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Re: PVP right now...
Back in the day we had Mag Sorcs spamming overload constantly. You want to get whipped or eat a dozen overloads every 5 minutes?
I want there to be 1,000 "Metas" and not a flavor of the month like every MMO seemingly does.
Slight tuning instead of massive overhauls/nerfs/buffs.
Do some analyses and see what skills PVPers NEVER use and buff them. Let us come up with the META.
ADawg
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Re: Addressing U50 PTS Combat & Ability Concerns
ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »
Touching on Necromancer first, we’ve seen folks looking for clarification on what the issue was with Malevolent Promise in PvP. The reason behind this change was specifically when it was paired with Corpseburster, it was doing insane damage in PvP – far higher than is fair, […]
Not trying to sound disrespectful but corro DKs are currently hitting in excess of 30k whips so define “fair”?
ZOS: We still have nightmares of the old Harmony + Grave Robber Necros, but instead of reworking Malevolent Promise into something else we are just going to disable it for PvP. We may or may not change it in the future, have fun!!!
Being the only Class(afaik) with the privilege of having a passive that does nothing on 1 game mode isn't really making me hopeful for the rework.
To be fair, Masteries were thrown together relatively late in the game, obviously when they decided to add the 15% Monster Damage to DK's Whip which happened in week 3 or 4 of last PTS. In their dev stream a month later when Gilliam showed the first tease of them, he said he had been hard at work on them for the past 2~3 weeks.
They're probably the best combat balance change they've done in the past 12 years and they came up with it in less than 3 months, so have hope.
Re: Night Market - Week One Notes
Could you guys maybe put the gilded keys in the faction vendor for say 20k each with achievement? This way if someone is missing a key for the trial/dungeon then they could buy it but it would be too expensive for most to want to so there would still be plenty of farming. That way groups don't gotta disband when they realize their buddy forgot they didn't have it.
Re: U50 Bug Reports for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
Thank you all for the continued bug reports for the Werewolf! The team is still actively keeping an eye on this and other threads and we have been investigating the issues that are being called out. While all the issues may not be resolved within the PTS cycle, we are looking into solutions and will provide updates when we can.
ZOS_Erin
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Re: Addressing U50 PTS Combat & Ability Concerns
You mentioned not understanding why Sorcerer is said to be weak, and mentioned that its DPS was so high the first week.
I am quite sure the main complain people have about Sorcerer is its lack of group utility and cleave damage. Its damage having been the highest against parse dummies never had any real value to it, as Sorcerer doesn't offer the dearly needed cleave damage nowadays and also nothing unique to groups in general.
All Sorcerer offered anymore was Major Berserk through the Atronach; which Dragonknight received as a class mastery and does better than the Atronach. And the 6% spell damage from Calculated Defense or the recovery from Sphere of Influence don't do much to solve this when other classes already have more group utility to begin with, and get it boosted tremendously by their class masteries.
This is why Sorcerer is said to be weak; not because of some single target dummy during week 1. People have explained this at length in all of the feedback threads, so there is no way anyone can say they do not understand why this is being said.
Adding on to this, it really just takes 5 minutes of looking at ESOlogs to look at raid composition from previous updates to find which classes are and are not used.
The reason people say Sorcerer DD sucks is because classes that are only good at single target damage do not translate well at all to a lot of the trial and dungeon content, especially the newer content and especially on HM.
Sorcerer, as well as Nightblade, have always parsed high on dummies and in some niche trial encounters like in Kyne's Aegis where cleave is not as important, but with every fight design in the last few years incentivizing/requiring high cleave damage (Bahsei HM, Reef Guardian HM, Ansuul HM, literally everything in Lucent Citadel HM, almost everything in Ossein Cage HM) it renders classes without strong cleave in those trials not viable, and thus almost never used.
Even before Subclassing, most progression groups never had more than one Sorc DPS player, and it was always shoehorned into the support DPS role by being the Storm Atronach Martial Knowledge slave.
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
Necromancer and Templar in pvp
Both of these classes are very good at being tanky but lack a bit of damage in pvp to be actually useable.
Templar
Templar lost a lot of its lethality after execute was changed to be dodgeable with subclassing and the class masteries have not made up the difference. Good base stats but skills are lackluster.
Judgment's Brand is a little too conservative, 625 isnt nothing for sure but its limited to class skills and its hard to take fully advantage of in pvp because there are only so many damaging skills you can fit into a build without it becoming a meme, even solar barrage felt hard to justify. I appreciate the care taken to make sure its not broken but it feels not too impactful at the moment.
Devout Guardian Please make this passive continue to give its stamina and magicka reovery while the shield is broken, it would not be broken in pve or pvp and this passive feels incredibly inconsistent currently
Necromancer
Necromancer is in my opinion one of the weakest classes in the game. The best thing they can do currently is survive but even that requires building a lot of max hp, a viable but niche build option.
