PTS Update 35 - Feedback Thread for Combat Balance Changes

Lazuli

Can you please address the upcoming new medium-weaving meta?

renne

Lazuli wrote: »

Can you please address the upcoming new medium-weaving meta?

ZOS:

Jaraal

Lazuli wrote: »

Can you please address the upcoming new medium-weaving meta?

ZOS promised accessibility improvements with Update 35, and medium attack weaving is an accessibility buff for the top 1% of players.

ESO_Nightingale

PrinceShroob wrote: »

PrinceShroob wrote: »

I do not understand why Advanced Species has not been reverted. If you are concerned about uncapped damage increases, Nightblade's Pressure Points and Dark Vigor passives, Sorcerer's Expert Mage passive, and Fighters and Mages Guild passives still provide "uncapped" increases to damaging stats.

If Advanced Species must be in puerile poetic parity with Frozen Armor, then alter Frozen Armor to provide 1% reduced damage taken per Winter's Embrace skill slotted. I do not believe that this would be a problem, as it would take six skills for a 6% reduction, a poor value compared to Revealing Flare's 10% reduction for a single skill slotted. And if it would be unbalanced... the ship is sinking. Who cares is some people are having fun in the water?

Alternatively, swap the functionality of Flourish and Advanced Species so that Advanced Species provides a static damage bonus for having a single Animal Companions skill slotted while Flourish provides a scaling magicka and stamina recovery bonus based on how many Animal Companions abilities are slotted.

Additional point: if you wanted to give Wardens a penetration bonus, why is it not attached to the passive called Piercing Cold?

Please no

francesinhalover

Jaraal wrote: »

Lazuli wrote: »

Can you please address the upcoming new medium-weaving meta?

ZOS promised accessibility improvements with Update 35, and medium attack weaving is an accessibility buff for the top 1% of players.

Not even 1%. Medium weave is just unreliable.

Enundr

Jaraal wrote: »

Lazuli wrote: »

Can you please address the upcoming new medium-weaving meta?

ZOS promised accessibility improvements with Update 35, and medium attack weaving is an accessibility buff for the top 1% of players.

honestly the combat changes do the exact opposite of the claim theyve made , to not have realized this and scrapped it at this point for the time frame they have left vs how much theyd have to change is pretty bad. if it launches with them then this game will lose a good chunk of players , a game that went from sub based to free to play (with sub option) , the next part of that when a game isnt doing well / hemmorages players like that is getting the plug pulled. thats generally how it goes if it doesnt do that outright (warhammer age of rackoning , wildstar as examples of mmos that didnt do the F2P model and just outright pulled the plug). the funny part for warhammer? got the exact same vibes from the devs after the EA buyout of it that im getting for ESO now for this update.......some serious red flags there to jump ship at this point (and frankly ive already cut off any $ going to them from me as soon as i noticed this). This is quite literally their last chance to save face and try to regain some of their players back is by just NOT PUTTING THE COMBAT UPDATE OUT , it would send a message that there is some attempts at listening at this point.

acastanza_ESO

With the loss of major heroism from Oakensoul (a good change if I'm honest) there is one particular niche where its was actually filling a necessary gameplay gap - the ability of Vampires and Werewolves to have reasonably access to their transformation ultimate.

I would suggest buffing Shapeshifers's chain (a quite underwhelming mythic item) with the addition of conditional access to Major Heroism (i.e. "gain Major Heroism while a Vampire or Werewolf transformation ultimate is slotted"). This would allow those players the reasonable access to their transformation ultimates that oakensoul offered, without recreating the ultspam meta that Oakensoul enabled.

If this ends up being too strong, possible adjustments could be restricting it to vamp stage 4, or removing the additional cost reduction.

rmajereub17_ESO

Just a heads up but a dev was asked about medium weaving in discord by SkinnyCheeks and said that Empower would not hit live allowing medium weaving to rule as meta. Said Empower would be corrected to only effect fully-charged heavies.

Glantir

Maybe they could add this to the sorc passive Rebate:

After revived from death, summon pets cost less and cast time removed only in dungeons, arenas and trials

It is really annoying to recast the pets after a wipe, most of time the tank is allready counting for the next round and the sorc is still casting his pets ...

Or as stam player it is not possible to summon both pets in combat after death because its to expensive

Mr_Stach

To summarize my personal experience with this PTS Cycle:

kieso

I don't like the new molten whip using stam as well as maj. My stamina pool isn't big and its precious.