PTS Patch Notes v2.1.3

WebBull

david.haypreub18_ESO wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

For Black Rose, is the Constitution passive from heavy armor any good? I always got the impression the resource return from it was complete garbage, and the 4 second cooldown made it even worse. So 50% more from Constitution with Black Rose is likely to still be extremely weak, and it still has that awful 4 second cooldown.

You are correct, it is still utter garbage. ZOS not only has no idea how to fix Heavy Armor, they apparently don't even think there is a problem.

RIP DKs, Templars, and Tanks in general.

I, for one, welcome our new NB overlords.

DK's and Templars are screwed in this patch. NB and Sorcs are going to own.

Rioht

Uuugh. Why are you continuing to force us to use boring 3 piece jewelry sets that in turn reduce he number of viable builds?

These jewelry sets are the most boring and nonimaginative sets I have seen and they are literally a must have set now.

Basically, any set that uses weapons/jewelry and are not JUST armor (aka the new IC sets) are not going to be used.

Your focus on forcing us to buy the dlc is ruining the game for players who would buy the dlc regardless...

Ishammael

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Increased the bonuses granted by the Endurance, Willpower, and Agility sets by 50%.

Now best-in-slot. Boring and unoriginal, especially the RNG grind required to get these.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Molag Kena: Decreased this item set’s bonus Weapon Damage and Spell Damage by 25%.

0.75*625 = 468.75. Still the best (most reliable) monster set. Obtained via an RNG grind. =(

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Added a selection of useful potions, food, and drink to the Siege vendors in Cyrodiil.
  • These items can only be purchased with Alliance Points.
  • Though better than the consumables found from monsters, vendors, and treasure chests elsewhere in the game, they are still inferior to consumables crafted by other player characters.
• Updated the Rewards for the Worthy so the set items in those mails will now only come in blue or purple qualities.
  • Note: The overall chance to get a set item has not changed, but the chance to get a blue or a purple has each increased.
• The Rewards for the Worthy set items are now all Bind on Equip.

Awesome!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Dragonknight

• Earthen Heart
  • Obsidian Shard: Increased the healing effect radius of this ability to 8 meters from 5 meters.

LOLOLOLOLOL

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*] Fixed an issue where many item set abilities would not trigger against targets with damage shields. Item sets updated to trigger against shielded targets include:

Awesome!

Soulac

Cloak fix

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Other planned changes to cloak or should it be fixed by now?
Or a bit different asked: any skill still breaking cloak and not intended?

Personofsecrets

Ishammael wrote: »

Awesome!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Dragonknight

• Earthen Heart
  • Obsidian Shard: Increased the healing effect radius of this ability to 8 meters from 5 meters.

LOLOLOLOLOL

This has been a badly needed adjustment. It still may need more range.

GreenSoup2HoT

Sheer Venom: Increased this item set’s ability damage by 110%.

Zos you spoil me The only set i was looking forward to and you buff it! I can't wait for Morang Tong/Sheer Venom Combo with Steel Tornado (not sure if steel tornado count's as an execute though).

Also opening up on people with poison injection with master bow! I can't wait
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If anyone is rocking pts, i'd like to know what the reactive Armour set is like now since it's fixed.

Ishammael

Personofsecrets wrote: »

Ishammael wrote: »

Awesome!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Dragonknight

• Earthen Heart
  • Obsidian Shard: Increased the healing effect radius of this ability to 8 meters from 5 meters.

LOLOLOLOLOL

This has been a badly needed adjustment. It still may need more range.

Not gonna disagree, but its bad anyway.

MaxwellC

So awesome to see Heavy armor not getting the fix it desperately needs, whelp good to know ZoS has their priorities straight since they killed tanking for the most part. I guess this MMO should just cast off the tank style of playing.

Preyfar

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Preyfar wrote: »

Can has Dawnbreaker fix? It's really crippling PVP.

We took a look, and this should actually be fixed on the PTS. We mistakenly forgot the patch note, but once we go live with this update, it will read:

• Dawnbreaker and its morphs will now consistently wait one second before the damage over time effect is applied. The amount of damage applied and the duration remain the same.

Gina, I... I just... I you. You have no idea.

IxskullzxI

MaxwellCrystal wrote: »

So awesome to see Heavy armor not getting the fix it desperately needs, whelp good to know ZoS has their priorities straight since they killed tanking for the most part. I guess this MMO should just cast off the tank style of playing.

Pretty sure next patch they are removing heavy armor and getting rid of the need for tanks. And they are going to remove the DK since they refuse to do anything but nerf it.

ThatNeonZebraAgain

Rioht wrote: »

Uuugh. Why are you continuing to force us to use boring 3 piece jewelry sets that in turn reduce he number of viable builds?

