PTS Patch Notes v3.1.0

Dymence

BigES wrote: »

You're nerfing sharpened?

Let me get this straight. People are already upset with RNG, and PLEADING for a token system for loot. Your game is on the brink of failure. You're losing streamers. You're losing players. One of the few things that's keeping people around at this point is their time invested. Destiny 2 is about to come out.

Then you nerf a BiS trait (sharpened) by 50%? A trait that's been BiS for several, several, several patches now. A trait that was VERY EARLY ON recognized as a bit overpowered (thanks to @Asayre ) by nearly 4 times comparatively.

Then you let everyone farm their gear, and just nerf it over a year later?

This is not a threat, and I really don't care if its perceived as dramatic, but if you nerf sharpened by 50% I'm quitting your game and giving you zero dollars lol. I'm not going to refarm all my gear for BiS in a game where min/maxing is a major aspect of the game.

@BigES

It's not gonna change much when it comes to BiS.

Copy pasting my post from another thread here for you:

The Lover: Now grants 2752 Physical and Spell Penetration instead of granting Spell Resistance.

This opens up new options to less fortunate people too, who have VMA precise weapons and don't have sharpened ones. 7 gold divine pieces will put the lover's pen at 4196 spell/phys pen and you'll get the 9% from precise. Going this route instead of the old sharpened thief you will trade in 4-5% crit for 1400~ pen

Izaki

BUG: when you fast travel you lose your mundus stone.

pokrakus

So happy to see this changes are on the way! If not I were on my way out of ESO.
Procs are just broken=no skill required!
Procs should be nerfed more I look at viper, it is still free (no resources eating) dmg, no need to use any ability.
Procs should be pure PvE only!
What matter skill if u fight guy spamming Puncture for tremor and viper and constantly block?
or just keep blocking and use bash or light attack to kill u with selene and viper?
I tried that way of playing and it was disgusting.
What with skoria for DK its pretty broken?....
make this game skillfull plz

Universe

RIP sharpened and defending, my sorcerer will be more squishy in off bar and do less damage in front bar...
People were farming sharpened and defending for a very long time, this nerf is too much, it should have been 20% nerf not 50% : 5,160 previous value, 4,128 future value.

I'm glad that you nerfed some of the more powerful proc sets, though it may not be enough.
Longer cooldowns may be needed.

Mundus stone buffs are good, though the recovery Mundus stones values need to be higher(like the Atronach) in order to compensate players who choose them over the stats mundus stones, like the Mage which will be even stronger.

I really hope the Alliance Points gained through the bank will not be included in the Home Campaign score(It wasn't mentioned).
If they do count, the Emperor title & Alliance War Leaderboard will be damaged in favor of the richest Alliance Points players.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Mementos

• Fixed an issue where the visual effects for several mementos would appear around your target instead of correctly appearing around you.
  • This affected the Twilight Shard, Box of Forbidden Relics, and Almalexia’s Enchanted Lantern.
• Fixed an issue where dodging Mudballs could generate Ultimate.

Thanks for listening to my feedback!
I have been waiting for quite some time for the Momentos fixes, especially the Almalexia's Enchanted Lantern

Iccengi

Can we please get a housing slot increase.

PLEAAASSSSSEEEEEEE

TerraDewBerry

Aimora wrote: »

Aww no increase in housing items

Yup, I feel the same. I was frantically searching the patch notes to see if they would surprise us with happy news.. so.. so sad now.

BigES

Gothren wrote: »

BigES wrote: »

You're nerfing sharpened?

Let me get this straight. People are already upset with RNG, and PLEADING for a token system for loot. Your game is on the brink of failure. You're losing streamers. You're losing players. One of the few things that's keeping people around at this point is their time invested. Destiny 2 is about to come out.

Then you nerf a BiS trait (sharpened) by 50%? A trait that's been BiS for several, several, several patches now. A trait that was VERY EARLY ON recognized as a bit overpowered (thanks to @Asayre ) by nearly 4 times comparatively.

Then you let everyone farm their gear, and just nerf it over a year later?

This is not a threat, and I really don't care if its perceived as dramatic, but if you nerf sharpened by 50% I'm quitting your game and giving you zero dollars lol. I'm not going to refarm all my gear for BiS in a game where min/maxing is a major aspect of the game.

