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Re: Solo Dungeons will Kill the MMO.
All end game content is group content.
ESO wasn't even created by the same studio that creates Elder Scrolls games.
Everyone knew this when they originally purchased ESO.
Nope - My endgame is one of two things usually... Doing my houses. Creating another character to try a new Class and Build and playing it again from the start. Has been since day one. I have no interest in Group or PvP, which I assume is what you assume is endgame.
As for Bethesda not being involved with ESO - Every time I start my game there's a great big Bethesda logo before Zenimax Online... Interesting for a studio with no involvement, huh?
Re: Cyrodiil Consensus?
heimdall14_9 wrote: »YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Definitely in favor of only one copy of a given healing/shielding morph operating on a player.
But the proposal for shields was ambiguous enough for me not to vote for it.
I think that you want to ensure as much continuity with PvE rules and combat mechanics as is possible with any change. So I disfavor highly arbitrary and meta-gamey restrictions like "shields can only reach X% of a target's Max HP" or "players may only have Y shields on them at a given time". Not only do those approaches come with their own significant drawbacks, edge-cases, and overhead, but they do not articulate with the rest of the game's mechanics at all and so we should, IMO, pull other levers first for balancing shields.
In my eyes, the biggest two offending skills are, without a doubt, Warding Burst and Shielding Conti. Why? Because they are mundane abilities that can and are spammed nearly every GCD during combat, and, when you build for it, exceed ultimate-like levels of shielding without having to... use an actual ultimate. If you look at ballgroup logs for shields, those two abilities always top the charts.
The skills behave that way because they, for whatever bad reason or oversight, scale with Max HP and not exclusively with Max Resources as they should. So groups pump-up Max HP on one caster and then use them to spam giant HP-inflated shields on everyone else. As a rule, self-shields meant for PvE tanks should be the only shields to scale with Max HP and everything else should scale from Max Resources.
That simple change would completely neuter the Scribing shields for PvP groups and groups would likely stop using them altogether as a result (I know that my group would), eliminating a huge portion of their overall shield stack and relegating what remains to the domain of ultimates, which, IMO, should be strong.
From there, you can simply use the existing Battle Spirit mechanics to globally tune shield strength if it was still necessary, to perhaps 45% strength.
once you used PvE as part of your reasoning you lost me
we are talking about an BATTLE SPIRIT change that well do 0 change to how PvE works and how PvE works has no place in the matter how PvP should work , thats been the biggest factor with PVP has been out of control for so long PVE being effected by change to skills ... DONT LET AN CHANGE TO BATTLE SPIRIT GET BOLOCKED FOR THE SAME ABUSED REASON
You don't understand that BATTLE SPIRIT is a kind of buff/debuff. It doesn't allow you to change skill mechanics. And all the suggestions in this thread are about skill changes.
Any skill change affects PVE. If I have to explain this to you, maybe you shouldn't post your opinion here. You're too incompetent.
AD42
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Re: New Telvar for Queueing Limit is too low
My hot take is that IC gameplay loop right now is already fundamentally unappealing for most players and needs a large rework in future to save it. This teleport change is not going to help the population much and is going to make things worse.
IC was added in 2015 and has had 10 years to find a healthy population and has failed. It is consistently dead outside of events, and even with double TV and tickets people complain about being "forced" to go to IC. It's not that ESO players hate PVP. Cyro and BGs usually have much more robust players levels at all hours compared to this and most people have at least dipped their toes into PVP for skill lines and stuff.
The problem is that IC as some mentioned is an hardcore extraction shooter style loop gameplay which isn't a terrible idea. Arc raiders, tarkov etc. are all popular games. The problem is that the "extract" half of the game takes way too long. Once you're done with quests or farming or whatever, you have to run to sewer entrance, run through the whole sewers, avoid a whole bunch of mobs and stuff back to base just to exit. Can you imagine if trial or dungeon disabled "leave instance" once you enter and made you run all the way back to entrance door to leave? People would freaking hate that. And this is not even counting the risk of you getting ganked or dying along the way and losing half of your rewards anyway!
