PTS Patch Notes v2.7.1

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OVERVIEW
The Elder Scrolls Online v2.7.1 is the first incremental patch for the PTS that mainly focuses on fixing issues surrounding our player housing system including homes, furnishings, and the housing editor. Please note that we’re still evaluating our recent balance changes in regards to classes and combat, and plan to make adjustments based on data and your feedback in next week’s patch. You can expect the size of this patch to be approximately 145MB.


FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, DARK BROTHERHOOD DLC GAME PACK

• Exploration & Itemization

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

• Art & Animation
• Combat & Gameplay
• Crafting & Economy
• Crown Store & Crown Crates
• Exploration & Itemization
• Housing
• Quests & Zones
• UI

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FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, DARK BROTHERHOOD DLC GAME PACK

Exploration & Itemization
Merchants

• Updated the descriptions for the Dark Ledger and Preserved Sweetrolls items, found on the Achievement Furnisher in the Gold Coast.

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FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Art & Animation
General

• You can now properly dye the Colovian Filigreed Hood and Colovian Fur Hood, obtained from the New Life Festival.
• The claws of Khajiit and Argonian player characters will no longer be removed when wearing boots from the following armor sets:
  • Medium Soul Shriven boots
  • Medium Dark Brotherhood boots
  • Light Skinchanger boots
  • Light Malacath boots

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Combat & Gameplay
General

• Fixed an issue where casting an ability to quickly dismount was not displaying some or all of that ability's visual effects to other player characters.
• Increased the Dual Wield Weapon and Spell Damage penalty by roughly 3%. Weapon and Spell Damage while Dual Wielding (without modifiers) is now equal to using a Two Handed weapon.
  • Note: This change was included in the 2.7.0 patch, but the patch note was unintentionally missed.

Weapons

• Restoration Staff
  • Regeneration: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs were not correctly prioritizing low-health targets that did not already have the Heal over Time applied.

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Crafting & Economy
Crafting

• All purple and gold recipes now confirm your intent when you try to destroy them in your inventory.
• Corrected naming mismatches for a number of crafted furniture items and their recipes.
• Increased the skill and material requirements to make the item Wood Elf Trough, Slop. It's a nice trough, you see.
• Removed a small number of recipes for furnishings not intended to be crafted.
• Removed duplicate wording in a small number of recipes and furnishing names.
• The cooking fire near Donalir in Eyevea can now be used when you are not surrounded by Daedra. It's much safer and easier this way.
• Updated the names on various recipes for Redguard canopies, mats, and runners.
• Updated the basic recipe for a rough military stretcher to involve cloth. Boy, would it be uncomfortable to be carried on a basic wooden rack.

Master Writs

• Fixed an issue where buying something with Master Writ Vouchers would not update the total in the store UI.
• Fixed an issue where Enchanting Master Writs invitations were requiring the Aspect Improvement passive instead of the intended Potency Improvement.
• Fixed an issue causing the reward for all Master Writ quests to be reduced to 1 Writ Voucher.
• Fixed an issue where crafting a poison Master Writ would not cause the quest to advance.
• Removed an unattainable style motif from potential equipment Master Writs invitations.
• Slightly increased the odds in receiving Blacksmithing, Clothier, and Woodworking Master Writs.
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause a Master Alchemy Writ invitation to require an impossible combination of effects.

Survey Reports

• Fixed an error preventing Enchanting and Alchemy Survey Reports from being distributed properly, leading to you being consistently sent to single locations.

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Crown Store & Crown Crates
Personalities

• Commander Personality
  • Robes will no longer distort while walking with this personality.

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Exploration & Itemization
General

• Updated various items, such as raw furnishing crafting materials, to appear in categories more as expected on Guild Traders and other such services.

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where some achievements obtained by placing furnishings in your home would not complete in some cases.
• Adjusted the number of items that must be placed to complete each of the Decorator achievements.

Collectibles

• Updated the Acquire Hint for some Collectibles that could be obtained from various pre-orders, purchases of other products, or contests and giveaways.

Itemization

• Fixed an issue where items in the Lord Warden item set had the incorrect default Enchantment. Heavy items now have Health, Medium items have Stamina, and Light items have Magicka, as with other Monster Mask item sets.
• Fixed an issue where many item sets, including those found on vendors from capturing towns in Cyrodiil, were sourcing Rings and Necklaces at a 50/50 ratio. They are now sourcing Rings more often than Necklaces, as originally intended.
• Fixed an issue where some items in the Shadow Dancer's Raiment item set did not drop with the correct default Enchantment. Weapons in this item set now drop with the Absorb Magicka enchantment.

