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Re: Werewolves should exceed Movement Speed Cap
I have over 7K hours into the game and play mostly for werewolf too, so this ain't a 'lack of experience' thing.
Folks gotta understand that the model is bigger now, we're not a tiny little ratdog running around anymore, thank goodness. We're a big beast, but that speed may FEEL slower as a result. Maybe a passive isn't working, there's already a combat one that doesn't. BUT I don't think werewolf needs to be as fast as a mount, that has varying balance issues that people aren't thinking about.
Folks gotta understand that the model is bigger now, we're not a tiny little ratdog running around anymore, thank goodness. We're a big beast, but that speed may FEEL slower as a result. Maybe a passive isn't working, there's already a combat one that doesn't. BUT I don't think werewolf needs to be as fast as a mount, that has varying balance issues that people aren't thinking about.
coop500
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for New Item Sets
The point was made in SkinnyCheeks' stream that it would be a good idea to also change the underwhelming 2-4 piece bonuses for common trial support DD sets so that wearing them feels like less of a personal penalty/being "in jail".
A quick list would include:
Martial Knowledge -> change 2-piece bonus of Max Mag (to Weapon Damage?)
Elemental Catalyst -> change 2- and 4-piece bonuses of Max Mag (to Crit Chance?)
Z'ens -> change 2-piece bonus of Mag Regen and 4-piece bonus of Max Mag (to Weapon Damage?)
As an aside, the trend of going back and changing the bonuses on old sets is SUCH a huge W for the game and its positive momentum. It is one of those relatively small things that really makes it feel as though the current team "gets it" and is attentively listening to pain points and responding.
A quick list would include:
Martial Knowledge -> change 2-piece bonus of Max Mag (to Weapon Damage?)
Elemental Catalyst -> change 2- and 4-piece bonuses of Max Mag (to Crit Chance?)
Z'ens -> change 2-piece bonus of Mag Regen and 4-piece bonus of Max Mag (to Weapon Damage?)
As an aside, the trend of going back and changing the bonuses on old sets is SUCH a huge W for the game and its positive momentum. It is one of those relatively small things that really makes it feel as though the current team "gets it" and is attentively listening to pain points and responding.
Re: Engulfing Dragonfire
Are engulfing set ups running talons it’s a 5 second dot so might allow to make up some ground to whip set ups?
Yes, pretty sure the Hyper build I used did. Breath parsed well on a stationary dummy, but in content, the melee aspect/range of breath was quite limited for me. Still probably stronger than heavy attacks but arcanist beams were more comfortable. I have also played arc more, so that is probably part of it.
Breath builds are getting zos'd from multiple directions. Welcome to the heavy attack enjoyers struggle.
Re: Can we please have some "down time"?
The OP has a point.
This isn’t just “people overthinking it” — it’s a real, well-understood design strategy used in games and apps.
What’s happening is a mix of a few known psychological effects:
The Zeigarnik Effect — unfinished tasks stick in your mind and create a sense of tension until they’re completed
Loss Aversion — the feeling of missing out is stronger than the reward of gaining something
FOMO — time-limited tasks create pressure even if you don’t really care about the reward
When you stack systems like long grinds + limited-time pursuits + unclear or bugged tracking, you end up with multiple “open loops” sitting in the background.
Even if you consciously think:
“I don’t care about this”
your brain still registers:
“this is unfinished”
And that creates a low-level pressure to go and clear it.
So telling people to “just ignore it” or “snap out of it” misses the point — this is exactly how these systems are designed to work. They rely on normal human behaviour, not lack of willpower.
The result isn’t motivation — it’s fatigue.
You stop choosing what you want to do, and start clearing things just to make the noise go away.
That’s why people are asking for downtime — not less content, just space to actually play on their own terms again.
This isn’t just “people overthinking it” — it’s a real, well-understood design strategy used in games and apps.
What’s happening is a mix of a few known psychological effects:
The Zeigarnik Effect — unfinished tasks stick in your mind and create a sense of tension until they’re completed
Loss Aversion — the feeling of missing out is stronger than the reward of gaining something
FOMO — time-limited tasks create pressure even if you don’t really care about the reward
When you stack systems like long grinds + limited-time pursuits + unclear or bugged tracking, you end up with multiple “open loops” sitting in the background.
Even if you consciously think:
“I don’t care about this”
your brain still registers:
“this is unfinished”
And that creates a low-level pressure to go and clear it.