This is why death ports and queue for cyro, or logging out, or queue for rnd, or the previous intro quest exploit exists. Because most people just want to get out ASAP instead of being forced to do the same boring run back EVERY SINGLE TIME. The fact that these methods allow you to keep most of your rewards is the icing on the cake.
If it were up to me, IC districts and sewers should be completely separate things and you can head back to base immediately from the districts. Add more variety of extraction. Arc raiders has lifts, air vents, hatches, trains etc. Why can't we have something like that in IC?
IC was added in 2015 and has had 10 years to find a healthy population and has failed. It is consistently dead outside of events, and even with double TV and tickets people complain about being "forced" to go to IC. It's not that ESO players hate PVP. Cyro and BGs usually have much more robust players levels at all hours compared to this and most people have at least dipped their toes into PVP for skill lines and stuff.
The problem is that IC as some mentioned is an hardcore extraction shooter style loop gameplay which isn't a terrible idea. Arc raiders, tarkov etc. are all popular games. The problem is that the "extract" half of the game takes way too long. Once you're done with quests or farming or whatever, you have to run to sewer entrance, run through the whole sewers, avoid a whole bunch of mobs and stuff back to base just to exit. Can you imagine if trial or dungeon disabled "leave instance" once you enter and made you run all the way back to entrance door to leave? People would freaking hate that. And this is not even counting the risk of you getting ganked or dying along the way and losing half of your rewards anyway!
This is why death ports and queue for cyro, or logging out, or queue for rnd, or the previous intro quest exploit exists. Because most people just want to get out ASAP instead of being forced to do the same boring run back EVERY SINGLE TIME. The fact that these methods allow you to keep most of your rewards is the icing on the cake.
If it were up to me, IC districts and sewers should be completely separate things and you can head back to base immediately from the districts. Add more variety of extraction. Arc raiders has lifts, air vents, hatches, trains etc. Why can't we have something like that in IC?
- Killing district boss drops special key that unlocks a randomly spawning trapdoor/hatch back to base useable by anyone. When hatch is unlocked lights and sounds and icon appears on map, creating potential conflict.
- Capturing and flipping the flag creates a mage portal usable by your alliance to return to base. Highly desirable! High chance of attracting fights!
- Kill a bunch of daedra and capture a daedric rift that leads back to base, spawns anywhere but requires a short channel animation to use, leaving you vulnerable for a while.
- Sewer entrances have multiple random spawn points and can be used by anyone anytime, but have a short cooldown after someone uses it.
- etc. etc.
Re: Thoughts on Seasons?
They've gotta be kidding with this reveal. After the Solstice disaster, I'm done with anything titled "Season Pass".
After 10 years I discontinued the ESO Plus yearly drain and screw the craft bag. First time I didn't participate in the January event as the interest just isn't there any more.
Had some good years, but it has run its course. Noticed most of my friends have bailed on this game.
After 10 years I discontinued the ESO Plus yearly drain and screw the craft bag. First time I didn't participate in the January event as the interest just isn't there any more.
Had some good years, but it has run its course. Noticed most of my friends have bailed on this game.
Re: (Updated) Favorite DLC year in terms of main quest storytelling?
I like how the visual of this poll shows the exact point at witch the storytelling took a nosedive.
I only voted Skyrim because of Fennorian, by the way. By far one of my favorite NPC's, loved the whole quest line because of Robbie's VA performance (was already a fan of him in Final Fantasy XV and Palia) it is genuinely my favorite.
However, everything that came before Skyrim was also absolutely outstanding. I really miss that kind of quality storytelling. Going back to the older expansions, and even base game, the difference is stark. So much more depth, and VA I never get tired of listening to, with prose that's written with elegance.
I only voted Skyrim because of Fennorian, by the way. By far one of my favorite NPC's, loved the whole quest line because of Robbie's VA performance (was already a fan of him in Final Fantasy XV and Palia) it is genuinely my favorite.
