Time for some constructive feedback:

Tried Magicka Sorcerer with Perfected Asylum Inferno Staff on PTS. The very same build I use on live felt uncomparably weaker. The ever 3 cast is too much of a nerf along with half time frame for each cast. Dynamic rotation thanks to Crystal Fragments Proc made it so I sometimes couldn't land 3rd Force Shock in time. Secondly, Minor Vulnerability uptime is quite high thanks to Twilight Tormentor. The little additional burning uptime simply doesn't make the staff useful and if unchanged, it might end as a auto-deconstruct item despite the fact that you had to clear vAS+2 for it or made it to weekly leaderboards and had luck with RNG.

Please reconsider this change and make both, Perfect and Non-Perfect procing from every 2nd cast of Force Shock.

olsborg wrote: »

Stuhns Favor. This set is completely op, specially if you pair it with dizzy swing spam. Pls...

last night I was testing this with off- balance sources on overland mobs and dummies with a 4 piece stun's and 5 piece (big boy pen) stuhn's while also using malacaths antiquity for cleaning numbers.

there was 0 difference in numbers so I think at least right now the 5 piece is bugged. has the set been tested in duels?

okay here is my feed back for you Gina
Would you be so kind to please adress this issues with the devs? the pts is keeps rolling us back, we cant progress trhough everything and we cant properly testign anything, when we get constant rolback in every god damn 10 minutes on the pts.
it is getting realy fustrating. please pass this foward to teh devs to fix it. cos with this issue we cant provide you or the devs detailed feedback on matters of this expansion if we have to face constantly rollbacks .

Thank you.

Here's my regular PTS new sets comments. Note that I only speak to PvP viability and not PvE/Trials.

Winter’s Respite – Light Armor
2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
3 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
5 – Casting abilities that leave an effect on the ground will create a circle of healing frost for 10 seconds. You and your allies restore 2358 Health every 1 second while inside the circle. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

The heal will be about the same heal as Hiti, and the circle doesn't do much else. I don't expect to see this used at all in PvP.

Venomous Smite – Medium Armor
2 – Adds 833 Weapon Critical
3 – Adds 833 Weapon Critical
4 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
5 – Dealing Critical Damage inflicts Hunter’s Venom on your enemy for 2241 Poison Damage to your target and nearby enemies every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds.

Doesn't mention how long it lasts. One more DoT, but not really worth it as you're not going to get kills from it / it doesn't increase your damage enough to care > other sets. Might be nice to tag more targets.

Eternal Vigor – Heavy Armor
2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
3 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
4 – Adds 129 Health Recovery
5 – Adds 1407 Maximum Health
5 – Adds 337 Stamina and Magicka Recovery while your Health is above 50%. Adds 1011 Health Recovery while your Health is 50% or less.

It's a nice sustain set, but the health recovery is of little to no value when you can get similar with one person in Troll King.

Stuhn’s Favor
2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
2 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
3 – Adds 1487 Physical Penetration
3 – Adds 1487 Spell Penetration
4 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
4 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
5 – Increases your Physical and Spell Penetration by 13355 against Off-Balance enemies.

This is very, very powerful, and I expect to see small groups based on keeping people off balance. We'll likely see it paired with New Moon, and then a few healers in Symphony to help with sustain.

Dragon’s Appetite
2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
3 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
4 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
5 – Increases your damage done to Bleeding enemies by 225. Dealing non-Bleed damage to Bleeding enemies generates a persistent stack of Dragon’s Appetite, up to once per second. After 10 stacks, you consume Dragon’s Appetite and heal for 6415.

This is a really neat idea, too bad nobody will ever use it. The heal is too small after battle spirit to be of any value, and there are bother better sustain and better damage options.

Spell Parasite
2 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
3 – Adds 833 Spell Critical
4 – Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
5 – Whenever you deal damage, you restore 63 Magicka. This effect can occur once every 0.25 seconds.
Trial

Another nice idea, but zero value in PvP as-is. If you remove the cap and the limit on the occurrence, even spamming Inevitable dets you won't get too much back. The only potential scenario for abuse would be using an AoE ult (banner/destro) where you can keep hitting people - and even then it's not too powerful.

