ZOS, hire this guy already, he's smarter than most of you.

This film is an excellent analysis of...everything. Gilliam is amazing and a phenomenal asset to the ESO community.

im a returning player(tried at launch but at that time ESO was just to plain horrible)

i couldnt understand half of the things he was saying becuase well i just started playing again but he seems to know his sh@$ about the game a LOT

any player that give this kind of analisis of a patch should be listenned to by the DEVs imo.

this needs looked at for all classes and builds
great post thanks for taking the time to put it together

@Gilliam

@Adenoma wrote: »

Not to mention, with this next update my magsorc will keep 100% uptime on immovability so good luck tossing CC my way.

You play for AD, right?

Thanks for the heads up.

Adenoma wrote: »

Yeah, I play AD - although there's this guild that seems to think I'm a traitor because of the one time I rolled a DC. Whoops!

Are you in BwB?

Also, you could already keep nearly full CC immunity uptime anyway. It was funny that people ran amberplasm because you have no real need for that stam sustain as is.

I am a bit, leveling up new versions of old characters for the NA server. I'm sure we'll run into each other eventually.

ofSunhold wrote: »

@Adenoma wrote: »

The thing that always surprises me about ESO is how the average player thinks that things like these sustain changes will improve the quality of their experience and level the playing field between them and advanced players.

If they think that, it might be because ZOS keeps telling them that. "We're raising the floor and lowering the ceiling!" And when everything is harder for them after the amazing floor-raising, they just figure it's because they're scrubs. Must be doing it wrong.

I did a few dungeons on the PTS with some guildies, trying to figure out just how bad the changes to magplar healers are and whether I want to invest the time to re-gear and re-learn how to heal (answers: bad, and no I don't). Mostly just normal dungeons, with longish-time players dedicated enough to use the PTS, and they sucked for all of us except a class of DD that shall go unnamed here. PUGging dungeons, which is what many players are kind of stuck with when they first try out running dungeons, just got more craptastic by several orders of magnitude.

Vets running with guildies are going to be bored with longer fights, get different gear, and in a month or two be just fine.

Level playing field, raised floor, check.

I just started doing pve again to get one monster shoulder.... guess ill just take a pass..... lol

Ignoring the caltrops being used 3 times in 30 seconds. I like how he show the differences.

It was good in that he showed not only what it was like with BIS gear but also gear that the average person has access too, the BIS stuff really only added 30 second to a nightblade which on live has the best sustain of the classes through the siphon skill line.

Minute 58 onwards is what´s most important and 100% what i think about the topic aswell.

Imo zos does not really understand their own game at a high enough level.

I watched this whole video last night, and I have to say that it really does a great job of explaining the issues that I see in this patch as well. I hope ZOS' @ZOS_RichLambert @Wrobel look at it.

The biggest issue I saw playing the test server was that a really excellent player who spends countless hours on ESO like Gilliam are brought down to having to play like they are level 20 or 30. Even with the best weaving and knowledge of the game, combat becomes slow and sluggish as the player has to heavy attack to gain back resources which are drained crazily quickly.

And what we didn't see in the video is what happens when the player needs to use some of those resources to actually do the fun part of eso combat - the mechanics! How can you dodge-roll or block when you're constantly fighting a losing battle against stamina after 15 - 30 seconds of combat? This makes combat boring, sluggish, and unnecessarily long.

I watched my husband play on PTS and thought, if he can't do it, there's no way I'm going to be able to do it. And lo and behold, I tried and failed. As a much more casual player I am completely at a loss. I am out of power in no time flat, my enemies are still quite alive because I don't weave like the big guys and I sometimes cast things I shouldn't. I feel like I've lost all the power I've gained playing for years since beta; as if the work I've done to get better (and I have!) amounts to nothing. That's not a feeling you want your players to have.

And there are a lot of us out there that just aren't ever going to be as good as the elite players! We're getting hurt the most here.

I need to recreate my main (templar healer) on the PTS and try her out... but I'm sort of afraid to. The version of the game in PTS is just not fun.

Morrowind is beautiful though - and those new assets, furnishings, etc.. oh man.

It's pretty much exactly 6 weeks until Morrowind drops. I hope ZOS has given themselves enough time to come up with a good solution and that they won't to force bad changes in because DEADLINES.