PTS Patch Notes v3.3.4

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2018

The Elder Scrolls Online v3.3.4 is our final incremental patch on the PTS and includes adjustments to Hard Mode in Scalecaller Peak and several bug fixes affecting combat, itemization, housing, UI, and Cyrodiil. The size of this patch is approximately 105MB.

Fixes & Improvements
- Dragon Bones
- Combat & Gameplay
  - Combat Fixes & Improvements
  - Itemization Fixes & Improvements
- Base Game
  - Alliance War & PvP
  - Art & Animation
  - Crafting & Economy
  - Dungeons & Group Content
  - Exploration & Itemization
  - Housing
  - Quests & Zones
  - UI

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2018

Figure

The medium and heavy legs from the Fang Lair armor no longer clip when combined with thigh-high boots.
Improved the visuals from the Fang Lair light chest armor when combined with a Tabard.

Dungeons

Scalecaller Peak (Hard Mode)
- Player characters affected by the Icy Prison effect will no longer be affected by the other preventative mechanics (Geyser and Petrify) during the fight at the same time.
- The Stone Orb's Petrify beam will now affect you more quickly and reliably.
- The Geyser and Icy Prison effects will now remain active longer to help indicate when they are actually available to use.
- You will now be able to use Break Free when affected by the Geyser's stun. When Break Free is used, the Geyser will disappear in the same manner as Icy Prison.
- Icy Prison will now properly animate when it becomes active.

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2018

General

Fixed an issue where damaging procs from passive abilities or Item Sets were not benefiting from your Spell or Physical Penetration in some situations.

Dragonknight

Earthen Heart
- Shattering Rocks (Petrify morph): Fixed an issue where Rank IV of this morph was not setting secondary targets Off Balance.

Item Sets

Zaan: Fixed an issue where this Item Set’s proc was causing you to be unable to use other abilities.

ZOS_GinaBruno · February 2018

General

You will no longer fall through Outpost or Keep grates when hit by abilities that cause knockbacks.
Fixed an issue where quests obtained from Mission Boards were not consistently available.
Oil will now correctly pour through gatehouse grates at Fort Aleswell, Blue Road Keep and Castle Roebeck.
Cross-alliance groups can no longer group queue for Cyrodiil. When queuing in this situation, you will now be entered into your respective alliance solo queue.

Fixtures

Improved the texture on the backs of painting furnishings.

Figure

Fixed an issue where the Camlorn Sundas hat could clip through your character’s neck.
Improved the visuals of the Mohawk-style Khajiit hair.

General

The Morrowind Furnisher’s Documents available from Faustina Curio no longer contain plans that can be found outside of Morrowind, such as Daedric or Dwarven furnishing plans.

Dungeons

Blackheart Haven
- The Undying Pillagers and Bone Scouts summoned by Blackheart will now pursue you all throughout the fighting area.

Level Up Advisor

You will now be given a choice of Light, Medium, or Heavy Armor legs from the Level Up Advisor at level 4.

Furnishings

Fixed an issue that caused the “Tree, Petrified Ashen” to be invisible and intangible.
Updated the Outfit Station icon to match its in-game appearance.

Homes

Moved the boundaries and Slaughterfish back on the eastern beach in the Princely Dawnlight Palace. Dipping your toes in the water is now less likely to result in the loss of those toes.
Corrected several structures that had gaps or were clipping through each other in the Princely Dawnlight Palace.
Updated the collision for several walls in The Erstwhile Sanctuary to make it easier to place and remove wall decorations.

Alik’r Desert

Tharayya's Trail: You can now acquire this quest directly from Tharayya's Journal, Entry 10, within the Aldunz delve.

Crown Store

Replaced multiple missing assets in the Crown Store.

Help & Tutorials

Added a Help page covering how appearance collectibles interact with and override each other.

Feanor · February 2018

You will no longer fall through Outpost or Keep grates when hit by abilities that cause knockbacks.
Fixed an issue where quests obtained from Mission Boards were not consistently available.
Oil will now correctly pour through gatehouse grates at Fort Aleswell, Blue Road Keep and Castle Roebeck.
Cross-alliance groups can no longer group queue for Cyrodiil. When queuing in this situation, you will now be entered into your respective alliance solo queue.

Thanks for these. Very appreciated.

Cously · February 2018

DK

NirnStorm · February 2018

No DK improvements. Am sad.

Universe · February 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

General
You will no longer fall through Outpost or Keep grates when hit by abilities that cause knockbacks.

Fixed an issue where quests obtained from Mission Boards were not consistently available.

Oil will now correctly pour through gatehouse grates at Fort Aleswell, Blue Road Keep and Castle Roebeck.

Cross-alliance groups can no longer group queue for Cyrodiil. When queuing in this situation, you will now be entered into your respective alliance solo queue.

That's great

Thank you.

IZZEFlameLash · February 2018

=/ No DK improvements. Damn...

Koolio · February 2018

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

Edziu · February 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

General
You will no longer fall through Outpost or Keep grates when hit by abilities that cause knockbacks.

uhh finally after few years of rage while trying to def keep/outpost

Minno · February 2018

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

Bevik · February 2018

Huh so combat related changes before live? @ZOS_GinaBruno

Juhasow · February 2018

Minno wrote: »

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

Where do You have statement that was a bug ? There is no word "fixed" in patch notes which suggest more that they're changing how things will work not that they're fixing a bug.

Koolio · February 2018

Minno wrote: »

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

It’s been that way since release. AFAIK. So now that they changed it it’s now “exploiting a bug” lmao. Just don’t stand there. Learned that my first day in pvp 3 years ago. And never thought once it was a “bug”.

