PTS Patch Notes v1.6

Gravord

And dk Whip Gina? Will it get stamina morph option?

Lava_Croft

Blobsky wrote: »

That's the end of nightblade then

If it means the end of NB light armor tanks, then yay! It's looking good for my coveted Dual Resto setup though! \o/

Rydik

Gravord wrote: »

And dk Whip Gina? Will it get stamnia morph option?

Hopes not, already get one for Unstable flame (no thx id say, you can take it back) =\

whiteshadow711jppreub18_ESO

I said this way back in the day, they should make all abilities be able to Morph to Stamina or Magicka and then the player can choose what he wants..maybe one day ESO will get there..

Gandogal

So, whats the beserk bonus anyways?

Gravord

Rydik wrote: »

Gravord wrote: »

And dk Whip Gina? Will it get stamnia morph option?

Hopes not, already get one for Unstable flame (no thx id say, you can take it back) =\

Either all 3 melee dk skills get stamina morph or we dont need any. Its not logical to allow 2 flame dots be stamina based but instant dmg skill magicka only.

Tamanous

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

ShadowHvo wrote: »

Noo! Why isn't Concealed Weapon and Killers Blade now stamina based!? Those two would be the most ideal abilities for stamina thieves and assassins! )=

Killer's Blade does cost stamina; looks like we missed it in the patch notes. We're adding it now.

For the Veiled Strike ability, we made Surprise Attack cost stamina instead of Concealed Weapon because Surprise Attack also reduces armor and made sense to us for a physical damage dealer.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

ShadowHvo wrote: »

Noo! Why isn't Concealed Weapon and Killers Blade now stamina based!? Those two would be the most ideal abilities for stamina thieves and assassins! )=

Killer's Blade does cost stamina; looks like we missed it in the patch notes. We're adding it now.

For the Veiled Strike ability, we made Surprise Attack cost stamina instead of Concealed Weapon because Surprise Attack also reduces armor and made sense to us for a physical damage dealer.

Why are you reducing choices in builds? Magicka based builds now have fewer choices in order to allow Stam to have more. Stamina needs more core class skill choices but they also have far greater choices outside of class abilities. The better choice is to simply allow more class abilities scale off of what stat is highest.

You are trying to help Stamina builds but you just nerfed magicka builds hard now. You are NOT adding choice. You are just shifting around your limited choice options.

So now a magicka based melee nightblade build (one of the few effective builds that class has had since day 1) are broken just to give a few more options to Stamina builds which are now the FOTM build anyway (especially bow)?

You do yourselves no favours with these changes. You simply nerf those who had choices before. This is not a net gain.

YOU GUYS pigeon holed the players with YOUR system. It is not the player's fault they adapted to the system you offered. Players have been screaming for choice since day 1 and now your prove yet again you can't fix it.

Every damn skill in game should be able to used by ANY BUILD!!! Skills should just adapt to the build ... NOT THE PLAYER TO THE SKILLS!

Hybrid builds are still screwed. You are STILL forced into stamina or magicka builds. You are STILL forced to ignore blocks of skills simply because you have magicka or stamina as your main stat which narrows you into very basic builds that are effective.

This major overhaul is a missed opportunity.

Taonnor

@ZOS

Ahdora wrote: »

Did the aforementioned new Alliance War abilities not make it into this patch, or did I miss them in all that text?

Yeah, whats with the suggested magicka bomb?!

Cinbri

@ZOS_GinaBruno Zos promised magica return passive for Templar, but nothing about it in patchnotes.

heystreethawk

Apologies if I missed this in the notes! But I remember, in Q&As leading up to this patch, some talk of staff attacks being scaled to spell damage rather than weapon damage -- would you be able to verify if that's the case as of PTS publication? And if so, does the change to spell damage apply to light & heavy weapon attacks for destro and resto staves, or just the abilities?

P.S. THANK YOU -- the whole team deserves like a day at the spa and 16 hours of uninterrupted sleep once this thing goes live. And ideally, the community managers' insurance plans cover the extensive therapy necessitated by a life of nonstop exposure to the furious, entitled demands of a gaming community. I assume you're all plagued by night terrors.

Phazius

Lookin pretty good... I love the new buff system, wont get a chance to play around with it till tomorrow (or maybe like 4am o.O)

xMovingTarget

Haha, I smell Stamina DK new FOTM! Will test it later. When servers are up, also gonna start streaming.

