PvP balance is at the worst state it has been in years
In this post I'll point out which things are overperforming/game breaking and in which way they could be brought back in line.

The majority of skills I'll list will be related to high survivability as this is currently the biggest issue in PvP causing fights to take ages or be stalemates that can possibly only end with coordinated ultimate drops.

Skills

Intensive Mender
Living Dark
Bombard
Radiating Regen
Sets
Caluurion's Legacy
Draurgkin
Ironblood
Other issues
Undeath and CPs
Harmony
Crossheals in general
The upcoming changes that we can currently test on the PTS will further worsen balance.
Hybridization of almost any skills will result in an unhealthy meta where only a single build for each Class will be viable, many skills will become worthless as they won't find their way onto bars as the competition just became way harder.
The potential for gamebreaking combinations has increased significantly, especially when it comes to healing and survivability.
Those changes will have such a strong impact on the meta that it is insanity to push this in one go.
All healing abilities should retain the old scaling in order to prevent Specs to merge completely and also to prevent the survivability to go through the roof.

Two more issues on the PTS:
Burning Embers being changed into a HoT is laughably broken, there is no way this should ever make it to the live server. Magdk has always been built around being forced to fight for their heals, they had to stay in a fight to get their powerlash heals, to recast their burning embers to get the heal early or to heal themselves by using Draw Essence. The addition of Cauterize and Coagulating blood are more than enough to allow magdks to have healing even when they don't face an opponent atm.

Power Bash and morphs counting as Bash damage. I totally get where the idea came from but it is unbalanced as heck. You can easily stack bash damage via bash glyphs, deadlands demolisher and other bash sets. This is totally fine on the live server, however the new interaction with a skill that has the regular meele spammable TT is too much, on non optimised build you can easily reach Power Slam tooltips of 15k without even having the 33% extra damage.
This interaction with additional bash damage for Power Bash should be removed, Power Bash and it's morphs should retain the function of bash to interrupt targets channeling a skill.

Javalin
I'm confident that tackling all these issues will significantly improve PvP balance and saves us from another unbalanced patch.

Fix patch notes regarding new IC style please, they still say it is acquired like court wizard.

Not liking the new 2-hander skill adjustments tbh. I'll get used to it eventually, as I already golded my 2-handers, but the reduction in damage is quite noticeable in PvE. I used to like the damage the 2-handers put out, now I find myself just holding block more.

I am always excited for new content, the music, dungeons and exploration and itemizations - I'm really a sucker for it. But this time I feel like there's a dampener on the excitement, as I am really sad about the AwA. No more replayability for me, at least not in the way I liked it.

Also a shame to see the add-on beam-me up losing the function where you, with the click of a button, could semi-port to all people in frinedslist and guild roster in your zone, and thereby unlocking wayshrines near those people.

But I am glad that the BG queues are back to giving me more than just deathmatches - I sorely missed all the other fun ones

Ilumia wrote: »

I am always excited for new content, the music, dungeons and exploration and itemizations - I'm really a sucker for it. But this time I feel like there's a dampener on the excitement, as I am really sad about the AwA. No more replayability for me, at least not in the way I liked it.

Also a shame to see the add-on beam-me up losing the function where you, with the click of a button, could semi-port to all people in frinedslist and guild roster in your zone, and thereby unlocking wayshrines near those people.

But I am glad that the BG queues are back to giving me more than just deathmatches - I sorely missed all the other fun ones

Wait.. they're killing off BMU auto unlock?! Is this in the notes?

fizl101 wrote: »

Saieden wrote: »

Ilumia wrote: »

I am always excited for new content, the music, dungeons and exploration and itemizations - I'm really a sucker for it. But this time I feel like there's a dampener on the excitement, as I am really sad about the AwA. No more replayability for me, at least not in the way I liked it.

Also a shame to see the add-on beam-me up losing the function where you, with the click of a button, could semi-port to all people in frinedslist and guild roster in your zone, and thereby unlocking wayshrines near those people.

But I am glad that the BG queues are back to giving me more than just deathmatches - I sorely missed all the other fun ones

Wait.. they're killing off BMU auto unlock?! Is this in the notes?

i assume its this bit under exploration -

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General
Jumping to someone on your friends list no longer unlocks the destination Wayshrine before the teleportation finishes.

OK. Now I'm sad about something in the update.

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

Is there anything we can improve in the future?:

ZOS, if you want feedback on Ascending Tide and how many feel about Account Wide Achievements, it's already on the PTS thread for AWA. In the future, you should work on improving the level to which you communicate with your customers and actually address the real issues in such threads, rather than speaking to us through Q&A's that hardly acknowledge any of the real problems.

In the future, I'd like to see the continuity of the game world returned instead of walking through towns hearing my level 2 alt be praised as the hero of Tamriel.

In the future, I'd like to see the zone guide return to being useful to my alts for tracking world boss completion and delves rather than seeing it already completed on them simply because my "main" did something once.

