In the PTS, nobody can hear you scream

jrgray93

It sure would be nice if player feedback counted for anything around here.

A 15 month absence and now I'm contemplating leaving the game again already. It took one PTS cycle to get me this mad.

• Battle spirit exists. Use it. People have been at each other's throats for seven years because you refuse to make balance changes without screwing over one side or the other. I don't care if it adds a sever-side calculation. You've reduced these recently and have the budget to include it without breaking the game. It can't be worse than it has been in the past.
  
• Why are you so concerned with repeatedly nerfing my DPS? You keep incrementally lowering the ceiling and have neglected to raise the floor. I can't pug and am forced to run dungeons with the same people repeatedly, because running with 95% of the player base is a nightmare. Everyone and their mom is doing 5-10k DPS, but balance changes are constantly fatiguing the minority of players who have mastered the game. God forbid I be able to blast through content after thousands of hours of grinding and training. At least I can only do 75k DPS on a trial dummy instead of 78k now. That will really make Jimmy over there with his heavy attack spam and pale order ring able to compete.
  
• On a related note, can you please stop making it so masochistic to play my tanks? I can't stand hitting the dungeon queue on my tanks because I'm at the mercy of Jimmy picking his nose in the corner for two hours in a dungeon that should take 15 minutes. But hey, at least you managed to lower his PvE DPS from 7k to 5k because someone got hit with one too many Skoria procs in a BG by a guy with 30k health and screamed about it. It sure will be nice to have even less build variety when another dozen or two already underperforming sets are nullified by unreasonably high scaling requirements.

StamPlar_1976

Love the thread title. But wholeheartedly agree with the post. It's gotten beyond tiring.

Ley

You wouldn't like running a dungeon with me.

Shantu

Great title! Not funny, but may as well laugh

With all the comments about Companions, this has been one of the funniest PTS cycles ever!

Ryuvain

Pretty much feels like the void of space. Feel like i cant breathe either.

Dojohoda

Great title and I agree with your comment.

xgoku1

Just become a semi-famous YouTuber/Twitch streamer, it's that simple

BalticBlues

I would give 3x AWESOME to this post if I could.

Suna_Ye_Sunnabe

Every word of it is truth. +1 for the title as well... everyone buckle up for quite probably the worst patch of all ESO's turbulent history!

ke.sardenb14_ESO

jrgray93 wrote: »

That will really make Jimmy over there with his heavy attack spam and pale order ring able to compete.
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This line right here, hit different. I felt the pain you went through.

Excelsus

jrgray93 wrote: »

It sure would be nice if player feedback counted for anything around here.

A 15 month absence and now I'm contemplating leaving the game again already. It took one PTS cycle to get me this mad.

• Battle spirit exists. Use it. People have been at each other's throats for seven years because you refuse to make balance changes without screwing over one side or the other. I don't care if it adds a sever-side calculation. You've reduced these recently and have the budget to include it without breaking the game. It can't be worse than it has been in the past.
  
• Why are you so concerned with repeatedly nerfing my DPS? You keep incrementally lowering the ceiling and have neglected to raise the floor. I can't pug and am forced to run dungeons with the same people repeatedly, because running with 95% of the player base is a nightmare. Everyone and their mom is doing 5-10k DPS, but balance changes are constantly fatiguing the minority of players who have mastered the game. God forbid I be able to blast through content after thousands of hours of grinding and training. At least I can only do 75k DPS on a trial dummy instead of 78k now. That will really make Jimmy over there with his heavy attack spam and pale order ring able to compete.
  
• On a related note, can you please stop making it so masochistic to play my tanks? I can't stand hitting the dungeon queue on my tanks because I'm at the mercy of Jimmy picking his nose in the corner for two hours in a dungeon that should take 15 minutes. But hey, at least you managed to lower his PvE DPS from 7k to 5k because someone got hit with one too many Skoria procs in a BG by a guy with 30k health and screamed about it. It sure will be nice to have even less build variety when another dozen or two already underperforming sets are nullified by unreasonably high scaling requirements.

I have a Dk Tank who I made back in beta and every patch I hate him more and wish he was just a necro dps. The DK class is unbelievably stale. Tank sustain and survivability nerfed over and over again. Now any kind of off dps for easier dungeons and overland content is gone cuz of the proc changes and the best part is both sides got screwed. Pve lost all proc sets beyond Relequin which I could write a whole thread on how tired I am of that meta but different point. And what did pvp gain from this? Apparently proc sets are even worse over there now? Balance!

Mythreindeer

Perhaps nose-picking could be made a HoT/AoE skill.

honey_badger82

Mythreindeer wrote: »

Perhaps nose-picking could be made a HoT/AoE skill.

the synergy should read along the lines of: allies can activate the "eat schnozberry" synergy to double the effects of any food or drink buff on them for 30 seconds.

jrgray93

honey_badger82 wrote: »

Mythreindeer wrote: »

Perhaps nose-picking could be made a HoT/AoE skill.

the synergy should read along the lines of: allies can activate the "eat schnozberry" synergy to double the effects of any food or drink buff on them for 30 seconds.

Huh, I wonder why there are no limited time food interaction set bonuses. Just the permanent ones.

grumpy_pants95

jrgray93 wrote: »

It sure would be nice if player feedback counted for anything around here.


[*] Why are you so concerned with repeatedly nerfing my DPS? You keep incrementally lowering the ceiling and have neglected to raise the floor. I can't pug and am forced to run dungeons with the same people repeatedly, because running with 95% of the player base is a nightmare. Everyone and their mom is doing 5-10k DPS, but balance changes are constantly fatiguing the minority of players who have mastered the game. God forbid I be able to blast through content after thousands of hours of grinding and training. At least I can only do 75k DPS on a trial dummy instead of 78k now. That will really make Jimmy over there with his heavy attack spam and pale order ring able to compete.

I think you're just frustrated overall. The devs have said that the dps will be lowered even more with Blackwood. Currently with CP 2.0 is quite impossible no matter how much you don't know how to play the game or how new you are to not be able to do a consistent dps - even if it's 20k.

Nothing is about dps race, which clearly you have missed the point. Everything is playing the game as it was intended from the beginning. Go through mechs, come up with different and unique builds and strategies to take down bosses and dragons and such.

jrgray93

grumpy_pants95 wrote: »

I think you're just frustrated overall. The devs have said that the dps will be lowered even more with Blackwood. Currently with CP 2.0 is quite impossible no matter how much you don't know how to play the game or how new you are to not be able to do a consistent dps - even if it's 20k.

Nothing is about dps race, which clearly you have missed the point. Everything is playing the game as it was intended from the beginning. Go through mechs, come up with different and unique builds and strategies to take down bosses and dragons and such.

We must be playing different games. Maybe you're new here. I assure you I have missed no points.

Fennwitty

Everyone can do consistent 20k? Have we told the random PUG DDs they're allowed to do that?