PTS Patch Notes v4.1.1

ezio45 · July 2018

Actually nerf sloads and runecage

Leave traitors vault alone...

get ride of the 10x upgrade jc system...

ty

Sandman929 · July 2018

WembleyOTG wrote: »

Why are the first comments of any update or dev post annoucment always negative and bashing.. And you wonder why they don't seem to care about making the game when all anyone on the forums does is complain.

I'm just in console land waiting for the game work again after Summerset. So I'm eager to read anything that's going on with the next update while I'm waiting for the last one to start working. This is about what I expected for week two, so no complaints here. Some interesting stuff about IC as well.

Strider__Roshin · July 2018

Thanks for the Dark Cloak fix, any word on fixing Artaeum Takeaway Broth so that it works with Bone Pirate?

ezio45 · July 2018

templesus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

will we see an actual sloads and rc nerf next week?

templesus · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

There will likely be a few changes starting next week, yes.

A few is better then nothing at all so I’m grateful. Thanks Gina!

mb10 · July 2018

Magicka wardens are in a totally great state apparently.

Arctic Blast still scales from max health and still ticks every 2 seconds.

Wonderful lol

PureEnvelope35 · July 2018

Daus wrote: »

Thanks for the Dark Cloak fix, any word on fixing Artaeum Takeaway Broth so that it works with Bone Pirate?

It took them 6 months to fix the Spring Loaded Infusion + Bone Pirate

Juhasow · July 2018

Daus wrote: »

Thanks for the Dark Cloak fix, any word on fixing Artaeum Takeaway Broth so that it works with Bone Pirate?

They'll rename it to food

OneKhajiitCrimeWave · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Rune Cage has been totally overtuned since you put it in its current incarnation. You've literally had MONTHS of this exact same feedback. You reduced the damage but around 95% of the issue with it has literally nothing to do with damage. Its break free is totally schizophrenic at times. "You have 20k of stam left but nah, break free doesn't want to work for you."

Oh yeah, and our "defensive stun" can hit you in a different zone lol, you know. It seems sensible that all sorcs in Daggerfall can stun potential threats in Shornhelm at any moment. Never know when that stam toon may decide to walk ages to within 28 metres so they can stampede.

#NerfTheRange

#FixBreakFree

#ActuallyCareAboutBalance

Turelus · July 2018

PureEnvelope35 wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

There will likely be a few changes starting next week, yes.

Will they be positive for once?

Depends if it's your class or not.

Joy_Division · July 2018

templesus wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

If you are wondering where are the class balance changes, why X hasn''t been buffed, or Y nerfed on the second cycle of PTS notes, you haven't been paying attention the past year or so.

I knew there likely wouldn’t be any, but a guys gotta hope.

I agree a positive attitude is the best way to get anywhere. But it's self-defeating to hope for something when we're aware a specific pattern exists.

Hope for next week!

Strider__Roshin · July 2018

Juhasow wrote: »

Daus wrote: »

Thanks for the Dark Cloak fix, any word on fixing Artaeum Takeaway Broth so that it works with Bone Pirate?

They'll rename it to food

The art team better work on a new thumbnail then.

weedgenius · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We've also adjusted the rates of rewards within all Plunder Skulls for greater variety, and to make the Hollowjack Motif rarer and more desirable.

Good luck with that.

JPcrazysquirrel3 · July 2018

jaws343 wrote: »

Legendary Feather runebox, the first piece of a future secret item... do I smell Gryphon mounts in the future?

Also, farming for Dremora motifs looks to be brutal. I wonder if the Dremora Plunder skull will be a guaranteed drop on each boss type each day. Allowing for 7 total motifs to be earned per day. Or if completing a boss only provides a chance.

To make the arena motif farm easier, I wonder if we would be able to advance a number of characters to arena 9 of normal Maelstrom and then just complete the last boss each day with a different character to get the skulls.

It's called "Emerald Indrik Feather", ffs! Not "Emerald Gryphon feather"!
We don't need flying mounts. The game's engine can't handle it. This topic was discussed at length during the Summerset PTS, go look that up.

