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Re: Should Female Werewolves Have Small Chest Bumps?
There are no children in the game, I am not sure if lactation is part of the lore canon.
Besides, year-long visible mammary glands are a specifically human oddity. Afaik, in other mammals (including other primates), they only show when needed, so while nursing, a time the mother is usually not able to become pregnant again - so if you find female breasts sexually attractive, you are really the odd one out (in the animal kingdom)!
Of course, that rule is broken with other female species in TES. After all, it's a fantasy game to please humans, not lamia or harpies.
Faulgor
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Re: Wisteria's motivation? (Tanlorin's questline, text includes spoilers)
Honestly? It's a story about an absolutely untamrielic Mary Sue character depicted as being perceived as perfect and absolutely brilliant in any regard, super talented and intelligent of course, well-respected by everyone (except for the baddies), drinking lots of wine and having many sexual conquests - while having the mindset and intelligence of a small child, asking where cloth comes from, randomly making roaring sounds, and pretending to be a beaver while chopping wood (a contrast which feels super creepy, by the way; or at least where I come from, someone who thinks and acts like a child getting drunk or having "dates" would be perceived as absolutely questionable).
Also using pronouns that clearly differ from the physical form, which is a rare thing in Tamriel - but still, instead of going by the body shape, everyone knows the correct pronouns immediately and uses them correctly, including enemies.
Put short: There is no logic.
At least the same year also had Zerith-var, whose story was much more mature, provided us with wonderful new lore and absolutely fit into Tamriel. This is what I, and I know also many other people who are here for stories and lore, want to see more of. Not quirky, meme-y nonsense that doesn't even fit into the fictional world and its cultures.
Heh, yeah. There's also the question why someone like Wisteria (a hardened and competent spy with a fanatical vision) would be so obsessed with a wilfully childish and irresponsible goof like Tanlorin. Opposites attract and all that, but there are limits. Mary Sue is indeed a good moniker.
I haven't unlocked Zerith-Var, but another great contrast immediately comes to mind. Sharp-as-Night's story is also on another level compared to Tanlorin's. It is tightly and logically plotted, and the character motivations make perfect sense. The story was actually even surreptitiously chilling when one thought about the horror of magically augmented slavery (when even the mundane version is bad enough) and the Reformer's creepy obsession about Sharp. But the text didn't actively rub that against the player's face but let us draw our own conclusions. Also I was genuinely moved by Mevei's development because of her wonderful voice acting, and Sharp himself is a great character. Even Federo and other comic characters were comical in a way that fit the Elder Scrolls world perfectly. I wish that writer had written Tanlorin's story, too. Namely, "they" had great potential as a concept, but the execution indeed fell flat.
The original post admittedly was an attempt to repair something that perhaps is irreparable.
JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »I do think that the story line could have been good. But, to me, Tanlorin overshadows it to the point that it just seems, well, trite.
The writer only would have had to tone Tanlorin's childishness down two notches and ask himself a few hard questions about character motivations, then answer them in the text. But he didn't, so the end result is a very lazy story. It is waste of perfectly good side characters, if nothing else. Wisteria, Hyacinth and the Gardener actually interested me more than Tanlorin. I'd like to see more content about them (or, well, about those two who survived).
I don't hate Tanlorin, actually, but the character's infantile writing does grate me at times. I think it's implied that Tanlorin isn't actually at the level of a five-year-old, but only ironically pretends to be like some Gen Z or millennial of our days who fears nothing more than to appear "boring", that is, adult and serious. The character is a symptom of the postmodern fear of seriousness. Even their voice and acting is otherwise good, but for some reason the accent has to be the lazy, annoyingly loose drawl of a modern-day US hipster. Tanlorin is a wasted opportunity.
In fact, I'd like to see a High Elf companion like Wisteria much rather than what we got. Someone competent, intelligent, driven and disciplined. In sum, a character that would embody more traditional Altmer virtues even if his/her story would test and question the value of those virtues. I'd enjoy that. Of course, it would be a bonus if the said companion also would be a pretty lady like W...
