So with change in Combat Lead Designer...

Illuvatarr · January 2019

What do folks think is going to happen? Please do not make this about the former combat lead designer; he is gone. Focus on what you believe is going to happen.

Sylvermynx · January 2019

I don't know enough about the game or the issues to have any idea.

AerionMagnus · January 2019

Brian "please spread out" Wheeler? Not much is going to change and if it is going to change it is going to change for the worse, imo. Hopefully Wheeler decides to listen to people who actually play the game. That said, it may have been Wheeler who called for no CP increase, which is definitely a positive.

Bouldercleave · January 2019

Illuvatarr wrote: »

What do folks think is going to happen? Please do not make this about the former combat lead designer; he is gone. Focus on what you believe is going to happen.

So in other words, spread gossip and baseless, and factless assumptions.

No one knows or can even speculate what is going to happen. We don't even really know if it is even going to change directions at all.

starkerealm · January 2019

I think we're going to see a transition away from percentage based modifiers to flat bonuses. Other than that? Honestly not sure. I've met both Brian and Eric, but I have to admit, I'm not sure I could fully articulate the difference between their positions as developers.

StarOfElyon · January 2019

Hopefully he fixes the CCs spamming problem, makes light armor viable again or improves shields.

I hope they also get people to improve the RPG side of this MMORPG .

MLGProPlayer · January 2019

Magicka warden finally gets buffed.

fullheartcontainer · January 2019

AerionMagnus wrote: »

Brian "please spread out" Wheeler?

I'm hoping he's in a more effective position now to bust zerg gameplay.

Illuvatarr · January 2019

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Illuvatarr wrote: »

What do folks think is going to happen? Please do not make this about the former combat lead designer; he is gone. Focus on what you believe is going to happen.

So in other words, spread gossip and baseless, and factless assumptions.

No one knows or can even speculate what is going to happen. We don't even really know if it is even going to change directions at all.

Well there is a reason he is no longer with ZOS. Barring something silly that is non performance related, it may have to do with the direction ESO is going.

Royaji · January 2019

fullheartcontainer wrote: »

AerionMagnus wrote: »

Brian "please spread out" Wheeler?

I'm hoping he's in a more effective position now to bust zerg gameplay.

I honestly have nothing against Wheeler, but you are expecting a guy who came up with that "unique PvP artifact weapon" idea to "bust zerg gameplay"? That idea that will make the whole server converge on one point and get zerged by the biggest emp-zerg with a super powerful weapon?

Yeah, sure...

Bouldercleave · January 2019

Illuvatarr wrote: »

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Illuvatarr wrote: »

What do folks think is going to happen? Please do not make this about the former combat lead designer; he is gone. Focus on what you believe is going to happen.

So in other words, spread gossip and baseless, and factless assumptions.

No one knows or can even speculate what is going to happen. We don't even really know if it is even going to change directions at all.

Well there is a reason he is no longer with ZOS. Barring something silly that is non performance related, it may have to do with the direction ESO is going.

But we don't know that. We don't even know if he left on his own or was told to GTFO. EVERYTHING on our end is nothing but speculation.

Illuvatarr · January 2019

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Illuvatarr wrote: »

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Illuvatarr wrote: »

What do folks think is going to happen? Please do not make this about the former combat lead designer; he is gone. Focus on what you believe is going to happen.

So in other words, spread gossip and baseless, and factless assumptions.

No one knows or can even speculate what is going to happen. We don't even really know if it is even going to change directions at all.

Well there is a reason he is no longer with ZOS. Barring something silly that is non performance related, it may have to do with the direction ESO is going.

But we don't know that. We don't even know if he left on his own or was told to GTFO. EVERYTHING on our end is nothing but speculation.

Let’s assume that it is the most pleasant scenario and they combined pve/pvp teams for singular balancing and design thus not warranting this position. That is indicative of a change in direction. I mean I could see them having separate progression systems for pvp and pve, possibly doing away with the CP system, implementing changes to classes to perhaps revert changes that were made for CP balance and maybe even changing some of the sillier item sets.

Perhaps the proc sets could provide an ability where you have to place it on your skill bar to activate the proc set thus taking up an ability slot....curious to see what people will say and perhaps one gem from this thread gets taken seriously by ZOS and maybe implemented.

Daedric_NB_187 · January 2019

Nothing is going to change is my opinion.

Gronk · January 2019

All Khajiit will be fed to Dragons. Starting with player Khajiit first.

