PTS Patch Notes v3.3.0

MissBizz

Grimlok_S wrote: »

irstarkey57 wrote: »

Everyone saying the changes look great. Are you not seeing the large nerf to offbalance, aka 10 percent damage nerf across the board?

Smells like a buff to me!

...off balance immunity lasting possibly up to 20 seconds long sounds like a buff?

That's like... a massive decrease to up time by the sounds of it.

SpAEkus

Answered above, please ignore

LordSlif

Nerf on toppling charge??? Wth how can zos nerf a super broken bug skill??? LMAO

TheRealPotoroo

RIP Off Balance.

ak_pvp

Witar wrote: »

theivorykitty wrote: »

There is not a single worrisome thing in these patch notes.

So power lash stunning players is ok with you?

Maybe bias but makes sense. It's blockable and is sort of the trade made with sorcs with the frag/petrify deal.

One problem seems to be that if off-balance and not cc immune power whip becomes spammable. This is so much healing and damage.

Tasear

Synergies....so many great things

Dracane

Can you please give the Sorcerer Twilight the same treatment as the Atronach ? (Being affected by at least elemental expert)
This ability is buggy at the moment. The tooltip shows a much higher damage value, than the pet actually deals. Because the tooltip takes CP into account, while the pet damage is actually not affected by them.

Grimlok_S

MissBizz wrote: »

Grimlok_S wrote: »

irstarkey57 wrote: »

Everyone saying the changes look great. Are you not seeing the large nerf to offbalance, aka 10 percent damage nerf across the board?

Smells like a buff to me!

...off balance immunity lasting possibly up to 20 seconds long sounds like a buff?

That's like... a massive decrease to up time by the sounds of it.

That cooldown only applies to Boss Enemies.. /shrug

JohnStorm

So, you just nerf off-balance and provide nothing else to compensate for PVE group DPS? Also, R.I.P. mag dk in trials... AGAIN...

Emma_Overload

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

Correct me if I am wrong but.. are there any changes to Sorcerer ?
You are reducing dmg of all gap closers..

We’ve decreased the damage values on numerous gap closer abilities – not just Teleport Strike, but other charge abilities such as Critical Charge or Focused Charge as well. Gap closers in ESO have no cooldown and can hit for extreme amounts of damage, so there is very little opportunity cost in forcing your enemies to use them. Decreasing their damage ensures that ranged players utilizing movement and terrain to maintain their distance are better rewarded for that advantage.

Even poor WW got nerfed:

Pounce: Decreased the damage dealt by this ability and its morphs by approximately 16%.

You know... Sorcerer has gap closer too.. so why there is no mention of this in patch notes ?

Sorcerers don't have a gap closer, we have a gap opener.

SpAEkus

Anyone know just the Patch 3.3 API number so I can do a manual ADDON change and check which ones to turn off during testing?

TrinityBreaker

Can we please get some love for the poor stamDK(pvp wise)???!

ThePrinceOfBargains

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Level Up Advisor
This new system is designed to teach new players about the many facets of combat and progression in ESO. It contains useful rewards for new and veteran players alike as you progress from levels 2-50, and every five levels, you will receive a milestone reward with something special such as a mount, Crown Crate, costume, or a helpfulweapon. Simply open the Character UI to claim your rewards! Below, you’ll find the list of milestone rewards:

• Level 5: Two Green-quality Rings, part of a basic 2-piece Item Set that grants a Max Health bonus
• Level 10: Sorrel Horse
• Level 15: A choice of 6 blue-quality weapons
• Level 20: A costume of choice and a Fire Atronach Crown Crate
• Level 25: A choice of 6 purple-quality weapons
• Level 30: 4,000 gold and a Fire Atronach Crown Crate
• Level 35: A choice of 10 purple-quality crafting-improvement materials
• Level 40: 6,000 gold, The Soul Shriven motif, and an Outfit Token
• Level 45: An Undaunted Key
• Level 50: 10,000 gold and a Fire Atronach Crown Crate

Gina, don’t play with me... is that any costume?

