PTS Patch Notes v2.1.2

SturgeHammer

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom, any possibility of getting the proc chance on leeching strikes changed to be the same conditions as 1.6 Siphoning Attacks (chance to proc on All Attacks) before IC goes live?

Alcast

ok time to get my sorc ready. 40k dps over 2min no problemo now.

Buff Molag Kena wtf....just wtf....

ScruffyWhiskers

We are all Molag Kena now. Errr or we all will soon be. Unless of course the RNG shoulder piece god hates you.

Edit: Don't get me wrong. I'll be going for this set. If I can get my hands on it, I might even swap out dual swords for a master's fire boom stick. But this is going to be like Skoria on steroids. Everybody in pvp is going to want this. Or am I missing something?

mrdankles

Really? So I can't use surge from bar 2 (buff bar) and switch back to bar 1 for the bonus for weapon damage?! WTF is this neo-nazism?

ThatNeonZebraAgain

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

ThatNeonZebraAgain wrote: »

So armor pieces (other than shields) from Trophy Vaults still can have crappy traits?

I don't think you get armor from Trophy Vaults. Aren't the Trophy Vaults weapon + jewelry "mini-sets"?

Of course, I am not sure what traits can be on armor from PvP Tel-Var mystery bags, from PvE boss drops, etc. Hopefully those will be updated also to not offer traits that are useless at endgame.

Ahhh I think you're right. Hopefully they carry this over to all other end-game sets!

Soulac

mrdankles wrote: »

Really? So I can't use surge from bar 2 (buff bar) and switch back to bar 1 for the bonus for weapon damage?! WTF is this neo-nazism?

Surge is not a toggle.

ThatNeonZebraAgain

ScruffyWhiskers wrote: »

We are all Molag Kena now. Errr or we all will soon be. Unless of course the RNG shoulder piece god hates you.

For real. Guess they really needed to turn people to fork over cash for IC by further buffing the new sets (limiting traits on Trophy Vaults also counts as a buff over 'old' sets).

Alcast

I guess its rerolling Sorc now or gtfo and look for a new game.


this:


+insta cryst frags and bb enemy

Rinmaethodain

Alcast wrote: »

ok time to get my sorc ready. 40k dps over 2min no problemo now.

Buff Molag Kena wtf....just wtf....

All hails #DPSmasterRace

All who oppose DPS are subject to nerf

hammayolettuce

Alcast wrote: »

I guess its rerolling Sorc now or gtfo and look for a new game.


this:


+insta cryst frags and bb enemy

Those stats wont work well in pvp tho. Your regen is terrible for sustain. Sure the overload build in PvE will continue to be the main source of DPS for Sorcs, but that only brings them up to par with other classes now.

ScruffyWhiskers

Wahnsinn. Reiner Wahnsinn.

Edit: Temporary spelling insanity

Taonnor

Alcast wrote: »

I guess its rerolling Sorc now or gtfo and look for a new game.


this:


+insta cryst frags and bb enemy

Show me your sets!

Joy_Division

Alcast wrote: »

I guess its rerolling Sorc now or gtfo and look for a new game.


this:


+insta cryst frags and bb enemy

You need moar Magieschaden

Enodoc

Did you fix the progression-blocking Vat of Acid interaction bug in the Elven Gardens quest The Lock and the Legion?

Taonnor

Another things:

Anyone who previously obtained multiple Mundus Stone buffs without the Twice-Born Star item set will have them removed upon login.

Double mundus stone exploit fix?!

Fixed an issue which was allowing you to benefit from toggled abilities that were not active on your current skill bar.

Overload bar fix?!

ScruffyWhiskers

hammayolettuce wrote: »

Those stats wont work well in pvp tho. Your regen is terrible for sustain. Sure the overload build in PvE will continue to be the main source of DPS for Sorcs, but that only brings them up to par with other classes now.

I don't know. I think I could make those work as a magicka nb. Sure the regen is a problem as I normally roll with 2k but I would just have to go back to the pre 1.6 days and be choosy about my targets, hit hard and fast and then run like hell. No more loitering around looking for more targets. My concealed weapon and crippling strike would hit hard with 5k spell power. Timing that prox detonation would be tricky. Would definitely have to go destro on the main bar.

I'm wondering how you get 5k? Molag proc + Scathing proc + inner light, + maj sorcery + all jewelry spell power enchants. ???

Taonnor

ScruffyWhiskers wrote: »

I'm wondering how you get 5k? Molag proc + Scathing proc + inner light, + maj sorcery + all jewelry spell power enchants. ???

I will know it too.

Personofsecrets

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_BrianWheeler

Can we please get a fix to the Obsidian Shard and DK Chain abilities that I have detailed for the past couple of weeks? I would like them to be buffed in the ways that I have specified too, but can they at least be fixed?

So you don't have to find my old writing on these abilities.

Obsidian Shard - Currently only heals the caster despite the tool tip states it heals party members.

