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Re: April 20th Vengeance Only..
Necrotech_Master wrote: »Who exactly is logging in for lag, ball groups, proc sets, and one shots? Not me.It's not a viable alternative to the normal live GH the PvP community logs in to play.
I'm hearing they are moving forward with GH and Vengeance as the only two campaigns. I think this is a sound move, we are long overdue to condense the queue.
Queue last night was 130. You are a very small minority of PvP players that like vengeance...which won't bring back the days before people knew who the toxic ones were to be avoided.
this is what makes no sense to me, 120 people is a full poplock of a 2nd campaign, if every single one of those people went to blackreach, it would be poplocked with queue too (assuming all factions had similar queues)
if the queue to grey host is over like 20-30, i sometimes wont even bother queuing for it because why wait in a queue when theres another campaign without a queue
Honestly, I think that the the proliferation of add-ons and other methods to keep you logged into your queue while IRL AFK for long periods of time contribute a lot to this effect.
That is a domain that I really would not mind some developer attention toward.
Re: Two things I want most for Sorcerer 'Rework'
wolfdoggie_ESO wrote: »When you go over Sorcerer stuff please consider:
1. Please remove the transparency effect to Hurricane, I've never liked never being able to see my character ever again in combat. It'd also be nice if Hurricane was actually like a Hurricane with water+lightning effects too, but more than anything I've always wanted to remove the transparency effect. I don't wanna play a ghost.
2. Sorcerer in this game just lacks any actual nuke spells that go "I'm a powerful mage" to anyone. As a Dragon's Dogma enthusiast it's very underwelming. We have a small crystal we hurl at something and it breaks and that's pretty much it for high damage nukes.
Well frags used to be a nuke, but by modern standards its starting to not hold up. If a burst skill doesn't do beyond ult level damage, while giving major buffs, while giving multiple passives it is not good enough. Just go look at merciless for your example.....oh and it can fire 2x or 3x in a row if you want.
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
RedKynAbyss wrote: »VinnyGambini wrote: »Just tested out pyrebrand DK, and it's absolutely terryfying.
Pyrebrand was nerfed 30%, but new passive increases its dmg by 300%, while also adding additional dot. From my calculations (confirmed by testing) 100% - 30% = 70%. 70% * 300% = 210%. So basically pyrebrand damage is DOUBLED and additional dot is ticking. ALSO new passive stacks are generated by PYREBRAND. So by just LA (not casting any skills!!!) you can get AMAZING dps.
Meanwhile reffering to my previous templar post, aetheric lancer got 4 second longer duration, for better uptime. Comparing to pyrebrand and new passive synergy, I cannot really find words how unfair it looks.
From my todays PVP testing - DK, serpent disdain warden and sorcerer are very strong, while arcanist, nb and templar are absolute garbage. I haven't tested PvE, but I'm quite sure situation is quite similar.
You don’t get all of that power by *just* light attacking. You need to BUILD wildfire stacks FIRST, then you get the powerful DoT. Pyrebrand will be even weaker in PvP now because it is INCREDIBLY easy to stop it from getting stronger by just cleansing any wildfire stacks that are on you. If you don’t have wildfire on you, then Pyrebrand is functionally useless. You’re overreacting to this, quite severely. If you’re fighting a DK, even before their rework or Pyrebrand, or Wildfire, you NEEDED a cleanse or you would get melted. That has always been the answer to fighting a DK in PvP, cleansing their DoTs. Pyrebrand changes with Wildfire have not changed that mentality at all.
So everyone should run Mara's Balm to have a chance against DK dots? Cleanses are rare, weak and otherwise expensive. And Mara has a long cooldown.
There is no cleansing DK dots for any length of time for any normal player.
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Re: Sorcerer rework, new class, new systems, house building, and various improvements for ESO
I feel the vision for sorcerer was someone standing on a hill at the side of a battle, raining down lightning, sending curses from afar, sending minor daedra into the fight to do actual fighting- and if someone got close, speeding away out of danger.
So that's fine as a vision, but, absolutely not how fighting in trials or dungeons work, and not how pvp works anymore.
I just feel they need a new vision of what this sorcerer person fights like, how they approach a battle. What is the role of a sorc in a fight? In a war?
Then it's what skills they call upon. Elemental? Conjuring? Dark?
Then it's, what actually those skills need to be doing, in terms of offensive vs defensive, heal vs dd, burst, dots, then buffs and effects etc.
P.s wardens are about green and living, and frost because that is death to plants and wild animals. They do not need lightning, nor does it fit. Nor should you take from sorc the one thing that makes that class worthwhile. May as well delete it, if you take lightning off it.
So that's fine as a vision, but, absolutely not how fighting in trials or dungeons work, and not how pvp works anymore.
I just feel they need a new vision of what this sorcerer person fights like, how they approach a battle. What is the role of a sorc in a fight? In a war?
Then it's what skills they call upon. Elemental? Conjuring? Dark?
Then it's, what actually those skills need to be doing, in terms of offensive vs defensive, heal vs dd, burst, dots, then buffs and effects etc.
P.s wardens are about green and living, and frost because that is death to plants and wild animals. They do not need lightning, nor does it fit. Nor should you take from sorc the one thing that makes that class worthwhile. May as well delete it, if you take lightning off it.
