Hey there @ZOS_GinaBruno and Zenifriends. Please consider this,

so many players including myself find the Ebonheart Chateau to be lacking in aesthetics department. It's in a fantastic location nestled into the side of an active volcano and overlooking the town of Ebonheart. The Problem is when you are actually on the premises of the Mansion you notice little of this prime location.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »
FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS, BASE GAME PATCH


Homes

Added a tower to Ebonheart Chateau, overlooking the nearby lava. The door to this new addition can be accessed from the courtyard.


While I can appreciate the addition of the tower I think it is the wrong way to improve the Ebonheart Chateau. The tower feels out of place and encroaches into open space, making the yard feel more cramped as there are high walls and buildings all around.

I think adding an overlook section (like the one the Daggerfall Manor has) instead of a tower to the left side of the yard would be a much better way to make use of the prime location of this estate. I will post post some quick Photoshop mock ups to illustrate what I mean below.

Daggerfall Manor overlook area: View 1




Daggerfall Manor overlook area: View 2




Add a Dark Elf architecture themed overlook like this instead of the tower. See these mock ups:

Ebonheart Chateau overlook: View 1



Ebonheart Chateau overlook: View 2




This would show of the unique location and geographical features MUCH better than the current tower as well as help make the yard not feel as cramped. What do other people think?

whatever happened to that balance patch we where supposed to be getting?

you've essentially nerfed everything and made magsorcs the only class worth playing..... like what?.

I am so sad for the pve trial portion of the game. Everyone has made a magsorc- even my reluctant friend who loves her mag blade despite its weaknesses. This is pretty much every weekends vmaw roster at the moment:
1. Tank
2. Tank [this tank chains for himself on gold boss]
3. Healer
4. Healer
5. Chainer Magdk
6. Stamsorc
7. Sorc
8. Surprise another sorc
9. Sorc
10. Another sorc
11. Sorcerer
12. Sorc

Next dlc just remove the Stamsorc and replace it with a.... mag sorc! Sometimes if we're lucky we get a magplar or even 2 for the Jesus beams but it seems like the idea future beam nerf has made a lot of them start playing their.... wait for it..... sorcs.

I'm excited about housing. It looks wonderful. But I'm afraid we are going to lose even more end-game pvers because of the game state. From what I see here, Pvp has a lot of issues too. Grouping for maw completes is already very hard on ps4. There are very few who can complete this content. I hope housing is enough for people.

Parafrost wrote: »

Supersnake_Lx wrote: »

souravami wrote: »

Underwhelming, to say the least.
Now I'm really skeptical about tomorrow's announcement.Hopefully they don't [snip] that up as well.

I have no idea what you guys were expecting with one week before release. There is not enough time for any additional major changes to be tested properly, and if they introduce new bugs, GG.

Sad that companies follow deadlines instead of finishing the product. This is shameful .

Yes, like almost* every successful professional release decisions have to be made as to what to exclude from scope to reach release. the metric for good project management vs bad project management is not whether these decisions are made or not - they always are - but how many of them come how late in the development cycle. More later = bad, more earlier = good.

Anyone who thinks these aren't made - likely have little to no actual experience in actually bringing such a project to release.

* i think its likely all not almost all but leave the option open.

STEVIL wrote: »

Zweible wrote: »

STEVIL wrote: »

Icy wrote: »

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.

Oh NO! Please don't do this! Please have housing mats at LEAST have the same chance to appear in survey nodes as they do in normal nodes. Please!

RE this

Updated Alchemy Survey Reports to no longer provide Alchemical Resin.

So let me get this straight, ZoS.

i have the following surveys on hand right now with likely a couple dozen more by launch:
135 ench
30 cloth
60 wood
44 blacksmith
63 alchemy

So with this change that means that when the brand new sub-game of housing drops, i wont have an advantage of this magnitude over anyone else including the role-player types who might be more inclined to really get into housing?

I will be starting on maybe even footing with all those folks?

