Potato_Salad wrote: »

Will this forum post get derailed and locked too???

Sandman929 wrote: »

I'm a little surprised there's nothing about the sorc stam pet or the bound arms changes. I'm not on the PTS, but I haven't seen much good about either of those changes.

• AoE dots 66% more costly than ST dots it a little too much, maybe 30% is enough, so it does not eclipse ST in all situations, but is still a viable alternative. Sustain is really getting hurt by this extra cost.
• The other morph of permafrost, Northern Storm, is rather uninteresting, and could be made into a ranged alternative with some extra flavor for people who favors the non-meta ice DPS builds.

Glory wrote: »

Hello all,

The Class Reps are having a meeting to provide feedback and pain points that were common occurrences throughout the community. We want to be as transparent as possible with you all, so here is a brief write-up of some of the highlights. Feedback was compiled from several different sources, which is why you may see redundancy and formatting differences.

IMPORTANT: these comments and notes are collected from an overall greater amount of feedback we have received and submitted. Some things you may be discussing may not be included (examples: dizzy swing changes, werewolf changes, vampire drain, etc.) in these notes but they are being heard by the Class Reps.

Second note: ESO is a large community and thus you may not agree with all of this feedback.

Summary of Negatives

• Change to Major Vulnerability only hurt PvP Necromancers, no shift in PvE meta.
• Stamina and Magicka Sustain disparity is huge.
• DoT change to 1.25x too much (1.8x?)
• Change fatigue on a lot of the playerbase.
• Necromancer in PvP feels very bad.
• Permafrost duration is insanely long.
• Stonefist does not feel viable in PvP, and doesn't feel good to use.
• Bolt Escape: Ball of Lightning is too overtuned in what it provides.
• Shadow Image range reduction feels hard to play with.
• Mixed feelings about Master Resto change (overall better than Live)
• PotL/Purifying Light shouldn’t crit AND get amps from allies.
• New Bound Armaments feels slightly hard to work into a PvP combo/rotation and feels
  slightly underwhelming as a result.
• DoT flavor for classes that rely on DoT playstyle (mDK, sDK) will be important if they are
  reduced overall.
• Off Balance is too prevalent and heavily favors stamina users.
• New skills that have been flavoried (Swarm, Engulfing Flames, Clanfear, Stonefist) are
  too weak or expensive that they’re not worth using

Summary of Positives

• Necro tether unattached from GCD helped alleviate some pain points.
• Warden stun is good (duration may be too short?)
• New Netch feels good
• New Sets are AWESOME
• Bound Armaments looks cool.
• 3 Piece Changes are AWESOME
• Removing the root from Living Dark is a great change.
• New Armor consolidation is great, lets players understand it easier and reduces
  disparity.
• New 30 Day Campaign (no faction) lock is AWESOME (recommend unhoming people
  and also put it at the top for true test)

