PTS Patch Notes v2.7.0 (Homestead)

Fudly_budly · January 2017

so... beginning to think PTS not coming back up today.

covenant_merchant · January 2017

Fudly_budly wrote: »

so... beginning to think PTS not coming back up today.

They probably realized how much they f.ed up with all the nerfs to magicka and NO changes to tremorscale + proctard heavy armor builds, and decided to rewrite everything from scratch. *praying for it to be the reason*

Krainor1974 · January 2017

@ZOS GinaBruno
Why did your not post Crown prices for the houses? Can you guys post a list with Crown prices?

Dr_Ganknstein · January 2017

I didn't see any mention of the Plague Doctor leggings not dropping from Deshaan world bosses

MythicEmperor · January 2017

I feel like the larger houses are far overpriced. The largest manor should sit at around 1,000,000, making it much more reasonable.

Krainor1974 · January 2017

Well the large Orc and Redguard I be goin crowns for.

PS4_ZeColmeia · January 2017

2 questions:

1) so does that mean invisibility is now fixed for nbs?

2) will Stygian set still work with clouding swarm or did that just get completed killed instead of just making the invisibility unbreakable like it used to be?

Enodoc · January 2017

Lady_Rosabella wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno I wanted the home in Stros M'kai that is on it's own island. Is it not available? Is that the one that will be released in the Crown store later? If so when do you expect it to be released? Please respond, as that is the home I want. Thanks so much Gina!

@Lady_Rosabella I think that's Hunding's Palatial Hall:

Hunding's Palatial Hall, 1,295,000 gold: This elegant pleasure palace, with its walled grounds enclosing stables, well, gardens, pool, watchtower, and docks, were paid for by the blood and treasure spilled from the countless treasure ships taken by the legendary Captain Izad.

Kharnis wrote: »

"In addition to furnishing items, you can also place assistants, mounts, non-combat pets, and a new category of furnishing collectibles called Trophies that includes Undaunted Busts."

So, seeing as the items we very selflessly have relieved the citizens of Tamriel of the burden of carrying (since they need to run quickly in the event of daedric invasion, or bandit attack, or random duels) are also called trophies, am I correct in coming to the conclusion that these items can now be placed within our homes?

@Kharnis That would be great, but I doubt it. Their text there suggests these "Trophies" are something new, and I'm sure they would have mentioned it if it included stolen items (since they went to great pains to mention that other things are included).

Fudly_budly · January 2017

MythicEmperor wrote: »

I feel like the larger houses are far overpriced. The largest manor should sit at around 1,000,000, making it much more reasonable.

The scale does seem exponential. The small homes are dirt cheap. The largest three are out of my reach for now. then there's furniture. Players are really going to need to think through the actual total cost. Large trading guilds could buy "guild halls" for members selling club memberships for hall access.

Abeille · January 2017

Enodoc wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Combat & Gameplay
Buffs & Debuffs
Created a new debuff category, Minor Magickasteal. This is a debuff applied to enemies that restores a flat value of Magicka to the attacker every second (400 Magicka every second at CP160).

There has got to be a better word to use than 'Magickasteal'. It's quite cumbersome.

Couldn't they just make it two words? "Magicka Steal"?

Still weird to pronounce but nicer to read at least.

Lady_Rosabella · January 2017

Enodoc wrote: »

Lady_Rosabella wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno I wanted the home in Stros M'kai that is on it's own island. Is it not available? Is that the one that will be released in the Crown store later? If so when do you expect it to be released? Please respond, as that is the home I want. Thanks so much Gina!

@Lady_Rosabella I think that's Hunding's Palatial Hall:

Hunding's Palatial Hall, 1,295,000 gold: This elegant pleasure palace, with its walled grounds enclosing stables, well, gardens, pool, watchtower, and docks, were paid for by the blood and treasure spilled from the countless treasure ships taken by the legendary Captain Izad.

Yea, someone else mentioned that to me, thanks for responding, I was so focused on skimming through and looking for the words Stros M'kai I overlooked it. Thanks again!!

Pandorii · January 2017

Abeille wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Combat & Gameplay
Buffs & Debuffs
Created a new debuff category, Minor Magickasteal. This is a debuff applied to enemies that restores a flat value of Magicka to the attacker every second (400 Magicka every second at CP160).

There has got to be a better word to use than 'Magickasteal'. It's quite cumbersome.

Couldn't they just make it two words? "Magicka Steal"?

Still weird to pronounce but nicer to read at least.

I'm thinking "MPsteal" or "Absorb".

Kulaan_Doskad_Hadroz · January 2017

Me waiting for the patch to drop like

TRoclodyte · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

HOMESTEAD
Homestead Basics
Except for the entry-level apartment, which is free after completing a short quest, all of the initially-available homes can be purchased with in-game gold or crowns.
You may own one of every home, all the way up to all 39 available at launch!

Homes are shared across all characters on your account.

Homes are split into several tiers, by size:
Apartments: 3 total, 1 for each alliance

Small Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Medium Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Large Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Manors: 3 total, 1 for each alliance

Where are the 3 missing ones?

Enodoc · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Due to technical issues, the Homestead PTS deployment will be rescheduled for tomorrow. We're sorry for the delay, and will keep everyone posted starting tomorrow morning as to when it will be available.

ninjaguyman · January 2017

the changes to all the other classes is of course questionable in some cases. however Im still a bit surprised at how little nightblade changed for this patch. there was the fear trap change, which still wont get used. there was yet another fix to cloak breaking. all i see that might change general gameplay for a mag nb is a small swallow soul nerf. of course its dirt cheap as it stands currently, but there really wasnt any other changes for the nightblade class? merciless resolve is still extremely clunky to use. no recast on proc for merciless resolve or something? concealed weapon is still extremely underwhelming so I literally just use swallow soul at melee range.

stam nb really didnt even get touched at all. not even an incap cost increase. also a change to veil of blades or a damage increase would be nice. I've practically never gotten a kill while a veil was down this entire patch.

