Seems we having server issues, not just me, lots of my friends to.
Admin edit: Thread title clarification
Seems we having server issues, not just me, lots of my friends to.
Admin edit: Thread title clarification
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R.I.P. PC EU
Seems we having server issues, not just me, lots of my friends to.
Admin edit: Thread title clarification
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Is Essence Thief as good as it looks?
On paper, Essence Thief looks like such a good set for PvP, and, before I try to farm it, I’m just wondering if there’s a catch.
On paper, this set seems like it’s simultaneously a top tier damage set AND a top tier sustain set.
In terms of damage, you get a weapon damage boost and two stamina boosts, and then a 10% damage boost that I believe can have virtually 100% uptime theoretically.* There’s very few sets in the game with that much potential to increase your damage. Maybe New Moon Acolyte, but obviously that comes with a cost increase. Other sets like Shieldbreaker do not increase damage as much as Essence Thief can.
In terms of sustain, you theoretically can get 390 stamina per second from it (or 780 stamina recovery). That’s more than the most that Trappings of Invigoration’s five-piece could give you even if you procced it on cooldown (an unrealistic scenario that’d still only yield 252 stamina per second), and I think it’s way more recovery than Bone Pirate could ever give you. And the two max Stam pieces obviously help a bit with sustain as well.
The cherry on top is that you also can get 3900 healing every 10 seconds. This is obviously nice, though realistically if you compare it to other damage sets that buff weapon damage or stamina, this probably just makes up for the fact that your healing will otherwise be lower with this set.
Granted, I’ve seen videos of it and I understand that the set shoots out an essence in a random direction and therefore you might not always be able to get to it in the 5 seconds before it expires. But here’s the thing: Even if you only get it like 60-70% of the time, we’re still looking at a five-piece on the set that gives you: (1) as much or more overall damage as top-tier damage sets like Shieldbreaker—but with more burst potential; (2) similar sustain as the five-piece on a top-tier sustain set like Trappings of Invigoration; and (3) some fairly significant heals that should largely make up for the loss of healing compared to sets that pump weapon damage on their five-piece. It just seems to me like the five-piece on Essence Thief is incredibly strong, even when you factor in that you won’t always get the essence. And while the rest of the set’s bonuses aren’t perfect (max stam probably isn’t as good as weapon damage), two stam bonuses and one weapon damage bonus is definitely not bad.
So am I missing something or is Essence Thief just really good?
* The set reads to me like a pool is created, you have 5 seconds to pick it up, and then 10 seconds after the pool was created, you can create another one. If that’s right, then essentially 100% uptime is possible even if you’re not picking the essence up immediately. For instance, if you create an essence and then pick it up 3 seconds later, I read the skill as saying that you can create another essence 7 seconds after you picked the last one up (because that would be 10 seconds after the last one was actually created). So you’d have 3 seconds to pick up your next essence before the effect of the first one wears off. That would mean that you could maintain 100% uptime on the ability as long as you didn’t take longer than the previous time to pick the essence up. Naturally, sometimes you would take longer to pick it up than the last time but the potential uptime seems like it’s pretty close to 100%.
On paper, this set seems like it’s simultaneously a top tier damage set AND a top tier sustain set.
In terms of damage, you get a weapon damage boost and two stamina boosts, and then a 10% damage boost that I believe can have virtually 100% uptime theoretically.* There’s very few sets in the game with that much potential to increase your damage. Maybe New Moon Acolyte, but obviously that comes with a cost increase. Other sets like Shieldbreaker do not increase damage as much as Essence Thief can.
In terms of sustain, you theoretically can get 390 stamina per second from it (or 780 stamina recovery). That’s more than the most that Trappings of Invigoration’s five-piece could give you even if you procced it on cooldown (an unrealistic scenario that’d still only yield 252 stamina per second), and I think it’s way more recovery than Bone Pirate could ever give you. And the two max Stam pieces obviously help a bit with sustain as well.
The cherry on top is that you also can get 3900 healing every 10 seconds. This is obviously nice, though realistically if you compare it to other damage sets that buff weapon damage or stamina, this probably just makes up for the fact that your healing will otherwise be lower with this set.