Well, if thats the case then i have to say... thats a wonderful move and i applaud you.

Well done sirs and madames.

Well done.

#ThisIsNotSarcasm

And it makes what kind of difference whatsoever that some people had the foresight to stock up on surveys in the futile hope that they MAY have gotten enuff mats to make a bed? Is it a race to see who can decorate fastest? Maybe the people who stocked their surveys are really into the crafting and wanted to play their way without the (obviously) boring grind that ZOS is forcing on us?

Now we have another inconsistency. Surveys will only drop the mats that the survey is intended for.. EXCEPT IN CRAGLORN. You can still get nirn. Bad move ZOS.

Sorry i forgot - starting everyone on equal footing for new content or subsytem is against the genetics for some in the MMO community.

BTW last time i checked, valid options to avoid grind and opt for convenience and quick has been established as doing so thru guild stores or crown store for quite some time in this game.

As for what kind of difference it could possibly make... well... maybe you are new and dont have a body of experience in this but... guild prices for new stuff are often very highly inflated over what they will settle to. if a system has a hvy grind then those with a sizeable advantage in gathering - say over 300 surveys on hand ready to harvest - would have a noticeable and commercial advantage in getting the most bang for their buck out of their edge early on.

Starting folks on more even footing, material wise, still leaves those with the skills and knowledge ahead of those who dont have those but doesn't give as much material advantage for those who have stockpiled prior to the release because of the new mats.

So, my bet is with a little more experience you will see what a difference the 300+ surveys could have made and would have made.

And in turn puts everyone who does crafting writs to stockpile the materials for themselves and others at a disadvantage. Meaning they'll have to grind mats all day as well as pay those inflated prices to decorate their homes as I mentioned earlier about the long term implications this will have.

You also fail to see or ignorant to the fact that allowing the materials to drop from surveys indirectly rectifies the issue of inflated prices in the long term, considering it would inject a lot more of the materials into the economy.

It also rewards crafting and is available for literally everyone in game to profit from, so really your only concern is you don't like the fact people, who put effort into reading the patch notes and preparing for the patch, profit for their extra efforts in reading into the changes and how it would affect the economy. Rather you would like everyone to be on an equal playing field, but really by that you mean that the ignorant be on par with those who make a tiny little bit of effort.

I can understand why you think it is bad for the game, for the short term. I disagree. I think people who stock pile items or become self aware of potential changes in the economy and make the effort to invest in it are smart to do so. What you also fail to realise is this 'problem' of yours can be fixed by ZOS simply changing the item code ID for the surveys as they did with the Writ boxes to prevent stock piling master writs for the same reason.

I don't agree that if they fix/revert the change they should do that, but I would rather they do that and make them obtainable from other sources like surveys, refining, hirelings and from the writ boxes themselves, within reasonable quantities in future so the entire population who are interested in housing have to farm endlessly in over populated zones sniping nodes from one another to decorate their homes or to make gold for housing/game considering the upcoming housing patch really dampened the economy as a whole.

Still no changes to make HP a worthy attribute. No changes to snipe to reduce its initial burst damage. These two were like the only things promised on Reddit (aside from mdk buffs)

STEVIL wrote: »

Zweible wrote: »

STEVIL wrote: »

Icy wrote: »

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.

Oh NO! Please don't do this! Please have housing mats at LEAST have the same chance to appear in survey nodes as they do in normal nodes. Please!

RE this

Updated Alchemy Survey Reports to no longer provide Alchemical Resin.

So let me get this straight, ZoS.

i have the following surveys on hand right now with likely a couple dozen more by launch:
135 ench
30 cloth
60 wood
44 blacksmith
63 alchemy

So with this change that means that when the brand new sub-game of housing drops, i wont have an advantage of this magnitude over anyone else including the role-player types who might be more inclined to really get into housing?

I will be starting on maybe even footing with all those folks?

Well, if thats the case then i have to say... thats a wonderful move and i applaud you.

Well done sirs and madames.

Well done.

