PTS Patch Notes v2.7.0 (Homestead)

Apherius · January 2017

Busts from Trials and Arenas include a marble stand.

is see Trials busts , but arenas bust are not here ! give me voriak solkyn plz

Drdeath20 · January 2017

The worst damage class just got a damage nerf. Oh thanks for the buffs to our heals. That will soon be complained about and nerfed.

It's like the designer don't play the game.

jeffm47 · January 2017

Im excited for housing and customization, but alot of the balance changes are really disappointing, some are good, most are not. im hoping im wrong on the changes being bad.

Zaenidd · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

NEW FEATURES / UPDATES / BIG CHANGES

[*]The Ra Gada style can now be found in Craglorn.
The chapters of the style are rarely available from completing Focus Points, and very rarely found by killing Delve and World Bosses, opening locked Treasure Chests, or following Treasure Maps.

The same holds true for the style item, Ancient Sandstone, which is more commonly found from the above-mentioned sources.

@ZOS_GinaBruno

hey, what do you mean exactly by "Focus Points" ?

thx!

teladoy · January 2017

These are the big balance stamina magicka changes?

These are the buffs to DK?

jeffm47 · January 2017

i would also like to see mages guild become easier to level up on console i don't even bother with my other characters because looking for book requires looking up on google or good luck leveling it.

Enodoc · January 2017

jeffm47 wrote: »

i would also like to see mages guild become easier to level up on console i don't even bother with my other characters because looking for book requires looking up on google or good luck leveling it.

@jeffm47 There are daily quests for the Mages Guild that can help with levelling it up.

jeffm47 · January 2017

ok sorry i did not know i thought books were the only way

Leogon · January 2017

I'm disappointed that there's no snowy house with a land. It's not like there's not enough free space in Eastmarch.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Would it be possible to make the DC flags editable in the Daggerfall Overlook and also allow us to be in first person view when we sit on chairs? Thank you!

Sonofbattles · January 2017

Why is endgame PvE never considered when making these changes? If you want to balance PvP then make the changes to battle spirit, the mechanic is already present. Please do not take these changes live, it's hard enough as is to do the end game trials on vet without these changes, let alone hard mode. With these changes you can pretty much forget about hard modes completely. The warhorn nerf alone practically guarantees that much. Please stop pandering to the people who do nothing but PvP and cry that this skill or that skill is OP and truly look at the overall effects these changes are going to have on the entire community.

Mayrael · January 2017

Ill just wait few minutes to check changes on PTS but prolly Ill just unsub and say good bye to ESO as I did with "Shield breaker" intro.

- no rework of sorc skills, most of them is useless
- 50% dmg nerf to mag sorc skill (yes its what it is), so mag have sorc have like 1 skill based on luck, 1 skill that will hit once every 6s (lol), and finisher... simply brilliant
- you want to make pets viable? change them to not be toggles (after summoning, you have to use their skill in a 60s or pets will be unsummoned) or buff them so they will be worth of using 2 skill slots (like they share stats with player in some %, so when youre tanky, they are tanky, when you are more of a dps they deal more damage).

- nerf to magplars, no one will use total dark anyway, its just giving someone 7s of CC immunity, especially to melee toons

- nerf to magblades, do I need to to say anything about it?

- dragon blood, srsly?

So in general, magica takes some serious nerfs and minor buffs and fixes. The only magica classes that was able to compete take serious nerfs so... Goodbye ZoS, say goodbye to my money.

gard · January 2017

Sonofbattles wrote: »

Why is endgame PvE never considered when making these changes? If you want to balance PvP then make the changes to battle spirit, the mechanic is already present. Please do not take these changes live, it's hard enough as is to do the end game trials on vet without these changes, let alone hard mode. With these changes you can pretty much forget about hard modes completely. The warhorn nerf alone practically guarantees that much. Please stop pandering to the people who do nothing but PvP and cry that this skill or that skill is OP and truly look at the overall effects these changes are going to have on the entire community.

