* Bird of Prey beserk for slotting instead of activation and expedition uptime double nerf
* New Arctic Blast Magden stun introduced in a state useless for Magden as it has a health scaling heal and no mag scale damage
* Cost increase on Fetcher Infection even though the dot is incredibly weak as is and needs to be double cast in order to be of any use

Good, less chasing these fools that spam shields and run around trees in cyrodiil. Anoying to say the least...

Nay.

Not because of PvP buffs / nerfs (I don't PvP), but because in 2014 I have signed up and paid for the PRECISE gameplay I desired.

If I wanted to play an healer, I'd have returned back to GW2, where "mages" have some healing mechanics.

If I wanted to play heavy armor, I'd have returned back to WoW, where warriors are the proper heavy armor reference implementation I loved when I played it.

No. I always loved playing mage or "warlock" and ESO had a mage / summoneer class that really looked like it.

Like proper mages, sorcs in 2014 came with shields, light armor, a big badass spell, roots, teleport, staves and so on. Just mages.

This is what I signed up for. This is what I paid the collector edition box for.

That's what I faithfully subscribed until I achieved the special Senche Tiger for.

Now, I don't even care if in the future they make ultra overpowered heavy armor and / or healing sorcs. I don't want to play that. Period.

Let me write it simple: I signed up for a mage and want to play a MAGE.

1. they screwed the pooch on wardens..
2. they screwed the pooch on sorc
3. they screwed the pooch on servers..

1.) Speed nerfs were over-broad and didn't address the real issue of speed stacking. The problem was pvp'ers who: a.) built for sustained speed in excess of major evasion; and b.) players who built for sustained speed at 30% (major evasion) with the ability to have temporary speed boosts that put them in excess of major evasion.

For the vast majority of us, there were many pain points speed boosts (and swift) helped alleviated, these across-the-board nerfs will do more harm than good in the long run. The nerf of swift to 6% is too harsh - 8% gold would be good. Make major/minor evasion not stack with percentage based speed buffs. Make percentage based speed buffs stackable only with other percentage based speed buffs to a maximum of 30%.

2.) NBs got hit hard with a sustain nerf -- too hard (via ability cost increases). NB pvp'ers who build for burst damage have no sustain issue ... gankers of any class have no sustain issue. Sustain can't be judged by dummy parses -- that is not representative of actual sustained combat in pvp or pve. a.) The 30% increase to our 'spammable execute' is harsh -- I mean it's called a 'spammable' for a reason ... it's not some ability that was merely a 'part' of our rotation ... it's our execute!; b.) doubling the cost of our most powerful ability (grim focus/morphs) was even more harsh. We pay to use that ability; the reason we use the ability is for the proc; now we have to pay again to use the proc we already paid for. Paying the base cost of the ability plus 50% of that cost for each proc x2 procs per cast = double the cost of that ability; c.) the nerf to refreshing path hurts more than I can say. You justified the nerf by saying you wanted to give NBs something unique to bring to the table. Well, what was unique about refreshing path was that it healed, did damage and provided a temporary speed buff. Dismantling the skill ruined what was unique about it! To make up for that loss will end up costing me more in sustain, and sustain was already an issue. In fact, sustain is the major pain point refreshing path helped to alleviate! (I'm a stamblade)

3.) Changing evasion to reduce AOE damage was a bad move. In a slugfest laggy enviorment (pvp) sometimes all you can reasonably do is AOE damage. I don't think I need to connect the dots for you to see how this was a bad move for pvp. Get rid of the AOE damage reduction and, instead, give it a 25% reduction in snares with a few seconds of knock back immunity. That would have been better.

pain points of nerfmire:

- ZoS way of "balancing" with a sledge hammer, best shown in this "nerfmire" update

- homogenize classes over time

- nerfing stuff that no one asked for and ignoring feedback


=looks like im having my 3th and maybe the last big break from this game


p.s. all players that are tired of ZoS beeing sh*t in terms of "balance" should stop giving $$$ to ZoS so they notice that they are doing something really wrong!!!

Although I do like the patch, the 3 pain points far outweigh everything else:

1. Shields being capped to health %
2. Sustain being dropped on NB, DK, Sorc
3. Loss of NB support uniqueness.

Pain Points:

1) ZOS's heavy-handed approach with the nerf hammer bringing huge changes all at once rather than making smaller changes over a period of time.

2) ZOS's habit of ignoring the feedback from Class Reps (at this point I am beginning what the point of even having them is if their feedback is not being used).

3) ZOS's lack of providing a clear vision for what they want for ESO. Do they want classes to have their own identities? Do they want the classes to do things other classes can do?