Not much will change I expect. The next pts will likely be out in a couple weeks which isn’t enough time to change much to temper the U35 outrage. Anything that happens will likely already have been in the works for a little while so unfortunately, I expect more of U35… nerfs across the board.

ZOS reading the forums:

I get a feeling U36 will just be minor tweaking.

U37 will be further nerfs aimed at the high end player, but instead hitting the average to low end player yet again.

kwinter wrote: »

ZOS will likely only make minor combat changes for U36. This was change they made to avoid negativity from changes affecting chapters and DLC releases.

Yup.

It’s impossible to predict what they WILL do, but what I would like to see is a move toward more clearly defined roles, both for PvE and PvP.

ZOS has changed how damage and healing scales on particular abilities many times, moving toward having less emphasis on max resources to stacking W/S power.
So we have a situation in PvP where now, and for as long as I can remember, stacking HOTs for all members of a ball group is too strong not to use, the same players with resto back bar, also put out massive damage as they all scale from the same stat.
Something that could upset that would having heals scale differently to promote dedicated healers in groups. This also goes for PvE as healers have for a long time been the easiest role to fill (any DD can be a healer really), or in a lot of content, simply go without a healer.
I’d also like to see some adjustments to resistance and maybe even penetration. To again better define tanks and the need for them. A role that is almost useless in Cyro is a kind of crowd control/buff/de-buff master to initiate fights or interrupt other initiation. Because everyone is tanky with how current scaling works. Maybe even ways to build for reducing stun immunity or root immunity at the cost of trading tankiness and damage/healing.
This then leaves heavily invested damage dealers to be reliant on good group coordination, (or just spontaneous support form alliance friendlies) to be able to output that damage without being insta bursted, as the trade offs are REAL trade offs.

Finally kill the tank meta.. make diverse, role specific groups the Meta. In both PvE and PvP.

Fingers crossed.

Edit; Just to add, I feel like if this type of direction was taken. It would help break down the barriers between PvE and PvP, as building in one would be similar to how one builds in the other, depending on the role you want to fill.

More nerfs. More references to some "plan" without actually mentioning what that "plan" is. Removal of initial nerfs, addition of new nerfs as PTS lumbers on. Disrupted builds. Disrupted play. When the spinning wheel stops, it will still require more work in 2023. ... standard stuff... normal PTS cycle.

Oh... and some Zone.

SpacemanSpiff1 wrote: »

i think it's gonna be really good.

Same here. Sadly, it is a pain having to wait weeks between good forum dramas.

1. Changes that nobody asked and using players accessibility as an excuses to get away with it
2. Changes that nobody asked and using players accessibility as an excuses to get away with it
3. Changes that nobody asked and using players accessibility as an excuses to get away with it
...

They have standardized tanks, healer, dps.

Each dps now does 30k dps, regardless if they do a rotation or not.
Tank now take 10k damage per second, regardles if he dodge, blocks or plays the mechanic.
The healer now allways heals 15k life per second, regardles if he is playing, cooking in the kitchen or laying an egg in bathroom.

My low-confidence guess is they'll not be happy that arena weapons aren't popular on builds right now, so either Rele/Nirn/Depths/whatever nerfs are coming or arena weapon buffs are coming.

I'm also hoping that the destro staff condition on Winter's Revenge was a bandage while they took more time to test and implement a better change for mag Wardens in U36.