Valrien wrote: »

Bandit1215 wrote: »

Valrien wrote: »

You guys had a chance with sorcs and you guys dropped the ball again. Passive changes for Stam Sorc, and nothing for Magicka players? Not even an instant damage spam for example? Nice. Fantastic job, ZOS.

Are you kidding me man? Magicka Sorcs have the best burst in the game. Sure they have no spammable DPS (btw neither do stamsorcs other than weapon abilities, and if you want one as a mag sorc, use destro) but they do NOT need a spammable DPS.

Right there boys, I've spotted the not so rare ignorant forum poster.

So A. the best burst award goes to nightblades
and B. who cares about PvE, right? It's not like Sorc has the absolute lowest PvE DPS or anything.

By the way, "use a destro" is just pidgeonholing us into having less build variety.

Nope, he's pretty much correct...Magicka Sorcs have some the absolute best burst in the game rivaling Nightblades.

and Sorcs can put out some of the best PvE DPS in the game....

and Use a destro isn't pidgeonholding you, Its one of the TWO magicka based weapons...The only other weapon setup you can run is DW, and you want to do that because how powerful it is..and its only balanced cause it doesn't give you access to a spammable instant cast nuke.

Does anyone know what is the flat value of health restored by critical hits on Surge? Is it dependent on maximum magicka and/or spell power, or is it just based on your level? Any numbers?

SickDuck wrote: »

GoodOlPinkly wrote: »

sunshineflame wrote: »

Why all the complaints about a nerf to blocking? All I saw was in increase in block cost reduction from 30% to 36% and 1% more on your gear. That makes a potential total of 13% more reduction. Am I missing something, because that sounds like a buff.

They took our 20% from bracing and now block cost reduction is now in the Green CP tree not the Red which is WTH

So tanks can have reduced blocking cost and reduced damage at the same time? Honestly that sounds a great deal to me.

As for the Shield Expert passive... that needs rethinking with this switch I agree.

You can have reduced blocking cost and reduced damage, but you can forget about reduced ability cost and increased regeneration (if you decide to put your Thief points in reduced blocking cost). Which not only makes tanking all the more difficult, but also means that it becomes more difficult to switch from a tanking build to a DPS/solo build.

code65536 wrote: »

notimetocare wrote: »

Woeler wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Champion System

• The Steed
  • Block Expertise:
    • Renamed this Champion ability to Shadow Ward.
    • This Champion ability has been switched with the Elusive ability from The Shadow constellation.
• The Shadow
  • Elusive:
    • Renamed this Champion ability to Ironclad.
    • This Champion ability has been switched with the Block Expertise ability from The Steed constellation.

What the actual ***? And if you have to make this completely unnecessary change, at least move shield expert with it. This change really falls under the "If it ain't broken, lets break it!" mentality.

OR they intend to make tanks choose to focus more on being tanks?

Have you ever tried tanking? Have you seen the magicka cost of chains and range taunting? Have you seen the stamina cost of low-slashing and piercing? Tanking in PvE is a resource game, and we we have relatively small resources pools to begin with since we need health and we need both magicka and stamina pools. Reallocating green points into block hurts our utility costs. Those green points are useful for everyone, not just for DPS.

Why range taunt gap close and use the cheap Melee taught, you don't need to use that much magic you choose to lean on magic to recover stamina. You can go max health and stamina recovery and be just fine.

Low-slash? You get 25% of damage dealt as splash damage to two enemies near your target with Deep Slash weak on a tank or ultimate over 9 seconds with Heroic Slash why would you be using this more then once every 9 seconds for maximum ultimate generation.

Feynn wrote: »

Does anyone know what is the flat value of health restored by critical hits on Surge? Is it dependent on maximum magicka and/or spell power, or is it just based on your level? Any numbers?

