PTS Patch Notes v2.7.0 (Homestead)

nordsavage · January 2017

One of the worst sets of changes to come about. Hidden under all that fluff and more grinds. GG ZOS.

JasonSilverSpring · January 2017

EldritchPenguin wrote: »

Pirsius wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, ORSINIUM DLC GAME PACK
Exploration & Itemization
General
Fixed an issue where Nirnroot and Water Hyacinth would incorrectly appear as pools of water in Wrothgar.

Adjusted the distribution of Maelstrom weapons obtained from the Maelstrom Arena via the Leaderboards and drops.
Previously, this was divided evenly by weapon category (Destruction Staff, Two Hand, etc). Now, it is based on the individual item type (Dagger, One Handed Sword, etc), and all damage weapons within the item type have an equal probability to drop.

In addition, when a Dual Wield weapon is awarded, you will receive two Dual Wield weapons.

We also slightly reduced the drop chance for Healing Staves, Bows, and One Hand and Shields.

So... I'm confused. All weapons have an equal chance, yet you also reduced the chance on specific weapons. You either just contradicted yourself or I'm reading this wrong.

I assume that means that they reduced the chance on those weapons in order to make them all equal.

It says all weapons of one type have equal chance which leaves possibility that bows drop less than two handed for example. But all two handed will drop equally.

FriedEggSandwich · January 2017

Maximum stored ulti reduced to 500 from 1000 is a nasty little sorc nerf for pve. Force Pulse being unreflectable is ok I guess, a slight pvp buff. 25% more damage to atronach is nice. That's about it for most sorcs. Not sure how I feel about the destro passive that makes block cost magicka, I never had an issue with it costing stam tbh.

Gamer1986PAN · January 2017

DKsUnite wrote: »

themdogesbite wrote: »

Actually not scared shitless from this!

rejoice however! DKs need to be out of magicka and health to be viable at healing now instead of just out of the health!

And need a higher Magica-Pool as well... i guess i go for the green Morph now, bye bye 8% more healing received...

AzraelKrieg · January 2017

silvereyes wrote: »

So ... where are the quality of life improvements for guild management? Guild bank tabs? More permissions options? Fixing kiosk bid spying?

Very disappointed.

Kiosk bid spying shouldn't be happening as you can only see the current bid if you have the Hire Guild Traders permission.

maboleth · January 2017

^^ Maybe I'm missing here, but I thought Force Pulse was already non reflective?

JKith · January 2017

Overall I'm liking the proposed changes, but will have to test!!

Notably,
Destro Staff magic passives
Frost magicka tanks (cool!)
Slightly better vMA drops (Thank you!!)

Domander · January 2017

I'm excited about the frost staff blocking changes, love it.

philrsx · January 2017

@ZOS_GinaBruno can you tell us in how many hours will PTS be online? Maybe a guess? So we can do other things while we wait for it and not desperately refresh this page?

Abeille · January 2017

So, I suppose the update isn't being pushed to the PTS today?

StereoLiz · January 2017

Frost staff changes looks interesting, but what abbout endless block builds?
1. Get high stam and magicka regen
2. Equip 1h and shield and frost staff.
3. Stand in block with shield until you run out of stamina
4. Weapon swap and stand in block with frost staff until you run out of magicka

Another cancer build opportunity here.

magnusthorek · January 2017

Lots of fixing, lots of ***, not much buffs (especially for us, Magicka) but not a word about:

- Auto-sheating weapons right after entering combat;
- Unsheating without necessity;
- Double bar swaps, screw those with minimum of 200 ping;
- NPCs taking several minutes to load because game still loading tons of styles and costumes of the huge number of players in big centers;
- People being still allowed to Duel near wayshrines, slowing even more our readiness;
- Heck... Even DK's broken chains that don't work saying target is of level too high or too low (specially annoying in Blessed Crucible) was ignored.

My biggest concern though is burn 4kk in a mansion I won't be allowed to decorate as much (I'm very perfectionist) as I want because you've added limits?! C'mon! This is utterly stupid!

Etaniel · January 2017

shadoza wrote: »

Not me. I felt I was in a good place with a little over 200K. I will not live so long as to get the high end homes as it has taken a couple years to get the 200k.

Seriously? I just made a new char on na, and got 200k gold in less than 2 weeks, simply by vendoring the crap i looted from grinding.....

Blackfyre20 · January 2017

I do love the housing prices. Makes houses affordable for pretty much everyone and still makes the larger ones more rare. I say that as someone who will be able to afford one medium house somewhere probably.

LittlePumpkin030 · January 2017

philrsx wrote: »

LittlePumpkin030 wrote: »

shadoza wrote: »

White wabbit wrote: »

No stam nightblade nerf guess still be wearing heavy then

Why do you want a stamina based nightblade nerffed? I can barely beat some of the PvE bosses with what I have.

MercTheMage wrote: »

Are you *** serious?? How many people actually have 4m gold

Not me. I felt I was in a good place with a little over 200K. I will not live so long as to get the high end homes as it has taken a couple years to get the 200k.

I have 1 million on my bank account. Get a trading guild and everything is solved

No it is not solved, you have to spend countless hours farming for motifs or sets or rare drops or even fishing to have stuff worth selling and then waiting for someone willing to buy your stuff. I have 1.1m gold in bank and it took me over 1 year to get it. The thing is ZO$ wants you to buy crowns and that is it. They don't care if you can't afford it or if you need to have a real life.

Or guess what, you actually play the game...

Mettaricana · January 2017

IIIIIICCCCCCEEEE MAGICKA STAFF TANKING YAAAAAAAASSSSSS *incomprehensible screaming anf squealing*

philrsx · January 2017

LittlePumpkin030 wrote: »

philrsx wrote: »

LittlePumpkin030 wrote: »

shadoza wrote: »

White wabbit wrote: »

No stam nightblade nerf guess still be wearing heavy then

Why do you want a stamina based nightblade nerffed? I can barely beat some of the PvE bosses with what I have.

