PTS Patch Notes v3.2.4

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

The Elder Scrolls Online v3.2.4 is our last incremental patch on the PTS before Update 16 goes live. We’ve continued to fix issues found in the Clockwork City content, and have made a few additional combat balance changes. We’ve also adjusted the minimum level of some Normal and Veteran dungeons for the purposes of using the Dungeon Finder. The size of this final patch is approximately 211MB.

Fixes & Improvements
- Morrowind
DLC Game Packs
- Clockwork City
Combat & Gameplay
- Combat Balance
- Combat Fixes & Improvements
- Itemization Balance
- Itemization Fixes & Improvements
Base Game Patch
- Art & Animation
- Dungeons & Group Content

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Warden

Green Balance
- Secluded Grove: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs to 90 Ultimate, up from 75.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

General

The Nix-Ox Fabricant Steed in Daram Stables now displays the correct texture.

Visual Effects

Reduced the particles of the sparks from Factotum drills.

Asylum Sanctorium Trial

Adjusted the Beatific Beatdown achievement, and the new text now reads: “Defeat Saint Olms the Just, Saint Llothis the Pious, and Saint Felms the Bold at the same time without allowing Saint Felms or Saint Llothis to enrage during the fight.”
Saint Llothis and Saint Felms will take longer to enrage when engaged with Saint Olms, and will remain dormant longer when defeated while engaged with Saint Olms.

Emotes

The “Begone!” emote now has an appropriate icon.

Homes

Fixed an issue that could make part of the ceiling in Pariah’s Pinnacle seem to disappear when viewed from far enough away.

General

Fixed an issue that prevented you from laundering certain furnishings you may have “found” during your adventures in Clockwork City.

General

Fixed more typos and text/VO mismatches in relation to quests.
Adjusted the audio levels on some VO lines throughout the Clockwork City quests.

Quests

The Strangeness of Seht: Installing the lamp now has the correct sound effects.
Unto the Dark: The gate in front of Gascone’s cell will no longer interfere with talking to him.
- Note: The gate fixture does not currently have collision or effects.
Where Shadows Lie: Nocturnal will no longer speak below the audible hearing range of human beings in the final sequence.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Sorcerer

Dark Magic
- Crystal Shards: This ability and the Crystal Fragments morph no longer stun the enemy hit. The Crystal Blast morph continues to stun the initial enemy hit.
  Developer Comment:
  We wanted to separate the function of abilities into more distinct roles. Crystal Shards was overloaded since it had high damage, instant cast, stun, reduced cost. Now if the sorcerer wants a stun they have to either go through a cast time or deal reduced damage.
- Rune Prison: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 16%.

Weapon

One Hand and Shield
- Shield Wall: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs to 135 Ultimate from 100.
Bow
- Scattershot: This ability and its morphs no longer apply a 5-second disorient to enemies hit. Instead, they now apply a 1.5 second stun.
Restoration Staff
- Panacea: Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs to 125 Ultimate from 100.

Armor

Heavy Armor
- Wrath: This passive ability has been replaced with the Revitalize passive, which increases the resources your Heavy Attacks restore by 12/25%.
- Rapid Mending: This passive ability no longer increases the amount of resources your Heavy Attacks restore, as that effect has been moved to the new Revitalize passive. It continues to increase your healing received by 4/8%.
  Developer Comment:
  We want each of the three armor types to have unique trade-offs. Heavy Armor’s main advantage is its increase to survivability, while the disadvantage is its lower damage and healing power. To emphasize this distinction, we’ve removed the Wrath passive.

Dragonknight

Earthen Heart
- Petrify: Fixed an issue where you could still cast this ability and its morphs at an enemy immune to crowd-control effects.

Templar

Dawn’s Wrath
- Eclipse: Fixed an issue where you could still cast this ability and the Total Dark morph at an enemy immune to crowd-control effects.
  - Known Issue: The Unstable Core morph will currently immediately trigger its area of effect damage if you recast it on the same enemy. This will be fixed before this update goes live.

