All of those things i noticed and i must admit from that list loading screens while teleporting between locations and after death are the most frustrating thing for me. As sad as it sounds i got used to lag and other issues.

I would also like to add 1 thing that really bothers me. Since around 2 months i see much much less people and action even on pop locked server - Trueflame EU. There are only few people in IC it seems but still on Cyro map there are only 2 crossed swords icons at most. Last time i found the will to log in pop locked campaign looked like 1-2 bars. Did they stealth changed population limits again?

I got on Friday to get drunk and mess around in TF. Lag was bad as ever but the alcohol seems to help.

loading screens have been getting worse, about a week ago they seemed to have stopped to everyones amazement for about 3 days and then it was 3-4 infinite loading screens per port in my group. We ride between most keeps now unless its like brindle to dragonclaw

Ya Bones I saw the teleporting thing, I think it was at Nikel, this guy wasn't using chains but was making to the second floor from the porch. The load screens are pretty bad now too because I'm afraid to crash and come back in. Stinger did that last week and wound up 90 in queue.

I'm going to try to do this thread once a week. I'm running 12 to 24 man groups just about nightly now and tend to notice a few trends when it comes to problems.

Zheg touched on a few things I've also seen.

- Invisible and mobile negates

I've seen this with negates and I actually got this with Bat Swarm, (I wasn't a vampire) I respawned at a keep with bat swarm and I wasn't even a vampire. Seemed like someones bat swarm to my character.

- Permaroot and snare

This one I have to disagree with, without the snares the meta masters would be neigh invincible in the open field in this meta. In keeps, gates, and rocks you just can't kill them because you can't keep them in line of sight long enough. In keeps with this meta heavy armor, mist, Scourge Harvester are the new barrier rotation all in a build. You just can't kill someone with mist in heavy armor who is using crates, walls and stairs to get out of line of sight. We've been competitive all week and even held our own with a few of the meta master groups in the open field but there are a few where it is no contest when you can just hide behind a crate, turn a corner, or drop down some stairs. If we didn't have roots and snares it would be no contest. Even then when you have a group of 4 or more running these builds forget about it. A stalemate is about the best you can hope for until they get bored and come out in the open field.

This goes to zyk's point, you pretty much need mist form with a magicka build now for mobility.

- Base movement speed still bugged

I never really noticed this until it was mentioned, but yes looks like there are some lingering effects of reduction of movement speed in some cases like when I respawn.

- Invisible siege animations and red aoe circles, exacerbated in lag

Yes, I see this in lag sometimes.

- All of the 60+ outstanding bugs from the TG patch that were organized into a now dead thread that ZOS said they couldn't reproduce

Suggestions

Get rid of the ticks. Instead have AP bonuses for holding keeps like Tel Var Stone bonuses. I notice lag surges when these long battles go on. With your 1st 3 home keeps a 10% bonus, your next 3 home keeps a 20% bonus. No bonus for holding another faction, just points on the campaign. The ticks seem to be an unnecessary calculation, factions will pile on and not leave a keep because of them. Just doesn't seem like a good system where all you have to do is be in the proximity

Get rid of the crates in the keeps - They're adding more armor and spell resist than most legendary sets. There is one over by the Chal gate as well. Just doesn't make sense a stack of wooden boxes can add so much damage mitigation.

Pretty sure there's still plenty of people using CE, they're just not being obvious about it now. Had one instance last night (AU time) where a player seemed to have an endless amount of resources and his health even went into negative on all of our screens, but he just healed up.

SirDopey wrote: »

Pretty sure there's still plenty of people using CE, they're just not being obvious about it now. Had one instance last night (AU time) where a player seemed to have an endless amount of resources and his health even went into negative on all of our screens, but he just healed up.

Unfortunately from what I understand this is true. I used to never report players but after the Memorial Day cheat-a-thon I report players constantly now if I remotely suspect them using the CE. Report them and let ZoS sort it out. There is at least one I haven't seen in a while that I reported.

RinaldoGandolphi wrote: »

Bombard spam is just garbage. Every fight is 3-4 people spamming that nonsense while your trying to fight outnumbered. Bombard and the perma snare root stuff just tips the scales in favor of larger numbers.

Larger numbers should only go so far, smarter tactical play from smaller groups should be a counter but only numbers matter now.

I miss the days of streaking through zergs and chain dropping negates...my group of 5 could wipe 24 on the reg doing that and ground oils the zergs died only because they went full potato and thought they should be able to win with no strategy, that's why we got the trash we have today. Stuff wasn't OP, the potatoes were and still are underpowered....

I still see small groups wipe larger ones. Meta changes and the great players change with it. It is much more difficult kill a zerg in the open field but with patience and pulling large groups into ideal conditions they still come out on top. The only difference I've seen that bombard makes is the top tier groups go from winning 99% of their battles to about 75%. If anything it has balanced the new player experienced player gap.

There are 4 things I see the greats use to be great. Burst damage, sustain, damage mitigation and movement. All bombard does is make movement more difficult especially with the Rapids nerf. Bombard can however be mitigated but your builds have to sacrifice one of the other 3 by slotting a 2H for forward momentum, the heavy armor ability or a potion.

There is at least one group that I've run into that adjusted and still do quite well with 4-5 players. They setup a fight on their terms and went to work. They avoided the open field, used line of sight and even when we got half of them down had the presence of mind to camp, when we thought we had them, we stacked on flag and boom. Props to them and showed me it still could be done. It is taking longer for players to adapt but seems the highest tier players have mastered this meta and know when and where to pick their fights.

I agree that numbers alone should not be the determining factor in the open field but neither should 24 people pressing 1 button, waiting 8 seconds and boom. Bombard is the counter to this to style of play otherwise we'd be back to chasing groups for 20 mintues at a time whose only means of dps is proxy det. You don't want to be rooted you'll sacrifice you ability to cast in mist, or you don't cast at all with Rapids.

ZoS nerfed purge, Rapids, barrier all in one patch in response to the larger problem. All of the one button buff alls coupled with proxy det.

What was needed was means to counter the proxy det groups, that happened.

There should be a penalty for constantly retreating. Maybe they could put Rapids back the way it was but with a damage penalty to each player. 50% more damage to your charcter is Rapids is active and you are hit in the back.

What I see is smaller groups still killing larger ones, they adapted and moved away from proxy det. The det groups were victims of their own success. Could you imagine with this heavy armor meta rotating barriers and unlimited movement for 24 man sized groups. VE would be standing in 5 raids of opposing factions instead of 3.

***Edits for grammer, English doesn't appear to be my first language when typing on a phone***