Patch 1.6

SG_Celerrimus · November 2014

Alright, so I know I might be jumping the gun a bit, but I am really curious as to what 1.6 will contain, and when ZOS might reveal it. So, until our ZOS overlords bestow upon us the knowledge of what 1.6 will have, what do you think/want to be in it?

Personally, I am thinking we might see the justice system in it, since some of the systems were in place for it on the PTS, such as the bounty tracking system, and its been a major request since it was announced in quakecon. I would also think that ZOS would want to get that out the door ASAP as it would probably greatly increase the number of subscribers to ESO, as many people are waiting for that patch to come out before re-subbing or buying the game.

Sinbaar · November 2014

Hoping for justice system, the championssystem and the imperial city

i think it will be the championssystem and the justice system. have to wait for the city... but we'll see

Observant · November 2014

I'd like to see a guild arena. They've put so much emphasis on guilds in this game, yet continue to lack so much key functionality.

Pmarsico9 · November 2014

They can hold here and fix bugs, balance classes, armor, weapons, etc. Lotta content in 1.5 and lots of repeatable Undaunted quests to do.

They really should tweak the Undaunted set rewards since they suck to class-specific sets before 1.6, but other than that, unless they are rolling out spellcrafting, I'd love to see some focus on balancing and bug fixing only. There's no need to rush. They've done a good job with content and nobody can complain about there being nothing to do anymore.

Some solo vet-14 stuff needs to come out, but that can wait.

Neizir · November 2014

Justice System will probably be in Update 7. It definitely isn't coming in 6. It's a huge addition and definitely will need extensive testing.

We do know that an overhaul of Provisioning, additions of new abilities and many changes to lots of existing abilities are coming in 1.6.

Imperial City I think will definitely be in 6. Not confirmed by ZOS, but based on one of the past Road Ahead articles and the fact that IC was far along enough in development to demo at Quakecon in July, we can definitely expect that soon. Matt's wording was basically: Imperial City coming after facial animations, before Justice System and at the same time as Champion System.

We will 110% not be getting the Justice System or Spellcrafting in 1.6. Those will be coming in probably Update 7 or 8.

Phase 3 of the Champion System seems very likely. It can't be that far off, plus they demoed it at Quakecon and were able to tell us lots of details at the Guild Summit.

Hopefully we'll get some info at ESO Live this evening! They talked about Update 5 the first episode after Update 4 was released, and we can probably see 1.6 on the PTS in 2 weeks, with a release of December 8 for NA and 9 for EU.

Silver-Sabre · November 2014

I'd like to see it be less than a 300 gig download so I can play in the same day.:)

nerevarine1138 · November 2014

I'm very much hoping for the Champion System.

However, it's not unreasonable to expect the Justice System to come in 1.6. There was specific mention of the groundwork for Justice being laid down in the background of 1.5, so it would make sense that they intend to launch the system next patch.

xaraan · November 2014

Neizir wrote: »

We do know that an overhaul of Provisioning, additions of new abilities and many changes to lots of existing abilities are coming in 1.6.

I've heard this a time or two now. Source for that somewhere I've missed?

Neizir · November 2014

xaraan wrote: »

Neizir wrote: »

We do know that an overhaul of Provisioning, additions of new abilities and many changes to lots of existing abilities are coming in 1.6.

I've heard this a time or two now. Source for that somewhere I've missed?

@Xaraan It was mentioned at the last ESO Live episode.

xaraan · November 2014

Cool, thanks. (Just wanted to make sure I could move it past theory people were pretty sure about in my head to confirmed fact lol)

grimsfield · November 2014

instead of more new content in 1.6 how about they just fix everything that's broken. i would renew my sub for that.

Frenkthevile · November 2014

I hope one of these:
1) Imperial City
2) Champion system
3) Spellcrafting

Unlikely_Ghostbuster · November 2014

Neizir wrote: »

Justice System will probably be in Update 7. It definitely isn't coming in 6. It's a huge addition and definitely will need extensive testing.

We do know that an overhaul of Provisioning, additions of new abilities and many changes to lots of existing abilities are coming in 1.6.

Imperial City I think will definitely be in 6. Not confirmed by ZOS, but based on one of the past Road Ahead articles and the fact that IC was far along enough in development to demo at Quakecon in July, we can definitely expect that soon. Matt's wording was basically: Imperial City coming after facial animations, before Justice System and at the same time as Champion System.

We will 110% not be getting the Justice System or Spellcrafting in 1.6. Those will be coming in probably Update 7 or 8.

Phase 3 of the Champion System seems very likely. It can't be that far off, plus they demoed it at Quakecon and were able to tell us lots of details at the Guild Summit.

Hopefully we'll get some info at ESO Live this evening! They talked about Update 5 the first episode after Update 4 was released, and we can probably see 1.6 on the PTS in 2 weeks, with a release of December 8 for NA and 9 for EU.

I'd say @Neizir has the release timeframe of the upcoming content and features estimated the best, given what we've seen/heard from ZOS since Quakecon.

Wrothgar, the new solo-questing PvE zone that will debut female giants, could also potentially drop in Update 6. We've seen/heard about as much of it as we have the Imperial City, so it wouldn't surprise me if they release one right after the other in Update 6 and Update 7. I sincerely doubt they'd release the Imperial City and Wrothgar in a single update, but never say never. Hopefully we get at least one of them in the next update.

