In the fantasy MMO The Elder Scrolls Online, TESO, the AE cap is to be relaxed, and they want to further strengthen the werewolf and introduce a kind of magic bomb. There is no news about the consoles or dates.
Yesterday, the talk show “ESO Live” took place for the fourth time. Here, the developers from Zenimax discuss current topics related to The Elder Scrolls Online every two weeks. After the last time Update 5 was thoroughly presented and there was a lot of news to report, this time there were only a few big surprises for the fans.
So there is still no news about the port to the consoles Playstation 4 and Xbox One. As stated in the “Road Ahead”, they say that this will change soon. And the Creative Director Paul Sage reveals a little: It is particularly important how the specially designed UI, the user interface for consoles, performs. The controller input is also crucial.
Werewolves to be strengthened, preview of Update 6
The same applies to Update 5, they also do not reveal when it will come to the live servers. However, it is already known that werewolves are to be made even stronger than they currently are on the test server. At Zenimax, they envision a werewolf as a kind of berserker that can quickly defeat lightly armored targets, so-called “squishies”, but struggles against more heavily armored targets. They want to strengthen the werewolf, but not overdo it, and avoid causing a flood of werewolves.
A small preview of Update 6 is given to the fans, albeit really just a small one: cooking is to be revamped, and they want to review all the skills in the game again. On reddit, where ESO Live was summarized, there is speculation that this could serve as preparation for 1.7 and the introduction of the Champion System. However, the timeline is still shrouded in dense fog.
AE cap relaxed, magic bomb introduced
In contrast, there is concrete news from Cyrodiil, the PvP area of The Elder Scrolls Online. They apparently want to strengthen bomber groups. There was a big debate about this at the beginning of the game. The strongest players, called power gamers, feared that an “AE cap” would be introduced, which would make it harder for them to defeat many weaker opponents at once. However, such a cap had been in place for a long time.
This “AE cap” means that abilities that work within a certain radius only affect a specific number of players in that radius. Due to the cap, it is advisable to stand close together and move in a kind of “turtle” formation. After it became clear that such an AE cap was in place, some groups also did this.
Zenimax now wants to move away from this and lift the AE cap as soon as possible so that more players are affected by radius abilities. In addition, they are introducing a new “AVA” ability that acts like a kind of magic bomb: it will be cast on an opposing player, who will explode after a time (4 seconds are planned) and inflict high damage on nearby players. Morphs of this ability will transform the caster into a bomb themselves – they will not suffer damage. Another morph will cause that unfortunate player to explode, who tries to cleanse the targeted player from the bomb.
You can watch the entire ESO Live episode here (we skipped to 1 hour, it starts with Creative Director Paul Sage):
