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Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Brave Tamriel’s Dungeons During the Undaunted Celebration"
mdjessup4906 wrote: »Anyone can do normal dungeons. And I mean anyone. I avoided them far too long myself for fear of letting group down but its misplaced fr.
No gear? Craft the below. Many will do it for free if your new or poor.
Dps: Orders wrath+anything damage related + druid head and shoulders just to fill the spot. All stam/mag, all divines trait, 5 medium 1 light, 1 heavy to level.
Healer same as dps, just go all magic and use resto staff and healing skills.
Tank: 5 pc heavy armor, sword and shield front, ice staff back, in any sets thst looks useful to a group, or just pure survival if your really unsure. All health enchant, reinforced big pieces, divines small ones. Use food and attributes to give yourself 30-40k health.
In q your likely to get a burn group anyway so enjoy the carry and free loot. But being at least thet much geared will let 4 inexperienced players complete without too much trouble.
Anyone can do a normal dungeon but here is the gear, the DPS, Healer, Tank needs and you can use elite pots to double or triple your stats. Just take the ride, let the group carry you, they'll kick you but that won't matter?
This is all so much non-sense. Stop with the excuses.
I think more people can solo dungeons than are aware they can.
I have some advantages - CP2000+ so all the passives and fully bought slotted skills (not that I've ever seen a difference when I change them), gold crafted armor and weapons, Oakensoul and I usually play with a companion and often with a bear.
Disadvantages include nerve issues which mean that a button my brain pushes may or may not get pushed by my hand, dizziness that means that sometimes, I have to stop and close my eyes for a bit (where the bear and companion really are helpful), ability to roll dodge or use ultimates is fairly random.
I'm good at blocking but not at blocking when it's needed and not 30 seconds earlier. I can sometimes avoid a run of the mill clanfear jump but usually get whacked by the tail.
I always thought that my DPS was around 20K so when Xbox got a DPS tracker addin, found out that, yep, I'm right. I rarely break 20k.
But, even with all that, I've managed to solo all the base game dungeons on normal, both 1 & 2 except where impossible, a few of the DLC dungeons with my brother who actually did significantly less DPS than me (he died last year so be nice), and more world bosses than I expected.
TLDR: if you've never soloed a dungeon before, you might do better than you expect. Your DPS is probably a lot higher than mine and your skills fire properly so give Fungal Grotto or Elden Ring a shot. I recommend stopping at the door and checking out what you'll need to kill in the next room before attacking.
I'd avoid Banished Cells because final boss has a heal and companions seem to drag the boss to where the heal spawns so you don't have time to kill it. I don't know if there's a lot of damage from the last boss on Spindleclutch, but the Whisperer does have a lot of grab skills that are annoying.
Mik195
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Re: Launcher freezing after game exit.
SilverBride wrote: »It's still happening to me, too.
have you tried this?
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/680787/launcher-issues-click-here-for-zip-files#latest
I haven't because it says this:
"Some of you have been running into an issue recently where the Launcher is closing or crashing when trying to load, particularly if you are using an older version of Windows. We've created a custom launcher build that should help anyone affected."
My launcher isn't closing or crashing and I'm using Windows 11 on a new computer. My problem is that the launcher won't shut down and I often have to use task manager to close it.
Re: Gatekeeping and the Beam Meta
frogthroat wrote: »In this particular conversation OP was talking about vet pledge from yesterday. I would assume Dread Cellar because the base games you can finish naked. And I assume they were not doing a nuke tactic because they were a PUG, so high dps can even be bad when you all of a sudden have a million ads after you.
Meta has its place. In a highly optimised group doing the most difficult content, trying to get the most difficult achievements, yes, optimise. Use meta and meta only. Have 130k dps limits minimum. Maybe even higher if you want to get to the top of rankings.
But in other content, demanding meta is a bit overkill. In the 75% example, I really wouldn't care. Unless skipping some annoying mechanic is needing 5k extra dps, it really doesn't matter that much. Yes, high dps is slightly faster but what do you really gain?
