What was the funniest Patch Notes part?

jcaceresw

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Vipstaakki wrote: »

jcaceresw wrote: »

That we have to pay for the additional 2 character slots instead of getting them for free considering the high cost of the chapter.

You don't need 12 characters anyway.

I already have 12 characters completely leveled.

Violynne

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I think my favorite part was this:
"We're going to finally give stamBlades more sustain. Right after we nerf the hell out their armor and spells."

I suppose I'll see nothing from stamBlades other than spamming siphon in order to try and recoup the health lost because of the friggin' nerfs.

I picture an office separated by 4 areas at ZoS HQ. Each is labeled "Templar", "DragonKnight", "Nightblade", and "Sorc".

The Sorc area is decorated with intricate gold overlay. Members of this group have their lunches catered on silver platters. There's a giant sign over the area reading "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!"

The NB area is enclosed with cubicles just shy of rotting wood pallets. The windows are cracked, and the only view is of an old factory. Members have to dumpster dive for their lunches, but only after the Sorc group has already eaten. There's a huge sign over their area reading "ONE OF THESE DAYS... PERHAPS."

The DK area is pretty a pretty common sight. Atypical cubicle walls. Lunches are brought in by the group or they go out to McDs. They have no sign, but there are slight moans of agony one can hear if you listen carefully.

The Templar area has recently been revamped, with a new sign: "IF YOU WANT HEALING, GO TO MEDCHECK. WE GOT NOTHING."

Walk past the area and we enter the executive suites. I must say, I didn't think unicorns existed, but there they are, riding them while burning every subscribers money. Each office has the same sign: "A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE AS THEY'LL THROW MONEY AT THE SCREEN."

They're laughing at us right now.

I suppose I should try and be more respectful, but even I can't ignore these changes as being "balanced".

I'm not angry, believe it or not.

I'm literally too stunned to feel any emotion. Even optimism has a limit and these patch notes just kicked the crap right out of it.

Oh, and I should also point out: MORE CP?????????? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS??????????????

GreenSoup2HoT

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The fact everyone didnt see this coming and is upset about it all is pretty laughable. This is what balancing looks like. The game was over inflated with damage and sustain. The sustain took a huge hit, rightfully so. Next on the list in my opinion is changing the monster sets that deal to much damage or offer to much healing/mitigation.

Draqone

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The sweet tears of the forum users were the most fun.

Fishoscandi

The Nightblade nerf

Also removing the stealth dmg bonus on players... Why? Just why? Yes, I heard people can be one shot from stealth by a NB but don't remove the dmg bonus. Decrease it or something. I'll keep playing my stam NB main and just hope I don't get insta kick from dungeons and trials

Shader_Shibes

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Yolokin_Swagonborn

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The fact that the massive gutting of the champion system tacitly ADMITS that CP was the source of the power creep that is destroying the game and yet they still give us 20 more champion points.

Yeah so power creep caused by CP led to the nerf based destruction of almost every cool class skill, passive, mechanic in the game so we are finally nerfing it. But we are also going to take one more whack at all your favorite skills and passives and oh, here's 20 more of the thing that we just nerfed.

Had me in stitches.

Softcaps prevented all of this. You want to control sustain. Regen in 1.5 was limited to the equivalent of 1.3k. Didn't have to nerf awesome skills. Just nerf ridiculous numbers.

GreenSoup2HoT

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Fishoscandi wrote: »

Also removing the stealth dmg bonus on players... Why? Just why? Yes, I heard people can be one shot from stealth by a NB but don't remove the dmg bonus. Decrease it or something. I'll keep playing my stam NB main and just hope I don't get insta kick from dungeons and trials

Trust me this isn't a bad nerf for gankers. This nerf only effects bad gankers who only know how to click 1 button and global someone by stacking crit damage into 1 attack. The gankers who are slippery, use proper combos with heavy attacks and proper use of shadowy disguise will be fine.

