Elijah_Crow wrote: »Even re-reading the intent, it's clear that at some point this went in the wrong direction.
Stealthy: Reduces detection Radius by 3m and Increases Damage Done in Stealth by 10% → Hunter’s Eye: Increases your Stealth detection radius by 3m. After you use Roll Dodge you gain 20% Movement Speed for 3 seconds.
A quick note on why we changed the Stealthy passive: Previously this passive was shared between Khajiit and Wood Elf, and didn’t help them feel distinct enough from each other. Additionally, since Sneaking isn’t a universal mechanic to the game (many enemies in Tamriel can’t be bothered sneaking about!), we wanted to take away some of the focus from the passive and build that into their other passives instead. We still want to support that game mechanic however, so we kept parts of each the Wood Elf’s and the Khajiit’s version of these passives.
Actually you kept no part of the Wood Elf version of this passive, except for in the Khajiit racial bonuses.
Since so many can't be bothered to sneak about, why give us a passive that increases stealth detection?
This change does more harm than good and removes viable stealthy race choices. Just revert to 3 meters of reduced stealth detection and you will have a much happier community and more choices in character creation.
Ragnaroek93 wrote: »Twohothardware wrote: »Twohothardware wrote: »If all it takes is a loss of 3 meters from the Sneaky Race passive to remove your ability to sneak then I don't know what to tell you.Toc de Malsvi wrote: »Seriously Bosmer is looking good right now. "Stealth based" gameplay is largely a fiction in ESO, only maintained in questing.
Invisibility through Cloak is the predominant "stealth" effect and has nothing to do with the racial stealth area reduction or damage passives.
I just don't get how people are complaining about this.
Your focus is on the wrong part of this.
When do you use stealth detection in this game? Let me know. Useless passive is useless.
U use stealth detection in PvP if you want to see the person sitting in stealth before they can see you.
So it's only useful in PvP, meanwhile stealth is useful in PvE AND PvP...
Will any other race have a passive that is only good for PvP?
Yes, Orc passive which reduces sprint cost and increases sprint speed...
Unless they are removing the ability to sprint from PvE areas, this passive is useful for PvE and PvP.
EDIT: Actually this passive is amazing in PvE! I may have to roll on orc for mat farming. Wow!
Murador178 wrote: »Ragnaroek93 wrote: »Twohothardware wrote: »Twohothardware wrote: »If all it takes is a loss of 3 meters from the Sneaky Race passive to remove your ability to sneak then I don't know what to tell you.Toc de Malsvi wrote: »Seriously Bosmer is looking good right now. "Stealth based" gameplay is largely a fiction in ESO, only maintained in questing.
Invisibility through Cloak is the predominant "stealth" effect and has nothing to do with the racial stealth area reduction or damage passives.
I just don't get how people are complaining about this.
Your focus is on the wrong part of this.
When do you use stealth detection in this game? Let me know. Useless passive is useless.
U use stealth detection in PvP if you want to see the person sitting in stealth before they can see you.
So it's only useful in PvP, meanwhile stealth is useful in PvE AND PvP...
Will any other race have a passive that is only good for PvP?
Yes, Orc passive which reduces sprint cost and increases sprint speed...
Unless they are removing the ability to sprint from PvE areas, this passive is useful for PvE and PvP.
EDIT: Actually this passive is amazing in PvE! I may have to roll on orc for mat farming. Wow!
or u roll around with a bow and get insane movement speed with bosmer
Ragnaroek93 wrote: »If you don't see how powerful this new passive is then you shouldn't talk about balance anyways. Having a race which supports mobility builds is a good thing and will enable a lot more builds than this gank stuff. You talk about offering more choices and meanwhile you want to limit the race to the Nb class (like it used to be), that's complete nonsense.
We are talking about the change that removes our stealth radius reduction and replaces it with 1- a stealth DETECTION radius which is patently useless in all gameplay and 2- a speed buff upon roll dodge that is obviously a pvp oriented change
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/453572/bosmer-racial-change-that-is-illogical-and-unnecessary#latest
Khajiit and Bosmer having the same stealth passive gave people a choice between animal looking and humanoid looking for their thief and dB characters. Now only Khajiit is good for stealth pve gameplay.