Let's throw some random numbers together. Let's say there's 2 dungeon dd's. One has meta and does 100k dps. Another has off-meta and does 75k dps. (For ease of calculations, % -> dps.) The boss has 10M health. No ads, tank keeps the boss all the time so dd's can simply parse.
They are done in 10,000,000 / (100,000 + 75,000) seconds. As in, 57 seconds.
Now, if both would do 100k dps, then the time spent on that boss would drop to... *drum roll* ...50 seconds.
If your schedule is so tight that these 7 seconds matter, what are you doing playing a video game?!
(If the dps would be 140k and 105k (75% of 140) then the difference between these against two 140k players would be in the same scenario 40s and 36s, respectively. Yay! Saved 4 seconds!)
You lose more by missing a mechanic. Or even just deconstructing between pulls to get more inventory space.
Exactly, you nailed it. Pushing for strict meta builds in content where bosses don’t even have an enrage timer is pure insanity. ESO just doesn’t work like WoW raids where you hit a wall if the boss isn’t dead by X time- 99% of fights here are about mechanics, not a hard DPS check.
I’m sitting around 95k DPS, but my build is designed for survivability and utility. I don’t just tunnel damage, I can self-heal, I stay alive through most fights, I’ve got CP set up to rez people faster, and in many runs I end up as the last man standing cleaning up when others drop. To me, that’s far more valuable than squeezing out an extra 5–10k DPS and then eating dirt the second mechanics get messy.
And that’s really the issue: when design funnels everyone into the same DPS race, people forget that survivability, utility, and consistency matter just as much (if not more) in actual group play. If meta-chasing is shaving 7 seconds off a boss fight but costing wipes because nobody can rez or survive mechanics, who’s really helping the group?
Asdara
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Re: Passwords
The "point" of a password is not to be easy to remember (or guess), but to secure access to one's account. It's important to use strong passwords, and 12 characters is a pretty standard requirement these days. (I would bet the CIA requires quite a bit more authentication than a 12 character password).
Re: Companions should have Skill Styles, too!
Players don't need skill styles. Companions, which we don't need at all, certainly don't need skill styles too.
How about ZOS focus on things that matter instead? Performance, combat and game play should be the first priority. With bug fixes and QoL improvements next most important.
If ZOS is set up anything at all like pretty much every other game developer I have ever heard of, they have different departments for different things.
People working on cosmetic stuff, which would generally be the skill styles, and people who work on quest related stuff, which could cover companions (as the base mechanic is already in place, just needs basically someone to write a story for a new companion and create the visuals for the companion) and the people who handle the gameplay and performance are NOT the same department.
So, it isn't one or the other. We can get both!
That said, I agree with the thread, though I don't really understand why we can't change 'cosmetic' things about the companions (such as hair style/colors, adding adornments/makeup etc...) which all could easily be made into the companions' 'choice' by adding a line about 'I always wanted to try a different style' or something. Many people DO experiment with different hairstyles and makeup. With things like tattoos not being permanent (could just be a 'magical tattoo', so that it can be changed using magic, as the user can change them at will) they could also be used to experiment.
Re: add a surrender button in bg 4 v 4 lil bro
I'd hate to think that someone on my team were able to surrender leaving the rest of us in a lurch.
Stands to reason though that at least half the time the teams are uneven that it'd be 4 v 3 instead of 3 v 4.
Stands to reason though that at least half the time the teams are uneven that it'd be 4 v 3 instead of 3 v 4.
Re: Companions should have Skill Styles, too!
Erickson9610 wrote: »I agree. Maybe we could apply the Skill Styles we own to our Companions?
For instance, we could apply Skill Styles for Molten Weapons to Companions who have an equivalent skill, such as Bastian's "Searing Weapons" or Tanlorin's "Volcanic Arms". Then any future Companion can use any unlocked Skill Styles that would apply to the player version of their skills.
That would be a great way to do it!
Re: ESO is not a sci fi spaceship shoot-em up (or at least it shouldn't be)
book blast beam class is P2W garbage. if its going to do that much damage, it needs to be an ult, or have a minute long cool down.
