So how will the new update affect you

bloodthirstyvampire · July 2017

Is there something you will change at all with the new update to some of your toons.

Ihatenightblades · July 2017

***Pve wise**£

Stam toons still NEED sharpened weapons or they will be under penetrating forsure next patch.

Magicka toons can run whatever since they get 4k penetration from light armor passives plus they can invest some into spell erosion.

idk · July 2017

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

***Pve wise**£

Stam toons still NEED sharpened weapons or they will be under penetrating forsure next patch.

Magicka toons can run whatever since they get 4k penetration from light armor passives plus they can invest some into spell erosion.

It could be a number of mixes. Numbers are still be crunched and it's being tested.

Remember there is now a sharpened mundus which may offer more penetration than the weapon trait

Both magicka and stamina need penetration from someplace.

Acrolas · July 2017

Nothing effects me, because only bad guys use effect as a verb and I smote all the bad guys.

Ch4mpTW · July 2017

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Is there something you will change at all with the new update to some of your toons.

Definitely. I will be happily using my infused and nirnhoned Maelstrom weapons once the new update goes live, and can't wait to do so. I'm also pleased to know that proc sets are getting a nerf of sorts, so that's welcoming as well.

PlagueSD · July 2017

How will this patch Affect me?? It won't. I use precise weapons. My crit% actually went UP 4%, my proc set does MORE damage, and I'm actually looking forward to the bear NOT aggroing a camp as soon as I send him in. Will make it a LOT easier to round everything up and AoE down.

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bloodthirstyvampire · July 2017

Acrolas wrote: »

Nothing effects me, because only bad guys use effect as a verb and I smote all the bad guys.

Uh i'll change it

Bouldercleave · July 2017

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Is there something you will change at all with the new update to some of your toons.

Same as all the other updates. I'll adjust or move on.

Enslaved · July 2017

It won't affect me. Only 300+ sharpened weapons I have. That I spent years farming. [pick up bottle and goes under desk to cry for days to come]

Tandor · July 2017

It won't affect me. Balancing/skill changes never do, while dungeons don't appeal to me other than to nip in, get the skyshard, and nip out again. I have no interest in battlegrounds.

menedhyn · July 2017

Given my preferred playstyle, it won't affect me at all.

overclocker303b14_ESO · July 2017

Enslaved wrote: »

It won't affect me. Only 300+ sharpened weapons I have. That I spent years farming. [pick up bottle and goes under desk to cry for days to come]

LOL

Why tho?

Sharpened was worth 5160. ZOS took some of that away, so now it's 2752, and that is 2408 less than you had.

However, ZOS also just gave you 30 more champion points. If you take only 27 of those and put them into piercing you will get back 2466 penetration.

So at the end of the day you have a few more champion points to spare, and the stam and crit buffs on your armor got stronger...

Rikkof · July 2017

in a positive way, that's for sure , the nerfs for stamina proc sets will help in pvp against nb players, so is a very nice patch, ty zos

Danksta · July 2017

It'll vary from character to character, but I'm not going to think too hard about it during these early iterations of patch notes.

Megabear · July 2017

Not much. Only my warden tank is BiS geared and I only use crafted sharpened on my DPS chars so.

Phinix1 · July 2017

overclocker303b14_ESO wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

It won't affect me. Only 300+ sharpened weapons I have. That I spent years farming. [pick up bottle and goes under desk to cry for days to come]

LOL

Why tho?

Sharpened was worth 5160. ZOS took some of that away, so now it's 2752, and that is 2408 less than you had.

However, ZOS also just gave you 30 more champion points. If you take only 27 of those and put them into piercing you will get back 2466 penetration.

So at the end of the day you have a few more champion points to spare, and the stam and crit buffs on your armor got stronger...

I like your brain.

CMFan1966 · July 2017

I'll roll with whatever they toss at me. On the other hand, I'll hopefully have more nirnroot to use!!!

Fischblut · July 2017

I didn't change my gear for Homestead, didn't change for update 14 (although added sharpened MA weapons before it happened), won't change for update 15. I could make gold weapons of other traits, but no guarantee they won't be nerfed next time. Game changes too much and mostly in wrong direction, I rather spend my time waiting for better changes, gathering crafting materials and exploring than non-stop gear grinding in vain

I used crafted sharpened weapons even when I was newbie in healthy Whitestrake's Retribution medium armor, sharpened trait was percentage instead of flat value back then (20% if I remember correctly, even weaker on light/medium armor type mobs than it currently is)

Although would be great if MA maces had Cruel Flurry enchantment instead of current awful one - I really miss using maces

Actually, if update 14 didn't happen and if update 15 didn't nerf sharpened/defending, I would like upcoming changes and buffs to some other traits.

DKsUnite · July 2017

I'm getting buffed in several aspects. No nerf so far

HatchetHaro · July 2017

overclocker303b14_ESO wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

It won't affect me. Only 300+ sharpened weapons I have. That I spent years farming. [pick up bottle and goes under desk to cry for days to come]

LOL

Why tho?

