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I love the new siege damage.
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It's great! Battles are more epic! Siege doesn't suck!
Sally Forth!
Edited by Domander on March 23, 2015 11:16PM Sally Forth!
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Decimus_Rex✭✭✭It's great! Battles are more epic! Siege doesn't suck!
Sally Forth!
Yeah now 2 guys with siege can hold off 20.
This game is super fun.
18 to 22k damage per tick is ok..
Just one more tweek though and 1 guy with siege can hold off a zerg with every wall of a keep knocked down.
AWESOME !!!6 -
AriBoh✭✭✭✭✭People complain about zergs > ZoS makes siege a zerg counter > people complain about siege.
Good times.khele23eb17
Agreed. Whoever came up with the design should be shot in the foot and only admitted to hospital when he manages to find 3 other people willing to maim themselves the same way in order to accompany him.
ZOS_AmeliaR admin
Ultimately, any method of entering an enemy keep without breaking down the door is considered an exploit. Thanks for checking!
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Pchela✭✭✭✭✭If twenty people can't get up onto the wall to take out the one guy on siege then i don't know how anyone's made it this far in the game.Edited by Pchela on March 24, 2015 1:14AM9 -
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✭Decimus_Rex wrote: »It's great! Battles are more epic! Siege doesn't suck!
Sally Forth!
Yeah now 2 guys with siege can hold off 20.
This game is super fun.
18 to 22k damage per tick is ok..
Just one more tweek though and 1 guy with siege can hold off a zerg with every wall of a keep knocked down.
AWESOME !!!
I think you may be trying to be sarcastic, but it's not working well.
If all 20 of those players have no counter siege then.. LOL
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✭I am usually solo and rarely use siege. And even I like it. Now I have to actually pay attention.v14 Sorc Vae Exillis
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Orchish✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yep this is certainly a step in the right direction. Yes low level and bad players will come complaining, but this is better for PvP as a whole.
Those big red circles on the ground should be something to avoid, no joke but i never attempt to avoid them i can simply absorb and easily out heal all previous siege except stacked oil on the ground back in the good(bad) old days.
I am glad to see siege be useful for more than just hitting walls again.4 -
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✭It adds so much more strategy, it's great. high ground, sneaky gankers can sneak around behind siege, every siege engine has a purpose now... do you hunker down or sally forth?3 -
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✭✭Spent all evening in Azura's fighting blue mostly. Had an Epic battle at Ash for a good couple of hours. Seige, counter seige, finally getting a breach and a foothold inside then getting beat back to the mine, resetting, fighting back, pushes, more seige and counter seige, push forward, get pushed back.
It was awesome, finally looked like what a war should be.
You know what I didn't see?
Huge lag, zerg trains, balls on the resource flag. I didn't die to seige nearly as much as I expected, which is saying a lot for a very average sorc player.
Might need to be some adjustments made to seige damage, but Zos, do it carefully if you do it at all.Lag is ruinin' my 'mershun!
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✭Sample Size: One Night. But so far, so good. It was a lot less laggy in Thornblade.
Of course, the EP zergtroopers seemed to be operating in a much smaller unit. I'm not sure if that was due to the new siege, or something else. But it seemed to help.
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✭Decimus_Rex wrote: »It's great! Battles are more epic! Siege doesn't suck!
Sally Forth!
Yeah now 2 guys with siege can hold off 20.
This game is super fun.
18 to 22k damage per tick is ok..
Just one more tweek though and 1 guy with siege can hold off a zerg with every wall of a keep knocked down.
AWESOME !!!
i wish people would actually TRY to play a bit more before posting utter *** like this.
tonight there were a lot siege engines. there were a lot of people. and lag was minimum. i died a lof because of it, and i killed a LOT by using it. it was fun. zone chat is pretty quiet on EP side because most people are enjoying the game, instead of whining. some comments on siege dmg are mostly laughters.
Sample Size: One Night. But so far, so good. It was a lot less laggy in Thornblade.
Of course, the EP zergtroopers seemed to be operating in a much smaller unit. I'm not sure if that was due to the new siege, or something else. But it seemed to help.
yes. took a few hours, but at the end of the night, when people see the red circle on the ground, they just scatter like headless chickens. there are "groups of people" moving together, but nothing like a "ball" and people are loosely travelling to avoid exactly that. sieges are *** everywhere, not just around keeps.
it was awesome.Edited by Davadin on March 24, 2015 7:07AMAugust Palatine Davadin Bloodstrake - Nord Dragon Knight - PC NA - Gray Host
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✭Siege has become a real valid option in helping bust up large groups of players. I love it.5 -
naturn✭✭✭I am not sure where I stand on the massive siege machine damage now although I always enjoy novelty. On one side taking a keep is next to impossible without overwhelming attacking numbers. Fire trebs hit so hard that I got one shotted 4 times mostly because an opposing faction member cc me and I couldn't move fast enough to get out of the red circle of death before it hit. Being a vampire sorc with fire everywhere didn't help. I am not sure how people are going to feel when they realize how hard it is to take keeps now.
