ESO Live January 4th Summary

Dracane

I'm glad, ZoS managed to get the stream through despite the complications You guys are so sweet with your improvised solution.

Anyway, here are the relevant news:

- PTS will be out on January 8th(monday) and the actual update will arrive in february.
- 2 new dungeons, 1 located in Stormhaven and the other located between Craglorn and Bankorai.
- Necromancer skin (Worm Wizard)
- Drake pet
- Female Dragon Priest and reanimated Skeleton Dragon as the endbosses of the new dungeons.
- There will be a collectors bundle for these dungeons. (Dragon pet, a new undead horse, exp scrolls etc. and the dungeons) Eso Plus members get access to the dungeons for free.

- Storage collectibles: 8 new collectibles. 4 big ones (chests, with 60 capacity each) and 4 small ones (coffers, with 30 capacity each) (So 360 new slots) Obtainable by master writs, tel var stones and for crowns. You can put all 8 in each of your houses and they are independant from your bank. BUT these chests have the same content in all your houses. You can also rename these collectables, so you always know what's inside of them. Other people can see them, but not interact with them.

- New house: An old dark brotherhood sanctuary.
- More furnishing space is said to come, but they are not specific when.

-Skill Advisor/Level Up Advisor: Help newer players understand combat and abilities (Cute). This advisor can also hand over materials, gold and a low level mount. If Elite players can profit from this, is currently unclear.

- Outfit System: Dye stations will be updated to outfit stations, so will the ones in your house. Each character has outfit slots and they are only available for that particular character. Each piece can be transformed individually and yes, you can make light armor look like heavy armor etc.
If you have for example head, chest and legs of a certain style, you can apply them to these particular parts.
- Transforming armor and weapons costs gold and the cost is dependant on how rare the style is. Base styles cost 100 gold per piece and fancy ones like Telvanni, cost 2000 gold per piece.

- You can dye weapons. And YES you can make a sword look like an axe for example, but not like a staff. Only weapons of the same type can be transformed.
- Styles that you have created, can be saved and applied by a single click.
- You can change the appearance of armor and weapons an infinite number of times (altough it costs gold each time) but you start with a limited amount of sets that you can safe. More can be bought on the crownstore. However, if 1 of your characters knows all styles, all your other characters will know them as well.
- Putting on a costume, will still override the gear you are currently wearing.
- Morag Tong and Imperial styles can be used for free if you possess them.

LadyLethalla

I'm interested to know, given I have 9 toons, how the costume system will work for those 8 alts that don't have many known motifs. Can I dump their armour/weapon pieces in the bank, change them on my main and then save that profile?
And are the profiles I save on my main applicable to all my toons? etc etc

#toomanyquestions

Dracane

LadyLethalla wrote: »

I'm interested to know, given I have 9 toons, how the costume system will work for those 8 alts that don't have many known motifs. Can I dump their armour/weapon pieces in the bank, change them on my main and then save that profile?
And are the profiles I save on my main applicable to all my toons? etc etc

#toomanyquestions

Styles are accountwide. So if one of your characters knows them all, all your other characters will have access too.

The_Brosteen

Wait so I can duel wield axes in cyrodiil but make them look like swords?

*braces for CE claims*

AarDoTaazokaan

LadyLethalla wrote: »

I'm interested to know, given I have 9 toons, how the costume system will work for those 8 alts that don't have many known motifs. Can I dump their armour/weapon pieces in the bank, change them on my main and then save that profile?
And are the profiles I save on my main applicable to all my toons? etc etc

#toomanyquestions

They said that each outfit slot is only for the specific toon. If you want the same outfit on a different toon on your account you will have to recreate it on that toon.

Motif knowledge is shared account-wide as it pertains to the outfit system. So if you have one master crafter toon that knows all your motifs, all other toons on your account can use those learned motifs.

Dracane

The_Brosteen wrote: »

Wait so I can duel wield axes in cyrodiil but make them look like swords?

*braces for CE claims*

Exactly, you can
Remember though: You can make one handed weapons like swords look like other 1 handed weapons only (daggers, axes, maces) and the same goes for 2 handed weapons.

Goshua

Thanks for the summary.

Cant watch it, too much dribble and talking over each other, makes me twitch and want to hurt thins.