Sharpened was worth 5160. ZOS took some of that away, so now it's 2752, and that is 2408 less than you had.

However, ZOS also just gave you 30 more champion points. If you take only 27 of those and put them into piercing you will get back 2466 penetration.

So at the end of the day you have a few more champion points to spare, and the stam and crit buffs on your armor got stronger...

I don't think you understand how champion point allocation works.

You do get 30 more CP, but it's 10 red, 10 green, and 10 blue. So you only get 10 points for piercing.

SydneyGrey · July 2017

Well, I have a whole bunch of crafted, gold-level sharpened weapons, so ...
Yeah.

I'm still hoping they won't nerf "sharpened" by quite so much when the patch goes live. It'll be a while before I'll be able to replace all of those, if they'll need replacing.

Cynnalia · July 2017

To me it only means I am going to get to decorate some new houses.

Izaki · July 2017

How will next patch affect me? I'm be doing more DPS on both Stamblade and Stamplar.

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

***Pve wise**£

Stam toons still NEED sharpened weapons or they will be under penetrating forsure next patch.

Magicka toons can run whatever since they get 4k penetration from light armor passives plus they can invest some into spell erosion.

This is nonesense. Infused/Precise is better than Sharpened on the front bar.

ParaNostram · July 2017

I'm thinking about using some of the new medium armor sets on a bleed-tacular vampire or werewolf for a fun build. Might use Nieren'eth on one of my characters. Apart from that, nothing really for my 14 characters.

Oakmontowls_ESO · July 2017

Well from what zos has said, I'll be going back to Julianos from scathing mage and depending on how the new monster set ends up being, switching to that from grothdar since on paper it sounds like a direct upgrade.

Mettaricana · July 2017

My crit will go up 5% and ill gain 1200 stam not too shabby

Sigma957 · July 2017

Current gear on my mblade on live 5x Julianos(divines) 5x Scathing 2x Iceheart (mixed),76.9% crit on pts 86.5% crit so will keep it like that. The rest of my toons I may change the mundus but we will see.

Rataroto · July 2017

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

***Pve wise**£

Stam toons still NEED sharpened weapons or they will be under penetrating forsure next patch.

Magicka toons can run whatever since they get 4k penetration from light armor passives plus they can invest some into spell erosion.

Ha Ha Ha... no,

Stam here and my build on pts right now: Still at penetration cap, volley damage increassed, crit went up to 90% and I'm running shadow mundus stone. only 20 points into penetration when alone, and 4 when someone else in group. Did a VERY bad parse just to see how it would go, got 44k. all with PRECISE weapons, so yeah no sharpened.

AbysmalGhul · July 2017

I heal, so I will suffer. Try healing a team of vet dungeon DPS that hit bosses with pillows. Not ordinary pillows filled with feathers, but with air.....Not ordinary air, but air on a diet. Imagine a slumber party where everyone gets a participation trophy. ZOS, please buff sharpened to 18k. But not ordinary sharpened, but sharpened that also adds 75 percent damage to everything that damages. *goes back to dream land where the RNG is eleventy-billion % in your favor

Enslaved · July 2017

overclocker303b14_ESO wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

It won't affect me. Only 300+ sharpened weapons I have. That I spent years farming. [pick up bottle and goes under desk to cry for days to come]

LOL

Why tho?

Sharpened was worth 5160. ZOS took some of that away, so now it's 2752, and that is 2408 less than you had.

However, ZOS also just gave you 30 more champion points. If you take only 27 of those and put them into piercing you will get back 2466 penetration.

So at the end of the day you have a few more champion points to spare, and the stam and crit buffs on your armor got stronger...

Champion points cant be used like that. They gave us 10 per constelation type, so it is not 30 but rather 10. Also, if I knew this would happen, I would save many more weapons that seemed worthless before. Other problem is I simply will not have enough space for all weapons I will need to farm. And as you all see, there are 2 possible solutions - not save any weapon but BiS and be screwed whenever Zos decide to flip the meta table, or save a ton of them just in case. Well, for option number 2, I simply lack space. We need more slots per character, or more character slots. I don't wish to grind 24/7/365 to be any relevant in this game, and that is what game is turning into.

overclocker303b14_ESO · July 2017

Enslaved wrote: »

Champion points cant be used like that. They gave us 10 per constelation type, so it is not 30 but rather 10. Also, if I knew this would happen, I would save many more weapons that seemed worthless before. Other problem is I simply will not have enough space for all weapons I will need to farm.

So yeah I typed a little fast there and appreciate the 'i like your brain' type comments...yes you are only getting 10 points that you can actually put into piercing with this specific CP increase...that leaves a whole...wait for it...17 points you would need to re-allocate (and I imagine this isn't the last time they will raise the CP level). Still not that big of a deal in my opinion and I still think the sharp nerf makes sense for weapon trait balance purposes and also to deal with the slowly growing power creep that happens every time they raise the CP level.

On another note if you don't want to buy more bank space you can just make an alt and use the alt to hold more items...Works fine unless you have all your character slots filled with maxed out characters that you actually use...