With the upcoming changes to power surge, do you plan to make the skill relevant to magicka sorcerers again, by e.g. adding major sorcery to critical surge morph?

The ability changes in this update make it less important and worthwhile for PvE trial groups to have dedicated healers, class variety, magicka-based damage dealers, or even to use class abilities. Are you aware of this extreme balance disparity, and how do you plan to rectify it?

I'd be ooo/ill too rather than try to explain why end game raids consist almost entirely of a paid class, or why I am implementing fairly unpopular combat changes that homogenize the bar setup of every class

What were the reasonings around the stamina healing changes (overall nerf to stamina healing across the board) and to making medium a viable armor weight in pvp? Most seasoned pvpers agree that the most recent changes to medium armor and stamina healing will not make medium armor an equally viable armor weight over heavy even in leu of massive heavy armor set nerfs.

I have two questions.

1.) Why are you guys seemingly trying to homogenize all stam dps classes, you give them different passives but make such a clear path with non class abilities that makes borderline no difference. Do you recognize this issue? Do you plan on waiting to see what comes from it? I understand theres a few viable pve builds out there for top tier. but now it just seems like there one and every other one is inferior in every way

2.) When it comes to top tier endgame gameplay, the past update seems to be lowering the floor and raising the ceiling of overall dps. Same with healing. I understand making healers work but in some cases you're really screwing over pve. the vSO HM poison phase will be much harder, and I have no idea how vAS+2 will even be completed because having those healers throwing orbs to the whole group was such a crucial factor in many runs. All this update really did is even worsen the gap between the everyman and top tier player when although there should be a clear distinction, it should be alot closer than it is. After all these years, after completing every other vet trial and all the vet arenas many times, I still can't complete vHoF, and its going to be even harder now. I just would like to hear a little bit of your insight into this

I do also really wanna thank you guys. Even though everyone (including myself) gives you alot of *** for this update, I still think you guys are phenomenal developers and Im happy to see as much communication as you're giving. You guys put so much into this game and myself and many others understand how incredibly difficult it must all be with all these massive infrastructure reworks. Thanks to the entire ESO team for making an amazing game thats helped myself and so many others.

Question 1: What is the reason a set that could not be tested(Zens Redress) because of it being permanently bugged got changed? Certainly it wouldve been nice to collect Data as to how it works in its first Iteration.

Question 2: Why were there no alternatives offered towards Group healing in a Trial context for necessary high Damage phases like vHof hardmode execute or vCR+3 execute without said Content getting changes to how it works? Because Im sure that you had those healing changes in mind some time before Publishing the patch notes and that testing could have been done to assure that all Content that was made with previous healing in mind is adjusted to the Level of healing that you propose.

Question 3: Since you made changes to the searing heat passive in particular, what is the reason that the as you put it "atritionbased class" passive is a weaker Version of the necromancer passive which increases the Damage of all DoT effects by a similar amount without being limited to a single skill line? Im Aware that you plan to do an Audit of passives later but since you took the time to Change this passive and left many others alone is there any reason why above is the case?

Question 4: Is there any posibility of you sharing the Standards towards which you are balancing abilities to?

Question 5: What is the reason of increasing single target DoTs by a large amount but not increasing self healing of Stamina based builds in particular? Surely with increased DoT increased healing for Stamina builds would be in order, especially so since magicka builds got increased healing through restoration staff changes in both healing ward and rapid Regeneration/mutagen.

PvP has barely gotten any attention to the point where it doesn't look like it's even a partial focus to this development team. Literally every dlc caters to PvE. Do you plan on changing that? Maybe give 1 PvP DLC per year in the rotation? Or should PvPers take the hint and go elsewhere?

Racial balance for stam classes is terrible. Orc is BiS for every class, and Nords still aren't viable for DPS even though according to lore Nords are suppose to be the aggressive warriors, and Orcs are the tanky brutes/Craftsmen.

Do you plan on addressing this at all?

What is the context of the Warden passive change? Why address that now instead of during the passive audit next patch? Wardens were not exceedingly overperforming by any means and were simply competitive as a 2nd-3rd place Stamina DPS option behind Necros. Why was that change necessary? The buff occurred only a patch or two ago and was a very solid way to work in a band-aid temporarily to bring Wardens in line until a more feasible long-term solution could be found. Why are Wardens consistently being forced backwards out of the meta?

With the removal of much class identity and the transition toward vMA weapons with same-y skill choice, I fail to see the need to hit Warden's best passive. Currently based on all testing i've seen they are at best the 3rd best Stamina DPS currently, more likely around 4th. That change being reverted likely leaves us exactly where we were, in the 2nd-3rd competition, which isn't unreasonable.

So what is the actual context here? Why jump the class audit just to smack Warden players? Why not put power back into the kit elsewhere, such as the bear, to make up for the damage loss? You're just leaving Wardens twisting in the wind.

Q1: Are their plans to give magden a competitive stun and spammable somewhere in its toolkit?

Q2: Are their any plans to rework some of the dead skills for magden? (ie screaming cliff racer, growing swarm, deceptive predator, expansive frost cloak, arctic blast, frozen retreat, and bursting vines?)

Q3: Are their plans to audit the number of class damage dealing abilities available to magden up to par with what’s available to other mag subclasses by replacing unused winters embrace morphs with more offensively oriented ones? (Note warden lacks offensive options as its “dps tree” has two buff skills)

Q4: Are their plans to revist the topic of frost “destruction” staff tanking? It makes no sense from a lore perspective as frost as always been a dps element and it makes no sense from a gameplay perspective as to have a dps weapon with some tanking passives makes the weapon mediocre in both situations. Their is a large community of players who wish to play a dps oriented frost mage as they could in previous elder scrolls titles or how Warden was advertised in the Vvardenfell cinematic trailer.

Q5: Are their plans to fix the bugs with wardens nature’s embrace skill (namely the invalid location bug and the rubber banding bug) or the design flaw which is the one second damage return cooldown on crystallized slab which prevents the skill from firing more than 2 or even 1 projectile under fire before it expires?

My list of question(mainly from pvp pov)

• any chance of making shield playstyle feel less spamming? refreshing shields every 5 sec even if you did not take damage does not feel very fun
• sorcerer new surge skill seems really underwhelming and extreme hard to trigger for any dd or other spec without a healing staff. Considering that sorc do not have any other class heals to trigger is nor any passive to boost the heals.Are there any changes planned to make the skill better?
• Is there any hope of a complete pet rework? They are either to strong or too weak and that most of the time of the wrong reasons. You can not target the caster = strong but it is not really a fun way to fight. Weak because they die non-stop in open combat and you are just re-summon them endless(trust me nothing is more annoying than to re-summon the pet 50 times in a row because some sniper really hates your pet). Melee pets have problems with snares and roots(especial the necro bone blast is useless snared or rooted). Pets are extreme hard to keep alive since only very limited skills protect them. (e.g. you almost can not keep the sorc scamp alive if you do not have the twilight to heal it). sorc pets on both bars also is annoying. They either have to extreme strong to be worth 2 slots+the drain to keep them alive or they are useless. there is nothing inbetween
• Did the combat team take into considerations the missing healing passives while making the standardization to the heals? There is an extreme dispensation between how strong heals are on different classes. Same goes for shields(no crit, and only really short life-time, no block mitigation, no damage reduction passive)
• Any plan to change encase to also work on root-immune targets or will this skill just do absolute nothing against them? (neither give major vital or do damage)
• Was in this patch some fix for the streak bug? streak bug =getting randomly stuck at a spot when using streak