PTS Patch Notes v3.3.1

code65536

Twohothardware wrote: »

tamrielwinner wrote: »

the destro ult nerf is unwarranted

There's never been nerfs more warranted than ones applied to Destro Ult lol.

Only one of the morphs needed adjustment, not both.

Getern

code65536 wrote: »

Twohothardware wrote: »

tamrielwinner wrote: »

the destro ult nerf is unwarranted

There's never been nerfs more warranted than ones applied to Destro Ult lol.

Only one of the morphs needed adjustment, not both.

This is how Zenimax operates. Always.

Reloader84

For the love of god ban Miat's add-on ...

And on a side note lower troll king health regeneration in Cyrodiil or across the board its kinda OP since it isn't affected by the 50% heal debuff.

Mettaricana

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

JamieAubrey wrote: »

Closed the “hole” under the stairs at Aleswell.

Well... that took like 1 year but still - better late than never right..?
More of that please.. more PvP fixes

Guess i mossed this hole was it a bug or an exploit ?

Truthsnark

elven.were_wolf wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

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Furnishings

• The Imperial Fountain of the Bay can now be activated, and will have small streams of water pouring from its spouts while active.

Yes, finally! I won’t regret purchasing that fountain anymore!

@Delphinia JUSTICE!

elven.were_wolf

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Outfit Styles

• Removed the Prisoner's Rags Outfit Styles from the completion rewards for "Soul Shriven in Coldharbour". They will continue to be awarded through the Level Up Advisor rewards at Level 40.
  • Note: The previous patch notes noted the reward for Level 40 was the Soul Shriven Motif. This was an error in the patch notes, and should have listed the Prisoner’s Rags instead.

Although we are still getting the outfit style regardless. This change isn’t game breaking at all but it just makes no sense for your character to get it 40 levels after you already escaped the prison, rather than when you just got out of prison. It’s like I got the outfit style from being a prisoner, so why 40 levels after I’ve already got over my imprisonment have I just learned the style?

Anyway just an Opinion. Not a rant

Reloader84

Gravord wrote: »

Gnozo wrote: »

I would eat my pants if someday in the patch notes i would read this:

"Introducing some major Fixes and Improvement to Cyrodiil reducing the Latency Issues in prime time significantly while also increasing the Player Limit to 350 per Alliance."

Man this would be a mark in ESO history. Everybody would cry for happyness and soooo many players would come back and bring new players.


@Zeni: Don´t let me dream, make it happen

Its really sad how Cyro performance has fallen. On launch it was 600 players per alliance, torchbugs and other animals were still alive and it worked like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bBvOKxnVE

Now, barely 100 players per side, most animals killed off and its still insane lagfest ;/

Make Cyrodill great again!

If they fixed latency issues this game would probably be the #1 game, So uhhh agreed Zenimax needs to get the latency issues under control games been out far too long to still have these issues.

VaxtinTheWolf

• Fixed an issue where changing the dye applied through the outfitting system had a cost associated with it.

This seems to be missing from the notes.

f047ys3v3n

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Weapon

• Destruction Staff
  • Elemental Storm: Reduced the radius of this ability and its morphs to 8 meters from 10 meters.

I know this is about eye of the storm groups and that it is really about 6 months late. Lowering the AOE caps in morrowind and making fire ring ranged already greatly curtailed the eye groups. I should also note that many in those groups already switched back to bat swarm with the eye damage nerf a few patches ago. Lastly, it has not escaped my attention that many who still use the eye zerg strategy are, shall we say, a little synthetically tanky, high in damage output, and hard to report to ZOS because, you know, there names have lots of characters in them that aren't on your keyboard (wonder why they do that ). Without the AOE caps this strategy is just not that effective anymore. I expect the primary effects of this change will be just to nerf PVE magica AOE and send mNB's and mTemps looking for any remotely useful ultimate.

