I'm back and need a run down on what I've missed please

Jamie_Aubrey

What things should I know and what changes have happened since last year ? Been seeing something about hybrid builds etc and need some more info

Grizzbeorn

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One of the biggest new things involves Achievements; most of them have been converted to Account-wide.
This has created a number of issues with tracking the progress of alternate characters, and in some cases, even prevents you from repeating content on alternate characters.

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ZOS_Exile

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opaj

The big change is that most damaging skills now scale based off of your highest damage/resource stat. This means that you can deal good damage with physical skills as a magicka character, and vice versa.

I'm not the right person to talk about how this affects game balance, builds, and whatnot. But I thought you might appreciate a real answer, haha.

FeedbackOnly

Update 33...we exaggerate on occasion, but this for a good 3 weeks made game litterally unplayable. Imagine 5 mins to put 1 item in guild store

NettleCarrier

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Update 33...we exaggerate on occasion, but this for a good 3 weeks made game litterally unplayable. Imagine 5 mins to put 1 item in guild store

I think that is a bit of an exaggeration... of course depends on your server I guess. I had two nights where it took a long time to post items, other than that things were fine. One was even trader bid night for me which made it even more frustrating, but the bids worked and I got over it quickly lol. Since trading is my life in this game I think I would have noticed if it went on longer than that

Gaeliannas

NettleCarrier wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Update 33...we exaggerate on occasion, but this for a good 3 weeks made game litterally unplayable. Imagine 5 mins to put 1 item in guild store

I think that is a bit of an exaggeration... of course depends on your server I guess. I had two nights where it took a long time to post items, other than that things were fine. One was even trader bid night for me which made it even more frustrating, but the bids worked and I got over it quickly lol. Since trading is my life in this game I think I would have noticed if it went on longer than that

Well one of my main chars couldn't login for a week, because the house it logged out in wouldn't load.

LostHorizon1933

(In other words, no permanent damage, but it stunk for a while.)

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Account Wide achievements and skills dynamically scaling off your highest stats are the big 2.

Practically that means you could stack into max stamina and spell damage for example. With some classes, that works really well for raw DPS, like Necro (my necro stacks max stamina but runs spell pots and stacks spell damage). For most classes, it just gives some more options on DOTs, heals, etc. Mag DPS? Run Vigor if you need a heal or Caltrops if you need another AOE. It will scale with your highest stats. Can also be useful in managing your sustain.

_Zathras_

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wenchmore420b14_ESO

Welcome Back!
Huzzah!

Jamie_Aubrey

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Update 33...we exaggerate on occasion, but this for a good 3 weeks made game litterally unplayable. Imagine 5 mins to put 1 item in guild store

So nothing new on that front lol

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Account Wide achievements and skills dynamically scaling off your highest stats are the big 2.

Practically that means you could stack into max stamina and spell damage for example. With some classes, that works really well for raw DPS, like Necro (my necro stacks max stamina but runs spell pots and stacks spell damage). For most classes, it just gives some more options on DOTs, heals, etc. Mag DPS? Run Vigor if you need a heal or Caltrops if you need another AOE. It will scale with your highest stats. Can also be useful in managing your sustain.

I used to run Caltrops on a Mag char anyway for the breaches in PVP, so they will do more damage than they would have now ?