Any of you on PTS have any thoughts on:
- Drop rates for house crafting mats? My quickie, farm-for-an-hour-gut-level-look says 20-30% of resource nodes drop a housing mat?
- The significant amount of trait stones required versus gear crafting? I crafted a cosmetic burlap sack and it required 12 Nickel. A candle was even more. I've got some screenies if anyone wants to see.
- The drop rate for plans versus recipes? I have found 2 while rummaging through drawers, etc. I also bought a few from Furnishing merchants.
Finally, does anyone @ZOS_GinaBruno - know where to buy/acquire the <Firelogs, flaming> item? It's a green Crown store item but I can't find in Crown tab of housing editor?

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Alliance War
General

• Increased the AP rewards for quests that direct you to capture resources and keeps. 
• Completing a quest to capture a resource will now grant 1000 AP. 
• Completing a quest to capture a keep will now grant 1500 AP.

[*]Completing quests from towns will now grant 250 AP per completed quest, and will also now grant a green-level set item.
[*]Capturable towns in Cyrodiil now display the status of individual flags on the compass while in the areas of those towns. 

The extra AP for map play is great. Suggestion - please split the undefended resource take AP among the players on the flag AND who were in combat. This will reduce the incentive to zerg down resources while still providing a now significantly larger reward for small groups.

what about estates

Krainor1974 wrote: »

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

For Homestead, are the three Manors only available for Guilds, like Guild Flagships in SW:TOR?

Anyone with the gold or crowns can buy any or all the houses.

Oh goodie, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to buy the Ebonheart Chateau.

Flowergnome wrote: »

I would like to propose a radically different idea on the pricing of manors under the moniker 'Manors for the Masses': they should be free. Yes, free.

Why should manors be free?

Unlike all other houses, manors are explicitly tied to the storyline. [...]

Not true. All houses are tied to the storyline, but manors are tied to the most storyline, ie, essentially completing the whole thing where the other houses are only tied to parts of it.

I don't think they should be free, but I think they should cost 30-40% less. But I think as a proper reward for completing the storyline, these should not be available in the Crown Store.

oTheTownDrunk wrote: »

40 homes available to purchase total or is there 40 different types of homes people can purchase? Cause 40 houses are gonna get bought up quick by the how ever many people play this game.

@oTheTownDrunk Both/Neither. There are 39 houses, and everyone can buy all of them, because everyone gets their own instance of each house.

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. My first thought, to go along with 'Lifesteal' (which is not called 'Healthsteal' for probably the same reason), would be 'Manasteal'. "But mana's not a thing in Elder Scrolls," you cry. Yes it is. It's mentioned, without definition, in Arcana Restored and The Vagaries of Magicka, there's a plant called "Mana Bloom", a source of Ambrosia (Restore Health) and Lichor (Restore Magicka), in Oblivion, "Mana Ice" is a Restore Magicka Potion in Shadowkey, and there's a "Mana Font" in the Soul Cairn during Battlespire.

While "Magicka" is the energy of magic in the world, there seems to be enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that "Mana" is a valid term for the life-force of magic in the world. And that fits with the purpose of this debuff.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Quests & Zones

Fighters Guild

• Hold the Line: Destroying Dark Anchors can now be shared amongst your group.

Greenshade

• Hold the Line: This quest will no longer erroneously display Malabal Tor in the quest journal when referring to Greenshade.

As far as I know, there is no quest anywhere in the game called "Hold the Line". So I don't know what this fix is referring to.

Should just be called Return Health and Return Magicka. Or Magicka Return and Health Return.

It's not "stealing" anything.

As I understand I cant found master crafter wirt with target item I cant craft yet? Like akaviri epic sword with nirnthoned trait and mother sorrow set? Even If I have blacksmithing lvl 1 and no styles or traits researched? And where is no way to know it before using this consumable crafting wirt's starter?

Shadowshire wrote: »

There should never be any "prerequisite" for buying any Homestead. It inherently discriminates between players who have the time to make the effort to satisfy the prerequisite(s), and players who do not have enough playing time for a fair opportunity to make it worthwhile, whether feasible.

I disagree. I like the fact that your new neighbors want you to have helped them out. It’s true to the Elder Scrolls spirit.

