I couldn't disagree more: the planemeld between the PC-NA server and the PTS was a legendary event.
I'll be laughing at this for years after the current event has been forgotten.

Is it though? At least when you pulled one of those it was a trip…

percept wrote: »

Classic wow had more variety in dps choices.

ATM almost every single build utilizes arcanist as their dps. You're either beam or runeblades. That's literally it. That's the meta, 2 builds from 1 class.

If there's any cleave you need at all, you play beam, which means beam dominates. If you're in an optimized group, you may get to play runeblades, or if you're in a pug and don't care about cleave, but almost every fight requires cleave.

2 builds. That's it. That's insane.

Healers are basically the same too, you only really have 2 builds as well. Spc and rojo lol.

Tanks have ton of builds, which is why I think I've gravitated towards tanking.

It's mad that this hasn't been addressed yet. This is the worst build variety I've ever seen in an mmo at any point.

There's a reason why rosters require 4/5/6 arc dps for their comp. The rest are support dps. Absolutely mad.

Just check out ESO logs. It's all arcanist. Even other base classes are either beam or runeblades. Crazy

We all told them this would be the result if they went ahead with subclassing.

They knew this would happen.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

PapaTankers wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

PapaTankers wrote: »

I dont know about guild wars 2 as I havent played it, but I do know skinnycheeks spent months to rebalance every old set in the game. Only for zos to reject him.

... because it's a really silly idea. All sets are not supposed to be all used at end-game. Most of the sets in the game are progression sets, used to get you to the next tier.

This would become far more apparent if ZOS were to, for example, lock later content until you complete the earlier content. But obviously they don't so anyone can go to any content and get the latest desired set. If people played in chronolgically order, waiting a year before going on to the next Chapter/DLC then the sets as they are hold up.

That's not to say there aren't bumps in that road, with SPC (a fairly early set) still being the king of healing sets, but that's more to do with later sets not progressing like tank and DD sets do.

Im not asking to for every set to be meta. Im asking every set to serve a purpose other than just being bloat.

Even if we were to follow chronological order then what excuse would be adding useless sets to new trials and dungeon?

All those sets we have in the game now and there are still very little actually decent options. There is almost no need for theorycrafting because all alternatives are nothing more than bloatwear.

They do serve a purpose. They are progression sets or they fulfill a niche role or playstyle, which is in keeping with ZOS' diversity design intention. Example: A bleed damage build isn't meta, but some people like to play that way, so we have Aegis Caller.

This is quite the opposite to what zos themselves claim to be the case. According to them it's all about horizontal progression and not vertical, and all sets have a place.
Which is plainly not true as many sets are both straight up stronger and at the same time easier to get than others: eg order's wrath, tide-born are crafted sets (easiest to get). Ow is a direct upgrade over sets like mother's sorrow/leviathan/medusa (2 of them have to be farmed in dungeons btw) etc as all give flat values but order's wrath simply gives more, those sets don't have a niche. There are extremely niche sets like unleashed ritualist that are outperformed by same general use sets even in their tiny niche (meta sets noticeably outperform ritualist on a dedicated full pet build) and there are plenty of similar examples.

And the argument of vertical progression is not valid because you can aquire stronger sets much earlier than some weaker ones like from dungeons/trials/pvp. And ofc zos themselves said that it is not the case lol

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

twisttop138 wrote: »

Man you guys will communicate about whatever you can (thank you for that) to not address the elephant in the room. Friday you guys said you were discussing the large community complaints of rewards dropping very infrequently, making the grind for this event unfun. You guys went out of your way to state people thought it was unrewarding because the meter wasn't moving fast, I don't know how you could be so wrong. I'm told I shouldn't assign malice and I'm trying to stick to that but your communication around every issue but that is weird. Is it your intention that rewards should be scarce in this event or not?

We're working on getting you all an answer to the rewards question. I was hoping we'd have that for you today, but we need a bit more investigation in the morning to determine what is possible.

While we do that, we'd like to ask a couple related questions for future event consideration. We've seen concerns about the rewards coffers drop rates and contents, and the Writhing Wall furnishings drop rates. While we are still investigating options, if we were able to increase the drop rate for the Writhing Wall furnishings, would that help ease some of the frustrations?

For the rewards coffers, is the low drop rate for the more desirable items the biggest frustration, or are the items contained in the coffers not what you'd like to see? Or is it a combination of those two?

The "more desirable items" being the ones below under "a low chance at" from the event article.

Rewards from the coffers available from Vitrified Souls quests include:

• A piece of gear from a Western Solstice set, with a chance of a second
• A chance at a style item for the Fellowship of Stirk crafting style (one is guaranteed in Glorious coffers)
• A low chance at one of the following items (one is guaranteed in Glorious coffers)
  • A page of a Wormwrithe armor outfit Style
  • A page of a Wormwrithe weapon outfit Style (from Phase 2 onward)
  • A fragment for the Wormwrithe Haj Mota pet
  • A fragment of the Caltrops, Bone Skill Style (from Phase 2 onward)
• A chance for a sellable treasure of varying value (one is guaranteed in Glorious coffers)
  • This reward has a very low chance to be replaced with the Coldharbour Surreal Estate if you do not already own it, or with a sellable treasure of exceptional value if you do.

I’m a long-standing player - I’ve been here since 2014. Here’s my take:

1. There are four quest givers, yet only 3 golden reward boxes. That makes no sense.
2. The golden reward boxes are mostly filled with junk - where are the higher value, more desirable rewards? Getting a style page or motif drop doesn’t seem guaranteed - far from it. And only two significant rewards for an event that lasts as long this? That’s just crazy.
3. The blue boxes are entirely filled with junk. The is literally no incentive to completing more than 3 quests per day. I have completed the golden pursuit on 3 accounts - I haven’t had anything in the blue boxes except weapon/armour drops. They’re not even good sets! You could, for example, put sets in here I haven’t got in my sticker book. That would be a better incentive than bad zone sets, which I don’t need.
4. Getting anything of value from the camp boss chests is one a million. Again, no incentive for the average person.
5. Your main “prize”, the Coldharbour estate, is a kick in the teeth for anyone who already bought it (as I have, more than once!). Where’s the similarly valued alternative for your long-standing players? You guys always screw over your best customers.
6. The golden pursuit and community rewards are lazy. Another pet, another mount….zero creativity given the scale of the “world changing” event. Previous golden pursuits have been better, previous community events have been much, much better.

This whole event feels like the Temu version of previous years. The whole thing feels untested, drops rates suck, and the rewards themselves were grabbed from the discount bin by the back door.

This year has really left a bad taste in my mouth, and has coloured whether I would buy a “season pass” in advance ever again.

True bad aspect of this event is lack of immersion. Developer couldn't build dramatical
warfare experience against worm cult. Not just poor reward, but people can't feel menace
of worm cult. Simply, this is nonsense event as entertainment contents.

Certainly, we can see small soul reaper device showing up on the field. But still Dolman stage looks
like more scary rather than such a tiny object and contents.

I felt this season pass is bit overprice contents.

This week, Filer Ool will offer the following at the Infinite Archive:

The Tel Var Merchants will be offering the following at the Alliance Bases in the Imperial City Sewers: