when will you improve combat?

[TheFibrewire]

When is ESO planning to make the combat feel impact and powerful? The current combat system feels so dated, many MMOs have upgraded to amazing combat systems that is very tactile and amazing to play.

ESO should up their game and make the combat feel good, the game feels very date in the current landscape.

[Dex]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

When is ESO planning to make the combat feel impact and powerful? The current combat system feels so dated, many MMOs have upgraded to amazing combat systems that is very tactile and amazing to play.

ESO should up their game and make the combat feel good, the game feels very date in the current landscape.

And which mmos is ESO competing with in this "current landscape"?

[Glennard]

which mmos have "upped their game and make the combat feel good"? I currently play wow and ff14, arguably 2 of the most popular atm. Neither of which have a combat system that really deviates too much from the old way of doing it

edit: typo

[ah_puch]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

When is ESO planning to make the combat feel impact and powerful? The current combat system feels so dated, many MMOs have upgraded to amazing combat systems that is very tactile and amazing to play.

ESO should up their game and make the combat feel good, the game feels very date in the current landscape.

Seems like you want the GW2 combat. 1-1-1-1 autoattack spam to beat the "open world" bosses no one cares about.

[blc]

Isn't New World a better combat version of ESO? That game have a lot of problems but combat is not one of them.

[Fluffy Chops]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

When is ESO planning to make the combat feel impact and powerful? The current combat system feels so dated, many MMOs have upgraded to amazing combat systems that is very tactile and amazing to play.

ESO should up their game and make the combat feel good, the game feels very date in the current landscape.

I would love to know more on those "many" MMO's with this better combat you are playing.


I've not played many, in fact my total is only 5 mmo games and one of them was a car game of all things, rip official NFS world servers :3. Anyways out of the 4 other mmo's I've played that have combat, this game has been the best overall with it's combat.

Sure the pve is easy enough lot of the times, but at least to win a battle i don't have to spam the weapon ability what i have seen the other mmo quite bit. This game offers a bit more dynamic with it's combat. So seeing as you claim there are mmo's with even more dynamic combat gameplay then this, i am very eager to see it for myself tho i will never leave eso till i feel ready too. Please tell us those games.

[BigKahuna]

I also don't like the combat system of ESO that much and agree other games do it better. The thing is: ESO is old. Most games that do it better are newer and learnt from past mistakes of the genre. And contrary to your claim, I honestly don't know a single online game that revised the combat system that was already in place. I also can't imagine how much work that would mean because you'd have to adjust many skills to the new mechanics.

[ringod123]

Considering they have left PvP to rot for over 4 years now I seriously doubt they will ever make big changes to combat outside of their usual "lets change how some passive/abilities work to make it look like we know what we are doing and pretend we are still working on the game with a full team"

[Ittrix]

ESO's combat is (or was, I guess) one of it's main selling points.
Compared to most MMOs with far more set in stone skills and rotations for each class, ESO is very dynamic. Light attack weaving, bash weaving, synergy weaving, knowing what skills can be cut off short and what skills can't. Even the rotations themselves are far more interesting than most games, since they're far less set in stone.

My nightblade generally tries to keep up her buffs first, then her DoTs, then her spammables. Unless, of course, her ultimate is up, in which case my spammables and intermediate spammables are far more important than anything else. Though it's prudent to refresh my DoTs to get the best damage while my ultimate is up before I use it, depending on the kind of enemy I'm up against that might not be realistic.
And of course my grim focus spammable should always be popped if it's available over anything else, unless my ultimate is almost ready to pop because it's much more beneficial in that case and I should leave it be until I pop my ulti.
Oh, and below 25% I should probably drop a DoT or two just to spam my executable, though before we get to 25% it's prudent to refresh my buffs and DoTs to cleanly take me to the end of the fight anyways.
That's without even getting into fight mechanics and swapping skills out to bring certain utilities.

I don't think I could play any other MMO and not find it boring after ESO.
Though, ZoS generally agrees with you. They find the combat feels clunky to newer players and want to casualize it. There's been several veteran exodus' already because they're chipping away at something so dear to a lot of people.

[MadDawg2552]

Originally posted by 💙~ Fluffy Chops ~💙:

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

The current combat system feels so dated, many MMOs have upgraded to amazing combat systems that is very tactile and amazing to play.

ESO should up their game and make the combat feel good, the game feels very date in the current landscape.

I would love to know more on those "many" MMO's with this better combat you are playing.

Yes, me, too. I love action combat MMOs, but all the ones I've tried have been absolutely terrible.

[Samseng Yik]

If anything, I would say other MMO is true dated.
ESO is evolved

[Kissing Fish]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

When is ESO planning to make the combat feel impact and powerful? The current combat system feels so dated, many MMOs have upgraded to amazing combat systems that is very tactile and amazing to play.

ESO should up their game and make the combat feel good, the game feels very date in the current landscape.

I highly doubt you would know what a "good combat system" is from a hole in the ground.

[Swans]

Originally posted by blc:

Isn't New World a better combat version of ESO? That game have a lot of problems but combat is not one of them.

NW combat is indeed superior to ESO in many ways, as are the graphics. But the rest of the game is so dull and empty.

[Nine_Tigers]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

When is ESO planning to make the combat feel impact and powerful?

Never. The game's a success, it's old and been going awhile now so there's no need. It will die this way.

[Commancho]

ESO PVP = Run in ballgroup and spam 1 button to win. Complete casual, outdated, unbalanced garbage with low entry level and low skill ceiling. Top pvp ladder is boring AF, noone ever dies, unless you are 5:1.

[TheFibrewire]

Originally posted by Commancho:

ESO PVP = Run in ballgroup and spam 1 button to win. Complete casual, outdated, unbalanced garbage with low entry level and low skill ceiling. Top pvp ladder is boring AF, noone ever dies, unless you are 5:1.

very well said, completely agree