@Sonofbattles What warhorn nerf? Did I miss it in the patchnotes?

Izaki · January 2017

cschwingeb14_ESO wrote: »

The curse change should be a DPS buff for PvE. You get 2 explosions for 1 cast every 12 seconds, with your spamable taking up the other casts.

The skill is now completely useless in PvP though. Why not combine haunting curse with the pet curse. 12s of pet curse that explodes twice. And leave V Curse alone

Please no "PvP nerfed because of PvE" comments. They are just not constructive

As a sorc, I'm mostly saddened by all the attention pets are getting. They are so terrible for anything endgame. It's not like the guys soloing v dungeons with them need the buff

Curse is a flat out 42% damage nerf for PvE.

Foxic · January 2017

Sonofbattles wrote: »

Why is endgame PvE never considered when making these changes? If you want to balance PvP then make the changes to battle spirit, the mechanic is already present. Please do not take these changes live, it's hard enough as is to do the end game trials on vet without these changes, let alone hard mode. With these changes you can pretty much forget about hard modes completely. The warhorn nerf alone practically guarantees that much. Please stop pandering to the people who do nothing but PvP and cry that this skill or that skill is OP and truly look at the overall effects these changes are going to have on the entire community.

Raid dps is going up. Assuming that you don't run all stam builds and magplar

Sonofbattles · January 2017

@gard The change isn't to warhorn, it's to major force, which is granted by aggressive warhorn. Currently major force multiplies your crit damage by 1.3, so if your current multiplier is 2.0 times your base damage it becomes 2.6. With this change it adds a straight 15%, so it becomes 2.15 instead of 2.6. That is a nerf.

adirondack · January 2017

this has probably been mentioned... the weapon swap mechanic is changed. Now it draws your current weapon and THEN swaps. somewhat different than what is on Live and takes substantially longer. This will definitely mess up my rotations in PvP and trials.

Also, when weapons are drawn when casting rapid maneuvers. I believe this was previously corrected and will receive lots of complaints if it goes to Live as is.

Ray

argouru · January 2017

Not sure if this has been asked, but are there storage containers in owned houses/apartments?

jasonteck · January 2017

why are they nerfing hurricane for a stam sorc. stam sorcs barely have any stamina skills in the sorc skill lines.

also instead of changing blackrose, add a new set.

Ancientrock · January 2017

I've read every page of every class balance improvements thread by now. What should be changed and what shouldnt appears several times from different players. Why can't ZOS read it and do the changes the community is asking for?

Opeline · January 2017

Since this update is all about housing and not really at all about balancing, I want to ask a question here about something highly important and relevant.

How in Mara's name do I set housing permissions. The only time I have even remotely done anything with them, it was to "copy" them from another house I purchased. Am I missing it? Do I need to be close to friends? Do I need to be near friends that I am grouped with? How on Nirn does this work?

EDIT: Figured it out. For those that don't know -- go to a house, hit F5 to enter decorator mode, then hit "R". Up at the right hand side above where your "things" are at, there are tabs. Go to settings and have fun.

Opeline · January 2017

Sonofbattles wrote: »

Why is endgame PvE never considered when making these changes? If you want to balance PvP then make the changes to battle spirit, the mechanic is already present. Please do not take these changes live, it's hard enough as is to do the end game trials on vet without these changes, let alone hard mode. With these changes you can pretty much forget about hard modes completely. The warhorn nerf alone practically guarantees that much. Please stop pandering to the people who do nothing but PvP and cry that this skill or that skill is OP and truly look at the overall effects these changes are going to have on the entire community.

Agreed... It's one of the major reasons I went strictly to RP and rarely do PvE anymore. I like a challenge, hell, I love a challenge.. But there is a point where you really have got to stop giving EVERYTHING to PvP tryhards. Sorry, sorry.. Hardcore PvPers that live in there. Some of us would like to still do PvE content, but with every change that is made to balance PvP, you end up further killing PvE.

