You might like Final Fantasy 14 their combat team doesn't overreact and make erratic drastic changes

CipherNine wrote: »

You might like Final Fantasy 14 their combat team doesn't overreact and make erratic drastic changes

I'll have to give it try. I'm going to watch some streams of it thank you !!! 😊

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CipherNine wrote: »

You might like Final Fantasy 14 their combat team doesn't overreact and make erratic drastic changes

I'll have to give it try. I'm going to watch some streams of it thank you !!! 😊

You can download the Trial version for free. It only has some minor social interaction restrictions (the prevent bot famers from using it). You can level any base class/job to 35 with it.
Just don't buy/use the Steam version.

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CipherNine wrote: »

You might like Final Fantasy 14 their combat team doesn't overreact and make erratic drastic changes

I'll have to give it try. I'm going to watch some streams of it thank you !!! 😊

It took me a sec to get used to it, do NOT skip the story it’s extremely good..I love the pve, sadly i main pvp and that‘s the only part of eso i prefer

1 character can play all the jobs (classes) so you don’t have to mess around having a bunch of characters to play what you want

I'm not a big fan of these updates either, and have other issues that annoy(ed) me even worse.
First was faction lock, but could somewhat work around it (2 new toons).
Second is rapid manoeuver that frustrates me every day.

Now concerning the damage nerfs:
I was as many others concerned when update 23 came, as most of my 9 toons are magicka based.

Nerf of AOE like elemental blockade.
I don't run trials and very rarely vet dungeons, but 9 world bosses every day, so was concerned.

Especially as it gets more and more difficult to find other players to fight a worldboss together (they spread to new DLC regions, or quit, e.g. summerset is deserted since elsweyr).

I can solo maybe 2/3 of them, but it is tough, and any further nerf could destroy my ability to beat them.

It turned out, that I still CAN beat them after the update. So it looked worse discussed in the forum than it actually was.
I even did not have to adjust a lot, like replacing elemental blockade with splitted soultrap.

So I would recommend not to panick yet.
Wait for the update, use your favourite toon and try to adjust some settings. Try out 1 or 2 other skills, adjust some champion points.
E.g. I first made the mistake to use 100 points to increase staff expert, and add nothing to weapon expert for my sorcerers. Seems I deal more damage though sharing points in both. CP add a lot to an achievement with the first 34 points, the other points afterwards increase a value less dramatic, so a 33/33/34 or 50/50 point strategy can give better results than investing all 100 into just one ability.

The patches are annoying but if you take a little time (without drastic steps like replacing a complete set), you might find out that you still can play your favourite content as usual.
Keep in mind, that other games have a lot of frustrating issues too.
Yes, I also look around for alternatives to ESO, but at moment I saw none that convinced me enough.

there is some good mmo's coming out soon but for now i would say ffx14, guild wars 1 and 2 also this list is classed as the best ones out at the mo Neverwinter
Star Trek Online
Rift
Blade & Soul
Guild Wars 2
MapleStory 2
Final Fantasy XIV
ArcheAge
Skyforge
TERA
Elder Scrolls Online
Runescape
Lord of the Rings Online
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Secret World Legends
Eve Online
World of Warcraft

hey pvp wise i just would wait for this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyBl3Vih6E

Project 1999. An emulated vanilla Everquest server. They are launching a new server, Green, alongside the existing Red and Blue servers in October I believe.

Everquest is an old game with dated graphics, but it has 4 things ESO does not, in my opinion. Atmosphere, compelling tactical gameplay, large open zones, and a soul.

I really like ESO but its cramped zones, and lack of style and atmosphere have always kept it at No2 for me.

Bah, there hasn't even been a good stand-alone since Witcher. I don't really care for the animation style of JRPGs. I've been an old Scroller since the beginning and been with ESO since closed beta. We were told that this would be a different type of MMORPG, one that was just as friendly to the solo PvE player as to the group PvPers. It was a grand vision and I think that the base game provided that. Today not so much.

Any RPG is based on events and character progression. Otherwise it is just a shooter. That is what ESO has devolved to today. With the removal of CP and no viable replacement we now have a shooter set in the Elder Scrolls universe. I haven't played a shooter since Bioshock. Not my thing.

Now we have rewards that force the PvE player to do PvP and vice versa. The IC event took a large hunk of enjoyment from my overall ESO game experience. The culprit is the continuation of the original link between the two disparate PvE and PvP environments. The same has happened with solo vs group endeavors. In the base we had some wonderfully epic multi party battles. The key was the game providing NPCs as the player's group. Elswhere has been delightful but even my enjoyment of it was diminished from the outset by the game requiring group dungeon content completion to set the storyline. That was a travesty.

Can the game be saved? Yes and no. As more and more dedicated players give up on it the game will give even more focus to recruitment of new players and move to a P2W formula to keep the cash rolling in. That is working well for Zenimax now but is not a sustainable model. The best course of action is to go ahead and split the majority of the game into PvE and PvP only. At a certain level, 10, 25, 50, whatever, the player must choose which direction that toon must go. No switching back and forth. This would ease both game design and balance for the devs and free the player from the frustration of having their character nerfed for no good reason. It would enhance player retention and even create potential new revenue streams for ZOS.

Additionally we desperately need a new base game. Other games of this variety do this. Think of the positive changes from EQ1 to EQ2. I dare say that there would be far more purchases of an ESO2 than there were of the original. It could be both a profit bomb and a player pleaser.

One can hope that the game will move into new, creative, fun, and profitable ventures. Otherwise it will be just milked into death.

I left eso about a month ago (not for good, initially) just a little break. I tried the FFXIV free trial last week and I don’t see me coming back to eso for awhile. So try the free trial.

Yep that’s his thread is only going one way ! That’s locked

InvictusApollo wrote: »

I've been playing and enjoying Black Desert Online, although it's definitely not as immersive and requires you to spend some cash to get pets. Combat however is fantastic

As for PvP I would strongly recommend Conqueror's Blade. It's like everything we were promised about Cyrodill but much, much better.

I've been playing BDO also and it's pretty fun. You do have to buy a couple of pets to help you loot, but other then that, it's a reasonable for a MMO. If you wait for a sale, about every other month, it'll cost $65. (That's including buying the pets to loot for you.) Now if you're one of those that just has to be in the top 4% or 5% of PvPers or Dungeon trial raiders, then you'll have to spend some real $$$$ to get to that level.