I find the 15% (so far) that prefer the new style surprisingly high. I really thought the community was as close to united on this one as it can possibly get.

I prefer the old model as a simple spear of light. I greatly prefer the old animation over the new (wet noodle) animation. The deal breaker for me though, was the damage nerf that rendered the skill no longer worthy of a slot for my OakenTemplar.

Zos needs to pin this take the advice, swallow their pride and roll this *** back for good.

Danikat wrote: »

Does anyone know if the Mad Architect’s Medallion has collision? If I wanted to use it as a floor would it work on it's own, or does it need something else under it?

You can go through it.


And it doesn't have thickness. At all. With right angle it can be invisible.

LunaFlora wrote: »

Punches_Below_Belt wrote: »

Rewards are beyond disappointing. We went from notable homes, nested boxes with attunable crafting stations to a purple lizard bear. How did this happen?

to be fair,
the only zone event that rewarded a notable home was Summerfall in 2018 with Psijic Villa. And we are already getting the notable Chapel of Julianos in q4 events via event tickets.

we just had a Golden Pursuit campaign in August that gave us one of each attunable crafting stations, the chapter events did not give Jewellery stations.

i like the Wall event rewards and sure i could understand wanting more, but look at the rest of the year beyond this event too.

The Deadlands was not a notable home but it sure wasn’t a purple bear lizard and surely creative people working for a high fantasy game have the imagination to come up with something new and different but equally impressive. Even if it was just a rehash of the golden Companion equipment that dropped once.

There is just little to no effort being made by ZOS. I guess when you have an over abundance of players, you can afford to drive them away to get the population down to just those who appreciate token gestures for a months worth of hoop jumping and fetch quests.

SerafinaWaterstar wrote: »

redlink1979 wrote: »

Blackyack wrote: »

(...) Why even have classes? why have stats? why have gear? If we're all gonna wear the same stat, the same 4 sets, the same spells from the same 3 different lines...like what is going on? (...)

Unless you are going for trial trifectas, you really don’t have to use the meta. And as someone posted above, blame the raid leads for slavishly following the meta rather than opening their mind & being more adaptable. (And removing subclassing or whatever else you think is an issue won’t make a difference, as there always has been & always will be the meta. It just how it is. Apparently. Few dare to challenge it.)

yes, trial trifectas is in fact what I play the game for, mostly. I appreciate the challenge, effort, and coordination required to play this game at the highest level, as did the gajillion people who dont play anymore.

again, if you want to run around as an argonian vamp sorcden from apocrypha, that's totally you. Nice tail. has nothing to do with any lore ever in this game, but whatever. As I said from the get go, I'm not gonna "blame the raid lead" for anything about game design, that's not their job. their job is to coordinate successful runs, and at the trifecta level, they will use available tools. I cannot make that more clear. So, while I appreciate the "play how you want" mentality, it is not a practical reality at that level.

When you are putting yourself and your eleven digital besties up against the hardest stuff the game has to offer, there is a very real pride that comes with it. "Clean" "sloppy" "35/36" we all want good clean pulls, proper coordination, clean mech handling etc etc. its a challenging symphony, the coordination and skill, and that's what makes endgame so attractive. Making that endeavor monochromatic (GREEN) and totally overpowered no matter what class you start with is the absolute lamest. Like, how does manageing actual mechs with a constant free shield and heal that does great damage to boot even feel rewarding? Like I beam, mk? Boss die now, give loot plz. oh look, another trial with 8 stam and 8 beams.

Trials used to see competetive numbers from other classes and skills, and you had to do mechs to survive encounters. Metas always existed, but you could perform close enough with alot of classes that bringing a parse (x) that was perhaps second tier and killin it was a huge point of pride. That Z'en DK that just posted 2nd? what a legend. it offered real variety, and even encouraged it in the way of class specific buffs, and wanting a variety of classes for comps. But now, its just too good to have a couple NB base healers pumpin out ults and covering all the buffs, 8 DDs wearing beam...like come on. this is so dumb.

They've neutered the challenges, given everyone access to a silly toolkit that should not be in the first place, and called it variety. Of course the irony is that certain combinations are just coded waaaaay too strong, and have led to insane levels of homogeneity in the endgame community.

I'm going to continue to play this game, and shame on me for not putting my money where my mouth is, but I am very not happy about it.

Djennku wrote: »

MoonPile wrote: »

Updated the OP at the top


Is this system bugged or what?

Not bugged. That's juat how the game's rng works. Sometimes it takes awhile. If you find this too grindy, don't play any other mmo. ESO is the least grindy of any of them out there.

Once again your comment is not constructive. Other MMOs are irrelevant. I play ESO primarily for The Elder Scrolls. I don't mind some RNG, but this is absurd.

There have been fewer than a handful of players such as yourself that ever comment in this way, that frankly comes off as condescending and strange. Usually in the style, paraphrased: 'Oh yeah well I opened 500 things and spent 50 million so deal with it'.

I ask you to reconsider this logic. We should not be in competition with one another about how much our time is abused. The purpose of this thread is to unite players to ask for improvements to a system that almost no one enjoys. (Speaking also for everyone who's talked about this in-game, in guilds, in Discord servers, etc.)

I don't know whether you're being contrarian on purpose, but if you want to keep commenting this way, for my part I will just use the given forum functions to disengage.

React wrote: »

Stridig wrote: »

I'm pretty sure there are shady people playing the game. But to say ball groups hope for lag so they can take advantage of people is just ridiculous. Balls groups die fast if the can't cast skills. Just like everyone else.

I don't think groups are purposefully causing lag, or attempting to cause lag in order to gain some benefit for themselves over their opponents. That's just silly.

But they are 100% undoubtedly the first and foremost cause of prime time PVP lag. Nearly every night I've played over the past few years, it becomes immediately clear when the ball groups log in and begin playing. You can genuinely feel it.

Further, zenimax themselves did firmly confirm that ball groups are the cause of the performance issues. Back during one of their early performance tests maybe 4-6 years ago (I think the AOE cooldown test or perhaps the cross healing test), they did share their "results" after finishing. They cited that the behaviors of certain groups stacking together and rapidly refreshing their buffs and heals was something they had not anticipated when designing ESO, and was the number one thing impacting performance.

While I agree many posters are going overboard with their suggestions that groups are maliciously causing the performance issues for their own gain, they aren't wrong that the groups are in fact the primary cause of the lag.

It is certainly a cause but it definitely isn't THE cause and anyone holding it up as like the Holy Gail of performance are deluding themselves.

The entire game is likely built upon a code base house of cards with inefficient logic for most of the game's core systems. Perhaps that is most exposed in Cyrodiil but it applies to all content. I have been in tons of trials and dungeons with simultaneous player crashes, random kicks, massive input delay, lag, rubber-banding, mechanics not animating, etc. And those aren't even like 1%'er trifecta sweat groups with 100+APM. That is just normal players playing the game.

ZOS needs to commit to re-writing that that code rather than stripping away entire game systems or playstyles. Otherwise, they are only temporarily masking the symptoms (which WILL return, as technical debt always does) rather than treating the actual disease.

Y'all need to leave us alone. I'm in Cyro every single day and every single day the population is not insignificant. We do have large battles, thanks.

The tone might be a bit much, but I can't argue with any of the points.