Roaring Opportunist – Magicka DPS
2 – Adds 1487 Spell Penetration
3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
4 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
5 (Perfected) – Adds 1096 Max Magicka
5 – Dealing damage with a Fully-Charged Heavy Attack to an enemy that’s been set Off-Balance grants you and up to 11 group members Major Slayer, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 15% for 10 seconds. Roaring Opportunist can only affect a target every 22 seconds.

PvE.

Yandir’s Might – Stamina DPS
2 – Adds 129 Weapon Damage
3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial and Arena Monsters by 5%.
4 – Adds 129 Stamina Recovery
5 (Perfected) – Adds 1487 Physical Penetration
5 – Dealing Critical Damage grants you a stack of Giant’s Endurance, up to one a second. Each stack of Giant’s Endurance adds 100 Stamina Recovery, up to 5 stacks. Dealing damage with a Fully Charged Heavy Attack removes Giant’s Endurance and grants you Giant’s Might for 10 seconds, increasing your Weapon Damage by 158 per stack removed. You cannot have Giant’s Endurance and Might active at the same time.

PvE.

Kyne’s Wind – Healing
2 – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%
4 – Adds 4% Healing Done
5 (Perfected) – Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
5 – Casting an ability or drinking a potion that applies a Major Buff on yourself or an ally creates a pool of Kyne’s Blessing for 4 seconds. You and allies standing in Kyne’s Blessing restore 508 Stamina and Magicka every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

May be nice on a PvP healer to help the max-damage DPS with no sustain. PvP is too mobile to get more than a tick or two, so probably not going to be of value (to be confirmed in testing).

Vrol’s Command – Tanking
2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
4 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
5 (Perfected) – Adds 4% Healing Taken
5 – After dealing damage with a Fully-Charged Heavy Attack, apply Major Aegis to you and up to 5 nearby group members for 10 seconds, reducing damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena enemies by 15%. This effect can occur once every 28 seconds.

PvE.

Bloodlord’s Embrace – Heavy Chest
1 – Dealing damage with a Bash attack places a persistent, un-cleansable Blood Curse on an enemy. You can only have one Blood Cursed enemy at a time and dealing additional Bash damage moves the Blood Curse. Blocking an attack from a Blood Cursed enemy restores 685 Magicka to you. This effect can occur every 1 second.

This is going to be hilarious for bridge trolls. I love it!

Thrassian Stranglers – Light Hands
1 – Killing an enemy grants you a persistent stack of Sload’s Call, up to a maximum of 20 stacks. Each stack increases your Spell Damage by 150, but also increases your damage taken by 2%. Removing Thrassian Stranglers, crouching, or going invisible removes all stacks of Sload’s Call.

This is going to be godly for bombers, better for bomb launchers (VD / Balorgh / Thrassian / either 3 Willpower or 2 Willpower and a specialty staff).

Snow Treaders – Medium Feet
1 – You are immune to Snares and Immobilizations that can be cleansed. While in combat, you cannot Sprint.

Not going to be usable in PvP. If you can't sprint, you're left behind the group. If you can't sprint while solo/small you'll get run over by a zerg.

Ring of the Wild Hunt – Ring
1 – Increases your movement speed by 15% while in combat. Increases your movement speed by 45% while out of combat.

This is going to be a staple of PvP. Build around it, because the lack of mobility right now is horrible.

Malacath’s Band of Brutality – Ring
1 – Increases your damage done by 25%. You cannot deal critical damage.

It's a nice idea, but critical damage accounts for a LOT more than 25%. We'll see when they fix the base crit resist and what the numbers work out to. If you're wondering if this is worth it, look at https://goo.gl/84hnar and see what your effective crit damage will be in a given build and if 25% consistent damage is more than what the math says you'll do based on your crit and opponents' crit resist.

Torc of Tonal Constancy – Necklace
1 – While your Stamina is less than 50%, increases your Magicka Recovery by 450. While your Magicka is less than 50%, increases your Stamina Recovery by 450.