These jewelry sets are the most boring and nonimaginative sets I have seen and they are literally a must have set now.

Basically, any set that uses weapons/jewelry and are not JUST armor (aka the new IC sets) are not going to be used.

Your focus on forcing us to buy the dlc is ruining the game for players who would buy the dlc regardless...

This guy gets it.

ZOS_GinaBruno

Soulac wrote: »

Cloak fix

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Other planned changes to cloak or should it be fixed by now?
Or a bit different asked: any skill still breaking cloak and not intended?

That should be everything for Cloak, and this is what we're going Live with!

Castle

Flaminir wrote: »

@Dracane EDIT: Just checked and I was sure I'd seen & heard an ESO dev state they were bind on equip and they can be sold.. BUT I've just found a post from Jess that states they are BoP.

These sets are Bind on Equip, not Bind on Pickup.

ThatNeonZebraAgain

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

Sheer Venom: Increased this item set’s ability damage by 110%.

Zos you spoil me The only set i was looking forward to and you buff it! I can't wait for Morang Tong/Sheer Venom Combo with Steel Tornado (not sure if steel tornado count's as an execute though).

Also opening up on people with poison injection and master bow! I can't wait
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If anyone is rocking pts, i'd like to know what the reactive Armour set is like now since it's fixed.

You should probably do some testing to make sure Morag actually buffs Sheer Venom, since apparently the Thaumaturge constellation doesn't buff poison damage from armor sets. Unfortunately, you cannot have 5pc Sheer and 5pc Morag while using bow though

WebBull

Castle wrote: »

Flaminir wrote: »

@Dracane EDIT: Just checked and I was sure I'd seen & heard an ESO dev state they were bind on equip and they can be sold.. BUT I've just found a post from Jess that states they are BoP.

These sets are Bind on Equip, not Bind on Pickup.

The Jewelry sets are BoE? That is good news.

Lesspa

Havent logged in for like a month or two now.... and based on ZOS decisions on gameplay and mechanics, and lack of attention to player input, i probably wont be logging in for another few months. Get new devs who understand this games meta... please.

Dracane

Soulac wrote: »

Cloak fix

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Other planned changes to cloak or should it be fixed by now?
Or a bit different asked: any skill still breaking cloak and not intended?

Great so now where everything is fixed, we can talk about penalties for cloak. That was the deal some of you, including you made with me

Petros

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Plus, Constitution scales off max health. So getting any kind of decent resource return requires you to go all out in health. Which is, counter-intuitively, a bad move for a tank in ESO. Tanking is very dependent on skill usage and resources in ESO. And having small magicka and stamina pools in order to max out health will cause too many problems to make Constitution worth it.

Actually, Constitution is not based off maxed health. Back in PRE 1.6 this statement would have been true. But it is currently based off level.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Combat & Gameplay
General

Armor

• Heavy
  • Passives
    • Constitution: This passive now scales off your level rather than our maximum health when restoring magicka and stamina.

I would hope ZOS would change it back to maxed health

BuggeX

Soris wrote: »

ARE YOU SERIOUS!!??
50% increase in constitution will increase its value to 45 from 30.
45 magicka and stamina in every 4 seconds is absurdly OP. It will break all teh balance! Nerf that ***!!

for me is 380 on live with v14 atm, did they also changed this on pts? wtf

Garion

Pretty sure this it it for ESO for me. Got less time now anyway, and the gear grind is going to be real, not to mention PvP becoming even more simplistic, zergier and in turn a boring waste of time. I will wait and see, but from what I've read so far... We will see. Patch notes and PTS are one thing, the live server is quite another.

ThatNeonZebraAgain

Garion wrote: »

Pretty sure this it it for ESO for me. Got less time now anyway, and the gear grind is going to be real, not to mention PvP becoming even more simplistic, zergier and in turn a boring waste of time. I will wait and see, but from what I've read so far... We will see. Patch notes and PTS are one thing, the live server is quite another.

And just to do it all over again in a 3-4 months for Orsinium, yay! More new currencies, more layers of RNG grinds and contrived gear imbalance!

GreenSoup2HoT

ThatNeonZebraAgain wrote: »

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

Sheer Venom: Increased this item set’s ability damage by 110%.

Zos you spoil me The only set i was looking forward to and you buff it! I can't wait for Morang Tong/Sheer Venom Combo with Steel Tornado (not sure if steel tornado count's as an execute though).

Also opening up on people with poison injection and master bow! I can't wait
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If anyone is rocking pts, i'd like to know what the reactive Armour set is like now since it's fixed.

