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Re: A poll about crossplay
frogthroat wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »frogthroat wrote: »Bigger difference than with people playing on EU servers, with dozens of nationalities and cultures? And these people shouldn't mix?SilverBride wrote: »The societal norms are too different.
I wasn't referring to real life societies. I was referring to how we play the game.
For example, I read a thread about how we run Alik'r dolmens on PCNA. Players were confused about us using "x" and "y" and "z" in zone chat for auto invites to the groups. We've done it this way for a very long time but these other players do things differently.
That is the kind of thing I am referring to.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/667793/are-you-not-confused-by-people-spamming-x-in-chat
For a while we will have people typing "x", "y", "z", "+" and "+dolmen" in Alik'r Desert but it will be unified over time. People adapt.
Those of us who play on both EU and NA will have to adapt anyway. By the beard of Julianos, even on PCEU I need to adapt depending on the guild chat. If I ask for people for a daily random dungeon, in most guilds I need to type "RND" but in my Finnish guild I need to type "nrand".
This is a non-issue. Don't underestimate players this much. "Sorry, no crossplay because Ben could not learn to type x instead of +dolmen."
I only play on PCNA and I think this could cause a lot of confusion.
Re: Sorc nerfs are too heavy handed
The elephant in the room - Shattered Paths Signet
Shattered paths signet is a really cool mythic, with a serious downside that if you use your ult with it you lose a heap of damage.
Unless you're using overload.
This is a really cool interaction, where you can switch on and off overload to keep your ult above 170, keeping the full damage from the mythic.
in this parse, I start with 500 ult, burn to 175, disable overload until the last 20% and then use it in execute.
I get to use 702 ult over the parse while still getting the full benefit of shattered signet.
There are a couple of issues with this parse though compared to content.
The first is that I start with 500 ult. In almost no trials in the game, should you be starting a boss fight with 500 ult. If you're doing that then you're not using your ults on trash.
Secondly you get a burst of dps at the start, but you get it at a time when you're likely going to be getting ult gen from a set like pillagers. Overload stops ult gen, so you miss out on some of the more significant support buffs.
Thirdly sorcs have Atro, which in most groups is there for major berserk. In fact, they really really want atro right at the start for their main ult burn. What no one wants at that time is a selfish sorc using all their ult on an overload opening after they just banked it all though all the trash pulls so they can have bigga numba on the boss.
My point is that using overload in trials like we do on the dummy is incredibly selfish and not good for group content.
Finally, compare the signet parse to a warmask parse where i use overload to start the parse, then drop an atro at 185 ult and then reenable overload for the last 10%
it's a big dps drop. This is more representative of what you can expect in actual content.
Sorc's passive ability is terrible, practically malicious to Sorc players.
Sorc is the only class that cannot gain ultimate points through class abilities, and also the only one whose passive ability lacks additional penetration or critical damage. Furthermore, Sorc is the only class whose active ability doesn't provide an unnamed damage buff. Necromancer has GLS & Siphon, Arc has Tentacles, Dragon Knight has Dragon Leap, Nightblade has Shadowy Disguise, Temple has Solar Barage, and Warden has Netch. Sorc has nothing, and most of Sorc's skill effects are inexplicably tied to "Resource Recovery."
Sorc's class masteries are even worse. Of Sorc's five masteries, one cannot be triggered by a class skill, one has a shorter duration than other general-purpose shield abilities, one related to Resource Recovery is excessively inflated and has incurred widespread criticism, and the other two that increase DPS have been nerfed.
This is truly disheartening.
Re: Tomes weekly challenges too much work
They are rewards for tasks you do in the game anyway.
No, they aren't.
Harvest resources. At first, I thought that this would be easy because I impulsively pick up every single node that I come across in the overland, and whenever I'm doing overland things with friends, I'm always falling behind because running past a node without getting it is like fingernails on chalkboard. But, despite all that, I couldn't complete them "naturally" because they require 90 of a specific node type and because I spend most of my time in dungeons and trials, not the overland. Okay, fine, I have surveys that I can use to finish them off, but now I'm going out of my way for this and this is no longer normal gameplay.
Some are easy because of what I do. Kill dangerous enemies, kill shadowy daedra, treasure chests, complete dungeons, complete trials. Those all work. Except I don't always get those.
I didn't get trial one this week despite using rerolls. I did get Bogdan and Lord Warden, which I had to roll away because why would I want to do ancient dungeons like EH2 or ICP? If these are "tasks that people do anyway", then why the hell is the challenge pool polluted with crap like "complete this specific dungeon" that disrespect player choice instead of only offering generic "complete dungeon" challenges?
World bosses is another one. I wouldn't mind doing the Solstice ones since I haven't yet done the 30-world-boss-dailies achievement for Solstice. But nope, there's no general world boss challenge, and instead, they want to me to kill a world boss in an ancient zone that I have no interest in revisiting. It's completely disrespectful of what the player actually wants to do.
And it only gets worse. On PTS, there's one for picking 30 locks... manually. Again, I mostly run trials, and yes, there are lots of chests in trials, which makes the treasure chests challenge something that actually gets done through normal gameplay. But lockpicking? First, each of the 7 chests can be picked only once, so if someone gets to the chest before you, you won't have a chance. Next, people don't want to wait around for a slow manual pick, so to be courteous to everyone else's time, it's best to force-lock which doesn't count. And while you need only 5 chests for a weekly, you need 30 lockpicks for a weekly. Pfft. If these were tasks that players would actually do, then it wouldn't be 30, and it would let you force lock.
