PTS Patch Notes v2.7.4

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 2017

OVERVIEW
The Elder Scrolls Online v2.7.4 is our last incremental patch on the PTS, and continues to fix issues surrounding the player housing system. In this patch, we’re switching over to copy all PC North American megaserver characters. The size of this patch is approximately 126MB.

KNOWN ISSUES

Housing

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Art & Animation
Combat & Gameplay
Crafting & Economy
Crown Store
Housing
Itemization & Exploration
UI

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 2017

KNOWN ISSUES

Housing
General

The furnishing category shown on plans and in the crafting UI does not always match the category of the resulting item in the Housing Editor.
The Alliance Hero Shield achievement furnishings are currently sold only in Cyrodiil for Alliance Points, and are limited to members of the associated alliance. In a future update, these shields will also be available at the Global Achievement Furnisher in each Alliance’s capital city for gold to anyone who has completed the associated Alliance Hero achievements.
- Pact Hero Shield
- Covenant Hero Shield
- Dominion Hero Shield

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 2017

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Art & Animation
Animation

The proper animations will now be displayed when you move after switching weapon types.

Combat & Gameplay
Dragonknight

Draconic Power
- Coagulating Blood (Dragon Blood morph): Fixed an issue where Rank II and IV of this morph were not correctly scaling the heal based on your missing Health.

Templar

Dawn’s Wrath
- Backlash:
  - The final damage dealt by this ability and its morphs can no longer critically strike, and is no longer reduced from Battle Spirit (note that the initial damage and maximum damage limit are both still reduced by 50% from Battle Spirit).
  - Fixed an issue where the copied damage from this ability and its morphs was significantly higher than intended against other player characters.
  - The copied damage from this ability and its morphs is now increased by 50% against other player characters, reduced from 100%.

Developer Comments

After evaluating the most recent changes of Backlash on the PTS, we have made further changes and bug fixes to ensure the damage from this ability is more fairly balanced in PvP. Hitting the maximum damage limit against another player now requires a significant amount of uninhibited damage from the Templar, and enemies will have more counterplay in reducing Backlash’s burst damage if they actively mitigate or avoid damage. Changing Backlash’s final damage to no longer critically strike prevents the Templar from reaching the damage cap too easily with a high critical strike rating. This is due to the fact that the damage copied could critical strike, and the last the final damage also critically strike on top of that.

Restoring Light
- Honor the Dead (Rushed Ceremony morph): Fixed an issue where this morph’s refund bonus was not occurring if you healed the target to above 75% Health.

Weapon

One Hand and Shield
- Shield Wall: Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs were not blocking all the secondary effects from blockable monster attacks.

Alliance War

Support
- Stalwart Guard (Guard morph): Fixed an issue where the permanent Minor Force buff from this morph was removing other, temporary sources of Minor Force.

Crafting & Economy
General

Updated Alchemy Survey Reports to no longer provide Alchemical Resin. This brings them in line with other Survey Reports.
Renamed all Motif Books to a new, more compact naming schema. This prevents motif names from being truncated on the item, and standardizes all of their nomenclature. No longer shall some books say "Ch.", while others say "Chapter".
- For example, “Crafting Motifs 15: Dwemer” will now be “Crafting Motif 15: Dwemer Style”, and “Crafting Motifs 15, Chapter 1: Dwemer Axes” will now be “Crafting Motif 15: Dwemer Axes”.

Furnishing Crafting

Several thrones are now available as rare crafting plans.
Fixed an issue that slightly reduced the chance to find some furnishing plans.
The “Cabinet, Poisonmaker’s” furnishing now correctly requires Rosin instead of Mastic to produce.
The “Rough Stretcher, Military” furnishing is now a Tailoring Pattern instead of a Woodworking Blueprint.

Master Writs

Fixed an issue where the quest tracker for consumable Writs could reset if an item it was tracking was consumed.
Removed the "Coffer, Gem" praxis from Rolis Hlaalu's stock, as it was visually identical to the "Enchanting Gem" that is unlocked for purchase by completing the “Ruby Potency” achievement.

Provisioning

Adjusted the Health bonuses for Witches Festival food and drink to ensure they give 10% more Health and Health Recovery than they do the equivalent Stamina or Magicka bonuses.

Crown Store
General

Item names from large bundles are now colored to match their quality.

Consumables

Fixed an issue that caused the Major Intellect buff from the Crown Spellcaster's Elixir to incorrectly overwrite Major Fortitude buffs (and stack with other sources of Major Intellect.)

Housing
General

Added tutorial alerts for the Housing system to introduce you to the Housing Editor and the new Housing tab of the Collections menu.

