Questions for PAX East Panelists

ZOS_GinaBruno · April 2016

Hey guys!

Don’t forget we’ll be at PAX East this Saturday, and we have a full day of activities and panels planned in the Cyrodiil Room! If you’re not able to make it in person, don’t worry. We’ll be recording all our panels, and will publish them on our YouTube channel shortly after we return from the show.

If you have any questions you’d like to ask our panelists, you can post them in this thread. Please note that our focus will be on answering questions about topics up to and including the Dark Brotherhood DLC. When posting your questions, be sure to specify which panel your question is for: Storytelling in ESO, Creating an ESO Trial, or the Open Q&A.

Thanks!

UltimaJoe777 · April 2016

Are Sweetrolls low in calories?

PainfulFAFA · April 2016

Open Q&A
How will dungeons/trials be scaled with the removal of veteran ranks?
Also, how will players be distinguished since ranks are being removed (icons, CP rank?, etc)?

dimensional · April 2016

Can you compare the amount of content and landmass size in Dark Brotherhood DLC with past DLCs? Is it more or less than Thieves Guild/Orsinium, etc.?

Are there going to be any new group dungeons for the Dark Brotherhood DLC?

Are the other trials in Craglorn besides SO going to be scaled for this DLC and if not will they be eventually (and estimate on when)?

How extensive are the balance updates/changes for the stamina skill lines, abilities, CPs (also vampire as well) ?

Any teasers for what's in the pipeline for the rest of the year? I'm personally interested in housing and *hopefully* the ability to dye costumes (I still haven't bought a single costume yet and this is the sole reason why; I want to costumize them!).

Thanks for answering our questions!!

NordSwordnBoard · April 2016

PainfulFAFA wrote: »

Open Q&A
How will dungeons/trials be scaled with the removal of veteran ranks?
Also, how will players be distinguished since ranks are being removed (icons, CP rank?, etc)?

Will NPCs/enemies have ranks removed if they are also VR?

NativeJoe · April 2016

Will there be anything for Spell casters to use this dlc? Perhaps a mana oil on the weapon...
Will Trial gear be relevant gear outside of said trials? if so, how so?
On internal testing of how geared players are being used to test the viability of trial difficulties... what are you using? how is this process covered?
When Tanking a trial, who/what are you crafting the trial tanks to be? personally I'd love my sorc tank to be more relevant in trials...but in places like sanctum the irresistible damage makes the strengths of my class null and void.
I have 305 skill points, and I still feel like im gutting myself of the different directions my class/builds could go with every skill reset. what is coming in this area?
I feel the need to sacrifice many NPC's....How will you address this pivotal plot gap/needed feature in dark brotherhood?
With the removal of vet ranks what will happen to my currently owned various VR leveled gear?
With the removal of vet ranks what will happen to the scalability and many other things everywhere in the game?
With the removal of vet ranks how will I be able to tell if someone is a fresh level 50, or a CP capped monster?
Is Dx12 going to be a thing for elder scrolls online?
64bit client has improvements for me and my friends on many levels, any exciting things coming here?
VMA gold jewlery? yes or no? lol
I'd like some new morphs and new pets, and possibly a UI/new functions for them...any word on this?
Not a question. Don't touch my sorc shields. lol

Paulington · April 2016

Creating an ESO Trial for @ZOS_Finn.

What is your ultimate plan for Trials in ESO? Would you like all Trials to have a "Difficulty Scaler" where you can input your CP level (or that of your group) and it would scale to that difficulty? This would allow for really strong 501 CP gear to drop if you are able to complete that content. If not the case, how do you intend to make Trials playable from implementation for many DLCs ahead?

Strider_Roshin · April 2016

I saw you can cut someone's throat with a dagger. Can I impale someone through the back with my greatsword in this DLC?

Strider_Roshin · April 2016

Can I get my 15% stamina regen back for being a werewolf? Last I checked vampires still get their damage reduction while low on health regardless of whether or not they have an ability slotted.

Strider_Roshin · April 2016

Will Poisons scale with Mighty? Also what are the mechanics going to be for poisons? Can you give us some examples?

daemonios · April 2016

I have a question for the Open Q&A.

It's been announced that three dungeons will be "rebalanced", that is to say, nerfed, in order not to constitute such a large "roadblock". Two of these dungeons - vWGT and vICP - have a normal version with exactly the same boss fights, but already easier. And all of them can be completed by any decently-geared group that takes the time to learn the mechanics. So my question is: what message are you trying to give to the players, that they shouldn't care about their gear? That they shouldn't care about doing the boss fight mechanics? That everyone, no matter how poorly they play their character, is entitled to finish veteran dungeons, even those that have exactly equivalent normal versions?