I think you are mad because you have been deconstructing non-sharpened weapons. you should have been putting them in the bank. buffs and nerfs come and go. its the nature of the MMO beast.

You're clearly new to the game.

I have 4 four mules in this game, all max character slots, all with max bank and bag.

Inventory management has been a problem with this game since day 1. The new bank sizes and crafting bags are a relatively new addition.

Darlgon

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Like the new format.

For notes on readthru..

Draugh's Rest? 100 percent uptime with no percentage for it to proc? Wow.. yes please.

How.. exactly.. would a node contain a pattern? Are all plants now sentient creatures? Mudcrabs now draw blueprints?

Can the guys who fixed the chair fix the Ayelid Throne that wont let you out when you E to stand up?

DKs will be powerless and useless against all Iron Atronochs? Wonderful way to eliminate a class of Fire users.

Allies can no longer see effects like Ash Cloud and Lightning. So much for using them to point out items (chests, heavy sacks) for group members when not in combat in trials. Got that Pointer for group members working yet?

Soo.. Prosperous is no longer prosperous.. It needs to be renamed. Maybe call it.. I dont know.. Recovery?

Dammit.. stop Imperializing all the motifs. The individual races refer to themselves as Dunmer, Bosmer, Altmer, Orsimer. And thier realms existed outside the Imperial domain before and after the rule of that silly Emporer and his kin.

Yah for moving chests from the two different paths when your group has to split up... hope it does not decrease the number of chests tho..

Strider_Roshin

CAPSLOCK AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!

nimander99

YAY!!!! I can finally launder my stolen goods from Morrowind Early Access!!!

Ahanu2

Astrid_V wrote: »

Sharpened trait nerfed by nearly a half, still no token system, what about all these people who farmed like crazy their sharpened weapons ZOS? Why are you spit on your players once again? I'm done.

This must be your first MMO. You'll find almost all of them do balance changes.

ProfesseurFreder

I was hoping for some way to increase housing item slots. Oh well, hopefully next time (hint, hint).

Enodoc

•Due to some rather unfortunate events, Tolendir Gals has been sacked from his position as Magister of the Vivec City Mage’s Guild.

That doesn't bode well for getting the quests fixed so that they're no longer referring to Vulkhel Guard when standing in Vivec City... Tolendir Gals should be one of the quest givers, offering a quest called "Tolendir's Invitation", so Curinure can go back home to Auridon.

Gothren

BigES wrote: »

Gothren wrote: »

BigES wrote: »

You're nerfing sharpened?

Let me get this straight. People are already upset with RNG, and PLEADING for a token system for loot. Your game is on the brink of failure. You're losing streamers. You're losing players. One of the few things that's keeping people around at this point is their time invested. Destiny 2 is about to come out.

Then you nerf a BiS trait (sharpened) by 50%? A trait that's been BiS for several, several, several patches now. A trait that was VERY EARLY ON recognized as a bit overpowered (thanks to @Asayre ) by nearly 4 times comparatively.

Then you let everyone farm their gear, and just nerf it over a year later?

This is not a threat, and I really don't care if its perceived as dramatic, but if you nerf sharpened by 50% I'm quitting your game and giving you zero dollars lol. I'm not going to refarm all my gear for BiS in a game where min/maxing is a major aspect of the game.

I think you are mad because you have been deconstructing non-sharpened weapons. you should have been putting them in the bank. buffs and nerfs come and go. its the nature of the MMO beast.

You're clearly new to the game.

I have 4 four mules in this game, all max character slots, all with max bank and bag.

Inventory management has been a problem with this game since day 1. The new bank sizes and crafting bags are a relatively new addition.

I have you beat on experience. have been in game since early access.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

• Keptu-Horn Skull Sallet: Obtained by completing the Bloodroot Forge Challenger achievement.

Wait - Keptu as in the Nedic tribe? (IIRC the tattoos were Nirncrux, so not as surprising as it could be, but...those lot are still around as a Reach tribe?)

ShadowHvo

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

General

• Several NPCs in Vvardenfell will now no longer speak to you when you're, ahem, notorious. Some will comment on how shady you are, while others will have more extreme reactions when witnessing criminal activity.
  