Furnishers

Corrected several outliers in the pricing of furnishings from Home Goods Furnishers.

Furnishings

Argonian Target Skeletons are now available for purchase in the Housing Editor.
Fixed several mismatched interact prompts on furnishings.
Corrected several cases where icons were swapped or otherwise incorrect for various furnishings.
Added animations to several wells that were not previously animated.
Improved the names of several furnishings to better match their appearance, and to rename items that were using the same name as another furnishing.
Lamps and other furnishings that have glowing textures will no longer glow when turned down.
- Known Issue: Lit lamps will not appear to glow when initially placed.
Removed the “Hammer, Forge” furnishing from the Housing Editor. It was not quite ready, but may return in a future update.
Removed two furnishings that appeared visually similar to Provisioning Stations, but were not actually Provisioning Stations.
Removed four furnishings that were visually identical to other furnishings. The affected items include:
- Plants, Verdant Swamp
- Boulder, Heavy Craggy
- Tree, Squat Weeping Willow
- Tree, Murky Weeping Willow
- Coffer, Gem
The “Harvester's Garden” achievement furnishing now periodically emits butterflies when placed in a home.
The "Argonian Canopy, Frilled" now looks like a canopy, instead of accidentally appearing as a boat.
The "Dark Elf Bed of Coals" furnishing no longer appears transparent from below, and no longer appears to be strangely offset from your cursor.

Homes

When purchasing a home for gold, only the requirements you still need to complete will be displayed. Any requirements that you’ve already met will not be shown.
Fixed an issue that prevented several furnishings from showing up in pre-furnished homes.
Adjusted pre-furnished homes to remove duplicate or out-of-bounds furnishings, and to ensure that everything from the unfurnished version is represented in the furnished version.
Updated the exit doors for all homes to read “Leave Home”.
Fixed the name of Hammerdeath Bungalow in several places that still referenced the old name.
- NOTE: The description that appears when you enter the home is out of date, and will be updated to match the description in the collections menu in a future update.
Removed a non-furnishing pillar from the center of the Cyrodilic Jungle House courtyard.
Adjusted the collision of Gardner House and Captain Margaux’s Place to make it so you can more easily retrieve items placed on walls, without needing to use the Retrieve tab of the editor.
Fixed a minor visual issue with the skybox for the Grand Topal Hideaway.

Housing Editor

Made significant adjustments to the categorization of furnishings in the Housing Editor.
- Not all furnishings have been put into their final category yet – expect to see this improve in the near future.
- Breads and Desserts currently appear as “Uncategorized” instead of in a subsection of the Hearth category.
Fixed an issue that could cause recently placed furnishings to disappear from your home.
Fixed an issue that caused certain furnishings to appear sunken into the ground when previewed in the Housing Editor.
Fixed an issue that could prevent chairs and other interactive furnishings from being used immediately after adjusting their position.
Moving an Assistant to where you are standing will no longer push you out of the way.
Placing an Assistant inside a Crafting Station will now prevent that station from being used, the same way other objects prevent Crafting Stations from being used.
Placing objects in your home no longer hides your equipped weapons.

Itemization & Exploration
Itemization

Fixed an issue where minibosses in Arx Corinium were dropping the Legs of the Medusa set rather than the Feet. This made the Feet items rarer than intended.
Increased the chance to receive furnishing-related rewards from criminal activities like pickpocketing and murder.
Increased the chance to receive Provisioning Recipes from criminal activities like pickpocketing and murder.

UI
General

Fixed an issue where the preview of your guild tabard would not appear while editing your guild heraldry if you were wearing a costume or polymorph.
Improved the reliability of Guild Trader filters, particularly for furnishings.
Fixed an issue where grammar markup could appear in collectible tooltips in the French game client.

Housing

Made several improvements to UI elements, the camera, and the environment when previewing furniture.
Interactive furnishings (crafting stations, chairs, target skeletons, etc.) will now have a green glow during placement if they are positioned in a usable orientation.
Furniture purchased for crowns will no longer display a gold sell value in their tooltips.
The "Apply to All Houses" checkbox in the housing permissions screens will now remember if you unchecked it.
A confirmation dialog will now display when using gold to purchase a home.

Razer Chroma

Fixed an issue where the Ultimate key would occasionally not light up after swapping weapons.

pengwynn · January 2017

seriously?

Sandman929 · January 2017

That's it? That's nothing.

Inig0 · January 2017

sick natch potes

Sandman929 · January 2017

Just make it a PvE only game and be done with it. Clearly there's no interest in PvP.

timidobserver · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Fixed an issue where the copied damage from this ability and its morphs was significantly higher than intended against other player characters.