So telling people to “just ignore it” or “snap out of it” misses the point — this is exactly how these systems are designed to work. They rely on normal human behaviour, not lack of willpower.
The result isn’t motivation — it’s fatigue.
You stop choosing what you want to do, and start clearing things just to make the noise go away.
That’s why people are asking for downtime — not less content, just space to actually play on their own terms again.
Taarente
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Bloodroot forge - Hand Wrought Victory Achievement bugged
4 times we did this on vet last night. noone touched the synergy's noone even synergiesed on a skill, lets alone the crucible or cauldron - achievement never popped for any of us.
server : xbox EU
server : xbox EU
MJallday
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for New Item Sets
Set is fully backbarable, buff scales dynamically.
so you will slot funnel health and soul tether backbar? /facepalmAh yes, and while I am at it, cost reduction is a very effective sustain tool.
What cost are you going to reduce on back bar, siphoning attacks that cost health? You get ZERO sustain from this set.Set is cool now. Can stay this way. Don't do anything drastic. After 2.5 years you might now actually have found a good, fair and thematically fitting design for this set.
You are not going to use this set because there are a gazillion better sets to run, you know it, i know it. You whole goal is to make sure the set remains irrelevant.
I'm done with this dicussion, this set may drain my ultimate but you are draining my IQ with this discussion.
This is completely besides the point. I merely pointed out the functionality can pretty much come close to ET, by granting an even more controlled trigger for a %-damage buff. Your response to that was that it wasn't comparable, because ET is backbar-able, but so is the new damage buff on Soulcleaver. You can double-bar or single-bar it, whichever serves the purpose of your build best. Whether as a back-bar heal-set with carry-over damage buff, or a front-bar only offense, or a double-barred body set (as mostly on live).t.
- you suggest its comparable to ET
- i explain is not because ET is backbareable, provides a strong sustain buff on top of the damage
- you reply soulclever is backbareable too
- i explain why it doesnt make sense backbar
- "thats besides the point"
/facepalm
Let it go, you can't pull two arguments that make sense or dont contradict each other.
Nightblade's burst heal is in the siphoning skill line, so casting Healthy Offering while soul cleaver is back barred is going to do the following
- Heal you for 15% more at a 15% cost reduction
- Give you Major Vitality
- Drain 1 Ultimate
- Give you X% Damage done for 12 seconds
That lets the set be back barred.
Of course the set will be more effective double barred. I double bar this set on live and it makes swallow soul deal the same amount of damage as concealed weapon which opens up the the possibility of being able to play a ranged magblade. The change to this set is a good one and I'm hoping it makes it to live because it's going to make range magblade more viable to play. Double barring this set may seem like a disadvantage because it makes you squishy, but you can use range for survivability, as well as swallow soul healing for a good amount per hit.
The build isn't 2 button proc cheese meta that you see duelers using on PTS currently, but it's definitely an effective build that does good damage and will be even more effective now with the changes. The majority of people you see in cyrodiil and BGs don't know how to react when they're getting hit by what's effectively concealed weapon at ranged along with impale to finish them when they're trying to run.
Estin
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Re: Why Soloed Dungeons are forbidden in the new Golden Pursuit??
SilverBride wrote: »Pushing and forcing players into groups is just going to push them away.
it works, too.
my playtime on eso has dropped from hours to minutes almost overnight.
working as intended?
So...the existence of optional tasks for cosmetics made you lose interest in whatever you were just spending hours on just yesterday? Seems odd.
not at all, it's been cumulative.
after twelve years, this latest 'feature' tipped it, though.
Lylith
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A shadow passed over Tamriel
On March 7th in the real world, my wife of 40+ years, soul mate, and best friend, known to Tamriel as @EACo2, passed away. A few of my fellow guild members know, but I've largely kept this to myself. If you should see @EACo2 in the game, know that it is me because I can't let go of the toons she loved to play.
She wasn't a stellar player, and sometimes people in the community played gate keeper on her. Fortunately that was not the general case, but the incidents that did happen made it so she wouldn't participate in many things, particularly dungeons. So, much of her time was just spent doing crafting and occasionally I could get her to join me in content that I could solo, such as City of Ash I.
To the guilds that took her along on trials. Thank you very much. I wish she could have gotten to know you as I have and that you could have gotten to know her better.