JPcrazysquirrel3 · July 2018

Wow, ZOS. 8 hours to add nothing new and game changing?

RDMyers65b14_ESO · July 2018

UGH! Forcing us to do trials to get motif pieces. Not good, ZOS.

Mr_Wolfe · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Special Merchant & Event Tickets
Event Tickets are a special new currency that can only be earned by participating in Holidays, DLC Celebrations, and other in-game events. Event Tickets are account-wide, so an Event Ticket earned on one character is accessible to another character immediately. You can hold up to a maximum of 10 Event Tickets on your account, and Event Tickets cannot be traded, mailed, or banked.
The first event to feature Event Tickets will be the Witches Festival, which is being turned on during this PTS patch. You'll be able to earn one Event Ticket per day, per account, by defeating any boss monster during the Witches Festival.

You can spend your Event Tickets at the Impresario, found just north of Vulkhel Guard in Auridon, southeast of Davon's Watch in Stonefalls, and east of Daggerfall in Glenumbra. During the Witches Festival, she will be selling an Emerald Indrik Feather for 10 Event Tickets each.
This unique, account-bound Legendary Feather is a Runebox Fragment; the remaining three Runebox Fragments will become available during future events.

While we won't spoil what they combine into just yet, be aware that the thing they create when combined will also be account-bound and untradeable.

Witches Festival
Beware the coming of the Dremora with the Witches Festival! During this event, which is available to test this week on the PTS, you will be able to earn the previously-unreleased Dremora Crafting Motif, obtained from Dremora Plunder Skulls, and the new Apple-Bobbing Cauldron Memento. We’ve also adjusted the rates of rewards within all Plunder Skulls for greater variety, and to make the Hollowjack Motif rarer and more desirable.
The delightful Apple-Bobbing Cauldron Memento can be obtained by acquiring the seven fragments of its Runebox. These Runebox Fragments can be obtained from any Plunder Skulls (Dremora or non-Dremora), found during the Witches Festival.

Dremora Motif
The Dremora Motif is available during the Witches Festival, inside the new Dremora Plunder Skulls. This style has been spread among all the evils that plague Tamriel; while wearing it, others might mistake you for one such evil, too.
The special new Plunder Skulls contain the Dremora Crafting Motif, in addition to all the bewitching loot that a normal Plunder Skull has. Each Dremora Plunder Skull is tied to a specific type of boss, such as Delve, Dungeon, or Trial Bosses. You can obtain a Dremora Plunder Skull by killing a boss of that type, once per day.

The specific Dremora Motif Chapter found in a Dremora Plunder Skull depends on the type of boss defeated to obtain it:

Note that for Arenas, Dungeons, and Trials, only the final boss will provide a Dremora Plunder Skull. All other bosses leading up to the final boss will only provide a normal, non-Dremora Plunder Skull.

Imperial City Celebration
Prepare for double rewards with the Imperial City Celebration! For the duration of the event, available to test now on the PTS, bosses drop twice their normal loot, daily quests give two reward boxes instead of one, harvest nodes give double resources, and you get twice as many Tel Var Stones and Bone Shards. If you are lucky enough to find and slay a Treasure Scamp in the sewers, you’ll enjoy double the normal loot from it as well. In addition, defeating the Simulacrum of Molag Bal in the Barathrum Centrata has twice the normal chance to award the Stonefire Scamp pet or Soul-Shriven skin.
Platinum, the Jewelry Crafting material for CP 150-160 rings and necklaces, is purchased from Tel Var General Merchants for 50 Tel Var Stones apiece, starting with the Imperial City Celebration. After that time, Platinum will be available from those same merchants, at that same price, even after the event ends.

During the Imperial City Celebration, drops from all bosses are doubled during the event. This includes sweepers, and bosses in the White-Gold Tower and the Imperial City Prison dungeons.

