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Re: Morphing Collectible Chart 2025
tomofhyrule wrote: »IsharaMeradin wrote: »Now that we are at the tail end of Q3, can we get an idea on what type of item the Q4 collectible will be? I.e. Skin, house, emote, etc.
We already know that the Q4 morphable is the Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos house in West Weald south of Ostumir. It was announced on the U47 reveal ESOLive.
There will be 5 fragments and they start dropping during Witches Fest
The guide should have been updated then. Not everyone watches the reveals, twitches or whatever. I'd rather play the game with the free time that I have...
Re: This is how ESO recovers: a tale of two MMOs
katanagirl1 wrote: »I occasionally find something to hold onto that makes me feel like they might be listening to feedback and that the game will improve for me. The last comment about subclassing has pretty much made me give up hope now. The time for listening has passed, by the time they ever do, if they even do, it will be too late to turn the ship around.
I just try to get as much enjoyment out of the game as I can. All elements that I play in have been degraded though, PvE, PvP, housing. Every time I log in I remember how much better those things used to be.
Subclassing makes it so this is the only game where you can live that like anime fantasy isekai-style life with any kind of build you can imagine. The item sets+ mythic bonus and now subclassing/scribing allow you more build freedom than any mmo even though you're limited to 12 abilities. I see no issue with subclassing and hope they add even more ways to make bizarre builds.
Kappachi
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Re: Vengeance and population
Yeah, how are you supposed to enjoy vengeance when your faction isn't even playing?
Do we all have to join EP to enjoy it? What happen to this once fun event?
Do we all have to join EP to enjoy it? What happen to this once fun event?
RaikaNA
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Vengeance and population
I do not care if you hate vengeance or love vengeance combat, this is not about the vengeance combat system this is about population.
There are not enough players in this game who pvp with enough consistently to create a balanced map at the pop cap currently set in vengeance. The first stream i remember after test #1 they mentioned pop caps being roughly 500+ per faction, higher than launch. But at launch we had multiple pvp servers each one 500+ per faction with thousands of people at any time pvping. This does not exist currently. Currently the base population at anytime is what maybe 100 people per faction?
at 9pm est EP is currently 3 bars to 1 bar dc and ad. Roughly 4000 point lead on day two of the campaign.
I want to return to the 500v500v500 of the past. But this population does not exist. Yes set the bar high, I wish it would but going for 500v500v500 is not going to happen. Sure during test 1 and 2 there were many people out there. It was new, it had rewards going for it. But on the average day it will not be like this. ZoS you are going to end the games pvp if you go on with this. Maybe primetime this weekend we will reach 500v500v500 again. But in the off hours it will be so unbalanced it will not be fair at least 1 or 2 factions. Yes this does happen already but at least the #s difference is not as drastic as this. You will drive more people away than you will bring in.
If you are going to raise the pop, raise is slowly.
There are not enough players in this game who pvp with enough consistently to create a balanced map at the pop cap currently set in vengeance. The first stream i remember after test #1 they mentioned pop caps being roughly 500+ per faction, higher than launch. But at launch we had multiple pvp servers each one 500+ per faction with thousands of people at any time pvping. This does not exist currently. Currently the base population at anytime is what maybe 100 people per faction?
at 9pm est EP is currently 3 bars to 1 bar dc and ad. Roughly 4000 point lead on day two of the campaign.I want to return to the 500v500v500 of the past. But this population does not exist. Yes set the bar high, I wish it would but going for 500v500v500 is not going to happen. Sure during test 1 and 2 there were many people out there. It was new, it had rewards going for it. But on the average day it will not be like this. ZoS you are going to end the games pvp if you go on with this. Maybe primetime this weekend we will reach 500v500v500 again. But in the off hours it will be so unbalanced it will not be fair at least 1 or 2 factions. Yes this does happen already but at least the #s difference is not as drastic as this. You will drive more people away than you will bring in.
If you are going to raise the pop, raise is slowly.
Ostonoha
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Re: Companions should have Skill Styles, too!
SilverBride wrote: »I understand why no helmets or changing their hairstyles or body markings, but why not everything else? We can already dress them how we want so skill styles should be accessible, too.
we cant dress them how we want if we cant do simple stuff like even put helmets on them, that is a basic part of "dressing up" for your character
it makes more sense to not allow using say polymorphs on a companion, as that is completely changing their appearance (or in technical terms, their character model and voice)
other things like skins, body/face markings, adornments, or hairstyles i dont have a lot of preference on, but i could at least see how those would possibly alter character identity
Re: Passwords
" a password that is so complex that it has to be written down defeats the fundamental reason for a password since anyone who finds the written down password can then gain access to the account."
