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Re: Multi rider elephant... request!
Zerg! Mount up!
Imagine seeing this approach your castle in cryodiil
Imagine seeing this approach your castle in cryodiil
Re: Massive meta shifts every 1.5 months is horrendous for the game and player base
Remember back in the day the game would be at a point where we had a huge variety of playstyles all viable and now its just oh DK build or Storm/animal/assassin or acuity+rally+mono build
Stamsorc - dizzy burst setup, or dw dot aoe setup
Magsorc - shieldsorc, overload burst, pets
stamplar - rollplar, dotplar, or potl burst
magplar - darkflare, block and burn, dotplar
stamblade - rollerblade, bowblade, 2h oneshot, bashblade
magblade - sap tank, invis speed burst, sustained range dots, vampdive
Magdk - Vamp brawler, double s&b, CCking, dotdk, defiledk
stamdk - dotdk, 2h brawler
stamden - 2h burst, reverb turn and burn, bleedden
Magden - offhealer, debuffer, frostden
I mean there was a time when all of these existed at once and were different playstyles being played. Now the game and combat is so homogenized into only one playstyle. IMO it really started going downhill after the elsweyr weapon skills reworks. S&B lost its damage playstyles entirely, dizzy became a generic spammable, dual wield fell out of favor, etc
EDIT: To add at the same time youd have like 10+ viable WD or max stat sets which built and played differently with skills and could be stronger or weaker on any given class.
Stamsorc - dizzy burst setup, or dw dot aoe setup
Magsorc - shieldsorc, overload burst, pets
stamplar - rollplar, dotplar, or potl burst
magplar - darkflare, block and burn, dotplar
stamblade - rollerblade, bowblade, 2h oneshot, bashblade
magblade - sap tank, invis speed burst, sustained range dots, vampdive
Magdk - Vamp brawler, double s&b, CCking, dotdk, defiledk
stamdk - dotdk, 2h brawler
stamden - 2h burst, reverb turn and burn, bleedden
Magden - offhealer, debuffer, frostden
I mean there was a time when all of these existed at once and were different playstyles being played. Now the game and combat is so homogenized into only one playstyle. IMO it really started going downhill after the elsweyr weapon skills reworks. S&B lost its damage playstyles entirely, dizzy became a generic spammable, dual wield fell out of favor, etc
EDIT: To add at the same time youd have like 10+ viable WD or max stat sets which built and played differently with skills and could be stronger or weaker on any given class.
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
exiledtyrant wrote: »
What places do you think could use improvement with Class Mastery?
The masteries seem potent already. 20% weapon damage from Font of Power is already better than minor brutality/sorcery from sub-classing and probably worth about 6% out of the 12% critical damage you could get from a passive. Add another 8% to 10% raw damage that Static Reverberation has been adding to my parses, and that's gotta be close to what you get from 2 sub classes.
+20% weapon damage on a character with +30% weapon damage from M/m Brutality/Sorcery => +15% damage increase
+20% crit damage on a character with 60% crit chance and 105% crit damage => +7.36% damage increase
Font of Power is waaaaaaaay more worth than you think !
Re: Is the Werewolf's new channeled claw attack considered a bunch of light attacks?
Yeah this is just werewolf getting their own beam skill, that's it.
coop500
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Re: Please don't shut down Blackreach
PvE main here, why not just replace no-proc no-cp with Vengeance instead of proc/cp/no lock? I mean, Vengence feels like an evolution of no-proc/no-cp…
From what they have said, the plan is basically to remove every current Cyrodiil alternative besides Gray Host, including cp, no-cp and low level, and leave Vengeance as the only real replacement. That is why people are worried.
That is very likely to backfire. Gray Host queues will get even worse, more people will sit AFK at the gate waiting on friends, and the overall experience will suffer. If anything, the current primetime queues show that people are coming back and actively want to play Gray Host, so removing more options and expecting Vengeance alone to absorb that demand seems like a bad idea.
Re: Please don't shut down Blackreach
PvE main here, why not just replace no-proc no-cp with Vengeance instead of proc/cp/no lock? I mean, Vengence feels like an evolution of no-proc/no-cp…
Soarora
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
Do the updated skills accurately reflect the skill mechanics?
Yes
What changes to the Werewolf mode are you satisfied with?
Lowering the early-game cost of becoming a werewolf, optimizing the werewolf skill rotation.
What changes to the Werewolf mode are you dissatisfied with?
1.Maintaining the werewolf transformation is difficult in a solo situation. Currently, the only feasible solution I can think of is wearing Eye of the Grasp to maintain sufficient ultimate points.
2.The skill timer is faulty, making it difficult to monitor the duration of the ability.
Is there anything else you'd like to share regarding the changes to the Werewolf mode?
1. The Werewolf skill descriptions are too complex, and many skill texts are translated incorrectly.
2. The interaction between skills is still poor. For example, you need to deliberately use Roar/Ferocious Roar to obtain Blood Hunger, but Roar is still cumbersome to use and doesn't deal damage itself. This means the best way to use Claw Fury is to either forgo using Roar/Ferocious Roar altogether, or only use Roar/Ferocious Roar before the start of combat to obtain Blood Hunger.
