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mychaelo wrote: »

eso_lags wrote: »

@ZOS_RichLambert so who came up with voldenrung? Please tell me it was wrobel.

@eso_lags It was literally said by Rich during the EW announcement stream that Volendrung (actually, the whole 'Artifacts in Cyro' thing) was Wheeler's idea. I guess you didn't watch it.

I did watch it but i missed it. Either way I think its an epic idea that is going to be implemented in a bad way. As a solo player i would LOVE to get that weapon and run through zergs like nothing (if thats how it will be). But i just think if the emp zerg, or the emp themselves, gets that weapon its going to be curtains for the campaign until that person dies.

I think it would have been really, reaaaally, cool if they added deadric weapons into the game in a different way. Regardless it might still change and for all we know it could be really cool. Guess we will see.

JJBoomer

change is always good. and sometimes very much needed. I welcome wheeler and look forward to what he'll bring to the table for both pve and pvp players alike

CompM4s

Now its time for someone else to become this forums punching bag...

Daedric_NB_187

Ummmmm....ok. Lol.

Kikazaru

Good or Bad. I wish him all the best. Lets usher in the Brian Wheeler Era!

Anyways, selling vintage Eric Wrobel memes at 50% off! Save even more when buying in bulk! Can't find a better price Elsweyr! Get them while supplies last!

LukosCreyden

A lot of his decisions may have been quite divisive in the community, but he was and is a part of the ESO family. I wish him all the best for his future.

ccfeeling

Cool , I love DAOC , can you guys add more classes like that ?

radiostar

Was that Brian that demo'd a dungeon and was drinking apple juice that one time?

exeeter702

lordrichter wrote: »

Welcome @ZOS_BrianWheeler to the Gauntlet!

lol? The wheels lives in the gauntlet.

DBZVelena

Turelus wrote: »

Whoa, That wasn't expected.

All the best to Wrobel. He was a great laugh and I will forever remember him as the guy who did a combat roll off the ESO Live set.

Will be interested to see what Wheeler has planned for the coming changes.

He'll "Sneak" on to the ESO live set instead. XD

Jameliel

Ertosi wrote: »

With this recent change, are the upcoming racial passives going to be reviewed in depth?

What's most concerning is some of the changes made that remove the effectiveness of some of the most icon TES racial builds:

Removing bonus damage to fire removes the heart from the Dunmer. For ESO specifically, this combined with the lower of max stat has effectively hamstrung Dunmer Firemages and Dumner MagDKs, leaving Altmer as the much more effective choice.

Removing bonus to sneak and damage from stealth from the Bosmer remove one of their most iconic abilities as stealthy little forest elves. And to make it worse for them these are replaced with a bonus to speed after a dodge roll which is redundant as most use a bow anyways which already has that ability. Edit: And which was replaced with bonuses to detection, which is only useful to PvP and worthless in all other aspects of the game; most would argue its worthless in PvP as well. Please at the very least switch this back to straight up stealth.

These are just the two most obvious hits to classic TES identity to races, but they're the most important as these two races appear to be left behind in the dust compared to how the other races are weathering the changes.

Please pay attention to this man's post.

Darkmage1337

Jameliel wrote: »

Ertosi wrote: »

With this recent change, are the upcoming racial passives going to be reviewed in depth?

What's most concerning is some of the changes made that remove the effectiveness of some of the most icon TES racial builds:

Removing bonus damage to fire removes the heart from the Dunmer. For ESO specifically, this combined with the lower of max stat has effectively hamstrung Dunmer Firemages and Dumner MagDKs, leaving Altmer as the much more effective choice.

Removing bonus to sneak and damage from stealth from the Bosmer remove one of their most iconic abilities as stealthy little forest elves. And to make it worse for them these are replaced with a bonus to speed after a dodge roll which is redundant as most use a bow anyways which already has that ability. Edit: And which was replaced with bonuses to detection, which is only useful to PvP and worthless in all other aspects of the game; most would argue its worthless in PvP as well. Please at the very least switch this back to straight up stealth.

These are just the two most obvious hits to classic TES identity to races, but they're the most important as these two races appear to be left behind in the dust compared to how the other races are weathering the changes.

Please pay attention to this man's post.

Completely and wholly agreed.
@ZOS_Gilliam please read, and take another look...

Rastoric

Congrats Brian! Loved playing DAOC RvR with Spear Hero & Void Eldritch.

baratron

Back when Council of Nirn had quarterly meetings with the devs, I remember Wrobel being a really nice guy who would often stay on Teamspeak long after the official meeting had ended to keep answering questions. I wish him well with his future endeavours.

Great news for Brian Wheeler! He's another great guy with a lot of interesting ideas, and I look forward to perhaps changes on the horizon, such as the opportunity to balance PvE and PvP separately.

Joy_Division

I appreciated that Wrobel genuinely tried to do his best and his passion and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.

Best of luck Wheels!

Slack

Minalan wrote: »

Be honest, did Eric roll dodge and then crouch out of the building?

