Homestead on the PTS

Glaiceana

Awesome news! While I don't play on the PTS, I will be reading the patch notes and everyone's posts/videos on housing for sure!

Nifty2g

I'm ready to be salty

SickDuck

Darkheart wrote: »

House pricing is the first thing i'm most interested in. And then how furniture can be crafted and it all works.

As much as I'm excited about house prices, I wouldn't be surprised if they were sold for 1 gold a piece in PTS. Let the hype carry on!

O-Los_Zulis

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Sigma957 wrote: »

Awesome can't wait to see what things have changed and to test housing in all it's intricate wonders @ZOS_GinaBruno how big will the download be?

It'll be around 4GB.

Once this goes live, I hope you don't dump the whole 4gb on us all at once. Is the plan is to push some of the fixed datasets out to live client before the release date? Some MMO's 'patchers' do this in the 'background' as you are playing.

Nifty2g

O-Los_Zulis wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Sigma957 wrote: »

Awesome can't wait to see what things have changed and to test housing in all it's intricate wonders @ZOS_GinaBruno how big will the download be?

It'll be around 4GB.

Once this goes live, I hope you don't dump the whole 4gb on us all at once. Is the plan is to push some of the fixed datasets out to live client before the release date? Some MMO's 'patchers' do this in the 'background' as you are playing.

Probably because of how big Housing is going to be.

Paulington

O-Los_Zulis wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Sigma957 wrote: »

Awesome can't wait to see what things have changed and to test housing in all it's intricate wonders @ZOS_GinaBruno how big will the download be?

It'll be around 4GB.

Once this goes live, I hope you don't dump the whole 4gb on us all at once. Is the plan is to push some of the fixed datasets out to live client before the release date? Some MMO's 'patchers' do this in the 'background' as you are playing.

Patching is always the same, you will get the full 4GB at once as usually happens unless ZOS want to try something new.

Thankfully it's around 4GB this time instead of 10+ GB. .

Tyrion87

Nifty2g wrote: »

O-Los_Zulis wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Sigma957 wrote: »

Awesome can't wait to see what things have changed and to test housing in all it's intricate wonders @ZOS_GinaBruno how big will the download be?

It'll be around 4GB.

Once this goes live, I hope you don't dump the whole 4gb on us all at once. Is the plan is to push some of the fixed datasets out to live client before the release date? Some MMO's 'patchers' do this in the 'background' as you are playing.

Probably because of how big Housing is going to be.

This is not housing but the nerfs that weigh a lot

Edrein

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

TotallyNotVos wrote: »

Is the balance patch also being included in this pts?

Yup!

I've just finally been able to make a forum account; is the balance patch going to include 'ice magic' (AKA: The datamined readding of the Warden class skill lines?). I love the game but I'm rather sick of the four current classes and would love to change it up.

Fudly_budly

So excited about housing that I downloaded PTS and played for a few hours yesterday even though Homestead is not there yet. To any player thinking about getting involved in the PTS when Homestead drops I just wanted to give you some detail.
Suggest:
- use the drop-down at the top left of character build screen. Doing so means you will arrive in game with Uber gold, Mega crowns, more motifs, mats, potions, and crown boosts than you can hold in your inventory and/or bank.
- expand both of these two maximum. Even doing that you still will not have enough space to unlock all of the character options and buffs available to you.
- the world into which you are dropped is unknown to you so you can't just pop through wayshrines to anywhere that you want to go. Look for the little "covered wagon" icon on your map to make it easier to get where you want to go quickly. Even so, expect to do a little running so invest all of the crown riding lessons early on. For example, I wanted to get to malabal tor. To do so I had to use the navigator "covered wagon" in Wayrest to get to Grahtwood and then jump another navigator to malabal tor and then mount my horse and run to the Bandari trading center.

Hope these tips help any fellow PTS noobs.

Abeille

Edrein wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

TotallyNotVos wrote: »

Is the balance patch also being included in this pts?

Yup!

I've just finally been able to make a forum account; is the balance patch going to include 'ice magic' (AKA: The datamined readding of the Warden class skill lines?). I love the game but I'm rather sick of the four current classes and would love to change it up.

A new class wouldn't be added through a balance patch like this. It's too big of a deal.

blur

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

TotallyNotVos wrote: »

Is the balance patch also being included in this pts?

Yup!

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Could you put up the PTS notes today instead of waiting until we can log into the PTS and figure it out for ourselves? It kind of defeats the purpose.

ManwithBeard9

Nifty2g wrote: »

I'm ready to be salty

When arent you salty?

ManwithBeard9

blur wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

TotallyNotVos wrote: »

Is the balance patch also being included in this pts?

Yup!

@ZOS_GinaBruno
Could you put up the PTS notes today instead of waiting until we can log into the PTS and figure it out for ourselves? It kind of defeats the purpose.

Theyve addressed this before, they wont put up patch notes until they have everything that would be listed properly loaded in. In the event that something they in PTS wont load properly, they can remove it and rework it for the next PTS update.

ParaNostram

Coming in this month's balance patches, calling it now, they're nerfing magicka sorcs because people complained about stamina sorcs.

prototypefb

any chance you can change battle spirit in cyrodiil to toggleable buff with 3(or more) choices( only 1 can be active at the time), like sigils in maelstrom arena, on top of 50% outgoing damage decrease for every1

options e.g
1) reduce your damage vs players by further 20% but increase all recoveries by 35%, increase all stats by 10%, reduce critical damage received
2) increase your healing by 20% and shield strenghts by 10%, decrease incomming damage by 5%, decrease damage done by 20%, increase all recoveries by 20%
3) increase your damage by 10%, decrease your recoveries by 20%, increase your ulti regeneration by 1p/s in combat , increase your crit damage by 10%, increase sneak damage by 10%

would help to differentiate holy trinity and or allow some more hybrid builds

bebynnag

I really hope that part of the balance update will be that daggers increase spell crit as well as weapon crit.... the fact that i have 2 sharpened daggers from the set i have been farming and no sharpend sword is a complete coincidence!