Merchants

• Updated Fro Snow-Hair's name to Frohilde Snow-Hair. She has grown weary of her childhood nickname, and is trying to be more professional these days.
• Made some minor adjustments to Alchemist merchant offerings so they no longer sell furnishing recipes unrelated to Alchemy.
• Adjusted the positioning of Zanil Theran in the Hollow City of Coldharbour so he no longer bumps into his counter.

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Housing
Furnishings

• Corrected the bind-type on a large number of furnishings.
• Crafting Tables placed in your home will no longer display health bars when targeted, because you can't kill a crafting table…
• Corrected the appearance and description of the "Yokudan Tumbler" accolade item. This has also been renamed to "Yokudan Puzzle Column".
• Added paintings to treasure chests found in the world. They're rare! If you find one, cherish it. Or don't!
• Fixed an issue where some PvP-specific achievement furnishings were displaying as the incorrect alliance.
• Target Skeletons placed in homes will now properly glow yellow and red when appropriate.
• Updated the Bowl of Blood, found on the Achievement Furnisher in Rivenspire. This item is now named "Crimson-Stained Bowl", and has a new description.
• Updated the furnishing "Crafting Station, Enchanting" to match its fellows in visual quality.
• Fixed a number of minor icon issues for some basket and produce box furnishings.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing a small number of furnishings to play their audio when placed in a home.

Homes

• Slightly adjusted the total furnishing count in a number of furnished and unfurnished homes.
• Daggerfall Overlook now has a tower from which you may now look over Daggerfall.
• Fixed an issue causing incorrect text to display in a small number of housing purchase panels.
• Fixed an issue with parts of the sky in Old Mistveil Manor from displaying correctly.
• Adjusted the position of the tree in Velothi Reverie to be more consistent with general overland appearance.
• Patched the roof in Sleek Creek so it will no longer rain inside your home.
• Removed a tree from Quondam Indorilia that could not be adjusted.
• Fixed an issue that allowed placement of objects blocking the Cliffshade home's door.
• Slaughterfish will now appear further out from the property in the Hunding’s Palatial Hall’s waters.
• Fixed an issue that was causing sounds to be quieter than intended when inside homes.
• Earthtear Cavern now has a map for its interior space.
• Added a missing ceiling panel in the Forsaken Stronghold.

Housing Editor

• Clicking in the Housing Editor without a piece of furniture targeted will no longer play a sound.
• There is no longer a slight delay when selecting a piece of furniture inside your house, and the camera will now instantly adjust as expected.
• You can no longer use the Housing Editor while your character is dead.
• While previewing furniture, visual effects will now appear as they will when the furnishing is placed in your home.
• Fixed an issue where you would need to replace lights included in homes upon purchase before they could be interacted with.
• Fixed an issue causing some non-combat pets and assistants to disappear at certain angles in the placement editor.
• Fixed an issue where an empty category could display in the Place screen within the Housing Editor.

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Quests & Zones
Housing

• Fixed an issue where the quest introducing player housing would not advance properly if you already had a furniture item in your inventory when the quest began.

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UI
General

• Fixed an issue where the Join Queue button could get disabled when it should be enabled.
• Removed a duplicate error message from the new Dungeon Finder Ready Check.
• Fixed a UI error that appeared while scrolling through the Crown Store.

TreeHugger1

#1

Mady

You can now properly dye the Colovian Filigreed Hood and Colovian Fur Hood, obtained from the New Life Festival.

Thank you

Pandorii

If the master writs were corrected so that they're no longer only giving 1 writ, does that mean that the merchant will now sell the voucher items at their appropriate price? Previous notes suggested that the reason they were set to 1 voucher was because of that fixed issue.

DPShiro

Increased the Dual Wield Weapon and Spell Damage penalty by roughly 3%. Weapon and Spell Damage while Dual Wielding (without modifiers) is now equal to using a Two Handed weapon.
Note: This change was included in the 2.7.0 patch, but the patch note was unintentionally missed.

What is this??

Koolio

DPShiro wrote: »

Increased the Dual Wield Weapon and Spell Damage penalty by roughly 3%. Weapon and Spell Damage while Dual Wielding (without modifiers) is now equal to using a Two Handed weapon.
Note: This change was included in the 2.7.0 patch, but the patch note was unintentionally missed.

What is this??

