Gameplay Updates and Q&A with Eric Wrobel

CtrlAltDlt

Why is there no minimum range on telelort strike (ambush, lotus)?
Do you plan to address shield stacking? A set like Shield breaker is not a solution to an underlying problem.

Zheg

ZOS_AlanG wrote: »

Please remember to keep all criticism constructive and civil. It's OK to disagree or be frustrated, but this doesn't excuse breaking the forum rules. Some content has been removed.

Please remind Wrobel to keep all balance changes constructive and logical. It's OK to disagree or be frustrated, but this doesn't excuse poor design. Some of his content has yet to be removed.

Jaronking

Bashev wrote: »

Jaronking wrote: »

I can already forsee how the chat will be during his time during ESO live.Most of it will be questions about AOE caps.

Will he dare to answer a question related to AoE caps or ZoS will pretend that the casp do not exists?

Probably the second option.I'll probably watch their stream instead of a hosted version.

FENGRUSH

I havent seen @Zheg this upset with anything ever - everyones got their pitchforks out!

Ghost-Shot

Zheg wrote: »

So, is this an ESO Live where legitimate questions will actually get answered? Or have enough softball questions been accumulated that you won't have to worry about allocating time to the many difficult things you'd rather not talk about?

Personally I hope they cover where we can find all the RP/ERP events this weekend, cover the important *** first then worry about nonsense like game balance later. Oh a preview of some new costumes would be good too.

Tanis-Stormbinder

Pitchfork out and ready, lol. Still Would like to see the Balanced Warrior passive increase spell damage and the healing nerf to Puncturing Sweep removed.

Zheg

FENGRUSH wrote: »

I havent seen @Zheg this upset with anything ever - everyones got their pitchforks out!

You just never heard me in TS after crashing 6 times in a row each time a fight is about to start and I'm leading. As to the pitchforks, they're well deserved, though in this case I think I'd prefer a torch.

Ghost-Shot

Zheg wrote: »

FENGRUSH wrote: »

I havent seen @Zheg this upset with anything ever - everyones got their pitchforks out!

You just never heard me in TS after crashing 6 times in a row each time a fight is about to start and I'm leading. As to the pitchforks, they're well deserved, though in this case I think I'd prefer a torch.

After crash number 5, Zheg goes for the throat.

Zheg

Zheg wrote: »

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On the rapid maneuvers nerf, since healing is clearly a Templars survivability, and they will undoubtedly heal someone else and remove their rapids, are you comfortable with this nerf affecting a Templar far more than say, a sorc, who relies on self shields instead of healing for survivability, and who can just streak while still rooted?

With all of the insane damage numbers on pts and hp pools remaining the same, people relying on heals (Templar) will face greater survivability issues than someone relying on shields. Is this also intentional for the meta? Need moar shield stacking?

I'm grateful that my two above questions were brought up on ESO Live, but the answers are absurd @Wrobel

Your answer to templars healing and removing their rapids is to basically use honor of the dead. Do you play the game? Do you realize that heals don't always go where you want them to go? I can try to honor the dead myself, but it's probably going to go to the pug who's about to die 10m away from me, and now I've removed my rapids and am being perma-rooted by talons/bombard/encase and don't have the stamina to get away any more. Your other reason was that classes shouldn't be homogenized, which to players - means that you're OK with sorcs being able to actually gtfo of fights and classes like templars just get rooted, locked down, and die miserably. Thanks buddy, bang-up job.

Your answer to the second question was a tangent about shield stacking and effectiveness overall, but does nothing to address what the reality will be in the next patch in terms of healing being less effective, and shield stacking being far more effective. You've ramped up numbers, don't want to touch HP pools, and reduced the effectiveness of healing in many places, and we have to wait at LEAST 5 months before you make tweaks to this (because you want to wait until DB patch)?

Ravenfrost

@ZOS
As player who has played a sorc since day one of release and also has played a pet sorc in pvp for a long duration in the past, I was very excited when I heard about the new change to the Twilight Matriarch for heals, but then I read more and the new change for volatile familiar and it is terrible. 3 Damage pulses and a stun is not what I want from my pet.

If you were able to control you pets properly in the past using your passive and aggressive pet keys, then you could use this pet to do many things and the pet explosion was a great option to be able to have to interrupt when you want it to or stun a group of players. It was also a great option to throw in for aoeing with a group. You need to be able to make your pet explode when you want it to, it was a great option. The new changes to CP would make the current volatile familiar(non-pts version) a viable build again. This new change is no good for PvP pet sorcs.

You've completely removed any chance that I will play pet sorc again in pvp now. I really enjoyed the build in the past. Leave the volatile familiar pet as it is in non-pts. If you must change it to your newly designed morph, make the new option a 3rd ability morph, but PLEASE do not change how the current volatile familiar pet works!!!

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Brrrofski

Missed it, how long do they usually take until it's up on YouTube?

WolfingHour

Nothing on Siphoning Attacks...

Still, great show. Everyone was much more assertive and on point, which made it possible to go through a whole bunch of topic. Keep it up @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @Wrobel

WalkingLegacy

WolfingHour wrote: »

Nothing on Siphoning Attacks...

