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Re: Why "Mechanical Acuity set" is called as PVP meta?
Sounds like really boring playstyle
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
I will reiterate the issue with the 2 offensive templar masteries, in hopes that we can see some last minute changes.
Bright harbinger: compared to other similar passives this is just plain boring and weak. Please just add at least major sorcery to it, it wouldn't break the passive but would open up some skill options.
Judgements brand: 750 flat damage is still extremely weak. Outside of jabs, most other templar damage is on a 2 second tick rate and this doesn't even significantly help jabs, like you can reach 5k tt on it with just increasing weapon damage. I have 2 suggestions here:
1. Double the flat amount for both pve and pvp, but give it a cooldown let's say 10 seconds. This would create a meaningful burst windows for pvp, without breaking it for pve.
2. Make it apply to all damage, but reduce the amount to about 450 both pve and pvp. This would decouple it from jabs, but could create interesting interaction for dot/status builds.
Unless these passive change or get buffed, pure class templar damage is going to be awful next patch, which is wierd considering how these passives are supposed bridge the power level between sub and pure classes.
^THIS! Right now there is absolutely no reason for me to pure class as a Templar, when other subclassing specs still far outperform the use of Class Mastery. When will the new ZOS team actually decide to take a LEAP and give us a real boost while we wait for individual class refresh, instead of still trying to balance around an unbalanced class structure? I mean, letting DK, then Warden, then Sorc become much stronger after their refresh... while the rest of us continue our wait to shine. Instead, give us some real boost now and let us play for awhile and see how it actually works out on LIVE before making adjustments. Originally Judgement Brand was supposed to be at 2000, then they nerfed it to 1250, then increased to 1500, but 2000 should have been the starting point as originally planned.
For pvp Judgements brand is even worse, since its cut in half vs players and then again reduced by 50% by battle spirit. Basically provides next to no damage.
Firstmep
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
Font of Power
This passive provides 851 weapon and spell damage on my character carried over from live. The sheer amount of raw stats offered is a little concerning but the passive doesnt have any secondary effects like granting maximum crux to arcanist or granting 300 weapon and spell damage to team members like templar. Imo the passive doesnt need a nerf, but would be a good idea to keep an eye on it.
This passive provides 851 weapon and spell damage on my character carried over from live. The sheer amount of raw stats offered is a little concerning but the passive doesnt have any secondary effects like granting maximum crux to arcanist or granting 300 weapon and spell damage to team members like templar. Imo the passive doesnt need a nerf, but would be a good idea to keep an eye on it.
acanca
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How well you understand this game and mechanics? [Oakfather Retribution]
I saw a post "There needs to be a PvP Dev Team" and I am absolutely agreeing with it, and to show how bad dev understanding of game mechanics is and everything written in the set/skills description, and a little bit of fun, I came up with an interesting example. Many of you might know Oakfather's Retribution set, it is old, and it was discussed already, so you will answer this question easily.
Set description:
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Gain 449 Offensive Penetration against enemies for each Major Buff they have active. Gain 20 Weapon and Spell Damage against enemies for each Minor Buff they have active.
Approximate test setup: PTS/Templar/no skills/no passives/no CP (even no guild buffs or passives, totally clear), only 5 set pieces, fists, and Piercing Javelin on front bar. You deal damage to training skeleton without buffs on it, write it down, then learn restoring aura (3 minor buffs), place it on front bar and do damage with Piercing Javelin again.
Question: how Oakfather's Retribution affects your own stats in theory (in tooltip) and in reality?
I intentionally avoided one tiny detail and other test I've performed, so if you can recognize it and accurately describe how set really works, I'll send you 1M gold (first message only). Think twice! It is really interesting question!
Do not open spoiler until you answer the question
Set description:
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items) Gain 449 Offensive Penetration against enemies for each Major Buff they have active. Gain 20 Weapon and Spell Damage against enemies for each Minor Buff they have active.
Approximate test setup: PTS/Templar/no skills/no passives/no CP (even no guild buffs or passives, totally clear), only 5 set pieces, fists, and Piercing Javelin on front bar. You deal damage to training skeleton without buffs on it, write it down, then learn restoring aura (3 minor buffs), place it on front bar and do damage with Piercing Javelin again.
Question: how Oakfather's Retribution affects your own stats in theory (in tooltip) and in reality?
I intentionally avoided one tiny detail and other test I've performed, so if you can recognize it and accurately describe how set really works, I'll send you 1M gold (first message only). Think twice! It is really interesting question!
Do not open spoiler until you answer the question
Extra question: do you feel like it should really be fixed already? It was reported back in 2024, and still has this misleading hidden, um, "feature". And I would be glad it is one set broken only, but there are a lot of sets and bet you can find more broken ones. Some of them were fixed, but not all of them, because none understand all mechanics anymore (IMO!).
imPDA
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Re: Sorc nerfs are too heavy handed
I wonder, could the set be updated so that you are considered as a Monolith while wearing the set, so you can at least get some consistent damage from it?
Re: A poll about crossplay
frogthroat wrote: »Yes, this will most likely be in the beginning. Markets will find equilibrium eventually and people will mix.SilverBride wrote: »
- The economies are too different.
Bigger difference than with people playing on EU servers, with dozens of nationalities and cultures? And these people shouldn't mix?SilverBride wrote: »
- The societal norms are too different.
