Official 1.2.3 Patch Notes

Foxhunt · June 2014

Phantax wrote: »

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

Phantax wrote: »

Zebug wrote: »

dang it....they took down the patch notes....stupid work making me miss information. RAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CRAP, knew I should of cut/pasted them, least we could all of seen what last minute changes they make...lol

I copied them - http://corelegiondefiance.enjin.com/forum/m/19720531/viewthread/13477015-patch-123-notes-62414/post/last#last

So you can compare.

Thanks. Original version -

OVERVIEW
Welcome to The Elder Scrolls Online v1.2.3. This version contains our second major content update, the introduction of the new Veteran Crypt of Hearts dungeon, as well as many other fixes and refinements to gameplay, quests, and more. We have also added a new FOV slider for first-person view, and improved the overall interaction with the world.

BIG CHANGES / UPDATES / NEW FEATURES

[Big list of patch notes removed for better quoting]

Now lets wait and see what changes....lol

Thank you for posting this.

Rylana · June 2014

Stop using trials as some gold standard for player builds. Fricken seriously.

Im sick of every skill being measured vs trials.

Also, challenge accepted, ive got a vr12 DW Medium Armor Siphoner ready to roll at a moments notice, let me know.

Hint - My build out DPS's most Sorcs. Only the very few exceptionals beat my deeps. So yeah. There it is, I said it.

Hint 2 - I dont use siphoning strikes in the build. le gasp!

At the end of my rope with this mentality that Destro/Light makes everything else garbage, because that mentality in itself is garbage.

Edit to add: NBs got a massive buff today too for spell damage, rut ro.

niocwy · June 2014

Casting anything in stealth shoud break it.

The actual bug was with DOTs that was already applied to targets when you entered stealth. The damage ticks of the DOT were breaking the stealth, which wasn't intended.

(there was also the issue that DOT on yourself broke stealth)

Moonscythe · June 2014

Why do I get a permission denied when i click on the link or copy/paste it? My feelings are hurt.

bandage106rwb17_ESO · June 2014

Rylana wrote: »

Stop using trials as some gold standard for player builds. Fricken seriously.

Im sick of every skill being measured vs trials.

Trials is the high end PVE content, I'd like to hear what you'd suggest I use to benchmark my build I specifically wanna design for PVE.

Surinen · June 2014

Cleansing Ritual: Decreased this ability’s particle effects in an effort to make other effects easier to see.

Sacrilege!

firstly wall of elements: fire
and now this.

arrowzagub17_ESO · June 2014

Wind walker - now reduces stamina cost by1% per pc rank 1 and 2% per pc rank 2? is this in addition to the stamina recovery or is the recovery now gone?

Anyone who can confirm this?

SilvaRavenheart · June 2014

Hope we go online soon, can't wait to feel out the changes. Very pleased with summoned pet targeting, very pleased indeed

Csub · June 2014

Moonscythe wrote: »

Why do I get a permission denied when i click on the link or copy/paste it? My feelings are hurt.

They accidently posted the patch notes earlier than they wanted so they took it back to the dev zone.

demonlkojipub19_ESO · June 2014

arrowzagub17_ESO wrote: »

Wind walker - now reduces stamina cost by1% per pc rank 1 and 2% per pc rank 2? is this in addition to the stamina recovery or is the recovery now gone?

Anyone who can confirm this?

Its supposed to be on top of the recovery, but I'm suprised that was pushed into 1.2.3 if it was in those notes. Notes now gone because they were posted too early btw :P.

Rylana · June 2014

bandage106rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Stop using trials as some gold standard for player builds. Fricken seriously.

Im sick of every skill being measured vs trials.

Trials is the high end PVE content, I'd like to hear what you'd suggest I use to benchmark my build I specifically wanna design for PVE.

Sap + Tornado after todays patch is going to make impulse yesterdays news. And you know it too. Especially with the buff to spell damage in the nightblade passives.

We sorc level now, and we didnt even need light armor to do it!

My tornadoes buffed by saps were doing crits of 650 (higher against really low health targets) just the other day. With the lower stamina cost on a magicka heavy build fueled by magelight + armor pen enchants, a DW/Siphoner NB is going to be serious now.

We are talking 50+ weapon crit WITH 45 spell crit. And being able to use two pools to dish the damage on equal footing.

Some fancy footwork and only blocking when NEEDED, and there ya go.

Never said NB is gonna be easy mode, but its going to be full on viable.

The only change I am probably making to my build today is I am going to put on two more pieces of Night Mothers Gaze somewhere for the extra 5 Spellcrit on top of the armor break from the 3 piece set bonus.

drogon1 · June 2014

Good stuff in there. Gives me a better feeling for the game's direction.

Please look into increasing dungeon XP (and PvP XP again) so that players have options for leveling. I know 7 subs (all of my gaming buddies) who might consider returning to ESO if this were done. (Not asking for new content, but for XP rewards to be distributed evenly.)

