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Re: I Don't LIke The Night Market Update
TiberiusZolcor wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »There are no guilds necessary. There's tons of groups in the group finder, it's literally an unprecedented amount of activity for that tool.
To use the group finder go to Open Main Menu> Activity Finder > Group Finder
The reason there's not a lot of people using zone chat is because they are in group chat, either with pickup groups or guild groups.
That's an issue for me since I'm a solo player as well as a Guildless player. I would have to send a Whisper to random players in the Night Market just to ask whether they are in a farming group for that kind of content, and that could eventually get tiring after a while.
Or you could just use the Group Finder and pick one with a similar goal. Or start one yourself in group finder if none of the descriptions match what you're looking for. The group finder hasn't seen so much traffic in ESO, ever. Wildly popular right now.
Re: I Don't LIke The Night Market Update
Only the skirmishes come close to "raid strength". The others are much weaker, and all bosses hit for significanly less than their dungeon/overland counterparts.
Nah. Incineration Beetles off the top of my head definitely harder in the market. Or at least feel the way lol
Re: Update 50 PTS – Week 4 Summary
ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »we observed that certain combinations paired with Malevolent Promise and Corpseburster were overwhelmingly powerful in a way that created an oppressive gameplay experience, especially when multiple Necromancers are coordinating. It had no counterplay and was effectively a surefire “I win” combo – fun for the caster, not fun for the target, and not healthy for our overall PvP experience.
These words also perfectly articulate the current situation in Live PvP with the massively oppressive Pulseganking and Signet meta.
Extremely long-range, status-effect-based one-shots with zero opportunity for counterplay other than to use the same build on the other player first. It is, on one hand, extraordinarily oppressive, as well as trivially easy to pull off. Which is not at all a healthy combination.
I can provide plenty of clips and gameplay footage of the issue in question if that would be helpful for the purposes of helping bring balance to the situation.
Re: Addressing U50 PTS Combat & Ability Concerns
ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »...That said, we do want there to be a healthy balance and that’s something we are experimenting with more, in particular around separating PvE from PvP scenarios. Doing this is something we haven’t done much in the past, and we do expect there to be some growing pains. There may be times when we don’t get the numbers quite right, and this is where we’d like to continue to get feedback from all of you.
- Yes = Decreased damage/passive values.
- Yes = PVE Knock-up vs PVP knock-back.
- Maybe = Changing durations on dots like Berserker bleed or Relequen.
- Hard No = Messing with rotations by reducing core ability durations on WW.
Please continue to add PVP vs PVE modifiers, but take it lighter with the extremes and don't fundamentally change how something feels. Relequen going from 5s to 1s, why not 2s? Warden's Northern Storm going from 4% damage done to 1%, why not 2%? Templar's damage done Mastery being cut in half in PVP despite already being cut in half by battlespirit, just odd..
Re: Next new content?
I want to see new Companions. Those don't really fall under the "Assistants" category, though.
I also want to see new systems. But, again, those don't cleanly fit within the "Minigames" category.
I also want to see new systems. But, again, those don't cleanly fit within the "Minigames" category.
Re: Addressing U50 PTS Combat & Ability Concerns
You mentioned not understanding why Sorcerer is said to be weak, and mentioned that its DPS was so high the first week.
I am quite sure the main complain people have about Sorcerer is its lack of group utility and cleave damage. Its damage having been the highest against parse dummies never had any real value to it, as Sorcerer doesn't offer the dearly needed cleave damage nowadays and also nothing unique to groups in general.
All Sorcerer offered anymore was Major Berserk through the Atronach; which Dragonknight received as a class mastery and does better than the Atronach. And the 6% spell damage from Calculated Defense or the recovery from Sphere of Influence don't do much to solve this when other classes already have more group utility to begin with, and get it boosted tremendously by their class masteries.
This is why Sorcerer is said to be weak; not because of some single target dummy during week 1. People have explained this at length in all of the feedback threads, so there is no way anyone can say they do not understand why this is being said.
Adding on to this, it really just takes 5 minutes of looking at ESOlogs to look at raid composition from previous updates to find which classes are and are not used.
The reason people say Sorcerer DD sucks is because classes that are only good at single target damage do not translate well at all to a lot of the trial and dungeon content, especially the newer content and especially on HM.
Sorcerer, as well as Nightblade, have always parsed high on dummies and in some niche trial encounters like in Kyne's Aegis where cleave is not as important, but with every fight design in the last few years incentivizing/requiring high cleave damage (Bahsei HM, Reef Guardian HM, Ansuul HM, literally everything in Lucent Citadel HM, almost everything in Ossein Cage HM) it renders classes without strong cleave in those trials not viable, and thus almost never used.
Even before Subclassing, most progression groups never had more than one Sorc DPS player, and it was always shoehorned into the support DPS role by being the Storm Atronach Martial Knowledge slave.
Re: I Don't LIke The Night Market Update
I've had a lot more fun running around in there with two friends than I ever did with a full raid group PUG, mainly because PUGs are full of people with wildly different objectives, and it's not really easy to convince them to wait around while you find some quest objective (especially since the quest objectives are so hard to find that they can take several minutes even though you know you're right on top of them).
That said, getting into a large PUG group hasn't been hard, at least during peak hours, and you can eventually get most everything you want to do done that way.
That said, getting into a large PUG group hasn't been hard, at least during peak hours, and you can eventually get most everything you want to do done that way.
Re: Addressing U50 PTS Combat & Ability Concerns
Why are you guys neglecting Templar so much? Everyone’s telling you the problems with it but nothing seems to be getting done about it
Sustain is terrible, it’s so much worse than any other class for some reason, can you not just make all their skills like 10% cheaper?
They have no good ultimate, can you not just make nova do more damage and make it cost less?
Their class mastery sucks, can you not just make it 2k?
Templar is not even close to the edge of being broken in PvP they don’t even need their mastery passives balanced with battle spirt that’s how weak Templar is
Are these problems too hard to solve? I would love to know why you can’t just tweak the numbers a bit, it seems so easy to get Templar in a good spot
Sustain is terrible, it’s so much worse than any other class for some reason, can you not just make all their skills like 10% cheaper?
They have no good ultimate, can you not just make nova do more damage and make it cost less?
Their class mastery sucks, can you not just make it 2k?
Templar is not even close to the edge of being broken in PvP they don’t even need their mastery passives balanced with battle spirt that’s how weak Templar is
Are these problems too hard to solve? I would love to know why you can’t just tweak the numbers a bit, it seems so easy to get Templar in a good spot
Re: Night Market Keys.
As is this system is miserable. We have to do a key inventory every night we try to run a group.
Some of us in my group have been doing this content 2-3 nights a week since it started. Most of us have yet to get to the dungeons because we have to continually try to get others in our group the argent keys to get to that point. Some cant show up to the gilded group on that night, so they find another group. Some of us have other groups and have done them then they need to refarm the argent again. So some of us cant get beyond Argent bosses because we never have enough with them to run it.
Some of us in my group have been doing this content 2-3 nights a week since it started. Most of us have yet to get to the dungeons because we have to continually try to get others in our group the argent keys to get to that point. Some cant show up to the gilded group on that night, so they find another group. Some of us have other groups and have done them then they need to refarm the argent again. So some of us cant get beyond Argent bosses because we never have enough with them to run it.
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Re: Update 50 PTS – Week 4 Summary
Thank you for addressing the visual bugs with the Werewolf model!