Anyone have the ESO Live Highlights for today?

Greywolf_McGrowler

I don't have time to watch the whole episode so was wondering if anyone could summarize what was talked about?

tinythinker

Greywolf_McGrowler wrote: »

I don't have time to watch the whole episode so was wondering if anyone could summarize what was talked about?

• Adding two VR ranks (15-16).
• Making larger delves and Craglorn adventures worth more XP/reducing XP per veteran rank.
• Nerfing Bolt Escape and damage shields.
• Nerfing perpetual roll dodging and perpetual blocking,
• Buffing a few class abilities such as giving another morph to stam sorcs and taking away the cooldown on Toppling Charge for Templars.
• Making changes to the Battle Spirit bonuses for Cyrodiil (less damage, more health) to try to help with health levels going up and down too fast in Cyrodiil.
• News about Imperial City coming in two weeks.

Akavir_Sentinel

Veteran rank cap being raised to VR16. Veteran rank XP being reduced by 15%. Craglorn and public dungeons getting an XP boost. Several skill and passive changes to every class.

ItsRejectz

tinythinker wrote: »

Greywolf_McGrowler wrote: »

I don't have time to watch the whole episode so was wondering if anyone could summarize what was talked about?

• Adding two VR ranks (15-16).
• Making larger delves and Craglorn with more XP/reducing XP per veteran rank.
• Nerfing Bolt Escape and damage shields.
• Nerfing perpetual roll dodging and perpetual blocking,
• Buffing a few class abilities such as giving another morph to stam sorcs and taking away the cooldown on Toppling Charge for Templars.
• Making changes to the Battle Spirit bonuses for Cyrodiil to try to help with health levels going up and down too fast in Cyrodiil (less damage, more health).
• News about Imperial City coming in two weeks.

Nerfing bolt escape / damage shields / roll dodging and blocking??? Did they go into more details how they are going to do this? Now this part is interesting

Akavir_Sentinel

ItsRejectz wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Greywolf_McGrowler wrote: »

I don't have time to watch the whole episode so was wondering if anyone could summarize what was talked about?

• Adding two VR ranks (15-16).
• Making larger delves and Craglorn with more XP/reducing XP per veteran rank.
• Nerfing Bolt Escape and damage shields.
• Nerfing perpetual roll dodging and perpetual blocking,
• Buffing a few class abilities such as giving another morph to stam sorcs and taking away the cooldown on Toppling Charge for Templars.
• Making changes to the Battle Spirit bonuses for Cyrodiil to try to help with health levels going up and down too fast in Cyrodiil (less damage, more health).
• News about Imperial City coming in two weeks.

Nerfing bolt escape / damage shields / roll dodging and blocking??? Did they go into more details how they are going to do this? Now this part is interesting

Bolt escape costs 50% the first time you cast it, then 100% the next, then 150%, then 200%, then 250%, etc.... So sorcs can't bolt escape infinitely into the distance without being harmed.

No stamina regen while blocking will put a stop to the perma blockers. This is more directed toward PvP, but unfortunately will affect PvE as well.

ThatHappyCat

Damage shields aren't really nerfed, it's -50% to all damage, healing and shielding in PvP. So the overall balance of damage shields is unchanged.

Forestd16b14_ESO

Sorc got nerf bolt escape cost more the use it.

NB got a massive and in my opinion over the top buffs. Cloaks will basicly now only break by AoE skills.

Can no longer regen stamina when blocking.

Vr will be increased to vr16

Damage shields are nerfed for PvP only as far as I can tell.

DK passive battle roar will now scale off all 3 attributes and heal them as such based off said attributes instead of magicka.

Nirnhond is finally fixed of only buffing up spell res per piece of armor it is applied on instead of all pieces. But don't about it on weapons but again I think it just needs removed from the game.

and thats off the top of my head.

tinythinker

ThatHappyCat wrote: »

Damage shields aren't really nerfed, it's -50% to all damage, healing and shielding in PvP. So the overall balance of damage shields is unchanged.

Yeah, I should have put them all on the same line. I was thinking it would be a nerf outside of Cyro unless the damage shield reduction is limited to that zone only, but it does fit in PvP with the other changes.

Phinix1

Sure...

• Something working? NERF IT TO THE GROUND!
• Buff grinding.
• Ignore CP gap and refuse to talk about it or set tier limits.
• Remember to milk the whales.

tinythinker

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

ItsRejectz wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Greywolf_McGrowler wrote: »

I don't have time to watch the whole episode so was wondering if anyone could summarize what was talked about?