Pound of Flesh This passive is worse Conservation of Energy, there is little else way to put it. It has a chance to proc per sec instead of being guaranteed every second like CoE and only refills a single stat. Yet, its still the best passive Necromancers have for pvp. This is, frankly, sad.
Malevolent Promise This passive is excluded from pvp without allowing any tests because of an internal test by developers. Me and a lot of others have expressed doubts that this passive would actually break pvp and even if it does, we would love to see it for ourselves and try it out. Please consider enabling it for the last week of PTS so that players can test it just to verify if it actually deserves being banned from pvp.
Both of these classes are very good at being tanky but lack a bit of damage in pvp to be actually useable.
Templar
Templar lost a lot of its lethality after execute was changed to be dodgeable with subclassing and the class masteries have not made up the difference. Good base stats but skills are lackluster.
Judgment's Brand is a little too conservative, 625 isnt nothing for sure but its limited to class skills and its hard to take fully advantage of in pvp because there are only so many damaging skills you can fit into a build without it becoming a meme, even solar barrage felt hard to justify. I appreciate the care taken to make sure its not broken but it feels not too impactful at the moment.
Devout Guardian Please make this passive continue to give its stamina and magicka reovery while the shield is broken, it would not be broken in pve or pvp and this passive feels incredibly inconsistent currently
Necromancer
Necromancer is in my opinion one of the weakest classes in the game. The best thing they can do currently is survive but even that requires building a lot of max hp, a viable but niche build option.
Pound of Flesh This passive is worse Conservation of Energy, there is little else way to put it. It has a chance to proc per sec instead of being guaranteed every second like CoE and only refills a single stat. Yet, its still the best passive Necromancers have for pvp. This is, frankly, sad.
Malevolent Promise This passive is excluded from pvp without allowing any tests because of an internal test by developers. Me and a lot of others have expressed doubts that this passive would actually break pvp and even if it does, we would love to see it for ourselves and try it out. Please consider enabling it for the last week of PTS so that players can test it just to verify if it actually deserves being banned from pvp.
acanca
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
Templar is underwhelming across the board. The support passives, in particular, simply do not compete with stuff like major force. The damage passives will not convince people to trade beams/ whips for jabs. Hopefully, we see some changes in PTS week 5, but I doubt it.
CAB_Life
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Re: Every Source of Information I Could Find Regarding Night Market's Advertisement as a Group Zone
It's not at all as complicated as you're making it sound:What the experience level of players was supposed to be. It was all kept very vague.
How would you have defined it then, to be less vague? Did you want them to list a CP number? That doesn't mean anything and doesn't really matter. Did you want them to list gear or build? There are so many different options--I solo a few trash packs every day for the daily Blood on the Sands gold box on my alt accounts with pureclass magblade wearing False God and Sorrow (hardly what you'd call meta) because I never bothered to update my overland setup since 2019 (with Pale Order being the only "new"-ish gear that I use).
I mean, what else are you supposed to call it except "experienced"? I've played the game long enough to see the heavy attacks that I need to dodge (without addons, believe it or not). I've played the game long enough to know the importance of having plenty of self-healing. That's "experienced".
It's vague because how can it be anything else? There are so many factors that go into whether or not you can succeed solo that all you can really say is, "it's not recommended, but if you're good enough, it's not impossible" which is 100% correct.
And if people are not sure about whether or not their level of experience meets the bar, there's only one way to find out: give it a try and see what happens. If it works, congrats, and if it doesn't, then follow the advice and find people to help you.
"The Night Market is a Zone intended for groups and is balanced around Trial difficulty in mind. Experienced players who can handle their own against non-Boss enemies in 12-man Trials might have some luck braving the Zone on their own, but everyone else will want to find safety in numbers in order to tackle the area."
Literally ANYTHING like that, anything that mentioned the general difficulty of the entire Zone and outlines a reasonable expectation of what a person would need to be able to do solo if they want to avoid groups. You'd have gotten FAR fewer people upset with vague mentions of difficulty if they'd have set that reasonable expectation from the start. People who really like harder stuff would be curious to try, while most who the NM apparently isn't meant for wouldn't have bothered.
The whole reason it's a problem now is because ZOS never definied what "experienced" was supposed to mean in the context of "experienced players". It 100% is possible for them to outline some kind of definition when it comes to content. Experienced as in only played Overland questing? Expereinced as in able to solo Dungeons? Experienced as able to solo WBs, or Dragons, or Harrowstorms? Expereinced as in Trials? Experienced HOW? That's the issue, they never said. And they could have, easily.
Because the "if someone isn't sure what their experience level is" doesn't really apply if they KNOW they aren't someone that does Dungeons or Trials or messes with things like WBs or Incursions. And even if someone somehow doesn't know what content they CAN actually do, that "try the content and see" thing applies just the same. It applies to anyone who wants to try ANY content that's outside what they normally do. But at least saying "this is roughly the level of experience you should expect to have" prevents people from having expectations that they can do X or Y when they aren't at all ready for that content.
Arunei
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