Second. Slaughter fish in Cyrodiil will fly and hunt in packs.

Third. Mudcrabs will be new mount. Will replace all other mounts

Fourth all gear and stats will be normalized in PVP. Skill counts. White gear for all.

Fifth Siege weapons have a chance to malfuntion. Killing all players nearby.

Sixth. With the Last Elseweyr Q4 patch Jails and prisons will be incorporated into the game system.But not for players who steal or do stuff the guards can handle. But a Jail system where the Avatars of dirty no good cheats bots and hackers ( Zos maintains the jails )will reside. For us to throw fruit at.

All PVE dungeons will feature doors that lock all players inside until
1.They complete the content
2. Make nice with each other
3. Or they complete step 1 and bypass step two not three and never 4 by acquiring a shrubbery

More later; my Guinness is getting started at by the dog.

ezio45 · January 2019

Brian Wheeler will do a great job as the new lead combat director. Whatever he does i know we will get a better a closer balanced game.

Hopefully Zos lets him communicate more about his ideas but at the very least I know he will do his best to listen to the community and work with them. Hes always been a nice guy that seems like he has community interests at heart.

ToRelax · January 2019

Gronk wrote: »

All Khajiit will be fed to Dragons. Starting with player Khajiit first.

Second. Slaughter fish in Cyrodiil will fly and hunt in packs.

Third. Mudcrabs will be new mount. Will replace all other mounts

Fourth all gear and stats will be normalized in PVP. Skill counts. White gear for all.

Fifth Siege weapons have a chance to malfuntion. Killing all players nearby.

Sixth. With the Last Elseweyr Q4 patch Jails and prisons will be incorporated into the game system.But not for players who steal or do stuff the guards can handle. But a Jail system where the Avatars of dirty no good cheats bots and hackers ( Zos maintains the jails )will reside. For us to throw fruit at.

All PVE dungeons will feature doors that lock all players inside until
1.They complete the content
2. Make nice with each other
3. Or they complete step 1 and bypass step two not three and never 4 by acquiring a shrubbery

More later; my Guinness is getting started at by the dog.

It's certainly in line with bringing more CHAOS to Cyrodiil.

Sylvermynx · January 2019

Gronk wrote: »

All Khajiit will be fed to Dragons. Starting with player Khajiit first.

Second. Slaughter fish in Cyrodiil will fly and hunt in packs.

Third. Mudcrabs will be new mount. Will replace all other mounts

Fourth all gear and stats will be normalized in PVP. Skill counts. White gear for all.

Fifth Siege weapons have a chance to malfuntion. Killing all players nearby.

Sixth. With the Last Elseweyr Q4 patch Jails and prisons will be incorporated into the game system.But not for players who steal or do stuff the guards can handle. But a Jail system where the Avatars of dirty no good cheats bots and hackers ( Zos maintains the jails )will reside. For us to throw fruit at.

All PVE dungeons will feature doors that lock all players inside until
1.They complete the content
2. Make nice with each other
3. Or they complete step 1 and bypass step two not three and never 4 by acquiring a shrubbery

More later; my Guinness is getting started at by the dog.

Have an awesome just for the mention of Guinness! Damn I wish it wasn't so expensive here....

Starlock · January 2019

Daedric_NB_187 wrote: »

Nothing is going to change is my opinion.

I hope so. The team has done a good job so far by not going off the deep end by listening exclusively to one sort of player type or another.

Tetrafy · January 2019

fullheartcontainer wrote: »

AerionMagnus wrote: »

Brian "please spread out" Wheeler?

I'm hoping he's in a more effective position now to bust zerg gameplay.

Most people play pvp for large numbers battles.

Tetrafy · January 2019

Royaji wrote: »

fullheartcontainer wrote: »

AerionMagnus wrote: »

Brian "please spread out" Wheeler?

I'm hoping he's in a more effective position now to bust zerg gameplay.

I honestly have nothing against Wheeler, but you are expecting a guy who came up with that "unique PvP artifact weapon" idea to "bust zerg gameplay"? That idea that will make the whole server converge on one point and get zerged by the biggest emp-zerg with a super powerful weapon?

Yeah, sure...

That sounds awesome tbh.

Ragnarock41 · January 2019

I am excited. Does this mean we get no more broken proc sets as "balance solutions" , no more class bias? No more "nerf X cause forums don't like it"?