Tesman85
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Re: Race passives balance makes more sense now
How are you commenting on the race gap while saying the unique passives are fine? Those are extremely meaningful and have more impact than the max resources. Khajiit's crit damage already puts them ahead for dps when not at crit cap. If you could swap out their trash recovery passive and worse max resources passives for the best options, then the gap widens.
Personally I don't think race passives should be a thing besides the flavour ones that are intrinsic such as Argonian's swim speed, Kahjiit's additional pickpocket chance, Nord's additional duration of drinks, etc.
My race choice is picked on what's best in content, and I'm sure it's the same for most of the playerbase. Race has a noticeable effect on your performance in this game, I would prefer if you could pick what looked cool and select any passives. Call it race transmog or whatever.
Shouldnt the drunk race have LESS duration for each drink
Re: Update 50 PTS – Week 1 Summary
Oh no, Sorc Font of Power nerf is incoming due to people standing near a dummy and just attacked it. Lmao. Now make an Assasination, Storm Calling, Aedric Spear Subclass build with medium armor and tell me how much you parse on your dummy. That is what it will fight against in PvP. And then simulate fighting a DK with 50% projectile reduction moving at you at speed cap whole time, which has a one shot four abilities burst stun 22m leap ability, if you dont guess when it will use it and block beforehand.
Re: companions need to be adjusted (challenge difficulty)
Dont use them then. [snip]
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duagloth
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Re: Wisteria's motivation? (Tanlorin's questline, text includes spoilers)
I must not have used Tanlorin all that much, because I don't remember the roaring and pretending to be a beaver. I think I remember the 'so this is where they get cloth' or something.Honestly? It's a story about an absolutely untamrielic Mary Sue character depicted as being perceived as perfect and absolutely brilliant in any regard, super talented and intelligent of course, well-respected by everyone (except for the baddies), drinking lots of wine and having many sexual conquests - while having the mindset and intelligence of a small child, asking where cloth comes from, randomly making roaring sounds, and pretending to be a beaver while chopping wood (a contrast which feels super creepy, by the way; or at least where I come from, someone who thinks and acts like a child getting drunk or having "dates" would be perceived as absolutely questionable).
Also using pronouns that clearly differ from the physical form, which is a rare thing in Tamriel - but still, instead of going by the body shape, everyone knows the correct pronouns immediately and uses them correctly, including enemies.
Put short: There is no logic.
At least the same year also had Zerith-var, whose story was much more mature, provided us with wonderful new lore and absolutely fit into Tamriel. This is what I, and I know also many other people who are here for stories and lore, want to see more of. Not quirky, meme-y nonsense that doesn't even fit into the fictional world and its cultures.
But, yeah, put that way, and the way the OP put it, it just makes that story that much worse, especially in comparison to Zerith-var's story.
That is also one of the biggest issues I have with 'they/them' in stories. Somehow, everyone seems to know to use They/Them instead of the pronouns that fit the body shape, even when it is the first time meeting that person. Unless the person is carrying a huge sign saying that they use They/Them, no one is going to automatically know that. Especially in places where they don't default to 'they/them' for people they don't know.
I do think that the story line could have been good. But, to me, Tanlorin overshadows it to the point that it just seems, well, trite.
Re: It Appears Grey Host and Vengeance Will Exist Side by Side After All. Thoughts?
MincMincMinc wrote: »
People were mostly complaining about vengeance having no builds.
What I dont understand is why did zos even make this perk/bonus system function like this? The original intent was that because vengeance didnt have items enabled they wanted to make up for the lack of item sets and skill passives.......They could design the UI to look like ANYTHING. So why not design the UI for bonuses to look like slotting vengeance item sets? Instead they made a new system that people don't want to be bothered to learn.
Seeing the class/skill reworks happening before zos even finishes the vengeance testing should tell you all you need to know of where we think things are gonna go. They are just going to reduce the pvp server pop down again to account for the new lag they added into the game with dlc releases over time. Original pop was 900, then 600, now 300 and we can guess its going to go down substantially for the new mini cyrodil one keep campaigns.
