xylena_lazarow wrote: »Your continued rejection of data is noted. There will be more data.Bushido2513 wrote: »Nobody here that I know of has that data so yes otherwise I'm not willing to take fractions of player gathered data as an indicator for the whole of pvp.
Bushido2513 wrote: »Alchimiste1 wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »Alchimiste1 wrote: »@Bushido2513 In your opinion do you think that ward is currently fair and balanced ?
For me personally both in the way that I use it and in all the enemies I've come up against using it, it feels fine.
Now that being said I'd like to be clear about where I think some of the issue is coming from for other players. My build and playstyle is simple. You probably can't kill me and I might be able to kill you. If I can't kill you and there's no help around then I just move on.
In regards to the way that I use ward, I'm a max mag build but I don't sell out for it. So for me I am tanky but I take damage on the regular and can't sit still by any means with more then one player. So for me it feels fine because I have to actively play the game and can't just nuke people while also being able to not die. I've also fought other ward users and if I can't kill them I just move on though I've been able to kill enough that I don't feel like I did when I saw an Arcanist and was like automatic skip.
I think if your objective is that 1v1 you should be able to kill a ward users then yeah it's a complete struggle. That being said I test players all the time to see if I can kill them on all classes and I've had a lot of 1v1s where I couldn't kill them but we both had damage.
So for me that's back to being fine and balanced because I never feel like anything is a default where I can always kill people or they always can't kill me.
Another interesting thing about the ward change is that it allowed me to have one more bar slot and I really appreciate how much easier my gameplay has gotten. Again easier but not to where I'm dominating by far, I just get to enjoy playing the class.
Thanks! That’s all I needed to know.
No point to try and convince you otherwise
There's not really much to convince me of to be honest. I'm ok with the ward change but I'm not denying that others don't like it and I'm not saying I don't understand their reasoning.
For me the only thing that is in contention that can't be proved by players is how this change looks on the back end to zos in their metrics. I've posted this multiple times, there's definitely a data criteria that could be met which would indicate that this change is problematic for pvp. Nobody here that I know of has that data so yes otherwise I'm not willing to take fractions of player gathered data as an indicator for the whole of pvp.
Alchimiste1 wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »Alchimiste1 wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »Alchimiste1 wrote: »@Bushido2513 In your opinion do you think that ward is currently fair and balanced ?
For me personally both in the way that I use it and in all the enemies I've come up against using it, it feels fine.
Now that being said I'd like to be clear about where I think some of the issue is coming from for other players. My build and playstyle is simple. You probably can't kill me and I might be able to kill you. If I can't kill you and there's no help around then I just move on.
In regards to the way that I use ward, I'm a max mag build but I don't sell out for it. So for me I am tanky but I take damage on the regular and can't sit still by any means with more then one player. So for me it feels fine because I have to actively play the game and can't just nuke people while also being able to not die. I've also fought other ward users and if I can't kill them I just move on though I've been able to kill enough that I don't feel like I did when I saw an Arcanist and was like automatic skip.
I think if your objective is that 1v1 you should be able to kill a ward users then yeah it's a complete struggle. That being said I test players all the time to see if I can kill them on all classes and I've had a lot of 1v1s where I couldn't kill them but we both had damage.
So for me that's back to being fine and balanced because I never feel like anything is a default where I can always kill people or they always can't kill me.
Another interesting thing about the ward change is that it allowed me to have one more bar slot and I really appreciate how much easier my gameplay has gotten. Again easier but not to where I'm dominating by far, I just get to enjoy playing the class.
Thanks! That’s all I needed to know.
No point to try and convince you otherwise
There's not really much to convince me of to be honest. I'm ok with the ward change but I'm not denying that others don't like it and I'm not saying I don't understand their reasoning.
For me the only thing that is in contention that can't be proved by players is how this change looks on the back end to zos in their metrics. I've posted this multiple times, there's definitely a data criteria that could be met which would indicate that this change is problematic for pvp. Nobody here that I know of has that data so yes otherwise I'm not willing to take fractions of player gathered data as an indicator for the whole of pvp.