You should probably do some testing to make sure Morag actually buffs Sheer Venom, since apparently the Thaumaturge constellation doesn't buff poison damage from armor sets. Unfortunately, you cannot have 5pc Sheer and 5pc Morag while using bow though

I was hoping once i used Poison Arrow and switched over to my Morang Tong Dagger's, that the DoT will get the damage increase. At least Poison Arrow will benefit from Sheer Venom.

I won't really care about buffing Thaumaturge, i'll just go full into physical damage. I just hope Steel Tornado count's as an execute and proc's sheer venom. Tool tip's don't classify skill's as execute's so i have no clue if it will work.

If the two set's don't work out the way i want, i'll probably just use Valkyn Skoria with Sheer Venom. Then use the Morang Tong Dagger's for the 2 set effect.

ShadowHvo

Dracane wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Cloak fix

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Other planned changes to cloak or should it be fixed by now?
Or a bit different asked: any skill still breaking cloak and not intended?

Great so now where everything is fixed, we can talk about penalties for cloak. That was the deal some of you, including you made with me

What about making detect potions, AOE's, Dots, Curses and all else that cancels out cloak also cancel Bolt Escape, Damage Shields, Self-Heals and Charges.

Thats fair right?

Oh wait I forgot, Cloak is OP because people refuse to put one of the many counters onto the bar. My mistake.

Give all else insane many counters to all other mobility / utility effects, and we can talk about giving cloaks more penalties. Until then, absolutely not, for you will leave the NB with nothing in defense besides RNGesus, and as all MMO' players know, RNGesus is a damned ***.

bosmern_ESO

Ludof wrote: »

Nothing new for Templar..again

Why buff templars while ZoS can continue making Night Blades the strongest class in the game every patch?

Dracane

ShadowHvo wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Cloak fix

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Other planned changes to cloak or should it be fixed by now?
Or a bit different asked: any skill still breaking cloak and not intended?

Great so now where everything is fixed, we can talk about penalties for cloak. That was the deal some of you, including you made with me

What about making detect potions, AOE's, Dots, Curses and all else that cancels out cloak also cancel Bolt Escape, Damage Shields, Self-Heals and Charges.

Thats fair right?

Oh wait I forgot, Cloak is OP because people refuse to put one of the many counters onto the bar. My mistake.

Give all else insane many counters to all other mobility / utility effects, and we can talk about giving cloaks more penalties. Until then, absolutely not, for you will leave the NB with nothing in defense besides RNGesus, and as all MMO' players know, RNGesus is a damned ***.

No, that's not fair.

Personofsecrets

Ishammael wrote: »

Personofsecrets wrote: »

Ishammael wrote: »

Awesome!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Dragonknight

• Earthen Heart
  • Obsidian Shard: Increased the healing effect radius of this ability to 8 meters from 5 meters.

LOLOLOLOLOL

This has been a badly needed adjustment. It still may need more range.

Not gonna disagree, but its bad anyway.

What part is bad?

Araxleon

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

So made NB cloak even more OP and still no changes to heavy armor with U7 going live monday. Have you guys atleast changed the access to the city and reduced the number of mats needed for crafted VR16 gear?

Cloak needs to work, like any other skill it needs to function.

If they choose to do so they can increase the cost or make it cost more per use.

Point is it needs to function without error before they can consider balancing it (which is a subject of its own if its balanced or not)

I sure as hell wouldn't wanna use bolt escape if 50% of the time it flat out didnt work and still took the magicka.

ryanmjmcevoy_ESO

Teiji wrote: »

Mountain's Blessing isn't applying Minor Brutality; this is not on Known Issues @ZOS_GinaBruno ?

I could be mistaken but I think the buff is granted, but it isn't granted 100% of the time! Check wep dmg -> light attack something -> apply igneous shield -> check weapon damage.

I believe the buff only applies while gaining ultimate. Whether that is intended or not is up to them.

CP5

Araxleon wrote: »

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

So made NB cloak even more OP and still no changes to heavy armor with U7 going live monday. Have you guys atleast changed the access to the city and reduced the number of mats needed for crafted VR16 gear?

Cloak needs to work, like any other skill it needs to function.

If they choose to do so they can increase the cost or make it cost more per use.

Point is it needs to function without error before they can consider balancing it (which is a subject of its own if its balanced or not)

I sure as hell wouldn't wanna use bolt escape if 50% of the time it flat out didnt work and still took the magicka.

Could you define 'without error' from your perspective?

dsalter

@ZOS_GinaBruno
any idea if the crew plan one last Stam sorc buff as they said will probably happen? we dont need details atm just confirmation or not is enough for me, just feels like a false promise atm being left in the dark.

hope so got my fingers crossed