#ThisIsNotSarcasm

And it makes what kind of difference whatsoever that some people had the foresight to stock up on surveys in the futile hope that they MAY have gotten enuff mats to make a bed? Is it a race to see who can decorate fastest? Maybe the people who stocked their surveys are really into the crafting and wanted to play their way without the (obviously) boring grind that ZOS is forcing on us?

Now we have another inconsistency. Surveys will only drop the mats that the survey is intended for.. EXCEPT IN CRAGLORN. You can still get nirn. Bad move ZOS.

Sorry i forgot - starting everyone on equal footing for new content or subsystem is against the genetics for some in the MMO community.

BTW last time i checked, valid options to avoid grind and opt for convenience and quick has been established as doing so thru guild stores or crown store for quite some time in this game.

As for what kind of difference it could possibly make... well... maybe you are new and dont have a body of experience in this but... guild prices for new stuff are often very highly inflated over what they will settle to. if a system has a heavy grind then those with a sizeable advantage in gathering - say over 300 surveys on hand ready to harvest - would have a noticeable and commercial advantage in getting the most bang for their buck out of their edge early on.

Starting folks on more even footing, material wise, still leaves those with the skills and knowledge ahead of those who dont have those but doesn't give as much material advantage for those who have stockpiled prior to the release because of the new mats.

So, my bet is with a little more experience you will see what a difference the 300+ surveys could have made and would have made.

Right, and I knew players who stockpiled Alchemy Surveys when the introduction of Poisons was announced, thinking that they would subsequently receive poison reagents from them. But I have never seen an Alchemy Survey produce any poison reagent(s) at all. Poison reagents are, however, sometimes included in the payoff for completing an Alchemy Crafting Writ.

As it stands, though, it doesn't seem likely that any Furnishing Crafting Materials will be included in the payoff for any Crafting Writs, unless there is something in the Patch Notes that I have overlooked. In my humble opinion, the whole Master Writ system was invented to make Furnishing Crafting non-competitive with buying furnishing from the Crown Store instead.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert

Grumble_and_Grunt wrote: »

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

My thoughts exactly!!

Supersnake_Lx wrote: »

souravami wrote: »

Underwhelming, to say the least.
Now I'm really skeptical about tomorrow's announcement.Hopefully they don't [snip] that up as well.

I have no idea what you guys were expecting with one week before release. There is not enough time for any additional major changes to be tested properly, and if they introduce new bugs, GG.

Although I would like to inform you as to the reality of what we see that the ESO development team does and/or does not do, those who monitor messages that we post do not like anyone who "bashes ZOS" or who criticizes or questions how the ESO development team goes about their work.

Just stick to criticizing whatever specific features and/or changes that we don't like, and/or to offering suggestions as to what we would like to see and to play in the game, whether in the next release or at some other time in the future.

(The "edited" notice at the end of this message means "self-censored".)

Still no Champion point scaling for pet base attacks.

Ruinhorn wrote: »

• No fixing bugs, just removing the "problem"
• ABSOLUTELY (a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y) full ignorance of classes threads, players opinions, suggestions and constructive criticism
• Forcing people to grind more and more, because there's no new content instead of small 2 DLC (Thieves Guild and DB, the last one has veeeery boring questline) + SoH with (wow, omg, so much content!) 2 dungeons. Of course we have nothing to do and nothing to explore. Half of Tamriel map is empty. Pffffffffff, you don't say so. Go and farm several hours to make a fancy cup for your new house.
• At first we have 2500 crowns for mounts. Then 4000-5000 for them. Then - Crown Crates. Now - 6000 for motif (SIX!). What's next? Is it because people are leaving or using crown store less than expected previously?
• Nerfing, nerfing, nerfing everything. Instead of finding a solution, instead of listeting to ANYONE EXCEPT YOURSELVES, you just nerfing everything you see. First - multiplying everything (old players remember days when they had ~2,5k of hp), then - veteran system, then - champion, then - 1T (of course, locations been so empty without it). Do you even have a plan? I'm pretty sure that so many global changes weren't in your plans at first.
• Destroying stamina as a class. While playing with magicka I can get at least the same results (usually - better) doing LESS THINGS. It's like to earn a million of $ while picking your nose and earn $500k working for many years.