Cinbri

puffytheslayer wrote: »

I really hope that part of the balance update will be that daggers increase spell crit as well as weapon crit.... the fact that i have 2 sharpened daggers from the set i have been farming and no sharpend sword is a complete coincidence!

I hope all dual wield will become usefull for magicka users.

bebynnag

Cinbri wrote: »

puffytheslayer wrote: »

I really hope that part of the balance update will be that daggers increase spell crit as well as weapon crit.... the fact that i have 2 sharpened daggers from the set i have been farming and no sharpend sword is a complete coincidence!

I hope all dual wield will become usefull for magicka users.

true!

disintegr8

Tyrion87 wrote: »

Reco wrote: »

Will the "balancing" mean I shouldn't bother with monster sets anymore? If the "proc sets" dont crit even in PvE, why should I slot two pieces of them? I can go for 5+5+1 (Mael weapon) and it'll be more interesting. Good bye Undaunted dailies.

If there is nothing to compensate the loss of crit from monster sets in PvE, I will totally go for 5+5+1. The answer to this should be in the patch notes so let's wait for them to be 100% sure.

I'm interested to see how this goes also, as someone who has never bothered with the monster proc sets. I have just kitted out my newest character with 5+5+1 and am very happy with the results in PVE.

Xeroxed

In a way I'm dreading the fact that this is so fast after the holidays - it feels like they're rushing things when I'd rather they take their time to do them better out of the gate. Too many lingering bugs that I have no clue as to whether they're working on them or even have them on their radar (like my Heavy Belt of the Pariah STILL not showing up at all when my character is wearing it, and I sent in a bug report ages ago I thought). I know that a steady flow of new content is important to keep a strong player base and all, it's just REALLY hard to keep the faith right now between their Crown Store decisions as of late and rather obvious bugs that have been around for ages that haven't been addressed (like the one where the character model runs on top of the mount at times? I mean c'mon).

That said I'm looking forward to seeing the housing system, hopefully they won't disappoint with this one.

Elsonso

Xeroxed wrote: »

In a way I'm dreading the fact that this is so fast after the holidays - it feels like they're rushing things when I'd rather they take their time to do them better out of the gate. Too many lingering bugs that I have no clue as to whether they're working on them or even have them on their radar (like my Heavy Belt of the Pariah STILL not showing up at all when my character is wearing it, and I sent in a bug report ages ago I thought). I know that a steady flow of new content is important to keep a strong player base and all, it's just REALLY hard to keep the faith right now between their Crown Store decisions as of late and rather obvious bugs that have been around for ages that haven't been addressed (like the one where the character model runs on top of the mount at times? I mean c'mon).

That said I'm looking forward to seeing the housing system, hopefully they won't disappoint with this one.

They were ready before the end of the year. They simply put Homestead on the shelf until they got back to full strength after the holidays. My guess is that if it had not been for holidays, they would have dropped it on PTS a week or two ago.

f047ys3v3n

I feel a little like a kid on Christmas. Please be a lego set please be a lego set, please don't be sweater.

I'm excited to pick out my house, have a dps test dummy for the first time since Ninglenele to answer some of the questions I have about the new item sets, and see if those proc sets are going to be worth a darn (being a magica NB I really doubt it).

My wish list:
-Please end Cheat engine
-Please fix useful weapon drop rates for the new sets and for vMA / vDSA
-Please make infal proc for all heavy and light attacks and only proc once for shock staves.
-Now that we have a reason to use it please automatically switch pts over every week from EU to NA and back and grab new account images each week so that it becomes a valuable theory crafting tool.
-Storage and quick change dummies (hit button to drop off a whole gear set or pick one up) in housing.

exiledtyrant

Eager to see what the balance team has cooked up for 2017. They have made so many great improvements over the years, and have managed some of the fastest response to player feedback I've seen in a long while. Here's to hoping for a new build to be excited about and some actual content to use it in.

James-Wayne

Keen to see the changes to cold skills and how viable it will be....

Plus seeing this is the housing update can't wait to see the Templar House skill changes, this is our patch!

Natas013

Unless mirage/evasion and morphs have the same duration as shields, I call BS on balance

Cinbri

James-Wayne wrote: »

Plus seeing this is the housing update can't wait to see the Templar House skill changes, this is our patch!

I hope too that Homestead update will allow templars to finally build their small portable house anywhere in Cyro.

Hellsbunnies

Do we have a time for the PTS update? Will it be after the mainenance?

Cinbri

Hellsbunnies wrote: »

Do we have a time for the PTS update? Will it be after the mainenance?

Banner says 10:00AM EST, i.e. pts maintenance will start in 6 hours from this post.

Hellsbunnies

Cinbri wrote: »

Hellsbunnies wrote: »

Do we have a time for the PTS update? Will it be after the mainenance?

Banner says 10:00AM EST, i.e. pts maintenance will start in 6 hours from this post.

What? Am I expected to actually do some work, for the next six hours or something? This is wholly unacceptable!
*flounces*
Cheers mate.

SilentRaven1972

I'm just hoping they use actual pricing, so we know what the cost on Live will be.