Taleof2Cities wrote: »The combat changes were loaded in PTS over a month ago. Now, it’s been a full week on Live ... and PC players are just now posting their views.
Pretty late to the party if you ask me ...
Taleof2Cities wrote: »The combat changes were loaded in PTS over a month ago. Now, it’s been a full week on Live ... and PC players are just now posting their views.
Pretty late to the party if you ask me ...
Well even if it was the real reason, this is how they designed the combat from the very beginning IIRC and also "a heavy use of AOE abilities" happens in about every MMO game I ever played.eso has performance problems made worse with the heavy use of aoe abilities.

Well even if it was the real reason, this is how they designed the combat from the very beginning IIRC and also "a heavy use of AOE abilities" happens in about every MMO game I ever played.eso has performance problems made worse with the heavy use of aoe abilities.
You just lay and maintain all your AOEs in all big fights and everywhere.
Taleof2Cities wrote: »The combat changes were loaded in PTS over a month ago. Now, it’s been a full week on Live ... and PC players are just now posting their views.
Pretty late to the party if you ask me ...
Zos wanted to nerf high end endgame players, and they did not mind it if everyone else’s dps went through the floor. But end game was their “target” audience. They said this on eso live.
It also does not help that the combat lead hates doing pve content.
TheDarkShadow wrote: »You don't go to games forums frequently do you? People who happy usually don't go to forums. So, of course, it's filled with complaints. Someone complain things are too easy, dps too high, people are skipping mechanic. Another one said the exact opposite: my dps just drop 10k, now it's too low I can't do endgame. X class is OP in pvp. No, Y class is OP. No its the Z skill is OP...
eso has performance problems made worse with the heavy use of aoe abilities. So they decided to first make them weaker than comparative single target dots and that didnt go over well here so they made them more expensive instead.
the idea was to reduce overall aoe dot usage by making them strategically useful, which might not be what your used to.
so the changes were made for you to try to make the game run better overall, in combination with other changes.
eso has performance problems made worse with the heavy use of aoe abilities. So they decided to first make them weaker than comparative single target dots and that didnt go over well here so they made them more expensive instead.
the idea was to reduce overall aoe dot usage by making them strategically useful, which might not be what your used to.
so the changes were made for you to try to make the game run better overall, in combination with other changes.
... because some bright star thought it would be a fantastic idea to give people no bloody way to turn off the garish graphics.
TheDarkShadow wrote: »You don't go to games forums frequently do you? People who happy usually don't go to forums. So, of course, it's filled with complaints. Someone complain things are too easy, dps too high, people are skipping mechanic. Another one said the exact opposite: my dps just drop 10k, now it's too low I can't do endgame. X class is OP in pvp. No, Y class is OP. No its the Z skill is OP...
Zone chats, guild chats, group chats, are all saying the same thing as these forums: “combat doesn’t feel fun” “I’m exhausted trying to rebuild my character every few months just to break even”
eso has performance problems made worse with the heavy use of aoe abilities. So they decided to first make them weaker than comparative single target dots and that didnt go over well here so they made them more expensive instead.
the idea was to reduce overall aoe dot usage by making them strategically useful, which might not be what your used to.
so the changes were made for you to try to make the game run better overall, in combination with other changes.
... because some bright star thought it would be a fantastic idea to give people no bloody way to turn off the garish graphics.
Not that kind of performance.. You already have that. Server performance. Calculations/second applied to everyone at all times while your playing. Aoes are heavy on the server and single target is not.
players asked for performance and zos delivered ... careful what you wish for?
Taleof2Cities wrote: »The combat changes were loaded in PTS over a month ago. Now, it’s been a full week on Live ... and PC players are just now posting their views.
Pretty late to the party if you ask me ...
What's funny is when these changes were talked about during PTS, everyone said things like, "It's just PTS. You should reserve judgement until it goes live. Then we can get a better view on these changes."
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