mareeelb16_ESO wrote: »

And wha'd'ya know?

Crown riding lessons are on offer!

Coincidence? Not!

I wish I could say I was shocked, but I am not at all.

JoeCapricorn wrote: »

I don't know if the steam stats even mean anything. It is interesting to see April with a near 93% increase though. I wonder what kind of cataclysmic event could have generated that kind of concurrent play...

I'm not sure if it is possible to look up stats on ESO Plus subscribers, but I think that is a more important figure.

I just moved all of my alts to Vivec, as it is easy to get to pretty much everything there without realizing "Crap! I don't have rapids!"

I did the same. Also I have noticed that I have 2 characters that I started right before the rapids lazy skill swap. They are both over 30% mount speed now and yet STILL move slower than when they were fresh and had rapids unlocked at level 10. I am sure soon ZoS will offer a "crown cure" for that.

I truly am shocked that they care so little about the players in the game. I have been placed on a warning because they don't like the way I talk to them. Well I don't like the way they treated me, a paying customer, I guess we are both unhappy.
I never demanded they change the skill back, I never demanded anything except an official response. Just an explanation of WHY Rapid Maneuver could not have STAYED at rank 2 and Vigor moved to Rank 3, both unlocking with tutorial. Or why it had to be the way it is right now, ANYTHING would have been better than ignoring the negative feedback from the PTS and now on live.
ZoS COULD have said "Thanks for your feedback, we will forward this on to our Dev team!" and that would have been better than what they have done. They have handled this with the same professionalism I would expect from middle school bullies.

MrGhosty wrote: »

It is not in Zos' best interest to alienate the playerbase

One would think that, yet here we are.

Solution?
Look in Crown Store soon.

Ride training books are on sale in crown store!

esotoon wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

The AP gain is ridiculous right now. Yesterday I got 88K AP in one Keep defense tick. Getting 40K+ is almost common.

Did they fix it so that it actually applies to your Assault/Support rank, as well as the campaign ranking, rather than just being an "AP as currency" buff?

Kind of.

It is supposed to work now for healing/killing players, taking outposts/keeps/resources, but not for repairing walls, doing quests, etc. (you know, all the things that have been recommended to PVEers who hate the thought of PVP to do).

Imo, repairing or questing isn’t a very effective use of time if you hate pvp, even if it were doubled. It’s slow and very low ap.

I think zos should just give rapids back, but if you want to take advantage of the testing event, you would be best off campaign surfing for one that has a lopsided balance in your faction’s favor and then lfg in zone chat. If a zerg is active, you’ll get an invite in a few minutes. If none are available when you check, try a different time.

Riding with a zerg is so easy, you can do it without any special gear or build planning, and if you die, someone will res you. The ap gains are too ridiculous to waste time doing anything else.

It’s still over an hour of your life that could have been spent doing something more exciting than a slow horse simulator, but it’s still the fastest way to guarantee you get rapids back.

JoeCapricorn wrote: »

I am probably not going to be posting in this thread any longer

My mom passed away.

I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you are ok. Take care.

JoeCapricorn wrote: »

Even then, 60 speed feels too slow. I like Rapids just to go faster. I just like going faster.]

<insert i am speed meme>

edit: noooo, bad time to try and be a clever clogs. Hope you’re okay.

I doubt the very unpopular rapids change will be mentioned in the live stream. If it is I'm betting it will be laughed off.

I'll come back to the game if it's changed back (or they take up one of the suggestions that they happily ignored), quite happy doing other things until then. Shame as I played since Beta and really love the game. But standing by my principles and all that malarkey.

JoeCapricorn - sorry for your loss.

Jaraal wrote: »

No mention of it in the live stream. I guess there's no concern about how players feel about it.

I'm waiting to see the patch notes for the PTS, but I'm not holding my breath.

From a mod statement in the German parallel thread, the devs are aware that many players are upset, and they will have another look at the situation.

However, you really should not expect something during the next pts cycle which has been more or less finalized weeks ago. Except for the quite unlikely case that they just revert the change or lower the alliance rank required for rapids ...

I keep imagining how much of a failure some one is that he simple cannont get RM in the game the way it is now.

Cmon ... 2 wins on BG?