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Re: Cannot buy the premium+bonus tome?
UPDATE for Steam users:
Success!
However, I had to circumvent actually using Steam, heh. Rather, I launched the game directly from eso64.exe rather than opening it like normal through Steam. It will bring up the login splash screen but you must supply your own login credentials manually.
The path on Windows is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online\game\client
From there, the Tome UI Upgrade button worked responsively and did the deed.
This is what I would consider to be a WORKAROUND, however. And the process should 100% be cleaned-up so that you can buy it from Steam directly like Crowns and the old Chapters, etc..
Success!
However, I had to circumvent actually using Steam, heh. Rather, I launched the game directly from eso64.exe rather than opening it like normal through Steam. It will bring up the login splash screen but you must supply your own login credentials manually.
The path on Windows is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online\game\client
From there, the Tome UI Upgrade button worked responsively and did the deed.
This is what I would consider to be a WORKAROUND, however. And the process should 100% be cleaned-up so that you can buy it from Steam directly like Crowns and the old Chapters, etc..
Re: Daily login for Tomes should be counted automatically
SilverBride wrote: »Players shouldn't miss getting credit for something they did just because they forgot to open Tomes, go to Challenges, go to Seasonal then click on the Challenge. They did it for the daily login rewards so they should be able to do it for this, too.
You don't miss getting credit if you forget to claim it manually for a few days. I did forget to claim it on one account and then just had to click the things a few times, got credit for all days. Same with the resource gathering challenges. If you forget to claim one, it starts counting towards the next one already in the background. Now the auto claim function is of course a different matter.
Re: Crown Sale - Did you buy any?
I just no longer buy crowns. I think the crown store item pricing is too high for what is a video game, and ZOS takes advantage of people with their marketing of items.
I have no problem paying a monthly subscription, but crown store item pricing is ridiculous. (Though I did stop paying for ESO+ for about 6 months when they did armory station with the per character armory slots. That was the tipping point for me, but I am back to ESO+ for now.)
I have no problem paying a monthly subscription, but crown store item pricing is ridiculous. (Though I did stop paying for ESO+ for about 6 months when they did armory station with the per character armory slots. That was the tipping point for me, but I am back to ESO+ for now.)
Taggund
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Challenge Difficulty
So, to answer some questions on Challenge Difficulty and instancing combat. This is going to be a little bit technical to hopefully explain the limitations from that perspective.
Everything in the game has a "weight" to it. This includes monsters (very weight heavy), interactable objects (these very but can be weight heavy), etc. Weight is determined by how much information is stored in a given object. I mention this because we have formulas for how much "weight" we can attribute to a given zone or instance of a zone and that is based on the intended player cap. So, for instance, Overland zones generally have no weight restrictions because we expect a lot of players in those zones so the weight attributed to the zone is justified and won't adversely affect the server. It gets much more tricky in situations where we expect reduced players in a given zone. The most restrictive are solo instances or fight spaces. We have a lot of development tools we use to make sure we do not exceed weight capacities in these spaces so it should feel seamless to players.
Each zone is controlled on the backend by something that determines which of our servers will spin up which zones when new copies are needed. In Greymoor, we saw the effects of the zones being spun up were not correctly attributing weight. Trials would spin up on weight heavy controllers which would result in adverse conditions in any zone connected to that controller. Our engineers took great pains to reorganize the code in these controllers to make sure the zones were even and weight was correctly distributed.
I bring this up to highlight the technical aspects of how the game operates from a monster and zone perspective to further illustrate that spinning up new zones based on difficulty without weight concerns and attribution would be extremely detrimental to the entire game. Needing to essentially double all of the available zones in the game without regard to population and weight would mean the entire server would have some pretty major issues regardless of where you would be playing. Even in Delves and Public Dungeons, locations that were not created with these concerns in mind, would potentially be breaking for the server.
We want Challenge Difficulty to be a fun experience for players and, while most of the feedback is regarding the desire for us not to split players from a design standpoint, the technical concerns are most likely bigger than that. This is not said to dismiss feedback but more provide context.
Please DO keep providing feedback. We have some fixes in the works coming for CD. Mainly around the calculations we are making on the backend so that player damage is more in line with expectations but that is not exhaustive and we continue to monitor things. We are taking a look at the Master difficulty in particular as thats where I think most folks will find their groove and we want to make that as smooth as possible.
