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beerninja

Will a cold damage ability be added to the game or changed from an existing skill? Currently there are zero cold based abilities in the game and the only way to focus cold damage is via an occasional ice comet ultimate.

Currently:
fire damage (DK, few others)
lightning damage (sorc only)
poison damage (bow only)
disease damage (werewolf only)
Magic damage (everyone)
cold damage (none)

Solace of Shadows

I have traveled to many lands and heard many stories. From the Bosmer Spinners of my people, to the written words marked on the broken remnants of trees. From these stories I have heard many tales of the Werekin, The Children Of Hircine.

Some may be truer than others, though the story of our world flows and changes over the course of time, to make what was once untruth into truth. However, I have heard of one story that cannot, must not, be true.

We may seek the Werekin in the pale light of the full moons, fighting against tooth and claw for the right to bear the curse gift. We may even seek those willing to share the curse gift, for a price.

I have heard the tales of the Great Spinners. Those who spun not only our stories into being, but the stories of the gods themselves. To these Great Spinners I have but one question.

Dude. Crown store werewolves? Seriously! Pay money and BOOM. Instant werewolf? It feels too quick. Too easy. Too cheap.

Instead, let us buy a quest that puts us on the path to becoming a werewolf. Give us a lore quest full of adventure, choices and general awesomeness. Its a story for all of us you're spinning. Make it good.

MrDerrikk

Solace of Shadows wrote: »

I have traveled to many lands and heard many stories. From the Bosmer Spinners of my people, to the written words marked on the broken remnants of trees. From these stories I have heard many tales of the Werekin, The Children Of Hircine.

Some may be truer than others, though the story of our world flows and changes over the course of time, to make what was once untruth into truth. However, I have heard of one story that cannot, must not, be true.

We may seek the Werekin in the pale light of the full moons, fighting against tooth and claw for the right to bear the curse gift. We may even seek those willing to share the curse gift, for a price.

I have heard the tales of the Great Spinners. Those who spun not only our stories into being, but the stories of the gods themselves. To these Great Spinners I have but one question.

Dude. Crown store werewolves? Seriously! Pay money and BOOM. Instant werewolf? It feels too quick. Too easy. Too cheap.

Instead, let us buy a quest that puts us on the path to becoming a werewolf. Give us a lore quest full of adventure, choices and general awesomeness. Its a story for all of us you're spinning. Make it good.

This was one of the biggest complaints about it, in that you pay to skip content. At least if it gave you a choice to do the quest it wouldn't be 100% awful...

GTech_1

beerninja wrote: »

Will a cold damage ability be added to the game or changed from an existing skill? Currently there are zero cold based abilities in the game and the only way to focus cold damage is via an occasional ice comet ultimate.

Currently:
fire damage (DK, few others)
lightning damage (sorc only)
poison damage (bow only)
disease damage (werewolf only)
Magic damage (everyone)
cold damage (none)

I agree that the availability of Frost damage in the game is very limited, but it's not nonexistent.

The Frost Destro staff may be *very* low performing, but it is there, and Frost weapon enchants are also available.
Other than Ice comet, though, that's it. Not much to choose from.

Jargo

Can we expect to see leaderboards for the new heist system coming in the TG DLC?

Ghrimn

Will we be able to join the Iron Wheel and fight against the Thieves Guild? Not everyone wants to be a thief, so giving us an option to join either guild would be nice. If you had us infiltrate the Thieves Guild if we chose to ally with the Iron Wheel you wouldn't need to change any of the quests besides perhaps the first and last one.

Burnsie88

May we get the option to display the UI health bars at all times? For those characters that use "shield stacking" it can be difficult to determine how much shielding remains.

Iluvrien

edorfeus wrote: »

Why do you choose the most uninteresting and unimportant questions to answer on ESO Live like the question about "why there are no toilets in the game" or "how Green Pact reacts to forest creatures attacking a bosmer" while there are tons of really important questions about the game mechanics in this thread?

Because some of us don't have mechanical issues, but do have a healthy interest in the Lore of the world of ESO.

Maybe I should add this to my sig, it seems to have become my motto: "You don't get to decide what is important to other people."

MrDerrikk

Burnsie88 wrote: »

May we get the option to display the UI health bars at all times? For those characters that use "shield stacking" it can be difficult to determine how much shielding remains.

You're on console? You should have an option in the game setting sunder "Interface" in any case.

Elloa

Question: As the normal Trial in Thief Guild will scale to the group leader, will the members of the group "battlelevel" once they enter in the Trial? Meaning that, if a lvl 20 player join a group with a lvl 40 leader, will that player battlelevel and become lvl 40 inside the trial?

Question How will the ESO+ perk Crafting Bag work once a suscriber stop his subscription? Will that player still be able to get material out from the bag, but not add any (like in some other MMORPG), or will that work differently?

Question: What content in the Thief Guild DLC adress to the players that do not want to become a "thief"? We know there is a Trial, 2 delves and 2 world bosses. Is there anything else that doesn't involve sneaking and stealing?

Oneyedhamster

Will enchanting and alchemy writs get higher incentives, in the same way that equipment and provisioning writs did with glass and psijic fragments?

PURPLE245

when can you fix armor pen so people can run heavy armor?

MrDerrikk

Oneyedhamster wrote: »

Will enchanting and alchemy writs get higher incentives, in the same way that equipment and provisioning writs did with glass and psijic fragments?