Pheefs

LadyLethalla wrote: »

I'm interested to know, given I have 9 toons, how the costume system will work for those 8 alts that don't have many known motifs.

It sounds like the Outfits will use the Mementos/Collectibles system, so your Crafter will unlock the "collectible" version of the armor for all of your characters personal use in Outfits BUT! your Crafter will still be the only one able to make equipment

Rohamad_Ali

Best stream ever . @ZOS_GinaBruno , @ZOS_RichLambert and @ZOS_JessicaFolsom , thank you so much for doing the show despite technical issues . Great announcements ! Thank you for listening and giving house storage , transmog costumes and all the help for new players learning to make builds . Amazing showcase tonight .

Dracane

I'm very excited though. These additions will make the game so much better from a quality of life perspective.
We have yet to wait for the balance changes though.... always a dangerous topic.
They've always hinted, that they'll be doing another ESO live show soon, where they'll be talking about combat and balancing.

The_Brosteen

Dracane wrote: »

The_Brosteen wrote: »

Wait so I can duel wield axes in cyrodiil but make them look like swords?

*braces for CE claims*

Exactly, you can
Remember though: You can make one handed weapons like swords look like other 1 handed weapons only (daggers, axes, maces) and the same goes for 2 handed weapons.

Fooling everyone by looking like I'm wearing light armor and dual weilding dagger and an axe on a magplar XD

Frondale

Thanks Dracane...great summary.

I like the new advisor for new players. That is an awesome addition. The more new people that make it through the levels the more people we get to know in the game through our Tamriel travels.


Thanks to the ESO team...you brought us the news no matter how hard it was and I appreciate you did.

Dracane

The_Brosteen wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

The_Brosteen wrote: »

Wait so I can duel wield axes in cyrodiil but make them look like swords?

*braces for CE claims*

Exactly, you can
Remember though: You can make one handed weapons like swords look like other 1 handed weapons only (daggers, axes, maces) and the same goes for 2 handed weapons.

Fooling everyone by looking like I'm wearing light armor and dual weilding dagger and an axe on a magplar XD

It shall be glorious Everyone will think, you are dangerously tanky and cancerous and will avoid trying to gank you.

Taleof2Cities

RIP negative threads about transmog/custumes ...




(Nice summary, by the way, @Dracane.)

Dracane

My thanks to you

bitels

I lost hearing in right ear, but that was cool show.

Thank you very much for summary

Esha76

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Best stream ever . @ZOS_GinaBruno , @ZOS_RichLambert and @ZOS_JessicaFolsom , thank you so much for doing the show despite technical issues . Great announcements ! Thank you for listening and giving house storage , transmog costumes and all the help for new players learning to make builds . Amazing showcase tonight .

Tonight's show was quite possibly the best ever. I greatly admire them all for sticking around so late and making this stream happen despite all the set backs and time. Especially after a full day of work, and how uncomfortable that room apparently was.

I particularly loved Gina's comment about the new Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary home: "Look, you can see waterfalls and sh...."

AlienatedGoat

Dracane wrote: »

- Morag Tong and Imperial styles can be used for free if you possess them.

Good summary, thanks. I checked out of the stream early because of the low quality webcam.

This is great news for anyone who has these style converters. I'm glad to hear they incorporated them into the new system.

shaielzafine

Yeah my ears still hurt from the weird audio pops on that stream. It's not funny, even if they were laughing about chat saying RIP EARS. And whoever was the guy that was sarcastic about whether we can see the things on the screen or not, nope it's not funny either that we couldn't see the preview properly because of the video quality. I wanted to see what you guys were going to be selling us in the future.

Jim_Pipp

It was one of my favourite ESO live, and I am really impressed they decided to do it (so well) after technical problems. I am absolutely thrilled that a 15th character slot is going to be available in the crown store when the dlc releases. The extra slot isn't going to be in the first round of the PTS in case anyone is wondering. I'm planning to level up my 15th character without CP and just following the build recommended by the levelling adviser.

While a meagre 360 extra storage slots isn't much, it is something. And the more I think about this costume maker system the more I think it be fun. If we got the transmogrification system we asked for (change the style of individual items) then every time we changed gear sets we would have to re-transmog. Instead now a brand new player could start making there costume on day one and keep developing it as they learned more motifs or whatever even though they will change gear dozens of times underneath the outfit. If I understood it correctly then I believe every individual character has there own "outfit slot" for free, so really there isn't going to be much need to buy loads of them from the crown store unless changing outfits floats your boat.