Revelzdevelz

RIP unbalance, RIP MagDK PVE. Not that it was in a great place now anyhow.

bloodthirstyvampire

Are the homes limited time

Mackin365

Would of been nice to know the coldharbor house was coming only asked about it several times now my crowns are gone. WAAA

Machete

And no touches on stam sorc and stam dk. You still got two class styles that use weapon abilities. Idk maybe stam dk and sorc should just stay meh. BUT love the removal of AOE caps. Give us dynamic ult again and we are back to the good old days! (#StamWhip)

Giraffon

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

BASE GAME UPDATES

Level Up Advisor
This new system is designed to teach new players about the many facets of combat and progression in ESO. It contains useful rewards for new and veteran players alike as you progress from levels 2-50, and every five levels, you will receive a milestone reward with something special such as a mount, Crown Crate, costume, or a helpfulweapon. Simply open the Character UI to claim your rewards! Below, you’ll find the list of milestone rewards:

• Level 5: Two Green-quality Rings, part of a basic 2-piece Item Set that grants a Max Health bonus
• Level 10: Sorrel Horse
• Level 15: A choice of 6 blue-quality weapons
• Level 20: A costume of choice and a Fire Atronach Crown Crate
• Level 25: A choice of 6 purple-quality weapons
• Level 30: 4,000 gold and a Fire Atronach Crown Crate
• Level 35: A choice of 10 purple-quality crafting-improvement materials
• Level 40: 6,000 gold, The Soul Shriven motif, and an Outfit Token
• Level 45: An Undaunted Key
• Level 50: 10,000 gold and a Fire Atronach Crown Crate

Skills Advisor
This new system makes recommendations on how to spend skill points based on the build you select. You can use this system to mold your character as you’re leveling up, or to help you re-specialize your build after reaching max level. To support this system, we’ve made some adjustments in the UI:

• The Skill menu has been modified to accommodate the Skill Advisor system. Abilities and morphs will now be listed as recommended based on the build selected.
• Morphed abilities will now display their base ability name in their tooltips.
• Note that the Skill Advisor can be toggled off at any point.

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Wait. How does this work? I'm already level 50. Do I get any of this stuff retroactive? What if I create a new character? Are these rewards per character or once per account?

I'm just lookin' at those crown crates and I'm sorta' droolin'.

JackDaniell

We’ve decreased the damage values on numerous gap closer abilities – not just Teleport Strike, but other charge abilities such as Critical Charge or Focused Charge as well. Gap closers in ESO have no cooldown and can hit for extreme amounts of damage, so there is very little opportunity cost in forcing your enemies to use them. Decreasing their damage ensures that ranged players utilizing movement and terrain to maintain their distance are better rewarded for that advantage.


Just no. This change looks like you guys havent set foot in pvp since the proc nerfs. Crit rush was one of the best tools a mobility based build had. It allowed you to use your movment and speed and turn it into damage.

Also please Zos check your god dam tooltips. No gapcloser in the game deals close to as much damage as choice spamables (Max distance crit rush has a lower tooltip then SA, does not armor debuff and is not spamable for max damage). Now my max distance crit rush will be lucky to deal 60% of the damage of suprise attack. I would be punishing myself for even trying to use a distance based damage ability when i would be much better of standing and spamming.

Anyone with more then an hour of PvP experiance under thier belt also knows that gap closers are THE EASIEST INCOMING ATTACK TO PREDICT/AVOID. So why, in the name of the eight, whould you nerf them?

CRIT RUSH IS LOOSNG 40% DAMAGE. most useless 2h skill in game now. I gues its time to embrace ZOS's forced meta hump. Anyone got some fury/7th legion for me so i can start spamming jabs? Play what you want? More like play what we tell you.

Dont kill build diversity, especialy over something that ISNT EVEN AN ISSUE. You know what happenes to your playerbase when you make uninformed desicions like this to correct non issues.

irstarkey57

Jamini wrote: »

irstarkey57 wrote: »

Some great changes coming but man...Was so excited to see Magicka Dragonknigjt changes. Not a thing. They never get any needed help.

Powerlash bby.

Read the whole natch potes.

Sorry man but you are the one that needs to go back and read. Power lash was and is magdks main damage and sustain. Only comes from offbalance. Now that off balance is nerfed by a metric F ton of cooldown, guess what. No powerlash BB.

irstarkey57

Grimlok_S wrote: »

irstarkey57 wrote: »

Everyone saying the changes look great. Are you not seeing the large nerf to offbalance, aka 10 percent damage nerf across the board?

Smells like a buff to me!

I advise you take a look at the 15-20 second off balance cooldown, then rethink whether that is a buff.

LiquidPony

@Izaki or anyone else in this thread who can pull the numbers from CMX ...