In the future, please spend time refining systems like AWA before releasing them, and when you see that there are problems, hold back on a change and work on it rather than treating it as though everything is okay. It isn't okay.

This game is worth more than the way you're handling it. ESO is better than this. The effort of the people who write the quests, create the furnishings, and go to so much trouble to craft and immersive world is worth so much more than the way the company has decided to botch AWA in such a fashion that the experience is permanently altered.

What ArchangleIsraphel said, and I'm adding this:

1. Decouple NPC reactions and dialogue from achievements! I don't want to listen to immersion breaking NPC conversations or have broken dialogue trees on my alts because you fail to make a simple change that will keep the game world narratively coherent for alts.

2. Give Achievement only quests a spot in the hidden quest database per character so alts can complete those quests! I want to talk to Count Ravenwatch in the quest Taking Up The Mantle on more than one character! I want all of those quests available to all of my alts!

Do this and I might sub and play again. You already forced me to lose my individual character data and tracking which I wanted to keep in addition to AwA, but I will not stand for an incoherent game world on my alts! While these issues remain, I will not sub or play your game. The Elder Scrolls series of games have always been story rich and rich in world building, and before this update ESO followed that tradition. Today the game breaks the 4th wall because the game world reacts to all your characters as if they are the same person, a.k.a The Player. No, my level 3 character did not do anything and NPCs should not react to her like she is the hero of so and so or did such and such because she is SUPPOSED to be a unique person in Tamriel, not an avatar of me. My level 3 alt should be able to talk to Count Ravenwatch at the end of Markarth regardless if I already have the achievement or not. My level 3 alt should be able to do all the quests in the future and not have any locked out because I did them on another character already. This holds true for all my alts who didn't get to those quests yet! Right now the game world is broken, and an Elder Scrolls title should not receive this type of treatment. I'm done until you fix these things!


edited for punctuation

I'm loving the shared achievements. It was delightful seeing my account unlock all-new achievements as the tallies on my various characters added up to the requirements. Playing multiple characters really feels like your working toward a singular goal. That's something that's really shone with the Champion system and it's great to see it with Achievements now, too.

I was really excited seeing the option to keep the Keybind Display Mode to Keyboard for Gamepad UI, but it still doesn't let me play using my Azeron's thumbstick (https://www.azeron.eu/). I found I couldn't use the Quickslot Wheel using my mouse while in Gamepad UI, and I still couldn't move while using the map. Ideally, I'd love to see the option to simply replace WASD movement with analog movement while leaving everything else about input and UI exactly the same as the keyboard UI.

SilverBride wrote: »

I'm afraid to even log in.

I can’t sleep because I’m so excited to log in to see how awful everything is. I guess I’m a masochist.

Having a total blast on my stamsorc since the new "hybrid" changes.

Why even have a feedback thread if you’re just going to ignore everything in it, make no adjustments, and roll out the MOST DEBATED part of the update as is in the terrible state it’s in? Despicable! You are overwriting progress that millions have worked for, on so many toons. All meaningless now.

RavenXIV wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin Please down the rode in future patches allow the earned by tool tip disappear on characters there is already an add on that does this for us but surley you guys can figure a way to hide it at least behind the scences thanks!!!!

Honestly-Earned Achievements
Version: 1.0.0by: silvereyes [More]
This is a very simple addon that hides the "Earned by" tooltips for any achievement that meets the following criteria:
Has more than one criteria or objective
Was earned after the release of account-wide achievements with Update 33

The reasoning behind this is that an account-wide achievement with multiple objectives can be earned by multiple characters, so it's really the account that earns it, not the character.

The following achievements will continue to display "Earned by" tooltips:
Achievements fully completed by a character before the release of Update 33
Single-objective achievements earned after the release of Update 33

Note: Character-specific achievements have no "Earned by" text, with or without this addon. They were obviously earned by the current character.

@ZOS_Kevin maybe something like this, I really dont need another add on but this will have to do while i wait for you guys to do away with the earned by aspect.

Well personally my feedback isn't directed at any of the changes in the patch yet. But I want to point out, that even PvE has lag issues now and I permanently get random FPS Drops from 120 to 10 or 15. Which especially in PvP is pretty annoying as I don't need to fight the lag only now, but also that slideshow of Frames. Loading Screens also seem to be way longer than usual, like 15 minutes longer...

And the rewards of the worthy don't show up in the messages unless you traveled to another area. Thats pretty annoying as I usually just stay in Cyrodiil and open and deconstruct them there, now I am forced to leave it to refresh my messages like when you buy something at a Guild merchant.

As they say you should end on something positive soo, the new Intro music is amazing.

I want my map pins back. I want my skyshards back. I want to see a boss at the end of a delve rather than a cruel note to my alts that the boss is out to lunch.


I didn't do the PTS because the one time I did I stopped playing when I realized that all we had reported was ignored.

Asking for feedback is disengenous at best and cruel at worst since nothing ever gets fixed.