Enchanting are good because of the Kuta chance, but the Alchemy ones are pretty useless. They need to release some extra special potion ingredients (maybe an extra potency modifier that slightly increases the potion power, but is very rare?).

swiftmoney09

Will the center event in the Imperial Sewers be fixed anytime soon? The last patch notes say it was, but it's still broken. I need Hakeijo!

NewBlacksmurf

As a result of the two larger locked threads, closed for review, regarding group damage....

What are the initial thoughts of ZOS?

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:
Though there are good and bad things about this addon, we believe that using this type of addon isn’t in the spirit of our game and encourages spying on other players without their permission. Ultimately, we don’t want players being evaluated and discriminated against based on data they don’t know is being broadcast. You will still be able to use addons that show your own combat data if you so choose to, which you can share with others.

Is this still true....or has this changed....

Is it possible that we see changes that undo the "nerfs" to AOE damage?

Is it likely that the SCT (scrolling combat text) when added, help individuals identify their effective damage which may result in the long-term cause and effect of Group Damage meters that aren't allowed in PC....Will ZOS rethink how damage occurs in Group encounters to alleviate the likely hood that players would be booted for not producing top-end DPS?

Cuyler

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Is it likely that the SCT (scrolling combat text) when added, help individuals identify their effective damage which may result in the long-term cause and effect of Group Damage meters that aren't allowed in PC....Will ZOS rethink how damage occurs in Group encounters to alleviate the likely hood that players would be booted for not producing top-end DPS?

Hmm, I'm interested.

Cuyler

A few trial related questions @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GinaBruno :

1. Will the trial leaderboards remain character based in the TG DLC? Is there any plans to go to a team based ranking or an account based ranking?

Participation is expected to increase significantly and the current leaderboard system fills the first 50-75 spots quickly with only a few regular teams and their Alts.

2. Will v16 MOL gear have a chance to drop in the weekly rewards from AA, HRC and SO?

3. Are vDSA weekly rewards being scaled to v16 as well?

4. Will the weekly rewards from AA, HRC and SO include scaled v16 versions of older sets? for example Silks of the Sun or Warlock's.

5. What is the lowest level the new trial will scale to? v1 or lower?

6. What the 3 new craftable sets? how many traits? Where do we get style material?

7. What are the new "PVE group based" bonus sets?

OmniDevil

MrDerrikk wrote: »

You're on console? You should have an option in the game setting sunder "Interface" in any case.

On console, there is currently no option to have your health bar or any other attribute bar to stay visible at all times. Currently, our only options allow the bars to show when a buff to either one is active, but they tend to disappear when you're at 100% (full).

beerninja

On PS4 when we get a psn message, you have the notification defaulting to the top left corner of the screen. I'm a healer and it blocks my view of people's health bars so it makes me very nervous. Can you move it to the top right instead?

Flaminir

One of the most basic skill requirements for all builds is a way to self heal or shield.

Stamina builds are very limited in this respect.... no shields, and the only two heals are
1. Rally... forcing the user to use a 2H weapon... and is also the 5th skill to be unlocked so not very quick to get (& virtually useless for those who want to do lowbie PvP).
2. Vigor.... which is locked behind a LOT of PvP.... which without a heal is very hard going!

Are there any plans to introduce a more accessible stamina heal? Or make an existing heal more accessible?

An idea could be to switch the positions of Purge & Vigor around.... ZoS are always saying that they feel purge is too strong & contributes to the PvP zerg mentality... making that harder to acquire may kill two birds with one stone.

Elsonso

@ZOS_GinaBruno , any plans to bring the PVE Fighter and Mages guilds up to the level of what the Thieves Guild will be? Specifically, introduction of quests that span Tamriel, for the glory of the Guild?

Helluin

I'm very looking forward to play Thieves Guild contents for fun and lore and hopefully to meet Nocturnal in our adventures.

I was hoping for some active skills in the the Thieves Guild skill line and especially to see venoms added to Alchemy.
Do you have plans to add new active skills and venoms in a future incremental or major patch later on?
Maybe with Dark Brotherhood?

GOREKIN

Will the bank tabs come with TG?

MeHodor

Hi, Are there any plans for a reward for 2 year fun subscribers in March / April 2016. I would love a Snow Leopard ride or a dragon that can fly !!!!

Only joking about the dragon, but you must admit it would be fun !

Please please don't give us another jokers costume. The striped tiger was a great reward after one year.

Looking forward to what you come up with.

kulaan_dovulom

Can we get a golden pony guar pet? One that looks like the plushie.

Aeladiir

Hello,

You mentioned that there will be a new soundtrack coming with the Thieves Guild DLC. Will it ever come on iTunes just like the OST? Also, can't wait for Orsinium soundtrack, it's simply gorgeous.

Burnsie88

Is there any chance console players could get access to the PTS? I also have a PC and would be able to download the client there.

Burnsie88

MrDerrikk wrote: »

Burnsie88 wrote: »

May we get the option to display the UI health bars at all times? For those characters that use "shield stacking" it can be difficult to determine how much shielding remains.

You're on console? You should have an option in the game setting sunder "Interface" in any case.

Yes I'm on console. I was talking about the red, blue, and green bars you see for your resources, not the little green one above your head, as it does not show applied shields.

CP5

Will the detection ring added to NPC's for heist also be added to radiant magelight or detect potions in order to provide feedback to players when they are used?

MrDerrikk

@OmniDevil @Burnsie88

I had no idea sorry, on PC this is an option so I'm nor sure why it isn't on Console...