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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
I have a minor nitpick about the name change of Devour to Insatiable Hunger:
For one, the synergy's name is longer, so it looks like visual clutter. But more importantly, this is a synergy asking us to perform an action — it makes more sense to be told to "Devour" something than it does to use "Insatiable Hunger" on it.
Devour is the action we take; Insatiable Hunger is why we take the action.
For one, the synergy's name is longer, so it looks like visual clutter. But more importantly, this is a synergy asking us to perform an action — it makes more sense to be told to "Devour" something than it does to use "Insatiable Hunger" on it.
Devour is the action we take; Insatiable Hunger is why we take the action.
Re: Next New Zone?
I'm going to get burned for this, I'm sure, but I'm so tired of Skyrim. I get that it's one of the biggest TES games and that it's the most recent. I also get that it was the introductory TES for tons of people, but it's just feels so overused at this point. I'm just so bored of that area. In ESO it always feels stale and sparse. I thought Makarth was amazing, but it just feels like ground so firmly covered.
Re: April 20th Vengeance Only..
ToddIngram wrote: »Maximus_Mordred wrote: »Hi ZOS,
Stop doing this, the majority of your PvP base does not want this washed game mode. We don’t want to contribute anything to your “testing” because we are against it. Frankly, it’s a waste of time. With all the good that’s being done recently in the studio this is the remaining outlier of a team clinging to one last bad decision. It feels like we’re just being reminded to stay skeptical of the PvP dev team’s vacuum decision making philosophy.
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Can we test PvE Vengeance on April 20th too?
Speak for yourself, after the endless years of nonstop ballgroups and bombers destroying PvP for all but the biggest sweatlords I am so looking forward to this.
Seeing the angry little forum bubble throwing a tantrum when they can't get carried by their sets to crush PvErs and clueless zergs to give themselves a fragile sense of power and superiority over others is never not music to my ears. The fact is that they have never, at any point represented the majority of PvPers. If ZOS did literally the exact polar opposite of what the chronically online "PvP" population here demanded then Cyrodiil today would be a much better place.
Not many times I support ZOS' stance on PvP but got to say, this is one of them.
As one of those PvP players who "throws a tantrum when I can't get carried by my sets to crush PvErs and clueless zergs to give myself a fragile sense of power and superiority over others" I will be taking vengeance week off. You see, I'm not a fan of the toxic PvE community that continuously make statements like the one from you I've quoted.
I've put in the time to be good at live Cyrodiil PvP. I'm not going to help ZOS throw all my years of time and effort into the trash bin.
Sorry, but if you truly think that it's only PvE players that are waiting for Vengeance then you're sorely mistaken. I've been playing in Cyro for years, been through all of the best and worst metas, nerfs and buffs and GH is in a terrible state at the moment. I'm not going to sit here and say Vengeance should be the only campaign, it should be separate from GH in my opinion, but let's not sit here and pretend it's JUST the PvE community play testing this server.
Re: Inventory is Excessive Micro-Management
Personal Assistant is a great addon, it is the only reason I can play ESO. I think there is one called Dustman too.
It is definitely a barrier to entry and a reason a few of my friends didn't stick with the game, beyond the combat.
It is definitely a barrier to entry and a reason a few of my friends didn't stick with the game, beyond the combat.
Re: Update 50 PTS – Week 1 Summary
I appreciate these summaries and I appreciate the updates. I do have one question/request: seeing Eidetic get it's own section in the pts week 1 patch notes was a pleasant surprise and we got a lot of fixes, but there are still many bugged/missing books. Is there hope week 2+ will give us more fixes or will we have to wait until u51 for more?
I didn't get to test as much as I'd like this week due to some irl stuff but I'm hoping to get more testing done in week 2 and catch up on feedback but I figured I'd ask about the lorebooks since I didn't get a chance to yet.
I didn't get to test as much as I'd like this week due to some irl stuff but I'm hoping to get more testing done in week 2 and catch up on feedback but I figured I'd ask about the lorebooks since I didn't get a chance to yet.
Emeratis
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Why is Naj-Caldeesh so grossly overtuned in normal?
Please, understand that I'm all for having challenging content in vet and HM, so don't reply with the usual L2P nonsense. It's been great fun to tackle vNC blind with a bunch of friends. But now that collides with the reality: when it pops as RND, there is 80% chance that the group will dissolve right off the bat. Of the rest, 4/5 of the groups don't clear. Overall, i have 1/10 success in RNDs there, no matter what is my role, my DPS or how good am i at tanking or healing it. Honestly, I'm better off playing it solo, at least it's 100% clear. Unfortunately, it doesn't reward the 10 transmutes.
