My First Impressions, IC

blackronin83x

Finally was able to get into the PvE/AvA zone last night with some friends and for my money, the gameplay style is cool:

-Mobs are in general harder (+)
-"World Bosses" are not able to be soloed & have wide ranges to roam (+)
-Map has tons of places to explore, hide & gank or be ganked (+)
-fyi, for all those ppl complaining about gankers, nothing more satisfying than rofl-stomping someone who gets the jump on you
-Cowardly Sorcs can't get away, but a talented sorc can still maneuver for advantage
-Design really does not support large zergs, most I saw was about 12, and that was 2 different grps of blue crossing paths (+)
-fyi, a good team of 4 can take or escape a random zerg of 12 with the mob mechanics and terrain in play, think speed + detect pots

Most of my negatives have to do with things outside of the gameplay... I'm a completionist so I have 9 traits across the board, do a healthy amount of writs, and the way ZOS has setup crafting ATM seems fugly to me:

-New tempers to upgrade gear... this is just stupid, and people who play MMOs hoard so that argument holds no water for me (-)
-10 ingots for v15 & 100 for v16... while that would make writs somewhat easier, would rather they stick with the linear increase (-)
-Hirelings only return 1 raw mat as opposed to the 5 for every other raw material (-)
-Cowardly NBs can get away (-)
-I do not like the 0 stam regen while blocking in PvE content, I can rationalize a decrease (50% reduction say) but a flat 0 is overkill (-)

I know this is a test server (which is why I don't run add-ons and had no crashing problems), so hopefully things continue to improve and the over-reaches get reeled in a bit. Haven't really had a chance to dive into the sets or what it takes to gather TV at a decent clip yet... was pretty careless about my K/D ratio because it doesn't really matter at this point. Figure I will save that for the weekend and some extended testing. Just want to say the sky is not falling people, just changing colors.

Rioht

There's new tempers as well? Please tell me your joking....

MissBizz

I did not see any raw mats at all for the new levels. My hireling brought my an ingot, and that's what you can buy... what "raw" mat did you receive in a hireling material?

Rioht

[quote="blackronin83x;201992"

-New tempers to upgrade gear... this is just stupid, and people who play MMOs hoard so that argument holds no water for me [/quote]

K your gonna need to post a pic or source for this. There has been info about any new tempers and other players have said that this is not the case.

Until you post pics, it ssafe to say that the old tempers are still the ones to use.

blackronin83x

@Rioht and @MissBizz in both cases, I was referring to information I received from a guildie, saying he had read the patch notes and swore up & down they were in there. I just checked the patch notes and didn't see anything about the new temper, won't know for sure about the hireling situation until I can log in again next... so abject lesson for the rumor mill, trust but verify... happy to see this info may have been wrong

MissBizz

blackronin83x wrote: »

@Rioht and @MissBizz in both cases, I was referring to information I received from a guildie, saying he had read the patch notes and swore up & down they were in there. I just checked the patch notes and didn't see anything about the new temper, won't know for sure about the hireling situation until I can log in again next... so abject lesson for the rumor mill, trust but verify... happy to see this info may have been wrong

Ah yes, well I can confirm the tier 10 mats do come from hirelings and it is in their refined form. So even though I only received 1 new ingot, it was more than the 5 raw voidestone I also received in that same mail. I imagine the new mats won't be every day, but hey, they do some in hireling mails.

Makkir

I hope so. New Tempers would make me rage

S1ipperyJim

Yes, I agree on the sorcs I think there is a nice balance where if they flee you can chase them and catch up eventually but you will be out of stamina by that point and they will be out of magicka

theroyalestpythonnub18_ESO

reapthetempestrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Yes, I agree on the sorcs I think there is a nice balance where if they flee you can chase them and catch up eventually but you will be out of stamina by that point and they will be out of magicka

They don't flee in PTS. They just stand there and stack shields.

Sandmanninja

Rioht wrote: »

[quote="blackronin83x;201992"

-New tempers to upgrade gear... this is just stupid, and people who play MMOs hoard so that argument holds no water for me

K your gonna need to post a pic or source for this. There has been info about any new tempers and other players have said that this is not the case.

Until you post pics, it ssafe to say that the old tempers are still the ones to use.[/quote]

Check the PTS forum here. There are new mats for the new gear. Seems that you can only buy the mats with the new currency (the Stones), WHICH CAN BE LOOTED FROM YOUR CORPSE IN THE PVP AREAS OF THE IMPERIAL CITY.

No way in hell I can ever get the mats to make that stuff.

blackronin83x

@theroyalestpythonnub18_ESO not sure which sorcs you were fighting but my dps made sure they couldn't just stand there and stack shields, cuz orc stamplar, wrecking blow + biting jabs still a deadly combination...

@Sandmanninja i think there is some confusion around what you need those mats for, if it's the ones i am thinking of you buy them to bind the motif pages/fragments together to make the new motif book... eventually (which i don't like). Equipped gear is still upgraded with existing tempers... or at least it was as of yesterday.

Sandmanninja

@blackronin83x that's good to know. Been saving my tempers for just this.

AzothOTGB

Yea, I have not seen any new tempers with my own eyes, nor anyone talking about them anywhere else but in this thread. I think perhaps they do not exist (This is a good thing, imo).