Any combo that uses Snipe, Wrecking Blow, Onslaught, Bow/2H Heavy attacks as an opener will be nerfed pretty hard. The least nerfed ganking play-style due to this change is actually my Duel Wield heavy attack nb. Since DW's heavy attack is cut into 2 attacks, only half of my opening heavy attack benefited from the increased crit damage anyways.. so i wont be effected by this change much. Still a nerf to my build but not so much compared to other ganking builds.

The stun is the most important factor for a stealth player, if i had to choose between the stun, guaranteed crit or crit damage it would be the stun. Glad we still have it.

Stam nbs have the worst pve dps... so expect to be kicked from dungeons or trials regardless if your trying to join elitists.

purple-magicb16_ESO

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This would've made the most awesome April Fool's Day prank!

kyle.wilson

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I'll adapt and keep playing, remember that these are just changes being tried early in a pts cycle.
Remember the backtrack that occurred over the sorc curse changes.

DonWalking

The Dragonknight nerf

I read the notes and thought to myself... what the ***!?!? I made a meme just for this... with a little Game of Thrones reference

http://imgur.com/i0req68

apostate9

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Oh, it's you. That explains the over the top hysteria of this stupid poll.

Blackfyre20

The Templar nerf

"We’ve changed the bonus to Minor Mending instead, but have increased the bonus from the Mending passive to compensate slightly."

I'll pass that good news along to my stamplar main

KochDerDamonen

Battlegrounds without CP (for now)

I'm laughin' hard because ZOS did something exactly as I wanted for once.

NO CP bois

Cadbury

The Templar nerf

grim_tactics

I hope all those who are mad sustain is gone are all PvE players.

Any PvP player mad because sustain is gone I will laugh directly in your face. Skill should win at PvP not your "I can cast/block/dodgeroll forever and eat every thing you do cause CP sustain."

SirDopey

The Templar nerf

Look guys, this is what happens when you jump on the forums saying the Warden looks lackluster, ZOS responds in ZOS fashion by nerfing all existing classes so that there can only be one class.

All Hail the Warden.

Betheny

The Medium and Light Armor nerf

It's like "okay lads we're nerfing sustain, so let's take something off light and med armours...hmm they have nothing much to give already, let's just take a percent or two off the ends and juggle skillpoints again so it looks like we've done something".

Stamden

The Dragonknight nerf

A class that already struggled the most with sustain just got even worse.

Oh and let's remove Major Mending too, cause why not?

Zvorgin

I liked it when they said warden is for people "who like taking hits, dealing damage or healing"... so literally every roll in the game.

Avalon

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SirDopey wrote: »

the Warden looks lackluster

The Warden looks great, did before these 'fixes'. My only complaints about it are that it seems like it doesn't actually mesh with itself, and that we finally get a 'cold mage', and it doesn't have access to a Frost Atronach summon? Sorcs get Storm, but where are the rest of our Atronachs??

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As for these notes... the thing I found 'funniest' was Vigor now costs 30% more?? That on top of the base increase in stamina abilities (said from 20% cheaper to 15% cheaper?) makes Vigor pretty costly. Part of why this is incredibly wrong to do, is that players who do PvE have no access to a stamina-based heal unless they go dip into PvP (which irks PvE players to begin with), then to put it at rank 5, means the player now has to do more than just 'dip' into PvP, rather, spend a considerable amount of time there. I know, for PvP players, rank 5 isn't considerable, but to someone that despises PvP, it is a TON of time and effort.

So, to reward players for doing all of that, they enjoyed a reasonable stamina-based AoE heal. But, now, that is being 'fixed' so that all of that work rewards a somewhat expensive stamina-based heal to go along with reduced sustain and more costly stamina-based skills. Ummm... Yay? Why?

peacenote

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"Skill Line Unlocking
Newly-created characters will now have all skill lines hidden except for the 3 from their class, the goal being to improve a new player’s experience by reducing the initial number of skill line choices to a more manageable number. "

Really?!? People were complaining about this? It seems like such a silly problem. But after I stopped laughing, it made me sad too. That initial depth, up-front, was part of what made me excited when I first started playing this game. "It really is like Skyrim, where I can build my character the way I want," thought I! As a new player, am I really too "dumb" to start looking at different weapon abilities without getting a killing blow with one, first?!?

