vHoF aka. Halls of Frustration

FakeFox

I thought I'd take the time to describe a normal evening in vHoF so I can illustrate what's wrong with this trial in specific and ESO in general at the moment. I'm well aware that I'm beating a dead horse here, but since ZOS does not seem to care so far I guess bringing more attention to those problems is necessary.

After 15 minutes of searching for replacement, as one of our DDs can't log in anymore and probably has to reinstall the game (see you in two days mate), and a few endless loadscreens we are finally ready to start. Until the first boss everything goes well, but then the real fun begins. Positrox and Negatrix are arguably the most boring to heal bosses in the game but at least no bugs (except for the adds ) here, just a plain and simply burst. Second boss nothing special, AOEs on the teleporters, heavy attack while the tank is pinned, magicka-drain of doom. Over all a pretty boring fight. So we are mindlessly healing and burning our way to the third boss and this is actually a fun one. Not much skill involved as you can't evade the damage anyway, never the less a fast pace and fun fight. Now comes the real torture, endless corridors of nothing but magicka draining beams and spinning blades, just unnecessary and boring. I mean, I get the purpose of traps if they are actually dangerous and can be evaded. But this is just spamming springs and running through.
In between the worlds longest snare, we do the fourth boss. As always a few random onehits from adds and fire AOEs even though the bosses are not empowered, my FPS drops from 50+ to 10 for some reason, but nothing we can't handle. So after another endless corridor of torture we stand in front of the Assembly General. 107,8 million HP of complete cluster****. After two hours of wiping we gave up. Every time the same bug: Random onehits from feedback with 2 and even 3 terminals down. This is kind of problematic aka. game breaking but for sure we can recover. Nope, the broken hitboxes make it impossible to even touch half of the arena should one of his arms come down and they unavoidably come down when the person keeping them up takes a random 40k feedback to the knee. Between each fight we have at least two disconnects and a desync from time to time. So in conclusion this trail and the Assembly General in particular are just frustrating and depend more on luck then anything else. And it wasn't always like that. Sure the trial was never without bugs though mostly nothing that kept you from completing it, but over the last two weeks it became somewhat unplayable.

I know that many progress players are very unhappy with the games current performance for good reason. ZOS needs to start fixing this mess, as something like that is not acceptable.

Shadzilla

First world problems.

FakeFox

Yeah. I guess I should be happy that ESO even starts and shut up.

Shadzilla

FakeFox wrote: »

Yeah. I guess I should be happy that ESO even starts and shut up.

u guise just gotta stap ziggin when you shud be zaggin. as long as i get dem eyelashes from da clown store i be happy.

zaria

Shadzilla wrote: »

First world problems.

Did it with guild group, run took 2 hours, last boss was eater of repair kits.
Yes its a bit outside my league but it was asked for healer for FH normal and it was pledge and I wanted an short break, we entered vet by mistake, all was high cp so lets try, no issues up to second last boss, we wiped some times until understanding mechanic.
Then comes the last boss, technically hard and an dps check, still we was far from Hordor and we did it.

A lot is how to handle the fire under your feet and the cover behind pillar phases, this hits pugs very hard, after two tries we agreed on two running one direction, two the other way, as healer I needed outer track to bol,
As dungeon is pretty new its no book level standard tactic for it. Do not pug, if it random and not like clockwork, say you got an heart attack or your cat try to eat the dishwasher or some other medical emergency.

Asardes

10 fps in trials? You must have spent a lot on your graphics board

FakeFox

zaria wrote: »

Shadzilla wrote: »

First world problems.

Did it with guild group, run took 2 hours, last boss was eater of repair kits.
Yes its a bit outside my league but it was asked for healer for FH normal and it was pledge and I wanted an short break, we entered vet by mistake, all was high cp so lets try, no issues up to second last boss, we wiped some times until understanding mechanic.
Then comes the last boss, technically hard and an dps check, still we was far from Hordor and we did it.

A lot is how to handle the fire under your feet and the cover behind pillar phases, this hits pugs very hard, after two tries we agreed on two running one direction, two the other way, as healer I needed outer track to bol,
As dungeon is pretty new its no book level standard tactic for it. Do not pug, if it random and not like clockwork, say you got an heart attack or your cat try to eat the dishwasher or some other medical emergency.

Wait? Does this even remotely have anything to do with my initial post? lol

FakeFox

Asardes wrote: »

10 fps in trials? You must have spent a lot on your graphics board

GTX 1080, i guess this needs no further explanation.

But at least it is only at this boss for whatever reason. Usually I have 50 in trials.

Asardes

FakeFox wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

10 fps in trials? You must have spent a lot on your graphics board

GTX 1080, i guess this needs no further explanation.

But at least it is only at this boss for whatever reason. Usually I have 50 in trials.

I know. ESO has ancient code. You may have the strongest hardware, it will still run like a total potato at times. But why hire people to optimize the code when you can endlessly re-skin the same horse, rat or lizard and sell them for a small fortune on crown store or tuck them in gambler's crates?

Shadzilla

FakeFox wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Shadzilla wrote: »

First world problems.

Did it with guild group, run took 2 hours, last boss was eater of repair kits.
Yes its a bit outside my league but it was asked for healer for FH normal and it was pledge and I wanted an short break, we entered vet by mistake, all was high cp so lets try, no issues up to second last boss, we wiped some times until understanding mechanic.
Then comes the last boss, technically hard and an dps check, still we was far from Hordor and we did it.

A lot is how to handle the fire under your feet and the cover behind pillar phases, this hits pugs very hard, after two tries we agreed on two running one direction, two the other way, as healer I needed outer track to bol,
As dungeon is pretty new its no book level standard tactic for it. Do not pug, if it random and not like clockwork, say you got an heart attack or your cat try to eat the dishwasher or some other medical emergency.

Wait? Does this even remotely have anything to do with my initial post? lol

LOL, totally exactly what I was going to say... Really like random stuff like that though, always get good lawls out of it.

Asardes wrote: »

FakeFox wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

10 fps in trials? You must have spent a lot on your graphics board

GTX 1080, i guess this needs no further explanation.

But at least it is only at this boss for whatever reason. Usually I have 50 in trials.

I know. ESO has ancient code. You may have the strongest hardware, it will still run like a total potato at times. But why hire people to optimize the code when you can endlessly re-skin the same horse, rat or lizard and sell them for a small fortune on crown store or tuck them in gambler's crates?

Got my awesome, twice. Hilarious comments.

zaria

FakeFox wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Shadzilla wrote: »

First world problems.

Did it with guild group, run took 2 hours, last boss was eater of repair kits.
Yes its a bit outside my league but it was asked for healer for FH normal and it was pledge and I wanted an short break, we entered vet by mistake, all was high cp so lets try, no issues up to second last boss, we wiped some times until understanding mechanic.
Then comes the last boss, technically hard and an dps check, still we was far from Hordor and we did it.

A lot is how to handle the fire under your feet and the cover behind pillar phases, this hits pugs very hard, after two tries we agreed on two running one direction, two the other way, as healer I needed outer track to bol,
As dungeon is pretty new its no book level standard tactic for it. Do not pug, if it random and not like clockwork, say you got an heart attack or your cat try to eat the dishwasher or some other medical emergency.

Wait? Does this even remotely have anything to do with my initial post? lol

Sorry, I read it as falkreath hold is a bit drunk and an friend chatted about falkreath hold.