PTS Patch Notes v2.3.0

BoloBoffin

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

Wolfshead wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Loyalty Rewards
Anyone who[ b]owns[/b] the Orsinium or Thieves Guild DLC game packs will be granted a vanity pet as a loyalty reward!

• The Orsinium reward is an Echalette vanity pet, and the Thieves Guild reward is a Jackal vanity pet.
• You’ll need to complete a new achievement to receive your pet, but just need to simply walk into the main city.
  • Orsinium loyalty reward achievement: “A Gift from Orsinium”
  • Thieves Guild loyalty reward achievement: “Spoils of Abah’s Landing”
• The pet will be added to your Collections UI, and will be usable account-wide.
• Going forward, each DLC game pack will include some sort of reward for those that purchase or have access to it.

Honest this BS so we who are ESO+ member are not loyalty enough and therefore we wont get any loyalty reward for we are just "rent" DLC well not get this reward i take it

I agree that the first statement is misleading, but towards the end, it says "each DLC game pack will include some sort of reward for those that purchase or have access to it." So that would mean that ESO+ members will get these pets. What is unclear though, is whether you would lose them if you unsubscribe from ESO+ but don't then purchase the DLC.

It shouldn't be unclear. Zenimax has always said you don't lose items you get from DLC you no longer have access to. Drops or crafted sets don't suddenly disappear from your inventory when you drop ESO Plus membership. So the pet jackal will be ours as long as there is an ESO.

TheHsN

I'am Testing since pts got live....AND NB CLOAK should not be that nerf ...It killed NB.. U made DK's Dot more and more powerful and even add CP system to make more and more ...They are sucking NB's health in a second...:..U JUST KILL NB...U SHOULD NOT MAKE NERF TO CLOAK LIKE THIS...i now dont enjoy tp play with it....I HOPE U ARE GOING TO FIX IT.....thats is a change that not fair to NB really...cloak is the NB class it self.. PLS DONT KILL NB like this...........

Nirnroot

This Patch strengthened Argonians, I would ask - not to forget about the other poorly endowed races - eg. The orcs. Handy to be some additional stamina recovery. That although the orcs approached the other stamina classes.

CP5

Infinite12 wrote: »

Yes, you can gap close for sorcs escaping but a lot of the time they can streak more than I can ambush

The skills cost stacks indefinitely. No one can keep it up forever without stopping.

Chapmaaaan

still no fix to the masters bow? it brings you out of stealth when using vigor with a masters bow equipped

Serpace

Infinite12 wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno if you guys don't nerf sorc shields then I have no hope for you guys. I'll lose complete confidence in this company (not that I have much at this point) but to leave sorc shields alone show such a blatant disinterest in your own game it's astonishing. Sorcs are the most op class in the game. Lots of damage, lots of defense with their shields which negates the need for heals really, and the perfect escape with streak. But you're nerfing templars? Really? I didn't really want to believe that you guys don't play your own game but it's getting harder and harder NOT to believe it.

No sorc can escape a half decent nightblade. I keep spamming ambush on a sorc that tries to run away. They usually get CC'd or run out of magicka. Either way, no ward is gonna stop me from EATING HIS ASS.

NIGHTBLADE LOVE!

urkonse

Are consoles finally getting the long-needed Text chat?....Vr16 & still nearly none group stuff done

avelopolcakb14a_ESO

Can someone explain to me the effect of enduring rays on the new Unstable core morph? I mean ZOS recognized that it was decreasing DPS for some skills, and now to have it apply to this new skill seems like they didn't learn from their previous mistake? Are they serious with this change? Why would I want to delay an already lackluster explosion by 30%?

Dimmit

No changes to Sorcs? Really? They are so OP, there is no sense in playing anything else. There should be separate Cyrod mirror - one for sorcs, other for lesser classes. And no changes to sorc shields introduced. Weird.

Infinite12

Double post

Infinite12

CP5 wrote: »

Infinite12 wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno if you guys don't nerf sorc shields then I have no hope for you guys. I'll lose complete confidence in this company (not that I have much at this point) but to leave sorc shields alone show such a blatant disinterest in your own game it's astonishing. Sorcs are the most op class in the game. Lots of damage, lots of defense with their shields which negates the need for heals really, and the perfect escape with streak. But you're nerfing templars? Really? I didn't really want to believe that you guys don't play your own game but it's getting harder and harder NOT to believe it.

Did you miss the cp passive that buffs damage to shields? Or that burst damage builds, now buffed with this passive, can melt shields? As for escaping, have you tried gap closers?

