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Re: More Inclusive Cosmetics.
tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »I think I recognize the name, if so I always love seeing your characters around town! Very stylish and using cosmetics in new, creative ways. Looking forward to a photo thread, even if it's to explain a problem, because of the eye for detail and style.
I mainly know the struggle from making argonian and khajiit characters with a broad range of skin colors, so I've definitely seen the "clown" and "saturated" issues there. However, I wouldn't expect those cosmetics (mostly makeup) to always work on those races anyway, because of their variety and fur/scales. Redguards, however, should certainly have more things that work like subtler makeup, visible scars, etc.
Also, hi Tsaeci!
I think my biggest gripe is that more often than not the make-up cosmetics are a hit of miss on anything but lighter skintones. When a cosmetic drops there's only one version we can get instead a multiple to pick from.
I think Dev could consider adding different varieties suited for lighter and darker skintones. Not just for redguards but Dumner and Orcs too! Like a pack of colored options.
A light, medium, and dark version.
And the same for scars cosmetics. There could be a pack with scars suited each races skintone range.
Idk if it would economical for it to be one big pack of all the cosmetics or ethical to split the packs based on race xD
Re: Race passives balance makes more sense now
Being able to configure the racial passives, with the armory or otherwise, would be truly awesome for me.
I would love to have one fully developed character of each class, that I can fine-tune for each role, rather than the half-baked alts I created as metas changed. This extra dps, as small as it might be, actually matters if you've been chasing a trifecta for months. There is also one vastly superior tank race, and one healer too, this is a pity.
Conversely, role players, altoholics, and lore enthusiasts could create more of their dream characters. I remember when the racial passives rework was delivered, there were (surprise!) players complaining here that something wasn't right for a reason or another. Now they could fix it themselves.
And now there are lots of precedents for configurable passives anyway. They could be configured individually, or even simply choose one of the current presets.
Why would a lore enthusiast support this? Races in TES always had fix racial skills that determined them, and ESO took their idea and expanded them a bit. (The passives though were more lore accurate before the rework a few years back)
Mixing racial traits wouldn't have anything to do with lore friendly. The idea is interesting (through a flesh sculptor?) but it ends up the same as subclassing: most will fuse the most efficient setup. Obviously I will combine Dunmer with Breton or Dunmer with Redguard to have the best of both worlds offensively speaking. Same would be done for a tank build.
Dracane
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Malevolent Promise… Don’t think I didn’t notice
Upgrades rank 2 of corpse consumption to mark the closest "non-enemy" player to you...
Like why... Why can't this be applied to enemy players for PvP? It does in “Vengeance”. Do you know how viable corspeburster would be with this class mastery passive? Not to mention, animate blastbones would also be a lot more viable without having to have a corpse on the ground.
Is there ever anything Necromancer can have that isn’t stripped away? I don’t like the behavior of giving necro something that sounds good just be ripped out of the hands of players that have been asking for said change for years.
But Azurblight still works on players… let that sink in
Like why... Why can't this be applied to enemy players for PvP? It does in “Vengeance”. Do you know how viable corspeburster would be with this class mastery passive? Not to mention, animate blastbones would also be a lot more viable without having to have a corpse on the ground.
Is there ever anything Necromancer can have that isn’t stripped away? I don’t like the behavior of giving necro something that sounds good just be ripped out of the hands of players that have been asking for said change for years.
But Azurblight still works on players… let that sink in
AvidNecro
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Re: Update 50 PTS – Week 1 Summary
YandereGirlfriend wrote: »From what I see on forums and from content creators Pyrebrand is in a decent spot. Only complaints I see are from maybe 3 people on here. I understand some classes may seem to be above the rest but something to consider is dk is only class(werewolf I’m not counting as a class it’s a single skill line) that has been reworked. The dk has set the goal post for all other class refreshes. Also until update 51 we will see a lot of dk and ww in the game as both are the shiny toys. Once warden is reworked we will start to slowly see more diversity most likely.
IMO, it is a huge L to be making IA sets de facto pureclass-only.
Which is exactly what happened to Pyrebrand with the Class Mastery interaction.
It does also seem to clearly violate the "procs don't proc procs" manta that the devs have wielded to smite most other interesting interactions between sets and proc abilities. And nobody likes double-standards.
Pyrebrand is not solely pure class but it will be strongest on pure dk. Aside from its interaction with wildfire embers class mastery what other procs is it procing? If none I don’t see the major issue as without the class mastery standing alone Pyrebrand as I said won’t be as strong. Essentially IA sets are class equivalent of the arena weapons.
Re: Update 50 Antiquity Leads Sources
Part #2 of 5 found from a Thieves Trove in Glenumbra too.
Re: Update 50 Antiquity Leads Sources
The lead for Antique Lockpicking Kit drops from Thieves Troves in Glenumbra.