However, everything that came before Skyrim was also absolutely outstanding. I really miss that kind of quality storytelling. Going back to the older expansions, and even base game, the difference is stark. So much more depth, and VA I never get tired of listening to, with prose that's written with elegance.
Re: With the new animation reworks, would you like ZOS to remove animation cancelling?
StihlReign wrote: »It was a mistake. ZOS doesn't fix mistakes. The players suffer with them for years, even coming around to defending them and eventually proclaiming them features. Meanwhile the initial posts about the mistakes are incredible.
Ever hear of happy accidents? Just gotta paint it into a happy little tree.
Soarora
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Re: For those on pts, how do the stackable treasure maps work?
treasure maps will no longer be Unique. the current Unique tag makes it impossible to stack.
Re: Solo Dungeons will Kill the MMO.
SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »Given that the only solo content is overland and public dungeons and delves it's safe to assume that's what solo players are doing. All end game content is group content, so no solo players are playing the vast majority of the content in ESO and aren't participating in any end game activities.
In what reality is any dungeon bigger than any single zone, let alone all of them, for dungeons to be the "majority" of the content in ESO?
If anything solo players should be getting the best rewards for not only doing the majority of the content, but for also doing it by themselves and without the need of a group for backup.
Re: Class Identity Refresh for Sorc and Warden
With them having a philosophy of adding beams, I hope the beam fits into a morph on the lightning line as well. Perhaps liquid lightning.
It would be fantastic if Sorc, after his rework, could have a Lightning Storm similar to the Master-level Destruction spell in TES5. While Arc already has a similar ability, it feels like it should have originally belonged to Sorc.
Re: Class Identity Refresh for Sorc and Warden
I actually hope the Warden is more like an elementalist, using three different attributes: fire, frost, and shock. These attributes would also effectively represent the four seasons: frost for autumn and winter, fire for summer, and shock for spring (spring storms). This would also fill the current gap in the game's severe lack of summons with other attributes. In TES, we have a rich variety of summons like Flame Atronach, Flaming Familiar, Ash Spawn, Frost Atronach, Seeker, and Ash Guardian, but ESO is very lacking.
I think the new Warden should better fit the Vvardenfell and Solstheim themes, using appearances like Firemoth, Ice Wraith, Frostbite Spider, and Burnt Spriggan in its skill animations. Furthermore, considering the New-DK's current lack of critical damage, if the New-Warden is an elementalist, it will be able to effectively utilize the Elemental Catalyst set, allowing for better team synergy with the New-DK.
However, it wouldn't be bad if New-Warden were simplified to poison + frost damage, and the dual-attribute damage theme could also provide a reference for future class reworks. If New-Warden were simplified to poison + frost damage, I would hope that the Animal Companion's ultimate skill would no longer be the bear, but could be made a regular skill, and the ultimate skill could be changed to: Summons a temporary spider spirit to fight for you for 30 seconds. The spider spirit deals fan-shaped area-of-effect poison damage in front of it every 2 seconds, and each attack applies the poison status effect.
I think the new Warden should better fit the Vvardenfell and Solstheim themes, using appearances like Firemoth, Ice Wraith, Frostbite Spider, and Burnt Spriggan in its skill animations. Furthermore, considering the New-DK's current lack of critical damage, if the New-Warden is an elementalist, it will be able to effectively utilize the Elemental Catalyst set, allowing for better team synergy with the New-DK.
However, it wouldn't be bad if New-Warden were simplified to poison + frost damage, and the dual-attribute damage theme could also provide a reference for future class reworks. If New-Warden were simplified to poison + frost damage, I would hope that the Animal Companion's ultimate skill would no longer be the bear, but could be made a regular skill, and the ultimate skill could be changed to: Summons a temporary spider spirit to fight for you for 30 seconds. The spider spirit deals fan-shaped area-of-effect poison damage in front of it every 2 seconds, and each attack applies the poison status effect.