Opeline · January 2017

argouru wrote: »

Not sure if this has been asked, but are there storage containers in owned houses/apartments?

As far as I have tested, (And it's extensively with the housing decorator) no.

nathan_bri · January 2017

MercTheMage wrote: »

Are you *** serious?? How many people actually have 4m gold

I had just over 8 million until a few weeks ago, when I went on a spending spree with 1.5 million of it to buy up a bunch of missing motifs on my master crafter.

cwy · January 2017

I'm a stuck at the opening quest "A Friend in Need." I was told to acquire some furniture from a merchant indicated by the quest marker. I went there and bought a table and stool, but the quest wouldn't complete. What should I do to complete this quest so I can be taken to my home?

rfennell_ESO · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hist Bark: Fixed an issue where the Major Evasion proc granted by this item set could become permanently applied in rare circumstances.

By rare circumstances you mean exploited religiously by certain players I bet.

We want bans if that's the case. Permanent ones.

Sonofbattles · January 2017

TotallyNotVos wrote: »

Raid dps is going up. Assuming that you don't run all stam builds and magplar

By all means @TotallyNotVos , please explain how raid DPS is going up with nerfs to class and weapon skill damage in most classes except magicka DK as well as crit damage boosting skill reductions, not to mention the loss of set proc crits as well as the inability to overlap magicka sustain skills because they all now give the same name debuffs instead of different skill name Debuffs.

Soulshine · January 2017

Sorry. Boy am I sorry I read the entire thing.

But it's time to call a spade a spade.

The patch notes once again leave me completely underwhelmed and frustrated. I can, as I already have too many times over, rebuild and adjust my chars yet again to this latest round of nonsense if it all actually goes live....

....but I do wonder, what exactly is it going to take to get you all there to understand that balancing a PvE game around PvP problems DOES NOT WORK, any more than it does to try and balance PvP problems around PvE intended skills?

For that matter, what is it with you people at Zenimax and the INCESSANT OBSESSION with TWEAKING SKILLS THAT DID NOT NEED IT, for PETE'S SAKE???! Yes I used caps. Yes I am yelling that question. Yes I am being "rude."

We are WELL past the "early development of the game" and have seen several staffing changes to critical roles on the development team to boot and still you seem to again go about things in the same manner every time, showing little signs at all that your team has bothered to even try to learn anything from the previous work done by others before them let alone from the now absolutely massive amount of feedback you have to draw from in nigh 3 years of testing from your players. Yet THIS is where we are?? STILL??

Housing fluff be hanged. That is just a carrot long dangled to monetize the game and we are clear on that. Does little to address what should have long ago been addressed.

Really. frustrated.

Opeline · January 2017

cwy wrote: »

I'm a stuck at the opening quest "A Friend in Need." I was told to acquire some furniture from a merchant indicated by the quest marker. I went there and bought a table and stool, but the quest wouldn't complete. What should I do to complete this quest so I can be taken to my home?

Just go around the inn until you find the room, it will progress then. I had it happen to me in the Rosy Lion - the room is downstairs near the bar, if you are doing that one.

smacx250 · January 2017

Opeline wrote: »

Since this update is all about housing and not really at all about balancing, I want to ask a question here about something highly important and relevant.

How in Mara's name do I set housing permissions. The only time I have even remotely done anything with them, it was to "copy" them from another house I purchased. Am I missing it? Do I need to be close to friends? Do I need to be near friends that I am grouped with? How on Nirn does this work?

When you are in your house, bring up the housing editor, and then "browse". The rightmost tab (settings) has the permissions. Select "visitors", and then you can do "Add Player", and type in the account name and set the type of permissions (visitor, decorator).

Natas013 · January 2017

Malorey45738 wrote: »

I don't like the re-ordering of abilities in the skill lines like Bound Armour and Poison Arrow. I had already morphed them and got them to tier IV, but now they've been moved to the end of the skill line and I haven't got that far yet!

You'll get to keep the skill if you've already put skill points into it. I was worried about the same thing when they moved chains awhile back.