preevious wrote: »

I think there should be a bot that adds "In my opinion : " before threads titles ..

I personnaly find combat quite fun and engaging. I did lost a bit of damage output last patch, but I mitigated it by changing a few things to my rotation that made it even funnier.

exactly!
well said.

Vlad9425 wrote: »

A lot of what made the combat in this game fun / interesting and engaging has been completely ruined in the recent updates in my opinion.

Between the cast time Ultimates which feel like garbage and slow down gameplay to the now almost useless DOTs to the nerfing of many great abilities and complete butchering of class identity on some of the classes it's becoming very difficult to come back to this game and actually enjoy it. The worst thing is it's hard to tell what they're going to nerf next since the logic behind some of the changes is very strange and it seems they can't make up their minds since they buff things to then completely nerf them in the next update.

I really hope in the future patches they revert some of the poor decisions made in these recent updates and actually make combat fun again. It seems like there's a definite lack of direction concerning the combat and it needs to be looked at before the game suffers for it.

I am totally with you!

Of course when I created a big thread about how even "Casual Average Joes" were starting to feel the pressure of all these unfun nerfs and gameplay flattening, it got locked.

But the truth is simple: unless you play the usual stamina golden child character, gameplay and fun are deteriorating since 6+ months.

Add the constant server problems and you see why ESO is losing players.

I predicted this months ago, it's happening.

AndrejLeo wrote: »

Still more engaging than wows

That's why I am still here. BFA WoW manages to be perfectly coded, no lag, no glitch and...

... still suck. Suck so hard that people still prefer playing this broken mess called ESO.

But one day, maybe, Blizz will stop creating garbage expansions and then it'll be dire for ESO.

It's not a good business model, to survive to the next day because the competition sucks.

If someones idea of fun combat is one shooting people or foes or two shooting them when perma CCd, then yeah, it's not "fun" that way now... If you think a combat should actually last more than a 0.5 second insta kill combo then it's slightly better IMHO. Players actually playing vs either players or "monsters" and relying on tactical decisions instead of DPS burn crutches isn't that bad of a thing.

The RNG Balance Pendulum Swings however, I have a hard time accepting.

I believe it was very telling when we had two of the lead devs explaining these changes say "that they been told that PVE is still playable". Been told, this is the problem. This statement pretty much tells us that the Devs are only looking at one side of the PVE/PVP play instead of playing both. It blows my mind that the Dev's which push the combat mechanics are not playing both PvP and PvE.

Players are expected to play both PVE/PVP using one set of balancing yet this is not how the Devs are working on and testing. So if ZOS has them divided and do both sides same as the majority of the players do, then should it not be separate PVE and PVP balancing.

It is clear that the limitations the Dev's want in PvP does not work for the majority of the game (PvE). It's been over 5 years of this insanity and the outcome has not and will not change.

I rarely wish people to lose their jobs, but this patch is garbage. The goal to punish the top players back fired. After nearly 5 years of paying on console, I'm over it. I will never be a top player, but i was progressing thru dlc vet trials. But why bother. The top players were vaguely affected, meaning they can still do what they did before, but it's a bit more challenging. But for the not top players, it's turning into game over. I'm watching friends back slide on progressions, half assed rotations with "because" as the primary answer. A decrease in number of players who can give guidance, and over all pretty much no one happy. So i hope someone loses a job. This patch is awful. The intentions were mean spirited. The focus was lop sided. The reasons were mean spirited. The lack of any acknowledgement from ZOS is telling. And yes this went off in a tangent. But this patch is garbage. And the zone content is okay, but not even memorable enough to out weigh the: "Yes we just kicked you in the head and gauged out your eyes, but look at the pretty color we decided as your class power, so you'll ignore us as we now rip out your intestines" crap show this patch is.

I really want to see some buffs come to magblade and stun put back on incap. My enjoyment in eso comes from my nbs.

They should have called it “year of the funsapping”