Razzak

RunAway wrote: »

No LFG fixes?

Apparently there was no need for fixing the tool itself as all it needed was a fix for a rare occurance:

"Grouping Tools
Fixed an issue if you selected a role at the same time a group search started, the icon to toggle roles could not be used.".

If it still isn't working, we'll probably have to wait for console release when they will jump through hoops to fix Sage's inability to use it.

Pausekey

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Armor: The amount of mitigation provided by Armor has changed.

• A piece of Light Armor grants 1/4th of the mitigation of an equivalent piece of Heavy Armor.

So is this the beginning of the end of the "Light Armor/Sword and Board DK Uber-Tanks" we see everywhere like roaches in PvP?
I hope so.

Just to be clear I have no issue with this, as I have always found the classic MMO roles work fine (tanks in heavy, casters using staves etc.). I jut think its funny that an initial "you can play any way you like" has steadily evolved towards the traditional roles of classes as they have found certain builds to be vastly superior to others.

Rylana

... So basically everything changed to something else, nothing is the same, but somehow, in some crazy way, you forgot the heal component of GDB

>_> Dat better still heal me, yo, or we gonna have some issues considering how much you just nerfed my class for the ninth... or is it tenth time.

TheLaw

I thought there would be some serious changes to Sorc abilities, looks like I was wrong....

meistermeuchler1b16_ESO

i´m a little disappointed that Rushed Ceremony and Healing Ritual (Templar heals) have no changes at all. Honor the Dead is still bad compared to the other morph Breath of Life and the ability Healing Ritual is still as bad as ever. I thought this patch should buff underused abilities and morphs.

Soris

LOL at templar update. Nothing impressive compared to the other class
updates

Cinbri wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno Zos promised magica return passive for Templar, but nothing about it in patchnotes.

They did give %10 magicka regen to Aura but nerfed the stamina and health regen rates of it by almost %60 "sigh"

Kuro1n

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

ShadowHvo wrote: »

Noo! Why isn't Concealed Weapon and Killers Blade now stamina based!? Those two would be the most ideal abilities for stamina thieves and assassins! )=

Killer's Blade does cost stamina; looks like we missed it in the patch notes. We're adding it now.

For the Veiled Strike ability, we made Surprise Attack cost stamina instead of Concealed Weapon because Surprise Attack also reduces armor and made sense to us for a physical damage dealer.

Very happy to hear this! Also shame on me for not saying this earlier but...

Good job!

lumithelock

thx for finally getting us the patch notes now can we get the pts

Thejollygreenone

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Rylana wrote: »

... So basically everything changed to something else, nothing is the same, but somehow, in some crazy way, you forgot the heal component of GDB

>_> Dat better still heal me, yo, or we gonna have some issues considering how much you just nerfed my class for the ninth... or is it tenth time.

I don't...I don't really get what you're asking... ._.

GDB didn't seem to have any changes to the heal component, should work exactly the same, if that was the question.

joedamarsiob16_ESO

This is by far the worst set of Patch notes I have seen. Why are Templars getting further buffs when they are already the most OP class?

Have ZOS decided that they can't fix the lag in Cyrodiil so they are trying to stop people playing PvP by absolutely ruining everything? These are the most idiotic patch notes of any game ever and now I am seriously thinking about quitting the game and not subbing to ESO Plus when this patch comes out.

Ultimate was one of the few systems in the game that worked and now they have made the amazing decision to utterly remove ultimate generation. I can't believe that everyone commenting is saying positive things so I can only assume that ZOS are removing the comments that are mean about their stupid patch.

Psychobunni

Goodbye my beloved Sorc. I just can't be a veterinarian

and now that light armor is weak, also remove the taunt from clannifer???

Unstable Familiar
The unstable familiar (as well as the pets from the morphs of this ability) will no longer taunt monsters if the summoning player character is the only one on the hate list for that monster.

I forsee lots of "why does my sorcerer die all the time" posts from new rolls/ new players




Significantly decreased the chance to receive gold boosters, gold aspect runes and purple provisioning ingredients from hireling mails.

Added a significant chance to receive gold boosters, gold aspect runes, and purple provisioning ingredients from crafting writ rewards.