Re: Inventory is Excessive Micro-Management
Zodiarkslayer wrote: »It Back when there was no sticker book and no option to use transmutation stones to recreate a piece of equipment, I would've agreed.
But these days it is really comfortable to organise inventory. Well, at least for me with my 12 character non ESO+ account. There are just a couple of habits that one needs to cultivate and there will never be any inventory bloat.
1) Know your build's gear. Don't experiment, that's what the PTS is for.
2) Use the sticker book, don't hoard gear. With 1500 transmute crystals it is possible to make 60 pieces of gear at once. That is 5 characters!
3) Get all the free storage space. Bank (240), Inventory (200 per character, 10 characters are free), Storage Chests (360).
4) Use motives, plans and recipes when you get them. Sell them at once, if you know them.
5) Use up your consumable materiels. Craft potions, glyphs and food to sell them on guild stores. The good ones sell like candy. The others mostly sell as raw mats for good gold. Only the provisioning mats that are not used for commonly used food and for daily crafting writs need to be sold to regular merchants, 5 gold apiece.
6) Use Houses for storing furnishings, not the bank.
7) Hoarding is bad for mental health. Sell like crazy! Use Master Merchant or Tamriel Trade Centre to know real value and fill up all of your 30 slots in every one of your guilds.
Remember: The bank inventory is limited to 240 slots, but the amount of gold is limited to 2.1 billion.
There is more, ofc. But these are the most important.
I know you're trying to help, but this actually highlights just how bad the inventory problem is. If we have to plan and play around inventory management, then there's a problem with inventory.
Frayton
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »Would it have been so bad to just make all the class mastery buffs simple Weapon/Spell Power buffs based on how underperforming the class is on live?
Unfortunately this wouldn't work since not all classes are behind due to raw numbers.
Lets take a look at sorcerer for example:
- It's tooltips are already very good for most of it's abilities
- it has a lot of sustain already
- decent healing
- It can also technically be built to tank with the right build
So why is it behind on live compared to the refreshed classes and sub-classing?
- It's abilities are very clunky to use (unlisted/long cast times, animation delays, bugs, etc.)
- It lacks cleave within it's kit
- Many abilities/passives are doubling down on things that aren't needed
- Many abilities are not synergistic with each other/how the class functions
- It lacks buff/debuff access (still no breach debuff and only stamsorc has major prophecy/savagery)
- It lacks a lot of the secondary effects on skills that other classes skills have that enhance their skills well beyond what their tooltips show.
On top of this, U41 showed us why just simply buffing the numbers won't work. ZOS did this for sorc during that patch and the class was very strong, but the numbers increases required to make up for the issues above were just too much, so the class had to be nerfed again because it was too strong in certain aspects/content.
Another example of this is necromancers:
- It's tooltips are technically equal to equivalent abilities from other classes
- It technically has a lot of buffs/debuffs in it's kit
- It has a lot of unique interactions
- It has cleave
- It has secondary effects
So why is Necro so far behind? It comes down to:
- clunky abilities due to awkward cast times, slow projectile speeds
- abilities that are not designed with mobility in mind
- thematic self debuffs that aren't needed to balance the class anymore
These 2 classes aren't suffering from things that a simple numbers buff can fix. They need refreshes because the numbers buffs required are just not feasible for a balanced game (even if everything was OP, these would have to be even more so to keep up).
This is also why things like dummy parsing (or spreadsheet balancing) should not be the only way to determine if a class is up to par or not and why this method of balancing that has been used (by players and ZOS alike) to call for or determine what (if any) changes need to be made over the past 6+ years has completely messed up so much. Sorcerer on the trial dummies looks like one of the most OP classes in the game, but since it lacks cleave, it lacks group support/utility, it lacks many buffs/debuffs, once those things become required (like in actual content), sorcerer just vanishes entirely because it has none of those things that help in actual content, things that Arcanist, DK and Plar have plenty of, hence why they are the main classes brought in as DPS classes for actual content while Sorcerer is not despite sorcerer parsing equally or higher than those classes on the trial dummy.
Turtle_Bot
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Re: Inventory is Excessive Micro-Management
The inventory issue is a key reason people quit the game. It literally drives people away.
I’d honestly prefer that the crafting bag was included in the base game. Give me - as a long term ESO+ subscriber - some other benefit to replace it.
Ultimately I would rather keep players in the game.
I’d honestly prefer that the crafting bag was included in the base game. Give me - as a long term ESO+ subscriber - some other benefit to replace it.
Ultimately I would rather keep players in the game.