Still, great show. Everyone was much more assertive and on point, which made it possible to go through a whole bunch of topic. Keep it up @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @Wrobel

Great show? Great show on showcasing their ineptitude on how to make an MMO maybe.

ZOS_GinaBruno

Brrrofski wrote: »

Missed it, how long do they usually take until it's up on YouTube?

We'll have the recording on YouTube early next week, but in the meantime you can watch the recording from Twitch here: http://www.twitch.tv/zenimaxonlinestudios/v/44145484

DarkJaggered

Brrrofski wrote: »

Missed it, how long do they usually take until it's up on YouTube?

Try youtube right now.. Shawn brunelle has it up

Docmandu

Seasons and AP cap... djeez... where's my friggin' clue bat!

Brutusmax1mus

Dks and sorcs are all we are going to see now

RAGUNAnoOne

will Wrobel actually grow a pair and answer these questions himself as the title says instead of hiding behind his scapegoat Gina like a damn coward? This is one of the biggest things that is lowering my opinion of him.

Zyle

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_BrianWheeler @ZOS_RichLambert @Wrobel

Let's talk about AP since Eric can't seem to get it.

1. VR16 Happens
2. You don't scale the PvP vendor bags
3. Loads of time go by while refusing to provide any answers to people asking if this will scale or not. KaiSchober even confirms 6 sets are planned to be scaled. We have hope when an Eric Wrobel Q&A thread pops up. Naturally with so much time gone by and nothing to spend it on a lot of people have accumulated quite a bit of AP. The only reason we have so much AP is because we don't have anything meaningful to spend it on.
4. Eric tells us because we have so much AP that he doesn't want to scale the sets in fear of people being able to purchase everything at once. The only reason we have so much AP is because Eric didn't scale the sets from the beginning.

This is not fair, you are punishing people who played PvP and earned AP fairly but didn't have squat to spend it on.

So the reason I tagged you all is because it's very clear Wrobel isn't going to approach this situation fairly and plans to punish the players for literally doing nothing wrong.

What does ZOS want us to spend AP on?

I'm not a fan of grossly overpriced Motifs, so no go there.

Even with your recent estimate of top players making 32k AP/hr, that still leaves a massive amount of AP left over even if that person were to buy the 200k AP undaunted helm/shoulders weekly.

nimander99

They are nerfing Breath of Life to reduce server load in pvp. That's why they won't back down from this change.

bowmanz607

Brutusmax1mus wrote: »

Dks and sorcs are all we are going to see now

Not me. Stam nb all the way. Played it since beta when it was at its worse and will continue to do so now. I am happy because now ppl can stop sending me hate tells for killing them with fotm. No when I woop that *** they will have no excuse and can crawl back in their hole and cry. Now all you posers get off my class.

technohic

I think the focus on the BOL nerf really detracts from the real issue. In fact; I think the changes they have made to Templar this patch are mostly not bad with a couple of pointless ones, and a bad one in reducing healing of jabs. Its really what was not done.

Shield is still grossly awful in PvP which wouldn't be such a big deal if you had an escape or some other good defensive ability. You don't.

The ultimates still suck outside of Nova and there are better options than Nova at that.

Still bugged and worthless abilities in charge or CC giving eclipse which could be great but just are not there yet.

You can still make a decent magicka templar but there is just so much QOL that they whiffed on and seem to have no sense to even be looking at it.

Stikato

These guys should just stop doing ESO Live at this point. If they aren't going to balance the game, just stop talking about it. You are just pissing people off.

bennett.zuritaub17_ESO

@ZOS_BrianWheeler @Wrobel

Consider this as constructive criticism, I would like to have the vampire mist restored to its original form. It was faster and natural healing occurred while in mist form.

NewBlacksmurf

Stikato wrote: »

These guys should just stop doing ESO Live at this point. If they aren't going to balance the game, just stop talking about it. You are just pissing people off.

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david.haypreub18_ESO

It is funny that Eric talked about Templars being able to 'protect their house'.

There is nothing in the Templar arsenal to prevent anyone from waltzing right in through the front door, wiping their muddy boots on the living room sofa, and punching the Templar directly in the nuts.

slumber_sandb16_ESO

Brutusmax1mus wrote: »

Magicka Dks and sorcs are all we are going to see now

Fixed it.

RoxyPhoenix

I can see the rise of magicka dk, perma wings now cus of no more ping pong, and meteor spam will be new meta

Paulhewhewria

Stikato wrote: »

These guys should just stop doing ESO Live at this point. If they aren't going to balance the game, just stop talking about it. You are just pissing people off.

This is about where I'm at too since in my opinion they have no idea what balance/what people want.I have nothing againest Mr.Wrobel,but I just can't for the life of me see his way of thought.To put it bluntly he and his team just can't seem to find a healthy medium for balance.They either completely miss the mark or go way too far.I understand completely that they can't make everyone happy,but making a huge or little no change for a 3 to 4 month time-frame where things remain either broken or op is going too far.I pray that Mr.Wrobel and his team finds a healthy balance,but currently in my opinion he and his team don't seem to understand what their either doing or don't care whats needed.