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Re: Night Market - Gossamer Dissection
Lord_Archaic wrote: »we did it like this: 2 tanks, 2 dds. i was like an off tank, and i stayed as far from the spider as possible. with my 45k hp, 30k resist, i could survive the pull while the dds burned the spider. it was so easy. we had several wipes before that with a typical group setup, 1t 1h 2dd. but when i swapped to tank build, it worked first try
They have the hoarvar gimmick in the fight? What purpose does that serve?
None by all my accounts. If that's their intended method, that's a poor design choice, why do it that way? Get rid of the hoarvar.
At first I figured it had something to do with the red spectral spider you find in the skittering. Where it grabs someone in the same manner and then someone else grapples through the line to break it. Why not have that in the fight?
But then I'm exploring the boss zone, and there's no grapple spots. Then I thought back to the long standing gimmick of the Hoarvar Ball deleting webs in various dungeons originating in Maelstrom. That didn't work. Tried chucking it at the spider, and the boss too. Nothing. That hoarvar serves zero purpose in that fight.
You use the Hoarvar on the boss when it's enraged IIRC.
Re: Forums are very laggy today, occasional error 503
@ZOS_Kevin
The forums were lagging and giving errors most of the day on Saturday, May 2. It was better yesterday but is starting to lag again today. I'm not sure if anything can be done about it but wanted you to be aware.
The forums were lagging and giving errors most of the day on Saturday, May 2. It was better yesterday but is starting to lag again today. I'm not sure if anything can be done about it but wanted you to be aware.
Re: Concerns About ESO’s Future Direction and Solo Player Experience
- Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
- Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?
To answer the core questions asked:
Q: Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
A: No.
Q:Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?
A: No.
Just following up here generally. We hear the feedback from solo players about the Night Market content. We want to follow up with just few things.
We have no intention of pushing solo players out of the game. However, we started this year off by noting that we were going to try some new things. Night Market is one of them. While we always provide group players with trials, we also wanted to try something different. This was not to alienate solo players, but rather to add a new way to play. That being said, we do hear the feedback and have passed that on our teams for future consideration, especially for when Night Market comes back later in the year. Remember, part of the ethos of this event is to add to it over time.
As several have noted in this thread as well, we have a roadmap that is publicly available. The point of the roadmap is to showcase the content we have coming throughout the year. As is noted on the roadmap and current PTS testing, we have plenty of solo friendly content as well. Thieves Guild and Sheogorath Questlines, Favors system, Rumors system, Two Solo Dungeons, Sage's Vault, and the list can keep going. And that is all on top of existing content. We also understand that not every piece of content will be for everyone, and that is okay.
We know this may come off as a contentious statement, but it does bare repeating. While we are an Elder Scrolls game, we are also an MMO. Storytelling and the heart of solo adventure will always be an important part of ESO. However, some of our event/ event zone content will be focused on encouraging group play. It is the nature of the genre. Additionally, we know just like there are players who come for solo content, there are also players who come for group content and challenging group content. So we want to make sure we are providing new things for them as well.
We'll close with this. Last year, we saw many threads throughout the year asking us to address content and find new ways of renewing the gameplay experience, both in variety and challenge. We are in the first passes of this now with items like Night Market going live. But we will have content throughout the year to address both solo and group play within the community. The feedback is helpful to steer us on the right track. So thanks to everyone, both solo players and group players, who have given their constructive feedback regarding the Night Market. The team is taking a look at what can be done during this current running and what can be adjusted for the next run of the Night Market.
I would note that the optics of the NM aren't exactly helped by some of the other yearly developments.
People would probably be a bit more accepting of a more challenging new zone if it wasn't happening during a year when no regular difficulty zone was being implemented. That kinda makes it look like the challenging zone came at the cost of developing a regular zone.
One of the other new features this year is the ability to adjust the difficulty. Realistically speaking, one could likely have employed said functionality with the Night Market. Start the Night Market off with just the highest difficulty available for the first three weeks or so and then after three week allow players to select the difficulty they want to play on with the Favor gain being reduced with lower difficulties. Since the content is instanced pretty small you could have people separated by difficulty selection. (One of the common complaints from people about the new difficulty options is that players will be put in with players on other difficulty levels who will blow everything up. If doing it that way isn't too hard on the servers during the event, ZOS could potentially test having a small amount of zones each week be separately instanced to a specific difficulty. )
Re: The Night Market - Oddities/Puzzle Guide Solo - Text & Video
Am I missing something? I've tried the guiding lights strategy 4 times now, and it only worked once. The time it worked, I don't know why; I did the same approach every time.
The same issue happens every time it failed: despite the top two colors closest to the brazier being ''set'' as in aimed at the middle brazier, changing the remaining two colors did not work. The lower colors of the first two were not aimed correctly, despite the top two being so.
an example of what it looks like:
Here, I first aimed red to the brazier. Then I aimed yellow to the brazier. Then I aimed the rightmost green to the topmost red. Then I aimed the leftmost blue to the topmost yellow.