And what makes you think that whatever standards zos is using to balance these pvp changes are more correct than those of players? I'd actually argue that if they are balancing purely from a spreadsheet its missing key practical factors.
It's like the difference between a theoretical approach and an experimental approach. For example, there is a very unpopular pts change to artic wind. Zos' standards for determining what needs change might indicate that it requires an adjustment but the players who actually pvp almost unanimously disagree.
You can't just dismiss people's arguments because you feel that whatever data they might provide is incomplete because they don't have the tools zos does.
Bushido2513 wrote: »TechMaybeHic wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »xylena_lazarow wrote: »Have you been to Cyro lately? DKs are going extinct.LukosCreyden wrote: »Glad to see the "nerf sorc" threads are alive and well after all these years.
Now without further interruption, lets all get back into cyrodiil on our DKs.
I just want to point out that while I'm not saying it's not true, people saying all I see is XYZ class is like when someone buys a car and they now notice their same model when they see it even though it was just as common or uncommon before. I feel like on my platform I see a little bit of all classes and maybe a touch more nbs. Could be sorcs all over the place but if I'm not sensitive to them I wouldn't notice it unless three curses went off on me one after another
We have literal counts posted maybe even in this thread, that shows the trend for PCNA
This thread and these forums are not considered reflective of the player base. We are an extremely small portion of the player base and are very vocal, rather than a random sample typical of a better polling method.
I played the game for many years before I took the time to create a forum account. Doesn't mean I didn't have an opinion, just means you wouldn't have seen it here. Also so far I've only seen two or three players from my platform posting on here.
The mentioned counts have nothing to do with this forum and are a from a very good method of a "random sample".TechMaybeHic wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »xylena_lazarow wrote: »Have you been to Cyro lately? DKs are going extinct.LukosCreyden wrote: »Glad to see the "nerf sorc" threads are alive and well after all these years.
Now without further interruption, lets all get back into cyrodiil on our DKs.
I just want to point out that while I'm not saying it's not true, people saying all I see is XYZ class is like when someone buys a car and they now notice their same model when they see it even though it was just as common or uncommon before. I feel like on my platform I see a little bit of all classes and maybe a touch more nbs. Could be sorcs all over the place but if I'm not sensitive to them I wouldn't notice it unless three curses went off on me one after another
We have literal counts posted maybe even in this thread, that shows the trend for PCNA
This thread and these forums are not considered reflective of the player base. We are an extremely small portion of the player base and are very vocal, rather than a random sample typical of a better polling method.
The mentioned counts have nothing to do with this forum and are a from a very good method of a "random sample".TechMaybeHic wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »xylena_lazarow wrote: »Have you been to Cyro lately? DKs are going extinct.LukosCreyden wrote: »Glad to see the "nerf sorc" threads are alive and well after all these years.
Now without further interruption, lets all get back into cyrodiil on our DKs.
I just want to point out that while I'm not saying it's not true, people saying all I see is XYZ class is like when someone buys a car and they now notice their same model when they see it even though it was just as common or uncommon before. I feel like on my platform I see a little bit of all classes and maybe a touch more nbs. Could be sorcs all over the place but if I'm not sensitive to them I wouldn't notice it unless three curses went off on me one after another
We have literal counts posted maybe even in this thread, that shows the trend for PCNA
This thread and these forums are not considered reflective of the player base. We are an extremely small portion of the player base and are very vocal, rather than a random sample typical of a better polling method.
@Zabagad
Please present them. If they are presented in another post within this thread please link that post since we are at 12 pages now. The forum should not just take people's word for such things.
Alchimiste1 wrote: »@Bushido2513 did you just say and I quote, " I don't feel the data is incomplete, it literally just isn't all the data available." ?
TechMaybeHic wrote: »The mentioned counts have nothing to do with this forum and are a from a very good method of a "random sample".TechMaybeHic wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »xylena_lazarow wrote: »Have you been to Cyro lately? DKs are going extinct.LukosCreyden wrote: »Glad to see the "nerf sorc" threads are alive and well after all these years.