@Feynn Power Surge gives flat value of 1980 health, it doesn't scale off anything as far as I tested. Procs every second as long as you crit.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

TEMPLATE UPDATES
We’ve continued to make some improvements to the available character templates:

• Character templates now have at least one wayshrine unlocked in every non-DLC zone.
• Added a new item, The Crafter's Rune Crate, to the contents of The Ultimate Crafting Crate. This new crate contains 200 of every type of rune, and there are 10 of these crates in each Ultimate Crafting Crate.
  ...
  Restoring Light
  
  Extended Ritual (Cleansing Ritual morph): This morph now also increases the amount of negative effects cleansed from the casting Templar to 5 from 2.
  ...
  One Hand and Shield
  
  Fortress: Increased the block cost reduction from this passive ability to 18/36% at Ranks I/II from 15/30%.
  
  ...
  
  Potency runes can once again be obtained from runestones!
  
  Each harvestable runestone is guaranteed to contain an Essence and an Aspect rune, and one third of the runestones you find will also contain a Potency rune.
  

Thank you very much!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Nameplates & Health Bars

...

[/list]

Off-button? Please?

Let us please turn the ugly things off completely.

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @... anyone explain to me why the current "off" setting do not dislay "nameplates"? What are these "@name charnames" - thingies I see called, if not "NAMEPLATES" ?

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Enchanting

• Half the time, when you find a Potency rune it will be scaled to your combat level, and the other half of the time it will be scaled to your rank in the Potency Improvement passive.

I’m very glad to see that potency runes will be harvestable, but I do not like node scaling in the Base Game Zones because you SHOULD be able to reliably harvest any level of material - by going to the appropriate zone (not by having to have gathering alts strategically leveled to pick up specific materials). With this scaling method certain level potency runes will not be harvestable to many players because they do not have a character of that level and/or have not leveled enchanting to that specific point and left it there. I think this scaling strategy is going to result in a lot of certain runes and hardly any of others, and basically force you to have to buy your runes rather than harvesting them, and that is not a direction I’m pleased to see crafting going.

Xsorus wrote: »

Valrien wrote: »

Bandit1215 wrote: »

Valrien wrote: »

You guys had a chance with sorcs and you guys dropped the ball again. Passive changes for Stam Sorc, and nothing for Magicka players? Not even an instant damage spam for example? Nice. Fantastic job, ZOS.

Are you kidding me man? Magicka Sorcs have the best burst in the game. Sure they have no spammable DPS (btw neither do stamsorcs other than weapon abilities, and if you want one as a mag sorc, use destro) but they do NOT need a spammable DPS.

Right there boys, I've spotted the not so rare ignorant forum poster.

So A. the best burst award goes to nightblades
and B. who cares about PvE, right? It's not like Sorc has the absolute lowest PvE DPS or anything.

By the way, "use a destro" is just pidgeonholing us into having less build variety.

Nope, he's pretty much correct...Magicka Sorcs have some the absolute best burst in the game rivaling Nightblades.

and Sorcs can put out some of the best PvE DPS in the game....

and Use a destro isn't pidgeonholding you, Its one of the TWO magicka based weapons...The only other weapon setup you can run is DW, and you want to do that because how powerful it is..and its only balanced cause it doesn't give you access to a spammable instant cast nuke.

It's absolutely possible for good magblades and magplars to outdps good Overloading sorcs. While doing that, magblades and magplars also won't have to sacrifice using their ultimates on trash and possibly even half the bosses in order to save it for the next fight(during which sorc's sustained dps is gonna be the lowest of all classes), they can just keep using them as they fill, providing for much higher overall dps as well. Also, while doing that, magblades and magplars are also capable of pulling some OP selfheals(in magblades' case group heals even) just as a side effect of that dps, that do not have a cooldown and do not depend on crit.
Magblades, magplars and even DKs are also capable of using DW as their main weapon of choice to further increase sustained dps as, unlike sorcs, they DO get "spammable insta cast nukes" without a destro staff.