EDIT: I ended up completing all of them, with probably a 30-40% success rate with this strategy. I just kept doing it until it worked. I'm still not sure what I was doing wrong on failed attempts.
The same issue happens every time it failed: despite the top two colors closest to the brazier being ''set'' as in aimed at the middle brazier, changing the remaining two colors did not work. The lower colors of the first two were not aimed correctly, despite the top two being so.
an example of what it looks like:
Here, I first aimed red to the brazier. Then I aimed yellow to the brazier. Then I aimed the rightmost green to the topmost red. Then I aimed the leftmost blue to the topmost yellow.
EDIT: I ended up completing all of them, with probably a 30-40% success rate with this strategy. I just kept doing it until it worked. I'm still not sure what I was doing wrong on failed attempts.
Re: Guild Spamming Issue
Closes thread but doesn't address the fact that the guild clearly doesn't care about the "Warnings". Classic
Re: Zos, we need an explanation
YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Alchimiste1 wrote: »As always there is a giant disconnect between pve and pvp, in pve nightblade was over performing and DK was arguable the second worst class only ahead of templar
Was it even overperforming in pve ? what was pure nb parsing compared to other class? I know I saw 180k+ on dk/ww and sorc
NB + WW was hitting 200k+.
Not sure what pureBlade was doing by itself.
Then nerf werewolf instead... Or disable class masteries for werewolf and compensate it in some way, what the hell
It’s mostly Signet and class masteries.
Disable signet, give it the same pick 2 out of 5 via ‘werewolf masteries’ with small numerical values or things like: ‘Hircine’s howl’ provides 50% of its healing to other werewolves within 8m’.
Ez fix, everyone wins.
Wuuffyy
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Re: Concerns About ESO’s Future Direction and Solo Player Experience
CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »
Pot meet kettle.
All your "arguments" have been that the new content is excluding solo players, which is being disingenuous at best.
In reality, this content isn't "excluding" anyone. There are no requirements, no hard Champ Point limits, no required group size.
You are excluding yourself by not wanting to engage with the content.
This is not "hard-core only" content. If it was, I wouldn't be having a blast playing with my "noob" cousin that hasn't played ESO since Summerset.
You’re 100% wrong. I play the game every day, and every time I join… trials\dungeons. xD
Because the objectives there are the same for everyone: finish, get loot.
I refuse to “feed” your [snip] market just to make things easier for "you" by grouping with "you".
You like it? You like HardCore? That’s your problem, solve it yourself.
I’m perfectly happy not feeling like I’m being used. Very happy, actually.
Athory
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Re: Wouldnt it be great if there was a heavy armor passive for taunt
Idk why people are against AOE taunting. There are fights where an AOE taunt would be disadvantageous, and sweaty players would rather slot a debuff or something helpful in the 12 skill slots. AOE taunts would make tedious trash and dungeon runs more enjoyable.
ZOS has added oakensoul and velothi and arcanist beam, and soon more channels, to make DPS more accessible and fun. Why not make the tank role more accessible? Wouldn't it be fun to aggro 50+ mobs and see how long you can last?
The thread/poll is not about AoE taunts. It's about granting taunt to a passive skill. The overwhelming negative reaction isn't against aoe taunting, but moreso against it being passive.
Re: Official Night Market Feedback Thread
tomofhyrule wrote: »Martiandawn wrote: »It's not misinformation. I've been observing the ups and downs in the player base for over a decade now. The players who complain the most about changes to content and game mechanics, and who tend to take "breaks" from the game when they feel their needs are not being met, are the ones who focus on chasing the meta. The players who seek a story-driven RPG experience tend to stick around.
Corollary: the "I'm only here because of The Elder Scrolls series and its stories!" will (eventually) get a game to release that will directly compete with ESO. Or are we seriously expecting all of those fans to look at TES6 and say "yeah, I'll stick with ESO."
Meme on it if you want, but that is the one playerbase that we can absolutely guarantee will drop ESO like a hot potato because of a specific new release.
The other playerbases - ESO can win back. If ESO gives PvPers a reason to play, they may look back at ESO. If ESO gives group players a reason to play, they may look back at ESO. But the people who want an in-depth solo Elder Scrolls experience with no other people around...? ESO can't deliver that to the extent that TES6 can.
But then what happens a few months after TES VI is released, and ESO continues to get new content? You would've thought people would still be playing TES IV: Oblivion Remastered, but it doesn't have the cultural impact that TES V: Skyrim or even the original TES IV: Oblivion has.
The Elder Scrolls Online will always draw the "singleplayer TES" crowd back in. You don't need group content or PvP to do that. TESO is set in the 2nd Era, has so many more quests and stories than any other TES game, and it is continually adding more.
All that TES VI has going for it is *possibly* having modding support, but even then, the lack of community engagement we saw from Oblivion Remastered's modding scene doesn't bode well for TES VI.