ZOS, seems, thinking about money, not the content and quality. And I hope that they realise that even with such quality (yes, ESO is one of the best and top MMOs for now) they can fail. People are not idiots overall, and such system with be ruined at the end with the way you're going in. You don't listen to players, who know BETTER THAN YOU what's wrong in the game. You're worrying only about Crown Store (just check that every thread with Crown Store problems/questions has an answer from ZOS). For the last year all we got is 2 small poor locations. You're ruining PvE game, because of PvP crying girls. Instead of balancing and finding a solution just cut a part of the game - "should work, they'll eat this anyway".

That's a fact. I'm telling only facts and what I see since BETA. I see how extremely promising and high-quality MMO came to "The Elder Sims Online" (still TESO anyway) as a simulator of:

1. Grinding. Grinding everything. We've been grinding trial first. Then experience (hello, champion system). Then sets (hello, 1T). And now we're gonna grind fancy cups.
2. PvP. Want to play ESO? There're 2 thing for you: either PvP or Grinding simulator. Sorry, but we have a poor PvE content here. Oh, u wanna pick a stamina class? ("Should we tell him or just look what will happen?")

I'm crying, ZOS. To see how Creators consciously are destroying their child... The child we loved so much for the first time.

P.S. That's only my opinion, and many of you could disagree with this. It's okay.

Whether or not i agree or disagree with your conclusions the line where you say " I'm telling only facts" should not really belong in a post you end with describing it as just your opinion - IMO..

SpAEkus wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno

I just noticed a small change to Craglorn Consumable maximum Writs, Survey rewards.

On live, with ESO Plus+ and Orsinium DLC, all Craglorn maximum Writ Survey rewards were going to Orsinium. As of this patch on copied NA characters, I received One in Craglorn and One in Stormhaven.

Any idea if the current Live system was a bug and now fixed? Or is this a new change?

If I correctly understand the issue that you describe, then it was changed with the introduction of One Tamriel, and documented in the Patch Notes. But I wouldn't call it a "small change".

One change was that maximum rank gear and consumables crafted for any Writ are now delivered to the Quartermaster in Craglorn, and not to one in Orsinium.

Another change was that a Crafting Material Survey, which is sometimes included in the payoff for completing a Crafting Writ, can now be for a set of corresponding material nodes in almost any zone, and not only the zone where the Writs are delivered. Also, the items which appear at Survey nodes now depend upon the Character Level and/or the corresponding rank for the Craft which the PC that uses the Survey has, instead of the zone in which those nodes are located.

Since you have mentioned it, I don't know whether the second change was fully implemented for both Consumable Writs and for Equipment Writs. If Consumable Surveys are now appearing in zones other than Wrothgar on the PTS, then that would be consistent with the change that was implemented for Equipment Surveys previously.

By the way, each of the daily Crafting Writs is the same for each day in all zones where it is given (on bulletin boards). For example, there is no difference between an Alchemy Crafting Writ that a Player Character obtains in Craglorn and an Alchemy Crafting Writ obtained for the same day in Stormhaven, Reaper's March, or any other zone. Where completed items for Crafting Writs must be delivered depends upon the rank at which those items are crafted.

STEVIL wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

The lighting in some of the houses is still bugged. Please fix this before launch or no one is going to buy those houses.

Do you get to see housing with lights as they work before purchase?

if not, your argument doesn't follow.

The lighting in all houses worked fine in patch 2.7.1 and 2.7.2, only from 2.7.3 onward it became proximity triggered, with a radius of about 1,5 meter.

manavortex wrote: »

SadieJoan wrote: »

Lighting still not fixed then?

Honestly, as much as I didn't want to, I'm going back to bdo
And I failed smashing ogre rings...