He doesn't roll dodge out of buildings.
He claims the buildings, places a rune and shouts "THIS IS MY HOUSE".

Jokes aside, I actually think he made decent decisions concerning combat, despite all the controversy.
But one doesn't simply please the grumpy MMO crowd anyway

Loralai_907

Best of luck to everyone involved, but who is going to wear the fluffy rainbow thingy now???

starkerealm

Best of luck, Eric. We'll miss you.

Morgul667

Thanks for sharing information

Good luck to all of you

adeptusminor

I have to agree with the OP, he provides a good argument. It's time we nerf sorcs



Best of luck to you in your future endeavors Mr. Wrobel!

dogman

nobody nerfect sorcs like you, wrobel. we'll miss you.

shaielzafine

Wow, I'm actually extremely surprised. Looking forward to see what changes for the better. I'm definitely curious how the consolidated pve / pvp combat team will be.

Priyasekarssk

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

I wanted to let everyone know that Eric Wrobel is no longer with the company. We appreciate his efforts over the years on ESO and wish him well in his future endeavors.

Going forward, we will be restructuring the team to encapsulate both PVE and PVP teams, with Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer. Brian has years of experience in MMOs and combat – on both Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, he was heavily involved in class balance in both PVE and PVP. I know the team is in good hands and look forward to seeing what the future brings for that team.

PS - Bashing or trolling will NOT be tolerated at all in this thread. You have been warned…

My sincere advise to ZOs. If you want PVP and PVE to be competitive, dont listen to any noob streamers. All ESO streamers are downright noobs now, when compared to other games. You have data to do balance based on actual data and facts. Don't listen to anyone and whiners here. Conduct duel tournaments as well. Thats what all the best games currently doing.

You have BGs stats and trials. In all one class is over represented and that class is buffed again and again. Nerf magicka NB in PVE and make every class represented equally. Disband class representatives program. This is very important for the future of ZOs. Many are working for their own benefits and stream money . Not for ZOs. Thats why you lost many true good players in this game and you simply watched them to move on.

Ever since class representatives program started happening, do ZOs ever noticed DC has lopsided victories by huge margin in all alliance wars and some class are over represented in PVP and PVE ? In other-words where more streamers are crowded.
PVP balance become complete garbage. Some classes become way too overpowered and god mode and some classes gutted to hell to make many people quit the game forever. PVE too just loaded NBs in all Vet trials and dungeons.
Anyone who have common sense would have sensed there is something seriously wrong.

Especially magicka NB is way over represented in Vet PVE trials. All classes are simply kicked. Same in PVP and BGs. If I dont have a warden or DK, in my team I will wait for 1 round. Then I just quit the BG. Anyway its waste of time for me.

ESO has everything to get to a top MMO game.

Priyasekarssk

templesus wrote: »

@ZOS_RichLambert can we get updates as to who will be a part of the corresponding PvP and PvE teams or atleast the leads? Will be constructive to know who we should delegate to as such.

No one needs advise. No one asks for it. Please let the combat team work on real data and facts . Let them make decisions based on actual data. Not whiners and noob streamers .

Rygonix

This was pretty far out of left field for me. At any rate, like many others in this thread I hope Wrobel the best in wherever his career takes him.

Come to think of it this feels like having a teacher you have known since forever just up and find another vocation one day. You don't remember when they started, but once they're gone you start to realize just how fundamental they were to your experience.

yodased

So long and thanks for all the fish.

jainiadral

Best of luck and happiness to eveyone on the balance team, both past and future!

mb10

@FENGRUSH You won brother, you won.

Jules

It was a thankless job, let's be honest. One with probably insurmountable expectations coming in from all directions and literally no feasible way to please everyone. Wrobel has been this community's scapegoat for anything they don't like for years and that just has to weigh on a person, and a team, and that is regrettable. The two realities here are this.

1) Players praised the overall combat in this game.
2) Players demonized the combat lead.

So it's actually kindof interesting albeit it sad in retrospect that only now can we infer that Wrobel as combat lead probably spearheaded, organized, worked on and oversaw a large amount of the combat that we love. The man we loved to hate literally helped create, maintain and nourish a world we love. There is a really sick irony in that.

Wherever he goes in life from here, I hope he takes a solid lesson home from this. Sometimes, you just can't please your target demographic on the surface, but you can bring them joy despite it being from a place they can't see. Overall, you still succeed but at great detriment to yourself.This entire game owes you a thank you, and only now can we ponder on that a little bit and realize- we kinda did you dirty. Despite us being spoiled children who criticized everything you did, you still showed up to work for us, for years, and that's a level of selflessness and strength that deserves to be commended. I wish you the best.

StamSteve

Casual_Ranger wrote: »

Seriously Looking forward to Brian as lead! DAoC was one of my favorite games PvP wise and one of the reasons why I picked up ESO Was because I hear Firor and Brian were working on it in some capacity. This is exciting news!

My exact thoughts as well. Hopefully we can get some sort of meaningful pvp progression which helped set daoc apart.