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Re: U50 PTS: Feedback for new Weekly Tome Challenges
Double the chores double the free re-rolls, right? It's only fair when you can potentially get something like ''Pickpocket 150 times'' or ''Loot 30 Safeboxes'', seriously wtf is this lol.
Re: do you ever use cp 150 gear vs cp 160 gear
Kickimanjaro wrote: »...never intentionally, let's put it that way.
The amount of times I craft something and upgrade it, then go to enchant it, before realising it's CP 150, is way too many
Re: Sorc nerfs are too heavy handed
MashmalloMan wrote: »@Tannus15 oh see but your mistake is you're trying to use 2 pets. Of course Arcanist and it's infinite cleave will deal more DPS you fool.
Be punished sir, how dare you use your class skills and masteries together.
This is the most pathetic thing about Sorc: you'll actually be penalized for using your class skill.
Use a class skill to deal damage? Sorry, because 40% of skills aren't Physical and Shock Damag, you won't get the full bonus. Want to use Sphere of Influence to provide shield to an ally? Oh, no way, because Sorc doesn't have any skills that actively provide shield to allies; your only Daedric Refuge requires the ally to willingly step on it to gain shield.
Want to use a pet or not? How dare you! Sets like Static Reverberatio, Expert Summoner, and Beacon of Oblivion are practically punishing all Sorc because of their use/lack of pets.
Want to be a Dark Magicka? You should be hanged. Because Dark Magic has almost no usable damage skills, and even useful disruption skills are rare.
The reality that everyone, including non-Sorc players, must now face is that before the U52 Sorc rework, Sorc was either too strong or too weak, making it difficult to achieve a balanced state. This is because Sorc has been ignored or even maliciously humiliated for the past ten years, occasionally receiving an overpowered buff, and then being completely nerfed to the point of being useless. Due to the split personality in the design, Sorc's design is like two opposing souls fighting.
Surge encourages Sorc to increase damage and Critical Chance to trigger healing, but many of Sorc's abilities have cast times or delays, such as Curse, Shattering Spines, and Crystal. Furthermore, until u47, Sorc's class abilities lacked Major Prophecy and Major Savagery, compared to Nightblades' Assassination passive, which has three abilities that increase the player's Critical Chance (Master Assassin, Pressure Points, and Hemorrhage).
Lightning Form and Streak attempt to make Sorc a highly mobile class, but because many Sorc abilities have cast times, and movement speed is reduced during cast times, this negates the supposed high mobility. Not to mention, other classes now have better sources of speed buffs, such as Bird of Prey and Concealed Weapon.
Expert Mage encourages players to equip more Sorc skills, but due to the lack of many Sorc buffs and its relative weakness compared to other skills of the same type, players often forgo equipping Sorc skills in favor of other class skills or even general skills. The only potential effective use of Expert Mage is through pet gameplay, as pets require at least six skill slots (two pets require four slots: Daedric Prey and Storm Atronach).
Energized encourages players to use Physical and Shock Damage, but in reality, over one-third of Sorc skills are neither Physical nor Shock, and all Dark Magie skills and Curse are not Physical or Shock damage. Therefore, it's difficult for Sorc to focus solely on enhancing a single elemental damage.
Amplitude and Twilight Tormentor attempt to make Sorc deal more damage to enemies with higher health, reducing their health enough for an execution, but the Warlock's execution skill is the worst of all classes, with a high skill delay and damage that doesn't scale with the target's health like other classes. In PvE, players are even reluctant to use the Twilight Tormentor because the extra damage it deals is extremely low, and using the skill can even result in a DPS loss.
Such contradictions permeate Sorc, making it a collection of contradictions with no unified design direction.
The only thing to look forward to now is the Sorc rework at the end of the year. Based on the development team's current performance, perhaps we will have a real chance to perfectly balance Sorc then, or at least achieve a balance that satisfies most players.
I have to say this everywhere: Sorc's only method of even giving Sphere of Influence to allies, Daedric Refuge, does not actually give it to allies or self. And this still has not been fixed and might be intended, once again telling us we are meant to use non-Sorc skills because Sorc skills are so bad.
And the skill itself is terrible either way. Even when I beg my allies to please use them, they just won't, because no one wants to come within 0.5 meters (literally) of the tank. Can't it just be a normal on demand AoE shield like the scribing stuff?
Dracane
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
Conservation of Energy
This passive by itself is objectively stronger than running both wretched vitality and max stack roksa together, 2 of the best sustain sets in the game. Max stack roksa + wretched vitality gives 630 magicka and stamina recovery. This passive, on a really unoptomized build with 35k stamina and 20k magicka gives 700 stamina and 400 magicka which is equal to 1400 stam sustain and 800 magicka sustain or an average 1100 sustain.
This much sustain should be ok in solo but it's a little too much value in pvp. Please consider putting a cap of 500 maximum magicka and stamina on it with battle spirit active. And please adjust the healing recieved with Blood Magic while this passive is taken to maximum 1500 hp with battle spirit active as its also providing too much value. This would reign in some of its power while still being incredibly strong.