Everything in the game has a "weight" to it. This includes monsters (very weight heavy), interactable objects (these very but can be weight heavy), etc. Weight is determined by how much information is stored in a given object. I mention this because we have formulas for how much "weight" we can attribute to a given zone or instance of a zone and that is based on the intended player cap. So, for instance, Overland zones generally have no weight restrictions because we expect a lot of players in those zones so the weight attributed to the zone is justified and won't adversely affect the server. It gets much more tricky in situations where we expect reduced players in a given zone. The most restrictive are solo instances or fight spaces. We have a lot of development tools we use to make sure we do not exceed weight capacities in these spaces so it should feel seamless to players.
Each zone is controlled on the backend by something that determines which of our servers will spin up which zones when new copies are needed. In Greymoor, we saw the effects of the zones being spun up were not correctly attributing weight. Trials would spin up on weight heavy controllers which would result in adverse conditions in any zone connected to that controller. Our engineers took great pains to reorganize the code in these controllers to make sure the zones were even and weight was correctly distributed.
I bring this up to highlight the technical aspects of how the game operates from a monster and zone perspective to further illustrate that spinning up new zones based on difficulty without weight concerns and attribution would be extremely detrimental to the entire game. Needing to essentially double all of the available zones in the game without regard to population and weight would mean the entire server would have some pretty major issues regardless of where you would be playing. Even in Delves and Public Dungeons, locations that were not created with these concerns in mind, would potentially be breaking for the server.
We want Challenge Difficulty to be a fun experience for players and, while most of the feedback is regarding the desire for us not to split players from a design standpoint, the technical concerns are most likely bigger than that. This is not said to dismiss feedback but more provide context.
Please DO keep providing feedback. We have some fixes in the works coming for CD. Mainly around the calculations we are making on the backend so that player damage is more in line with expectations but that is not exhaustive and we continue to monitor things. We are taking a look at the Master difficulty in particular as thats where I think most folks will find their groove and we want to make that as smooth as possible.
ZOS_Finn
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Re: April 20th Vengeance Only..
Ive pvped since 2014 and I think Vengeance is better pvpmode then the "normal" pvp you see in cyrodiil these days, its 99.9% about what sets you use and what class you are, very little about skill. Vengeance is mostly about skill.
olsborg
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Re: Queue is broken
2 hours in que today.
120 min... que of 138... and I'm not even through yet.
I only have 2 hours to play... my entire gameplay tonight is standing in one place waiting in que, missing the Cyrodiil raid. The only reason I'm not logging out to play some other game is to prove a point... even if it's sitting in que for 2 hours and 10 mins of gameplay. Increase the Pop already, PvPers aren't going to give up and go do PvE stuff... they'll give up and play a different game.
If enough people instead queued for a second campaign, this wouldn't be an issue. The capacity is there it's just not per campaign.
Re: Whats up with all these fake dps lately
I think it is wonderful that we have such wise and understanding players around, who will share their Dictates and Orders to the world on what Everyone else Must do to live up to their personal expectations.
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
Shame you didn't screenshot the context to this deleted forum exchange, because I believe it was a tongue in cheek response to a similarily ridiculous statement, just with the "by results" added in since none of you can ever type that.
Pretty sure you've also proclaimed yourself to be the GOAT of ESO.
Pretty sure I haven't; I only claim what I accomplish, not what I or anyone else thinks about me. Silly thing to be ranking yourself or others without a competitive metric - this is what I always say when people ask me to rank myself or other players.
Sounds like you've been listening to some fanfic about me because that's not the first time someone says that.
I have screenshots of you claiming you're the #1 player. I'm not posting them here as it would violate ToS.
So you have a screenshot of a 2020 whisper sent to a streamsniper after literally hours of harassment? Don't worry, I can describe it. Glad to know what you and the discords you frequent are up to though, explains a lot.
I believe that screenshot said "best nightblade" (in all caps) and a bunch of profanities... yeah, not a happy incident that, 6 years ago. Best you've got?
I get that you're not a fan, but what do any of these narratives people invent about me have to do with werewolf? I'm well aware I have a lot of haters, counting on them for ad revenue.
I'm not going to address people not part of this conversation, but you're telling me you've won one tournament... 5 years ago. On NA. Ok, congrats.