Overall this sounds pretty cool, but will the double resources apply to harvest nodes in open world Cyrodiil? Cause to my knowledge, there aren't any nodes in the imperial city.

ezio45 · July 2018

RDMyers65b14_ESO wrote: »

UGH! Forcing us to do trials to get motif pieces. Not good, ZOS.

oh ya, forgot welkynar motifs drop method needs some rework, please dont release it like that...

Kingslayer513 · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

You can obtain a Dremora Plunder Skull by killing a boss of that type, once per day.

I'm assuming this is once per day per character, correct? Is that limited to type i.e. you can get one of each type of skull per character per day?

Looking forward to the (potential) balance changes next week though.

Phreeki · July 2018

ezio45 wrote: »

Actually nerf sloads and runecage

Leave traitors vault alone...

get ride of the 10x upgrade jc system...

ty

Lol only the bad players cry about Rune cage, all the good players i see hit with it are breaking free right away. If you're a run v xer or not running immovable pots or hiding in the back of your zerg spamming snipe from 40m away that seems like a L2p issue.

Fake Remedy · July 2018

Where are the adjustments to the competitive battleground queue times introduced with Summerset? Is 40 minutes + deemed acceptable?

Cheers.

ManDraKE · July 2018

Juhasow wrote: »

Daus wrote: »

Thanks for the Dark Cloak fix, any word on fixing Artaeum Takeaway Broth so that it works with Bone Pirate?

They'll rename it to food

troll all you want but that is a very likely outcome for that bug lol. Renamed to "unique" and mark the bug as resolved in JIRA.

starkerealm · July 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Homes
Fixed an issue where the new homes were not free to teleport to.

Any chance we can jettison this gold sink entirely? At this point in the game it feels more like a newbie trap, since most experienced players will either port to a guild member or friend, then (maybe) sit through an extra load screen if they end up in the wrong part of the zone. While new players don't have access to those options.

Anti_Virus · July 2018

templesus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

templesus wrote: »

Where are the balance changes?

We're still reviewing a lot of the feedback and data from the first week of PTS.

Will we see changes next week?

Probably not, but next patch I hope we get some changes.

Joy_Division · July 2018

RDMyers65b14_ESO wrote: »

UGH! Forcing us to do trials to get motif pieces. Not good, ZOS.

Are they Bind of Equip? Why can't you buy them? Or trade someone who did trials for the one that you need? What's wrong with having a little cosmetic reward/incentive for doing a Trial?

jaws343 · July 2018

JPcrazysquirrel3 wrote: »

jaws343 wrote: »

Legendary Feather runebox, the first piece of a future secret item... do I smell Gryphon mounts in the future?

Also, farming for Dremora motifs looks to be brutal. I wonder if the Dremora Plunder skull will be a guaranteed drop on each boss type each day. Allowing for 7 total motifs to be earned per day. Or if completing a boss only provides a chance.

To make the arena motif farm easier, I wonder if we would be able to advance a number of characters to arena 9 of normal Maelstrom and then just complete the last boss each day with a different character to get the skulls.

It's called "Emerald Indrik Feather", ffs! Not "Emerald Gryphon feather"!
We don't need flying mounts. The game's engine can't handle it. This topic was discussed at length during the Summerset PTS, go look that up.

My bad, missed the Indrik part in the first paragraph. Just saw the Legendary feather.

And asking for a gryphon mount doesn't necessarily mean asking for a flying mount. Gryphons look cool, whether they are flying or not. So maybe don't jump to conclusions next time.

jaws343 · July 2018

RDMyers65b14_ESO wrote: »

UGH! Forcing us to do trials to get motif pieces. Not good, ZOS.

Dro'Mathra
Celestial

caeliusstarbreaker · July 2018

Great work this week everybody.. enjoy your weekend.

JPcrazysquirrel3 · July 2018

8 hours of thumb twiddling and Savage Werewolf is still showing up as Blood Moon!

Doctordarkspawn · July 2018

Fix the friggin' channeled focus nerf and STOP MAKING MOTIFS AN INSANE GRIND.

Someone tank the value for these motifs out of principle please.