Natch Potes - Stupid Idea Bingo for 3.0.2

Berenhir · April 2017

As Zenimax somehow managed to bring the community to the edge of open warfare among the classes with one patch proposal, I would like to collect ideas for further fire accelerants.

I am completely sure that one or more of the abstruse ideas in this thread are going to be on the drawing board for "class balance", so I wanted to start a senseless nerf bingo.

Sorcerer

Daedric Summoning

Conjured Ward

This ability and its morphs now scale of your maximum health instead if your maximum magicka.

Developer Comment

In the attempt to completely destroy fast paced combat, we want to make this defensive ability consistent with other wards like Bone Shield. Note that this will be a significant buff if your maximum magicka is below 11.5k and a nerf if above.

Tavore1138 · April 2017

]Nightblade - Killer's Blade, This now does increased damage while your targets health is between 93% to 77.35%, damage now scales based on the stamina pool of the person 3m to your right.

Developers note:

We felt players were too focused on using execute abilities at the end of a fight so we wanted to spread the execute skills to all phases of a long battle to better balance the experience.

Scaling off a group members stamina just makes picking the right group more important and brings more strategy to the game.

TARAFRAKA · April 2017

Berenhir wrote: »

As Zenimax somehow managed to bring the community to the edge of open warfare among the classes with one patch proposal, I would like to collect ideas for further fire accelerants.

I am completely sure that one or more of the abstruse ideas in this thread are going to be on the drawing board for "class balance", so I wanted to start a senseless nerf bingo.

Sorcerer

Daedric Summoning

Conjured Ward

This ability and its morphs now scale of your maximum health instead if your maximum magicka.

Developer Comment
In the attempt to completely destroy fast paced combat, we want to make this defensive ability consistent with other wards like Bone Shield. Note that this will be a significant buff if your maximum magicka is below 11.5k and a nerf if above.

Please dont give them any ideas.

Banana · April 2017

All armour cost reduction passives reverted to original settings would be nice

TARAFRAKA · April 2017

Rushed Ceremony and its morphs:
This heal now scales off of max health and can no longer crit.
Developer comments:
We wanted to give players another reason to abandon their templar healers and roll a warden.

IxSTALKERxI · April 2017

Players now receive 20,000 AP offence ticks when capturing an undefended keep in Cyrodiil.

This will be a buff if you run in large groups that avoid fighting enemy players.

Joy_Division · April 2017

Healing Ritual will now only remove 1 debuff and provides enemies who enter with free CC immunity. In order to compensate, we added an extra 1% healing to the ability

Developer Comment

We wanted to bring this powerful ability in line the Warden;s Netch. We also feel that templars offering free CC immunity to opponents was an integral part of the Elder scrolls Online combat experience so we want to bring that back

Kerioko · April 2017

Templar:

Healing Ritual (Restoring Light)

- Base skill now provides major mending for 3 seconds from the start of cast.
- Increased cast time of this skill to 3 seconds
- Increased the base heal by 25%, but reduced the radius to a 5 meter frontal cone.
- This skill is uninterruptible (however you are locked in the animation until it completes).

Developer Comments:

- Due to feedback, we have given templars a conditional method of acquiring major mending through class skills.
- Healing Ritual was choosen as the skill to provide this buff in an effort to make this skill more appealing as a main heal instead of BoL.
- Cast time was increased to compensate for the added healing, making this a proactive nuke heal vs a reactive one.
- This skill is uninterruptible to make it more viable in PVP.
- This is a buff if you previously used this skill as your main trials heal1

Stamden · April 2017

Dragonknight

Ardent Flame, Draconic Power, Earthen Heart

All Passive Abilities

We've removed all the passives from this class

Developer Comment

This is a buff if you enjoy playing a cardboard box

Cronopoly · April 2017

Kerioko wrote: »

Templar:

Healing Ritual (Restoring Light)

- Base skill now provides major mending for 3 seconds from the start of cast.
- Increased cast time of this skill to 3 seconds
- Increased the base heal by 25%, but reduced the radius to a 5 meter frontal cone.
- This skill is uninterruptible (however you are locked in the animation until it completes).

