Tanking PSA for Players Who Don't Want to Use the Utterly Useless Maelstrom Shield (or Sword)

Personofsecrets

Greetings everyone. By that I mean greetings to all of you tanks out there on NA who don't know what the heck to do with your gear. Here is a quick and somewhat painless option for gearing up your tank and not having to use the terrible maelstrom tanking sword and board which somehow passed the review of @ZOS_RichLambert and @Wrobel .

Instead of using those lame maelstrom items who only 1 out of 9001 people like (im overestimating the number of people that like that set by the way) you can use the following items.



You can get the set pictured on the left from rewards of the worthy. Just keep looting rewards, deconstructing them, and relog in order to get more rewards and chances for a transmutation shield/weapon/jewelry. You can find the pact (or dominion/covenant) set from your local cyrodiil vendor.

And that concludes this episode of tanking fails. Good luck finding those Kura and always stay blocking.

Personofsecrets

Oh, and for those of you who don't know, I will say the following.

The devs decided to only give tanks maelstrom shields for their shield slot. This applies to all NA players at the moment as we can only make template characters. There is no histbark shield, no endurance/agility/willpower shield, but only the bloody maelstrom shield. Way to rub our noses in it... Such poor itemization for any group that needs their tank in their tip top shape.

Edit:

I also may add that there is no lunar bastion or ebon jewelry and that is also bad for optimizing a tank based on what is in those coffers. Heck, they didn't even give us pariah to replace footman (not that anyone should be using either of those sets, especially not pariah).

Paulhewhewria

I don't tank,but I'm getting the sense that ZOS thinks tanks aren't needed JK

Personofsecrets

I just don't get the PTS coffers. I'm sure that even DPS would want to try out the 5 % extra damage against bosses, but how do they use without jewelry?

krees28b14_ESO

Personofsecrets wrote: »

I just don't get the PTS coffers. I'm sure that even DPS would want to try out the 5 % extra damage against bosses, but how do they use without jewelry?

Coffers????? I made a character last night and spent 30 minutes collecting all the reward for the worthy mails they kept sending.

ZoS... I understand you want to make sure the mail system for the reward works... but DAMN!!!!! Put that stuff in the bags and let us open them at will. Send the jewelry, soul gems, gold... something like that if you want to see the mail working. Or, give us an option to loot everything from the mail. (If that is already in game or an addon that miraculously works on pts, I missed it) How about just doing that on the first character we make on the pts instead of every single one.

ThatNeonZebraAgain

Yea I was really frustrated (though not surprised) by the lack of tanking gear and jewelry available on PTS. I found other sets coming in shield slot of Reward bags too, including Vicious death, Leki's, Marksman, and Fasalla's (also got 1h weapons in those sets as well).

Essiaga

Personofsecrets wrote: »

Greetings everyone. By that I mean greetings to all of you tanks out there on NA who don't know what the heck to do with your gear. Here is a quick and somewhat painless option for gearing up your tank and not having to use the terrible maelstrom tanking sword and board which somehow passed the review of @ZOS_RichLambert and @Wrobel .

Instead of using those lame maelstrom items who only 1 out of 9001 people like (im overestimating the number of people that like that set by the way) you can use the following items.



You can get the set pictured on the left from rewards of the worthy. Just keep looting rewards, deconstructing them, and relog in order to get more rewards and chances for a transmutation shield/weapon/jewelry. You can find the pact (or dominion/covenant) set from your local cyrodiil vendor.

And that concludes this episode of tanking fails. Good luck finding those Kura and always stay blocking.

Um. What's a tank?

Sallington

For the love of all things holy ZOS, just freaking update all the VR14 PvP vendor gear to VR16 already.

All of your excuses are bad, and you should feel bad.

Dagoth_Rac

Sallington wrote: »

For the love of all things holy ZOS, just freaking update all the VR14 PvP vendor gear to VR16 already.

All of your excuses are bad, and you should feel bad.

The VR14 Vendor gear dates back to when the game required a subscription. Want to go up to a vendor and buy best-in-slot gear? That used to be fine because you had to be a subscriber to even get in game and they knew they were getting their $15/month out of player. But with no subscription required, why in the world would they upgrade all the vendor gear to VR16? You don't need a subscription to earn AP. You don't need to buy DLC to earn AP or access Cyrodiil vendors.

They are not running this game out of the goodness of their heart. It is a business. You are welcome to hate the B2P change and wish they had kept the required subscription. But as long as the subscription is optional, ZOS have to incentivize people to subscribe or buy DLC. And the only incentive that really works in an MMO is better stats (which is exactly what the the requested VR14 to VR16 update would provide).

Sallington

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Sallington wrote: »

For the love of all things holy ZOS, just freaking update all the VR14 PvP vendor gear to VR16 already.

All of your excuses are bad, and you should feel bad.

The VR14 Vendor gear dates back to when the game required a subscription. Want to go up to a vendor and buy best-in-slot gear? That used to be fine because you had to be a subscriber to even get in game and they knew they were getting their $15/month out of player. But with no subscription required, why in the world would they upgrade all the vendor gear to VR16? You don't need a subscription to earn AP. You don't need to buy DLC to earn AP or access Cyrodiil vendors.

They are not running this game out of the goodness of their heart. It is a business. You are welcome to hate the B2P change and wish they had kept the required subscription. But as long as the subscription is optional, ZOS have to incentivize people to subscribe or buy DLC. And the only incentive that really works in an MMO is better stats (which is exactly what the the requested VR14 to VR16 update would provide).

Another reason why the game was better off being subscription only. B2P/F2P makes every single one of their decisions "how will this make us money" instead of "how does this improve the game to keep people subscribed".

Minno

Sallington wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Sallington wrote: »

For the love of all things holy ZOS, just freaking update all the VR14 PvP vendor gear to VR16 already.

All of your excuses are bad, and you should feel bad.

The VR14 Vendor gear dates back to when the game required a subscription. Want to go up to a vendor and buy best-in-slot gear? That used to be fine because you had to be a subscriber to even get in game and they knew they were getting their $15/month out of player. But with no subscription required, why in the world would they upgrade all the vendor gear to VR16? You don't need a subscription to earn AP. You don't need to buy DLC to earn AP or access Cyrodiil vendors.

They are not running this game out of the goodness of their heart. It is a business. You are welcome to hate the B2P change and wish they had kept the required subscription. But as long as the subscription is optional, ZOS have to incentivize people to subscribe or buy DLC. And the only incentive that really works in an MMO is better stats (which is exactly what the the requested VR14 to VR16 update would provide).

Another reason why the game was better off being subscription only. B2P/F2P makes every single one of their decisions "how will this make us money" instead of "how does this improve the game to keep people subscribed".

And if they fixed the fps issue in cyro and bug with final questline in a week instead of 3 months they wouldn't have lost those subs in the first place.

Personofsecrets

"The developers need to make money and therefore should design aspects of the game in an anti-consumer way."