PTS Patch Notes v2.1.1

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ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*] Planar Inhibitor

• Fixed a visual issue with the Planar Inhibitor when the encounter resets. The boss will no longer be vulnerable after he resets.
• The Planar Inhibitor now takes less damage while she is vulnerable.

The Planar Inhibitor is having a gender identity crisis!

silky_soft

@ZOS_GinaBruno did you guys miss out on putting in you fixed ranged single target and gap closers bringing you out of cloak?

Anorak

Honestly don't believe silver keys should drop the undaunted helm sets as many people complain about vet dungeons being too easy. Also the new vr16 templates don't have their skills leveled to be morphed.

I also have a few questions:
Will we be seeing vr16 master weapons and vr16 trial rewards with the weekly leader boards?

Will the armor's in imperial city have traits other than infused?

Enodoc

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Sigils of Imperial Retreat now cost 10,000 AP instead of costing Tel Var Stones.

I would rather see both options available (an AP cost and a TV Stones cost), rather than just one or the other, in the same way that it is possible to buy some siege weapons with either AP or Gold.

Preyfar

Anorak wrote: »

Honestly don't believe silver keys should drop the undaunted helm sets as many people complain about vet dungeons being too easy. Also the new vr16 templates don't have their skills leveled to be morphed.

This just gives people a reason to do the non-vet dungeons as they have a chance of dropping something useful. Silver Keys have had no reason to exist.

Beesting

Enodoc wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Sigils of Imperial Retreat now cost 10,000 AP instead of costing Tel Var Stones.

I would rather see both options available (an AP cost and a TV Stones cost), rather than just one or the other, in the same way that it is possible to buy some siege weapons with either AP or Gold.

I am just glad to read i can spent my ap on something usefull at least. It was a real smack in the face to read in the recent patchnotes that ap had become useless and i effectively lost interest in pvp for a while....

Xael

davidbarryb16_ESO wrote: »

Xael wrote: »

Does this mean to get vr15/16 drops we are limited to Imperial City?

@Xael,
no, there was a separate itemization thread and it's probably in the PTS 2.1 update patch notes somewhere, that vr15/16 drops are also available from PvE group dungeons (if scaled to vr15/16), and from undaunted chests (assuming you are vr 15/16 at the time). Vr15/16 items will also be available as Cyrodiil PvP Rewards for the Worthy (I think).

Xael wrote: »

Also does this imply sets like Way of Air and Martial Knowledge will stay at vr14?

Hm.... probably yes. We'll have to wait and see.

No no, I know about the Vet dungeons, I meant my question in the context of Cyrodiil loot. Currently the only place to get v14 (to my knowledge) Way of air /Martial etc is from Cyrodiil. Hence my question.

Dagoth_Rac

Per 2.1.0 patch notes, stamina morphs of class skills were supposed to have their costs reduced by 20%, to bring them more in line with weapon skills. But the cost reduction was only about 2% and is still only about 2% in 2.1.1. Did someone miss a zero when programming this change?

Freeman

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Per 2.1.0 patch notes, stamina morphs of class skills were supposed to have their costs reduced by 20%, to bring them more in line with weapon skills. But the cost reduction was only about 2% and is still only about 2% in 2.1.1. Did someone miss a zero when programming this change?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Is this accurate?

Blackhorne

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, DLC GAME PACK
...
Imperial City

...
• Some VR15 and VR16 crafting materials have had their names changed:
  • Colossus Ingot is now Corundum Ingot.
    ...
  ...

Does this mean the 173 Corundum my lvl43 currently has banked will suddenly become extremely valuable, or is another name change in order?

Pirhana7_ESO

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

@Pirhana7_ESO no cause it's just gonna cause a repeat of buff servers by making city servers thus making only 1 server actually used for pvp while the other 3 are gonna be a factions city server and thats best case worst case is elitest pvp guilds own 2 or even 3 servers thus completl locking out the other 2 factions for a dlc that they paid for.

6 home keeps horrid idea.

Buff servers required you to hold the ENTIRE map to give a good buff bonus and used campaiigns that were 90% empty.
For IC control you dont gain anything more by taking more enemy keeps.
Holding your 6 home keeps is completely different and teh easiest thing to accomplish on the map plus there are no empty campaigns anymore since most were removed. low population..yes but still enough to hold your home keeps.
Plus even when you do get locked out that means your FULL force is in cyrodiil trying to take back your home keeps while the enemy alliance wont be able to defend because most of their force is in IC.