• Adding two VR ranks (15-16).
• Making larger delves and Craglorn with more XP/reducing XP per veteran rank.
• Nerfing Bolt Escape and damage shields.
• Nerfing perpetual roll dodging and perpetual blocking,
• Buffing a few class abilities such as giving another morph to stam sorcs and taking away the cooldown on Toppling Charge for Templars.
• Making changes to the Battle Spirit bonuses for Cyrodiil to try to help with health levels going up and down too fast in Cyrodiil (less damage, more health).
• News about Imperial City coming in two weeks.

Nerfing bolt escape / damage shields / roll dodging and blocking??? Did they go into more details how they are going to do this? Now this part is interesting

Bolt escape costs 50% the first time you cast it, then 100% the next, then 150%, then 200%, then 250%, etc.... So sorcs can't bolt escape infinitely into the distance without being harmed.

No stamina regen while blocking will put a stop to the perma blockers. This is more directed toward PvP, but unfortunately will affect PvE as well.

And roll-dodge has a similar scaled cost, increasing 33% (is that right?) each time so that used in rapid succession over and over it becomes really expensive.

Bullgar

Also WW and Vamp extra dmg from poison/fire being decreased to 25% from 40%.

PBpsy

The finally decided to make NB Agony a useful skill by ... wait for it ....
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...slightly increasing its damage scaling.

KingKush

Did they even mention champion points at all? I'm new to the game and that's the main topic I see everyone upset about. Very poor job by ZOS if they failed to address the issue with the CP gap

lathbury

PBpsy wrote: »

The finally decided to make NB Agony a useful skill by ... wait for it ....
...
...
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...slightly increasing its damage scaling.

got a funny feeling about this one with the permablock thing this could be good use shades to run them out of stamina then hit them with that target something else by the time it breaks or they break it they have a problem

also guys he said he was happy with damage shields stacking but itemisation was gonna play a role here so expect shield pen to be a new trait or enchant

Amsel_McKay

KingKush wrote: »

Did they even mention champion points at all? I'm new to the game and that's the main topic I see everyone upset about. Very poor job by ZOS if they failed to address the issue with the CP gap

CP gap problem? Is that a console problem, because on PC I dont hear about it.

lathbury

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

KingKush wrote: »

Did they even mention champion points at all? I'm new to the game and that's the main topic I see everyone upset about. Very poor job by ZOS if they failed to address the issue with the CP gap

CP gap problem? Is that a console problem, because on PC I dont hear about it.

yeah more so on console i would imagine as the transfers had a big head start but also it is on pc with new players being at a major disadvantage to grinders who they can never hope to compete against.
he said one option would be to make the first 300 easier to get for eg or if enough get there a high cp campaign

KingKush

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

KingKush wrote: »

Did they even mention champion points at all? I'm new to the game and that's the main topic I see everyone upset about. Very poor job by ZOS if they failed to address the issue with the CP gap

CP gap problem? Is that a console problem, because on PC I dont hear about it.

Lol yeah okay..sure.

Elsonso

Official ESOTU News

• Released new PC/Mac patch 12, which was large due to audio updates.
• Monday Jul 6 planning PC/Mac patch 13, smaller patch with some minor fixes and a new ToS
• New regular maint times for console, tues xbox, wed ps4, not every week.
• Frost mare limited mount in crown store until Tues Jul 7 10am ET, 3000 crowns
• New community ambassadors: Attorneyatlawl, randolphbenoit, Calad Community ambassadors are appointed by community by nomination, help answer questions, assist new players, advise on community
• Imperial City, more information starting Monday Jul 13

Life at ZOS: Bill Mueller, wearing NCR T-Shirt

Role: Sound Designer, implements anything that does sound in the game.

There are 4 Sound Designers, audio producer, and QA

Bill did the sound of slapping your mount, dark fissures

Monday patch size was a rollup of months of general audio mix

• changed balance of sound between player and environment sources
• Surround sound became more important, revamped position correctness
• Performance changes to reduce number of playbacks with duplicate sounds.

Currently working on

• Imperial City DLC
• new music for the existing game zones (no dates)
• dynamic combat music system; currently it is on or off, changing to scale according to intensity of the combat and character health. Ramping music to max when Boss fight happens. (no dates)

Q: Will we see more character voice options?
A: Tough to do with 144 options, but are adding more sounds related to animations

Q: Can we get a Fart emote?
A: No, Gina does not want this

Q: Do the sound designers voice NPC characters?
A: No, cannot due to SAG rules, but can do sound effects for monsters.

Q: (paraphrased) Can the falling sounds be scaled according to how far the character falls?
A: Code can do this, will look into that "maybe"

Combat Update with Eric Wrobel

Will be split across two shows, due to number of things that need to be said. Item stuff too much to talk about today.

Veteran System.

Removing Veteran Ranks is still happening, but more long term. Short term changes are needed, so the next update will add Veteran Ranks 15 & 16.

