I returned 2 months ago.

I have a max crafter and have been doing all the trials I missed while gone with my tank on vet so I have no idea what DPS is hitting but tanking them has been a blast.

I do turn down the magic particles effects but I do that in all MMO's just so it is easier to see so maybe that helps.

Even with all that though my high latency issues that happened a couple times were always while in Rawlkha while doing crafting writs and the 1 disconnect happened while doing Vet Tempest.

Trials have been good for me so far...

Why do you think Mother's Sorrow needs to be replaced? It's a perfect example of a base game set still being relevant 6 years down the line. It's buy-able from guild stores and it teaches new players how to farm or how to make gold if they want to buy it from the guild stores. Combine this with Julianos or New Moon (can be crafted) and you a have perfectly respectable magicka DD set which is accessible regardless of the DLCs that you own or your skill level to farm trials

Lord-Otto wrote: »

The game can't be fixed in one patch. Whatever they try to fix tomorrow, there will still be a huge pile of problems left. This pile doesn't come out of nowhere, though. ZOS have been layering it higher and higher over the years by sheer neglicence.

I'm glad you see it too. That's exactly the point of my post above. ESO is in way too deep and the cost would be too high to just re-write the game's core systems and re-release it so the band-aid fixes are always going to be present. If they didn't have such a horrible way with how things are prioritized (especially in the case of when ESO was first released), I don't think it would be the mess it is now. I think it boils down to they just didn't have the resources at launch (employees, investment, etc) and as you said are now left picking up the monstrous piles of issues left behind over 6+ years of time. Without hiring a much larger team I just don't think the current one can keep up with correcting past issues while at the same time developing new content which will no doubt add to said pile of issues. They really need a new strategy and a large boost in the amount of people working on this game. I think the game has outgrown the developer so something really needs to happen but as it costs a lot of money to do so I doubt anything will change in that department.

ESO surely makes a pile of cash for the company as-is, so the motivation to actually fix things are likely in the same piles as all the existing and future issues that will continue to grow. Unless it's a major issue, it takes months and sometimes years to fix something even basic in this game. Until the cash flow slows due to negligence, things will stay as they always have been. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. It's as simple as that.

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Nothing in the way of performance improvements with July 13 patch.
They could have probably addressed some performance issues with this patch. But a two player mount for update 27 was what they decided to spend resources and time on.

scorpius2k1 wrote: »

*Sigh*
promise that will never be completely delivered. To fix ESO properly, the game needs an entire re-write much like Square Enix did with FFIV but I think ESO seems to be in between a rock and a hard place with "fix" vs "rewrite".

Judging by Skyrim they'll never get fixed. God knows how many 'special extra pro bonus super re-release pack' editions in and you still have to download a huge great bug-fix mod to play it without glitches and mammoths from the sky 8)

Having worked on maintaining large complex software systems in the past I'd agree with your sentiment though. The fact they have downtimes for maintenance and rolling out updates speaks to the fact that the game was not built the way such things would be rolled out today where rolling updates and minor version skew support is built into the very design and is then leveraged so that updates are pushed to subsets of users and detailed analytics done on failure, misbehaviour patterns, and for large user sets even statistical debugging is routine. It's not something you can just "fix".

Dracane wrote: »

I am unusually optimistic. Last update was the first good one we had in years without really any nerfs to classes directly.

You mean the patch that nerfed everyone but magsorcs? Yea right, that has improved class balance so much ...

bharathitman wrote: »

Why do you think Mother's Sorrow needs to be replaced? It's a perfect example of a base game set still being relevant 6 years down the line. It's buy-able from guild stores and it teaches new players how to farm or how to make gold if they want to buy it from the guild stores. Combine this with Julianos or New Moon (can be crafted) and you a have perfectly respectable magicka DD set which is accessible regardless of the DLCs that you own or your skill level to farm trials

You asked why do i think it should be replaced then you listed the reasons. It's supposed to be a beginner/midtier set not bis.

I just want something like magicka Tzogvin, i don't want Mother's Sorrow to become useless. I hate my time spent on backbar while using this set, it makes me uncomfortable while i can relax on characters using Tzogvin, Yokeda and Lokkestiiz. I want more options.

Oh and btw magicka Tzogvin wouldn't perform better than Mother's Sorrow at all since it provides less crit but not losing all my crit on backbar and being able to ditch Channeled Acceleration would be very appreciated.

Rianai wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

I am unusually optimistic. Last update was the first good one we had in years without really any nerfs to classes directly.

You mean the patch that nerfed everyone but magsorcs? Yea right, that has improved class balance so much ...

No, the patch that had no direct class nerfs, as I clearly stated and that did not contain any class nerfs other than changes that affect everyone. The times where Sorcerers can rely purely on papershields are long over as well.

It brought good balance. From what I have seen, many seem to agree with the impression that this patch feels more balanced than any recent ones and that there are more build options than ever before. It can not be argued that it's the best patch we had in a very long time.

Dracane wrote: »

Rianai wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

I am unusually optimistic. Last update was the first good one we had in years without really any nerfs to classes directly.

You mean the patch that nerfed everyone but magsorcs? Yea right, that has improved class balance so much ...

No, the patch that had no direct class nerfs, as I clearly stated and that did not contain any class nerfs other than changes that affect everyone. The times where Sorcerers can rely purely on papershields are long over as well.

It brought good balance. From what I have seen, many seem to agree with the impression that this patch feels more balanced than any recent ones and that there are more build options than ever before. It can not be argued that it's the best patch we had in a very long time.

We right now got a good balance on classes and build options..?

Papershields? omegalul. It is nice to forget the facts about big shields that are comparable to big burst heals that you HoT yourself underneath them, while actual burst heals are nerfed for everyone so those who can use big shields benefit from this. Everyone knows this and can admit, except those who wanna stay on this messed up situation.

Best patch we had in a very long time, yet it actually only a good patch for Magsorcs, Stamblades (for good ones avoiding dmg and hitting hard) Stamdens (because of Shimmering giving protection against the FoTM magsorc, and for Stamcro, because of % mitigation and free Major Protection.

Still i see many who previously played Stamcro or Stamden went to their Magsorcs or Stamblades, since those 2 shine the best.. and in no-cp the Draugrkin Stamsorcs of course.

With the rest classes can make zergling hordes, all on Malacath, Overwhelming, Grothdarr and Stam zerglings all on Venomous, just spamming Poison Injection and Snipe and so on.. All who spends time enough on Cyrodiil know the real situation.

Exciting times on "this best patch in ages" at Cyrodiil and bgs.