Other Notes

1. DoT nerf was way too excessive especially in PvE so much so that the very weird Dual Wield with vMA Staff combo is one of the BIS setups for stam DPS as of PTS Week 1-2.
2. Damage of Stonefist seems too low for a spammable on the current PTS and the cost of it is a tad bit expensive as well for Dragonknights.
3. Cutting Dive and Growing Swarm damage also seem a bit too low on the PTS. Consider having Growing Swarm play within the Warden's class toolkit by perhaps applying an additional effect for things like our other Animal Companion abilities. Also consider having Warden abilities to have secondary effects against chilled targets to play with the ice mage identity for mag Wardens.
4. Class DoTs could have a different, higher power budget compared to weapon/non-class DoTs which would alleviate the pain point of DoT-centric classes such as Dragonknights for Dragonhold.
5. Reducing the duration or damage of Colossus ultimate probably will not deter raid teams wanting to stack their entire roster with Stamina Necromancers. Decently-coordinated groups will have no trouble rotating Colossus ultimates and the disparity between Necromancer and the other classes will still be present. Perhaps a cooldown to Major Vulnerability like Off-Balance immunity would be more of an appropriate change than damage reduction or duration in this case as this would still require Necromancers to be brought to raids but pointless to stack 8-9 of them.
6. The Nightblade class seems to be focusing a lot more on mitigation and healing while losing out on damage. To illustrate this issue, the Two Hander skill-line is a lot better than the Assassination skill-line where Grim Focus and Death Stroke can be pretty hard to land or follow up on in PvP especially with the new cast time for Death Stroke which shares the same cast time as the Two Hander ultimate that's many times stronger and a cast time whereas other ultimates such as Cresecent Sweep does not have. Perhaps consider adding the stun back to Death Stroke to off-set the cast time and reward Nightblades for landing their skills On a final note, the Grim Focus bow proc heal is underwhelming.
7. The reduction to 22 meters from 28 meters on the Shadow Image for Nightblades seems unnecessary as it is one of the few defensive (and expensive!) skills left for Nightblades to use as skill-play. Nightblades won't be able to elude opponents in Cyrodiil especially around Towers or even most boulder/cliff areas. 28 meters seemed a perfect distance for maybe 1/3 of the time at the moment on Live. It shouldn't be treated as a traditional gap closer nor like Streak as it requires strategic placement/thinking
8. It’s been said that feedback is wanted on the Off-Balance proc on Warden’s Dive (in terms of what distance it would feel best at). Instead of 12 meters, consider having it somewhere between 4 to 6 meters for both melee and ranged play.
9. Consider reworking Deceptive Predator as it must be double slotted to get a reliable uptime on Minor Evasion (which is not as worth as the Minor Berserk morph of Bird of Prey in the first
   place). Perhaps give a duration of Minor Evasion upon cast to free up bar space.
10. Some of the Warden passives may need adjustments such as Glacial Presence (very few ice-based damage skills so perhaps add a damage effect such as “more crit damage to chilled enemies”) and Icy Aura (perhaps make the snare reduction additive instead of multiplicative).
11. Templar, Warden and Necromancer have a class purge. Suggestion that Dragonknights, Sorcerers and Nightblades also get class purges.
12. Permafrost duration seems too long (and as a result a little overpowered).
13. Consider giving Dragonknights/Nightblades at least one more synergy as DK/NB healers only have one 99.9% of the time: Orbs. Every other class has another synergy one way or another
14. Necromancer healers lack certain things when compared to either the Warden or Templar healers in PvE such as a good sustain method (Templars have Rune, Wardens have Netches) and a fair burst heal (the Minor Defile in combination with using Expunge seem counterintuitive).
15. Consider raising the cap of Grand Healing to 3 or even 2 rather than keeping it at 1. After an entire patch, the overwhelming consensus from all healers regardless of level is that the healer playstyle is incredibly boring in PvE and it took skills or awareness away from the healers and simply forced the individual’s prior responsibility onto the group.

Fixes Required On PTS:

• Maelstrom Staff effect (Crushing Wall) only go up to 8 seconds rather than the entire 12
  second duration of Unstable Walls.
• Twin Blade and Blunt is doing MORE DAMAGE than Rending Slashes.
• Bastion damage bug needs to be fixed for further PTS testing

For those who need reference, a list of Class Reps:

• @CAB_Life
• @cicisch
• @Glory
• @Nefas
• @RebornZombie
• @Alcast
• @FeaR Turbo
• @GandTheImpaler
• @Masel
• @Quantum_V

Heatnix90 wrote: »

• Faction locks need to go. Addition of a 30-day unlocked campaign will do nothing because most people will gravitate towards the first campaign, and it will be rather hard to convince guilds that are actively seeking fights/challenges to move to the new campaign. There's been several threads on the forums already proving that faction trolls who are dedicated enough will find a way to troll. In addition, restrictions like these go against the very mantra of "play your way." Consider looking at ways of incentivizing faction loyalty instead of limiting our ability to swap to underdog factions when one faction completely controls/dominates the map.

Templar, Warden and Necromancer have a class purge. Suggestion that Dragonknights, Sorcerers and Nightblades also get class purges.