
bowmanz607 wrote: »Also, magika Dk are back in full force. The perma blocking, lava whip monstrosity is back even more powerful than before cause now they can use proxy.
How are they back full force? If you are all light armor, you can't get out of the red in a hot fight now. One dodge-roll OR cc break per customer, and then if you block you're stuck, unable to regen for the next cc break or dodge-roll.
If they'd nerfed ONE of these things, it'd be workable. Just the block regen alone is a major game-changer for all classes and all builds. Throw in the escape nerfing and it's like the entire player base has been nerfed with a sledgehammer.
except with cost reduction in blocking, dodge rolling and break free, this is not that big of a problem. you only need one dodge roll which will not have the nerf kick in. reduced blocking makes perma-blocking nothing. not to mention the only thing going through it is fear. These dk builds were all over the pts. also, many builds like this are running upwards of 24k spell resist and 22k armor resist. while people were all yelling about magika nb and perma-cloaking, others were finding better builds and counters to magika nb. (which this dk set up is the perfect counter outside another nb using peircing mark.) let the dk and nb fighting resume like back in the good obowmanz607 wrote: »Also, magika Dk are back in full force. The perma blocking, lava whip monstrosity is back even more powerful than before cause now they can use proxy.
How are they back full force? If you are all light armor, you can't get out of the red in a hot fight now. One dodge-roll OR cc break per customer, and then if you block you're stuck, unable to regen for the next cc break or dodge-roll.
If they'd nerfed ONE of these things, it'd be workable. Just the block regen alone is a major game-changer for all classes and all builds. Throw in the escape nerfing and it's like the entire player base has been nerfed with a sledgehammer.
except with cost reduction in blocking, dodge rolling and break free, this is not that big of a problem. you only need one dodge roll which will not have the nerf kick in. reduced blocking makes perma-blocking nothing. not to mention the only thing going through it is fear. These dk builds were all over the pts. also, many builds like this are running upwards of 24k spell resist and 22k armor resist. while people were all yelling about magika nb and perma-cloaking, others were finding better builds and counters to magika nb. (which this dk set up is the perfect counter outside another nb using peircing mark.) let the dk and nb fighting resume like back in the good ol days.
Some of what you're saying is true for pvp; I love pvp and I am kind of looking forward to dying in new and interesting ways.
What I was talking about is overall, however. The extremely fun-to-play build I've been using involves mostly points into magicka, a few into health with none into stamina. So with good food I've held my stamina pool specifically to allow me to be nimble enough to fight in light armor with lower health at the edge of my abilities. It's demanding and taxing and sometimes really hard, and I love it. But now I can't do this, I will need to create "stand still and fight" tactics that are nothing like so exciting to play. Instead of casting a rune behind an enemy and roll-dodging through him, hitting him from behind and then laughing when he hits the rune, I will have to just key mash, for example. Because if he's not alone I can't afford the stamina cost of the roll-dodge.
I CAN adapt. But the adaptations I can see I'll need to make are much more pedestrian.
You should not be relying on dodge roll more than once or twice anyway. Throw on two pc med.
Zenimax...
Your players are getting fed up with the lack of competence in your lead combat designer...maybe its time to replace him with someone with a clear vision of what ESO combat should be.
Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »Funkopotamus wrote: »I will say this about the stam nerf IT WAS NEEDED!
I cannot count the number of times Stam DK's just stand there and perma block 4lyfe. It was boring!
Even worse if two DK's tried to duel it was honestly ***.
Or they could just nerf the champion system that lets you spec into block so much.
The early days of 1.6 were pretty balanced. The champion system is just bad for the game.
Personofsecrets wrote: »Funkopotamus wrote: »I will say this about the stam nerf IT WAS NEEDED!
I cannot count the number of times Stam DK's just stand there and perma block 4lyfe. It was boring!
Even worse if two DK's tried to duel it was honestly ***.
boring for who?
did you ever think that you should, you know, counter those dks that bugged you so much rather than crying for the devs to help?
bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.

I wonder if any class / combo doesn't feel nerfed I am sure there are some and give it a few days and the power players will all have recreated and the only people who will feel it will be the people who believe they can play the way they want to play.
bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
nobertpaulb16_ESO wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
All you have to do is open up zone chat and ask a general question there about the changes.
The responses you get there mirror the posts here. Especially if you are talking to VR12s and below
bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »Also, magika Dk are back in full force. The perma blocking, lava whip monstrosity is back even more powerful than before cause now they can use proxy.
How are they back full force? If you are all light armor, you can't get out of the red in a hot fight now. One dodge-roll OR cc break per customer, and then if you block you're stuck, unable to regen for the next cc break or dodge-roll.
If they'd nerfed ONE of these things, it'd be workable. Just the block regen alone is a major game-changer for all classes and all builds. Throw in the escape nerfing and it's like the entire player base has been nerfed with a sledgehammer.
except with cost reduction in blocking, dodge rolling and break free, this is not that big of a problem. you only need one dodge roll which will not have the nerf kick in. reduced blocking makes perma-blocking nothing. not to mention the only thing going through it is fear. These dk builds were all over the pts. also, many builds like this are running upwards of 24k spell resist and 22k armor resist. while people were all yelling about magika nb and perma-cloaking, others were finding better builds and counters to magika nb. (which this dk set up is the perfect counter outside another nb using peircing mark.) let the dk and nb fighting resume like back in the good obowmanz607 wrote: »Also, magika Dk are back in full force. The perma blocking, lava whip monstrosity is back even more powerful than before cause now they can use proxy.
How are they back full force? If you are all light armor, you can't get out of the red in a hot fight now. One dodge-roll OR cc break per customer, and then if you block you're stuck, unable to regen for the next cc break or dodge-roll.
