Vet maelstrom is 10x easier as Sorc compared to other classes. Balance?

monkeymystic

Might as well just make a whole different version of vet maelstrom for sorcerers, because the difference in difficulty between classes is worse than i've ever seen in a MMO for 10+ years.
I've tried Vet maelstrom on all classes now, and the balance between them is a joke.

First of all, the combat of eso is clunky and a bottleneck in itself. This part hurts the other classes more than sorcerers because they can hide behind OP abilities giving survival, mobility and range dps like no other, and making veteran maelstrom a cakewalk in comparison. For sorcerers its more offense = more defense.

Sorry ZOS, but you failed hard on this one...The players who have VR 16 sorcerers will be the ones farming the maelstrom weapons fast, while the rest fall behind.

Cîanai

NB is easy mode too, with DK I only need more runs to figure out more tactics with this class. I don't have a templar so far, but I guess it is the same.

Teiji

Waste of development time for a B2P MMO to fix; would you rather have Thieves Guild & Dark Brotherhood next year or have them in 10 years and have class balance next year?

It took over a year to get the Champion System to the point where it is and delayed Imperial City & console over a year in the process.

By the way, this post is an opportunity to call BS and prove me wrong by having Eric Wrobel post in here that we should expect class balance update early next year.

But guess what? The lead gameplay designer doesn't have a forum account to post here!



I have to go on non-ZoS Twitch stream to get this information.

This post contains satire in order to better illustrate how absurd this whole situation is.

Zinaroth

Cîanai wrote: »

NB is easy mode too, with DK I only need more runs to figure out more tactics with this class. I don't have a templar so far, but I guess it is the same.

Ofcourse you don't, just like 90% of the community.

Stamina Templars are currently having the hardest time in there at the moment.
Just like they're having the hardest time in PvP.

But with Magicka Templar it should be fairly doable.
Not that it isn't doable as Stamina Templar, you're just up for a bigger challenge than everyone else in the game.

mtwiggz

Teiji wrote: »

Waste of development time for a B2P MMO to fix; would you rather have Thieves Guild & Dark Brotherhood next year or have them in 10 years and have class balance next year?

It took over a year to get the Champion System to the point where it is and delayed Imperial City & console over a year in the process.

By the way, this post is an opportunity to call BS and prove me wrong by having Eric Wrobel post in here that we should expect class balance update early next year.

But guess what? The lead gameplay designer doesn't have a forum account to post here!



I have to go on non-ZoS Twitch stream to get this information.

Would rather have class balance than more content. We would have to agree to disagree on this point.

Teiji

mtwiggz wrote: »

Teiji wrote: »

Waste of development time for a B2P MMO to fix; would you rather have Thieves Guild & Dark Brotherhood next year or have them in 10 years and have class balance next year?

It took over a year to get the Champion System to the point where it is and delayed Imperial City & console over a year in the process.

By the way, this post is an opportunity to call BS and prove me wrong by having Eric Wrobel post in here that we should expect class balance update early next year.

But guess what? The lead gameplay designer doesn't have a forum account to post here!



I have to go on non-ZoS Twitch stream to get this information.

Would rather have class balance than more content. We would have to agree to disagree on this point.

My apologies for not making it clear, the post you quoted is actually satire and doesn't actually illustrate my opinion completely.

Please tell me if anyone thinks it's okay for the lead gameplay designer to not have a forum account on the official forums where he works, I'm sure it says somewhere in his job description he's expected to interact with the community through various different methods such as appearing on Twitch streams and of course interacting with the community through his professional forum account. Yet he doesn't have a forum account.

What makes him exempt from his professional responsibilities? Please correct me if I'm wrong and it's perfectly fine and okay for the lead gameplay designer for a AAA game, for a company which is a sister company of Bethesda Softworks to not have a forum account in order to interact with the community here.

The Creative Director is doing a great job of communicating with us, just recently he appeared in a podcast with Hero of None and Mizz Bizz. This is leaps and bounds of an improvement with regards to communication with the community. Why can't the lead gameplay follow Rich's example and at least get a forum account to post once every three months with an update on important changes now that The Road Ahead articles are scrapped?