3. In group PvE, if you choose to use Claw Fury, you will almost never use Gnash's two morphs in the rotation, which is equivalent to wasting a skill. As mentioned above, although the Werewolf skills have been optimized, the interaction between skills still feels poor.
Yes
What changes to the Werewolf mode are you satisfied with?
Lowering the early-game cost of becoming a werewolf, optimizing the werewolf skill rotation.
What changes to the Werewolf mode are you dissatisfied with?
1.Maintaining the werewolf transformation is difficult in a solo situation. Currently, the only feasible solution I can think of is wearing Eye of the Grasp to maintain sufficient ultimate points.
2.The skill timer is faulty, making it difficult to monitor the duration of the ability.
Is there anything else you'd like to share regarding the changes to the Werewolf mode?
1. The Werewolf skill descriptions are too complex, and many skill texts are translated incorrectly.
2. The interaction between skills is still poor. For example, you need to deliberately use Roar/Ferocious Roar to obtain Blood Hunger, but Roar is still cumbersome to use and doesn't deal damage itself. This means the best way to use Claw Fury is to either forgo using Roar/Ferocious Roar altogether, or only use Roar/Ferocious Roar before the start of combat to obtain Blood Hunger.
3. In group PvE, if you choose to use Claw Fury, you will almost never use Gnash's two morphs in the rotation, which is equivalent to wasting a skill. As mentioned above, although the Werewolf skills have been optimized, the interaction between skills still feels poor.
Re: Werewolf Update From The Combat Refresh Team
Nord_Raseri wrote: »Why does that werewolf look like it is from Cyberpunk? Is there a version without the glowing markings?
The glowing markings depend on the morph:
The unmorphed version has no markings
Berserker is the red eyes and claw marks
and Pack Leader has a green Hircine logo on the chest
There are also the three base colors (black, white, and ashen) which currently work as they do normally where the morph dictates the fur color. However, the Stonefalls Dynamic encounter drops fragments (1, 5, 10 for black, ashen, white) that you can consume to unlock the colors as skill styles and then you get whichever color you choose.
The pics above are all with the Ashen style. Here are the other two:
Re: April 20th Vengeance Only..
BardokRedSnow wrote: »l
They offered double ap for vengeance only alongside greyhost and people still flocked to greyhost... No amount of meaningless titles or the like would get people to move over, and offering rewards like cosmetics and developing the campaign people right now dont wanna play would only ostracize and push more returning players out yet again.
Trying to force customers to like something vs improving upon what they already like is the worst business strategy possible.
What forum goers don't understand overall, because these players don't typically go to the forums, is that most pvpers come from other games like WoW where the actual gameplay and combat is more important to them than anything else. The game mode that gives them the most build diversity and complexity will always win out over what is simple and available to everyone to access out the jump.
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And a bigger point on that is, if the social aspect was the most important thing, more pvpers would be doing PVE, as PvE is a far bigger social pool than PVP ever could be.
1. So according to you, AP and rewards are not the main motivator for the majority of pvp players. I agree. People who hate pvp will never be enticed no matter how much cosmetics and dyes and AP are offered.
2. ZOS is not forcing customers into Vengeance. They offer incentives to play vengeance. When they're tired of supporting a service, they can disconnect it. Just like how no one forces you to use any kind of software if a dev gets tired of maintaining it. As a customer, you can play or not play. Pretty simple.
3. "Most PvPers come from other games like WoW where actual gameplay and combat is more important than anything else"? Very bold statement. I highly doubt this is the case, but okay. Gameplay and combat mechanics are different from build diversity/gear complexity.
4. "If the social aspect was the most important thing, more PvPers would be doing PvE." These don't logically connect.
Let's just take a look at the minute-to-minute gameplay of Greyhost:
"This. Logged in last night during prime time, 60+ queue, 3 bars across all alliances and the map was so *** dead. No one doing a single thing. Maybe a resource flagged here and there but it felt like people would log in and just go afk on purpose. I stuck around for a hour and dipped, lol"
"When I logged on to PCNA in grayhost on AD, I’d just sit there and talk to people in zone chat. No reason to actually try anything when a Zerg attempts to take a keep and you and 3 other people show up to try to defend."
https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/s/Tl5LHIkd1h
Greyhost is failing to provide meaningful combat for the average player. So why do people still queue in? Socializing and afking is what the majority of players do in Greyhost. This is not a bad thing. Human beings are social creatures, you can't force them to unsocialize in a multiplayer game, and realistically speaking, people need breaks and cannot be battling 24/7. It makes more sense for ZOS to lean into the socialization aspect and make grouping and coordination easier and more meaningful, and implement underdog bonuses to address population imbalances and entice participation. They cannot reach a critical population in Greyhost anymore, so they have to switch to Vengeance.