"Balance"

dpencil

Interesting change to Dual Wield. I wonder if that will further dissuade magicka classes from running Dual Wield.

Carbonised

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Housing
Homes

• Daggerfall Overlook now has a tower from which you may now look over Daggerfall.]

This is a nice start, does this mean you will look at some of the other homes before you release them? Especially the lack of view, lack of outside space and area outside the houses, and blocked off vistas due to huge walls right outside many houses has been mentioned continuously by many people. Especially the Ebonheart Castle has repeatedly - and rightfully so - been critiqued because of this, as well as the lack of any access to towers or other high viewpoints.

Since Hunding Palace has repeatedly been praised for its vistas, viewpoints, access to balconies and outside space, this might be a good blueprint as to what types of houses most people want and enjoy.

technohic

Little bit of balancing having dual wield match 2H damage. How bout counting weapons that take 2 slots as 2 of a set piece?

Sotha_Sil

REGEN FIXED 8 MONTHS LATER !! ALL PRAISE TALOS! #BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Pandorii

DPShiro wrote: »

Increased the Dual Wield Weapon and Spell Damage penalty by roughly 3%. Weapon and Spell Damage while Dual Wielding (without modifiers) is now equal to using a Two Handed weapon.
Note: This change was included in the 2.7.0 patch, but the patch note was unintentionally missed.

What is this??

And we wanted a dual sword magicka specific skill line or morphs, so we wouldn't be pigeon holed into destro. Instead we get this. Lol

luen79rwb17_ESO

Can't wait to see the new furnishing count...

TequilaFire

Wow every one of my dual wield characters took a hit.
Could not 2H been buffed instead?

Grumble_and_Grunt

Dat DW nerf

driosketch

TequilaFire wrote: »

Wow every one of my dual wield characters took a hit.
Could not 2H been buffed instead?

That might have been the better approach. Outside of PvP, or solo questing, half the time my characters are now dual weiders, both magicka and stamina builds.

Dracane

Am I misreading, or are they really buffing dual wield ?

ZOS_GinaBruno

Pandorii wrote: »

If the master writs were corrected so that they're no longer only giving 1 writ, does that mean that the merchant will now sell the voucher items at their appropriate price? Previous notes suggested that the reason they were set to 1 voucher was because of that fixed issue.

The pricing with the merchant will be updated in next week's PTS patch.

React

Not sure how I feel about that DW change. I guess we will see how it goes. Very excited to see how the balance feedback was interpreted by ZOS though. Hoping for the best.

Ralen

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*]Daggerfall Overlook now has a tower from which you may now look over Daggerfall.

Hi Zenimax ! Hi @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom !

First of all you did an amazing job with Homestead, thank you very much !

... BUT ...

Can you please reconsider the Ebonheart Chateau ? I visited the three other manor and large homes and I noticed with astonishment how much better they are !

• Hunding's Palatial Hall (which is assumed to be smaller and less attractive) is FAR better : large outdoor areas , sandy beach , personal lighthouse and suspended terrace
  
• Serenity Falls Estate is also a far better manor : extra large outdoor areas , biggest stables than any other homes , and the cherry on the cake : waterfall and river
  
• Even the Daggerfall Overlook have great outdoors and a secret passage to escape... And now A TOWER !

Sadly, the great Ebonheart Chateau has none of that : small outdoors , small stables, and no place from where to admire the ash horizon or the summit of the Ash Mountain... It could have biggest outdoors and why not a pretty little terrace in font of the sea, like the Plantation Point Overlook (where you can find M'aiq) near from Fort Zeren in Bal Foyen.

So please Zenimax, offer the Ebonheart Chateau a small improvement to bring it to the same level of attractiveness as the other manors and large house.

Thank you to ear the dunmer request

Dymence

Dracane wrote: »

Am I misreading, or are they really buffing dual wield ?

You are misreading, it is getting nerfed to the level of two handed weapons (not staves).

Used to be:

DW > 2H > Staves

Now:

DW = 2H > Staves

That is in raw spell damage, not counting passives here.

Xvorg

dpencil wrote: »

Interesting change to Dual Wield. I wonder if that will further dissuade magicka classes from running Dual Wield.

They are trying to make the difference between stam and magicka even greater that it was

Neoauspex

Dracane wrote: »

Am I misreading, or are they really buffing dual wield ?

Definitely don't think it's a buff, increasing a penalty. What penalty is this @ZOS_GinaBruno? I didn't know there was a weapon/spell damage penalty for duel wielding.