Thank you.

hrothbern · April 2016

First of all.
What is mentioned in the Sneak Peek about the DB DLC looks great

Please further info on:

When will we get a briefing on the Vet removal and the basic consequences for armor sets etc ?
Will we get endgame upgrades for more old armor sets ?
Will the other trials also be scaled up ? Perhaps one old trial per quarter ?
Will we get new Pledges/Monster sets ?
Heavy Armor balancing buff ? (I consider that balanced once between 20-40% of the 300+ CP players in PVP have 5+ HA)
ETA racial update and racial change: Q3, Q4 or later?
ETA barber shop: Q3, Q4 or later?

Thelon · April 2016

Open Q&A

What factors do you consider when deciding to scale down the difficulty of 4-man dungeons like Veteran City of Ash?

WhiteCoatSyndrome · April 2016

Storytelling in ESO (if this is an unsuitable category for these questions then Q&A):

Dark Brotherhood:
--How did the Shadowscales and Dark Brotherhood end up so closely associated with one another?
--What does the Brotherhood do if they get a contract that is unfulfillable? Say Crazy Joe Townsperson wants to put a hit out on someone who never existed?
--What about if Person A puts a contract on Person B, but Person B dies of unrelated circumstances before the Dark Brother or Sister can do the job? Does the Brotherhood just claim credit? Do they give refunds? My understanding is that Sithis demands a death for each contract...
--Is it possible to put out pre-emptive contracts? Could I put a contract out on anyone who tries to put a contract on me?

Taisynn · April 2016

Taisynn wrote: »

... Where is race change, appearance change, and alliance change? Where is our promised barber shop? Hats? Are you kidding me? Forget the hats. Give us our barber shop we've been BEGGING for since BETA.

... How are you going to compensate all the players who got themselves to V16? That's a lot of gear, money, and time that's going to be yanked away from people who LIKE veteran ranks.
...

IcyDeadPeople · April 2016

Open Q&A

Very excited about Dark Brotherhood DLC and loved the recent change to allow characters with maxed crafting passives to find V16 mats in any of the scaled zones like Cyrodiil, Wrothgar, etc.

However, I noticed that in Cyrodiil, although we can obtain rubedite ore, ancestor silk, ruby ash and V16 potency runes easily, unfortunately none of the mobs drop Rubedo Leather Scraps yet. The mobs in Cyrodiil still only drop Shadowhide Scraps.

I understand there are some possible changes in the works for crafting node scaling, but do you have any plans for Rubedo Leather scraps to begin dropping from Cyrodiil mobs?
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daemonios · April 2016

Taisynn wrote: »

... How are you going to compensate all the players who got themselves to V16? That's a lot of gear, money, and time that's going to be yanked away from people who LIKE veteran ranks.
...

You got champion points while leveling those characters, and those aren't being taken away. The gear will be CP-tiered, so your VR16 gear will be converted to a CP equivalent and will still be more powerful than lower level gear. Don't really understand the need for compensation here...

JD2013 · April 2016

How big is the Gold Coast in Dark Brotherhood and are there other quests in the zone other than those tied to the Dark Brotherhood?

Eirikir · April 2016

Is there so balance/improvments coming to Heavy Armor and by extension Tanks? As it stands now with damage and CP meta as it is you are better off sometimes with the other sets. Tanks have it hard in the meta, some love would be welcomed.

PS. Can we have another taunt or 2 options?

K4RMA · April 2016

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hey guys!

Don’t forget we’ll be at PAX East this Saturday, and we have a full day of activities and panels planned in the Cyrodiil Room! If you’re not able to make it in person, don’t worry. We’ll be recording all our panels, and will publish them on our YouTube channel shortly after we return from the show.

If you have any questions you’d like to ask our panelists, you can post them in this thread. Please note that our focus will be on answering questions about topics up to and including the Dark Brotherhood DLC. When posting your questions, be sure to specify which panel your question is for: Storytelling in ESO, Creating an ESO Trial, or the Open Q&A.

Thanks!

OPEN Q/A
What changes are being made to Imperial City? (Details)
Will you be adding more items that can be bought with Tel Var Stones?
Will there be different traits on Monster Helmets at the AP Vendor?
How are you planning on balancing Magicka and Stamina?
Will Master Weapons return?
Will you be adjusting the amount of traits that can roll on Monster Sets? (Undaunted Keys and Dungeon Farms)

MrPoolaty · April 2016

OPEN Q&A

Housing info please anything besides its on the board!!!!

MrPoolaty · April 2016

OPEN Q&A

Is there any plans to revamp the crafting system in any way???

babylon · April 2016

OPEN Q&A

When is Player Housing coming, and can we get some clues about what direction they're planning on taking it...maybe a screenshot or a piece of concept art. Some teasers please!