In an MMO, the world should be overwhelming in the beginning. That's what makes it feel like there is lots to explore and learn. And it was something special about ESO.

Runner-up was: New ESO Plus Benefit: Double Bank Capacity

Craft bag was a neat benefit to subscribers. But this just means you no longer have any reason not to let me buy a guild bank for my small guild!!! Now motifs stack, recipes stack, I have a craft bag, and double the bank space. Is the reason that "storage needs to be limited for the economy" still valid if my tiny guild would like a little shared space?!?

Enslaved

The Templar nerf

The templar nerf. Made my day, even if other changes ruined it.

Vipstaakki

The Templar nerf

peacenote wrote: »

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"Skill Line Unlocking
Newly-created characters will now have all skill lines hidden except for the 3 from their class, the goal being to improve a new player’s experience by reducing the initial number of skill line choices to a more manageable number. "

Really?!? People were complaining about this? It seems like such a silly problem. But after I stopped laughing, it made me sad too. That initial depth, up-front, was part of what made me excited when I first started playing this game. "It really is like Skyrim, where I can build my character the way I want," thought I! As a new player, am I really too "dumb" to start looking at different weapon abilities without getting a killing blow with one, first?!?

In an MMO, the world should be overwhelming in the beginning. That's what makes it feel like there is lots to explore and learn. And it was something special about ESO.

Runner-up was: New ESO Plus Benefit: Double Bank Capacity

Craft bag was a neat benefit to subscribers. But this just means you no longer have any reason not to let me buy a guild bank for my small guild!!! Now motifs stack, recipes stack, I have a craft bag, and double the bank space. Is the reason that "storage needs to be limited for the economy" still valid if my tiny guild would like a little shared space?!?

I agree. By limiting skill choices it is like ZOS is strongarming you to do as they tell you.
You have fewer and fewer freedoms. This is slowly becoming a very non-elder scrolls game. ALL of the elder scrolls games have always had the freedom of choice. It would be ideal if all the classes were abolished and you just picked from a wide pool of skill lines in the Character generation.

Majeure

The Templar nerf

Asardes wrote: »

Well, I was playing with 3 magicka DDs last night, farming the motif in Ruins of Mazzatun, when the patch notes came out and people started discussing on guilds. Suffices to say that the game almost fell apart as people were so pissed they couldn't concentrate, and we barely managed to do the HM, with a few wipes, after 3-4 almost flawless runs prior. So I'm pretty certain that people didn't laugh much.

@Asardes
I know right. :'( I haven't played since.

LiquidPony

ZOS_BillE wrote: »

A few comments had to be removed from the thread for baiting and flaming. Please try and stay civil and follow the forum rules when posting.

We've all been baited and flamed by those patch notes.

MasterSpatula

The removal of sustain

I would say that learning that my Stamblade has too much sustain was good for a laugh. Then I realized they meant it.

Ep1kMalware

Nothing, I'm so pissed off that I didn't laughed once

Asardes wrote: »

Well, I was playing with 3 magicka DDs last night, farming the motif in Ruins of Mazzatun, when the patch notes came out and people started discussing on guilds. Suffices to say that the game almost fell apart as people were so pissed they couldn't concentrate, and we barely managed to do the HM, with a few wipes, after 3-4 almost flawless runs prior. So I'm pretty certain that people didn't laugh much.

On the other hand why nerf NB even further?

Fig 1: Redguard stamina sorcerer beating poor khajiit stamina NB in IC.

My guildchat/discord app made my ps4/phone overheat. So I had to buy new ones.

Ep1kMalware

Nothing, I'm so pissed off that I didn't laughed once

Kay1 wrote: »

ZOS_BillE wrote: »

A few comments had to be removed from the thread for baiting and flaming. Please try and stay civil and follow the forum rules when posting.

Thank you very much!

Ur a good man BillE!

lookstwice

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The nerf to stealth speeds. Huge quality of life issue going away that I don't think I can overcome.

Everything I can adapt to, but not that.