Of course there will be an adjustment period, but don't underestimate people. We get along on the EU server just fine, although we have a myriad of cultures mixing. Mixing PC and consoles is not going to be that big of a deal.Yup. That is a task for the dev team, not us.SilverBride wrote: »
- Duplicate User IDs and names will have to be dealt with.
Yup. That is a task for the dev team, not us.SilverBride wrote: »
- Duplicate guild names will have to be dealt with.
A really good point. My guess is they will increase the amount of merchants throughout Tamriel.SilverBride wrote: »[*] There will not be enough merchants for all the trade guilds.
That last one is a puzzler to me.
Bids for traders are already crazy on PC (vs the 'weekly returns') to the point that many of us haven't traded 'for profit' for a long, long time; we trade to be able to finance the trader with the proceedings.
I have no reason to believe that console trading guilds are not at the very least as competitive as PC ones, if not more due to the fact that they had to conduct their business for most of their 'lives' without any addons (which requires serious dedication).
Unless some sorcery takes place with crossplay when it comes to trading guilds 'shark infested waters' is not going to come even close to the carnage that is going to be unleashed.
Console trading guilds are not equipped to compete with PC trading guilds. You have too much of a head start on average war chest money for bids.
I clearly remember the kerfuffle here on the forums a few years ago when someone took over Rawl’kha with joke guilds. The regular traders there posted screenshots of their losing bids, averaging around 50 million+ per trader.
Mournhold is considered our biggest, most expensive capital on PS NA. Those PC bids are roughly 25-30 million more than our average winning bids there. I imagine XBox is in a similar situation as our price checkers more closely match than comparing PC vs console TTC listing prices.
Console trading guilds will be annihilated in time if something to counter-balance isn’t done. And my guild, personally, is donation-based and doesn’t try to compete for the big capitals, and we will likely die in the domino effect of capital guilds losing their primary bids and “over-bidding” on lower backup positions.
My guild has camaraderie, yes. But our primary focus is trading. Take that away and, well, only so many people want or need a plethora of “social” guilds, which is the wasteland console guilds will become with crossplay if it’s just a merging of all platforms together.
Personally, I’m planning to retire from the trading guild game altogether if that’s how it’s all gonna go down. What hope would I have of competing and winning a trader vs 50 million+ gold PC guild bids? I can barely keep up the current fundraising I have to be competitive on console.
It’s pitting an NFL team against a high school varsity team.
Re: Corpseburster disease damage
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Disease damage on the class set is excellent news and a sign of things to come. We may actually be cooking with a real, traditional, Necromantic class in the future. I don't want or need Disease damage on any other class, the only possible spot was NB and Arcanist, and both of those classes have better possible fantasies via Bleed and Random Elements respectively. If Necro doesn't get Disease, which it should, then it would be erased from the game until an 8th class is released.
About the bit on Disease being weak, most likely because of PVE conceners? So easy to solve the same way Warden solved Frost/Chill. Necro can have a unique passive that improves Disease damage. Also this idea just isn't true anymore from when they reworked status effects.
The ratio used Burning as the standard so it looks like this:
Each of the 5 direct damage status effects have secondary effects in addition to their named debuff.
As long as you proc it quicker than the 2s interval Burning, Poisoned, and Hemo has, you can make any of the 5 direct damage status effects deal more DPS. The main difference and why those first 3 are popular is because they're easy to upkeep via DW Enchants or Ele Sus, but Warden and even Sorc proves the other non dot effects can be very powerful.
Disease damage on the class set is excellent news and a sign of things to come. We may actually be cooking with a real, traditional, Necromantic class in the future. I don't want or need Disease damage on any other class, the only possible spot was NB and Arcanist, and both of those classes have better possible fantasies via Bleed and Random Elements respectively. If Necro doesn't get Disease, which it should, then it would be erased from the game until an 8th class is released.
About the bit on Disease being weak, most likely because of PVE conceners? So easy to solve the same way Warden solved Frost/Chill. Necro can have a unique passive that improves Disease damage. Also this idea just isn't true anymore from when they reworked status effects.
The ratio used Burning as the standard so it looks like this:
- Burning = 100% (3 ticks)
- Poisoned = 66%~132% (3 ticks)
- Hemo = 75%~125% (3 ticks/3 stacks)
- Concussed, Diseased, Sundered, Overcharged, and Chill = 110% (10% stronger than 1 tick of Burning)
Each of the 5 direct damage status effects have secondary effects in addition to their named debuff.
- Diseased deals an additional 40% damage in an aoe on a 4s CD (Blighted Blastbones has a unique source of this, so no conflict)
- Sundered gives +100 w/s damage
- Concussed gets +15% damage done
- etc etc
As long as you proc it quicker than the 2s interval Burning, Poisoned, and Hemo has, you can make any of the 5 direct damage status effects deal more DPS. The main difference and why those first 3 are popular is because they're easy to upkeep via DW Enchants or Ele Sus, but Warden and even Sorc proves the other non dot effects can be very powerful.
Re: AI quests
Nothing will motivate me more to drop a game than incorporating "AI". I will abandon this game with no regrets if they allow AI slop.
Onomos
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Re: Declined for Gifting
There are certain criteria that have to be met if you want gifting enabled. They are not disclosed explicitly in any official ZOS page, but there is a community consensus about what needs to be done. Just ask Google AI about that and it will explain everything to you.