Thi system has already been done on another MMO and it worked very well.

Pangnirtung

sebban wrote: »

Stop ruining PvE content due to your inability to balance PvP.

This.

Ever hear of the tail wagging the dog?

timidobserver

So, what happened to the Radiant Destruction crit fix?

Icy

Awww yisss. TY!

"Leeching Strikes (Siphoning Strikes morph): This ability is now a toggle once more, and reduces weapon and spell power while active."

Hiero_Glyph

timidobserver wrote: »

So, what happened to the Radiant Destruction crit fix?

It's a Templar issue, maybe for Orsinium they will fix it. At least they fixed Biting Jabs quickly, right?

Elijah_Crow

Siphoning Strikes (and Siphoning Attacks) did not get an increase in duration. It still lasts only 10 seconds.

Telel

Prothwata wrote: »

Werewolf armor and spell resistance increase? Eric mentioned on live.... no notes...
@ZOS_GinaBruno

@ZOS_GinaBruno I too would like to know if the discussed additions to Werewolf physical and spell resistances made it into this patch.

Personofsecrets

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Should I continue to remind the developers about the following abilities?

1. Stonefists tool tip is not correct and I don't believe the ability is working how the developers want it to. The range of it's heal is also very small and should be drastically increased.

2. Dragon Knight Chains has a severe issue with a target being "too high or too low." There should also be an option for this skill not to pull the caster to a CC immune target because, well, it is the worst feeling thing in the game next to losing all of my stamina regeneration.

Thank you

Enodoc

Blackhorne wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, DLC GAME PACK
...
Imperial City

...
• Some VR15 and VR16 crafting materials have had their names changed:
  • Colossus Ingot is now Corundum Ingot.
    ...
  ...

Does this mean the 173 Corundum my lvl43 currently has banked will suddenly become extremely valuable, or is another name change in order?

That's a good point actually... @ZOS_GinaBruno Corundum is already the name for the Nord style material, you shouldn't use the same name for two different types of items.

Azalin76

No fix to not being able to create a guild on the consoles? Please fix this as soon as possible.

Akavir_Sentinel

Dracane wrote: »

Oh I just realized, there are no Monster Undaunted sets for templates this time
So I can't test the Maw of the Infernal. My real character wasn't lucky and doesn't have the shoulders.

That's a simple fix. First, create a VR14 template, open the bags containing the Monster sets, bank them, and delete that toon. Then, create a VR16 template that has all of the IC gear and you can now use both.

Saint_JiubB14_ESO

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE-GAME PATCH

Alliance War
General

• Fixed an issue where the bosses in Cyrodiil's many caves were dropping level 50 gear, even when you were Veteran Ranked. They will now drop gear up to VR14.

@ZOS_GinaBruno do you know if this fix also includes dolmen chests in cyrodill? Currently blue drops from Generals only scale to lvl 50.

Forestd16b14_ESO

Pirhana7_ESO wrote: »

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

@Pirhana7_ESO no cause it's just gonna cause a repeat of buff servers by making city servers thus making only 1 server actually used for pvp while the other 3 are gonna be a factions city server and thats best case worst case is elitest pvp guilds own 2 or even 3 servers thus completl locking out the other 2 factions for a dlc that they paid for.

6 home keeps horrid idea.

Buff servers required you to hold the ENTIRE map to give a good buff bonus and used campaiigns that were 90% empty.
For IC control you dont gain anything more by taking more enemy keeps.
Holding your 6 home keeps is completely different and teh easiest thing to accomplish on the map plus there are no empty campaigns anymore since most were removed. low population..yes but still enough to hold your home keeps.
Plus even when you do get locked out that means your FULL force is in cyrodiil trying to take back your home keeps while the enemy alliance wont be able to defend because most of their force is in IC.

Thi system has already been done on another MMO and it worked very well.

You don't see it do you. That's what AP farmers want all they have to do is hold off the players at 1 keep that's it. Here's the picture one faction PvE players are in the city alone getting there monys worth of the DLC while the other factions both PvP and PvE have to take back there one keep but thing is it is heavly defended by the controllings PvP players and unlike the PvE players the PvP players will murder them over and over again and they'll fail because the PvE players are in the wya of there PvP players thus setting up a endless farming for AP for the controlling faction and instead of staying and fighting the PvE players are just gonna move to another empty server that they control and once the PvP relize that they can't do shite there gonna move too till there's nothing but 3 city servers and 1 actual PvP server thus like buff servers cause of course the controlling faction will take over the map after the players rage quiet and move to another server and about a month down the road one elitest PvP guild is gonna march on the other servers locking out all other factions to there paid for DLC.

