New PTS Templates

ZOS_GinaBruno · June 2014

Hey everyone!

We just applied a hotfix that gives your PTS templates a bit more flexibility in order to test the newer content.

When you create a new character using the template, you will now be VR12 with upgraded gear.
The Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Soul Magic, and Undaunted skills and abilities are now maxed out.
The nearest wayshrine to Veteran Crypt of Hearts - Sanguine Barrows Wayshrine - has been unlocked.
Additional wayshrines have been added around the world near major cities.

To get to Veteran Crypt of Hearts, open up your map (or use a wayshrine), switch to Rivenspire, and select the Sanguine Barrows Wayshrine. Head south from the wayshrine, and you will discover the dungeon shortly.

Hope this helps!

Skirmish840 · June 2014

Awesome !!

dragnier · June 2014

Ok, definitely a step in the correct direction! Still can't make any race outside of DC... nor any crafting skill increases...

dragnier · June 2014

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*] The Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Soul Magic, and Undaunted skills and abilities are now maxed out.

This did not happen. The world and guild skills are NOT rank 4 and able to be morphed at all.

haamfish · June 2014

you needed a 2GB patch for that??!

wolfe26ub17_ESO · June 2014

Add to that when I set up my weapons can't seem to put same weapons on both bars

ZOS_GinaBruno · June 2014

@dragnier, looking into those issues now.

AshleyLee · June 2014

dragnier wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*] The Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Soul Magic, and Undaunted skills and abilities are now maxed out.

This did not happen. The world and guild skills are NOT rank 4 and able to be morphed at all.

Nope didnt happen for my characters either.

wolfe26ub17_ESO · June 2014

Choosing a fungal Grotto Template, lacks world magic section completely under skills

ZOS_GinaBruno · June 2014

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

AngryNord · June 2014

dragnier wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*] The Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Soul Magic, and Undaunted skills and abilities are now maxed out.

This did not happen. The world and guild skills are NOT rank 4 and able to be morphed at all.

How surprising... And surprise, surprise, you're still not able to delete existing characters either...

#Faildeluxe

AngryNord · June 2014

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

Have you considered perhaps TESTING stuff before you upload it? Just an idea...

Mujuro · June 2014

AngryNord wrote: »

Have you considered perhaps TESTING stuff before you upload it? Just an idea...

That would make waaaayyy too much sense. :P

Comaetilico · June 2014

AngryNord wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

Have you considered perhaps TESTING stuff before you upload it? Just an idea...

have you considered that this is the public TEST server? ^^' and that the one not working is a TEST function not meant to go live but just to make testing easier?

Cylver · June 2014

Comaetilico wrote: »

AngryNord wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

Have you considered perhaps TESTING stuff before you upload it? Just an idea...

have you considered that this is the public TEST server? ^^' and that the one not working is a TEST function not meant to go live but just to make testing easier?

Unfortunately, way too many want a free fast trial of new content before it hits live. They don't come to any game's PTS to test.

dragnier · June 2014

Cylver wrote: »

Unfortunately, way too many want a free fast trial of new content before it hits live. They don't come to any game's PTS to test.

Unfortunately, I believe this to be true more often than not. Otherwise, the previous testers would have said something about the Craglorn v9 template when they were testing Craglorn before release. They didn't get to test fully ranked guild/world skills, crafted set bonuses, mundus stones, or pvp based skills with the Craglorn/Trials content without huge amounts of time to level them that they didn't have.

As a matter of fact, most of the skills that make the Trials so much easier are exactly the ones they didn't have available on the PTS before it launched!

driosketch · June 2014

Comaetilico wrote: »

AngryNord wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

Have you considered perhaps TESTING stuff before you upload it? Just an idea...

have you considered that this is the public TEST server? ^^' and that the one not working is a TEST function not meant to go live but just to make testing easier?

I wish I could give this more agrees. Are people just typing on automatic without stopping to think, or do they want some kind of test server for the test server?

Welcome to the PTS guys.

MrBeatDown · June 2014

AngryNord wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

Have you considered perhaps TESTING stuff before you upload it? Just an idea...

Na they dont PROPERLY test anything, They must be short handed on staff and underpayed. They are just throwing trash together to meet time deadlines. What the Upper management doesn't seem to understand is that we as paying customers expect Superior quality products for our money. Especially since its made by all these people that supposedly went to school. I wont go into that though. My tax dollars were obviously blown on some of these people education loans. Anyway's , This is why craglorn was such a mess on release.

Skirmish840 · June 2014

Guys they said their working on it, and far our man lets cut them some slack instead of just cutting them all the time.