If so , it might be a good year for PvP.
But the upcoming fortnite weapons to cyrodiil makes me thing it might be even worse.

Then again, everything in this thread is pure speculation. We'll have to wait and see.

Tetrafy · January 2019

Ragnarock41 wrote: »

I am excited. Does this mean we get no more broken proc sets as "balance solutions" , no more class bias? No more "nerf X cause forums don't like it"?

If so , it might be a good year for PvP.
But the upcoming fortnite weapons to cyrodiil makes me thing it might be even worse.

Then again, everything in this thread is pure speculation. We'll have to wait and see.

Power weapons sounds great tbh.

Uviryth · January 2019

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.....one can dream, can he?

therift · January 2019

Uviryth wrote: »

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.....one can dream, can he?

So... you want every battle to resemble NPCs fighting each other, where they essentially take turns hitting?

No thanks. If I wanted turn-based combat, I'd play a game designed around it.

RaddlemanNumber7 · January 2019

From a player's perspective I don't expect this change of back-room personnel to make any noticeable difference to our experience of playing the game.

Turelus · January 2019

Considering Wrobel and Wheeler have worked reasonably close all these years I can't see anything drastic changing, especially as others within ZOS hierarchy seem pretty happy with how ESO plays now.

It might mean a new approach on on some things, maybe new and different forms of communication, maybe the return of the ESO Live whiteboard.

aubrey.baconb16_ESO · January 2019

Illuvatarr wrote: »

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Illuvatarr wrote: »

What do folks think is going to happen? Please do not make this about the former combat lead designer; he is gone. Focus on what you believe is going to happen.

So in other words, spread gossip and baseless, and factless assumptions.

No one knows or can even speculate what is going to happen. We don't even really know if it is even going to change directions at all.

Well there is a reason he is no longer with ZOS. Barring something silly that is non performance related, it may have to do with the direction ESO is going.

Or maybe he just got made a better offer?

Illuvatarr · January 2019

aubrey.baconb16_ESO wrote: »

Illuvatarr wrote: »

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Illuvatarr wrote: »

What do folks think is going to happen? Please do not make this about the former combat lead designer; he is gone. Focus on what you believe is going to happen.

So in other words, spread gossip and baseless, and factless assumptions.

No one knows or can even speculate what is going to happen. We don't even really know if it is even going to change directions at all.

Well there is a reason he is no longer with ZOS. Barring something silly that is non performance related, it may have to do with the direction ESO is going.

Or maybe he just got made a better offer?

For the sake of him, I hope that is the case. For the sake of the community, I hope they have a different approach. For me, the cheese proc sets/shield breaker/bleeds/oblivion damage should not be in game. Let me rephrase. They shouldn’t need to be in game. I hope they change a lot of this garbage. A good start would be making the procs on sets require you to slot an ability to use them and to make abilities like reflective scales reflect them.

Ogou · January 2019

therift wrote: »

Uviryth wrote: »

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.....one can dream, can he?

So... you want every battle to resemble NPCs fighting each other, where they essentially take turns hitting?

No thanks. If I wanted turn-based combat, I'd play a game designed around it.

I personally don't mind animation cancelling and I don't see ZOS getting rid of it any time soon. But removing it would not turn the combat into a turn based thing. Biggest change would be not having those light attacks in between skills anymore.

StarOfElyon · January 2019

Monster proc sets definitely have to be addressed in pvp.

Irylia · January 2019

Goblin poly for cyro use

Fix the current quest item to become a poly rather than disguise, like skeleton. Or crown store poly.

Earthgore only heals self or just removes ground aoe

Aoe siege is reworked to just apply status effects and not do damage
Siege should also only be allowed the immediate parameter of a keep/outpost.

Speed and immunity need some love or the inverse is snares and roots could use some chopping down to major minor 30/15

Timestop shouldn’t snare and it would benefit the game and the performance if it wasn’t on the bars of every pug, itching to be a chronomancer spamming it.

Draining shot needs the reverted distance or a change to the stun. Maybe have it knock up like clench or knock down like db

Sets that require system checks, proc sets, or interact with a player and x, y, z effect occur when you reach a, b, c requirement, should be changed to raw stats or unique buffs/group uses (trans, hundings) not calurion, sloads.

Cp raw stats not percentage based and remove the passives gained for having 120 points into a tree (arcane well, etc )

Aoe Healing and ults affect only the players in your group while single target (heal ward/bol/vine) etc can be used for those outside of group.

Reduce group size to 12-16