In PvE stealth is only useful for TG - DB quests and stealing, you can use gear for this and you don't need dps for it, same for running speed in PvE.Twohothardware wrote: »Twohothardware wrote: »If all it takes is a loss of 3 meters from the Sneaky Race passive to remove your ability to sneak then I don't know what to tell you.Toc de Malsvi wrote: »Seriously Bosmer is looking good right now. "Stealth based" gameplay is largely a fiction in ESO, only maintained in questing.
Invisibility through Cloak is the predominant "stealth" effect and has nothing to do with the racial stealth area reduction or damage passives.
I just don't get how people are complaining about this.
Your focus is on the wrong part of this.
When do you use stealth detection in this game? Let me know. Useless passive is useless.
U use stealth detection in PvP if you want to see the person sitting in stealth before they can see you.
So it's only useful in PvP, meanwhile stealth is useful in PvE AND PvP...
Will any other race have a passive that is only good for PvP?
In PvE stealth is only useful for TG - DB quests and stealing, you can use gear for this and you don't need dps for it, same for running speed in PvE.
No just saying the Stealth passive for Khajiit is for PvP mostly. yes its fun and nice to have but still an weak passive in PvE.In PvE stealth is only useful for TG - DB quests and stealing, you can use gear for this and you don't need dps for it, same for running speed in PvE.
Are you argueing that we should not have any racials at all? Because it sure sounds like it.
Hey Bosmer, you want to sneak? Put on an armor set! Hey argonians, want to swim fast? Put on an armor set! Kahjit, you want a bonus to pick pocket? Armor set!
Why have races? Just do a “build-a-race” through armor sets! /s
Sneak is good for getting by enemies undetected. There are plenty of “restricted area” quests and just areas filled with mobs. My Bosmer zips by enemies in delves to get to my daily objectives in summerset. I can do the same in Cyrodil in the delves there. And I do this on non nightblades as well.
Tell me where is stealth detection used outside of pvp environments? The answer is none. No where is it used. Bring back stealth.
No just saying the Stealth passive for Khajiit is for PvP mostly. yes its fun and nice to have but still an weak passive in PvE.
And forgot about sneaking quests even if just did one.
Lots of people uses sneak sets for thieving or the daily heists. You have speed sets used by farmers.
Having more utility sets had been cool actually, increase chance of getting extra materials from crafting nodes, better pickpocket chance.
Again the problem with Bosmer is pvp strength and balance.
And some chance an Khajiit or Dunmer would want other gear than an Bosmer because of sustain.
Ragnaroek93 wrote: »If you don't see how powerful this new passive is then you shouldn't talk about balance anyways. Having a race which supports mobility builds is a good thing and will enable a lot more builds than this gank stuff. You talk about offering more choices and meanwhile you want to limit the race to the Nb class (like it used to be), that's complete nonsense.
We are talking about the change that removes our stealth radius reduction and replaces it with 1- a stealth DETECTION radius which is patently useless in all gameplay and 2- a speed buff upon roll dodge that is obviously a pvp oriented change
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/453572/bosmer-racial-change-that-is-illogical-and-unnecessary#latest
Khajiit and Bosmer having the same stealth passive gave people a choice between animal looking and humanoid looking for their thief and dB characters. Now only Khajiit is good for stealth pve gameplay.
Oh boy seriously this is an agrument when it comes to discussion about balance ? A role play ? Ok so I want humanoid and animal lookig race with ulti gen bonus ! it's sick that only nord have it !.../s
Yes it would make more sense that cats with night eyes and large noses can detect enemies better.
But Bosmer vil be an very strong PvP race, giving them extra stealth could make them serious OP in PvP so they would need to be nerfed other places who would hit hard in pve.
Think this is the rationality behind it, yes they could given 2 meter or something.
Could sacrifice stealth for more sustain on Khajiit, perhaps an small block cost reduction to make Khajiit an potato race
yes its nice to have but to limited
Maybe we shouldnt burst from fuckking stealth??? I think that moving away from stealth races is awesome:)
Elijah_Crow wrote: »I understand and agree with most of the racial changes, with the exception of removing the Bosmer stealth advantages. This should have been about offering more choices, not limiting them.
Stealth gameplay is significant in Elder Scrolls games and particularly ESO with two DLC’s and with the justice system revolving around this type of gameplay. The changes suggest to all new players that if you enjoy this gameplay, then you must be a Khajit.
This is more limiting as previously you would be able to select from Bosmer as well and there were still trade offs.
I think the changes to Bosmer should be reconsidered. Instead of speed boost on dodge, I think being able to move at full speed in stealth (available from Dark Stalker or othe means) would be a much better passive. This maintains the “Hunter” archetype but doesn’t move so far away from being a stealth inclined race.
