First of all, thanks for listening to the feedback on Hunter's Eye for the penetration and movement speed! It's also great to see Argonians got their Poison AND Disease Resistance back! I am sure our lizard friends will be happy to hear that.
But now that that is over, let's get back to giving more feedback. The title already gave it away.
Bosmer need their stealth back! It is part of their identity as a race. Detection is a pointless bonus. Item sets that grant detection effects are considered "decon trash". People who want detection so badly can already wear these sets if they want, but the Bosmer race was born as a Stealth race. Since The Elder Scrolls Arena they have always been a stealth race up until Wrathstone, which reduced the number of stealth races in ESO from 2 to 1, killing diversity instead of opening it up to more races. When I made my Bosmer Warden back in Morrowind I thought "I want to be stealthy. But I don't want to be Khajiit! So Imma take the other one and be a Bow Elf! Yeah, sneaky bow elf!" I did not race change my character to a Khajiit because I liked her just the way she was and wanted back what I had. The lore is very clear on this too. The Rite of Theft isn't called the Rite of Armed Robbery or The Rite of being a Guard. The "chameleon-like skin" might be an exaggeration but there is a kernel of truth behind that, which this game needs to acknowledge!
Please ZOS, return the Bosmer to their former glory! The racial passives are being updated again - the time is right.
EDIT: I just got onto PTS to check out the new CP system and found that "The Craft" has a star that can give you up to 3m of stealth, which is great for all the other races that want to engage with stealth, but that does not solve the core issue. The core issue is that Racial passives serve a narrative purpose. They are meant to tell players something about the race they are playing and a bonus to stealth would tell players that Bosmer are a stealthy people, which indeed they are in the lore. That's why it is appropriate for them to have a passive like that, regardless of whether they can get those 3m from anywhere else or not. And let's not forget that this is still an investment of 30CP for something that according to the lore Bosmer should have innately (after unlocking and spending 3 skill points in their racial passives). Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
But now that that is over, let's get back to giving more feedback. The title already gave it away.
Bosmer need their stealth back! It is part of their identity as a race. Detection is a pointless bonus. Item sets that grant detection effects are considered "decon trash". People who want detection so badly can already wear these sets if they want, but the Bosmer race was born as a Stealth race. Since The Elder Scrolls Arena they have always been a stealth race up until Wrathstone, which reduced the number of stealth races in ESO from 2 to 1, killing diversity instead of opening it up to more races. When I made my Bosmer Warden back in Morrowind I thought "I want to be stealthy. But I don't want to be Khajiit! So Imma take the other one and be a Bow Elf! Yeah, sneaky bow elf!" I did not race change my character to a Khajiit because I liked her just the way she was and wanted back what I had. The lore is very clear on this too. The Rite of Theft isn't called the Rite of Armed Robbery or The Rite of being a Guard. The "chameleon-like skin" might be an exaggeration but there is a kernel of truth behind that, which this game needs to acknowledge!
Please ZOS, return the Bosmer to their former glory! The racial passives are being updated again - the time is right.
EDIT: I just got onto PTS to check out the new CP system and found that "The Craft" has a star that can give you up to 3m of stealth, which is great for all the other races that want to engage with stealth, but that does not solve the core issue. The core issue is that Racial passives serve a narrative purpose. They are meant to tell players something about the race they are playing and a bonus to stealth would tell players that Bosmer are a stealthy people, which indeed they are in the lore. That's why it is appropriate for them to have a passive like that, regardless of whether they can get those 3m from anywhere else or not. And let's not forget that this is still an investment of 30CP for something that according to the lore Bosmer should have innately (after unlocking and spending 3 skill points in their racial passives). Thanks for listening to my TED talk.