The tests was a big fail, lag was as bad as usual and most formats produced combat that was less interesting than than the standard.

Zos need to look at com protocolls and server configurations. Possibly one could also look at the proc sets, those have proliferated in recent years.

Week 1-4 were unplayable and as a content creator it was really painful. My twitch has the streams still. Week 5 was better than before the tests but not perfect - at least I could actually cast my skills. Week 6 then built upon this further and is much better

I am however concerned that the post by the developers implies week 1 was a success and something with cast times will be implemented without acknowledging that most pvp ball groups were in imperial City during the event.

Should combat get changed to 3 second cooldowns then it would be difficult to reccomend the game when other MMOs have a better combat system with cool down and significantly better performance.

1. The testing isn't over so this is a bit premature..... From the U28 Perf Preview thread. We will be running more combinations of tests right after this last round completes, and providing a more comprehensive summary of this round of tests. Stay tuned for more info soon!

LarsS wrote: »

The tests was a big fail, lag was as bad as usual and most formats produced combat that was less interesting than than the standard.

Zos need to look at com protocolls and server configurations. Possibly one could also look at the proc sets, those have proliferated in recent years.

Typical that the regular 24 man lfg pug leader would disagree and say all tests didn't yield anything and still lagged.

Its clear Week 5 was the best regardless.

Every time a ball group appears the server and gameplay goes to total ***. If you can increase resources and are just being cheap, increase resources. Otherwise there has to be a limit to stacked aoes of the same type, as someone already mentioned.

marius_buys wrote: »

Please assist ZOS by voting on the week that you would choose to improve server performance.
Player experience and opinion should very much be a considered factor should any changes be made.

If there ever was a poll that needed a "none of the above response," it's this one.

Week 5 by far the best functionally, made Cyrodiil feel like that's how it always should have been.

Non-grouped people spamming heals on each others in a alliance stack sized blob is what makes combat laggy and on top of that feel pointless often, unless you put another alliance stack against them.. and that creates the most laggy battles with disconnects. Week 5 was a good solution/test on that and imo (and to most i know in game) it was the best week in Cyrodiil playing in ages!

ZOS, please do not let the week 1 result fool you, due to the nearly everything being in cooldown most (and IC thingy) of the biggest pvp "farming" groups were not at Cyrodiil taking part to the test thus giving a false result on week 1 test. If you would implement Week 1 to be the new standard, i think it would kill whole pvp in this game, and the rest few staying would just play pretty much 2 classes only to be efficient. Not the way to go.

Coming from someone who has played Cyrodiil since the beginning of time, daily more than i sleep or do anything else - Please implement Week 5 if you gonna choose something out of these. Game still functions the same for individual player no matter what class you play, but works better. Only limits group size and heal spam to outside of group, thus rewarding smarter play, yet not punish those who play alone. (One should always slot self-heal anyways if you go in solo and not expect some random in a zerg to carry you with their Radiant Regen spam, i am sure you agree).

I know your angle on how you wanna make Cyrodiil feel. Also, the 12 limit for group is NATURAL since it already is on Trials too. I think people can "live" with this week 5 solution the most (and after adjusting to it, even for those who been parts of huge raids, will have more fun when they see what the benefits are as a good side to them also, this makes also enemies more killable when not so much healing that GvG does not end in anything else than a stalemate unless someones healers lag/disconnect). Week 5 also makes you not have to do complete class re-works.. that would make the whole audit pointless and having to start from the beginning if went with week 1.

Please, listen to the ones who been here for ages and actually know who all played during all these weeks, please choose WEEK 5 if one of these is to be the new standard. @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_BrianWheeler @ZOS_Gilliam

Week 5 <--choose it and be awesome if gotta choose one of these, do not trust in raw data this time, week 1 gave false info due to farm groups being at IC event.

Joy_Division wrote: »

marius_buys wrote: »

Please assist ZOS by voting on the week that you would choose to improve server performance.
Player experience and opinion should very much be a considered factor should any changes be made.

If there ever was a poll that needed a "none of the above response," it's this one.

It has a none of the tests and an other option. What else is there?

All the tests except the 1st test had a bad lag.
The 1st test AoE global cooldown was very good.