Eric: "We have talked about, on occasion, removing [Veteran Ranks]"
Jessica: "That is still happening"
Eric: "That is still a goal for us, but it's a little bit more of a long term goal."

ZOS knows that it is painful to get VR. The next update will add four changes to XP values, globally

• Veteran XP to get through to 16 is reduced by 15%.
• All veteran quest XP rewards increased 50%.
• Public dungeons XP for Veterans doubled.
• Craglorn XP increased 20% across the board.

Q: Why increase to Veteran Rank 16 if they are being removed?
A: (paraphrased quote) Item power and Veteran Ranks are really tightly coupled right now. When we remove the veteran ranks, we want to do a more system wide approach and have the rest of the game work well with not having the veteran ranks. If we just take them out and have more levels and those levels take like 20 hours to to achieve, that's not really changing anything. We have a longer term goal to take them out, but we want to make it not a crazy long grind. The current plan is that you could keep the progress up to Veteran Rank 16 when Veteran Ranks are removed. There will be other systems that are changed to support that.

I have not finished doing the rest of what Eric said.

Akavir_Sentinel

New players aren't going to have any CP and are going to have to earn it like everyone else. Cry me a river.

There is a finite number of champion points, which means veteran players will cap it out eventually and you can catch up to them. What you people want is to be on equal footing with veteran players right off the bat and it isn't going to happen.

Reverb

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

KingKush wrote: »

Did they even mention champion points at all? I'm new to the game and that's the main topic I see everyone upset about. Very poor job by ZOS if they failed to address the issue with the CP gap

CP gap problem? Is that a console problem, because on PC I dont hear about it.

WTB lol button.

Hawk269

Anything mentioned about console versions and what they are doing to improve the console versions? This all sounds for the most part stuff for the PC version.

Akavir_Sentinel

Hawk269 wrote: »

Anything mentioned about console versions and what they are doing to improve the console versions? This all sounds for the most part stuff for the PC version.

No.

Rosveen

Hawk269 wrote: »

Anything mentioned about console versions and what they are doing to improve the console versions? This all sounds for the most part stuff for the PC version.

Everything mentioned above affects all platforms, I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Elsonso

Hawk269 wrote: »

Anything mentioned about console versions and what they are doing to improve the console versions? This all sounds for the most part stuff for the PC version.

The only thing that really was PC was the PC patch talk. Apparently, no patches for Console are planned, or able to be announced, for next week. I guess Consoles got surround sound audio updates and PCs got that in the latest patch.

Everything else was cross platform, as far as I can remember.

ZOS_GinaBruno

lordrichter wrote: »

Hawk269 wrote: »

Anything mentioned about console versions and what they are doing to improve the console versions? This all sounds for the most part stuff for the PC version.

The only thing that really was PC was the PC patch talk. Apparently, no patches for Console are planned, or able to be announced, for next week. I guess Consoles got surround sound audio updates and PCs got that in the latest patch.

Everything else was cross platform, as far as I can remember.

The next patch for console will be later this month, and will include a number of fixes that are already live (or going live on Monday) on PC in addition to some console-specific fixes.

Armisael9

What the hell is going to happen to my gear I spent months farming and saving for upgrades. IS THERE ANY WAY FOR THEM TO SCALE WITH THE PLAYER, AT LEAST THE UNDAUNTED MONSTER PLEDGE SETS?! I mean come on, this just straight up demotivating/ low/ discouraging, frustrating. They said vet ranks was going away. HOURS OF TIME LOST ON CURRENT GEAR. Can't ZoS at least add some new content if they're going to increase vet levels like they did with upper crag?! WHY (I know the answer, to keep us playing longer and possibly subscribed). This pisses me off. Makes me want to start a strike until they take this slap in the face back. It's not fair/ right. I can't stop b*tching about this.

Reverb

I'm unable to work up outrage for the v16 announcements, or for having to grind for a day or two and get new gear for my v14s. Am I doing it wrong?

Rioht

Reverb wrote: »

I'm unable to work up outrage for the v16 announcements, or for having to grind for a day or two and get new gear for my v14s. Am I doing it wrong?

Some geart takes much much longe than2 days.

I.e., ive been grinding pvp for nearly a month to be in the top2% of players for a CHANCE at a VR14 item that will probably be replaced by a vr16 green item off of a trash mob.

There needs to be some way to upgade gear players have spent countles hours collecting.

MisterBigglesworth

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G0ku

AA hardmode will be interesting to tank...

Hope they actually scale the dungeons to maxlevel and not 2 or 4 levels lower...

Grinding for gold tempers all over again...

The rework of the racials - I expected a little more...

PvP changes seem to bring balance, but I fear for upcoming cloak terror...

Personofsecrets

net cancer increase