No I didn't, but with the CP passive that will now mitigate physical damage I feel like we'll be back at square one. Sorcs will be able to shields stack indefinitely and I won't be able to do anything about it

Shadowshire

Quote: "You can now form cross-alliance parties by simply inviting them to your group without using the Grouping Tool first."

We can already do that, so what is your point??

However, when a cross-alliance party is formed, then all hostile NPCs are VR16 regardless of the Experience Level of any player-character in the party. According to players who have used the tool in that context, the game host does not "level" any player-character(s) in a cross-alliance group.

So cross-alliance grouping without using the tool is -- in the absence of any "leveling" by the game host -- effectively limited to characters that are VR14 - VR16.

That said, according to the game paradigm cross-alliance groups are not possible to form. The "member races" of each alliance are sworn enemies of the other two alliances, competing for seizing the Imperial throne.

It should tell you something when players not only can and do have multiple player-characters among the three opposing alliances, they also decline to hate one another (or play the role of doing so). They don't want to compete, they want to cooperate. They don't want to play according to the game paradigm of three competing enemy alliances.

Bethesda and Zenimax Online have the option to insist that the paradigm is valid, and not allow it to be violated by cross-alliance grouping, else concede to the demands and expectations of its paying customers. Insisting that the paradigm is valid requires having principles and promoting them. Conceding is an admission by Bethesda and Zenimax Online that they don't care whether the game has any integrity as long as players continue to subscribe and/or to buy DLC.

So I guess this answers a question from the 1970s: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"

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Fasold666

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/221681/zos-ignoring-game-breaking-bug-no-progress-in-fighters-mages-guild-skill-line/p1

Fix it. Please.

ListerJMC

Shadowshire wrote: »

Quote: "You can now form cross-alliance parties by simply inviting them to your group without using the Grouping Tool first."

We can already do that, so what is your point??

We can't request a cross-alliance group, though. At present you've got to queue up at the same time, usually stick to off-peak hours, and hope you get put together.

Shadowshire wrote: »

That said, according to the game paradigm cross-alliance groups are not possible to form. The "member races" of each alliance are sworn enemies of the other two alliances, competing for seizing the Imperial throne.

It should tell you something when players not only can and do have multiple player-characters among the three opposing alliances, they also decline to hate one another (or play the role of doing so). They don't want to compete, they want to cooperate. They don't want to play according to the game paradigm of three competing enemy alliances.

Bethesda and Zenimax Online have the option to insist that the paradigm is valid, and not allow it to be violated by cross-alliance grouping, else concede to the demands and expectations of its paying customers. Insisting that the paradigm is valid requires having principles and promoting them. Conceding is an admission by Bethesda and Zenimax Online that they don't care whether the game has any integrity as long as players continue to subscribe and/or to buy DLC.

For the realism thing, you don't know what alliance people in your dungeon are in unless you ask them about it. I was playing with an Argonian in the Dominion the other day for example, and I was an Altmer in the Pact. Besides, how realistic is it to be asked to kill the same NPCs you killed last week over and over again because they can all apparently regenerate?

I actually think it's better not to keep us to one third of the playerbase when looking for dungeon parties. I almost always ask the other players' faction in case they'd like a guild invite (faction does matter for my guild due to trials, pvp, and helping out with quests etc.), and most of my pug groups have turned out to be cross-faction. I kind of feel like it's needed to save sitting in group finder for an even longer time for the sake of knowing that everyone's in the same alliance.

As for the multiple factions thing, I do have one in each faction so I can play alongside and help everyone but I spend the most time by far in the Pact. I have had to jump on an alt a few times to lend a hand since I have friends in multiple factions. I suppose you could look at it as breaking the validity of alliances, but I think of my characters as separate entities and support whatever alliance I'm playing in just as the character would if that makes sense at all - I know many don't agree with it being possible.

hamgatan

Dumb question but if you spend crowns on the PTS does that remove them from your live crowns?

I'm assuming the crown store is a different server and hence the internal software links may point to the same resource even if the PTS/Live game clusters are completely separate...

The Uninvited

hamgatan wrote: »

Dumb question but if you spend crowns on the PTS does that remove them from your live crowns?

I'm assuming the crown store is a different server and hence the internal software links may point to the same resource even if the PTS/Live game clusters are completely separate...

Doesn't remove them from live server, 2 totally different servers.

Karius_Imalthar

Invitation to Orsinium:

Alga’s invitation will now appear in your Eidetic Memory.

What if we destroyed the invitation? I held on to it for a long time but finally decided it would never appear in Eidetic Memory so I got rid of it.

remilafo

Weren't we suspposed to get Dueling this patch? what happened with that?

Enodoc

remilafo wrote: »

Weren't we suspposed to get Dueling this patch? what happened with that?