• Slaves are now easier to steal from. You monster.
• Nobles are now slightly more difficult to steal from.

N'wah!

(On a super unrelated note, I love these small jokes, please keep them coming!)

Joy_Division

BigES wrote: »

You're nerfing sharpened?

Let me get this straight. People are already upset with RNG, and PLEADING for a token system for loot. Your game is on the brink of failure. You're losing streamers. You're losing players. One of the few things that's keeping people around at this point is their time invested. Destiny 2 is about to come out.

Then you nerf a BiS trait (sharpened) by 50%? A trait that's been BiS for several, several, several patches now. A trait that was VERY EARLY ON recognized as a bit overpowered (thanks to @Asayre ) by nearly 4 times comparatively.

Then you let everyone farm their gear, and just nerf it over a year later?

This is not a threat, and I really don't care if its perceived as dramatic, but if you nerf sharpened by 50% I'm quitting your game and giving you zero dollars lol. I'm not going to refarm all my gear for BiS in a game where min/maxing is a major aspect of the game.

What a selfish attitude derived from ignorance - you have no idea how these changes will play out.

HeathenDeacon

UPdate looks amazing!
Looks like a Build Crafters wet dream with the weapon/armor trait and mundus rebalancing.
Not to mention the Monster set tweaks and what looks like at a glance some great new sets!

I think the only negative i possibly saw was not being able to see some of the friendly ground effects. I feel ike seeing some of these in pvp is very useful. I mean, like seeing where my ally's caltrops are allows me to keep an enemy in the dot. OR in general like does this mean i wont know if someone in my dungeon group is using a destro ult? im slightly confused here.

Overall i think ESO is about to be poppin again. i hope some of the naysayers that got all frazzled pre-Morrowind come back and check where things ended up.

Saturn

World

• Werewolf
  • Updated several animations used in certain Werewolf abilities to improve their response time when weaving them with other abilities.

After testing around all I can tell is that it's easier to animation cancel a light attack with the roar, the bug where trying to leap to a target while behind an object still breaks your character and gets it stuck in the jumping pose. I can't tell if the fear goes off when you click the button or if it still has to wait for the animation to finish, but it's still significantly slower to fire than the nighblade fear equivalent, which makes it bad for PvP clutch situations, i.e. most of the times when you want to use it.

EDIT:
There are actually two new animation bugs: If you get knocked back in a leap you will be stuck in the "knocked-down" position for a while. The other involves your legs doing a weird dance when moving your camera while eating.

Tavore1138

Vicious Death still not punished like all the other proc sets - the original and worst of them gets a free pass along with proxy det. Guess ZOS supports bombing?

Megabear

ZOS did good with this patch..

Malmai

HAHA...

rustic_potato

BigES wrote: »

Gothren wrote: »

BigES wrote: »

You're nerfing sharpened?

Let me get this straight. People are already upset with RNG, and PLEADING for a token system for loot. Your game is on the brink of failure. You're losing streamers. You're losing players. One of the few things that's keeping people around at this point is their time invested. Destiny 2 is about to come out.

Then you nerf a BiS trait (sharpened) by 50%? A trait that's been BiS for several, several, several patches now. A trait that was VERY EARLY ON recognized as a bit overpowered (thanks to @Asayre ) by nearly 4 times comparatively.

Then you let everyone farm their gear, and just nerf it over a year later?

This is not a threat, and I really don't care if its perceived as dramatic, but if you nerf sharpened by 50% I'm quitting your game and giving you zero dollars lol. I'm not going to refarm all my gear for BiS in a game where min/maxing is a major aspect of the game.

I think you are mad because you have been deconstructing non-sharpened weapons. you should have been putting them in the bank. buffs and nerfs come and go. its the nature of the MMO beast.

You're clearly new to the game.

I have 4 four mules in this game, all max character slots, all with max bank and bag.

Inventory management has been a problem with this game since day 1. The new bank sizes and crafting bags are a relatively new addition.

ROFL. Its your own fault that you didn't save other traits. Sharp nerf was deserved. It will still probably be one of the BiS options. Stop whining and adapt.

Tethalion

Sorcerer

• Storm Calling
  • Surge: This ability and its morphs now use your highest critical strike rating to determine their Critical Strike chance.

I'm not sure what this actually means or how it affects gameplay. Could someone please explain with an example?