Can you replace this line with specifics of what was wrong and what you did to fix it.

Dr.NRG · January 2017

Disappointing:(

Anhedonie · January 2017

Alright, I get it. Housing takes priority and balance may burn in hell in this patch. See you in april, guys.

Elara_Northwind · January 2017

Lighting still not fixed then?

Franieck · January 2017

Can't wait for the next update since this one literally doesn't have anything that appeals to me

Pangnirtung · January 2017

I didnt see anything about fixes for the Mac client.

Are Mac users still fubarred?

Icy · January 2017

"The “Harvester's Garden” achievement furnishing now periodically emits butterflies when placed in a home."

Nice!

(Can it emit torchbugs at night? Pls!)

Jaeysa · January 2017

Updated Alchemy Survey Reports to no longer provide Alchemical Resin. This brings them in line with other Survey Reports.

Sad face

Vynn · January 2017

Underwhelming.

kaithuzar · January 2017

No mention of nightblade; #not_surprised

manavortex · January 2017

SadieJoan wrote: »

Lighting still not fixed then?

OrphanHelgen · January 2017

Was about to say my opinion here, but the comments are already nailing it ^

Mojmir · January 2017

Like I said a week or two ago,consider PTS to be live

Bowser · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Homes
Removed a non-furnishing pillar from the center of the Cyrodilic Jungle House courtyard.

You guys really do read the feedback!

Ryan1704 · January 2017

And with this final patch an end has been brought to a rather underwhelming update

Lokey0024 · January 2017

Tough crowd.

kaithuzar · January 2017

@ZOS_RichLambert
Why on earth did you guys even make the decision to implement player housing when the rest of the game needs entirely too much work for words to describe!
I hope you guys/girls at Zenimax NEVER refer to this as a "balance patch" because it's completely not!

Iyas · January 2017

Underwhelming

React · January 2017

Now we will finally be able to test backlash. Please, for the love of stamplar, let it be useful. Very excited for this skill and crescent sweep in tandem. Stamplar might ACTUALLY become valid again.

As for overall balance, I think it's safe to say that each class is about where it was prior to this. DK's got a few nice changes, stamplars got some buffs that were LONGGGG overdue and might be playable, sorcs got stronger pets and a multi-functional curse, magblades got some great buffs, and stamblades are stamblades.

I think the only class that was actually hurt by this update is magplar with the removal of the stun on blazing spear. HOWEVER. Literally everyone played magplar, and for a good reason. The class as a whole was insanely good for PVP in every regard, and could pull top tier DPS in PvE. I'm not saying I agree with the stun removal, however I do think we might see a bit of change to the PvP magplar meta.

Decent job ZOS.

ninti · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH
Updated Alchemy Survey Reports to no longer provide Alchemical Resin. This brings them in line with other Survey Reports.

Lol. Epic trolling there ZOS.

This update is going to be a train wreck.

Grumble_and_Grunt · January 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH

Crafting & Economy
General
Updated Alchemy Survey Reports to no longer provide Alchemical Resin. This brings them in line with other Survey Reports.

Nice! So instead of fixing the bug of Blacksmithing/Clothing/Woodworking/Enchanting surveys not dropping the new housing materials they simply remove it from the alchemy surveys and call it quits! GG Zenimax.

Prepare to farm for a couple hours to build a couple items for your home, then another couple hours to build some more items, farming your socks off in the housing patch rat race! Or buy them for incredibly inflated prices on the market.

This is imo a poor and lazy attempt at a fix and IF it was not intended to drop housing materials from crafting surveys in first place, I see literally no reason why that should have been the case...The ONLY way to retrieve these items which are needed in abundance is farming nodes or buying from people who farmed nodes..

Perfect opportunity to reward crafters and inject a decent supply of these mats in the market, instead you've removed them completely besides farming nodes and therefore created a very frustrating, laborious approach for decorating homes.

On a separate note nothing about crashes? EU last week couldn't test anything because the build was incredibly unstable, I really hope for NA sake they are not met with the same frustrations.

ANNNND nothing about CC abilities being literally completely broken on PTS LOOOOOL

Ron_Burgundy_79 · January 2017

No change to the Blazing Spear nerf. Glad ZOS listens to the community feedback.

Edit for clarity: There's almost 1000 comments on the templar pts thread. A large amount talked about the ignorance of this nerf. @Wrobel @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert

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david19979 · January 2017

Well, right now the housing feels like it's straight out of a limited grindfesty free to play game. Disappointed.

Emasculate · January 2017

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert Why the removal of Critical damage from Power of the light? If you did that you should make the skill unblock able at least