Granted, I’ve seen videos of it and I understand that the set shoots out an essence in a random direction and therefore you might not always be able to get to it in the 5 seconds before it expires. But here’s the thing: Even if you only get it like 60-70% of the time, we’re still looking at a five-piece on the set that gives you: (1) as much or more overall damage as top-tier damage sets like Shieldbreaker—but with more burst potential; (2) similar sustain as the five-piece on a top-tier sustain set like Trappings of Invigoration; and (3) some fairly significant heals that should largely make up for the loss of healing compared to sets that pump weapon damage on their five-piece. It just seems to me like the five-piece on Essence Thief is incredibly strong, even when you factor in that you won’t always get the essence. And while the rest of the set’s bonuses aren’t perfect (max stam probably isn’t as good as weapon damage), two stam bonuses and one weapon damage bonus is definitely not bad.
So am I missing something or is Essence Thief just really good?
* The set reads to me like a pool is created, you have 5 seconds to pick it up, and then 10 seconds after the pool was created, you can create another one. If that’s right, then essentially 100% uptime is possible even if you’re not picking the essence up immediately. For instance, if you create an essence and then pick it up 3 seconds later, I read the skill as saying that you can create another essence 7 seconds after you picked the last one up (because that would be 10 seconds after the last one was actually created). So you’d have 3 seconds to pick up your next essence before the effect of the first one wears off. That would mean that you could maintain 100% uptime on the ability as long as you didn’t take longer than the previous time to pick the essence up. Naturally, sometimes you would take longer to pick it up than the last time but the potential uptime seems like it’s pretty close to 100%.
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Dungeon display sets to normal even if you are in vet
Jesus, who did you employ as testers Stevie wanders backing band?
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how long is this download going to take: PS4
On my mac the download took less than an hour. Now on the PS4 its going to take an hour just to get the update file. I've read some people saying it will take 50 hours which is not at all practical. and others are saying 14 hours. That is rediculous. My brother started his download right at the time the update launched. 4 hours later its still downloading for him.
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Performance is unacceptable
$15 a month sub. $50 a year chapter. Crown crates. Limited time houses.
With all those revenues streams how is it that this games performance has continued to degrade month after month for this long?
You have failed zos.
To be clear. This is not the devs fault. Im sure they work their butts off and have great passion for the game. Whether they haven't had the resources, the manpower or w/e excuse management uses. They failed the devs and us
With all those revenues streams how is it that this games performance has continued to degrade month after month for this long?
You have failed zos.
To be clear. This is not the devs fault. Im sure they work their butts off and have great passion for the game. Whether they haven't had the resources, the manpower or w/e excuse management uses. They failed the devs and us
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Language changed to German, seriously?
So. Updated game. Now it's in German. And yes, I saw the thing with changing locale/language, but of course - as with all your other "fixes"; it didn't fix anything.
Thing is, I know German pretty well, but wtf? I don't suddenly want to change the entire language of a game I've been playing since 2016. Fix this immediately. It's shameful, stupid, embarrassing and extremely frustrating, that your grand "bug fix" patch lets us see this, as the very first thing. I'm pretty amazed. Honestly.
Thing is, I know German pretty well, but wtf? I don't suddenly want to change the entire language of a game I've been playing since 2016. Fix this immediately. It's shameful, stupid, embarrassing and extremely frustrating, that your grand "bug fix" patch lets us see this, as the very first thing. I'm pretty amazed. Honestly.
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Why do you solo pvp?
There might be different reasons for each person, like 1vXing and stuff. I personally love good fights, but the main reason why i mostly solo pvp is because of freedom. Freedom of deciding where to go, who to fight, when to leave and also i'm too lazy to tell people what to do.
Why do you solo pvp?
Why do you solo pvp?
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Change Difficulty message keeps popping up
On my PC account I’ve been getting this “cannot change Difficulty” pop up message when I travel into dungeons solo.
It goes away when in a group finder group. But it keeps popping up while I solo farm a dungeon and sometimes even in overland the message still comes up.
I go into a dungeon. Finish up. Port out. Change from normal to vet or vet to normal. Travel back in to dungeon. This message keeps popping up at seemingly random times.
It’s not exactly game breaking, but quite annoying.
It goes away when in a group finder group. But it keeps popping up while I solo farm a dungeon and sometimes even in overland the message still comes up.
