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Re: Vengeance 4 loadouts and perks
TheAwesomeChimpanzee wrote: »This is another huge red flag that Vengeance isn’t a performance test — it’s being built as a permanent game mode. You don’t create full archetypes with perks, penalties, and polished UI for testing; this is the design direction.
And that means the end of real PvP is here. Instead of fixing performance and balancing the sandbox we’ve all invested in, ZOS is replacing it with prefabricated loadouts that kill build diversity and creativity. Vengeance will be the new future, and Cyrodiil will be left to rot.
Yeah it’s pretty apparent now this is the direction they’re heading to get large population pvp back. Folks are either going to hate it, love it or wait and see (that’s where I am). Maybe they’ll keep a legacy server with the current ruleset. Also don’t know how this will affect IC and the mixed PvP/PvE play there.
Re: Why do you think the ESO dev discussion happened on Reddit and not here (WRONG ANSWERS ONLY)
Didn't want those people who ping every ZOS employee they can think of to learn of more forum accounts to ping.
Soarora
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Re: Anemic Patch Notes
We used to get an appetizer (2 dungeons), main course (chapter), side (2 dungeons), and dessert (zone). Every other visit, we got a free drink with our meal (arena). The chef was gracious enough to give us a table with a great view and live entertainment (new companions, tales of tribute decks, infinite archive zones). We could tell the restaurant was doing well because it was constantly improving (group finder, bg 2.0).
This year, we got an appetizer and a main course, except 1/3 of our steak was reserved for dessert. We got a side again after being told removing it would allow the chef to experiment with fresh ideas. They're completely out of drinks, our table is by the restroom, we can't hear the live entertainment from the sound of flushing toilets.
The restaurant is really excited about new kids place mats with riddles all over them, once the entire restaurant solves them we get access to the 1/3 of our steak we already paid for. I'm not interested in riddles if there's no real reward, I'll just let everyone else solve them. Problem is, my steak is cold, dry, and I'm still hungry.
Guess I'll check back with the restaurant in 2026.
This year, we got an appetizer and a main course, except 1/3 of our steak was reserved for dessert. We got a side again after being told removing it would allow the chef to experiment with fresh ideas. They're completely out of drinks, our table is by the restroom, we can't hear the live entertainment from the sound of flushing toilets.
The restaurant is really excited about new kids place mats with riddles all over them, once the entire restaurant solves them we get access to the 1/3 of our steak we already paid for. I'm not interested in riddles if there's no real reward, I'll just let everyone else solve them. Problem is, my steak is cold, dry, and I'm still hungry.
Guess I'll check back with the restaurant in 2026.
MashmalloMan
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Re: One more nail for class identity. No leader boards for classes.
You are already competing scores with subclassed players though, labeling them by class won't stop anyone from using beam, that ship has long since sailed.
Good or bad, it's a change that makes sense since your base class doesn't really mean much anymore, though I disagree they should be account bound, they should keep it character based and have your skill lines listed on your score, alongside the ability to search/filter scores by specific lines.
account bound makes a lot more sense, especially for trial leaderboards which are already cluttered. Theres only 100 places on the actual leaderboard, one player taking up 2 or 3 places makes a pretty big difference.
They could easily mitigate that by increasing the numbers of players per score as they mentioned on the patch notes, it's not like we have a gigantic end-game community scorepushing anyway.
Though I understand your point, it's a solution that creates another problem, you'd have more room for people but you would also remove any reason to do your weekly scores on different characters.
Morvan
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Re: Anemic Patch Notes
propertyOfUndefined wrote: »No exciting new sets? No mythics?
There's a new Mythic item, and several new sets.
Re: Guild history turned off - perhaps this warrants an unplanned and urgent maintenance?
wolfie1.0. wrote: »
I get what you are saying. But one issue i have with your comments is that demand for the ability to sell items is actually quite low right now. At least on PC-NA. I run a guild with a regular trader. I have over 100+ empty slots for people. Of the people in my guild roughly only 60% actually sell stuff regularly and reliably.
If my guild is any reflection on what the economy looks like then we coild probably ditch 20 to 30 traders and see absolutely zero impact to the economy.
I would be happy to be proven wrong about that btw.
I agree with your reasoning, it's correct... But once again, it's surprising that we can't gather 144,000 players in our guilds.
Many of us have several merchant guilds and several accounts, which further reduces the number of unique players. Trade and money are really factors that provide relevant information about the health of the game.
There's work to be done to turn things around, Captain Zos.
The other question i have to ask is do we want them to?
Their last major changes basically crashed the economy and its hardly recovered.
Gold is still easy to come by in game, but so are mats and gear. They have put way more effort into bind on pickup gear sets and crown store items than anything we can actually trade.
And we keep seeing crown store motifs that are 5k crowns when they have been available as a drop for 9 years and even with the cheapest gold to crown ratio across the servers you can pick up the entire set for a fraction of what it would cost you in gold for crowns....
Re: Why do you think the ESO dev discussion happened on Reddit and not here (WRONG ANSWERS ONLY)
Because they hoped their community read it.
spartaxoxo
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Re: You can rollback a feature of the game. You choose:
Tales of Tribute. If I want to play a TCG, I'll break out my MTG cards. ToT is tedious. I don't want to get into a "minigame" that might require a time commitment of half an hour or more. Locking things like Captain Kaeleen (houseguest) and antiquities behind it is really lame, too.
Anemic Patch Notes
I understand... times are tough. But as a long-time player, it's genuinely disheartening to see patch notes this sparse. It feels like waking up on Christmas morning, tearing into Santa's gift, and finding only socks inside. And the thought that this is what's meant to carry us through the entire holiday season makes it even harder to swallow.
Really? No exciting new sets? No mythics? Not even a small treat to tide us over?
Really? No exciting new sets? No mythics? Not even a small treat to tide us over?