I should also note that, given that I like playing my mNB the most this change mostly annoys me because my class ultimates are all garbage. If I was a DK I would not care because I would still have 3 useful ultimates. As a mNB I may find myself just running meteor both bars because storm is so bloody expensive and this is a reduction in area of almost half. Or, maybe I just have to be a vampire because, again, I lack access to quality ultimates. My answer to this, BTW, is to make soul harvest ranged for PVE because mNB's are ranged and this would be a useful ulti to proc the HOF magica DD set with as well as a solid ulti for sustained dps in PVE. I would also decrease the cost and increase the damage of veil for use in trash pulls as a lightweight AOE DOT and good group utility damage mitigation skill. As for soul tether, you could give it back it's damage for PVP. Bomb blades with VD are really not a thing anymore with your massive nerf to this ulti as well as sap essence (which is no longer on my bar in either PVP or PVE even though there is a slot that I could use for it in both.)

Not only is the Elemental storm change unnecessary. It is a real *** move to classes like NB and Templar, whose class ulti's you have gutted to the point that nobody uses them.

Gravord wrote: »

Its really sad how Cyro performance has fallen. On launch it was 600 players per alliance, torchbugs and other animals were still alive and it worked like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bBvOKxnVE

Now, barely 100 players per side, most animals killed off and its still insane lagfest ;/

Make Cyrodill great again!

Shh, your not supposed to know that Cyro used to hold 600 per side and now only has 100. It's a secret.

Also, I feel like the lag has been greatly reduced. I don't know that it is any better than at launch but it is certainly better than when a certain guild was commonly running DDOS attacks. During those year(s) I would log in, often encounter a slideshow when there wasn't even any combat around, and log out. It may be just that that guild quit or maybe they have actually improved something. The lag is usually not that bad for me. I can't help but notice how small the fights typically are though. 100 per side is not many and even with a full campaign there is almost never a 30+ on 30+ situation.

technohic

f047ys3v3n wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Weapon

• Destruction Staff
  • Elemental Storm: Reduced the radius of this ability and its morphs to 8 meters from 10 meters.

I know this is about eye of the storm groups and that it is really about 6 months late. Lowering the AOE caps in morrowind and making fire ring ranged already greatly curtailed the eye groups. I should also note that many in those groups already switched back to bat swarm with the eye damage nerf a few patches ago. Lastly, it has not escaped my attention that many who still use the eye zerg strategy are, shall we say, a little synthetically tanky, high in damage output, and hard to report to ZOS because, you know, there names have lots of characters in them that aren't on your keyboard (wonder why they do that ). Without the AOE caps this strategy is just not that effective anymore. I expect the primary effects of this change will be just to nerf PVE magica AOE and send mNB's and mTemps looking for any remotely useful ultimate.

I should also note that, given that I like playing my mNB the most this change mostly annoys me because my class ultimates are all garbage. If I was a DK I would not care because I would still have 3 useful ultimates. As a mNB I may find myself just running meteor both bars because storm is so bloody expensive and this is a reduction in area of almost half. Or, maybe I just have to be a vampire because, again, I lack access to quality ultimates. My answer to this, BTW, is to make soul harvest ranged for PVE because mNB's are ranged and this would be a useful ulti to proc the HOF magica DD set with as well as a solid ulti for sustained dps in PVE. I would also decrease the cost and increase the damage of veil for use in trash pulls as a lightweight AOE DOT and good group utility damage mitigation skill. As for soul tether, you could give it back it's damage for PVP. Bomb blades with VD are really not a thing anymore with your massive nerf to this ulti as well as sap essence (which is no longer on my bar in either PVP or PVE even though there is a slot that I could use for it in both.)

Not only is the Elemental storm change unnecessary. It is a real *** move to classes like NB and Templar, whose class ulti's you have gutted to the point that nobody uses them.