MercTheMage wrote: »

Are you *** serious?? How many people actually have 4m gold

Not me. I felt I was in a good place with a little over 200K. I will not live so long as to get the high end homes as it has taken a couple years to get the 200k.

I have 1 million on my bank account. Get a trading guild and everything is solved

No it is not solved, you have to spend countless hours farming for motifs or sets or rare drops or even fishing to have stuff worth selling and then waiting for someone willing to buy your stuff. I have 1.1m gold in bank and it took me over 1 year to get it. The thing is ZO$ wants you to buy crowns and that is it. They don't care if you can't afford it or if you need to have a real life.

Or guess what, you actually play the game...

Like what doing quests?

Good luck getting gold from that to be able to afford the large houses...

Kadoozy · January 2017

Valen_Byte wrote: »

WTF is wrong with you Zo$

You call this the magic patch. You said you would give mag users a buff. You lied.

I am now completely convinced that wroble only plays stamina builds. GG ***

Destro ult is still OP. just spam that like 95% of mag builds

StereoLiz wrote: »

Frost staff changes looks interesting, but what abbout endless block builds?
1. Get high stam and magicka regen
2. Equip 1h and shield and frost staff.
3. Stand in block with shield until you run out of stamina
4. Weapon swap and stand in block with frost staff until you run out of magicka

Another cancer build opportunity here.

Thats the thing though, magicka regens while blocking, if this isn't addressed, welcome to permablocking meta.

Thealteregoroman · January 2017

MrSinister213 · January 2017

I dont know why anybody is surprised. This game has been a joke since 1.6. At least Camelot Unchained Beta is right around the corner.

chaserstorm16909 · January 2017

So no nerf to incap strikes, but strife costs more?

Fudly_budly · January 2017

LittlePumpkin030 wrote: »

shadoza wrote: »

White wabbit wrote: »

No stam nightblade nerf guess still be wearing heavy then

Why do you want a stamina based nightblade nerffed? I can barely beat some of the PvE bosses with what I have.

MercTheMage wrote: »

Are you *** serious?? How many people actually have 4m gold

Not me. I felt I was in a good place with a little over 200K. I will not live so long as to get the high end homes as it has taken a couple years to get the 200k.

I have 1 million on my bank account. Get a trading guild and everything is solved

Cresting 4 mill myself and I'm poor in my guild. Home pricing is ok. Home locations are underwhelming for the most part but notes are vague. Does seem like some utility to homes other than RP though. Master writs will take some time to figure out.

Domander · January 2017

Jaronking wrote: »

This change to frost staff is about to break magic builds in pvp

Tri Focus:
This passive ability now taunts the enemy after you use a fully-charged Frost Heavy Attack.
This passive ability now causes your block to drain Magicka (instead of Stamina) and stops your Magicka Recovery (instead of Stamina Recovery) while blocking when you have a Frost Destruction Staff equipped.
Ancient Knowledge: This passive ability no longer decreases the cast time of your Destruction Staff Heavy Attacks by 5/10%. Instead, it grants you a bonus as long as you have one Destruction Staff ability slotted. This bonus depends on your staff type:
Flame Staves: Increases your single-target damage dealt by 4/8%.
Frost Staves: Increases the amount of damage you Block by 10/20%, and reduces the cost of Block by 15/30%.
Lightning Staves: Increases your Area of Effect damage dealt by 4/8%.

I doubt it will "break" anything since it stops magicka regen, also remember blocking with a damage shield does nothing to reduce damage (to the shield) but still costs and shuts down regen. What the change does is open up some new playstyles, which I think is great.

maboleth · January 2017

Thealteregoroman wrote: »

Looks like salty infernal guardian player. :P

thankyourat · January 2017

Can force shock still be dodged since it's a beam now and not a projectile

LittlePumpkin030 · January 2017

MrSinister213 wrote: »

I dont know why anybody is surprised. This game has been a joke since 1.6. At least Camelot Unchained Beta is right around the corner.

Why are you playing it then?

Alaztor91 · January 2017

Why are there zero changes to light and medium armor passives? Do you really think they are on par with heavy armor?(pvp wise)

Frost stave changes look interesting, but seriously, do you want everyone running heavy armor?

Thraben · January 2017

So in short Zenimax is telling us:

We are aware of the issue that PvP groups stack templars with destro ulti instead of using any skill or tactics, and we adress it by strengthening the destro ulti, abolishing the existing AoE cap, and of course by allowing Healing Ritual to be used without movement restriction ?

Wow!

philrsx · January 2017

And there it goes my dreams of being a land lord... I guess I'm gonna have to buy one large home and start saving gold all over again. I'll probably be able to afford 1 large house every year...

Valen_Byte · January 2017

Kadoozy wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

WTF is wrong with you Zo$

You call this the magic patch. You said you would give mag users a buff. You lied.

I am now completely convinced that wroble only plays stamina builds. GG ***

Destro ult is still OP. just spam that like 95% of mag builds

StereoLiz wrote: »

Frost staff changes looks interesting, but what abbout endless block builds?
1. Get high stam and magicka regen
2. Equip 1h and shield and frost staff.
3. Stand in block with shield until you run out of stamina
4. Weapon swap and stand in block with frost staff until you run out of magicka

Another cancer build opportunity here.

Thats the thing though, magicka regens while blocking, if this isn't addressed, welcome to permablocking meta.

Im surprised they didnt move the destro ult to the first slot of all stam builds. They literally turned the ice staff into a stam weapon. Any stam player that isnt running an ice staff after the next patch is an idiot. Thanks for the magica love zo$.