BigES 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. My first thought, to go along with 'Lifesteal' (which is not called 'Healthsteal' for probably the same reason), would be 'Manasteal'. "But mana's not a thing in Elder Scrolls," you cry. Yes it is. It's mentioned, without definition, in Arcana Restored and The Vagaries of Magicka, there's a plant called "Mana Bloom", a source of Ambrosia (Restore Health) and Lichor (Restore Magicka), in Oblivion, "Mana Ice" is a Restore Magicka Potion in Shadowkey, and there's a "Mana Font" in the Soul Cairn during Battlespire.

While "Magicka" is the energy of magic in the world, there seems to be enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that "Mana" is a valid term for the life-force of magic in the world. And that fits with the purpose of this debuff.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Quests & Zones

Fighters Guild

• Hold the Line: Destroying Dark Anchors can now be shared amongst your group.

Greenshade

• Hold the Line: This quest will no longer erroneously display Malabal Tor in the quest journal when referring to Greenshade.

As far as I know, there is no quest anywhere in the game called "Hold the Line". So I don't know what this fix is referring to.

Should just be called Return Health and Return Magicka. Or Magicka Return and Health Return.
It's not "stealing" anything.

True. It's a bit of an odd debuff if it doesn't actually debuff anyone. (It doesn't, right? It restores MP/HP to the attacker, but doesn't affect the target at all?)

I put 4 mounts and two pets in the large Orc and it said I hit my mount / pet limit.
Lmao

They should not nerf the proc crits. They should instead nerf the tanks who can survive over 15 players constantly ontop of them for over 5 minutes.

Enodoc wrote: »

Shadowshire wrote: »

Find homes scattered across Tamriel, make sure you have the prerequisites, and purchase them for in-game gold.
First, you must find the home in-game, click on the door, and follow the purchasing instructions.
Most homes require you to complete certain prerequisites before you can purchase them for gold. For example, to purchase the Daggerfall Covenant Manor, you must have previously completed the Hero of the Daggerfall Covenant achievement.
You must own the Imperial Edition version of ESO in order to purchase any Imperial homes.
Homes can be purchased for crowns at any time, bypassing the above requirements.

(1) There should never be any "prerequisite" for buying any Homestead. It inherently discriminates between players who have the time to make the effort to satisfy the prerequisite(s), and players who do not have enough playing time for a fair opportunity to make it worthwhile, whether feasible. Even requiring a player to accumulate enough Gold Pieces to purchase a Homestead after acquiring an "inn-room(s)" can readily become discriminatory in that respect.

This is exactly how player houses worked in Skyrim. In order to buy a house, you had to be a respected member of the local community who has proven themselves. This is great for immersion, and if you don't care for the immersion, you can ignore it and buy the home with Crowns. Although I do agree that with these prerequisites, and the added gold cost of furnishing, the up-front gold cost for the larger houses should be 30-40% lower.

At the beginning, ZO repeatedly declared that The Elder Scrolls Online is NOT Skyrim -- until they eventually decided to re-make the game to One Tamriel. They decided to make it more like Skyrim because Skyrim was discovered to be the primary competitor to TESO.

Frankly, I have not appreciated or enjoyed many "adjustments" which the developers made to transmogrify ESO to One Tamriel. If I want to play Skyrim, then I already have it installed, including its Homestead DLC (although I never played with that DLC).

For what is has been worth -- not much at all now, apparently -- I've been leveling an Imperial Stamina DPS Templar and a Breton Magicka Healing Templar during the New Life Festival. I also have an Imperial Sorcerer and a Breton Sorcerer, both now Level 50 CP 580+ after reaching VR 16 before the Character Level system was revised.

Now the Update 13 changes made for Templars, as well as for Sorcerers and Destruction Staff abilities and passives, on the whole, apparently make every hour that I have played the game during the past two years a big, fat, waste of time and effort. No one can ever reach a goal when those who control the game design continue to move the goal-posts. The ZO developers seem intent upon making changes for the sake of making changes, simply to justify their paychecks and for no other evident reasons, really.

That said, the most immersive ESO experiences for me have been in pursuing quests, and in exploring and fighting in delves and dungeons, etc., in the pursuit. The underlying stories -- imbued with the "Lore" -- is what I find most interesting and fascinating. For each quest, I want to see how the story ends.

Sometimes, though, I just "pick a direction and run" to see whatever discoveries I might make. I enjoy "filling in the map" and turning the black symbols into white ones. I enjoy fighting World Bosses and Dolmens in groups, and sometimes group with others for dungeons. Usually I enjoy solving puzzles, too, and my characters seek and collect Lorebooks, whether Eidetic or for Shalidor's Library. Albeit, I find the Thieves Guild and Assassins Guild quests boring and ill-designed. My characters are neither thieves nor murderers, but fight for liberty, for justice, and to relieve suffering and oppression of the innocent.