Leeric · November 2014

You would think, that the champion system would come in the next update since were at 2/3 of the way there. There is no way the justice system comes in the next update.

like1tiger · November 2014

Frenkthevile wrote: »

I hope one of these:
1) Imperial City
2) Champion system
3) Spellcrafting

Its to early for the last 2 but im guessing it will be Imperial City.

EatUrNumNumz · November 2014

I may have missed it due to work, or just not finding the right thread; but I see a lot of mention to the Imperial City. Now what is it going to entail and be for? Will it just be a neutral city to enter in Cyrodiil, or a city to pvp in?

eserras7b16_ESO · November 2014

Yeah I also think Imperial City is on the way:

1) Imperial City
2) Champion system
3) Justice System
4) Spell Crafting

And since champion, justice and spellcrafting systems need a lot of testing, and the imperial city is something really huge (Wich adds PvE dungeons too) I think update 6 is going to be the Imperial City all "alone". It is a lot If you think about it. Would be nice if Champion system is applied assap thou.

Divad Zarn · November 2014

It will be imperial city + champion city, seems like none of you saw old future ZOS plans about updates. Update 7 will be justice system + spellcrafting.

astro74 · November 2014

First of all what I think will be it and what I want to be in it is to veeery different things.

Think
More bugs
More emotes

Want
Code fix to remove lag in pvp
Code fix to remove lag in pvp
Code fix to remove lag in pvp
Code fix to remove lag in pvp
Code fix to remove lag in pvp
Fix so weapon swapping is as reliable as any other skill
Balancing to make Sorcerers useful both in PvP and PvE
(Removal of DKs from the game and turn them into raidbosses)
More sets (like better pvp sets and hig end sets)
spellcrafting
champion system and removal of vr levels
More items that actually can be alternative to set items.
Oh and UI

sean.plackerb14_ESO · November 2014

Like others have said I HIGHLY doubt we will see justice system in update 6. Would love to be wrong of course. I'm pretty sure we will get Imperial city, and we know balance and class abilities are going to be a major focus for update 6. Really hope we get the champion system too.

Sublime · November 2014

I completely agree with you @Neizir‌.

Apart from that:

Keep in mind that the CS gets implemented in 4 stages, we had stage 2 with 1.5, so 1.6 would probably stage 3 and 1.7 stage 4 respectively. Except if they feel the need to do some more iterations and delay it by one or two updates.

I also don't think that the Justice System and Spellcrafting will come in the same update, since they are both huge additions themselves.

So:

1.6: IC + CS Stage 3
1.7: Justice System ev. + CS Stage 4
1.8: Spellcrafting ev. + CS Stage 4

Would be my way to go.

EatUrNumNumz wrote: »

I may have missed it due to work, or just not finding the right thread; but I see a lot of mention to the Imperial City. Now what is it going to entail and be for? Will it just be a neutral city to enter in Cyrodiil, or a city to pvp in?

The IC is the area in the middle of Cyrodiil. You can already see it on the map, you can even try to enter.

But I wouldn't recommend you to, if you don't want to get oneshotted by a deadric offier or eaten by slaughterfishes.

It will be accessible for all alliances that own all their homekeeps and will be made up of 6 districts. I imagine it as a PvE area which is accessible to members from multiple factions at the same time.

For some detailed infos, check out the IC section of the PvP part of this Guild Summit Report.

tinythinker · November 2014

EatUrNumNumz wrote: »

I may have missed it due to work, or just not finding the right thread; but I see a lot of mention to the Imperial City. Now what is it going to entail and be for? Will it just be a neutral city to enter in Cyrodiil, or a city to pvp in?

A city to PvP in. There are a few main sections that each faction can try to control by destroying (something like the) pinions from a dark anchor, which grants bonuses and access to a unique crafting station, but to even enter the city proper an alliance must control its home keeps. You will end up traveling to Oblivion to close the anchor.

The Imperial City is going to be set at a much higher level of challenge for the PvE elements (according to The Gaisioch Magazine at least part of it will be set for two or more VR14 characters). The city will have an arena with fights against mobs and players from other factions (0:08 to 0:13 in the embedded video) and there are also areas below the city, sewers and the dungeon, as well. If I recall correctly the Imperial Dungeon will be a group instance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ABAiQ87qA

kevlarto_ESO · November 2014

The imperial city, and I hope they release something soon or we won't be seeing 1.6 until 2015

Sublime · November 2014

The time between content updates averages between 4-6 weeks, so I think we can expect 1.6 as a christmas present.

ers101284b14_ESO · November 2014

I think Imperial City.

Why you may ask?
1.PVP has had 0 updates since launch so its next in line,

2.Justice System hasn't even been teased

3.It took them 6 months for the first 2 phases of the Champ System out so I don't expect that for another 3 months and then gear seasons 3 months after that.

Although if you look at Septembers Road Ahead

"“Expect to see soon”: new facial animation system, improved grouping, fixes to player separation issues

“Expect to see in a while”: Imperial City, Champion System

“Expect to see later”: Justice System, Spellcrafting"

So we got the Facial Animations and grouping so either Imperial Will be next, or Imperial and Champion will be released together which I highly doubt but its a possibility anyway.

Justice System and Spellcrafting next year.