This is what every one who is against 6 home keeps have been trying to tell ZoS this will cause a repeat of buff servers and cause players to rage more cause they can not use there paid DLC cause some other players are trolls and griefers who have some sick fetish of ruining every one elses game time.

ninjaguyman

Nightblade
Siphoning
Increased the duration of Siphoning Strikes and Siphoning Attacks to 15 seconds from 10 seconds.
Leeching Strikes (Siphoning Strikes morph): This ability is now a toggle once more, and reduces weapon and spell power while active.

woot on the time increase for SA to 15 seconds, gonna go try this. But ZoS... 20 seconds would be fabulous ;D. I wouldnt really need any more than that, but 15 seconds is definitely usable now I think

kinda sad that leeching strikes got the toggle morph, which frankly, probably is not going to be used. But who knows, maybe it'll be a bit more appealing now that we'll be weaving in attacks more w/o perma blocking

I'll try out both

-A nb tank

AssaultLemming

davidbarryb16_ESO wrote: »

Xael wrote: »

Does this mean to get vr15/16 drops we are limited to Imperial City?

@Xael,
no, there was a separate itemization thread and it's probably in the PTS 2.1 update patch notes somewhere, that vr15/16 drops are also available from PvE group dungeons (if scaled to vr15/16), and from undaunted chests (assuming you are vr 15/16 at the time). Vr15/16 items will also be available as Cyrodiil PvP Rewards for the Worthy (I think).

Xael wrote: »

Also does this imply sets like Way of Air and Martial Knowledge will stay at vr14?

Hm.... probably yes. We'll have to wait and see.

Should be interesting to see if treasure chests scale to vr16...

baratron

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, DLC GAME PACK
Audio
Imperial City

• The Patrolling Horrors in the Sewers are now more audible as they approach to give you more warning of impending doom.

Awesome!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Combat & Gameplay
Imperial City

• Increased experience gains for all sources in the Imperial City Districts, Sewers, and the Dragonfire Cathedral by 15%.

Even more awesome!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Some VR15 and VR16 crafting materials have had their names changed:

• Colossus Ingot is now Corundum Ingot.
• Sanded Ruddy Ash Wood is now Sanded Ruby Ash Wood.
• Daedra Skin is now Rubedo Leather.
• Harvester Silk is now Ancestor Silk.

I like Sanded Ruby Ash Wood - makes more sense going with the Ruby Throne of Tamriel. I also like Ancestor Silk - it's a lot less disgusting to think of the material coming from the Ancestor Moths than from Harvesters. I'm not sure about "Rubedo Leather" though. And I share several other people's concerns about "Corundum Ingot" considering that Corundum is the Nord crafting material. It's going to cause confusion. Not least of all because in Skyrim, Corundum was a fairly low-level metal.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Imperial City
General

• Added a new timed immunity buff to the doors between districts, and the ladders between districts and sewers. This immunity buff lasts for 30 seconds, and will be removed upon initiating combat, stealthing, drinking a potion or sprinting.

I'm concerned this still isn't long enough. I know I'm not the only person whose loading screens between districts were 5 seconds or less, but between sewer and district (or vice versa) were well over one minute. I hope this will be looked at further.

JamieAubrey

The morphs for Unstable wall of elements and Elemental ring show the old icon when slotted on the bar but the new icon in the skills window

ninjaguyman

well then... templates cant take skill morphs on creation atm and i dont want to grind all of them up. also my current chars arent loaded onto pts now apparently so I cant give the v16 alt some of the gear i want.
also... siphoning strikes still shows as 10 seconds... much sadness...such disappoints

just gonna wait i guess

Edit: only the v16 templates can't access morphs on creation

StopDropAndBear

-I thought we were getting improved Argonian passives in this patch?
edit: oh..we did..I guess

-I feel like changing Colossus Ingots to Corundum Ingots could be confusing given the Nord motif stone has the same name.

-Looking forward to testing out the reduced TV stone loss on player kill! I was in the "100% is kinda steep" camp so I'm thankful it's at least being considered for a change.

-Shoulders from Silver Keys? I like it!

Ysne58

I'd consider playing this if the loss on those stones were 10% as with npcs.