ESO "achievements" as such don't contribute anything to MY immersion in the game. That record certainly does not acknowledge many of my activities and accomplishments during the course of play. Such as there are, many hours of time and effort are summarized with a token worth maybe "10 Points", or "50 Points" at most. So, when I look at "Achievements", what I see are mostly dark squares with a few lit here-and-there. Most of the dark ones are just stunts which often require "whack-a-mole" grinding, or significantly changing the build of a character, to satisfy. They are rarely, if ever, satisfied unless a player specifically chooses such an achievement to accomplish.

The fact that "achievements" determine which colors a player can use to dye a character's armor is one feature that I have come to detest. There are, of course, players who play for the sake of maximizing their achievement scores. There are guilds in which that is the focus of their common activity -- just as there are PvP guilds, dungeon-and-trial guilds, trading and merchandising guilds, "social" guilds, "role-playing" guilds, etc. Now, we will have guilds dedicated to acquiring and furnishing Homesteads.

As to whether being "a respected member of the local community who has proven themselves" justifies prerequisites for purchasing a Homestead with Gold Pieces: since when has a wandering adventurer (whether evil bad-ass, or heart-of-gold care-bear) ever been a member of any "community"?? My characters are not family men, career hounds, or entrepreneurs. At best we are a band of companions set out upon a common quest.

Regardless, the point remains: the few prerequisites which I've seen thus far appear to be newly-introduced achievements which no player's character has had an opportunity to satisfy. Accordingly, they have been implemented as an incentive for the player to spend DOLLARS to BUY CROWNS and use them to purchase the Homestead, in order to "bypass" spending a lot of time and effort to satisfy the prerequisites. You won't be doing much of anything else for a while if you want to buy a Manor.

So, I think that I'll just keep my Gold Pieces and my US Dollars and settle for a room in an inn. By the way, I don't see any "apartments" for sale in the Crown Store, just small, medium, and large homesteads. I don't know whether they actually exist in the game.

Last, whether least: the Homestead feature reflects all of our snobbish middle-class American cultural assumptions about who should and can own real property embedded in its design. That is quite an amusing, and sad, contrast to the violence and wanton disregard for life, and the eye-wink disrepect for personal property, which are reasons that ESO is such a popular fantasy.

Shadowshire wrote: »

Regardless, the point remains: the few prerequisites which I've seen thus far appear to be newly-introduced achievements which no player's character has had an opportunity to satisfy. Accordingly, they have been implemented as an incentive for the player to spend DOLLARS to BUY CROWNS and use them to purchase the Homestead, in order to "bypass" spending a lot of time and effort to satisfy the prerequisites. You won't be doing much of anything else for a while if you want to buy a Manor.

Not so. The achievements are all the ones that you get for completing certain quest chains in the base game, and have been there since launch (except the ones that also give a dye, which have been there since Update 3).

Shadowshire wrote: »

Thank-you for your replies to my questions. In my humble opinion, Gina Bruno needs the services of an experienced editor (such as myself ).

Enodoc wrote: »

Shadowshire wrote: »

....
Also, there is no mention of any "private island" about which representations were made in the initial promotion of the Homestead feature.

The private island is Crown Store exclusive, and is available on the PTS for testing.

Hmmm ... I have looked at all of the Notable Houses on the PTS Crown Store, and I have not recognized any separate listing or category for the Private Island. Perhaps it is one of those, but it is difficult to identify which.

The "Grand Topal Hideaway" (Grahtwood) is one of the two "featured" offerings, but as far as I can see, it is not an island, just an isolated part of an ocean shoreline which is accessed with a small boat. It is also listed among the Notable Houses. (One of my characters has explored it on the PTS.)

Grand Topal Highway is the private island. If you look on it's map in-game, you can see that it's got water on all sides.

mainarhont wrote: »

- Story quests other alliances were not available until you have completed the previous stories - the story of his alliance > quest Cadwell`s Silver > Cadwell`s Gold;
- Coldharbor and Craglorn should only be available upon reaching certain conditions by the participant:
-- Coldharbor - after passing through the opening storyline quests in Coldharbor (can not remember his name, given by ~ 45 level);
-- Craglorn upon reaching level 50 character.

They're not going to put back in these restrictions after just removing them all. They need to update in-game lore to match the changes, not revert the changes.