@remilafo No. Duelling was only just announced as being in early development, so I wouldn't expect to see it before Q4.

Leogon

Enodoc wrote: »

remilafo wrote: »

Weren't we suspposed to get Dueling this patch? what happened with that?

@remilafo No. Duelling was only just announced as being in early development, so I wouldn't expect to see it before Q4.

Will there be an option to turn this feature off? I don't feel like having duel invitations popping up on my screen every 5 min and you know that's what's gonna happen if this feature gets implemented.

pogopwns_ESO

Lawl! cry more baddies! "Omg I'm a khajjit and still don't have enough crit somehow. Omg I can't reflect meteor and that's all that makes dk good. Omg I chose a build I can't min max it's everyone else's fault. Omg I won't heal 3 people with breath." Get. Friggin. GOOD! Stop the QQ and just L2P the game the way they made it for goodness sake!

hamgatan

is it possible to get a particular Orsinium set added to the template or made easily available?

want to try a particular combination of something..

RebornV3x

After rereading the patch notes I saw this WTF

"Trapping Webs: The Spawn Broodlings and Arachnophobia synergies from this ability and the Tangling Webs morph have had their summoned spider’s damage reduced by 44%. The Black Widows synergy from the Shadow Silk morph has had its summoned spider’s damage reduced by 35%."

I mean why nerf this synergy? It barley does anything as is. Did someone really complain about the synergy doing to much damage nobody even uses the synergy. I would of like to see this get a buff the synergy is underrated was this necessary. I mean I really don't care but whats the reasoning behind nerfing something that is rarely used anyways?

why even keep it in the game at this point save yourselves the hassle.

Some_Guy

pogopwns_ESO wrote: »

Lawl! cry more baddies! "Omg I'm a khajjit and still don't have enough crit somehow. Omg I can't reflect meteor and that's all that makes dk good. Omg I chose a build I can't min max it's everyone else's fault. Omg I won't heal 3 people with breath." Get. Friggin. GOOD! Stop the QQ and just L2P the game the way they made it for goodness sake!

L2P the game the way they made it? This isn't the way they made the game. They're constantly changing it. This is a large number of changes later. The game has so little in common with how it started, it may as well be a new game.

I55UE5

Healing Ritual

I propose you revert Healing Ritual back to its live state, and provide this simple fix.

The skill should apply the Light Weaver passive, as it does on the Ultimate ability in the Restoring Light skill tree.

Wrobel just stated on ESO live that Templars, as a class, should thrive when people try to close on them. The Templar casting the skill should gain the armor from this passive as well. The passive is already in place, just make it effect this skill.

I have used Remembrance on my back bar for this same effect. Not only using it to toss heals around, but more to prevent death from the onslaught of players trying to burst me. This change would allow a Stamplar, like myself, to slot this ability for that additional utility.

The fix could also be thrown in on the skill itself, rather than the above fix. Simply make the skill grant Major Protection while casting.

Morph Idea: Bracing Ritual ???

sirsnapper

Welcome to mage scrolls online. . . due to mages using shields with 5-10 people trying to kill one guy then throwing a bomb on himself and killing a group your going to buff them?????? this game is becoming all based on magic and this will kill all melee players night-blades are useless and i dont even play one.

Alsaroth

"Empowered Ward (Conjured Ward morph):
This morph now grants the Minor Intellect buff to you and nearby allies, and will not be removed if the caster’s damage shield is removed."

Am wondering if the buff will be removed if I swap action bars to a bar where I don't have the skill slotted.

Septimus_Magna

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Alsaroth wrote: »

"Empowered Ward (Conjured Ward morph):
This morph now grants the Minor Intellect buff to you and nearby allies, and will not be removed if the caster’s damage shield is removed."

Am wondering if the buff will be removed if I swap action bars to a bar where I don't have the skill slotted.

It will remain active because its a timed buff, only toggles turn off when swapping bars.

ThoraxtheDark

Leogon wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

remilafo wrote: »

Weren't we suspposed to get Dueling this patch? what happened with that?

@remilafo No. Duelling was only just announced as being in early development, so I wouldn't expect to see it before Q4.

Will there be an option to turn this feature off? I don't feel like having duel invitations popping up on my screen every 5 min and you know that's what's gonna happen if this feature gets implemented.

Its not even here yet, and you are complaining about future invites you might get. Okay

Xvorg

Nirnroot wrote: »

This Patch strengthened Argonians, I would ask - not to forget about the other poorly endowed races - eg. The orcs. Handy to be some additional stamina recovery. That although the orcs approached the other stamina classes.

No way, just gave argonians like 300 more hps without food