Developer Comments:

- Due to feedback, we have given templars a conditional method of acquiring major mending through class skills.
- Healing Ritual was choosen as the skill to provide this buff in an effort to make this skill more appealing as a main heal instead of BoL.
- Cast time was increased to compensate for the added healing, making this a proactive nuke heal vs a reactive one.
- This skill is uninterruptible to make it more viable in PVP.
- This is a buff if you previously used this skill as your main trials heal1

I died laughing once I understood the timing

Mojmir · April 2017

Lol

Rohamad_Ali · April 2017

Nightblade

Shadow skill line Cloak

We removed this ability and its morphs .

Developers Comment

Screw Nightblade

eso_nya · April 2017

For a more balanced gameplay in cyrodill, we adjusted battlespirit:
- Health decreased by 5000
- Range decreased by 8m for skills with a 28m range or greater
- damage taken, healing received and damage shield strength increased by 50%

bikerangelo · April 2017

Templar

-Aedric Spear

->Puncturing Strikes

Changed this ability to "Blinding Flashes." On activation, all enemies around you will receive Minor Evasion and Major Evasion as you blind yourself with Aedric Light for 30 seconds. The casting Templar is snared by 600% for the duration because we strongly suggest he never leaves his home.

Developer Comment

You wanted it back so you're welcome, now stop with the templar tantrums.

GrigorijMalahevich · April 2017

New 7x item set = armor of the necromancer - works only in Cyro.

Gives 10k health, 20k magicka, 7k stamina, 1000 spell damage, 800 mag recovery.

When you die, all items can be looted from your corpse by enemy players.

Chest drops in VMA, legs drop in VDSA and so on with all trials.

Same thing for stamina.

HoboSteveIrwin · April 2017

All Classes Balance

All classes have been renamed to Sorcerer. All abilities have been replaced with Sorcerer abilities.

Developers Comment

We wanted to balance all the classes and remove any diversity. The ceiling has now become the floor and the floor has become the ceiling. Git gud. Lulz n00bz.

Sneaky-Snurr · April 2017

Somehow I think this thread will backfire through ZoS's response in patch 3.0.2...

Kalante · April 2017

Bow

Lethal arrow now does 100% defile from 30%. Snares enemies by 99% and desyncs have been adjusted.

NightbladeMechanics · April 2017

We have decided to officially acknowledge the following as intended features of the game. We know there has been some confusion in the past, so we hope to provide clarification.

health desyncs
double ccs
gap closing into load screens
invisible group members
lag

Developer Comments:

We believe these add to the varied experiences and excitement in combat in Tamriel. Expect additions to this list in 3.0.4.

Stamden · April 2017

HoboSteveIrwin wrote: »

All Classes Balance

All classes have been renamed to Sorcerer. All abilities have been replaced with Sorcerer abilities.

Developers Comment
We wanted to balance all the classes and remove any diversity. The ceiling has now become the floor and the floor has become the ceiling. Git gud. Lulz n00bz.

At this point, I'd be okay with that. At least then everyone would have an equal footing. They can call it Elder Sorcs Online

Nifty2g · April 2017

Added a new buff category called "Magickadrain" and "Staminadrain"
When you critically strike a target you are drained 500 Magicka or Stamina based on your highest resource for 10 seconds.
Developers Comment

Start heavy attacking even more

Subversus · April 2017

This triggers me because I know for sure that wrobel has at least considered one of the posts in this thread. It's sad tbh...

Kerioko · April 2017

Spear Shards & Orbs

- All morphs have been changed to provide a small area heal over time when a synergy is used.
- All stamina and magicka recovery has been removed from these skills.

Developer Comments:

- We have listened to your feedback regarding stamina management for magicka based tanks. To address this issue, resource recovery was removed from these skills to keep DPS resource management inline with tanks.
- This is a buff for magicka based tanks.

Silver_Strider · April 2017

Dragonknight

Ardent Flame

Lava Whip

Reduced the damage of this ability by roughly 32%. It has been renamed "Wet Noodle" to compensate.

Developer Notes

When Dragonknight was 1st made, we envisioned it as a Tank class. Following this dream, we've decided it was best to make their only spammable worthless as a skill so more people will tank on their DK.

