Olupajmibanan wrote: »My biggest concern is only 1 free race change token.
Altmers are the most present race among player and ZoS is purposely making them bad in order to sell race change tokens.
ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »After reviewing everyone’s feedback and evaluating the total number of high-level characters from active ESO accounts, we’ve decided to increase the amount of free Race Change Tokens granted to all players to 3 Tokens, in addition to granting 3 Name Change Tokens, to assist with the upcoming Racial balance changes in Update 21. The Tokens will be automatically added to your account during the launch maintenance window for each respective platform.
Additionally, we’re also planning a sale on both Race Change Tokens and the Race & Name Change Token bundle for a limited time after each platform’s launch.
We look forward to seeing everyone in game for the upcoming Wrathstone launch!
Olupajmibanan wrote: »My biggest concern is only 1 free race change token.
Altmers are the most present race among player and ZoS is purposely making them bad in order to sell race change tokens.
They've changed it to 3 actually.
SourceZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »After reviewing everyone’s feedback and evaluating the total number of high-level characters from active ESO accounts, we’ve decided to increase the amount of free Race Change Tokens granted to all players to 3 Tokens, in addition to granting 3 Name Change Tokens, to assist with the upcoming Racial balance changes in Update 21. The Tokens will be automatically added to your account during the launch maintenance window for each respective platform.
Additionally, we’re also planning a sale on both Race Change Tokens and the Race & Name Change Token bundle for a limited time after each platform’s launch.
We look forward to seeing everyone in game for the upcoming Wrathstone launch!
The balancing seems to be no longer based on objective / mathematical measures but on forum QQ'ing and subjective reasoning.
There used to be a 6.5 bonuses budget for each race
phantasmalD wrote: »The balancing seems to be no longer based on objective / mathematical measures but on forum QQ'ing and subjective reasoning.
There used to be a 6.5 bonuses budget for each race
Tbh the 6.5 set bonus budget assumes that the individual bonuses and the sets themselves are balanced and equivalent in the first place. But there are some godawful sets out there or some that just got power creeped over, so basing further balance on something unbalanced is very questionable practice.
However, Gilliam said they were only comparing to the 2-4 set bonuses. Which I guess is sounds kinda alright since the 2-4 bonuses are always standardized raw resources. HOWEVER, using those numbers only works as long as you are balancing raw resources. It's easy to numeralize 2k magicka. "Oh, sets usually give 1096 magicka? Then that's 1.82 set bonus"
But what about when you reach the more out there passives? "When you take damage, you gain 5 Ultimate. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds". How do you compare that to 833 spell crit or 129 damage? How can you reduce it to a single number while only looking at 2-4 set bonuses? Or "Reduces damage taken by 5% while you are using an ability with a cast or channel time.". How can you equate that to something like 1487 Spell Penetration?
It doesn't help that the original post announcing the changes doesn't contain the supposed actual values that the balance team associated with each bonuses. We don't know how much they think the new nord bonus worth on that supposed objective scale.
WrathOfInnos posted a comparitive analysis of the first balance pass trying to evaluate the balance and looking at those numbers I'd say the balance team failed to keep to that magical 6.5 set bonus in the very first place.
NoMoreChillies wrote: »only giving players 1 free race change, when those same player have multiple CP160 characters affected by ZOS changes, expecting players to pay $$$ for more than 1 race change.
Thats greed.
@NoMoreChillies It’s 3 race changes and 3 name changes now.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/456728/update-on-race-change-tokens/p1