Now without further interruption, lets all get back into cyrodiil on our DKs.
I just want to point out that while I'm not saying it's not true, people saying all I see is XYZ class is like when someone buys a car and they now notice their same model when they see it even though it was just as common or uncommon before. I feel like on my platform I see a little bit of all classes and maybe a touch more nbs. Could be sorcs all over the place but if I'm not sensitive to them I wouldn't notice it unless three curses went off on me one after another
We have literal counts posted maybe even in this thread, that shows the trend for PCNA
This thread and these forums are not considered reflective of the player base. We are an extremely small portion of the player base and are very vocal, rather than a random sample typical of a better polling method.
@Zabagad
Please present them. If they are presented in another post within this thread please link that post since we are at 12 pages now. The forum should not just take people's word for such things.
Not sure where the post is but have a link to the last screenshot I saw
https://us.v-cdn.net/5020507/uploads/editor/rt/8cohl9rfcuzl.png
The method is written in the chart and it's not my goal to convince you (or others) that these data are quite good...Again, what is the source of that data, and how is it collected? The last time someone cited numbers from an addon, they claimed the addon counted every player in the campaign, yet a couple of players provided a video to demonstrate how that addon actually worked, and it became clear it was not designed or intended to count all players in a campaign at any given moment.
So please excuse my reservations, but I have seen claims made citing proof that was proven incorrect.
Regardless, I see the base classes being the most popular, which makes sense as everyone has access to them. Warden gets into the mix with that. Even if those numbers are accurate, they show a short-term moderate increase in sorc numbers, which does not support the claim that the hardened ward turns a C player into an S+. If that were the case, we would see 75% of the game being sorcs. I say nope.
The method is written in the chart and it's not my goal to convince you (or others) that these data are quite good...Again, what is the source of that data, and how is it collected? The last time someone cited numbers from an addon, they claimed the addon counted every player in the campaign, yet a couple of players provided a video to demonstrate how that addon actually worked, and it became clear it was not designed or intended to count all players in a campaign at any given moment.
So please excuse my reservations, but I have seen claims made citing proof that was proven incorrect.
Regardless, I see the base classes being the most popular, which makes sense as everyone has access to them. Warden gets into the mix with that. Even if those numbers are accurate, they show a short-term moderate increase in sorc numbers, which does not support the claim that the hardened ward turns a C player into an S+. If that were the case, we would see 75% of the game being sorcs. I say nope.
All the interpretations like "hardened ward turns a C player into an S+" are not coming from my side anyway.
I just take the data and started as a magSorc main with U35 using this method (after a lot of validation with other methods) . And as much as I trusted them in U35 to prove my feeling that sorc was in a bad place after hybrid, as much I still trust them in U41+
Yes it does matter, which is why we are still providing ZOS with data. They don't operate these forums out of the good of their hearts, collecting player feedback and responding to the salient points helps the game remain profitable.Bushido2513 wrote: »Honestly it really doesn't matter... Only ZOS knows the full picture.
xylena_lazarow wrote: »Yes it does matter, which is why we are still providing ZOS with data. They don't operate these forums out of the good of their hearts, collecting player feedback and responding to the salient points helps the game remain profitable.Bushido2513 wrote: »Honestly it really doesn't matter... Only ZOS knows the full picture.
If it really doesn't matter, then why are you still commenting? Just let other players waste their time arguing, and stop trying to shut conversation down? You're not going to convert the crusaders here to Hardened Ward Agnosticism.Bushido2513 wrote: »The specific thing I was talking about doesn't matter
DrNukenstein wrote: »It's not that there are necessarily more sorcs. It's that there are more sorcs trolling entire lobbies with their currently unsurpassed survivability, mobility, and ranged damage. Their currently overloaded kit has enabled them to be very bold.
Many of them suddenly consider themselves experts on all matters of PvP since they gained access to the healy shield. They have very wordy and nuanced opinions on why the healy shield isn't just okay, but necessary. They believe that other kits and playstyles are unfair and overpowered, but never look in the mirror. You don't necessarily want to deal with them in game, but they leave you no choice because as soon as you back off they're back to throwing pot shots at you and streaking through on cool down.