Alternatively, put a 3 second cool down on the passive with battle spirit active
I'm sorry but no. The sustain is strong but it's only sustain. Sorc skills are extremely under-performing. The trade off for high sustain is poor skills, especially in PvP.
The lions share of Sorc skills are no competition in PvP. Sorcs have more sustain with these passives but the healing factor isn't strong enough to mitigate the degree of continuous power creep we're seeing amongst DK and WW nor subclass builds with persistent crit. The resource recovery is strong, but again, those resources are going toward skills that just don't measure up right now.
A pure Sorc build in PvP is getting a stronger sustain but in order to get it has to give up the massively beneficial subclassed skills in order to do it, cutting Sorc power output by huge amounts.
NxJoeyD
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Re: The corpseburster change already has me concerned for the eventual necro rework
Necro needs to be reworked this year.
The class is too destroyed and needs to be reworked more than any other classes.
The class is too destroyed and needs to be reworked more than any other classes.
Re: Grim Focus Permaglow
Now werewolf gets the same treatment, lucky me with a Werewolf Nightblade.
Seems ZOS took the wrong lesson from the hype around GW2 and instead of the many things that are done better over there, they implement the things that are worse: bland linear story with no personal agenda and over the top gaudy graphic effects.
Seems ZOS took the wrong lesson from the hype around GW2 and instead of the many things that are done better over there, they implement the things that are worse: bland linear story with no personal agenda and over the top gaudy graphic effects.
Toanis
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Re: U50 PTS: Feedback for new Weekly Tome Challenges
The "Challenges" portion of Tamriel Tomes is an abject failure. It smacks of a game designer that has no clue how players actually interact and engage with the game. These are lowest common denominator chore lists meant to waste players' time. There is nothing interesting or compelling here and the value proposition of time versus reward is virtually non-existent.
The entire Tome Points system needs to be completely revamped to reward players for "playing the game." Whether that is through XP earned, activities completed, or some other metric that actually reflects how people actually engage with the game, players should be rewarded for playing the game the way they want to play, not with a grindy chore list that takes them away from the things they'd rather be doing.
What difference does it make to Zos if a player is running quests or dungeons versus being compelled to track down and open 30 Safeboxes? Forcing a player to do something they don't want to do by dangling a reward over their head is a good way to lose player engagement. A player should earn Tome Points simply by playing the game the way that they choose to, and engaging with the content that they find interesting and fun.
This is not the way forward, and personally, while I will continue to play the game, I will not be spending a single cent on it until this progression system is reimagined and corrected to be something that is not an uninspired and lazy chore list.
The entire Tome Points system needs to be completely revamped to reward players for "playing the game." Whether that is through XP earned, activities completed, or some other metric that actually reflects how people actually engage with the game, players should be rewarded for playing the game the way they want to play, not with a grindy chore list that takes them away from the things they'd rather be doing.
What difference does it make to Zos if a player is running quests or dungeons versus being compelled to track down and open 30 Safeboxes? Forcing a player to do something they don't want to do by dangling a reward over their head is a good way to lose player engagement. A player should earn Tome Points simply by playing the game the way that they choose to, and engaging with the content that they find interesting and fun.
This is not the way forward, and personally, while I will continue to play the game, I will not be spending a single cent on it until this progression system is reimagined and corrected to be something that is not an uninspired and lazy chore list.
Re: Cannot buy the premium+bonus tome?
UPDATE for Steam users:
Success!
However, I had to circumvent actually using Steam, heh. Rather, I launched the game directly from eso64.exe rather than opening it like normal through Steam. It will bring up the login splash screen but you must supply your own login credentials manually.
The path on Windows is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online\game\client
From there, the Tome UI Upgrade button worked responsively and did the deed.
This is what I would consider to be a WORKAROUND, however. And the process should 100% be cleaned-up so that you can buy it from Steam directly like Crowns and the old Chapters, etc..
Success!
However, I had to circumvent actually using Steam, heh. Rather, I launched the game directly from eso64.exe rather than opening it like normal through Steam. It will bring up the login splash screen but you must supply your own login credentials manually.
The path on Windows is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online\game\client
From there, the Tome UI Upgrade button worked responsively and did the deed.
This is what I would consider to be a WORKAROUND, however. And the process should 100% be cleaned-up so that you can buy it from Steam directly like Crowns and the old Chapters, etc..
Re: AI Written Posts
It would add more work for the moderators, and people would scream if posts they wrote themselves were removed in error.
Having said that, when I come across a post that's clearly AI, I just skip it (if it's the OP, I skip the thread).
Having said that, when I come across a post that's clearly AI, I just skip it (if it's the OP, I skip the thread).
AzuraFan
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Re: PC Community Concerns About Cross Play
This post perfectly describes why console gamers can't respect PC players. I don't even know how this post is still up when it's blatant harassment.