I go into a dungeon. Finish up. Port out. Change from normal to vet or vet to normal. Travel back in to dungeon. This message keeps popping up at seemingly random times.
It’s not exactly game breaking, but quite annoying.
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Who the heck is Roguzog?
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Roguzog for reference. He has both dialogue on whether you have met him or not before yet I cannot remember meeting him. none of the wikis have a location recorded on where he is met.
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Impressed With The New Luxury Furnishings
In Love With These Furnishings!!!! What A WonderFull Addition!
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Lag and Server performance in Cyrodiil
I dont know how many ppl have opened a similar thread but i hope there are thousands. The Lag in Cyrodiil has gotten so worse. Even the most hardcore pvpers ( i consider myself as such) who are almost always in cyro are thinking about or are beginning to stop plying ESO because the lag is so bad. And these guys are almost always eso+ members. Pls ZOS adress this problem before its too late or we have gotten to a point of no return where the hardcore pvp communit is turning towards another game. The lag is so bad especially at peak times, that it literally takes about 1 second before the skill or something is executed. Sometimes you are dead before u see an ability is executed on you. I have the theory that u increased the maximum number of players per map or something but the performance has gotten worse badly since last update or since at some point after midyear mayhem. This is serious, you are scaring away ur most hardcore diehard pvp fans.
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Give us a good castle
Dear ESO, I NEED a castle that looks like this in my life. Including the bats! Do it right and I will buy it on BOTH my accounts! Do NOT fail me this time!
What do I mean by "right?"
1. This style in the picture.
2. BATS included!
3. Day/night toggle at last!
4. 24 player/700 item slot
5. Sized so that I can ACTUALLY fully decorate both the indoors and outdoors.
That's the bare minimum. Now for the OTHER things I'd also really LIKE to see.
6. a small graveyard.
7. a small chapel.
8. OR an actual crypt underground.
9. Did I mention bats wheeling overhead outside and clusters of PLACEABLE bats to put wherever I want?
10. New tombstones and crypts/coffins!
11. MORE Gargoyle statues!
12. Placeable GHOSTS!
13. 13. Spooky art paintings to hang on the walls!
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Titanborn Strength set in Cyro
https://eso-sets.com/set/titanborn-strength
Man, i'm liking it. med set, so a lot of time my health DOES drop below 75 or 50 anyway, and I become a world of hurt.....
psychologically when using heavy with Fury, i kept one eye on my stack/WD and wait until Fury max out.... so in med-Titanborn it's the same idea, but instead of waiting for 20-stack, I just check my health bar (which i already usually am anyway).
and again, it adds not just wep damage, but penetration as well!
I'm using some weird ass random trait gear because i want to use it as soon as i have the 5-piece armor (does weap ever drop?? like, EVER? i saw a ring...), and i say it overperforms Spriggan or even my latest carry-favourite, Plague Slinger....
Any other thoughts?
Man, i'm liking it. med set, so a lot of time my health DOES drop below 75 or 50 anyway, and I become a world of hurt.....
psychologically when using heavy with Fury, i kept one eye on my stack/WD and wait until Fury max out.... so in med-Titanborn it's the same idea, but instead of waiting for 20-stack, I just check my health bar (which i already usually am anyway).
and again, it adds not just wep damage, but penetration as well!
I'm using some weird ass random trait gear because i want to use it as soon as i have the 5-piece armor (does weap ever drop?? like, EVER? i saw a ring...), and i say it overperforms Spriggan or even my latest carry-favourite, Plague Slinger....
Any other thoughts?
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Ps4 skinning fish
Is it broken? 500 fish and not 1 perfect roe, never had this happen before.
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Next Class Representative Update?
The last update on the Class Representatives was when @ZOS_GinaBruno posted the new faces that would join the team. In that thread, Gina stated they would be moving back to having regular meetings and post public meeting notes soon. While I know this group operates under an NDA, we previously received updates with their NDA in place, and the message from Gina indicated more would come.
That was July 2019, about 8 months ago? Will we hear from this group soon? Is the group still active in a meaningful way?
Below is the link to Gina's last message on the subject. At least the last one I could find.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/486609/class-rep-program-update/p1
I am not trying to stir the pot with Zos. Just honestly asking because we used to get updates more frequently than I have seen recently and understand I may have missed some updates since I do not see everything.