I'd hope they keep Vengeance at a 900 pop cap as that is much closer to what they advertise and also had at release. How much was it before they had serverside calculations? 1k Per side?
And yeah the interface does feel strange. Having vengeance only item sets would be super interesting, like a reverse transmog where your current armour is for looks, and you equip sets that you'd get from some vendor for AP? Though it's probably for performance reasons like everything else in Vengeance. 3 Simple bonuses from the menu rather than 12 bonuses + 12 enchants + procs from gear.
Honestly though? I loved Vengeance's earlier tests, so I'll gladly take it. And I'm glad they added some things for dedicated healers, that's my favorite playstyle in ESO PvP that other games never got right imo.
Re: Good DK buff
Thumbless_Bot wrote: »This kind of DPS coming from brain off spam of light attacks and/or 1-2 abilities has to stop. It is super unhealthy gameplay, has zero skill based counterplay and only minimal build-based counterplay, and is overall just not fun to fight.
It's fine for dot builds to exist, but we should be encouraging more engaged gameplay than "my light attacks make you take 5k dps". Pyreband and wildfire are some of the worst offenders, but they're not the only things like that on PTS either. Werewolf and some of the sorc & warden status setups come to mind, too.
Would really like to see the pyre change reverted and the wildfire passive reworked into something that isn't a free damage proc. I posted this in another thread, but some ideas could be;
- Increases your damage by X% for each dragonknight dot you have active on your opponent.
- Causes your opponent to take X% more damage from dots for each dragonknight dot they have active on them.
- For each of your DK dots active on your target, increase the damage of newly applied DK dots by x%.
I do not say this to be inflammatory towards zos at all but I really believe that they are trying to remove skill from the game in every way possible, both pvp and pve.
I cant believe what I experience in pvp recently and when I do meander over to pve for a shoulder piece or helmet or mythic it is just as bad. My tank and two or three dps spamming green water hoses at bosses and trash mobs.
The game is a shell of what it used to be and this apparently what they want.
I thought yesterday, when I saw all those weird new skills and flashy skill styles in a BG, that if our past selves saw this a decade ago, we would probably suffer a heart attack, because the game has just changed that drastically. But then I also thought that the same could be said about any MMO that has run for some while.
Yet is it truly worse? In some ways yes. But overall it's more fun today for me. So many options to play and to craft your build with spell crafting and different sets. I think it's more interesting now, even if I also loved the simplicity of the old days.
The only thing that was 100% better back then, was that no one even thought of so heretical an idea as a STAM Sorc.
Dracane
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Re: Azureblight Reaper need to be fixed (PVP\BG)
CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »I think it's important to point out that this is technically incorrect; Azureblight is only truly better/broken right now in a single target situation because of how the bug works.
When I say wiping an entire group, I mean that a single player using Azura can deal enough damage to win or nearly win a match effortlessly. The only option in that situation is to kill the Azura user before the set has a chance to ramp up. Many may say that neutralizing the strongest opponent is always a priority in Battlegrounds, but I prefer to fight players, not broken sets.
Azureblight Reaper need to be fixed (PVP\BG)
Azura has been broken in Battlegrounds for several months now, and we still haven't seen any response from the developers. Even the latest PTS patch notes don't mention this set or the problems it causes in PvP.
For those of you who are not aware of the situation, Azura is currently overperforming to an absurd degree: with just a few damage-over-time skills, you don't need anything else to wipe out a group of eight players, regardless of build. I used this set in PvE before the nerf, and I know how it worked for years. What we are seeing now in BGs is simply absurd.
Considering that not many players participate in Battlegrounds, it would be nice to at least get some fixes for problems that are destroying the remaining desire to participate in PvP.
For those of you who are not aware of the situation, Azura is currently overperforming to an absurd degree: with just a few damage-over-time skills, you don't need anything else to wipe out a group of eight players, regardless of build. I used this set in PvE before the nerf, and I know how it worked for years. What we are seeing now in BGs is simply absurd.
Considering that not many players participate in Battlegrounds, it would be nice to at least get some fixes for problems that are destroying the remaining desire to participate in PvP.