So please stop talking about OP sorc dps. It's simply not up there. Sorcs have an "easy"(and buggy) option for rather high burst dps but it is NOT the highest and it's literally all they have. No utility, no good selfheals, no good sustained dps and not even the highest burst (anymore).
Also, what's Overload like on PTS? On live it's the buggiest skill #1 for me, working properly about as often as Toppling Charge does, and I haven't seen anything about fixing it in the patch notes.

lordrichter wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

The only way this would be a fair compromise is if they changed all water, ore, wood, and clothing nodes so that they also always scaled to level/passive regardless of what zone you're in.

Please. Don't go suggesting crazy things. Bah, what am I saying. I am sure there is someone in the studio that would love to do this and this is already on the white board.

Right. They've either thought about this already, and it's already on the board, with this being the first stage of rollout, or they will realize that it's a crazy suggestion and will see that doing that exact thing to potency runes is just as crazy. If this is the ultimate plan for crafting, we should encourage them to stop it now, before it goes any further. If they want people to engage in crafting, making it harder for that to happen by restricting what mats can be gathered from the world is certainly not going to help.

Unless this is a bug, I am pretty sure they won't realize this is a "crazy suggestion". For one thing, it would be deliberate, so they would obviously think this is a great idea.

Yeah, I'm sure it is deliberate. What I don't understand is why they would make one crafting profession function in a completely different way to all the others. It's inconsistent with what we have learnt about how crafting materials are distributed, and that's what I think is crazy.

The Uninvited wrote: »

I thought April fools was a month ago?

Funnily enough, I thought it was also a similar natch potes thread when I saw the 60% cost increase on poisons...

Then I realized they were actually serious about it and I /facedesk'd.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH
Nameplates & Health Bars

• Added nameplate and healthbar settings for neutral NPCs. Note that these are off by default.
• Readjusted the size of the health bars so they are more consistent with other meters.
• Added two keybinds for toggling nameplates and healthbars on and off, which are unbound by default.
• The icon displayed above a revivable player character is now less transparent. 

Will it be able to replace nameplate font with custom font? The main discussion of this feature is here https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/264277/unofficial-localizations-support-is-partially-broken-in-2-4-0

LegendaryArcher wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Finn Where are the changes to Maelstrom arena drops? Or any info on it? There are many players here waiting for some information to help them decide if they should quit or not.

This is from PTS 2.4.0 patch notes:

Maelstrom Arena
Improved the rewards for Maelstrom Arena so now every level of the Arena is guaranteed to grant a set item.
Note: The only exception is the final Arena on Veteran mode, which may still drop a Maelstrom Weapon instead.
Maelstrom Arena leaderboard rewards are now guaranteed to contain a Maelstrom Weapon, and have an additional 50% chance to award a piece of Jewelry as well.
Expanded the weapons awarded through the Maelstrom Arena leaderboard to include a wider variety of Traits, including Nirnhoned.

This is not what you want?

Poisons are way too strong and will kill the rest of what little small group pvp was viable in PvP. It's all about who has more numbers now. 60% cost increase? How about 5% if you want to do an effect like that.

I've stuck with the game for over a year now with nerfs, nerfs, and nerfs for people who play outnumbered. This poison change will simply make it impossible to get any enjoyment out of small group PvP.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Combat & Gameplay
General

• Fixed an issue where several abilities (such as Daedric Curse or Weapon Enchantment damage procs) was causing your health bar to become desynced.

Thanks for noticing!

Khaos_Bane wrote: »

It is odd that all content they are releasing is primarily PvE, but they always balance skills based on PvP. Strange.

What I don't get is, if they can 'battle-level' Cyrodiil and adjust how things work when our character goes there, WHY can't they make certain skills have a 'Cyrodiil ONLY' variation?!? This way it wouldn't so severely impact PvE. I swear, every MMO that has PvE/PvP always has this same exact problem... why they don't code their games with the ability to have different skill variations between the different content is beyond me.