@VaranisArano
I'm one of the people that have been compiling a list of effected skills, both with Woosters testing and my own, as well as edits and additions from a few other players. Because of some discrepancies in results on world and guild skills I don't have them listed in the live version of the document, but all class and weapon skills are as accurate as they could be at this stage. It can be seen here and is open for edits.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oLi-c3U3eWbjwUH26_8Uq0Hyb8cFJf-_vhJ7q6T0oL8/edit?usp=sharing

That knowledge doesn't help me pick what to play though, hence why I asked for advice form the community. If I just wanted a build that wouldn't be effected I'd roll a Nightblade and follow one of the current gankblade builds but that isn't helpful to the testing, and if I wanted to be a potato I would use my PVE Templar Healer who will have exactly ONE non-ultimate skill not on cool down and that one skill does exactly ZERO damage.

@Karm1cOne
I have a multiple max level characters for PVE, all of different classes and enjoy each for different reasons, but default to my Templar Healer because she is the most useful in PVE and gets pretty much instant dungeon queues. That doesn't help in PVP. I want to explore a new class/build and what better time to do it than when I can help a game I love and get extra AP? Especially when it only takes a weekend or two to hit max level when you've got a bank full of xp scrolls, and a master crafter to make whatever gear you want?

Of the classes I've played (all of them) I liked all of them for different reasons, same with playstyles, I'm completely open to suggestions for PVP, Mag or Stam, any class, any race, doesn't really matter, the only opinion I really have on it is that Templars are completely gutted and I can experience that on my main, and that Nightblades don't really seem effected so they don't seem all that useful to test.

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

Athyrium93 wrote: »

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

Athyrium93 wrote: »

but basically every skill I use is considered an AOE for the purposes of the test, so while I'll take her to Cyrodiil to try, I don't think it will be a fun time

But that's part of the test too.

If you try to circumvent the test with less aoe or a special build you are skewing the results by bringing less aoe than might "normally" happen.

Part of the reason for a LIVE server test is to look at organic live results.

... but it would be nice to have one that isn't just a target dummy that gives AP.

And if it turns out that way, that's valid feedback for ZOS.
Will it suck? Yes. But your feedback to ZOS won't be merely a thought experiment. It'll be live gameplay experience and that counts more.

If everyone started changing what they bring into the test, this is what's going to happen:

1. Player: "This test is going to cripple AOEs and groups. I'm gonna go solo tanky."
2. ZOS: "Hmm... not a lot of groups or AOEs. Maybe that's not the problem."
3. Player: "Test is over? I'll pull out my Templar again!"
4. ZOS: "WTF? Where's this performance issue coming from again?"

So what your saying is solo tanky is the way to go? lol, but seriously how is taking a character built for PVE, that was NEVER meant to be part of PVP, that has spent maybe 5 hours total in Cyrodiil out of the thousands of hours I've played on her, with zero skills that offer anything more than incidental damage, going to be good for testing?

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, I'm legitimately asking what I, as a PVE player can do to participate in the testing. I have been meaning to start a character built for PVP for a while now, because the very limited amount of time I've spent in Cyrodiil has been positive. I want to try some more PVP because the little I did was fun, the testing is just giving me an excuse to do it now because whatever is decided will eventually also effect PVE.

It doesn't matter what I play, I will still be a bumbling noob when it comes to PVP, but it might be slightly more fun on a character that has half a chance (not saying my skill as a player will give me half a chance, because it probably won't) but I'd rather not be handicapped by my build as well as my non-existent skill. Like I previously said, if I wanted to just farm AP and not test I'd play a Nightblade, but I want to actually test the changes, I'd just rather not do it on my poor Templar healer who is a potato for anything except healing and buffing in PVE group content. I don't want to have to change her gear, cp, skills, mundus, and play style just to go get used as an AP filled test dummy, I have the time and XP scrolls to level a new character for that (and want to) I was just hoping to get some general info from the community on what is fun to play.......

Telling me to just play my PVE character just makes me not want to bother even going