Hard to say. The direction changes every 3 months.

Lol no

I’ve pretty much stopped playing until I see what is actually going to be released as update 24. When that happens, I’ll decide to return or take an extended break until the Dev team gets their act together.

If "towards the trash heap" is OP's idea of what can be considered a "right direction", then I suppose the answer would be "yes".

And anyway, how can we be even talking about any kind of "direction", when the very same skills are getting buffed by ~100% and then nerfed by ~60% the very next patch???

That's not a "direction", it's just a load of bull.

I'd say no, but I don't know what they're aiming for. I don't know how far along their "combat audit" is, I don't know what they intend each class identity to be (ESO claimed dragonknights were attrition-based, but the soul-crushing dot nerfs to a class focused on dots don't really support this claim at all), I don't know why we're getting wild buff / nerf swings every three months instead of measured tweaks as they figure out their big future overhaul, and so on.

From my perspective as a consumer, it seems chaotic and lacking direction. It kind of makes me afraid to get too attached to any characters I build because I don't know what is going to happen to them three months down the road. Having fun, pet sorcerers? One of your pets scales based on stamina now! Yay?

But yeah, so it goes. I don't imagine the combat team is going to back down on any of their nerfs and I don't think we're going to get any more information outside the launcher news post. I think we're just out of luck.

No, given what’s been going on I don’t even think they play the game.

We'll see tomorrow...

idk wrote: »

Pretty sure it is far to early to tell as we have not seen the entire package. Those voting that the devs are not going in the right direction are pretty much voicing they do not like change or do not like changes or lack of changes to specific skills.

With that, Zos would do well to actually communicate the full picture instead of piece mealing information to us. It would go a long way to instilling some confidence they actually are getting a grasp on this once and for all vs just shooting darts in the dark like we have seen the past few years.

I rather get the impression that change itself would be fine, wildly swinging changes without a noticeable direction are not.
The question was "do you believe". And the last two patches including their live stream have managed to severely shatter that belief.
So yes, your last paragraph is spot on - with the added caveat that the changes that they then implement will conform to that plan. Writing some nicely-sounding dev statement while throwing random stuff at the wall in the background is not an unreasonable scenario, at this point. In the meantime, lacking communication, we're left with inferring their goals from the changes they do implement, and it's pretty hard to impossible to gauge any meaningful combat direction from the Scalebreaker and Dragonhold changes.
Hence the vote.

I think they're moving in the right direction, but of course no particular direction can ever satisfy everyone. I think there's a valid discussion to be had over the timing and scale of the resulting changes, as in whether they are making too substantial changes too often and should ease off or perhaps speed up the changes and get them over and done with.

I think there's also an argument that they should create an additional PTS that is permanently up and running, with all the changes extensively tested on that server over the whole period of the audit review so that those players most concerned with these issues can run the odd character on that server and provide effective ongoing feedback rather than simply (over)reacting to sudden changes that run on the PTS for a week or two before the PTS is switched to the other region's characters. The viability of such a server would, of course, depend on the number of players willing to devote time to it but my experience elsewhere suggests that when a PTS is permanently set up and running without so far as possible any character wipes then individual players as well as whole guilds are prepared to play more or less fully on it. It may be that this PTS would be the existing one with a different working arrangement and with no need therefore for an additional separate one.

No. I believe that this combat overhaul is geared towards players having to buy skill lines from the store.
I sense a very aggressive marketing team pushing for these changes. It's just the timing that caught me eye on this one....they have no shame whatsoever.