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Re: Rich Lambert's Comments About The Current State of Balance
Yep, preaching to the choir here.wolfie1.0. wrote: »I just want my combat to feel rewarding and be able to show progress. Here is how I feel like ZOS treats combat.
I feel like I am climbing a hill to reach an objective and anytime I progress up the hill the path I take gets blocked by some arbitrary change that ZOS does, and every so often they lure me back up the hill with some enticing change, only to block the path again. It feels like im trying to invade a castle where the engineers I hired to open paths for me are instead impeding my progress while offering occasional good results.
Like yall should be helping us reach the top and excel, but dont want to put through the effort to do so.
Case in point. The suggested skill choice guides are out of date for new players and don't offer any real build value. Yall dont even update those to help players out. There are stats that still dont make sense and are not explained in game (crit rating vs % as one).
I can only get kicked down the dps progress hill so many times before I just won't climb it anymore, and many have either done that or just left.
I remember when the meta changed every three months and people were spending a ridiculous amount of time and gold in keeping up with it.
It worked well during the lockdown but as players became more casual, people started giving up. The unexpected effect was the brain drain through the loss of senior players: in my guilds they would log in once per week to help with prog groups on raids.
Some of these players had moved on from ESO as their regular game but were nice enough to come back and help out their guildies. One was a Nightblade dps main who would help the group with portal mechanics in Cloudrest; he left shortly after patch 35 when his favourite class got nerfed out of existence. I lost my stamwarden main to patch 35 and my Brittleden to the Arcanist. We have a nightblade pillagers healer who became redundant in patch 46.
Some would argue that these players should just stop whining, suck it up and accept that change is an inevitable part of the game. But we're talking about players who only log in once per week and for whom the additional time and cost required to keep playing once per week is not worth the effort.
This is going to be an even bigger problem given that the ESO player base is becoming increasing more casual but rely on experienced seniors to train them for harder content. Where will the next generation of tanks and healers come from or will ZOS respond by dumbing down the game even further?
Re: Vengeance has officially ended the THREE BANNERS WAR
Just to clarify and express my anger lol;
The servers are up since 3 pm eu and 2 pm uk time.
This is 5 hours ago.
And this is PLAYSTATION. Playstation is NOT a unpopular gaming plattform.
Also this is the whole EUROPEAN ESO server who are all forced to play in the same campaign, no blackreach no ravenwatch no nothing.
And the whole PLAYSTATION EUROPEAN SERVER can just throw like 118 people in total into the stress test in FIVE HOURS?!
This is a pure desaster.
The servers are up since 3 pm eu and 2 pm uk time.
This is 5 hours ago.
And this is PLAYSTATION. Playstation is NOT a unpopular gaming plattform.
Also this is the whole EUROPEAN ESO server who are all forced to play in the same campaign, no blackreach no ravenwatch no nothing.
And the whole PLAYSTATION EUROPEAN SERVER can just throw like 118 people in total into the stress test in FIVE HOURS?!
This is a pure desaster.
Re: Gatekeeping and the Beam Meta
tomofhyrule wrote: »Of course there will always be a meta.
But the thing you don't see in other games is the second best build being less than 75% of the best build. And that's a lot of what we're seeing here.
If all builds were within like 10% of each other, then there would be a lot more "play the way you want" allowed. Sure you'd have the thinks-they're-better-than-they-are idiots demanding that there was only one strategy, but the issue right now is that they're right. There is only one strategy right now, especially as you get into things above Godslayer.
Better balance would still allow people to do what they want, but then more different strategies would be acceptable in the highest levels.
Absolutely, remember there was graph that showed each specs compared to others. i can't find it anymore.
Just got that one from reddit :
Asdara
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Re: 2 Lore Library recommendations
Honestly, one of the things I'd really like to see is to just make Eidetic Memory account-wide.
I get it, I'm really one of those people who favors keeping things character-specific, but really. The Eidetic lorebooks (NOT the Shalidor's Library ones) are specifically there for collectors, always have one or more bugged, and honestly take up a lot of space (don't they want to conserve server space, and they're tracking all of these per character?)
The Shalidor ones and the motifs/recipes have perfectly good reason to be character specific. Not the Eidetic ones.
I get it, I'm really one of those people who favors keeping things character-specific, but really. The Eidetic lorebooks (NOT the Shalidor's Library ones) are specifically there for collectors, always have one or more bugged, and honestly take up a lot of space (don't they want to conserve server space, and they're tracking all of these per character?)
The Shalidor ones and the motifs/recipes have perfectly good reason to be character specific. Not the Eidetic ones.
Re: 2 Lore Library recommendations
Would be a pretty cool (IMHO) perk for a future companion. Keen eye unread books, to include any random bookshelves that currently contain an unread.
The kicker being that most of their rapport and favor is based around fleshing out the lore library.