BohnT · February 2018

Minno wrote: »

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

No that was a noob filter, people dying to it deserve it. Also nothing is more fun than knocking the bird spammer down and see him slaughtered by a zerg.
It always felt like feeding some piranhas with fresh meat

Valykc · February 2018

Where’s that Maelstrom Dual Wield fix tho......

Epicasballs · February 2018

I'd feel bad for my magDK but Magwardens still have it worse. Class balance changes when? PvE MagDK's got the shaft this patch.

Apache_Kid · February 2018

THANK YOU FOR REMOVING DAEDRIC PLANS FROM THE VVARDENFELL DOCUMENTS

Also thank you for fixing the Cyrodiil quest boards. This has annoyed me to no end.

Bosov · February 2018

Edziu wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

General
You will no longer fall through Outpost or Keep grates when hit by abilities that cause knockbacks.

uhh finally after few years of rage while trying to def keep/outpost

If in all those years you havent learned where you can and cannot stand you totally deserve to fall through

Bevik · February 2018

Epicasballs wrote: »

I'd feel bad for my magDK but Magwardens still have it worse. Class balance changes when? PvE MagDK's got the shaft this patch.

Might be wrong but they said this Update 17 is not about balances. The next one will be. One thing I don't understand why aren't they tweaking combat, skills during weekly maintenance?

Minno · February 2018

Koolio wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

It’s been that way since release. AFAIK. So now that they changed it it’s now “exploiting a bug” lmao. Just don’t stand there. Learned that my first day in pvp 3 years ago. And never thought once it was a “bug”.

BohnT wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

No that was a noob filter, people dying to it deserve it. Also nothing is more fun than knocking the bird spammer down and see him slaughtered by a zerg.
It always felt like feeding some piranhas with fresh meat

Juhasow wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

Where do You have statement that was a bug ? There is no word "fixed" in patch notes which suggest more that they're changing how things will work not that they're fixing a bug.

So defensive, the lot of you lol.

It's was a bug, at least in the discussions we had in Crown's discord where it was confirmed it was a bug and that they actually had a fix for it. Took 3 years to fix, so now none of us can yolo under the front door and expect to pug stomp easily.

SodanTok · February 2018

Pretty sure making Arrow Spray, aoe ability, undodgeable is one line of code. So now I am little scared this is going to be ignored (or intended) for many patches...

casparian · February 2018

Fixed an issue that caused the “Tree, Petrified Ashen” to be invisible and intangible.

RIP ghost trees

Feanor · February 2018

Epicasballs wrote: »

I'd feel bad for my magDK but Magwardens still have it worse. Class balance changes when? PvE MagDK's got the shaft this patch.

Well they did say before that 3.3.4 or even Update 17 on a whole would not bring a lot of balance changes because those are planned for Update 18/Chapter II in the summer. If we will like how they will balance things is an entirely different story and after the Morrowind experience totally up for debate.

Peekachu99 · February 2018

Mag DKs will still be one of the most played builds in PVP, and they still can shield stack like a beast in PVE. This whingeing as if you (complainers) all have access to actual game-metrics, insider-insight, and behind the scenes developer knowledge, when all that you have is entirely anecdotal and clearly biased beliefs, has got to stop. Go play another game if you’re so disappointed. Enough is enough.

Balancing will come with the Chapter, anyway, as was already stated. Wait for that or just go rather than adding unnecessary toxicity to the game.

Edziu · February 2018

Bosov wrote: »

Edziu wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

General
You will no longer fall through Outpost or Keep grates when hit by abilities that cause knockbacks.

uhh finally after few years of rage while trying to def keep/outpost

If in all those years you havent learned where you can and cannot stand you totally deserve to fall through

no, I knowed it after 1st shittty death but many times you just move on this or something and gg
tbh when the hell is point of this *** if you cant stand on it to def you keep? then here should be just empty spece with small fence to be able put oil and to dont walk on this because it was nonsense to fall through it...but finally its "fixed"

Elsonso · February 2018

Juhasow wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Koolio wrote: »

Really. Can’t knock people through the grates. That was really fun to do. Once again fun goes away.

by fun, you mean exploiting a bug?

Where do You have statement that was a bug ? There is no word "fixed" in patch notes which suggest more that they're changing how things will work not that they're fixing a bug.

Of course it was a bug.

zParallaxz · February 2018

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Mag DKs will still be one of the most played builds in PVP, and they still can shield stack like a beast in PVE. This whingeing as if you (complainers) all have access to actual game-metrics, insider-insight, and behind the scenes developer knowledge, when all that you have is entirely anecdotal and clearly biased beliefs, has got to stop. Go play another game if you’re so disappointed. Enough is enough.

Balancing will come with the Chapter, anyway, as was already stated. Wait for that or just go rather than adding unnecessary toxicity to the game.

Everything u said was cringe. The fact you said magdks can shield stack and then said in pve. Lol I’m guessing u have less than 500cp.

Feanor · February 2018

@ZOS_GinaBruno

I miss the fixes to the various bugs with crowd control abilities that were reported before 3.3.4. Are these fixed and accidentally omitted from the notes or are there no fixes? Thanks for clarification.

You posted in this thread here (https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/392685/cc-break-is-broken) saying there should be a fix in next week’s PTS, which would be 3.3.4.

Apache_Kid · February 2018

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Mag DKs will still be one of the most played builds in PVP, and they still can shield stack like a beast in PVE. This whingeing as if you (complainers) all have access to actual game-metrics, insider-insight, and behind the scenes developer knowledge, when all that you have is entirely anecdotal and clearly biased beliefs, has got to stop. Go play another game if you’re so disappointed. Enough is enough.

Balancing will come with the Chapter, anyway, as was already stated. Wait for that or just go rather than adding unnecessary toxicity to the game.

Imagine acknowledging that balance is problem with the game and then putting off doing anything about it for multiple months instead of in your update that is coming out in a couple weeks.