At this point you are either living with people you do not trust or you've had a break in...... if either of these is true then I suggest you have more to worry about than "written down" passwords!!
At this point you are either living with people you do not trust or you've had a break in...... if either of these is true then I suggest you have more to worry about than "written down" passwords!!
Re: Vengeance - THE WORST PVP EVER
It's just weird that ZOS doesn't offer any incentive what so ever to play their "test". If I wanted templated versions of PvP I could have done that elsewhere. Now the reason I purchased the game has been rendered moot. No reason to log on with mandated vengeance.
Re: Vengeance Server
Oh, the hyperbole and histrionics.
Entered Cyro, 5 minutes to set up skills, checked the map, found a fight, went there, and found maybe 20 other blues.
The population was certainly lower than the previous Vengeance campaign, but a lot of that is because there's no Golden Pursuit to drive people there, and it's running concurrently with the Undaunted event which has a lot of people farming boxes.
I'd really like to see Vengeance replace U50 and no-CP, which would allow newer players to hop right into Cyrodiil and not get immediately auto-deleted.
Entered Cyro, 5 minutes to set up skills, checked the map, found a fight, went there, and found maybe 20 other blues.
The population was certainly lower than the previous Vengeance campaign, but a lot of that is because there's no Golden Pursuit to drive people there, and it's running concurrently with the Undaunted event which has a lot of people farming boxes.
I'd really like to see Vengeance replace U50 and no-CP, which would allow newer players to hop right into Cyrodiil and not get immediately auto-deleted.
Re: Passwords
Or you could use a password manager - there are a couple of decent ones out there (check recent reviews/articles on cybersecurity). These days, short passwords are easily cracked and definitely insecure, so length is important.
Re: Thank you for finally fixing Frostbite
MashmalloMan wrote: »Still needs to be 20% or above to exceed generic sets like Advancing Yokeda if you ask me. I'm sure a parser can prove any number of generic meta sets can do better, even if you're going all in on frost, which noticeably tanks your DPS in the 1st place.
I'll never understand why their spreadsheets don't account for this. Why do niche, focussed sets perform worse even when you build for them? If you can't use them on a niche setup, then why would a general build use them either? They literally have no place in the game.What's even more confusing is how empty you feel when you attempt to make these sets work. For example, someone may say to themselves "well, I'm okay to lose 10% of my DPS because I get to role play the theme I'm going for by using this set". I know this happens, because I used to make the same sacrifices before I realized it was poointless.
- Ritualist is bad for a pet tamer (Grave Lord + Animal Companions + Daedric Summoning).
- Xanmeer Spellweaver is bad for an Elementalist (Storm Calling + Aedric Flame + Winters Embrace).
- All the "ws damage for x element abilities" sets have been dead for 8+ years.
Frostbite for example has no visual indicator that it does anything different from Advancing Yokeda, so even from a roleplay perspective, they feel virtually the same. Had it been a situation like a Stam Sorc using Storm Fist, then maybe I'd understand... But these sets I've listed are all just stat multipliers, they do nothing for role play beyond making you weaker, so they fail on multiple fronts.
Finally, a set like AY buffs your healing, all of the element focused sets do nothing for that regard unless they happen to have a "heal based on damage done" effect like DK's Flame Claw. All the more reason that these should be more powerful, the visual appeal being your element focussed playstyle hits harder than any other set combo you could use. That, I would understand.
Every word of what you said is true and should be heeded by the powers that be.
But specifically your final thought on the particularly toxic combination of undertuned niche set tuning + zero modicum of any audio/visual additional roleplay flavor that truly feels bad for the player. You're already signing-up for a self-nerf but you get nothing at all in return to from most of these sets to enhance your theme or vibe.
This has been a worrying trend even in recent trial sets, where most are soulless "stat sticks" lacking any sort of animation of flavor. I think that you have to go all the way back to Yandir's to find a stat-based DPS set that has any sort of visual indication that the set is even active. And that was what, 2020?
Flashy animations are FUN. We need more of them rather than less.