What is the typical off-balance uptime right now on live in a real Trials boss fight? I understand that it may be drastically different from fight to fight so examples from CMX parses from individual bosses would be cool.

exeeter702

jcaceresw wrote: »

"Rewards for the Worthy mails now only grant a guaranteed Transmutation Geode once per day per account."

Why, why, why!

Becuase it was FAR to generous plain and simple.

LiquidPony

irstarkey57 wrote: »

Jamini wrote: »

irstarkey57 wrote: »

Some great changes coming but man...Was so excited to see Magicka Dragonknigjt changes. Not a thing. They never get any needed help.

Powerlash bby.

Read the whole natch potes.

Sorry man but you are the one that needs to go back and read. Power lash was and is magdks main damage and sustain. Only comes from offbalance. Now that off balance is nerfed by a metric F ton of cooldown, guess what. No powerlash BB.

Sure ... but right now no one uses magDK's in PvE because they constantly consume the off-balance debuff and tank your group's DPS.

At least now your magDK won't be a detriment to the rest of the group.

zassasaurus

why make template characters only have 100,000 gold? thats not even enough to fully upgrade bagspace.....

JackDaniell

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

Well... did any one complained about gap - closers dealing too much dmg ?!

We’ve decreased the damage values on numerous gap closer abilities – not just Teleport Strike, but other charge abilities such as Critical Charge or Focused Charge as well. Gap closers in ESO have no cooldown and can hit for extreme amounts of damage, so there is very little opportunity cost in forcing your enemies to use them. Decreasing their damage ensures that ranged players utilizing movement and terrain to maintain their distance are better rewarded for that advantage.

Gap closer can hit for extreme amount of dmg ?! Where ? ZOS what game do you play ? This statement feels so disconnect from reality...
Anyway - the dmg is not the problem... single gap closer did not kill anyone yet at 100% health...
It is combo gap closer + CC
So technically this nerf is pointless and btw. - almost all skills have 0 cool-down not only gap closers...

btw. Sorcerer also has gap closer that stuns you... even in pvp.. did streak dmg got reduced too ?

A completly unneccesary change made seemingly out of nowhere. All this change does is kill build diversity. Whoever made this decision should be regretting it.

sylviermoone

Reverted the recent change to the visibility of Guild Bank items. Guild members will now be able to see the items in a Guild Bank again, even if they aren't able to withdraw them.
Note: Viewing Gold is still controlled by the guild rank permission.

This is great, however it would be REALLY COOL if people could see their own deposits to a GUILD bank, regardless of view gold permission.

Xvorg

Minno wrote: »

Xvorg wrote: »

I think it will be a good, good patch for magplar

Not to mention bomblades.

Saddly, DKs will have a hard time

I might have to reslot prox det

Yup, proxi + SB + sweep + Skoria

exeeter702

S1ipperyJim wrote: »

casparian wrote: »

Kildayen wrote: »

Kildayen wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Battlegrounds

• Increased the Alliance Point rewards for your team’s placement in Battlegrounds. This equates to the following:
  • 100% increase in AP if your team comes in first place, or a new total of 12,000 AP
  • 175% increase in AP if your team comes in second place, or a new total of 11,000 AP
  • 400% increase in AP if your team comes in third place, or a new total of 10,000 AP

Because everyone deserves a trophy... *rolleyes*

This is a decent move for trying to get more people playing BGs but seriously... a difference of only 2k or 1k AP for winning first place is kinda lame. If you are increasing the AP by 400% for third place and 175% for second, it takes away from the reward of winning first. Give first place more or cut the increased gains for second and third. Participation trophies are lame.

The 10k AP for participating is not the problem, as long as players only receive upon completion of the match. Losing a BG match ought to grant more AP than the amount of resources you can capture in that time. But yes, winning first place ought to grant much more than a 2k bonus.

I don't agree, actual alliance war in cyrodiil should award more AP in all circumstances. Capturing cyrodiil objectives contribute to the actual alliance score and campaign. BG are just foolish games distracting from the actual war.

Lol... ok hero of tamriel

irstarkey57

Sure ... but right now no one uses magDK's in PvE because they constantly consume the off-balance debuff and tank your group's DPS.

At least now your magDK won't be a detriment to the rest of the group.[/quote]

No, the reason they weren't allowed is because they take up a melee spot. If this were the case. No one would be using stam DK's either because they hvy attack everything. The reason no one uses magdk is because they can stick a stamina toon in there to do 10-15k more dps. Magdks didn't need a change to off balance. They need led to be able to bring something special to the table. More damage, something. But nope.