Eyesinthedrk

Lord_Dexter wrote: »

Just loving new changes to Mundus Stones and Weapon traits,

Grind is over for sharpen meta!

Thanks ZOS, brilliant changes. Awesome patch notes!

No it isn't. They just changed the meta. There will still be a best in slot. Everyone who grinded for sharpened gets to start grinding again. If the new meta isn't sharpened well guess what? You probably deconned it, so you get to grind some more.

Oh and what if the new meta is nirn? No more normal dungeon farming with 3 guildies swapping to help everyone get what they need faster. No, if that's the case it's vet maelstrom all by yourself, crafted or second best in slot for you.

joaaocaampos

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PlagueSD

BigES wrote: »

Gothren wrote: »

BigES wrote: »

You're nerfing sharpened?

Let me get this straight. People are already upset with RNG, and PLEADING for a token system for loot. Your game is on the brink of failure. You're losing streamers. You're losing players. One of the few things that's keeping people around at this point is their time invested. Destiny 2 is about to come out.

Then you nerf a BiS trait (sharpened) by 50%? A trait that's been BiS for several, several, several patches now. A trait that was VERY EARLY ON recognized as a bit overpowered (thanks to @Asayre ) by nearly 4 times comparatively.

Then you let everyone farm their gear, and just nerf it over a year later?

This is not a threat, and I really don't care if its perceived as dramatic, but if you nerf sharpened by 50% I'm quitting your game and giving you zero dollars lol. I'm not going to refarm all my gear for BiS in a game where min/maxing is a major aspect of the game.

I think you are mad because you have been deconstructing non-sharpened weapons. you should have been putting them in the bank. buffs and nerfs come and go. its the nature of the MMO beast.

You're clearly new to the game.

I have 4 four mules in this game, all max character slots, all with max bank and bag.

Inventory management has been a problem with this game since day 1. The new bank sizes and crafting bags are a relatively new addition.

Once crafting bags came out, my inventory problems went away. I carry 4-5 sets of armor on my character to swap as needed (using DressingRoom addon). I'm currently researching blacksmithing on 2 characters and keep everything in the bank for traits I don't know yet. Not sure what you're doing wrong, but I'm not even using up half my available bank space.

SirCritical

argouru wrote: »

"•The Prosperous Armor Trait has been re-designed to give it a combat function. It now grants 11 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery as a gold-quality item, instead of gold gain"

Do you mean it gives +11% Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery?

Isn't it a flat 110 recovery per piece? I can't see any meaning if it would be 77/77/77 recovery if all my gearpieces are Prosperous. No, surely a typo.

Thogard

This is great overall. A huge benefit to my sorc. Also a huge benefit to my MagDK, albeit because of his set choice getting a huge, unintended buff.

Sucks to be a Magicka NB, but I have very little sympathy for those who can (seemingly) permacloak and restart the fight at their leisure.

Stam NBs got hit the hardest via procset nerf, but they needed it.

Stam DKs, Magplars and Stamplars are about where they were before...

Stam wardens got hit hard. They relied on procsets for burst more than any other class.

Edit: not saying Stam wardens USE procsets more than other classes - obviously Stam NBs are the biggest culprits - but Stam wardens NEEDED the burst more than any other class except maybe Mag DK, and the Mag DK procset Skoria wasn't touched. And don't say Stam wardens have tons of burst through their crab thingy - any competent player can avoid that since wardens are lacking in CC.

Here's some food for thought - now that viper is a dot, will it trigger skoria?

ADarklore

So... Thief is reduced 2% while Precise trait is raised 2% and then weapon and spell crit set bonuses have been buffed 55%!

Sharpened and Penetration have been severely nerfed... so it's pretty clear they want more people investing CP into Penetration.

All item sets have had some major buffs this should definitely help sustain too...

Universally adjusted the values of some 1, 2, 3, and 4-piece bonus stats for all Item Sets:

Max Health, Magicka, or Stamina has been increased by 13.3%
Weapon Critical or Spell Critical rating has been increased by 55%
Physical or Spell Resistance has been increased by 13.8%
Physical or Spell Penetration has been decreased by 22%

Although I'm a bit confused, I thought we were also going to see major class balances with this update... saw nothing significant listed.