On the other side, there are some real positive changes. Now there are less zerg trains and because of that less lag. Siege machines were pretty useless against people before and now they are a force to be feared. Now low level players can hop on a siege machine and feel very powerful. It is a lot of fun to wipe out large numbers of opposing players while behind the relative safety of keep walls. Many players will like the changes.
Some changes may be needed though. It may become too difficult to take keeps, so they may have to do something like put sappers with explosives in the game to blow holes in walls or take siege damage down just a notch. Whatever happens it is an interesting experiment.Edited by naturn on March 24, 2015 8:12AM1 -
ThyIronFist✭✭✭✭✭Keeps should be hard to take.The Elder Zergs Online
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✭I saw zergs get rekt all day by siege. I love how the game changes when siege actually matters. I saw more keeps and defensive positions defended in one day than I have in a long time. That is good.
With that said, as a vampire, I was pretty much one shot by fire siege most times. The initial damage plus the dots killed me before I could react usually. The fire siege may be a bit too OP as they stand now, and I wouldn't complain if it was nerfed slightly. But even as a vamp, I still greatly approve of the impact siege has now.
I like knowing that when I see a red circle, I better get my ass out of town.Edited by c0rp on March 24, 2015 8:54AMForce weapon swap to have priority over EVERYTHING. Close enough.
Make stamina builds even with magicka builds.
Disable abilities while holding block.
Give us a REASON to do dungeons more than once.
Remove PVP AoE CAP. It is ruining Cyrodiil.
Fix/Remove Forward Camps. They are ruining Cyrodiil.
Impenetrability needs to REDUCE CRIT DAMAGE. Not negate entire builds.
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Joining the praise here!
Upping siege engines damage is the best update for PvP so far in my opinion. Sieges stopped being boring, defending and assaulting keeps is fun and very intensive now. Running away from red circles (siege fire is finally scary, like it should be!), trying to position your own siege to cause the most troubles for enemy - awesome!
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Oktaine✭✭✭I'd give it a thumbs up so far. Last night was pretty fun.
The next step is for ZOS to figure what to do about resources so they are not soloable.Rokstag2 -
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✭I'd give it a thumbs up so far. Last night was pretty fun.
The next step is for ZOS to figure what to do about resources so they are not soloable.
We didn't have a problem with the resources last night. We usually have a few folks behind the lines on Chill checking on keeps etc. They took care of things last night just like usual.
The next step for ZOS is to try to figure out what else they can do about the lag. It finally got very bad for us and that is rather unusual but with all the new players coming in we will probably find it to be more of the norm.
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Pirhana7_ESO✭✭✭✭✭Decimus_Rex wrote: »It's great! Battles are more epic! Siege doesn't suck!
Sally Forth!
Yeah now 2 guys with siege can hold off 20.
This game is super fun.
18 to 22k damage per tick is ok..
Just one more tweek though and 1 guy with siege can hold off a zerg with every wall of a keep knocked down.
AWESOME !!!
Because there is only 1 way to get into a keep.... Go around, make another hole, open the door.
See that big red circle on the ground...... now you have to actually get out of it or time your rush right.
This is one of the best things to happen to keep siege /defense2 -
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✭I enjoy it and I don't...
Anything that can kill someone in one-two shots without said person being able to respond, shouldn't be in game. Soloing resources with a Ballista, shouldn't be in game. I just got back in game yesterday, and I can say that there are some things I love and things I hate.
TTK is broken in my opinion, so broken... Damage shield drops for a second or you get hit with one of the unblockable CC's and 90% of the time you're dead.
CC Break feels slower... Might just be me, but it feels clunky.
Siege... Is laughable. Laughably effective, and laughably silly stupid OP broken. So I dunno, probably going to be running around with a different build on my DK every few hours until I find something that works, already spent 120k of my own gold and borrowed 30k from two other people
Really not happy about the changes to light armor.Aldmeri Dominion For Life!
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Jauriel✭✭✭✭Wait did they change light armor AGAIN? Or are you talking about the 1.6 changes? This new siege damage thing sounds like we all need to wear heavy to survive and I'm not sure the game was intended to run like that. I didn't play last night so don't have an opinion yet on the new siege change either way.0
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✭✭✭✭Wait did they change light armor AGAIN? Or are you talking about the 1.6 changes? This new siege damage thing sounds like we all need to wear heavy to survive and I'm not sure the game was intended to run like that. I didn't play last night so don't have an opinion yet on the new siege change either way.
Your armor wont change the damage you take, minus the fact that heavy offers some HP bonuses and theres a heavy PVP set that reduces siege.0 -
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✭It's great! Battles are more epic! Siege doesn't suck!
Sally Forth!
That bridge battle was awesome last night.
We had people fighting and doing siege battles on the bridge and UNDER the bridge.
I'm also liking these new changes.3 -
Jauriel✭✭✭✭Wait did they change light armor AGAIN? Or are you talking about the 1.6 changes? This new siege damage thing sounds like we all need to wear heavy to survive and I'm not sure the game was intended to run like that. I didn't play last night so don't have an opinion yet on the new siege change either way.
Your armor wont change the damage you take, minus the fact that heavy offers some HP bonuses and theres a heavy PVP set that reduces siege.
Gotcha. I refuse to be forced to wear heavy just for survivability.0