Yes, on NA 5 years ago when I still participated in dueling tourneys, when the dueling scene was actually big on PC NA, when I still had 100 ping before I moved somewhere else far away from NA server. I currently play with 300 ping, with frequent CC bug, lag, and timezone difference. I'm not going thru all of that trouble to sit in a 5 hour dueling tourney that starts at 4:30 AM lol.
Right, I really don't care about all the excuses.
ESO isn't my job, so I'm not going out of my way to partake in something that doesn't earn me money. I would if it's fun, but dueling tourneys haven't been fun for the past 4 years, so nope on that too. Not an excuse, just facts. I also heard that ESO is your job, so that's fair you think that way, but don't project that on me lol.
Still don't care about excuses.
Are you? Have you actually played werewolf? Or the people you keep referencing? I played one half the PvP event in January/February, it's actually one of the most difficult playstyles to pull off on Live.
Yes, I have, on the PTS where we're supposed to test the newest rework. All of my opinion have been for the PTS. I am fully aware of how weak WW is on the Live server.
Right, so this is basically the first time you're playing werewolf and your knowledge of it is based off of what other people who also probably didn't touch werewolf in 5+ years say about it. Alright.
As the newest thing it must of course be op and needs to be nerfed to the ground, just like DK inhale, sorc hardened ward and so many other things... I'm already predicting a "nerf warden" post for Update 51.
This is where it matters, PTS WW. In fact, I could make the argument that WW is OP because I only have 1 hour of experience, yet I am still able to kill a lot of people who were experienced in their class and also in proper builds. A person with almost zero knowledge of a particular class should never be able to kill most players on said class, regardless of how good that person is.
One can go duel people naked and still win, doesn't really say much about the build or whether something is op or not. I believe certain I individual did do that on NA a few years back... An EU player if I recall correctly.
That's besides the point though, the point is that if you haven't played werewolf on Live and your friends haven't played werewolf on Live, then you have no comparison point, no idea of where it's problem areas and strengths lie and absolutely no clue of its open world/GvG potential etc.
I mean, this is why you're still adamant werewolf is a problem and not sorcerer werewolf. Knowledge gap, once again.
Are you? You've won one tournament in 2021 and other than that it's just a bunch of friends calling you "the best stamina sorcerer" or whatever.
I am. I won a tournament on my stamsorc against some of the best PC NA duelers on their magplar and magdk (which were the best dueling classes at the time).
I also know the game pretty well, mechanic wise and theorycrafting wise. Again, a lot of people have given me that title. Not only my friends. I've had people from EU come to me for build advice. This is not tooting my own horns. I'm simply just stating what has happened over the years. You don't have to believe it lol
Well, the last part is true.
And I don't really believe all of your stats either. See how that works both ways?
That's what receipts are for, if I ever make a claim I make sure to record everything. Should I post the receipts again? You've seen them before I'm sure.
The problem is that most of the "seasoned PvPers" only play whatever is the strongest build at that moment and have a strong interest in maintaining status quo or seeing other builds and playstyles weakened/unbuffed. Having limited experience playing other builds also means you lack critical insight on how those other playstyles and builds function, where their strengths and weaknesses lie and so on.
People who won a tournament half a decade ago farming squishies in Cyrodiil and telling each other they're the best players ever and everyone else is bad or clueless is precisely the elitism I'm referring to.
I've tested hundreds of builds, what do you mean?
The skill level doesnt' improve over time. Powercreep does. You're acting like people now are better than people 5 years ago when it's literally the exact same. 5 years ago people didn't have 40k HP in Cyrodiil. They had 23k. Don't mistaken power creep with skill increase, because that's just not true.
Believe it or not, the skill level does and has massively improved over time - I can personally say me 5 years ago would get farmed by me today in equal gear etc.
This is also very apparent if you watch any older PvP videos from people and fast forward to today, people (without naming any names) who were considered mechanically skilled back in the days would be nothing special today.
There is a skill cap in the game. If you reached it back then, you're not going to magically be better now. Builds do get better though, hence the power creep issue I mentioned. I mean, if you somehow convinced every in Alikir and Stormhaven to run the same stats that builds had back then, nothing would've looked different if we put them side by side.
Well that explains a lot of the nerf threads.
You believe you've reached a "skill cap" and can't improve... the classic.
I could point out that even after 12 years & 28k hours I'm still learning new things about the game, but I guess that just means I haven't reached the mythical "skill cap" - you'll know you've reached this when you start making nerf threads about every other build. Makes sense.
Decimus
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