Another nice idea for hybrid builds, but again no value in PvP. Could be a nice troll-escape build option for Sorcs whereby they streak until out of Magicka, then sprint until out of Stamina.

One last thought for now:

We heard speak of a change to how damage and healing would work in future, whereby:

• Damage would scale with spell damage and weapon damage
• Damage would not scale at all with max stat (magicka/stamina)
• Healing would scale with max stat
• Healing would not scale at all with spell damage and weapon damage.

The above change would split roles and responsibilities better in PvP, and eliminate a lot of the OPness of certain builds where one has amazing damage and amazing healing - making them significantly more powerful than others.

What about Titanic Cleave:
Increased the stacking damage bonus of this set to 1550, up from 1500.
Increased the target cap to 24, up from 6.
With cleave morph you will be able to get a very huge shield dealing with big group like Barrier ultimate
1550*24*50% = 18k more than the sums of the sorcer and light shield
it seems to be really OP,isn’t it?

The nerf to Ilambris seems too strong.. It does a bit more than half the dps as other comparable monster sets. Furthermore, removing the ability to proc both fire and shock removes one of the cool “flavor” aspects of the set. It’s always been one of the coolest sets visual, and it feels lackluster now. If you don’t want both proccing at the same time, then at least make it possible for one element to proc immediately after the previous is finished.

Maybe the Grundwulf change is purely tied to PVP, but wow did I not expect a nerf on that set. The proc is already weak on live compared to base stam/mag recovery. I was honestly expecting that set to get a minor DPS and/or Recovery buff to bring it up a bit. Cool concept, now it's even more terrible. Was hoping to make it viable where the sustain balance brought it in line with the DPS proc sets for PVE.

Great changes to Valkyn Skoria/Neri. Long overdue.

Maelstrom Stave one piece is a bit out of touch with playstyle (at least we don't need to farm perfected now?). Now if that spell penetration was applied to everything WITHIN the Wall of Elements even after you switched bars, we'd have a reason for players in non-optimized groups to farm it. You're on that bar for as short of a period as possible so the spell penetration is a moot point.

Cruel Flurry buff is more on the nose - big fan of this change to bring it back into viability. What's with the bizarre 103 weapon damage choice on all of these?

Master Destro needs toning down, 100 damage, then 600 damage when you use clench/reach, before buffs.

Return of the MagSorcs

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

This is the official feedback thread for the new item sets and Mythic Items. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

• Do you have any other general feedback?

Mythic items such as the Bloodlord's Embrace should come with a style page when found. The item itself might not be useful to my Stam Sorc but I like the appearance.

Item Sets
Were there any sets you felt were under powered compared to current offerings in the live game? Yes Most monster sets like Symphony of Blades, Grundwalf, sets mostly for healers and Tanks.

Would you qualify any sets from this patch as "game breaking"? If so, why? No.

Are you considering pairing any of the sets from this patch with existing sets? If so, which ones? Possibly only Roaring Opportunist on my healer.

Mythic Items - don't like any of them.

What is your highest level/CP character on Live? I'm 1400 cp and have 18 lvl 50 characters.
What roles do you typically play on Live? Healer/Tank


Which activities do you most enjoy in ESO?
Trials/Arenas/Dungeons
World Bosses/Dolmens
Story Content
Material Farming/Trading/Selling
Socializing/Guilds/Housing

Which of the Mythic Items did you use, what was your build/playstyle, and what content did you run? The run speed one and just explored Western skyrim and blackreach, tried a few rituals as well.

What was your favorite Mythic Item you used and why? Not really favourite but the run speed one is probably the only one I would ever use.
What was your least favorite Mythic Item you used and why? Don't like any of the others period.

Do you have any other general feedback? Stop nerfing things and start buffing other things to compensate.