Gravord wrote: »

Its really sad how Cyro performance has fallen. On launch it was 600 players per alliance, torchbugs and other animals were still alive and it worked like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bBvOKxnVE

Now, barely 100 players per side, most animals killed off and its still insane lagfest ;/

Make Cyrodill great again!

Shh, your not supposed to know that Cyro used to hold 600 per side and now only has 100. It's a secret.

Also, I feel like the lag has been greatly reduced. I don't know that it is any better than at launch but it is certainly better than when a certain guild was commonly running DDOS attacks. During those year(s) I would log in, often encounter a slideshow when there wasn't even any combat around, and log out. It may be just that that guild quit or maybe they have actually improved something. The lag is usually not that bad for me. I can't help but notice how small the fights typically are though. 100 per side is not many and even with a full campaign there is almost never a 30+ on 30+ situation.

They really caused havoc on the servers.


lol Had to do it.

Tommy_The_Gun

Hollery wrote: »

soul harvest is dodgable... So now there is no interesting choice between Soul Harvest and Incap... Thanks. Now it's time to make birds dodgable

LOL - this is an dodgable ULTIMATE While warden has undodgeable ranged spam-able

gronoxvx

Ser Lobo wrote: »

Due to the addition of the outfit system, more players will be searching and buying and selling motiffs. Please, either include a search bar available by default on guild traders (crucial on consoles where mods cannot compensate), AND/OR add a new drop down under motiff that allows us to search for individual motiff styles at the very least.

Should be a very simple quality of life change that would make the trader experience much easier for crafters and roleplayers alike.

^^^^^^^this.

Not only would it help players buying from guild traders, but also sellers as at the moment we need to search through one by one to see of we’re doubling up on items that others are selling or if we want to price check items.

frozywozy

@ZOS_GinaBruno

I reported a year ago a bug regarding the block animation staying permanently on your character until you relog or change to another instance (From Cyrodiil to a delve/IC/pve land). I have made multiple follow ups since but I have never got any reply from a staff member who aknowledged this issue. Could we please take a look?

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/324157/block-animation-bug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LtszZjtxHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvB-yAXhNGs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uevdNygAMKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlO8vlsZMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOw_vTwtM4s

Thank you.

SirDopey

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Dedricus wrote: »

Can we expect any news on a more detailed combat balance update?

Yes. We're planning to have Wrobel on our next ESO Live show, and (if all goes according to plan) would like to post the January Combat Update in tandem with that.

Wait, isn't the next ESO Live not until the beginning of Feb?

How long will that leave for players to test combat changes on the PTS then?

xSkullfox

And again no vSO fix...

Didgerion

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Didgerion wrote: »

I repeat myself! There should not be telvar thievery mechanics in the game when there is such an imbalanced combat system.

Don’t like PvP?

You can still purchase housing storage with writ vouchers or crowns ...

I like PvP,
I don't like someone collecting 3k+ telvar stones from me just for clicking 2 skills on his gang build.
While on the other hand if his gang attempt fails and he dies he loses 50ish tel-vars at most.

Thievery should be a risky business - it is rewording until caught but you should loose much more when being caught.
Well the second part of thievery's consequences is missing in ESO!

TazESO

Gnozo wrote: »

I would eat my pants if someday in the patch notes i would read this:

"Introducing some major Fixes and Improvement to Cyrodiil reducing the Latency Issues in prime time significantly while also increasing the Player Limit to 350 per Alliance."

Man this would be a mark in ESO history. Everybody would cry for happyness and soooo many players would come back and bring new players.


@Zeni: Don´t let me dream, make it happen

This. <smiles dreamily>

manwoodsal

Make The storage Chest and Storage Coffer version for sell for Chowns. Then hiding it behind the stones or wirts.

olsborg

How about shadow image, is that being fixed for update 17? How about cloak? How about draining shot?

Thanks.

Mystrius_Archaion

Phage wrote: »

You really should've just nerfed Eye of the Storm. Elemental Rage was fine the way it was.