And more communication on these forums between ZoS and playerbase would go a long way to improving players' goodwill.

bandage106rwb17_ESO · June 2014

niocwy wrote: »

Casting anything in stealth shoud break it.

The actual bug was with DOTs that was already applied to targets when you entered stealth. The damage ticks of the DOT were breaking the stealth, which wasn't intended.

(there was also the issue that DOT on yourself broke stealth)

I know and I don't use siphoning strikes either, my build is the meta build that everyone is using, just a light armour resto staff NB and my secondary is sword and board, primary for DPS secondary for sap essence spam, haven't gotten on in 2 weeks since I got to VR12 on my NB.

arrowzagub17_ESO · June 2014

demonlkojipub19_ESO wrote: »

arrowzagub17_ESO wrote: »

Wind walker - now reduces stamina cost by1% per pc rank 1 and 2% per pc rank 2? is this in addition to the stamina recovery or is the recovery now gone?

Anyone who can confirm this?

Its supposed to be on top of the recovery, but I'm suprised that was pushed into 1.2.3 if it was in those notes. Notes now gone because they were posted too early btw :P.

It was definitely in the notes cause it caught my eye but they did push them before they was ready so maybe it wont be in the revised notes. Thanks for clearing it up tho.

born2beagator · June 2014

Siphoning Strikes: This ability now restores slightly less resources:

Not happy with this. But I guess the fact I never ran out of stamina was an issue?

Your pets can now be given a target to attack:

Nice, no more "derp lets attack the cc'd enemy!"

Endless Fury (Mages’ Fury morph): Fixed an issue where this ability was not properly restoring magicka when it landed the killing blow on an enemy.:

FINALLY

fromtesonlineb16_ESO · June 2014

born2beagator wrote: »

Siphoning Strikes: This ability now restores slightly less resources:

Not happy with this. But I guess the fact I never ran out of stamina was an issue?

Your pets can now be given a target to attack:

I do however really like this!

I love how they don't quantify 'slightly', past experience tells us ZOS' understanding of common English words often doesn't correspond to everyone else's.

onlinegamer1 · June 2014

fromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »

born2beagator wrote: »

Siphoning Strikes: This ability now restores slightly less resources:

Not happy with this. But I guess the fact I never ran out of stamina was an issue?

Your pets can now be given a target to attack:

I do however really like this!

I love how they don't quantify 'slightly', past experience tells us ZOS' understanding of common English words often doesn't correspond to everyone else's.

Health is still 2.4%.
Stamina and Mana dropped from 4% return to 3% return.

born2beagator · June 2014

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

fromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »

born2beagator wrote: »

Siphoning Strikes: This ability now restores slightly less resources:

Not happy with this. But I guess the fact I never ran out of stamina was an issue?

Your pets can now be given a target to attack:

I do however really like this!

I love how they don't quantify 'slightly', past experience tells us ZOS' understanding of common English words often doesn't correspond to everyone else's.

Health is still 2.4%.
Stamina and Mana dropped from 4% return to 3% return.

Thats not that bad

Is this the patch that is going live today or do we still have a bit for this one?

starlizard70ub17_ESO · June 2014

hk11 wrote: »

Will this make the Bow more viable in the VR levels? I really want to play a bow guy, but the horror stories have kept me away.

I've been playing a DK archer up to VR 6. It's challenging and sometimes I need help taking out certaian bosses, but it's playable. Of course it's nowhere as easy as playing a staff/robe type.

Wifeaggro13 · June 2014

Phantax wrote: »

tino.antoninieb17_ESO wrote: »

Guys when u do all that than open API so we can see/compare group members and thats it ....

Hopefully that will never happen. Comparing/examining other players just leads to Elitism, and nothing helps destroy a game community faster !

Not only that but just because a player has the best gear DOESN'T mean he knows jack-all about how to play efficiently ! ! !

Man you need to find real in game friends. API actually helps us we can work on what needs to be changed. Elitism is there reguardless

born2beagator · June 2014

starlizard70ub17_ESO wrote: »

hk11 wrote: »

Will this make the Bow more viable in the VR levels? I really want to play a bow guy, but the horror stories have kept me away.

I've been playing a DK archer up to VR 6. It's challenging and sometimes I need help taking out certaian bosses, but it's playable. Of course it's nowhere as easy as playing a staff/robe type.

What I saw from the bow I really liked. The snipe isn't really that much of a nerf, because with the range reduction, you get to be able to hit them 10m closer.

Also the buff to poison arrow was badly needed.

Apart from the slight nerf to siphoning strikes, this is the best patch yet imo....IF IF IF IF it does not break the game

born2beagator · June 2014

Is this patch being put in today? if not do we have an ETA?

bandage106rwb17_ESO · June 2014

Rylana wrote: »

bandage106rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Stop using trials as some gold standard for player builds. Fricken seriously.