Sooo, "oh d**m, we didn't consider how utterly useless these writs are for completed crafters, so we will make hirelings pointless and force them to do writs instead".

Blackmoon777

Can u pls, use proper names of new buffs/debuffs in their description? for example what is "Major Defile buff" ???????????????

Armor buffs
Minor Resolve: Small increase to physical resistance.
Major Resolve: Larger increase to physical resistance.
Reduce Armor debuffs
Minor Fracture: Small decrease to target’s physical resistance.
Major Fracture: Larger increase to the target’s physical resistance.
Spell Resistance buffs
Minor Ward: Small increase to spell resist.
Major Ward: Larger increase to spell resist.
Reduce Spell Resistance debuffs
Minor Breach: Small decrease to target’s spell resist.
Major Breach: Larger decrease to target’s spell resist.
Damage Taken buffs
Minor Protection: Reduces damage taken by 8%
Major Protection: Reduces damage taken by 30%
Dodge buffs
Minor Evasion: Increases dodge chance by 5%
Major Evasion: Increases dodge chance by 20%
Reduce Damage debuffs
Minor Maim: Reduces target’s damage dealt by 15%
Major Maim: Reduces target’s damage dealt by 30%
Damage on Next Attack buff
Major Empower: Increases damage of next attack by 20%
Weapon Damage buffs
Minor Brutality: Increases weapon damage by 5%
Major Brutality: Increases weapon damage by 20%
Spell Damage buffs
Minor Sorcery: Increases spell damage by 5%
Major Sorcery: Increases spell damage by 20%
Critical Damage buffs
Minor Force: Increases critical damage amounts by 15%
Major Force: Increases critical damage amounts by 40%
Weapon Critical Chance buffs
Minor Savagery: Increases weapon critical chance by 3%
Major Savagery: Increases weapon critical chance by 10%
Spell Critical Chance buffs
Minor Prophecy: Increases spell critical chance by 3%
Major Prophecy: Increases spell critical chance by 10%
Healing Done buffs
Minor Mending: Increases healing done by 8%
Major Mending: Increases healing done by 30%
Healing Taken buffs
Minor Vitality: Increases healing taken by 8%
Major Vitality: Increases healing taken by 30%
Reduce Healing Taken debuffs
Minor Defile: Reduces target’s healing taken by 15%
Major Defile: Reduces target’s healing taken by 40%
Reduce Max Health debuffs
Minor Mangle: reduces target’s max health by 10%
Major Mangle: reduces target’s max health by 40%
Health Recovery buffs
Minor Fortitude: increases health recovery by 10%
Major Fortitude: increases health recovery by 30%
Magicka Recovery buffs
Minor Intellect: Increases magicka recovery by 10%
Major Intellect: Increases magicka recovery by 30%
Stamina Recovery buffs
Minor Endurance: Increases stamina recovery by 10%
Major Endurance: Increases stamina recovery by 30%
Movement Speed buffs
Minor Expedition: Increases movement speed by 10%
Major Expedition: Increases movement speed by 40%
Ultimate Gain
Minor Heroism: Increases Ultimate gain by 1
Major Heroism: Increases Ultimate gain by 3

Anu_Saukko_Tutkija

So new way to do things, and now you can steal, improved the broken stuff so it works.
No new quests to pve? So the end game is still the same runnig around trials.. no way i can do quest on craglorn myself?
Forced group.. Since launch i have waited for more pve end game content.
But well i just unsub, and drop elderscrollonline to trashbin. Rip forever.
No rage quit guys, im not upset in anyway. Just nothing to do, tired of waiting stuff to do.

ZOS good luck with this game.
You have a nice pvp game, themed with elder scroll, thats it.

Blackclouud

Is green dragon blood having its heal for 30% removed and just replaced with the 30% increase? Or is that in addition?

Detector

Where is info for Minor Berserk buff"?

WhiskeyJac

so what does the damage from ultimate abilities scale? magicka right ?

WebBull

No change to Bat swarm? It is already completely overpowered and now coupled with 10% less damage to vamps, it will be a required ultimate in PvP.\

Also, why did you nerf Caltrops to only 6 players? It useless now. Before it at least help slightly against zerg balls.

SantieClaws

Just please tell me that the quest To Walk on Far Shores in Bangkorai no longer crashes the game. The patch notes mention something about timing issues but don't mention if the crashes are sorted.