I am max level CP on live
I mainly play as magicka or stamina dps as well as WW dps and healer
I enjoy Cyrodil, Dungeons/areanas/trials, BGs in that order

Underpowered sets:
My feeling about not upgrading existing maelstrom weapons to perfected aside, the perfected maelstrom inferno staff has a very underpowered spell pen trait that is just not useful for advanced groups as spell pen is typically near cap in most trials groups and even many 4 person dungeon groups. Spell crit or spell damage is always a more welcome magicka pve trait. That said, the perfected maelstrom bow bonus is good.
-The nerf to the perfected asylum destruction staff is game-changing and discourages magicka build diversity. If this stands this item will not be used in pve or pvp and vAS will become a ghost trial. I would suggest that both the perfected and imperfect staff apply the status' every 2nd cast giving better access of this great buff to more players including beginners. Keep the change on the time to cast change (now 5 seconds). Make the the perfected bonus either spell damage or spell crit.
-Perfect Yandir's might feels like a set no one will farm or want to run. It looks novel, but the 2-4 piece bonuses ruin the set. The stam recovery bonus feels like a left-over from the proposed LA/HA changes. The bonus physical pen from the perfected version is great tho. The lack of any crit bonus means it will severely limit build diversity.

Here's what I would do with the set to make it unique:
2 items: Adds 833 weapon critical
3 items: Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
4 items: Adds 129 weapon damage
5 items: Adds 1487 Physical Penetration, Dealing Critical Damage grants you a stack of Giant’s Might, up to one a second. Each stack of Giant’s Might adds 129 weapon damage, up to 5 stacks. Dealing damage with a Fully Charged Heavy Attack removes Giant’s Might and grants you Giant’s Endurance for 5 seconds, increasing your stamina recovery by 100 per stack removed. You cannot have Giant’s Endurance and Might active at the same time.

Sets I really like:
--Perfect roaring opportunist looks like a BiS for pve healers, great job with this set. I would change the 2 item bonus from spell pen to Magicka Recovery or spell crit
-venomous smite is a sleeper for aoe pve stam damage that is absolutely perfect and pairs really well with lokke, this set will be great because it can be easily purchased from guild traders allowing people to skip the grind. This should be a pve stam set case study with 2 crit bonuses in slots 2 and 3, allowing the set to be front-barred

Game-breakers:
Stuhn's favor has the potential to be a game-breaker in pvp if the off-balance debuff would consistently proc the increased penetration-this is a problem on the PTS right now. I'm not sure which problem is worse-every build running the 2h ultimate to give increased penetration or every stam/magicka build running this set. The pen bonus could be reduced a bit, maybe 8--10k?

General feedback
Unless there are plans to improve the vMA/vDSA experience, I would find a way to upgrade existing vMA/vDSA as a gesture of goodwill. The player base has been through a lot this year with no less than 3 complete 180 meta switches in the span of 12 months-exhausting. We're all under a lot of stress during the pandemic. This includes financial stress. If existing weapons do not get upgraded I foresee many long term subs cancelling or asking for Greymoor refunds. Many of us are beginning to question whether this game is a good investment of our time and money. Most of us really want to get into the new content, not spend 1-2 months farming these arenas again. If you want people to revisit the old arenas I would suggest adding hardmodes, adding new motifs or even better, improving the existing arena 5-piece gear sets so people want to farm them.

yo. whats with that speed-boosting ring?

where can I get one?

damn thing will be a must have in Cyrodiil.

and whats with Stuhn's??

Vrol’s Command – Tanking
2 – Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
3 – Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
4 – Adds 1206 Maximum Health
5 (Perfected) – Adds 4% Healing Taken
5 – After dealing damage with a Fully-Charged Heavy Attack, apply Major Aegis to you and up to 5 nearby group members for 10 seconds, reducing damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena enemies by 15%. This effect can occur once every 28 seconds.

I feel that sets that you get in 12 man content should always apply to at least 12 people. Other examples include Master Architect and War Machine. I understand that some of these buffs are very strong but they are also very under-utilized.

As for the set, I don't see this ever being used over Alkosh or maybe even the newly buffed Galenwe. Perhaps maybe on a healer? But its also very unlikely. This set feels very lackluster.