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Re: Tomes weekly challenges too much work
They are super fine... i never needed more than 2 hours for them...gives me something to do
Re: It Appears Grey Host and Vengeance Will Exist Side by Side After All. Thoughts?
I'm perfectly fine with Grey Host and Vengeance being the two campaigns. The 3 current campaigns that aren't Grey Host are just dead. Vengeance gives a safe place for new players to experience and learn PVP without being completely obliterated by chronically online PVPers with hard-hitting builds and thus being discouraged from diving into PVP more. And Grey Host will still be there for the usual PVPers. I do feel if Grey Host is in much higher demand in the future, they'll open another campaign to ease the stress.
Re: Challenge difficulty is so much fun
randconfig wrote: »Honestly, there is only one way this challenge difficulty thing is going to work without separate instances:
Mark players and foes in vestige difficulty with an icon, and force any lower difficulty player into that difficulty the moment they join the combat. Do not let them grief and ruin my experience or the experience of my friends.
Otherwise, at least give us a pass on violating the ToS when we inevitably get into verbal fights with griefing players lol.
And why should the lower difficulty players be punished by being forced into a difficulty they did not sign up for?
Re: Update 50 PTS – Week 1 Summary
Ketryellowynne wrote: »
Let’s please address the elephant in the room. Healers. Supports, yes, but then you didn’t need to say tanks as well. Keep healers relevant.
For class passives specifically make something for every class that is determined by overheal (not heal). Reading the passives as they have existed to this point makes me terrified that you will end up writing healers as a role out of optimized end game entirely. We already see it in dungeons and arenas, running 3 DPS and a tank because “why would we run a healer if DDs can self-sustain and then we get more damage”? We already see it in current end game optimization where it’s common to run 1 heal, 1 tank.
My concern is that as DDs become more self sufficient and less necessity is placed on healing as a concept, end game groups will eliminate healers entirely because everything they provide can be provided equally as well by a support DD with 1 or 2 heals if necessary.
Example: Major Courage. As a very important buff, this has probably been the single most important thing for keeping healers relevant in the game since the best source (SPC) procs on overheal for 12 party members, no cooldown, potential 100% uptime with someone who plays it well enough. Adding this buff to a single skill on a werewolf is an enormous slap in the face. Where there aren’t specific heal checks, an optimized team can run a werewolf for Major courage instead of a healer at all. While this hasn’t been an issue previously (people choosing banners or Zenas, or soul burst or Yolna for minor courage instead of a werewolf in group), that was because it would be a net loss of damage to run a werewolf. In this case, with the emotional support doggo replacing the healer, it ends up a net increase rather than loss, assuming other buffs can still be sourced elsewhere.
Currently, the only buff that can only be sourced through healing is minor toughness. With Major courage more easily sourceable outside of healing, there becomes very few reasons to run a designated healer as opposed to only running support DDs in much optimized 12 man content.
KEEP HEALERS RELEVANT.
The class passives are an excellent opportunity to do this, but only if you model them with this in mind rather than just your damage or even just supports as a whole. Make a reason for a healer to be there instead of removing the existing ones.
(Edited for autocorrect sabotaging spelling)
You could probably solve this by allowing the WW Major Courage to only apply to other WWs.
So that it is a functional SPC replacement for all-WW groups, who otherwise have no means to source the buff group-wide, but it does not obviate the actual healer in more traditional groups.
Best of both worlds.
Re: It Appears Grey Host and Vengeance Will Exist Side by Side After All. Thoughts?
What achieved will be that Grey Host will be a ghost town in the long term and the campaign will be closed and all sweaties will have to shift to the new planned middle sized Cyrodiil Map, since there wont be enough population for a bigger map. There they will just grind their absurd builds/sets against each other while their dropping sweat ruining their gaming screen 1 inch away. And then eventually they will realise how much they actually got carried by their builds and sudden meta changes throughout the years and suddenly wont enjoy ESO PvP that much anymore since all players they are competing will be similar sweaties and there wont be any easy wins.
In the meantime we will enjoy a more controlled, structured, slow-paced and fair large-scale PvP experience in Vengeance together with normal people. And hopefully this time devs wont make the same mistakes they made throughout the years and wont butcher PvP every patch and instead just make slower and balanced iterative changes keeping concepts and systems faithful to originals and not trying to mix everything with everything.
In the meantime we will enjoy a more controlled, structured, slow-paced and fair large-scale PvP experience in Vengeance together with normal people. And hopefully this time devs wont make the same mistakes they made throughout the years and wont butcher PvP every patch and instead just make slower and balanced iterative changes keeping concepts and systems faithful to originals and not trying to mix everything with everything.
Re: A social issue people are reluctant to bring up
I don't think expecting you to pull your weight is toxic.
Tallon_IV
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
I will say so far questing as a werewolf has been a massively more enjoyable experience. the model is great. the animations feel nice. This rework has been great mechanically. I can't really speak on balance but gameplay feel seems spot on. werewolf went from really annoying to something I would be excited to play when it hits live.
JimT722
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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Combat Refresh: Werewolf
We got video evidence and they still can't understand that WW is overperforming and even funnier is how they are trying to blame other stuff like hiding exploits etc. At this point they are just blindly defending their favorite playstyle.
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: Nerf Range Ganking!
Oblivion_Protocol wrote: »BigPlays420 wrote: »I’ve been playing this pulse gank build for a couple of months now after getting hit by it myself, and I’ve gotten a few DMs like this claiming HP desync. Every time, I’ve gone back and watched the replay, and I haven’t seen any desync on my end. The enemy HP values line up with the damage numbers shown by the base game, and the kills make sense within that GCD.
At this point, I honestly think a lot of people are just looking for a way to cope with dying to it without understanding what actually killed them. It’s not just the first GCD either, the next 2–3 GCDs put out a ton of damage and pressure as well if the gank is executed properly.
I’ve also been playing the Pulse Gank build for a while now, and I can confidently tell you that desync is absolutely a thing that happens commonly unless you’ve got God-level ping. You don’t notice it while playing the build, but the desync isn’t happening to you.
Have you ever opened up on someone, and there’s a moment where they just stand still, not blocking, dodging, or casting skills? They simply stop moving and seem to accept their fate? If so, congratulations! You’ve seen desync live and in living color.
I’ve personally never seen it, and I’ve been hit by this gank plenty of times without ever feeling like I got desynced, and I play on fairly high ping myself, around 150–200 ms. Until actual proof is shown, I don’t think anyone is exploiting anything here if the argument is just “server desync,” especially when desync affects nearly every part of PvP whenever the servers are struggling.
The much simpler explanation is that the gank’s one-GCD potential is just ridiculous, even into fairly tanky specs. More often than not, that is probably what people are dying to.