Sorcerer

Dark Magic

Dark Deal

This skill now locks the caster in an unbreakable 4 second channel. The heal from this ability has been removed and the resource restore of this ability has been reduced by 33%.

Developer Notes

In our war against Sustain and to help promote Warden even more, we nerfed Sorcerer's sustain to the ground. Wrobel isn't happy but we thought that would make you happy; to know he's unhappy with this change and has promptly quit as a result

Nightblade

This class has now been remade for RP purposes only for Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood. If you do not own both of these DLCs, Nightblades is simply removed from your game.

Developer Notes

We noticed that player's only use Nightblades for these DLCs. As such, we removed it from the base game and threw it into a DLC bundle pack with Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood. Everyone that had a Nightblade before has had them all replaced by Sorcerers, since everyone seems to play them according to our hard data

Templar

Restoring Light

Rushed Ceremony

This ability is now a 12m range, 120 degree conal heal.

Developer Notes

Just because we're tired of Templar Meta healers, we decided to nerf them even more.

Tabbycat · April 2017

Sorcerer

Daedric Summoning

Summon Unstable Familiar

Radius: 6 meters, Target: Area.
Command the powers of Oblivion to send a Daedric familiar to fight at your side for 10 seconds. The familiar's attacks deal 159 Shock Damage plus an additional [15 / 20 / 25 / 30]% damage. The familiar then explodes in a ball of shock damage that either stuns the Sorcerer for 10 seconds or instantly kills the Sorcerer as revenge for summoning it

Developer Notes

We also find the book "Summoned by a Mortal" to be amusing.

GreenSoup2HoT · April 2017

Is there a real 3.0.2 thread?

NightbladeMechanics · April 2017

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

Is there a real 3.0.2 thread?

Coming on Monday like the last one I think.

Doctordarkspawn · April 2017

Silver_Strider wrote: »

Dragonknight

Ardent Flame

Lava Whip

Reduced the damage of this ability by roughly 32%. It has been renamed "Wet Noodle" to compensate.

Developer Notes
When Dragonknight was 1st made, we envisioned it as a Tank class. Following this dream, we've decided it was best to make their only spammable worthless as a skill so more people will tank on their DK.

Sorcerer

Dark Magic

Dark Deal

This skill know locks the caster in an unbreakable 4 second channel. The heal from this ability has been removed and the resource restore of this ability has been reduced by 33%.

Developer Notes
In our war against Sustain and to help promote Warden even more, we nerfed Sorcerer's sustain to the ground. Wrobel isn't happy but we thought that would make you happy to know he's unhappy with this change and has promptly quit as a result

Nightblade

This class has now been remade for RP purposes only for Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood. If you do not own both of these DLCs, Nightblades is simply removed from your game.

Developer Notes
We noticed that player's only use Nightblades for these DLCs. As such, we removed it from the base game and threw it into a DLC bundle pack with ThievesGuild and Dark Brotherhood. Everyone that had a Nightblade before has had them all replaced by Sorcerers, since everyone seems to play them according to our hard data

Templar

Restoring Light

Rushed Ceremony

This ability is now a 12m range, 120 degree conal heal.

Developer Notes
Just because we're tired of Templar Meta healers, we decided to nerf them even more.

If Wrobel left I'd dance a jig of joy even -if- everything got nerfed, because from the ashes can come perfection.

Kram8ion · April 2017

Haunting curse reduced by 50% only on Tuesdays between 4am and 4:37am ty

CaptainPocky · May 2017

All Classes

In an effort to raise the carpet and lower the drapes, all classes will now require heavy attacks in their rotation to be able to sustain.

Developer Notes

Combat in ESO is, and has always been, about fast-paced action where resource management plays a large part in performing effectively. Having players make choices between running out of resources or heavy attacking, ultimately helps ensure that ESO's combat stays balanced and healthy for years to come.

Oh wait. This is a joke thread. Oops.

smacx250 · May 2017

Sorcerer, Daedric Summoning, Conjured Ward: Duration for base ability and all morphs increased to 12 seconds. Casting again within 4 seconds cost 50% more Magicka.