They obviously listened and thought that it was an oversight and so promptly added more options, unbeknown to them that "normal" options would be broken...

So they listened promptly again and are fixing it.

FFS Really.... give them some slack....

Vorkk8383 · June 2014

I get the test server but what I don't get is why they seem to want to be adding more new content. OK...the new campaigns or fixed campaigns, fine. Gives people something to do. But after that, no more. Fix stuff. No more adding more stuff that is also bugged.

MrBeatDown · June 2014

They don't need to be Nerfing or Buffing anything else for this game until they can properly Test there THEORIES on what is good and bad. Everytime they use this template, they are just guessing. And it appears that the attitude about it is, well that's good enough, lets move on to something else, Meanwhile people are cancelling subs, and others are just riding out there time to see how much more ridiculous the game gets since in ZOS view That's the best way to adjust characters balance. Its also possible that they don't understand the game that they created. Somehow they made it work, but they don't know how. Must have been luck. Should be no excuse why they cant find our character files saved client side and allow us to import them into the PTS.

dragnier · June 2014

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

Just to quickly inform you, I found another skill that wasn't ranked up. I made a v12 Sorcerer and the Crystal Shard skill was not rank four either. Figured this was an oversight.

MrBeatDown · June 2014

dragnier wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Just a quick update, we're working on fixing the templates today. We'll let you all know as soon as they're updated.

Just to quickly inform you, I found another skill that wasn't ranked up. I made a v12 Sorcerer and the Crystal Shard skill was not rank four either. Figured this was an oversight.

What kind of gear was you gonna use on that sorc to test out your build? Default stamina heavy armor?

dragnier · June 2014

MrBeatDown wrote: »

dragnier wrote: »

Just to quickly inform you, I found another skill that wasn't ranked up. I made a v12 Sorcerer and the Crystal Shard skill was not rank four either. Figured this was an oversight.

What kind of gear was you gonna use on that sorc to test out your build? Default stamina heavy armor?

You make a good point about the random generation of gear... but they at least do give you all three kinds and money to buy basic white enchants. So I simply put on the light armor it gave me (by far not my choice, but better than nothing) and re-enchanted all of them to magicka.

You are correct though... most of the random gear isn't worth wearing. I thought about just making character after character until I got a full set of blues with all divines just to have it... O.o

Windshadow_ESO · June 2014

What is it about the word "test" that some of these folks do not understand? They are not paying their fees to use the PTS they pay to play the game on the live servers.
Testing games is something else entirely and different folks tend to test different things unless asked to beat on some special area.
I like digging into the nooks and cracks looking for things that are not working properly and the odd out of the way side quests as sometimes they can have problems as so few find them

What I would find most helpful for testing would be templates or premades that were focused on crafting as I feel that work is needed in those areas of the game... On the other hand I don't enjoy pvp bing mostly a care bear sort of player that gets my jollies out of helping others

Skirmish840 · June 2014

Yeah crafting was one of the things I really wanted to get into testing as I feel it's largely unknown. I can't count the amount of times I've been over to esofashion.com (great site, very informative) to see how something looked and went to equip a blue crafted item with another blue to find out it looks completely different due to the way the equipped gear works together to make things look cool. I know dyes are coming out and to test that we'll need lots of resources to test many different combinations of crafted and picked up items/armor.

Which brings me to another point, I'd be more than willing to put some time into grinding resources to test with, but, if I spent a weeks worth of grinding resources in different tiers to only have my character wiped the next day before I could spend a few days testing with the resources, it would leave a sour taste in my mouth to be sure....

So maybe some characters shouldn't be wiped depending on what they're testing.

I'm wondering if this was the only wipe of characters since the server started, or has there been many wipes?

Can we get a rough idea on how often the servers and characters we create are wiped, just so we can plan and decide what effort we'll put into which part of the game to test ?

Dohmmi · June 2014

We need a PTS with all skills and Jobs and max Lvl, so we can test all

Drav1n · June 2014

Where would one find this v12 template you speak of? I created a character and never seen an option for this template.

GTech_1 · June 2014

dravinub17_ESO wrote: »

Where would one find this v12 template you speak of? I created a character and never seen an option for this template.

No new templates here either ... The Pulldown only lists these 3 items: None, Craglorn, Fungal Grotto

AngryNord · June 2014

Chose Craglorn and you should get a VR12 character...

Ysne58 · June 2014

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌ I cannot delete the characters I created to test out the template you created yesterday. Has there been some kind of limit set on deleting characters?