Whatever pull ESO had with me has apparently disappeared, as I haven't been able to get into either of the last two xpacs.
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Which appears to be the opposite of what dictionary.com says so that sounds right.
The reference to "power creep" makes me feel like this is going to feel like a nerf. Anyway, there will also be a 2-week period with free respecs so that players can scramble to make their characters not suck more than they did before.First introduced with Update 6 in 2015, the Champion System gave end-game players a way to improve their characters beyond level 50. Now, six years since its initial release, the team felt that a major overhaul was needed to keep the system fresh and impactful.
“We decided to rebuild the Champion System in Update 29 as this system ties up a lot of changes we've made over the past two years,” explains Brian Wheeler, ESO’s Combat Lead. “When you look at the original Champion System, it had a lifespan associated with it that meant that there was no real progression after a certain point. In addition, the original system also had a lot of power creep because it provided passive gains across the board for your damage, healing, and regen.”
When approaching the redesign of such an important system, the team set specific goals they wanted to meet with their changes.
“When designing the new Champion System, we wanted you to be able to do the same content you were able to do previously. If you were able to beat VMA (Veteran Maelstrom Arena) before U29 goes live, you’ll be able to beat it afterward. We also had to make sure you could do DLC dungeons at CP 300, which aligns with our DLC dungeons and the Activity Finder.”
In addition to ensuring players didn’t feel depowered by the change, the team wanted to add more variance and choice to the system.
“We wanted tradeoffs and choices much like your ability bar and gear. In the original system, you just had pure power, and there wasn’t really a choice except for how to update your Magicka or Stamina build,” says Wheeler. “With the new system, you have to make real choices. For example, in the Warfare constellation group, you’ll have to choose between improving your damage, healing, or survivability, but you can’t have all of it at once like you could previously.”
Finally, the team also wanted to ensure the system still felt familiar and could be easily scaled in future updates where needed.
“When designing the UI, we wanted interacting with the system to remain familiar to our dedicated players who have used it for years, while making sure the expanded number of choices and build variations are apparent,” explains Bobby Weir, ESO’s UI Lead. “We embraced the increase of options and made sure that we built mechanisms that support expanding upon those options in the future.”
Naturally, I didn't notice any of this until I couldn't log in this morning due to the servers being down for the update, so I didn't get a chance to jot down any notes on the current builds for any of my characters (one main, five semi-active alts), so I'm stuck with muscle memory for the current builds but not being quite certain which skills and morphs I had set up for any of them. I'm sure there's a good technical reason for a forced skill reset, but I still kind of resent that they're doing it. The next couple of weeks should be fun, and by fun I mean annoying.To celebrate the arrival of Update 29’s Champion System overhaul, we’re happy to announce the Heroes Reforged mini event. Beginning with the launch of Update 29 for each platform (PC/Mac: Monday, March 8 at 10AM EST; Xbox One and PlayStation®4: Tuesday, March 16 at 10AM), this event will run for two weeks and allow you unlimited free respecs from Rededication Shrines for the following:
Note that the above start times may shift depending on when Update 29 goes live and servers open, and when you first log in, all Skills and Champion Points will be automatically reset.
- Attributes (Health/Stamina/Magicka)
- Skills (and Morphs)
- Champion Points (from the Champion Point system menu)
While the changes coming with Update 29 impact only the Champion System, we know that you’ll likely want to test many builds, so for two weeks you can reset, respec, and rebuild any and all of your characters as many times as you want for free when using a Rededication Shrine or the Champion Point redistribution function—easy!
Finally, this is not a full in-game event (such as the Midyear Mayhem or the recent Tribunal Celebration), and as a result it will not have Event Tickets or unique rewards—just free re-specializations. That’s two weeks to experiment and test your builds at no cost.
Because Update 29 requires a mandatory skill respec (including both Champion Points and Skill Points), we’re also offering the Ambersheen Vale Fawn pet from the in-game Crown Store, completely free!
There are some abilities in Fitness that improve recovery. You can put up to 50 points in Rejuvenation, which gives +3 health/magicka/stamina recovery for each point invested. Additionally, you can unlock Siphoning Spells, which restores up to a maximum of 1500 magicka when you kill an enemy. Both Rejuvenation and Siphoning Spells need to be slotted in order to be active.habibi wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:03 am I also find that somehow my sorcerer and Dragonknight tank, both of who used Magicka, used up their Magicka fairly quickly. The recovery is not as good as before. I don’t know where in the CP tree to fix this and it is really annoying to find myself unable to cast and have to keep on doing Heavy Attack to recover Magicka. If anyone know where I should look for, that will be greatly appreciated.
Then this week is a good time to go back with the free ESO Plus trial lol!