OakenSoul is in very bad place now!

Lazuli · May 2022

This is the most disappointing nerf I've seen so far, Oakeesoul was gutted. Heck, I've seen some saying that they'd get back to ESO just to try it out. It was the one thing in the next update my in-game community was excited about. Plus, it would be extra handy for gamers with accessibility (myself included).

It's useless now; You're gonna give up an entire bar for some stats + benefits that could be replaced by one skill or two:
1- Major Savagery and Prophecy >> Better slot Inner Light or Camo Hunter (with plenty of useful passives from the mages and fighters guilds)
2- Major Endurance, Fortitude, and Intellect >> Can be easily kept up by Tri-Stat Potions
3- Major Resolve >> Every class has access to it, again with a more beneficial skill that does extra something (even if you don't wanna equip it, a warden could buff all the group with it)
4- Major Courage >> the most commonly used buff to get from healers using Spell Power Cure (and if you're solo, you could use the Sea-serpent's coil to get major courage plus major berserk plus your back bar)

Better solutions to address the dev's comments on the nerf:
1- For the "power spike with Werewolf" comment: add a Werewolf stipulation that cuts the original stats in half while transformed
2- For the "how close many one-bar builds are to two-bar builds" comment: Slightly reduce the original stats by a bit (like back on week 1 PTS or even slightly less), one-bar DPS would never top 2-bar builds with that change.

Please save Oakensoul! I've never been excited that much for a thing to see in-game.
I'm almost tempted to make a petition online and collect signatures to save it

merpins · May 2022

Two or three other threads on this but the more the better imo. The more people that bring up this, the more likely there'll be some kind of change here. This was an item designed for disabled players. People that cannot do two-bar builds for whatever reason, as to allow them to do end-game content. The ring was 10-20% overtuned on release and OP for pvp ww. Now it's just bad. It either needs what you said, reverting to the original and then a nerf plus a debuff for ww players, or it needs specifically: Remove Courage and add back the 300-450 w/s att, add Major Berserk, and then add either Minor Force or Major Brutality/Sorcery.

w002exp · May 2022

I tend to agree with you but not for all the same reasons.

In short, I don't see who is supposed to benefit from the ring right now. A lot of people are saying solo players but I'm not buying it. Overland.and quest/story is already way too easy and this ring doesn't bring that much benefit. For more difficult content, like solo dungeons, the resources are already in the game to solo almost every dungeon on vet. Soloing trials will never be the norm and this ring was never going to bridge the gap to do that. So I just don't see this being a huge benefit to solo players, especially at the lost of a skill bar.

I liked the ring where it was before. An item that made more difficult experiences more accessible to lower skill players at the trade off that they would be significantly less efficient than a higher skilled player running two bars. You weren't going to go score pushing in this ring but if you were afraid of trials because rotation and bar swapping were challenging for you, this was definitely going to get you in the door until you could get better.

Agreed that stats could have been lowered. Also agree that ring should not apply or have reduced effect for werewolves. Disagree with move to utilize named buffs for functionality.

coop500 · May 2022

I honestly expected this to happen because ZOS doesn't minorly tune things, they destroy.

A shame though because I was hella excited for this.

ZOS_GregoryV · May 2022

Greetings all!

We are closing this thread as it is a duplicate to another thread found here.

Thank you for your understanding,
-Greg-