Item Sets

Merciless Charge (Maelstrom 2H): Increased the damage done by this Item Set’s proc to 6000 damage over 5 seconds, up from 4300 damage over 5 seconds.

Item Sets

Timeless Blessing: Fixed an issue where this Item Set’s proc was not reducing the cost of Living Vines, Nature’s Grasp, or Energy Orb, and clarified the tooltip of the Item Set to indicate it only works for Magicka and Stamina healing abilities.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Fixtures

Fixed some gaps found between walls and doorframes.
Fixed various assets with visible seams.

General

Adjusted the minimum level for the following Normal Difficulty dungeons to Level 45 for the purposes of using the Dungeon Finder:
- Banished Cells 2
- Bloodroot Forge
- City of Ash 2
- Cradle of Shadows
- Crypt of Hearts 2
- Darkshade Caverns 2
- Elden Hollow 2
- Falkreath Hold
- Fungal Grotto 2
- Imperial City Prison
- Ruins of Mazzatun
- Spindleclutch 2
- Wayrest Sewers 2
- White-Gold Tower
Adjusted the minimum level for the following Veteran Difficulty dungeons to CP160 for the purposes of using the Dungeon Finder:
- Veteran Bloodroot Forge
- Veteran City of Ash 2
- Veteran Cradle of Shadows
- Veteran Crypt of Hearts 2
- Veteran Falkreath Hold
- Veteran Imperial City Prison
- Veteran Ruins of Mazzatun
- Veteran White-Gold Tower

scipionumatia · October 2017

wait.... so the wrath passive is being replaced with... NOTHING?

Midori_Oku · October 2017

That Merciless Charge buff though. Can't wait for it not to do anything in Cyrodiil since it will just be purged anyway.

Zer0oo · October 2017

Are there still balance changes coming? (stam >> mag dps, heavy attack pve combat, terrible mag warden dps, ...)

Derra · October 2017

scipionumatia wrote: »

wait.... so the wrath passive is being replaced with... NOTHING?

ikr?

rhapsodious · October 2017

Bless the dungeon finder changes.

Sandman929 · October 2017

Seems to be a buff to heavy armor sustain rather than a nerf to heavy armor damage. Wrath wasn't really an issue, the fact that you can still get high damage through set buffs while getting all the benefit of damage mitigation with heavy is the issue.

arvilla · October 2017

scipionumatia wrote: »

wait.... so the wrath passive is being replaced with... NOTHING?

yes

Alcast · October 2017

If wrobel thinks that removing the 200 weap/spelldmg will make medium or light armor more attractive, then he will be in for a surprise

At least he tried....

Malthorne · October 2017

scipionumatia wrote: »

wait.... so the wrath passive is being replaced with... NOTHING?

gg

Sordidfairytale · October 2017

Sandman929 wrote: »

Seems to be a buff to heavy armor sustain rather than a nerf to heavy armor damage. Wrath wasn't really an issue, the fact that you can still get high damage through set buffs while getting all the benefit of damage mitigation with heavy is the issue.

All of the "new" buffs that the Wrath and Rapid Mending will do are current buffs that Rapid Mending does right now.

https://esoitem.uesp.net/viewSkills.php

Rapid Mending II

WHEN 5 OR MORE PIECES OF HEAVY ARMOR ARE EQUIPPED
Increases your healing received by 8%.

Increases the Magicka or Stamina your Heavy Attacks restore by 25%.

Gnortranermara · October 2017

So, dozens of players over a month of PTS telling you Templar is broken and not a single fix. Ok then. Sadly, I can no longer sub to a game where class balance is not a dev priority.

Rex-Umbra · October 2017

Zos your decision to remove wrath without adding anything in return is cruel to hybrid and niche builds and no one once said wrath was a op passive.