If they'd nerfed ONE of these things, it'd be workable. Just the block regen alone is a major game-changer for all classes and all builds. Throw in the escape nerfing and it's like the entire player base has been nerfed with a sledgehammer.
except with cost reduction in blocking, dodge rolling and break free, this is not that big of a problem. you only need one dodge roll which will not have the nerf kick in. reduced blocking makes perma-blocking nothing. not to mention the only thing going through it is fear. These dk builds were all over the pts. also, many builds like this are running upwards of 24k spell resist and 22k armor resist. while people were all yelling about magika nb and perma-cloaking, others were finding better builds and counters to magika nb. (which this dk set up is the perfect counter outside another nb using peircing mark.) let the dk and nb fighting resume like back in the good ol days.
Some of what you're saying is true for pvp; I love pvp and I am kind of looking forward to dying in new and interesting ways.
What I was talking about is overall, however. The extremely fun-to-play build I've been using involves mostly points into magicka, a few into health with none into stamina. So with good food I've held my stamina pool specifically to allow me to be nimble enough to fight in light armor with lower health at the edge of my abilities. It's demanding and taxing and sometimes really hard, and I love it. But now I can't do this, I will need to create "stand still and fight" tactics that are nothing like so exciting to play. Instead of casting a rune behind an enemy and roll-dodging through him, hitting him from behind and then laughing when he hits the rune, I will have to just key mash, for example. Because if he's not alone I can't afford the stamina cost of the roll-dodge.
I CAN adapt. But the adaptations I can see I'll need to make are much more pedestrian.
You should not be relying on dodge roll more than once or twice anyway. Throw on two pc med.
Throwing on two pc med. is a nerf to magicka-based play, straight-up. My point was that the nerfs to blocking stam regen and roll-dodge are a hit to magicka-based light armor dks as well.
I am the type to play through all classes and styles eventually. I am also running a templar, a sorc and a stamina nb. All of them are unplayable in the style I was using for them. That's a pretty game-changing set of nerfs, bowman.
nobertpaulb16_ESO wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
All you have to do is open up zone chat and ask a general question there about the changes.
The responses you get there mirror the posts here. Especially if you are talking to VR12s and below
nobertpaulb16_ESO wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
All you have to do is open up zone chat and ask a general question there about the changes.
The responses you get there mirror the posts here. Especially if you are talking to VR12s and below

FriedEggSandwich wrote: »Been playing IC for the last 5 hours. In all honesty, inside the confines of IC, apart from slightly reduced regen I actually feel like I've been buffed. Oh zenimax what have you done? I haven't tested it out in the open yet, and things might well change when new sets appear, but basically sorc feels like god-mode atm.
Edit: unless you have more than 3 people on you there is no need to use more than one shield. The other classes are not gonna like this when they find out.
bowmanz607 wrote: »nobertpaulb16_ESO wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
All you have to do is open up zone chat and ask a general question there about the changes.
The responses you get there mirror the posts here. Especially if you are talking to VR12s and below
zone chat. thats your fall back. many people dont even have their zone chat on.
DPS is now ***
bowmanz607 wrote: »nobertpaulb16_ESO wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
All you have to do is open up zone chat and ask a general question there about the changes.
The responses you get there mirror the posts here. Especially if you are talking to VR12s and below
zone chat. thats your fall back. many people dont even have their zone chat on.
bowmanz607 wrote: »nobertpaulb16_ESO wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
All you have to do is open up zone chat and ask a general question there about the changes.
The responses you get there mirror the posts here. Especially if you are talking to VR12s and below
zone chat. thats your fall back. many people dont even have their zone chat on.
DPS is now ***
lol I was thinking this when I got to this comment. The new goal is stack as much DPS as you can. No more healer, tank, etc (see trinity thread) and everyone just ker-smashes everything single target/close combat style before they run out of health. Then in a few months that'll be nerfed.
bowmanz607 wrote: »nobertpaulb16_ESO wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »bowmanz607 wrote: »I disagree with this. Keep up the work zos. Also, they did listen to a lot of feedback. In fact, they listened to a ton. Just cause they stayed with things you don't like doesn't mean they didn't listen.
Hmm...so not giving what customers want is a good thing? I do realize that only listening to a small group of people is not good at all but please listen to the majority for crying out loud!!!
why is this majority nonsense keep coming up. do you have numbers on how many people play the game? do you get all of the feedback that zos gets? does your majority argument come strictly from looking at these forums? please explain how you have come to the conclusion that you know what the majority is. based on my experiences and many people i know we like the changes. it hurts but we adapt to it in what we believe to be better overall. I do not, however, think that the many players I talk to are the majority. just like these forums, the players i knoware a very small part of the player base. You have no idea what the majority is. people throw that out there like they have all the information. you dont. and really think about it from a business perspective. does it make sense to cater to the minority? that aside, there is no way any of us can really know what the majority is. (unless of course you assume that zos operates like a logical business and ops for going for more money over less. but that is just one opinion.)
All you have to do is open up zone chat and ask a general question there about the changes.
The responses you get there mirror the posts here. Especially if you are talking to VR12s and below
zone chat. thats your fall back. many people dont even have their zone chat on.
Your right in one respect and that is that we really have no way to know for sure who the majority really is on this topic. All we have is what we see on the forums and whats said in zone chat in game. I think its the best way we have of coming close to what we feel is the majority of people. This is just a questimate and nobody has stated that this is FACT but rather an indication that indeed the majority dose not like this update. Yes, not 100% but I feel its a good guess.
AND...how do you know how many people dont have there zone chat on???? I dont see anything that implies this one way or the other.