because Font of Power is indeed very weak, a simple comparison with other mastery classes will make this clear.
An Eye for Exploitation: Grants up to 2000 weapon damage and 12% damage reduction based on the target's health (according to Week 3 Summary).
Wild Adaptation: Increases by up to 1665 based on the target's status effects.
Glacial Obstinance: Grants 15% weapon damage if the target is at full health.
Judment’s Brand: Increased the damage by 1500.
None of these masteries require players to stack a weak attribute. In other words, these classes offer more equipment options, allowing for more critical, critical resistance, and penetration stacking. These are attributes that Sorc lacks; Sorc's passives don't even offer any critical or penetration bonuses.
As for weapon damage... frankly, it's a relatively minor attribute (compared to critical), and in PvP, its importance might even be less than penetration (which is why Onslaught is so strong).
Keep in mind that Judgement's Brand is not weapon damage directly, but a flat amount (that does scale with damage done and %s though) So while in reality it is much, much stronger than 1500 spell damage, it's also greatly cut down in pvp through battle spirit.
Regardless, the rest of what you said rings true and builds upon what I say. Any amount of magicka you build means you just sacrifice penetration somewhere, or straight spell damage (much better scaling) or critical stats. Sorc already makes magicka look as good as it possibly can, and it's still a tremendous sacrifice to build into it.
Font of Power should at the very least return to 1500 magicka per 1 %, as it originally was. Seems they had the right ideas until some other ZoS member came with the same wrong view on how this actually adds up and compares. 1500/1% was the right starting ground, and I think it's still too harsh.
Dracane
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Re: Nerfing WW further in Next Update for PvE?!
Turtle_Bot wrote: »people out here complaining about 1 bar WW parsing 140k+ without signet, yet sorcs barely parse that same number (if they're uber lucky with insane crit rng) on a 2 bar full weaving setup once sorcs parse cheese (signet, overload, travelling knife and monolith) has been completely removed, yet every non-sorc out here crying about a clickbait 220k (that has since been nerfed to sub-180k) cheesed parse and that sorc needs even more nerfs despite that cheesed parse no longer being possible with the existing nerfs that took even parse cheese sorcerer to below even warden and NB DPS levels...
And I resent that they want to buff Static Reverberation back up to fix this, which is just too broken in pvp on some builds instead of raising Font of Power, which is very low in value on the majority of builds and healthier to raise than Static.
Dracane
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