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chaserstorm16909 · April 2016

Will the DB dlc have any pvp elements? Such as taking out contracts on other players?

olsborg · April 2016

OPEN QA

Are you planning on releasing Race change with Dark brotherhood? If not, an eta?

SantieClaws · April 2016

This one as usual asks the questions that others fear to ask!

Khajiit must know -

Do the Dark Brotherhood have any special interest in fishing or special fishing equipment? Surely all their experience with dispatching humans and elves must also have some practical applications in the catching of the fish.

Is the fishing good in the areas in which they operate?

Can we use poisons to help catch the fish? It is a real thing to use certain plant toxins to stun fish so they float to the surface of the water and khajiit thinks she would like to try this if only she knew how.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Amdar_Godkiller · April 2016

Crafting:

Any interesting recipes in the works? With Orsinium we got max health plus regen food. Max stamina +regen would be awesome!

Alchemy seems kind of abandoned, but the Clever Alchemist set gives me hope. Any potion-based gear or new reagents/potions in the mix? (Side note: what kind of damage does ravage health cause and can it crit? I've been wondering if I could pair my alchemist gear with that fury set and induce those weapons damage boosts by critting myself on that poison. That'd be swell)

Will we be finally getting new mats?

Skills:

I think one of the keys to balancing Stamina is adding Stamina based Ultimates to the different weapons skill lines. Without them, my ultimates hit for only slightly more than a light attack.

Love the game. Keep up the good work.

petraeus1 · April 2016

Open Q&A:

In what ways will the Dark Brotherhood DLC leverage the Justice System? Will we see new things similar to the Thieves Guild's Heists?

ESO Storytelling:

How do you go about managing such a large NPC cast in the game, give them enough screen time to make them memorable/interesting? Are we going to see familiar faces in the upcoming DLC? Will we ever see something as a more persistent 'core' NPC cast as we had in the main story of vanilla?

How does battle-leveling DLC impact what you can do with characters (for example Orsinium, where we saw familiar faces return but new players might see the same characters for the first time, if they went straight to the DLC)? Do you write different lines depending on earlier encounters with NPCs or do you go for a 'neutral' approach?

Edit:

ESO Storytelling:

How do you go about giving players a choice (with consequence) in story progression, while in a persistent online multiplayer world?

What 'tools' did the engineers give you since launch that really helped you enhance the way you can tell/convey stories? Did anything change in that respect?

ZunaRoath · April 2016

Open Q&A

- Nords are followers of Kyne, we all know that, and I personally love how it is. But... How do they worship her? I mean, the Dunmer pray to the Tribunal in front of small statues, and things like that. Is there any special way to worship Kyne? Could you say one or two prays that the Nords would do to Kyne? (Yes, I saw when you did it in ESO Live and loved it, but more like... for RP).
- Lore says that the trees around Kynesgrove are sacred, but to what point? Like... How far from Kynesgrove would a tree stop being sacred to Kyne? You shouldn't harm those trees, right?
- Do non Pact races have to run through a test or something to join the Ebonheart Pact? We see an Orc in the Pact sewers, but to what point can they join? Because they can perfectly be Dominion or Covenant spies.
- In game we see that as you advance in PvP you've Imperial named ranks, no matter your alliance, also there are a few NPCs in the lands that have those ranks too (Like a Centurion in Riften). Why does the Ebonheart Pact have Imperial ranks rather than more sounding "Pactish" ranks?
- Are there any references in where someone could learn Dovahzul without being a Dragonborn and all that?
- I roleplay a Pact Legate and Pact guard, but sometimes we have many troubles with criminals, because they say that what they did is not a crime. Could you mention a few criminal activities appart from murder and thievery that are an actual crime in Pact lands? For example, necromancy, vampirism, lycanthropy... Also, even if the Pact is an alliance between three lands, the laws of those lands are still there, right? If for example necromancy is illegal in Skyrim, a Dunmer makes necromancy in Skyrim, she's doing a crime, as it is illegal in those lands.
- Have had a few talks with people about this... Could a Pact soldier join the Mages Guild if they would say that they would act neutral while in Mages Guild missions? This means, being neutral as group, but still be of an alliance as individual.
- How are Nords as racist in ESO? In Skyrim we see that a few are very racist, but in ESO they seem to be more accepting, right? Could you explain this with some examples?

I think that is all. Thanks ^^

LorDrek · April 2016

How many class skills, ultimates will be change to physical, poison, desease dmg?

lathbury · April 2016

Why is ZOS nerfing content all the time? are they now so focused on aquiring new players that they neglect to give the remaining more experienced ones anything to do?