I'd like a nice, easy way to practice my rotation in the comfort of my own home or in a Mage/Fighter private instance, and I'd like to have some options in how I go about it. I didn't know that you got dummies from CWC before reading this thread (though I would eventually have googled it and found out), and there's an exceedingly small amount of crowns that I'd be willing to spend on such a thing.

All you people like "no lol, guilds have them", well, not everybody is in some large, established guild or has an interest in joining one. I'm in a small guild with friends that have joined me from my previous MMO. I shouldn't have to join some other group of randos on the offchance that one of them does happen to have a dummy so that I can go to their place and use it. Rather make it easier for me to get one - even if I didn't have ESO+/access to CWC.

Also, to those saying "anyone that cares has access to one anyway"... Tf's the harm in making them more accessible to new players such as myself that actually do care, and don't currently have access to one?

Also also, to the most ridiculous statement about killing mammoths and giants... lol. That's not going to tell me my DPS, and it's not going to last long enough for me to practice a rotation for even a few minutes. As far as I'm concerned, the best use of a training dummy is indeed to get the mechanics of a rotation down and build that muscle memory so you can use your skills more effectively out in the world when you need to. Killing trash, even with 133k HP, doesn't really give you that opportunity.

PlagueSD wrote: »

Guppet wrote: »

Be nice to hear the thoughts of someone voting no.

I'll bite. Those of us that are interested in rotations and practicing DPS are those of us that are at end-game doing trials. The average person that is leveling has no use for a target dummy. (They probably don't even own a house to put it in.) Once they are CP 160, they will have PLENTY of gold and can afford one of the many homes and should be able to acquire target dummies quite easily.

When I hit 160 i had less than 5k gold...

I think the people who are interested in running the type of content, where a borderline unhealthy obsession with dps parses actually matter, are already aware of the existence of target dummies.

Now, if could only wave my magic wand and give power gamers the ability to differentiate between content where that matters and content where it doesn’t, I think things would go a lot better for the game as a whole. Maybe cut down on the rage-kicking in normal or even vet dungeons because some player isn’t doing 35k dps, that’d be great.

Dojohoda wrote: »

Dummies are not too hard to access because of:

1. Being in a guild- some members will have dummies at ESO primary residence.
2. Friends- same as above

And a lot of the people who PuG (or solo) with "lousy" DPS, don't have those.

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That said, I'm pretty sure that a good % of the people who don't have access to a dummy now? Wouldn't be inclined to put in the effort to train on one if they did have one. If they were motivated enough to do multiple practice sessions of Boring Target Pounding & training their rotation muscle memory, they're likely motivated enough to have gotten access to a dummy.


(I know that I'll never own or use a dummy, but I don't run content that needs it. /shrug)

Tasear wrote: »

Personally would like to see test dummies do more. Like save rotations for people to train. Then have basic ones in fighter guild house.

See, this kind of thing would be nice. It could see what you're going for and then give you some feedback as to how you performed and what you could adjust.

Granted, the game would have to parse your parse and then provide something semi-useful at the end, something better than "CC a friend brewing a potion to even the odds..."

It could even throw out the next skill in the rotation icon by icon, Guitar Hero style to help learn the timing, etc. (Yes, I'm quite serious).

EDIT: Dummies that fight back, even with basic AoE, requiring the player to move or dummies that move themselves would be beneficial as an option, as well.