The kicker being that most of their rapport and favor is based around fleshing out the lore library.
Re: 2 Lore Library recommendations
JHartEllis wrote: »1) In hunting new lore books, the glow is often hard to tell apart from other light sources. A player-friendly fix for this is some sort of bonus (Mythic gear item?) to magnify the glow. A Mora-themed wisdom-seeker bright green fire aura would work well for this. Other tools could potentially indicate if there are nearby unread books.
This would be useful, and since it is not combat-related, it would be great as an optional green tree perk. Optional as in, not required for unlocking any other perk, because I assume not all players would want to increase the visual pollution of having everything glowing everywhere.
I think we should be thinking of new optional QoL things to attach to the green champion tree, as more and more players reach max CP, and this could be one of them.
Re: Vengeance has officially ended the THREE BANNERS WAR
I think Vengeance campaign doesn't offer enough rewards. I want furniture.
pinkpom
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Re: Vengeance has officially ended the THREE BANNERS WAR
I love how ZOS absolutely refuse to let players know what the pop cap is for Cyrodiil, as if it is some state secret.
We should try to find out by having an entire guild log into Cyrodiil when it is zero bars and see how many get in before there is a queue.
We should try to find out by having an entire guild log into Cyrodiil when it is zero bars and see how many get in before there is a queue.
Re: New PvP Campaign
Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »
If there was pvp enabled housing to make your own bg's or at the least a 'pvp' based dummy for a house which simulated players with various levels of health and resists or a damage simulation dummy for healing and tanking I'm sure a lot of pvpers would engage with this content.
I would definitely sink my crowns into such a housing / dummy. As a no-cp, no-proc player, it was impossible for me to test my ideas for builds outside of the only two campaigns with this ruleset. A battle spirit dummy would make testing builds more straightforward.
Re: The Official Vengeance Test Campaign Feedback Thread (Test 3)
- Yes.
- Latency in crowded environments is better. Ballgroups (and bash builds) can't cause lag in Vengeance like they normally would.
- The simplified abilities are not fun to engage with. They are too bare bones, don't interact with sets or passives (because there are none) and give me the exact opposite experience of what I enjoy about ESO's combat.
- /
- I see Vengeance as a necessary evil, provided we use it to fix current Cyrodiil and not chase some sort of replacement that's fundamentally different. It stops being fun after the first 20minutes of play, especially since there is unlimited siege weapons, which makes defending a keep a sisyphean task because the siegers can never run out.
- General Feedback:
- There are still concerns that we are having Vengeance for the sake of itself rather than to improve current Cyrodiil. These concerns have remained underaddressed, and any time a developer has commented on this, the statement was followed up with caveats reintroducing ambiguity (like on the last livestream). Particularly the addition of quality of life improvements to Vengeance has reinforced the impression for some players that the focus with Vengeance is not on improving performance - where it should be -, but on making Vengeance itself better. We don't want "better Vengeance", we want better Gray Host/Blackreach/etc. The upcoming loudouts for example don't relate to normal Cyrodiil at all. It would be great to get a strong statement on what the goal of Vengeance is, highlighting that Vengeance really is just a series of tests, with no "ifs" and "we'll see", and that it won't be the future of Cyrodiil.
Where is the evidence that ball groups cause lag? If you can provide that to ZOS, maybe the testing can end early.
I don't have the evidence other than fights with ballgroups present are lagging while zerg fights aren't lagging (as badly). Without being able to look under the hood of the game and the servers, I cannot provide that evidence ever. It's all annecdotal. I'm just one data point, but ZOS is the one who needs to connect the dots until they form a line. Not to mention, ZOS should already be aware, as the previous performance tests already identified crosshealing as a major cause of lag - it's just that turning off crosshealing entirely kills the role of a healer in PvP. Ballgroups heavily utilize crosshealing to become an unkillable ball of death (hence the name), so it should be obvious. What they should do to address this, without invalidating the role of healer or alienating the players who wish to engage in coordinated group PvP, I don't know. But finding that solution would be my #1 priority for improving performance in PvP.
Bash builds for some reason also cause lag which you can experience in Battlegrounds and even duels, where there really shouldn't be any lag like that. Not sure what's causing that, but I can only assume it's either the caluclation of bonuses to bash damage, since regular bashing doesn't seem to cause the same lag, or the sets used by those bash builds.
Does an ISP stop your internet service to fix bugs in their system? Why not? Because you, as a customer, would be pissed that you have no internet.
Does an auto manufacture prevent people from driving their cars to work out some steering tuning or engine performance? No, they figure that out.
Does a streaming service stop streaming to millions of customers to fix some buffering problems on their servers? No, the service continues and the engineers do their job.
Paying for this game to play in a campaign and not being able to is frustrating. [insert reason here] doesn't bode well when people are literally paying for a product.
ADawg
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