That was July 2019, about 8 months ago? Will we hear from this group soon? Is the group still active in a meaningful way?
Below is the link to Gina's last message on the subject. At least the last one I could find.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/486609/class-rep-program-update/p1
I am not trying to stir the pot with Zos. Just honestly asking because we used to get updates more frequently than I have seen recently and understand I may have missed some updates since I do not see everything.
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Who is the Leecher?
I got accused of leeching telvar from a pve player because i killed a boss when he had got him to 15%hp. Yet, i had been in IC for a few hours working my a** off to drive away enemies and make all flags blue.
So i went to memorial district and killed "his" boss because he had already killed the arena one. So this is a question for pve players and pvp players alike, WHO IS REALLY THE LEECHER!!? 😁
So i went to memorial district and killed "his" boss because he had already killed the arena one. So this is a question for pve players and pvp players alike, WHO IS REALLY THE LEECHER!!? 😁
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In 5 years of playing I have no friends to play with, can someone explain how to make friends?
The title might seem like a troll post, but I'm genuinely curious how does one make friends in this game. In 5 years i haven't made any friends to regularly play with, I havent met people that would be interested in grouping up, I haven't as a result quite enjoyed this game as much as I'd like to.
What am I supposed to do, in order to make friends here? What are people looking for? What are people interested in? I'm generally a very likeable, social person IRL. Ingame though I feel strange, awkward when talking to people, I can't really tell when people want to hang out and hang around or when people just add you for whatever reason of "need" they have (thats all of my friendlist - people that I either trade with or they want something from me). And I've never had this problem before - I played WoW since vanilla up until legion, and always had someone to talk to or do things with. The strangest thing to me is that I'm generally friendly, helping, and trying to teach people (only if they ask for it). What's up with ESO?
Lately I've been constantly facing reponses of the kind - put/get a group together, play with friends, play with guild. Well how? lol.
The guilds are probably the worst I've ever experienced. There's constant radio silence, noone ever responds to anything, noone ever answers questions or helps out. And I've been probably through over 100 different guilds by now. Do I have to just be glued to their discords or how do people actually interact these days?
I'm honestly and genuinely confused.
What am I supposed to do, in order to make friends here? What are people looking for? What are people interested in? I'm generally a very likeable, social person IRL. Ingame though I feel strange, awkward when talking to people, I can't really tell when people want to hang out and hang around or when people just add you for whatever reason of "need" they have (thats all of my friendlist - people that I either trade with or they want something from me). And I've never had this problem before - I played WoW since vanilla up until legion, and always had someone to talk to or do things with. The strangest thing to me is that I'm generally friendly, helping, and trying to teach people (only if they ask for it). What's up with ESO?
Lately I've been constantly facing reponses of the kind - put/get a group together, play with friends, play with guild. Well how? lol.
The guilds are probably the worst I've ever experienced. There's constant radio silence, noone ever responds to anything, noone ever answers questions or helps out. And I've been probably through over 100 different guilds by now. Do I have to just be glued to their discords or how do people actually interact these days?
I'm honestly and genuinely confused.
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Ald Velothi Hobbit Hole
Hi Housing Folk,
This was such a pleasure to build that I wanted to share with you all. Working on a video which I'll attach once done. This home is available to visit on N/A server.
Front Garden.
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Living Room.
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Pantry.
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Kitchen.
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Cheers!
This was such a pleasure to build that I wanted to share with you all. Working on a video which I'll attach once done. This home is available to visit on N/A server.
Front Garden.
Living Room.
Pantry.
Kitchen.
Cheers!
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WARNING: Morkul Stronghold in Wrothgar seems to be severely bugged. Invisible walls in random places
Literally what the title says.
The area did see a house entrance added so maybe something went wrong?
Bug report made.
The area did see a house entrance added so maybe something went wrong?
Bug report made.
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Single bar for solo PvE Magblade
Hi everyone
I'm a pretty rubbish player with poor co-ordination and slow reflexes. But despite that I like playing ESO - obviously solo PvE 'cos I'm not good enough to play in a group. My Main (and only) is a Khajiit Magblade and I don't want to start from scratch with something new.
