Medicate wrote: »

Nerf to Ansuul’s, Tide-born, and Velothi is gutting my Arcanist build

good, screw arcanist meta

Claw (werewolf) meta will rain supreme... joking it looks like much less deeps but still good

Please, no. There's absolutely no need for it outside of some sort of weird sexualization of a feral (wo)manbeast.

So the new stance is that unless you go pure class, or use a combo of the 3 most OP skill lines in the game, you can go fork yourself? These passives are INSANELY over powered beyond belief, so the only way you can possibly justify dropping them (which happens even if you only swap out one skill line) is by making sure that you're using three skill lines that synergize perfectly together from a power standpoint. What about the NB that wants to drop assassination for stomcalling? They end up massively underpowered despite keeping 2/3 of their oh so holy main class skill lines. And what happens after the class refresh? Despite all the assurances that the mastery system will be "iterated" on, the change to the Pyrebrand set shows that they have no intention to get rid of this after the skill lines are evened out.

So to answer your question "Do you feel this system helps in allowing for more player agency in a post subclassing play environment?"
NO. It completely destroys player agency. The whole point of subclassing was to let players play the way they want. The class refresh is necessary to balance out the skill lines and keep everyone on a level playing field. Class mastery makes that blatantly impossible. As long as class mastery exists, its going to keep pure classes at a higher power level by default, which means that subclassed builds using the ideal combinations of skills will continue to be tolerated as long as they don't exceed that power level, removing zos' incentive to properly balance the skill lines. If they did balance the skill lines evenly, then pure class builds become the only viable builds, since they erroneously have massive buffs from class mastery. How exactly did zos think that them shoehorning players into specific builds was "player agency"?

Tried Vestige for soloing world bosses (base game and DLC).

- What was the most challenging aspect of encounters?

Base game - these feel like some older non-HM vDLC final bosses. Tbh it really depends on the boss but in general they were okay I think.. I didn't find most of them especially challenging.
DLC - they feel like some HM vDLC final bosses where you must stay focused the entire fight and react to every incoming light attack. They feel like bosses now finally.

- Did the risk feel appropriate for the reward?

300 more gold and 3k more exp? Nah

- Did you enjoy the system overall?

It's the best thing ever happened to ESO imo

if your running a beam build, you could always just switch ansuul for yandirs

yandirs is extremely easy to build up and maintain 10 stacks while beaming because its all direct dmg that your doing, and its a flat weapon/spell dmg buff instead of a % increase

my main dps build right now is using kazpian/highland sentinel/velothi with a maelstrom 2h back bar (so i have 3 things as well which are using % dmg increases)

if it impacts me too much ill probably just go back to yandirs, my pure class arcanist is still running a yandirs setup which still works pretty well too

theres plenty of options that just buff weapon/spell dmg which are viable alternatives