As mentioned above, thanks for the great summary!

Iluvrien

Dracane wrote: »

LadyLethalla wrote: »

I'm interested to know, given I have 9 toons, how the costume system will work for those 8 alts that don't have many known motifs. Can I dump their armour/weapon pieces in the bank, change them on my main and then save that profile?
And are the profiles I save on my main applicable to all my toons? etc etc

#toomanyquestions

Styles are accountwide. So if one of your characters knows them all, all your other characters will have access too.

Wait, what? Motifs are being made account-wide?

Please, for the love of Azura someone tell me that this isn't true.

Taleof2Cities

Iluvrien wrote: »

Wait, what? Motifs are being made account-wide?

Please, for the love of Azura someone tell me that this isn't true.

Nope.

Known motifs are account-wide for the costume system only. To make a costume, you get to select from the collective motif knowledge of all your characters.

There's no change to motif knowledge for crafting purposes ... or how motifs are acquired in the game.

Tasear

Did they mention anything about synergies >.>

@Dracane

Just imagine is we could use 5 piece better


(2 Items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka

(3 Items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon and Trial Monsters by 5%.

(4 Items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(5 Items) When you activate a synergy, you gain a shadow blessing that increases your Spell Damage by 448 or a lunar blessing that increases your Magicka Recovery by 448 for 30 seconds. You can only have one blessing active at a time.



(2 Items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery

(3 Items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon and Trial Monsters by 5%.Monsters.

(4 Items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(5 Items) When an ally activates your synergy, they heal themselves for 26920 Health over 10 seconds and gain Minor Force, increasing their Critical Damage done by 12%



O.O and maybe someone would actually use

Lunar Bastion Set


LEVEL 50 CHAMPION 160

(2 Items) Adds 4% Healing Taken

(3 Items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon and Trial Monsters by 5%.

(4 Items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health

(5 Items) When you activate a synergy, you create a lunar blessing underneath you for 10 seconds. The blessing grants a damage shield every 2 seconds that absorbs 2399 damage for you and your allies within 8 meters.

Taleof2Cities

@Tasear, the combat changes for the February update will be in a later ESO Live ... though you'll be able to see the PTS natch potes on Monday.

Deloth_Vyrr

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Iluvrien wrote: »

Wait, what? Motifs are being made account-wide?

Please, for the love of Azura someone tell me that this isn't true.

Nope.

Known motifs are account-wide for the costume system only. To make a costume, you get to select from the collective motif knowledge of all your characters.

There's no change to motif knowledge for crafting purposes ... or how motifs are acquired in the game.

But it is essentially the same thing isn't it? Since you can just outfit every character with costumes made from the account wide motifs, you never need to actually craft the real piece with that motif anymore.

FrancisCrawford

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

It was one of my favourite ESO live, and I am really impressed they decided to do it (so well) after technical problems. I am absolutely thrilled that a 15th character slot is going to be available in the crown store when the dlc releases. The extra slot isn't going to be in the first round of the PTS in case anyone is wondering. I'm planning to level up my 15th character without CP and just following the build recommended by the levelling adviser.

While a meagre 360 extra storage slots isn't much, it is something. And the more I think about this costume maker system the more I think it be fun. If we got the transmogrification system we asked for (change the style of individual items) then every time we changed gear sets we would have to re-transmog. Instead now a brand new player could start making there costume on day one and keep developing it as they learned more motifs or whatever even though they will change gear dozens of times underneath the outfit. If I understood it correctly then I believe every individual character has there own "outfit slot" for free, so really there isn't going to be much need to buy loads of them from the crown store unless changing outfits floats your boat.

As mentioned above, thanks for the great summary!

Since changing outfits costs gold, if you DO like to change your appearance over time, the crown store slots could save a lot of gold. So be it. It's definitely the kind of nice-to-have feature that ZoS is entitled to charge for if it chooses to.

Jim_Pipp

Iluvrien wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

LadyLethalla wrote: »

I'm interested to know, given I have 9 toons, how the costume system will work for those 8 alts that don't have many known motifs. Can I dump their armour/weapon pieces in the bank, change them on my main and then save that profile?
And are the profiles I save on my main applicable to all my toons? etc etc

#toomanyquestions

Styles are accountwide. So if one of your characters knows them all, all your other characters will have access too.

