I have been playing ESO almost every day since the game launched. At the start I tried to keep up with the combat changes but soon realised that by the time I had changed all my builds and gear and set up again a new set of combat changes came along so in the end I just gave up and stuck with what I had , for good or for bad.

A couple of years in I started playing pvp in Cyrodiil and I love it, despite all the challenges it entails just to actually play in that zone.

Went through all the weeks of testing in Cyrodiil as the game developers tried to work out what caused, amongst other things, the lag in the game. I think most dedicated pvp`rs knew before these tests started that none of the reasons they believed were causing the lag actually caused it. We told them a new server was needed and was told if that was the case did we not think they would have done that already. Then lo and behold they introduce a new server to NA and lag in Cyrodiil is fixed.

They tell us at the start of the year there will be no huge updates to combat and then we get U35 and they say it is part of their long term vision for the game.

Out of everything the thing I find most frustrating is the complete lack of communication from ZOS , they have a plan, what about sharing it with the players who actually play the game?

I firmly believe that the people who push through these changes have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Have no idea how the game works, do not listen to players who play the game constantly and when they get criticised they actually are, in some cases, aggressive and negative in their response.

It`s very sad because there is so much about this game that is great, including the players who stick with it, but for how much longer are they going to do that before move on to something else?

LordRukia wrote: »

Anyway, here's to shadowlands2.0

Damn! Way to kick below the belt XD

Malthorne wrote: »

Both games have a new content update this week. There is a reason FFXIV has 30,000 plus more players on steam.

FFXIV will see a continued increase in player numbers for some time now. The amount of content they are getting and what soon will be added will take a lot of players back and give them a lof of stuff to do for a long time.

On the other end, I assume ESO will get to new lows with Update 35. Community in general I'd say is as unhappy as it gets. People that promoted this game will have a hard time doing so right now. Look at the content creators. Nefas declared U35 the worst patch for PvE EVER. Thing is the game isn't all that young anymore. How can such a messup happen? Takes a lot of ignorant bliss. Devs needa wake up and make up with the community, or ESO will suffer permanently.

jaws343 wrote: »

Razorback174 wrote: »

jaws343 wrote: »

I don't think it is as easy to just adjust content only as some think it is.

The pre-patch situation was getting pretty dire imo. The delta between difficulty at the top end of content to difficulty at the bottom was enormous and was continuing to grow patch after patch due to the power creep at the top end.

At a certain point, if that delta gets too large, new content that you are trying to sell and market to player becomes undesirable for like 99% of the playerbase. Which is incredibly untenable. The alternative is to not increase difficulty and then the content is trivial and eventually the entire playerbase treats new DLC like Fungal Grotto and players get complacent and again, content doesn't sell, or at the very least, is viewed as stale.

You can't even begin to adjust the delta between content without first addressing the power level of the players. By lowering the delta between 0 DPs and the top end DPS, you can control the power levels of players more effectively, while also controlling for the difficulty of existing content in a more manageable way.

I fully believe, and they even told us this to some extant before PTS even started, that this patches whole intention was the initial player damage adjustments, required to further adjust content in a later patch. They only did the 10% health adjustment to appease players somewhat. I don't think content balance was their intent this patch in any way. And it is more likely that not going to be their 4th quarter focus once they have an actual live patch worth of valuable data from the playerbase and not just 10 people on PTS trying to confirm their biases on the patch.

Unacceptable. When I buy a new car, I don't get a chassis with a vague notion of maybe getting the engine months later, if the manufacturer feels like it.

There's been absolutely zero communication other than "have faith." As is, people are left with completely hobbled characters with no promise of any further tuning or fixes in sight. And this is guaranteed to be the state of the game for months to come. That's enough to drive people away, and a good many of them may never come back.

But there was a promise of future adjustments. In the very first communication regarding this patch they straight up told us that they would further be balancing the game around these changes over the next patches. That was clearly communicated to us in advance.

There was also a promise of no more sweeping combat changes but alas here we are again once more into the breach. I for one will never trust what this combat team says ever again. As a beta player I’m burned out on these dramatic swings in balance that seem to be all over the board and then walked back because they turn out to be as bad as we all said they’d be on the PTS forums. I’m tired of reprogging content and losing progress for no reason.

This time I’m voting with my wallet and canceling my sub. I hope the devs can explain to their superiors why ESOs revenue dropped as a direct result of U35 and their refusal to listen to the community and release the content without the combat changes because I’m definitely not alone unsubbing when I look at my guilds and discords.

Klingenlied wrote: »

On the other end, I assume ESO will get to new lows with Update 35. Community in general I'd say is as unhappy as it gets. People that promoted this game will have a hard time doing so right now. Look at the content creators. Nefas declared U35 the worst patch for PvE EVER. Thing is the game isn't all that young anymore. How can such a messup happen?

Yeah, Nefas shocked me yesterday when he told people to basically wait until next Update to fix their builds because Update 36 will be on PTS pretty quick.

How do things like this happen? What I think is that they come into the Update feeling like they have a handle on things and a good idea of what they want to do, and if that does not work out, they can just fix it going forward.

bathynomusESO wrote: »

ZOS fixed the issues. Now, instead of 100k dps, you get 15k like the rest of us. As intended.

Nope, just some of you. The endgame community are still around the 100k mark. You can’t take dps away from one without affecting the other, sorry to burst your bubble.