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Potential Solution to Consolidating Intricates to Benefit the Database
The crafting inspiration system is intentionally designed to require a lot of Inspiration to level up the different craft skills. There aren't great ways to get this Inspiration aside from deconstructing hundreds of pieces of gear per skill.
As such, Intricate-traited gear makes up ~10% of Guild Store transaction volume. This contributes a lot to database strain, and that bogs down search performance for everyone. It also makes it more difficult to manage add-on data.
One thing that could help would just to give Intricates the envelope treatment and make them stackable.
I came up with something a bit more interesting though. To start, all Intricates would Bind on Pickup. Players would therefore be expected to vend or deconstruct all Intricates they generate, keeping all such transactions off the guild trader. However, in deconstructing an Intricate item, it would grant a 1/X chance to generate a Tips on [Crafting Skill] consumable item that grants X times as much Inspiration. For example, deconstructing an Intricate sword would give a 1/50 chance of generating a "Tips on Blacksmithing" consumable that when consumed would grant 50x the Inspiration as the Intricate item. This would effectively double the total potential Inspiration in the game, with a full measure going to the player that received the Intricate drops (encouraging them to potentially level alts), and a full measure that would be neatly consolidated into tradable stacks that could be sold to other players. This would be a friendly approach in "sharing knowledge gleaned from my experience." Or players could just use their own Tips to double down.
This might be best coupled with adding more levels to the current craft skill caps with more perks since leveling might become a little too easy this way. It would be quite generous in giving out so much more Inspiration, but I think the improved functionality of the Guild Store would be worth it.
If the 30-to-14 day listing change didn't work out so well, there probably are a lot of other ways like this to address the database concerns.
As such, Intricate-traited gear makes up ~10% of Guild Store transaction volume. This contributes a lot to database strain, and that bogs down search performance for everyone. It also makes it more difficult to manage add-on data.
One thing that could help would just to give Intricates the envelope treatment and make them stackable.
I came up with something a bit more interesting though. To start, all Intricates would Bind on Pickup. Players would therefore be expected to vend or deconstruct all Intricates they generate, keeping all such transactions off the guild trader. However, in deconstructing an Intricate item, it would grant a 1/X chance to generate a Tips on [Crafting Skill] consumable item that grants X times as much Inspiration. For example, deconstructing an Intricate sword would give a 1/50 chance of generating a "Tips on Blacksmithing" consumable that when consumed would grant 50x the Inspiration as the Intricate item. This would effectively double the total potential Inspiration in the game, with a full measure going to the player that received the Intricate drops (encouraging them to potentially level alts), and a full measure that would be neatly consolidated into tradable stacks that could be sold to other players. This would be a friendly approach in "sharing knowledge gleaned from my experience." Or players could just use their own Tips to double down.
This might be best coupled with adding more levels to the current craft skill caps with more perks since leveling might become a little too easy this way. It would be quite generous in giving out so much more Inspiration, but I think the improved functionality of the Guild Store would be worth it.
If the 30-to-14 day listing change didn't work out so well, there probably are a lot of other ways like this to address the database concerns.
Re: Loremaster's Archive: Heart's Week Celebration and Mara's Blessings!
OgrimTitan wrote: »In High Rock, every church of the Eight Divines has a knightly order. Knights of Iron for the Zenithar's Resolution, Knights of the Circle for the Order of Arkay.. Maran Knights for the Benevolence of Mara. The inconvenient question in this season of love and romance would be: what is the actual role of the military order of the church that propagates peace and love?
Nicolas le Bellerose, spellknight-mentor of planology, Daggerfall School of Julianos
A man clad in armor of shining silver bearing a tabard adorned with the resplendent heraldry of Mara, had he had the opportunity to bear witness to such a letter, would reply to the Knight of Julianos:
"The greatest threat to wickedness is not a blade of sharpened steel, nor the incantations of the arcane or even divine. In truth, the force more powerful than any other, the unassailable bulwark around our hearts, is Love. No matter how deep the darkness of despair, Love is the guiding light that shatters the darkness cast by the shadows of false gods and evil men. Love is a beacon of compassion, mercy, and repentance.