KingJ · October 2017

What was the point of removing wraith and giving heavy nothing to replace it with?This still not gonna make people run medium in pvp which you guys still didn't do anything to help.

Hutch679 · October 2017

scipionumatia wrote: »

wait.... so the wrath passive is being replaced with... NOTHING?

Thank god. The heavy armor tanky builds that deal a bunch of damage are super annoying. No one should be able to take 4 people on and gain a bunch of weapon and spell damage because they can take abuse.

OdinForge · October 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Sorcerer
Dark Magic
Crystal Shards: This ability and the Crystal Fragments morph no longer stun the enemy hit. The Crystal Blast morph continues to stun the initial enemy hit.
Developer Comment:
We wanted to separate the function of abilities into more distinct roles. Crystal Shards was overloaded since it had high damage, instant cast, stun, reduced cost. Now if the sorcerer wants a stun they have to either go through a cast time or deal reduced damage.

Lol.

Sandman929 · October 2017

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

Sandman929 wrote: »

Seems to be a buff to heavy armor sustain rather than a nerf to heavy armor damage. Wrath wasn't really an issue, the fact that you can still get high damage through set buffs while getting all the benefit of damage mitigation with heavy is the issue.

All of the "new" buffs that the Wrath and Rapid Mending will do are current buffs that Rapid Mending does right now.

https://esoitem.uesp.net/viewSkills.php

Rapid Mending II

WHEN 5 OR MORE PIECES OF HEAVY ARMOR ARE EQUIPPED
Increases your healing received by 8%.

Increases the Magicka or Stamina your Heavy Attacks restore by 25%.

Ah, thanks. I thought for a second it was something added. But it's not, it's just shifted. Either way, taking away Wrath doesn't hurt much

Checkmath · October 2017

Secluded growth still cheap....
crystal shards and crystal bombs....bad move. crystal shard is fine, crystal blast needs either more damage, a chance to cast it immediately, a stamina morph or another rework.
rune prison...no idea how this will work out.
shield wall sounds fair, panacea still a bit cheap.
scatter shot...whatever...
wrath passive gone from heavy armor without anything else...bad move again. at least be creative and give heavy armor something else instead of the increased damage, but don't take it just away.

SodanTok · October 2017

Finally, someone noticed scattershot. It is still in need of better range since 10m has no synergy with supposed bow playstyle and neither it makes sense for ranged ability, but at this point I will take any small buff I can. So, thank you.

Wrath removal was good balancing change. Unfortunately it changes very little for medium armor.

StayAlfresco · October 2017

Was hoping the new Agony would be reverted back to a dot/hot instead of the instant damage it is now.

WrathOfInnos · October 2017

What happened to reducing the Secluded Grove healing output while maintaining the low cost? So it now got a healing nerf by 33% AND a cost increase from 75 to 90?

Qbiken · October 2017

scipionumatia wrote: »

wait.... so the wrath passive is being replaced with... NOTHING?

What did you expect??

sluice · October 2017

Merciless Charge (Maelstrom 2H): Increased the damage done by this Item Set’s proc to 6000 damage over 5 seconds, up from 4300 damage over 5 seconds.

That still doesn't make the vMA 2H viable...

600 damage per second in PVP (before mitigation)..

This damage needs to be "bleed" or the total damage needs considerate increasing again.

manny254 · October 2017

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

What happened to reducing the Secluded Grove healing output while maintaining the low cost? So it now got a healing nerf by 33% AND a cost increase from 75 to 90?

It is worth looking at the bigger picture. All of the major pvp defensive ults where nerfed. As an overall change this is good for the health of the game.

Ragnaroek93 · October 2017

Good patch, I agree with every single nerf of it.

Alucu · October 2017

What about cyrodiil campaign changes?

Derra · October 2017

On topic of the frags nerf: Nobody is going to use crystal blast for the stun - quite frankly said: nobody is going to use crystal blast at all.