It's part #3 of 5 of the Thieves Guild Armory Station.
Previously, I had gotten the lead for Brigand's Dagger (part #5 of 5), also from a Thieves Trove in Glenumbra.
It's part #3 of 5 of the Thieves Guild Armory Station.
Previously, I had gotten the lead for Brigand's Dagger (part #5 of 5), also from a Thieves Trove in Glenumbra.
Re: Werewolf Update From The Combat Refresh Team
Question for those that are testing it, does the new werewolf update make them viable tanks? Or no?
It will be in the same place it was before. With some extra self heals if you take certain morphs.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Tamriel Tomes Season Zero Developer Update"
My wife and I hate the new Tome system. It's overly complicated and the rewards are lackluster. I feel like ZOS is twisting my arm to buy premium, as otherwise I can't spend all my tome points. No thanks.
I look at it like this. All the content this year is free. I would've bought the chapter anyway, sight unseen. So I'm paying my usual chapter amount for 3 seasons of rewards, and all the content is included anyway. I'm not going to begrudge Zos that money because what do you think happens without it? The content this year looks cool and different and even though I would like a chapter better, I support what they're trying to do. What you described though is every battle pass in existence. They want you to buy the premium version, of course they do. That's what is making up for what I assume is a considerable loss from chapters.
I think though, that a good way to deal with excess tickets players will have is to have a real bonus page ala fallout 76. A page with repeatable stuff. Packs of consumables, currency, including small packs of crowns, that you can buy infinitely until your out of points. Problem solved, everyone wins.
Re: WHY Force Vengeance!!!
MincMincMinc wrote: »MincMincMinc wrote: »Is this test even incentivized? I mean pcna was nearly pop locked during primetime afterwork hours. From 7pm EST to 11pm EST it was 3bar AD+DC and locked EP. Which means it was at 700-900 players atleast consistently. This is either alarming or kind of a tell tale that zos shouldn't have kicked pvp to the curb a long time ago. Numbers wise if it was consistently around 800 that means over the night there may have been double that entering and leaving. Combine that with everyday Greyhost numbers and we are probably up near 2-3k players interested in pvp out of the 8k average daily players.
Just to be clear I am not saying vengeance should dropship how it is currently designed. I would much rather zos replace the loadout bonuses and perks with a vengeance item set stickerbook of redesigned sets. Easy enough to start with the nonproc stat gear. At most maybe allow the more performative proc-stat sets with longer term checks like clever alchemist or 7th legion. Proc condition sets which have longterm on/offs instead of checks that trigger every possible tick. These new sets could be unlocked someway or purchaseable with AP. Then you could also use AP to gold out the stickerbook or make trait changes on the fly.
Vengeance is also missing morphs especially for sustain tools that allow us to use stam weapons. There is simply too much automatic regen which should otherwise be sustain through more active tools like darkdeal or dark converg. Morphs are a slippery slope though where zos could fall into the trap of every morph suddenly starts giving bonus major/minor buffs where instead a more performative approach would be modifying the skills itself. For example streak stuns at the final location, Ball of lightning stuns at the starting location. No random bonus buff that inflates the server and two distinct playstyles are now made.
This is actually a really good take. Thank you for noticing also that even though other factions were not pop locked it was 100's more players than GH would have had. It is encouraging to see people interested in PvP. Good takes!
If only they just went and flushed it out more. There still isn't enough normal build elements to allow people to tailor their playstyle and focus on what they like to do. Like I dont think stamsorc is viable in here, but magsorc is very strong buildwise and I am a 12 year stamsorc pvp player.
Some of the balance dynamics are also off. Like we have a high TTk which would be fine if the regen wasnt so high and instead people had to use sustain tools like darkdeal. With a high TTK and high regen when outnumbered it requires alot of commitment to kill one player who can easily just spam only heals which counter your single line of damage. If that same player had to take breaks in healing to keep their sustain going it would be much more feasible to trip them up so they cant heal.
All of the game wasnt fleshed out at release in 2014 also. I think this game mode gives a lot of runway to growth. Same as you although not sorc I am hopeful for more things to come add and change as we have seen with Cyrodiil since the beginning. A lot of these other "PvP' folks just need to buckle up for a few days and we can all go back to proccing our rallying cry (myself included) in no time.
Yeah we see these complaints about wanting all their gear back, yet 90% of builds on live are the same. So does the build really matter at the end of the day? If everyone wears rallying cry, at that point why not just have zos bump up our crit resist by that amount because its obviously needed and avoid the procs lagging the server?
The problem with not having build elements is we cant self regulate for bad meta designs. Like on live zos has WAY too much crit chance and crit damage sources. So everyone compensates with rallying cry. We cant do this in current vengeance.
Re: WHY Force Vengeance!!!
Even as someone who likes Vengeance, I have no interest in another test.
xylena
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