Im sick of every skill being measured vs trials.

Trials is the high end PVE content, I'd like to hear what you'd suggest I use to benchmark my build I specifically wanna design for PVE.

Sap + Tornado after todays patch is going to make impulse yesterdays news. And you know it too. Especially with the buff to spell damage in the nightblade passives.

We sorc level now, and we didnt even need light armor to do it!

My tornadoes buffed by saps were doing crits of 650 (higher against really low health targets) just the other day. With the lower stamina cost on a magicka heavy build fueled by magelight + armor pen enchants, a DW/Siphoner NB is going to be serious now.

We are talking 50+ weapon crit WITH 45 spell crit. And being able to use two pools to dish the damage on equal footing.

Some fancy footwork and only blocking when NEEDED, and there ya go.

Never said NB is gonna be easy mode, but its going to be full on viable.

The only change I am probably making to my build today is I am going to put on two more pieces of Night Mothers Gaze somewhere for the extra 5 Spellcrit on top of the armor break from the 3 piece set bonus.

The increase to spell damage only applies to stealth damage you're talking about the buff to master assassin passive, that isn't going to change how I play my build or make it any more viable because I just don't use stealth anymore, also if you're going to gloat I'd like you to at least post picture proof or videos.

Rylana · June 2014

bandage106rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

bandage106rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Stop using trials as some gold standard for player builds. Fricken seriously.

Im sick of every skill being measured vs trials.

Trials is the high end PVE content, I'd like to hear what you'd suggest I use to benchmark my build I specifically wanna design for PVE.

Sap + Tornado after todays patch is going to make impulse yesterdays news. And you know it too. Especially with the buff to spell damage in the nightblade passives.

We sorc level now, and we didnt even need light armor to do it!

My tornadoes buffed by saps were doing crits of 650 (higher against really low health targets) just the other day. With the lower stamina cost on a magicka heavy build fueled by magelight + armor pen enchants, a DW/Siphoner NB is going to be serious now.

We are talking 50+ weapon crit WITH 45 spell crit. And being able to use two pools to dish the damage on equal footing.

Some fancy footwork and only blocking when NEEDED, and there ya go.

Never said NB is gonna be easy mode, but its going to be full on viable.

The only change I am probably making to my build today is I am going to put on two more pieces of Night Mothers Gaze somewhere for the extra 5 Spellcrit on top of the armor break from the 3 piece set bonus.

I'd like you to at least post picture proof or videos.

Why? So you can sit and nitpick the individual situation?

"Well look see theres three mobs there, that dps doesnt count cause it wasnt exactly four, or two, or negative six"

"Well that mob was looking the other way, and it has lower AR than that one there, so thats wrong too, no no no I cant count this as evidence"

Please, ive been doing this for long enough in other games to know exactly how "evidence" goes.

I suppose youd question a screencap I have of my templar hitting 16k HPS during an anom grind?

Islyn · June 2014

bandage106rwb17_ESO wrote: »

See I don't get what you mean when you say "infinite resources" no you're aware you need to light attack right?

Your dual wield/bowbuild...right...right, I'd like to see you use your highend build in AA trials.

i lol'd

Ifthir_ESO · June 2014

hk11 wrote: »

Looks good to me. I wonder what the resto staff no longer building ultimate is going to cause.

A lot of complaining from DK resto/destro players

demonlkojipub19_ESO · June 2014

arrowzagub17_ESO wrote: »

demonlkojipub19_ESO wrote: »

arrowzagub17_ESO wrote: »

Wind walker - now reduces stamina cost by1% per pc rank 1 and 2% per pc rank 2? is this in addition to the stamina recovery or is the recovery now gone?

Anyone who can confirm this?

Its supposed to be on top of the recovery, but I'm suprised that was pushed into 1.2.3 if it was in those notes. Notes now gone because they were posted too early btw :P.

It was definitely in the notes cause it caught my eye but they did push them before they was ready so maybe it wont be in the revised notes. Thanks for clearing it up tho.

If it is in the revised notes, and actually implemented once the servers come back up, they are crazy for doing it without doing a thing for heavy armor. Just going to cause using medium over heavy more of a no brainer than it was previously...

born2beagator · June 2014

Do we have an eta? Is this going live today or is today just maintenance

Arsenic_Touch · June 2014

born2beagator wrote: »

Do we have an eta? Is this going live today or is today just maintenance

It is going live today, but no ETA.

Attorneyatlawl · June 2014

fromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »

"This version contains our second major content update"

Which, like the first adds new content aimed and the vansihingly small minority who are able to actually play it .. like your friends in Entropy Rising.

For the rest of us, the vast majority, there is no new content this time either.

You have tons to go through still in the VR areas plus dungeons. You will need this stuff around later anyway once you reach it.