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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.
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.
Re: We should get a Battle Royale / Extraction PvP mode using Vengeance skills
Erickson9610 wrote: »
Because Battle Royale is dumb in my opinion. I cannot imagine chasing 1vXers forever to be killed by corrosive and not being able to respawn.
ADawg
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Re: The Vengeance Test #3 FAQ incorrectly says there is a Golden Pursuit running for this test
Probably just a copy/paste error from the last Vengeance FAQ, but definitely should be removed.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Brave Tamriel’s Dungeons During the Undaunted Celebration"
Being able to solo nFG1 has nothing to do with gear and pots from group dungeons. That's doable with crafted gear and food+pots from the login rewards.
Not doing 1 nFG1 per day during this event is a choice. 'Toxic elitists' won't kick you, they won't even notice you because they finish this dungeon before they finish their rotation. And you can just take the tickets and the event box.
Not doing 1 nFG1 per day during this event is a choice. 'Toxic elitists' won't kick you, they won't even notice you because they finish this dungeon before they finish their rotation. And you can just take the tickets and the event box.
Re: Gatekeeping and the Beam Meta
SeaGtGruff wrote: »Toxicity and gatekeeping have been around longer than subclassing, longer than the Arcanist class, longer than "HA builds" became a "thing," and... wait for it... longer than ESO has been around! ZOS didn't create them, and doesn't encourage them. In fact, "toxicity" is one of the things you can report another player for-- although there isn't really a subcategory under it that seems appropriate for comments which insult or belittle other players.
Right, toxicity existed before ESO but you’re missing the point entirely. The game doesn’t just let toxicity happen, it creates the conditions for it. Weak sets, poor scaling, and meta funnels punish anyone trying to play differently. That’s what drives exclusion and gatekeeping, not just bad players. Ignoring the design problem doesn’t make it disappear.
Nah it's bad players. There will always be a best set right up until they put us all in the same gear like the PvP tests that are happening. Then players will want to kick you for not running to next pull quick enough or standing in the wrong spot or who knows what. Those bad players are still going to be bad players.
What changes would make the bad players suddenly become decent?
kargen27
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Re: This is how games die
I'm a new player since late May of this year. The first months of playing were amazing and I played A LOT. But since that Whitestrake’s Mayhem event, something died in me. I guess, it made me realize and actually see that this came actually is — an online MMO game. First and foremost. No way around it. That's the crushing reality. I'm not a fan of online games and especially MMOs. I'm a single player TES fan and I've been playing ESO like it's a single player game mixed with some online components.
The illusion was strong until Whitestrake’s Mayhem event. It broke the illusion for me. Traumatized me, even. Since then, I don't ever go to Cyrodiil and don't play battlegrounds anymore. I got really depressed about the game after that event. Fortunately, right after that ZOS dropped ESO plus trial and I was able to dive into new stories and zones. But the illusion was lost and the trauma was real. This is an online game. This is a MMO. No way around it. I'm grieving, no be honest. The game is basically already dead to me. I still have a lot of quests and zones to explore but it's doesn't feel the same way it felt in those first months. And I understand that what I want this game to be, what I want it to become with the future updates, is not what MMO fans want and not what ZOS wants. It will never be the game I want it to be. I will never see the things I want to see. So what are the perspectives for me? I don't see any.
The illusion was strong until Whitestrake’s Mayhem event. It broke the illusion for me. Traumatized me, even. Since then, I don't ever go to Cyrodiil and don't play battlegrounds anymore. I got really depressed about the game after that event. Fortunately, right after that ZOS dropped ESO plus trial and I was able to dive into new stories and zones. But the illusion was lost and the trauma was real. This is an online game. This is a MMO. No way around it. I'm grieving, no be honest. The game is basically already dead to me. I still have a lot of quests and zones to explore but it's doesn't feel the same way it felt in those first months. And I understand that what I want this game to be, what I want it to become with the future updates, is not what MMO fans want and not what ZOS wants. It will never be the game I want it to be. I will never see the things I want to see. So what are the perspectives for me? I don't see any.
Re: Rich Lambert's Comments About The Current State of Balance
moderatelyfatman wrote: »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.
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It was a bit more palatable back then because despite the frustration, there was still some semblance of uniqueness between classes. Many are now choosing to not bother beyond one or two of their characters because they'd essentially just be copies of the same character.