Re: Companion's helmets
BretonMage wrote: »I think the argument was that they were identifiable characters, not unique in the sense that there's only one of them. Quoting Kevin's post (edit: sorry, this was Zone Lead Tom Murphy's answer) (late-edit to include full answer):
"One of the early design considerations with companions was the balance between "identity" and "customization" for each companion. We wanted to give players as much freedom to customize their traveling companion, while at the same time keeping the identity of the companion the same. We ended up with "no hats" on companions because it hit that sweet spot - where players can make them look any way they wish, but the character and identity of the companion doesn't change because you always see their face." (https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7937639/#Comment_7937639)
I enjoy seeing other players' Bastians (or Azandars or Zeriths), but I wouldn't object to them wearing helmets either.
I understand their points but having played the game i strongly disagree the obtained result is what was meant to be.
Seeing one more Bastian face around me doesn't contribute in supporting his identity but detract to it.
The more companions with the same face i have around me the less i consider them as individuals.
Yeah I can understand your viewpoint. I don't share it, but I know it's not an uncommon viewpoint. The way I see it, this is a game populated by many Vestiges, so it's a bit like a multiverse, with other iterations of the Vestige, each with their own companions. For me it's kind of fun to see what others have done with their companions, but I understand your position as well. I don't know how committed ZOS is to their previous position, they may choose to allow companion helmets to show as a QoL thing.
Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Meet the Character(s)— Night Market Faction Leaders"
I enjoy these "Meet the Character" articles. They always provide some interesting details of the denizens of the various worlds of ESO.
From what I understand, each time the Night Market returns, you will be able to choose the faction you want to support. So if the first time you chose Glittering Goad, the second time you could choose one of the others if you wanted, or pick the same one you chose the first time.
do these three always return as the same ones whenever the Night Market returns? and if they do, are we able to change who was selected from the last one?
From what I understand, each time the Night Market returns, you will be able to choose the faction you want to support. So if the first time you chose Glittering Goad, the second time you could choose one of the others if you wanted, or pick the same one you chose the first time.
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Vengeance Campaign
Nice try, but, speaking for PC EU, Gray Host is always quite full and well into the 3 digits even at off hours. During prime time even 4 digits are no problem, especially when you also count the people waiting in queue to get in.
So what justifies Gray Host? GH is the original MMO PvP experience. You levelled up by questing, you farmed your gear, you got your skill points, you did the progression. So what now? Now you make your build, set your CP, apply everything you've learned and step into the endgame. For PvP, that's Gray Host (and Blackreach).
If you strip down the game to its bones, you might as well remove all the sets from the game. You cannot use them in Vengeance anyway. If the idea of Vengeance interests someone, the rest of the game doesn't matter anymore. Might as well bring Vengeance to Overland and Trials as well. There are other games that give you loadout based PvP. That's not how PvP in an MMO should be because it invalidates the rest of the MMO's progression system.
See? I can articulate exactly what I like about Gray Host and I can also articulate what I dislike about Vengeance. You keep dodging the question and reply with another question. What is it you like about Vengeance?
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Vengeance Campaign
Can you please reintroduce fire ballistas and make siege limited and purchasable? It makes defending a keep on an underdog faction harder when the enemy just keeps spawning siege. The whole point of selling 90 gold fire siege was so that newbies can contribute in defense when they have 0 AP. Scattershot is not good, it's too big and hard to aim when placed on the rampart. I'm ok with unlimited pots and siege for a test, but it really shouldn't be an official game feature. I'm hoping the unlimited siege on PTS won't be part of release.
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
So a couple sort of cosmetic things I wanted to highlight in case they can be improved:
1) I've been moving around with the dire wolves just to see how they react and choose paths etc. It appears about 75% of the time they’re choosing to stack right on top of one another. My instinct is that it's a bit worse than on live, but regardless is there an easy way for you guys to make it so that they more reliably stand on either side of the player, move around more independently etc?
2) When moving forward and light attacking, the werewolf model sort of looks like it's gliding across the ground at times. This is fairly minor and I'm not sure when you'll be in a situation where you are just moving forward and light attacking randomly, but does look kind of goofy. It doesn't really end up looking that way when you're in normal combat changing direction, dodge rolling, weaving other attacks etc. but just in case there's an incremental improvement that's possible from the animation team:
https://youtu.be/XcFmgXVC3DA
1) I've been moving around with the dire wolves just to see how they react and choose paths etc. It appears about 75% of the time they’re choosing to stack right on top of one another. My instinct is that it's a bit worse than on live, but regardless is there an easy way for you guys to make it so that they more reliably stand on either side of the player, move around more independently etc?
2) When moving forward and light attacking, the werewolf model sort of looks like it's gliding across the ground at times. This is fairly minor and I'm not sure when you'll be in a situation where you are just moving forward and light attacking randomly, but does look kind of goofy. It doesn't really end up looking that way when you're in normal combat changing direction, dodge rolling, weaving other attacks etc. but just in case there's an incremental improvement that's possible from the animation team:
https://youtu.be/XcFmgXVC3DA
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Vengeance Campaign
Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »What is the plan for allowing players with characters on more than 1 faction access to a regular PvP environment if you are removing the only option for non alliance locked cyrodiil outside of vengeance?
This is making me a bit nervous.
Granted, I'm not a huge PvPer (but I'm gonna have to grind this Veterancy to get that shield bash), but having the only two options be "standard, but only on one specific faction so I can't play with friends" and "vengeance, so I can't play with standard rules" is a bit awkward.
Are we really expected to have an account-wide 'primary' faction for PvP and then the other two are for Vengeance only? Didn't ESO decide like 11 years ago that faction-locking you away from your friends was not a good idea?