I genuinely feel the move away from a stealth inclined race will have a huge impact on diversity particularly for the Nightblade class.
Please reconsider this.
YouElijah_Crow wrote: »I understand and agree with most of the racial changes, with the exception of removing the Bosmer stealth advantages. This should have been about offering more choices, not limiting them.
Stealth gameplay is significant in Elder Scrolls games and particularly ESO with two DLC’s and with the justice system revolving around this type of gameplay. The changes suggest to all new players that if you enjoy this gameplay, then you must be a Khajit.
This is more limiting as previously you would be able to select from Bosmer as well and there were still trade offs.
I think the changes to Bosmer should be reconsidered. Instead of speed boost on dodge, I think being able to move at full speed in stealth (available from Dark Stalker or othe means) would be a much better passive. This maintains the “Hunter” archetype but doesn’t move so far away from being a stealth inclined race.
I genuinely feel the move away from a stealth inclined race will have a huge impact on diversity particularly for the Nightblade class.
Please reconsider this.
The difference in stealth proficiency between races is barely noticeable. Considering I completed all the Black sacraments and thieves guild missions flawlessly on a lightning slinging argonian magsorc this suggests that the little bit of stealth flavor that the Khajiit get is not going to make or break anything.
You don't get locked out of sneaking for not being a cat. Why are so many people falling into this foolish line of thinking that if something isn't the absolutely 100% best its not worth doing?
Toc de Malsvi wrote: »Seriously Bosmer is looking good right now. "Stealth based" gameplay is largely a fiction in ESO, only maintained in questing.
Invisibility through Cloak is the predominant "stealth" effect and has nothing to do with the racial stealth area reduction or damage passives.
I just don't get how people are complaining about this.
um just so everyone knows.
the stealthy passive only effects players chance of noticing you, not NPC's (it was purely a pvp skill) neither does the medium armor skill improved sneak, as it modified the same mechanic.
the only passive that effects NPC chance to see you is veil of shadows from the thieves guild skill line, as it specifically states:
"Decreases the detection range of Witnesses and Guards by 10%. Witnesses are thus less likely to notice crimes, while Guards won't challenge until they get closer"
there was testing done on this AGES ago (its easy enough to test) and yeah stealthy does not effect pve. and your dark stalker idea is OP. and if your using stealth in pvp combat your a nightblade and using cloak, and if your not and trying to make stealth without cloak work. . .then just lol.
um just so everyone knows.
the stealthy passive only effects players chance of noticing you, not NPC's (it was purely a pvp skill) neither does the medium armor skill improved sneak, as it modified the same mechanic.
the only passive that effects NPC chance to see you is veil of shadows from the thieves guild skill line, as it specifically states:
"Decreases the detection range of Witnesses and Guards by 10%. Witnesses are thus less likely to notice crimes, while Guards won't challenge until they get closer"
there was testing done on this AGES ago (its easy enough to test) and yeah stealthy does not effect pve. and your dark stalker idea is OP. and if your using stealth in pvp combat your a nightblade and using cloak, and if your not and trying to make stealth without cloak work. . .then just lol.
Stealth != Ganker - so can we stop with that already?
Stealth detection is patently useless outside of PVP - what NPC enemies use stealth to any degree that it'd be useful? Bosmers are getting a dubious movement bonus (again, mostly useful in PVP) at the cost of their stealth.
Twohothardware wrote: »They need to just add the measly 3 meters bonus to Stealth some of you are complaining about to the Legerdemain passive tree so that any race can be built for sneaking/stealing if that's your thing and be done with it.
Agree, they should remove roleplay passives completly and put them to some thieves guildd/legendermain skill line.
Well I hate to break it you; you’re going to have to stop what you use for your bosmer for if you want to do anything else in this game.... and at that point when you can’t do that one thing you use that bosmer for and need to get away... that 20% speed bonus is going to be useful.
Sneak is useful in EVERY ASPECT of the game outside of crafting and dungeons(trials) and it even has uses in crafting as it makes it easier to mat farm in Cyrodil. I mean I did the whole imp city quest line solo mainly because I was stealthed for 95% of it! And in pve? Forget about it! Everything is helped through the damage opener to just skipping combat entirely. I don’t need to kill mobs anymore if I don’t want to. Apparently I am going to have an extra 200 CP’s that are now useless.