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Re: Please re-balance Serpent's Disdain next
Agree this set is problematic. It really is the best "proc" set in the game currently when you consider what it is actually providing you. You've summed it up well here in your comments so I don't have a ton to add in regards to that.
Think it does shine a light on how strong status are in general as well. It always blows my mind when I come out of a 1vX situation, and half of the top 10 damage numbers on my damage received are all status effects. I'd much prefer they shifted away from status dealing damage itself, and instead just had them apply debuffs, perhaps with an exception for burning/poisoned as those have always been the "Damage" status effects.
I disagree that the set is problematic. You said it yourself, status effects are overtuned. I think Serpent's is a fun and unique design for the set, and nerfs/reworks should be pointed at status effects themselves.
Ele Sus is also somehow still an absurd ability for 0 cost. If you couldn't get 3 status effects just for throwing on an already meta weapon on your backbar, I don't think Serpent's would be nearly as strong as it is now since you'd have to source those status effects elsewhere.
Re: You just lost my Money
It's fine if you don't like the Night Market, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. The last pieces of content we got in the same vein of large scale, challenging, group PVE is Imperial City and Craglorn, and those are both far outdated. A dungeon would have released in the first quarter if ZOS still followed their old release schedule anyways, so it's not like much was 'sacrificed' in terms of casual content for the Night market.
Re: Subclassing is fun for PvE, but it destroyed PvP
Disagree subclassing and soon to come out class mastery with pure classes has made things very fun for many of us.
Personally I’m loving the toppling charge, incapacitating strike, null arca, weild soul combo as I find it takes out most players.
Personally I’m loving the toppling charge, incapacitating strike, null arca, weild soul combo as I find it takes out most players.
aLi3nZ
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Re: Newest Golden Pursuit
It's a strange decision to increasingly focus the entire game on solo play, only to then make the main event of the year truly enjoyable only for groups.
Since there's no new area this year, I would have at least expected multiple difficulty levels. That would also be a great test for introducing difficulty levels in the open world.
Right now, the new area is unplayable and devoid of any fun – I'd rather go to the dentist.
Since there's no new area this year, I would have at least expected multiple difficulty levels. That would also be a great test for introducing difficulty levels in the open world.
Right now, the new area is unplayable and devoid of any fun – I'd rather go to the dentist.
alienmz
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Re: Official Night Market Feedback Thread
It's better than the Test Server. It gives some fun, and it gives some kind of achivement, when you do a boss with a random buch of people you meet in a district. The story is nice and the zone itself is beautiful, I like it.
BUT:
- Who in their right mind thought that running the main boss of a district through the areas of all other bosses? You are trying to explain the mechanics of a Boss, then you run it with people, some of them do mistakes, you do mistakes, but you keep going, you get the Argent boss to 20%, then BAM, this ugly giant spider slams into the middle killing everybody. THIS IS NOT FUN. AND it kills the experience for not so hardcore players.
Give the opportunity to lure the big wandering boss to the boss area, for veteran players, but leave the possibility to avoid it. Move the path of the big boss to the edge of the area, so you can run single encounter away from it. Maybe give an achievement for killing the boss while the wandering boss is in the fight, for the veterans to enjoy.
- the "hit boxes" of objectives (especially burn the propaganda! You need to find an exact spot to stand and an exact angle and point to click, otherwise you cannot interact with those. Also, quest markers for many objectives (e.g. bodies) appears AFTER you trample over body few times. It should be visible if you are few meters away, as per normal quests... given the zone is not a OLDSCHOOL QUESTING zone (as those new additions you have advertised), but full of nasty encounters.
- the "friendly competition" between factions. Gives a lot of FOMO. You had the experience of the FOMO last year with a "friendly competition" between servers, and it backfired. Just don't. Nobody is asking for a friendly competition based on grind outside of PvP...
- drop rates from the "easy" mobs. They are laughable at this point. I got lucky after 4 h of play to get the fragment, but heard a lot of people got nothing for hours, and the mobs does not drop anything except the relic fragments, so a person who does not see a single drop in a few hours might wonder if this is broken or not.
- the Curated Coffers are a joke. Base game overland pieces? I havent got a single one that I haven't got, so it seems only base game zones equipment drops. Ando only equipment. No gold, no sellable items, no motifs, nothing. Provided how hard it is to get one quest (relatively to other sources in game) and that the mobs do not drop gold, this is a joke.