No, many of these tasks are mindless grinds of things that most players won't actually do naturally. To be fair, some are fine, but only if you can get them.
Re: so i had a question abut how to make 10 unique characters on each server w/o repeats and i asked AI
Sorry, I kick tail every day in Cyro with Hunding's and Orders Wrath.
Oh wait, I forgot I am supposed to use meta sets.
Oh wait, I forgot I am supposed to use meta sets.
Re: so i had a question abut how to make 10 unique characters on each server w/o repeats and i asked AI
FurryCandyHearts wrote: »i did use my own mind , to decide to let ai do the scud work
If you couldn't be bothered to write it yourself, it isn't worth reading. All you did was type a prompt, the AI did the thinking for you.
TheMajority
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Re: Please re-balance Serpent's Disdain next
I have a feeling that the disdain people will have for this set will set record highs in the coming days.
Arcanasx
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Re: AI Written Posts
I'm generally of the opinion that if you can't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.
I understand there are times people cannot tell. I've been accused of making ai crochet videos before because someone didn't know that soft sculpting exists. It's not an enforcable rule, but if it were enforcable I would disallow it.
I understand there are times people cannot tell. I've been accused of making ai crochet videos before because someone didn't know that soft sculpting exists. It's not an enforcable rule, but if it were enforcable I would disallow it.
Lekjih
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Re: Conservation of Energy is broken, but can we also do something about DK please?
Conservation really isn't broken, it's just strong, which is exactly what we need.
Sure it can deliver strong sustain and yeah, it can buff the Blood Magic heal, but, in the context of having to carry sub-par skills the sustain isn't a problem.
Further, HA is a material element in many Sorc play styles, which won't proc Conservation or Blood. Which means that this passive isn't going to, realistically, be proccing every second.
Further, and to your point, we have very strong WW and continuingly strong DKs on the horizon that both deliver significant power over Sorcs, are we saying Sorcs are just supposed to be body meat and have insufficient sustain in light of that kind of power?
Our Class sets are poo, most of our skills are poo, we lack many key buff / debuffs as well as burst, our Shield is still one of the best in-game but it was nerfed unnecessarily, our execute is laughable now after it too was nerfed.
We can't burst 20k crit attacks after mitigation on a consistent basis with any of our class skills as pure-sorc like subclassed builds can, so if we're going to compete then strong sustain is one one thing we can lean on until our turn with the refresh.
Pyrebrand is a strong set and I do agree that there's a basis to look at adjusting the values on that one. .. I'm reluctant to talk much about DK because we all still need to go through the class refresh but the one thing I'm side-eyeing with DK is Hearth & Home. If DK is going to have a hard CC skill that provides strong follow up potential as well as a mobility buff that also provides soft CC immunity then the class does not really need any form of mobility debuff outside of the Traumatic passive; especially a debuff at 70%.
It's a bit much to pack all of that into one class, if DK is going to have all of those available mechanical benefits then they shouldn't also have a movement debuff, that's having your cake and eating it too.
I noticed this after the initial refresh but I didn't want to really go there yet because other classes haven't been re-worked yet, but, I'm doubtful that other classes are going to receive such a broad scope of skill function like what DK got so I suppose it's worth thinking about.
Sure it can deliver strong sustain and yeah, it can buff the Blood Magic heal, but, in the context of having to carry sub-par skills the sustain isn't a problem.
Further, HA is a material element in many Sorc play styles, which won't proc Conservation or Blood. Which means that this passive isn't going to, realistically, be proccing every second.
Further, and to your point, we have very strong WW and continuingly strong DKs on the horizon that both deliver significant power over Sorcs, are we saying Sorcs are just supposed to be body meat and have insufficient sustain in light of that kind of power?
Our Class sets are poo, most of our skills are poo, we lack many key buff / debuffs as well as burst, our Shield is still one of the best in-game but it was nerfed unnecessarily, our execute is laughable now after it too was nerfed.
We can't burst 20k crit attacks after mitigation on a consistent basis with any of our class skills as pure-sorc like subclassed builds can, so if we're going to compete then strong sustain is one one thing we can lean on until our turn with the refresh.
Pyrebrand is a strong set and I do agree that there's a basis to look at adjusting the values on that one. .. I'm reluctant to talk much about DK because we all still need to go through the class refresh but the one thing I'm side-eyeing with DK is Hearth & Home. If DK is going to have a hard CC skill that provides strong follow up potential as well as a mobility buff that also provides soft CC immunity then the class does not really need any form of mobility debuff outside of the Traumatic passive; especially a debuff at 70%.
It's a bit much to pack all of that into one class, if DK is going to have all of those available mechanical benefits then they shouldn't also have a movement debuff, that's having your cake and eating it too.
I noticed this after the initial refresh but I didn't want to really go there yet because other classes haven't been re-worked yet, but, I'm doubtful that other classes are going to receive such a broad scope of skill function like what DK got so I suppose it's worth thinking about.
NxJoeyD
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Rele gone from pvp
Thank you for finally getting rid of this terribly designed set for pvp. But why was there no mention of this in patch notes, that it was changed to 1 second duration?
Wup_sa
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