This is the sorc ego. It is no better than any other ego in the game, no less toxic than any other play style and it has been on full display since the ward buff. Nerf it on the quality of their character.
xylena_lazarow wrote: »If it really doesn't matter, then why are you still commenting? Just let other players waste their time arguing, and stop trying to shut conversation down? You're not going to convert the crusaders here to Hardened Ward Agnosticism.Bushido2513 wrote: »The specific thing I was talking about doesn't matter
DrNukenstein wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »
I appreciate you presenting at least multiple view points of the situation.
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xylena_lazarow wrote: »@Bushido2513 repeating "it doesn't matter" is not constructive, because you don't know anything more about the ZOS development process than I do. You are making assumptions on how they operate. I'm just providing data. You are welcome to do the same, share more game experiences, builds, numbers, etc.
DrNukenstein wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »
I know some people are running into those kind of people and getting a bad taste in their mouth for sorc so I can understand saying ward sucks from that perspective.
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If the best way to counter Ward abusers is to abuse Ward yourself, that proves it's overpowered.Bushido2513 wrote: »It's interesting because I guess some are abusing ward and for me it just helps get away from people that are abusive like this so that my game isn't ruined lol
xylena_lazarow wrote: »If the best way to counter Ward abusers is to abuse Ward yourself, that proves it's overpowered.Bushido2513 wrote: »It's interesting because I guess some are abusing ward and for me it just helps get away from people that are abusive like this so that my game isn't ruined lol
@Joy_Division
@StaticWave
@xylena_lazarow
I may not play another class, but I can guarantee I have more experience in Open world PvP than 99.9% of the player base.
AP doesn't mean everything, but it also doesn't mean nothing. I have 11 million AP halfway through this months campaign and 16 million in last months campaign. And that's a month and a half of my 10 year play time.
I've killed a lot of players. I've also died a lot. I've fought every single build you can imagine from every class you can think of.
I've 1vX'd, 1v1'd (I don't engage in the competitive 1v1 playstyle its just not my interest), GvG'd and Xv1'd with the best of them.
I always try to recognize my bias in my statements.
I have a very good handle on what's Overtuned, what's balanced, and what needs to be buffed.
I also have a very good handle on what classes are capable of from the other side of the fence.
That being said there are extremes to everything.
Polar Wind isn't broken at 30k health.
Ward isn't broken at 45k Magicka (without Rallying cry).
This is my bias on the conversation.
Right now Sorcs have the potential for build diversity. I can make any number of sets viable on Sorc right now. That hasn't been an option prior to update 41 in a LONG time.
Address the outliers (60k magicka / Rallying cry setups). Don't gut the skill.
At the end of the day turning it into a HoT isn't going to change the fact that 18k Wards are now possible (major vitality is easy to get now).
And an 18k Ward without a burst heal attached is a problem.
Bushido2513 wrote: »True though these players will also just play any class they want while hunting in groups and using synergy of their builds and skills to get kills
It's interesting because I guess some are abusing ward and for me it just helps get away from people that are abusive like this so that my game isn't ruined lol
DrNukenstein wrote: »Bushido2513 wrote: »True though these players will also just play any class they want while hunting in groups and using synergy of their builds and skills to get kills
It's interesting because I guess some are abusing ward and for me it just helps get away from people that are abusive like this so that my game isn't ruined lol
Nah man, it's literally just those 5ish 24/7/every-single-patch sorc mains that spam BG's. Almost everyone else you have to make mad first before they start making it a point to fight you first. Those clowns play for attention. poke, poke again if you don't start dealing with them, streak around the map when you do, shoot you in the back when you try to go do something else. And god forbid you ever ever kill them, even once. They never forget.
Bushido2513 wrote: »
That night be what's different for me then or I've made it so that most leave me alone because I'm usually at the very, hard to kill. I actually get a lot more of what you described as nbs