Desired Buff - Make the skill able to heal anyone and increase the range of the heal. Increasing the range of the skill isn't super useful if the range of the heal is extremely small. This would be a cool skill if it calculated it's heal the same way that Breath of Life does.

DK Chains - Has had an on going issue with targets being "too high or too low." This is especially true while in the Imperial City and should be fixed so that it always works.

Desired Buff - Have the gap closing effect be either a morph of the skill or only work while the caster of chains is not blocking. Being pulled to a CC immune enemy is one of the most jarring and worst feeling things in the game.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Enodoc wrote: »

Did you fix the progression-blocking Vat of Acid interaction bug in the Elven Gardens quest The Lock and the Legion?

We just identified a fix for this issue, which is a more global issue with interactable objects not being responsive in the Imperial City. The fix will be in the next PTS patch.

Glantir

IC will be an empty place because all play NB and all are sneaking no one will see the enemy xD

The stats on the screenshot are not the stats of Alcast, Senaxu post it in another thread but not which equip he wear.... ^^

Forestd16b14_ESO

oh joy RD can crit Jesus beam is still Jesus beam great.......... really wonderful.........................

Enodoc

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

Did you fix the progression-blocking Vat of Acid interaction bug in the Elven Gardens quest The Lock and the Legion?

We just identified a fix for this issue, which is a more global issue with interactable objects not being responsive in the Imperial City. The fix will be in the next PTS patch.

Great, thanks! Hopefully we won't have to wait till next week for that fix....

CP5

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Werewolf

• Werewolf transformation now grants Spell Resistance in addition to Physical Resistance, and the bonus Physical and Spell Resistance has been increased to 151 per level/Veteran Rank from a base of 20 per level/Veteran Rank.
  • For example, a Veteran Rank 14 player character would get 9664 Physical and Spell Resistance during their transformation.

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Also, how does this work with battle leveling?

KriHavok

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

Did you fix the progression-blocking Vat of Acid interaction bug in the Elven Gardens quest The Lock and the Legion?

We just identified a fix for this issue, which is a more global issue with interactable objects not being responsive in the Imperial City. The fix will be in the next PTS patch.

Does this fix include the interactable objects in some of the Imperial City daily quests that you can't interact with?

Hiero_Glyph

I understand the need to activate the Molag Kena set more easily, and even the addition of spell damage to the first trait, but why buff it again by reducing the magicka drain from 50% to 33%? Heck, they didn't even lower the first or second trait bonus to compensate. Compare this to Lord Warden set that got a single buff and two nerfs and I'm not sure what ZoS is thinking. Note that I'm not saying the Lord Warden changes are bad, only that it was already more situational than Molag Kena.

Anyway, combinedd with the buff to Energy Overload and we definitely have a new burst DPS meta for Sorcs. Sadly they needed it since their PvE damage was just bad. How this will affect PvP has yet to be determined but we will find out soon.

Emma_Overload

"Fixed an issue where you could not interrupt channeled abilities by using block or entering a UI menu."

Bless ZOS and and @ZOS_GinaBruno for this fix!

Huggalump

"Storm Calling
Expert Mage: This passive now grants 1/2% weapon damage per Sorcerer ability slotted in addition to its previous effects.

Mages Fury: This ability and its morphs can now critically hit.
Thundering Presence: Fixed an issue where lower ranks of Thundering Presence were dealing too much additional damage during the initial bonus period. We also clarified the tooltip to indicate the bonus damage is in addition to the normal damage.

Daedric Summoning
The Daedric Protection passive now grants 10/20% bonus stamina recovery in addition to its previous effects."

This is great! Now that sorcerers have a few passives that stamina users can actually make use of, maybe we can get some sorcerer abilities that stamina can make use of so those nice new passives don't go to waste ^_^

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Enodoc wrote: »

Great, thanks! Hopefully we won't have to wait till next week for that fix....

Unfortunately, that's exactly what it means. Sorry.

dylanjaygrobbelaarb16_ESO

Vanzen wrote: »

Radiant destruction can crit ...
Sure, it was so weak an ability ...

it crits on live, the patched messed it up, they fixed it. there is no reason for anything not to crit sooo....

CP5

Huggalump wrote: »

"Storm Calling
Expert Mage: This passive now grants 1/2% weapon damage per Sorcerer ability slotted in addition to its previous effects.

Mages Fury: This ability and its morphs can now critically hit.
Thundering Presence: Fixed an issue where lower ranks of Thundering Presence were dealing too much additional damage during the initial bonus period. We also clarified the tooltip to indicate the bonus damage is in addition to the normal damage.

Daedric Summoning
The Daedric Protection passive now grants 10/20% bonus stamina recovery in addition to its previous effects."

This is great! Now that sorcerers have a few passives that stamina users can actually make use of, maybe we can get some sorcerer abilities that stamina can make use of so those nice new passives don't go to waste ^_^

With luck, whatever Eric was talking about a little while back will make it into the update and it will include that.