Evil, ever envious of this gift, will forever be relentless in attempts to break our sacred bonds. Knowing this to be true, we gather in arms and faith in defense of our Love, Mara's greatest gift and blessing.
In Her Name,
Paris Antony Valerius
Knight Lieutenant of the Maran Knights"
(At least in my RP Guild Mara's Embrace)
@OgrimTitan @AScarlato
This reminds me of the Sacred Band of Thebes. Whether or not the Sacred Band of Thebes truly existed as described, it could be the truth for a knightly order dedicated to Mara. Pretty badass, I think.
Re: Worried about free respecs in group content causing bullying.
This is not an issue.
If people are bullying then that is a problem with those specific players and players should take measures accordingly (e.g. report them, etc.).
Free respecing is a huge quality of life triumph for the overwhelming majority of players and that should absolutely not be nerfed due to hypothetical edge cases involving a tiny number of potential bad actors. We already have mechanisms in place for punishing bullying and bad player behavior.
If people are bullying then that is a problem with those specific players and players should take measures accordingly (e.g. report them, etc.).
Free respecing is a huge quality of life triumph for the overwhelming majority of players and that should absolutely not be nerfed due to hypothetical edge cases involving a tiny number of potential bad actors. We already have mechanisms in place for punishing bullying and bad player behavior.
Re: Loremaster's Archive: Heart's Week Celebration and Mara's Blessings!
Hail Kuzam-jo, Priestess of the divine Mara!
I am a Nord on official Pact business in Morrowind. I dare not ask the Dunmer this myself but I have read conflicting accounts on marriage ceremonies among the House Dunmer. I know that marriages can happen across Houses and that supposedly one partner formally and spiritually joins the House of their spouse, ancestor ghosts and all. Is this true? How is that determined? A Khajiit told me that traditionally a man always joins the House of his wife, but I've never read about such a tradition anywhere. Does it differ? I think he was lying to set me up for some major blunder at the wedding I'm invited to!
Please Madam Kuzam-jo, I know this has little to do with Mara, but as the marriage expert you have to help me! I fear I could lose my head if I get this wrong!
- signed, a cowardly Nord.
I am a Nord on official Pact business in Morrowind. I dare not ask the Dunmer this myself but I have read conflicting accounts on marriage ceremonies among the House Dunmer. I know that marriages can happen across Houses and that supposedly one partner formally and spiritually joins the House of their spouse, ancestor ghosts and all. Is this true? How is that determined? A Khajiit told me that traditionally a man always joins the House of his wife, but I've never read about such a tradition anywhere. Does it differ? I think he was lying to set me up for some major blunder at the wedding I'm invited to!
Please Madam Kuzam-jo, I know this has little to do with Mara, but as the marriage expert you have to help me! I fear I could lose my head if I get this wrong!
- signed, a cowardly Nord.
Re: Class Identity Refresh for Sorc and Warden
MashmalloMan wrote: »On one hand, the term is clearly being used as way to give a connective element between all 3 skill lines, a major complaint since release has been that it feels like they smashed 3 seperate classes into 1.
I think that's why, after using the reworked New-DK as a model, the official team decided to prioritize Warden and Sorc next.
Bbecause the gameplay and themes of the three skill lines in these two classes are quite different, and after many rounds of coordination and compromise, they have become the Frankenstein's monster we see today, like a tangled fishing line that needs more time to untangle.
This sounds interesting; perhaps one could deal frost damage and provide a defensive buff to the player, while the other deals poison damage and inflicts a poison status effect on the target with each attack.MashmalloMan wrote: »What does a Summer imbued bear look like vs a Winter one?
Re: With the new animation reworks, would you like ZOS to remove animation cancelling?
Pointless poll since the well is already poisoned. Animation cancelling and weaving are two completely different things that can be connected but are not necessarily the same.
Asking for the removal of weaving is asking for the removal of light attacks. Is that understood? Weaving is not a bug or an exploit. Weaving is just the consequence of not wanting to skip out on free damage. It's the same concept as casting your spammable every second instead of only casting it every two seconds. There is no reason to not cast your skill every second. There is no reason not to weave in a light attack between skill casts.