Enodoc · January 2017

TRoclodyte wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

HOMESTEAD
Homestead Basics
Except for the entry-level apartment, which is free after completing a short quest, all of the initially-available homes can be purchased with in-game gold or crowns.
You may own one of every home, all the way up to all 39 available at launch!

Homes are shared across all characters on your account.

Homes are split into several tiers, by size:
Apartments: 3 total, 1 for each alliance

Small Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Medium Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Large Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Manors: 3 total, 1 for each alliance

Where are the 3 missing ones?

@TRoclodyte The ones that aren't there are the three inn rooms you get from the starter quest.

Caff32 · January 2017

Well, RIP my frostblade. Unless you are a tank, Frost staves are unusable in PvE. What a horrible change. Just horrible.

Fudly_budly · January 2017

Enodoc wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Due to technical issues, the Homestead PTS deployment will be rescheduled for tomorrow. We're sorry for the delay, and will keep everyone posted starting tomorrow morning as to when it will be available.

had a feeling today was a wipe.

kamimark · January 2017

"Many chairs, thrones, benches, pews, stools, and other seating objects throughout Tamriel are now interactive. You just need to approach the furniture and interact with it to sit down, provided there is room and the furniture is placed in an accessible location."

After 3 years, we can sit! What about beds?

"Once attuned, the station can be placed as a furnishing in your home and used by you and your guests to craft items from the set it is attuned to."

No more running to middle of nowhere to make Julianos gear? Too good to be true!

"Reduced the maximum amount of Ultimate that can be stored to 500 from 1000."

Ouch, Overload can't run all day. To be honest I mostly let it build up and waste most of it on a single-use ultimate, but it was nice to have all-day Overload as an option.

"Doshia, found during the Main Quest, has become stronger."

She's had a rough life, but I'm glad to see she's getting herself together. Being killed at least once by Doshia was a rite of passage. Uh, but @ZOS_GinaBruno she's in the Fighter's Guild quest, not Main Quest.

"Item Set procs which deal damage or healing can no longer Critically Strike."

I'm unhappy about this, but we'll see after PTS testing.

elantaura · January 2017

Since the Rp is strong in this patch Can we please get a new emote that says

"please don't kill me I'm a mageblade" viewable in pvp to everyone you could even maybe put in an alternative
"mageblade here free ap as an alternative"
and one for pve that says even though "I'm a mageblade can I join your group"

Abeille · January 2017

kamimark wrote: »

No more running to middle of nowhere to make Julianos gear? Too good to be true!

Julianos? Dear, I'm going straight for that stupid Armor Master set :P
Then maybe I will start crafting for people again.

Pandorii · January 2017

@Abeille but they made no changes to the general inferiority of crafted sets compared to drop sets.

Getsome122 · January 2017

TRoclodyte wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

HOMESTEAD
Homestead Basics
Except for the entry-level apartment, which is free after completing a short quest, all of the initially-available homes can be purchased with in-game gold or crowns.
You may own one of every home, all the way up to all 39 available at launch!

Homes are shared across all characters on your account.

Homes are split into several tiers, by size:
Apartments: 3 total, 1 for each alliance

Small Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Medium Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Large Homes: 10 total, 1 for each of the 10 playable races

Manors: 3 total, 1 for each alliance

Where are the 3 missing ones?

Yeah I specifically remember a Craglorn Cave in the preview video and it's not on the list.

Abeille · January 2017

Pandorii wrote: »

@Abeille but they made no changes to the general inferiority of crafted sets compared to drop sets.

Yeah, but it isn't really for me. One of the reasons why I stopped crafting for people was because I had clients sending me to IC all by myself to craft Armor Master for them and that was too stressful to me. If I just have to go home to do that, I might start crafting for people again.

Jimbullbee85 · January 2017

I like what they've done to restoring aura. My blazpler tank will be well pleased, but now that jezus beam is dead Im gonna convert my magpler into a healer/tank. Oh well.... was thinking of doing that anyway

happily surprised with the prices of homes. Would still like to see storage before Id consider using real money to buy one.

Domander · January 2017

Caff32 wrote: »

Well, RIP my frostblade. Unless you are a tank, Frost staves are unusable in PvE. What a horrible change. Just horrible.

While I won't advocate that the taunt on heavy is needed, I guess you could either stick to light attack weaving with the frost staff while using a different one for heavies, or just not put points in that passive.

I wonder what a better option would be, maybe a self heal? There's already a ranged magicka taunt in game.

davidmcjamesrwb17_ESO · January 2017

My only question is whether you can sell a house back? Most people upgrade houses when they can by getting some funds from selling their smaller properties before buying the newer/bigger one. Will that be possible or once you buy a house are you stuck with it?

Rubixy · January 2017

"Coagulating Blood (Dragon Blood morph): This morph now heals you for 33% of your missing Magicka instead of 33% of your missing Health.:

So before I say anything, please help us on this one and actually help us Dks.

Sure, in very certain circumstances this is okay, but lets say i am riding along and get ganked down to 10 percent health, are you saying that the 9 health heal I am going to receive is gonna suffice?

ZOS I love this game, and I love DK and refuse to give it up. But why ask us for our advice and still do something completely unrelated to our suggestions. Having it crit is a start. But either make it so it doesn't get applied by battle spirit or make it so its 33 of max health while still being halfed by battle spirit.

Please, this was suppose to be the balance patch. What is this?

wolfie1.0. · January 2017

it mentions that achievements are needed to craft certain items. do you just have to have the acheivments unlocked on your account or is it character specific???