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My combat became better in 2019.

TO me its simple, they need to think what will the player do with this, what will they added as in gear sets etc and not say that will look good with out testing it fully and not have high end peeps testing it, but average players testing it, also they employed someone who has no clue, since they joined combat has been worse, i do think changes are need, like pvp and pve being seperate balanced, like not having pve gear in pvp, you may disagree with me but my mag dk has 75% crit and 5k spell damage in pvp, but that still small compared to other builds, my nb has over 8k weapon damage and 3k spell damage, weapon crit of 144% and spell Crit of 112% fully buffed, that is in pvp, also the power creep is getting to much, it needs to be lowered big style, which will force peeps to learn the dungeon, trials etc instead of burning things done, mmo's are supposed to be about the holy trinity and team work, not about run at break neck speed through the content

Cast-times are bad. And the big back and forth changes and certain overkill nerfs made the last year not so great..

Biggest culprits for me personally are ult cast times and overly restrictive resource management. Combat gives you the illusion it's meant to be fluid and reactive, but at the same time there are these massively disruptive elements.

Tangentially related: Discrepancy between end game viable mag and stam sets.

Purely from a PvE perspective:

I miss when my sorc used lightning. (Lightning Splash and it's morphs now feel too weak and cost too much to feel worth slotting in most situations.)

I miss when my NB felt playable. (My original main. Racial changes and then class changes left it feeling dead to the point I quit the character. Sure, I could adapt, but the fun was gone.)

Necro feels too clunky, so definitely hasn't filled the holes.

Hated the DoT meta. (But the nerfs that followed were overkill - strong DoTs were not the issue, just having so many strong ones that it started making sense to drop a spamable... This whole mess, more than anything else, showed how little real direction there is and made me lose faith that anything will improve.)

As for PvP, I just won't go there.

I dont see any difference.

The D-Swing knockback was the most fun and viscerally rewarding thing this game's combat had to offer, and they nuked it.

As a person that doesn't really play mmo's, all I can say is these people seem to have no clue of what they are doing....Seems the longer you play the weaker you get
Now I cannot speak on pvp, but as a solo pve person, with almost 800cp, and each update you feel weaker and weaker something is dramatically wrong
As far as a "plan" goes, I'm not buying that for a second
I worked very hard for those CP points purposely, so i could balance stamina out, NOW right back to where I started constantly micromanaging, sadly it's becoming an irritation as opposed to "having fun"

Less enjoyable with all the nerfs do to so called balance and champion point creep.

Then there is the issues with your abilities in general being wonky and not working correctly due to bad coding, latency or whatever. Combat should be smooth and fluid, it's not and has not been in a long time.
I love eso for the atmosphere, stories, graphics. If it was for combat I would of left long ago folks.

ESO's combat system isn't its strength and never was. Wild differences in damage output due to animation cancelling, targetting problems, wild difficulty swings in solo PvE. The game was fun nonetheless. But the last year of changes sucked the joy out of combat in my opinion. We had to respecc and re-equip all characters at least twice, and in the end, they feel weaker and less fun.
A MMO can survive a phase of lackluster combat. Buuuuuut... The seemingly random direction of changes (e. g. buff a skill by 100%, then nerf the same skill to 30%) at least destroyed my confidence in the combat team. They seem to have neither a clear vision nor a basic understanding of how to approach something like this. That makes it difficult to hope for a turn for the better.

They ruin my class nb sure it’s still viable but anything nb can do the other classes do better and nb just not fun to play right now.

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I will never forget the "Rally" Nerf.

I play no dungeons and no pvp, why you have touched my 2 handed heal skill?

If you need to nerf it for cyrodiil, nerf it only there.

I've never understood, why pve and pvp are not separated. Everytime there are skill or set nerfs because of that.

Welcome to MMOs. Every MMO I have played has always had issues around balancing the game between PVP and PVE. One game decided that each skill would function differently in PVP than in PVE. You know what happened; server took a big hit and it had an impact on players experience. Lag, disconnection, etc...it became so bad most of the game population quit.

The other end of the spectrum I have seen game developers do is streamline, simplify, reduce, decrease, etc... the complexity of the game system to allow for more balance between dd, pvp, etc... it made those games that got those adjustments boring.

So companies go as far as to rebalance their base stats along with making the game easier to code both results in the game becoming boring.

I have left 3 mmos now that did this. If ESO removes buffing/debuffing from the game, reduces complexity in builds, etc... I will quit playing ESO and probably all MMOs given that this game still has complexity to it.

You all complain now but imagine if the game put caps on magika, your critical chance, your weapon or spell damage, capping buff/debuff, reducing what you do for buff/debuff by over 90%, etc... I have seen this type of update and it has ruined games.

Even though I have been playing ESO on and off since the game launched on PS4, I consider myself a new player as I'm still learning something new every time I play.

Overall from last year I honestly don't see all that much of a difference. In fact what I have seen is an up swing in DPS across the board for classes. If I remember correctly at one point a good DD would put out around 35K DPS, than it jumped to 45K, and now a good DD can do around 80K+ DPS. So for anyone complaining I can't see a reason why you are all complaining when damage seems to be going up and not down. This up swing makes content EASIER.

If anything, I believe that the devs need to tweak our damage and lower it a bit across the board. Now if the damage is being adjusted for the newer dungeons, than instead of raising our damage simply reduce the enemies health in the dungeon and continue to add more mechanics to ensure that the newer dungeons have something new and exciting to offer.

As someone that has experienced all sorts of updates and changes in a MMO; I'll simply wait and see what happens.

About the same for PvE and less enjoyable in Cyrodiil