To those the helped her along the way, thank you. We started playing ESO when it became available on Stadia. Then COVID came along and confined us to our home. Tamriel became our escape from the confines of the four walls, as I'm sure it was for many of you. Her failing health due to chronic conditions kept her confined at home and Tamriel was her escape.
While she hated doing PVP content, there was one Mayhem where we got riding roughshod with a group across Cyrodiil and she actually had a good time.
To the staff of Bethesda/ZOS, thank you for creating a game where we could once again play roles beyond our daily lives. We met playing D&D, so you can see how your game came to be so big a part of our lives for the last several years.
Best regard,
@Q'warx
She wasn't a stellar player, and sometimes people in the community played gate keeper on her. Fortunately that was not the general case, but the incidents that did happen made it so she wouldn't participate in many things, particularly dungeons. So, much of her time was just spent doing crafting and occasionally I could get her to join me in content that I could solo, such as City of Ash I.
To the guilds that took her along on trials. Thank you very much. I wish she could have gotten to know you as I have and that you could have gotten to know her better.
To those the helped her along the way, thank you. We started playing ESO when it became available on Stadia. Then COVID came along and confined us to our home. Tamriel became our escape from the confines of the four walls, as I'm sure it was for many of you. Her failing health due to chronic conditions kept her confined at home and Tamriel was her escape.
While she hated doing PVP content, there was one Mayhem where we got riding roughshod with a group across Cyrodiil and she actually had a good time.
To the staff of Bethesda/ZOS, thank you for creating a game where we could once again play roles beyond our daily lives. We met playing D&D, so you can see how your game came to be so big a part of our lives for the last several years.
Best regard,
@Q'warx
Qwarx
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Re: Can we please have some "down time"?
spartaxoxo wrote: »barney2525 wrote: »well, the OP will be glad to know < sarcasm > that the Night Market just went Live
I did not know what all that was going to entail. Suffice it to say - ESO has disappeared. It's an entirely separate game from what it was.
Three Factions, choose one, seems like based on Philosophy and not race this time. Main quests, side quests, boss fights, Competition (PvP ?) etc etc etc
I don't think there really is anything that actually is left that defines ESO anymore, IMHO
I really don't understand the anger that the group content quarter has group content? This time of year was always dungeons. I can understand the people that expected more dungeons and are disappointed it's Night Market instead. I don't understand the people that wanted solo content or questing. This quarter hasn't been solo content for like a decade.
I'm mostly not too happy that it's temporary "experimental" content that puts me on a clock to enjoy it. I hope narratively it doesn't tie into any future stories due to this as well.
The other piece of experimental "temporary" content, the Writhing Wall event, resulted in their being a narrative gap in Solstice's MSQ of all things. Having done Solstice last week, rather than during Writhing Wall, the narrative is now disjointed. The characters immediately reference Writhing Wall, which for newer questers simply did not happen for them and they may have no idea what the characters are talking about. I was really disappointed in this.
Dungeons I just felt were superior; their quests remained permanent as they tied into the story of the year.
I don't really know if Night Market has any narrative meaning or not at all. I'm slowly not understanding what kind of game ESO is at the moment. Before it felt cohesive and now it's chasing random tasks for no apparent reason nonstop. I have no idea if there are any reasons our characters are going to Night Market, whether that is group content or otherwise.
Dungeons, Trials, etc. all had permanent narratives even as group content.
Re: Dungeon Experience for New Player
FieryPhoenix wrote: »killians66 wrote: »FieryPhoenix wrote: »Honestly, joining a guild and forming your own group of friends will result in your best dungeon experiences, imo. People have been complaining on the forums about others speed running through dungeons for months and ZOS’s only response to this has been that they are working on solo instances for dungeons. Those are being rolled out slowly (2 dungeons are slated to be released later this year) so be prepared to wait.
I actually don't want solo dungeons. I like grouping for dungeons. Its just they should have more options so speed runners can have fun and slower players can take their time. Solo dungeons doesn't solve anything.
Then forming your own group will be your best option forward. While I understand your frustration, expecting the devs to fix this in a way you prefer is like wishing for rain water in hell, it likely won’t happened.
I think that is the same guy that refused to join guilds or make friend groups, but expected to see different results in another thread not long ago. Some refuse help.
for reference: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/690613/i-039-m-tired-of-soloing-all-the-time#latest