Just another update that doesn't fix/solve any real issues and just creates dozens of new issues.

Can't wait for the next one. Wake me up when ZOS' balance team stops hitting the game with a sledgehammer every single update and goes back to what made the game fun.

Stam Warden/NB/dk. Magicka sorcerer and nb

The changes are huge, but it was great for pvp and easily adjusted to in pve (witch mother/dubious drinks and a few HA at 30% resource if I drop that far)

To my understanding, the sustain changes/nerfs were due to OP builds in PVP. My issue is, why should this affect PVE gameplay. Changes should only take effect upon arrival into PVP, should it not? Leave PVE gameplay unchanged! But in all honesty, I've been doing fine with sustain. I just don't agree with it affecting PVE.

Because "Resource Micro-management Online: Heavy Attacks Unlimited" is NOT a fun MMORPG.

I said it many times during the PTS cycle, and I've been proven correct in the aftermath; these Morrowind changes are cancerous on the game.

All of ZOS's stated goals with the changes have had the opposite effect.

We want to preserve the fast-paced combat that ESO is known for.

The changes have slowed combat to a crawl. Player Skill has been thrown by the wayside, and combat has been dumbed down to the point of why even have a rotation or Skills on your bar? The focus on Heavy Attacking has become so intense, that the entire point of combat now is to Heavy Attack, and weave in a Skill or two for visual flair only. ZOS has eviscerated what was once a very fun, skill-based combat system into a mindless slog of Heavy Attacks, with very little though or planning needed.

We want Players to have to think about their resources, but not so much that it becomes the focus of their game play.

Resource micro-management and constantly eyeing your resource bars is all and only what Players have time for in combat after the changes.

Our main goal is to lower the ceiling and raise the floor. This way, there's much less of a gap between the high-end, end-game Player and a Player just starting out in the game.

The changes did the opposite. The gap between end-game and beginning Players has gone from a "gap" to a *** "gulf", and nothing has changed in PvP (which was the entire area that these changes were focused upon). If anything, those same end-game PvP Players now have an even easier time nuking newer Players. The changes have definitely, and disproportionately, hit newer Players much much harder than veteran, end-game level Players.

These changes have taken my regular play time from 14-28 hours per week, and dropped it down to 1-2 hours per week when all of my play time per day is aggregated together.

I log-in to take care of minor Guild Management tasks, and to run 1-3 Daily Quests that I find mildly entertaining. That's it.

ZOS has removed the Fun from the game, and turned ESO into an excessively grindy, resource management sim. I mean, ESO had the same type of grind found in every other western MMORPG before the Morrowind changes; but these changes have removed nigh-everything else in order to focus the game on grinding mobs and micro-managing your resources.

That's not "bringing back the difficulty" or "focusing more and more on Player Skill" like the proponents of these changes are claiming, it has only served to make ESO into a boring, mind-numbing slog of grinding through slow monotonous combat, and hyper-focusing on resource management.

And that isn't fun at all.

Normally I enjoy being proven correct. But with these Morrowind changes, everything I stated would happen based off of what I experienced in the PTS for Morrowind, HAS happened, and the game is suffering mightily for it.

So, I've gone almost completely back to my tried-and-true MMORPG's until ZOS fires Firor, and reverts these changes and brings Fun back into the game.

BTW; @ZOS_MattFiror : This direction you have ESO going, the World v World v World... it didn't work in DAoC and directly worked to kill that game, what makes you think it would work with ESO? Because these changes you and your team have made to try to foster that WvWvW, are only proving to be abhorrent for ESO.

Until these changes revert; I'll be found in: LotRO, Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, EQ2, and GW2. Because right now, ESO just isn't worth what precious little time I have to play.

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Vercingetorix wrote: »

The people who agree with the changes being good are the ones least affected by the changes because they are one (or more) of the following:
- A pvp player that uses proc sets or a similar gimmick, where fights last about 2-3 secs
- A casual player (flower-picking, writs, RP, etc.) that does not participate in endgame content
- A forum troll that actually does disagree with the changes

I'm neither of the 3.

Ah, you're right! I totally forgot to list the fourth option:
A shill that will justify any failure on ZoS' part, instead of holding them accountable for their poor decisions

Vercingetorix wrote: »

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Vercingetorix wrote: »

The people who agree with the changes being good are the ones least affected by the changes because they are one (or more) of the following:
- A pvp player that uses proc sets or a similar gimmick, where fights last about 2-3 secs
- A casual player (flower-picking, writs, RP, etc.) that does not participate in endgame content
- A forum troll that actually does disagree with the changes

I'm neither of the 3.

Ah, you're right! I totally forgot to list the fourth option:
A shill that will justify any failure on ZoS' part, instead of holding them accountable for their poor decisions

You forgot a skilled player who can theorycraft his own rotation rather than waiting for someone to drop a YouTube video.

PC NA PvE
Hate any nerf, the game's so hard vs. certain situations it forces you to use only BiS equip, and respec on every major change, changing BiS equip again - not fair, not ethical.

Didn't go far enough. Still too many unkillable builds in CP PvP