They obviously saw a problem with ONLY Elemental Rage, so why would they nerf the other morph that didn't have the problem?
They didn't see a problem with Eye of the Storm.

People think this was a pvp nerf, but it was definitely a pve nerf since they don't want it to be too easy during AoE situations with them removing AoE damage caps. A 10m radius is 20m diameter which means a huge circle almost as big as the max range of single target abilities at 28m. A comparable skill for area is the Templar's Ritual of Retribution you can look at in game.
That's just too far for so much damage.

johnnified

Where is the fix to Puncturing Sweeps for the Templar?

Mystrius_Archaion

Nox_Noir wrote: »

Destruction Staff

Elemental Storm: Reduced the radius of this ability and its morphs to 8 meters from 10 meters.

Why on earth would you nerf both morphs??? Only eye of the storm was problematic... Why nerf the PVE morph?

People still insanely believe a morph is "pvp only" when there is no "pvp only" skill in this game which is the reason people still claim "stop nerfing pve because of pvp"?

FYI, there is always somebody who uses every skill in pve and pvp, even if you don't see the value.

I, and others, use Eye of the Storm in pve because those damn NPC enemies move around, especially when some tank(or fake tank) tries to kite a boss that either doesn't need to be kited or is forced to because the healer died and a stationary boss will trigger AoE more often than a moving boss.
Ground targeted AoEs don't work against moving enemies, especially since now players can and do disable ally effects that don't have any benefit to them like Elemental Blockade so that they don't know where those are and move the boss or adds out of those AoEs ALL THE TIME. How are things supposed to die fast when they're not in the damage fields?

monkey36948

ztyhurstub17_ESO wrote: »

Ardent Flame

Dragonknight Standard: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs could not be dispelled by Negate Magic or the Earthgore Item Set.

Does that mean we can't use it against the mages in VMoL anymore?

most likely I mean mag toons all our ults get negated

Gnortranermara

This is simple: put guild tabards as high as possible on the priority list (above gear, outfits, and costumes too if possible) and add a "hide tabard" option to the game options.

Kadoozy

Didgerion wrote: »

I like PvP,
I don't like someone collecting 3k+ telvar stones from me just for clicking 2 skills on his gang build.
While on the other hand if his gang attempt fails and he dies he loses 50ish tel-vars at most.

Thievery should be a risky business - it is rewording until caught but you should loose much more when being caught.
Well the second part of thievery's consequences is missing in ESO!

It's gank* not gang. But I dont feel there is anything wrong with the current system. Group up if you are having trouble.

Tasear

Earthgore

LordSlif

#fixtopplingcharge
#fixrunefocus

NyassaV

DDuke wrote: »

Oh boy, dodgeable Harvest


...waiting for the magblade riot to begin.

If they fix power lash I'll accept this 'nerf'

Splattercat_83

Twohothardware wrote: »

tamrielwinner wrote: »

the destro ult nerf is unwarranted

There's never been nerfs more warranted than ones applied to Destro Ult lol.

Not for PVE. Over here in the other half of the game are getting tired of the constant nerfs being made to us due to PVP. PVP is not the only part of the game.

afonik

Didgerion wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Didgerion wrote: »

I repeat myself! There should not be telvar thievery mechanics in the game when there is such an imbalanced combat system.

Don’t like PvP?

You can still purchase housing storage with writ vouchers or crowns ...

I like PvP,
I don't like someone collecting 3k+ telvar stones from me just for clicking 2 skills on his gang build.
While on the other hand if his gang attempt fails and he dies he loses 50ish tel-vars at most.

Thievery should be a risky business - it is rewording until caught but you should loose much more when being caught.
Well the second part of thievery's consequences is missing in ESO!

We should only be able to stole 1.5xtel vars we are carrying.
To get 3k we would have to carry at least 2k stones.
I think it would be a valid and a better distribution of risk. To get a big prize one should be prepare to also lose big