- the population. The instances were completly empty. I found two people doing my instance inside, had to recruit in the guild. You can say it is why guilds are there in the first place, but... Instance has 36 people cap. SO what is the probability, that you have empty isntance one day after event start. It does not seem very promising. I think a lot of "casuals" (I'm a casual myself, btw.) went there, could not find a decent group and they got frustrated and quit. I have read some people suggesting vet/normal mode. That's a good idea. Also, drop the requirement everyone in the group needs those keys for dungs, because this kills runs. When one person left good luck finding a replacement in a foreseeable future...
So far my experience with that zone: 2.5 / 5.
BUT:
- Who in their right mind thought that running the main boss of a district through the areas of all other bosses? You are trying to explain the mechanics of a Boss, then you run it with people, some of them do mistakes, you do mistakes, but you keep going, you get the Argent boss to 20%, then BAM, this ugly giant spider slams into the middle killing everybody. THIS IS NOT FUN. AND it kills the experience for not so hardcore players.
Give the opportunity to lure the big wandering boss to the boss area, for veteran players, but leave the possibility to avoid it. Move the path of the big boss to the edge of the area, so you can run single encounter away from it. Maybe give an achievement for killing the boss while the wandering boss is in the fight, for the veterans to enjoy.
- the "hit boxes" of objectives (especially burn the propaganda! You need to find an exact spot to stand and an exact angle and point to click, otherwise you cannot interact with those. Also, quest markers for many objectives (e.g. bodies) appears AFTER you trample over body few times. It should be visible if you are few meters away, as per normal quests... given the zone is not a OLDSCHOOL QUESTING zone (as those new additions you have advertised), but full of nasty encounters.
- the "friendly competition" between factions. Gives a lot of FOMO. You had the experience of the FOMO last year with a "friendly competition" between servers, and it backfired. Just don't. Nobody is asking for a friendly competition based on grind outside of PvP...
- drop rates from the "easy" mobs. They are laughable at this point. I got lucky after 4 h of play to get the fragment, but heard a lot of people got nothing for hours, and the mobs does not drop anything except the relic fragments, so a person who does not see a single drop in a few hours might wonder if this is broken or not.
- the Curated Coffers are a joke. Base game overland pieces? I havent got a single one that I haven't got, so it seems only base game zones equipment drops. Ando only equipment. No gold, no sellable items, no motifs, nothing. Provided how hard it is to get one quest (relatively to other sources in game) and that the mobs do not drop gold, this is a joke.
- the population. The instances were completly empty. I found two people doing my instance inside, had to recruit in the guild. You can say it is why guilds are there in the first place, but... Instance has 36 people cap. SO what is the probability, that you have empty isntance one day after event start. It does not seem very promising. I think a lot of "casuals" (I'm a casual myself, btw.) went there, could not find a decent group and they got frustrated and quit. I have read some people suggesting vet/normal mode. That's a good idea. Also, drop the requirement everyone in the group needs those keys for dungs, because this kills runs. When one person left good luck finding a replacement in a foreseeable future...
So far my experience with that zone: 2.5 / 5.
bobsontpm
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Re: Official Night Market Feedback Thread
Well after about an hour I managed to get round solo and do a couple of daily quests and finally got the mobs under control and with a few other players managed to kill off calamitous roksa. Unfortunately the reward is gear pieces in sets i’ve completed in other dungeons or trials so not great. However if you don’t have the gear i’m sure it’s worth it. House is nice enough and the vault with my modest wealth spilling out is a nice touch.
Taarente
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Re: Why not have difficulty levels for night market too, so we can all enjoy our game ?
AdamBourke wrote: »It does seem a bit weird that they are adding challenge difficulty so that elite players can enjoy easier content, and solo dungeons so that casual players can enjoy harder content, and generally making ESO more accessible...
And then the big flagship event of the year, replacing new dungeons and new zones, is tailored to the top 1% of players?
It's not for the top 1%. I spent 5.5 hours there last night with a ragtag group of players mostly running pvp builds, and none of us being pve kings and we did just fine. No voice comms, no stacking buff sets etc.
The difficulty is fine, its a group zone.
Firstmep
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Re: You just lost my Money
Why do trials have two modes, why do dungeons have two modes, why do IC and Cyrodiil have multiple modes, and why will OW have multiple difficulty levels when comes to the game? Because everyone likes something different. So why is Night Market only available in "hard mode"? Why can’t it have two difficulty levels, or at least make the large quest zone (districts) easier so players can at least do the quests solo, while keeping the dungeon and trial harder? I don’t understand why they couldn’t at least do this—since it’s a group activity, at least the part of the market where quests are done should, in my opinion, be accessible as a solo experience...
Thoriorz
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