Animation cancelling is what happens when you have an animation that lasts, for example, 1 second, on a skill that already dealt its damage after 0.8s, leaving you with 0.2s seconds of animation that accomplish nothing. Blocking for example -which needs to be possible in those split seconds as you will otherwise experience more frustrating deaths in PvE and PvP - allows you to skip those 0.2s of wasted animation time to get back into action faster. This can look janky but it doesn't have to. Removing animation cancelling can be done in multiple ways, some better than others, so try to be constructive. Streamlining the animations to look better and feel smoother to play with minimal wasted time is one way. Locking people into finishing the animation they started is another, and arguably more frustrating way to achieve this.
Regardless, animation cancelling is not what is currently excluding people from endgame content. Anyone who believes that has no idea what they are talking about and shouldn't be giving confusing feedback on the forums, on reddit or anywhere else. The fearmongering around animation cancelling is honestly ridiculous and discussions like this one poison the discourse that then surrounds our game, preventing others from picking up the game because from the outside it looks "toxic" and "very hard" when it isn't. That, in my opinion, is a much bigger issue. Misinformation and the impression that ESO is full of microtransactions considering we have what's essentially an ad jump into your face any time you log in for the first time of the day.
Before you worry about animation cancelling, worry about wearing the right sets, playing your rotation right (without animation cancelling) and weaving correctly. Once you have mastered that and want to push beyond to some ridiculous number, then you can worry about animation cancelling. And on that note, sometimes slowing down with the weaving and making your rotation simpler can result in higher damage, because:
slowing down => less stress => fewer mistakes => more damage
And if you can't do all that, even on an arcanist, learn healing or tanking and get your achievements that way.
Asking for the removal of weaving is asking for the removal of light attacks. Is that understood? Weaving is not a bug or an exploit. Weaving is just the consequence of not wanting to skip out on free damage. It's the same concept as casting your spammable every second instead of only casting it every two seconds. There is no reason to not cast your skill every second. There is no reason not to weave in a light attack between skill casts.
Animation cancelling is what happens when you have an animation that lasts, for example, 1 second, on a skill that already dealt its damage after 0.8s, leaving you with 0.2s seconds of animation that accomplish nothing. Blocking for example -which needs to be possible in those split seconds as you will otherwise experience more frustrating deaths in PvE and PvP - allows you to skip those 0.2s of wasted animation time to get back into action faster. This can look janky but it doesn't have to. Removing animation cancelling can be done in multiple ways, some better than others, so try to be constructive. Streamlining the animations to look better and feel smoother to play with minimal wasted time is one way. Locking people into finishing the animation they started is another, and arguably more frustrating way to achieve this.
Regardless, animation cancelling is not what is currently excluding people from endgame content. Anyone who believes that has no idea what they are talking about and shouldn't be giving confusing feedback on the forums, on reddit or anywhere else. The fearmongering around animation cancelling is honestly ridiculous and discussions like this one poison the discourse that then surrounds our game, preventing others from picking up the game because from the outside it looks "toxic" and "very hard" when it isn't. That, in my opinion, is a much bigger issue. Misinformation and the impression that ESO is full of microtransactions considering we have what's essentially an ad jump into your face any time you log in for the first time of the day.
Before you worry about animation cancelling, worry about wearing the right sets, playing your rotation right (without animation cancelling) and weaving correctly. Once you have mastered that and want to push beyond to some ridiculous number, then you can worry about animation cancelling. And on that note, sometimes slowing down with the weaving and making your rotation simpler can result in higher damage, because:
slowing down => less stress => fewer mistakes => more damage
And if you can't do all that, even on an arcanist, learn healing or tanking and get your achievements that way.
Re: People who take forever and a day to play a single turn...
That's me.
With the rng always stacked against me in favor of my opponents, triggering a concede remains my only shot at winning, or lose my progress.
So whenever I feel like rage quit but want to avoid the time penalty nore, the best revenge is wasting my opponent's time as well.
This is why I can't stand ToT outside of the RNG. Literally this mentality.