On the forums and guidance sites I'd been repeatedly told that Magblades are very hard to play and need a really complex rotation. Well I tried, I really did. And I couldn't do it. I ended up giving up ESO for a while. Then I came back to it a few months back with a "well **** it , I'll do it just for fun" attitude, and settled on a single bar rotation that I could cope with. And I got more DPS from that than I had from a meta compatible rotation that kept going wrong. Mind you, it's still rubbish – below 20k on a target dummy; and it drops well below that when I'm trying to avoid red circles.
The thing is, it's more than adequate to handle all the purely solo PvE content (even Group Event Bosses in Public Dungeons, although some take a couple of attempts). All I have left for most Map Completions is Fishing (which I'm not interested in doing) and World Bosses. And it's with the WBs I need help. I've been in at the kill of all the WBs in the DLCs – by tagging on to one of the Zergs that do them. But the starter areas are largely deserted, so I really need to be able to solo the WBs there. I've done some of them, but I'm finding it hard, so I wondered if my single bar could be improved specifically for them? This is what I've got at the moment:
Merciless Resolve 40 secs (spectral bow whenever ready)
Siphoning Attacks 20 secs
Sap Essence 20 secs
Blockade of Fire 14 secs but I refresh every 10 secs
Swallow Soul Spammed (weave with LA)
Eye of Flame Ultimate
(all nice multiples of 10 secs)
Actually I do use a second bar, but I only swap to it when the boss is below 25%. It's the same except for:
Impale replaces Swallow Soul for the execute
Ice Comet replaces Eye of Flame (I use Eye of Flame initially because it centres on me as I move and helps with any adds, but Ice Comet has more single target damage)
I have looked at other skills, of course, but they never seem to quite meet my needs:
If only Dark Shade agroed the boss it would be really useful.
If I could cast Refreshing Path behind me as I kited the boss, that would be great.
I'm not sure whether Incapacitating Strike should replace Eye of Flame as its only single target.
So can you help me? Any ideas?
Thanks
I'm a pretty rubbish player with poor co-ordination and slow reflexes. But despite that I like playing ESO - obviously solo PvE 'cos I'm not good enough to play in a group. My Main (and only) is a Khajiit Magblade and I don't want to start from scratch with something new.
On the forums and guidance sites I'd been repeatedly told that Magblades are very hard to play and need a really complex rotation. Well I tried, I really did. And I couldn't do it. I ended up giving up ESO for a while. Then I came back to it a few months back with a "well **** it , I'll do it just for fun" attitude, and settled on a single bar rotation that I could cope with. And I got more DPS from that than I had from a meta compatible rotation that kept going wrong. Mind you, it's still rubbish – below 20k on a target dummy; and it drops well below that when I'm trying to avoid red circles.
The thing is, it's more than adequate to handle all the purely solo PvE content (even Group Event Bosses in Public Dungeons, although some take a couple of attempts). All I have left for most Map Completions is Fishing (which I'm not interested in doing) and World Bosses. And it's with the WBs I need help. I've been in at the kill of all the WBs in the DLCs – by tagging on to one of the Zergs that do them. But the starter areas are largely deserted, so I really need to be able to solo the WBs there. I've done some of them, but I'm finding it hard, so I wondered if my single bar could be improved specifically for them? This is what I've got at the moment:
Merciless Resolve 40 secs (spectral bow whenever ready)
Siphoning Attacks 20 secs
Sap Essence 20 secs
Blockade of Fire 14 secs but I refresh every 10 secs
Swallow Soul Spammed (weave with LA)
Eye of Flame Ultimate
(all nice multiples of 10 secs)
Actually I do use a second bar, but I only swap to it when the boss is below 25%. It's the same except for:
Impale replaces Swallow Soul for the execute
Ice Comet replaces Eye of Flame (I use Eye of Flame initially because it centres on me as I move and helps with any adds, but Ice Comet has more single target damage)
I have looked at other skills, of course, but they never seem to quite meet my needs:
If only Dark Shade agroed the boss it would be really useful.
If I could cast Refreshing Path behind me as I kited the boss, that would be great.
I'm not sure whether Incapacitating Strike should replace Eye of Flame as its only single target.
So can you help me? Any ideas?
Thanks
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