Wait, what? Motifs are being made account-wide?

Please, for the love of Azura someone tell me that this isn't true.

As I understood it, all motifs known across all of your characters will be options on the outfit maker, but to craft an item the character must still know the motif them self. In a very important respect it does mean motifs are going to be account-wide evn though technically they will still be character specific.

The only exceptions are the morag tong and imperial converters from the collectors editions. You still won't be able to craft in these styles without the motifs, but you can make outfits in those styles if you have the collectors editions.

Dracane

Tasear wrote: »

Did they mention anything about synergies >.>

@Dracane

Just imagine is we could use 5 piece better


(2 Items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka

(3 Items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon and Trial Monsters by 5%.

(4 Items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(5 Items) When you activate a synergy, you gain a shadow blessing that increases your Spell Damage by 448 or a lunar blessing that increases your Magicka Recovery by 448 for 30 seconds. You can only have one blessing active at a time.



(2 Items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery

(3 Items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon and Trial Monsters by 5%.Monsters.

(4 Items) Adds 129 Spell Damage

(5 Items) When an ally activates your synergy, they heal themselves for 26920 Health over 10 seconds and gain Minor Force, increasing their Critical Damage done by 12%



O.O and maybe someone would actually use

Lunar Bastion Set


LEVEL 50 CHAMPION 160

(2 Items) Adds 4% Healing Taken

(3 Items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon and Trial Monsters by 5%.

(4 Items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health

(5 Items) When you activate a synergy, you create a lunar blessing underneath you for 10 seconds. The blessing grants a damage shield every 2 seconds that absorbs 2399 damage for you and your allies within 8 meters.

This includes combat changes and they are not going to talk about them yet, we will see that in the patchnotes on monday.
They want to make snyergies more responsive and make it so, that each player can activate the samge synergy. So for example, it seems that if I drop lightning splash, all 3 allies will be able to activate it from 1 cast.

But we shall see. I am particulary interested in heavy attack changes.

Taleof2Cities

Deloth_Vyrr wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Iluvrien wrote: »

Wait, what? Motifs are being made account-wide?

Please, for the love of Azura someone tell me that this isn't true.

Nope.

Known motifs are account-wide for the costume system only. To make a costume, you get to select from the collective motif knowledge of all your characters.

There's no change to motif knowledge for crafting purposes ... or how motifs are acquired in the game.

But it is essentially the same thing. SInce you can costume every character with account wide motifs, you never need to craft the real piece with that motif anymore.

Motif pages are way more important than just being able to acquire it for the knowledge to craft it.

Achievements, master writ drops, selling and buying for players ... those are all important aspects of that part of the game.

Iluvrien

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Deloth_Vyrr wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Iluvrien wrote: »

Wait, what? Motifs are being made account-wide?

Please, for the love of Azura someone tell me that this isn't true.

Nope.

Known motifs are account-wide for the costume system only. To make a costume, you get to select from the collective motif knowledge of all your characters.

There's no change to motif knowledge for crafting purposes ... or how motifs are acquired in the game.

But it is essentially the same thing. SInce you can costume every character with account wide motifs, you never need to craft the real piece with that motif anymore.

Motif pages are way more important than just being able to acquire it for the knowledge to craft it.

Achievements, master writ drops, selling and buying for players ... those are all important aspects of that part of the game.

Only one of which has anything to do with actually crafting.

And here was I thinking that ZOS had run out of ways to further devalue crafting. I should have known better.

LadyLethalla

Iluvrien wrote: »

And here was I thinking that ZOS had run out of ways to further devalue crafting. I should have known better.

Except... how many players will actually have more than one Master Crafter, and more than one that knows most or all motifs?
I have one Master, who doesn't yet know ALL motifs - the addition of new ones is too fast to keep up with, especially since I'm not going to spend huge amounts of gold on DLC drops. And my other 8 toons, while they're usually always researching items, I won't ever do Nirn items on any of them. And they learn only cheap motifs I can't be bothered listing, like Mercenary.

As a (small) plus, if you got a particular high priced motif page and accidentally read it on the wrong character, it's now worth something.


So IMO I don't think it devalues crafting any further than it is now.