Reverb schrieb: »

It’s interesting how some new zones hold people’s interest and others don’t. Vvardenfell and Summerset are both still busy all the time. Partially for crafting convenience sure, but that’s not the only factor. Rimmen is pretty dead despite having great crafting layout, and Wrothgar is always busy despite having an abysmal crafting layout. Surely not everyone there is farming Briarheart all the time, so what’s the draw?

And dlc zones, Gold Coast and Hews Bane both have a good number of players every time I’m there. Both in the cities and in the Thieves Den and Sanctuary. Why do those zones still draw people but murkmire, cwc, and southern elsweyr don’t?

Skyrim is probably a little dead right now because people are burnt out after the event. But it’s also not somewhere I see many people spending much time in long term.

Just my perspective - but Summerset and Vvardenfell are really well laid out for crafters and alts. If I need to cycle through my characters, it's really easy to park them there to grab my dailies and horse upgrades. In general, those zones have great music, scenery, and memories.

I've always found Rimmen's crafting station hard to navigate, sure it's all in one place but there's so much clutter around them. Elsweyr is still a good zone though, with loads of character and an almost Indiana Jones feel to it.

Wrothgar is fun too - the feel of it is so epic but it's not hard to get around. They nailed the cold, northern vibe really well on this. It's fun to don some cold weather outfits and head up there for some hunting.

It looks like the least popular zones are the small zone DLCs.

• Hew's Bane and Gold Coast support good motif farming and dailies for the outlaws of ESO. They'll never be dead because of that.
• Murkmire I learned to love, that zone surprised me. The flora is unique, there's some cool achievement collectibles too.
• CWC is cool but feels very sterile in general. The motifs and dailies are cool though, but nothing long-term there for a larger number of players.

I think there's a few things a zone needs to be lively long term

• Fun, repeatable content unique to that zone. Dolmens and Geysers are a good example.
• Being tied to a specific playstyle - ie thievery, assassination, vampires, werewolves.
• Exciting achievement collectibles. Look at Rivenspire, Summerset, Riften, Morrowind, and Orsinium. Having just banners, a doll, and some twigs isn't really worth the effort.
• Easy crafting layout with few obstructions. Players are looking to do their dailies quickly and each expansion should support that.
• Smartly placed wayshrines. Keep em near the main attractions or give us something to offset difficult terrain, like Siltstriders.

I just think in general WS and BR weren't something a lot of people wanted, at least not in the way they gave us. It wasn't the best launch at the best time. If they had somehow made the zone the Hew's Bane for Vampires and Werewolves, that might have cemented it more.

The servers melted down again this morning. So, no, there is a lot more to it. Massive lag, disconnects, rubberbanding, etc....the whole boat of everything bad was full on again today.

Have they said anywhere that they might "test" better/more server capacity?

Zos should redesign "smart" healing spells to all be positional with different types of cones or areas of effect so that different heals are best for different playstyles or situations. Assuming the source of lag is the number of targets in a massive field around the caster, this would address that well.

Trait learning achievement (actually for 8 traits because it was written before Nirnhorned was released): Trait Master - https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Trait_Master

Then they added: Learn Nirnhoned Trait - https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Learn_the_Nirnhoned_Trait

Then when jewelry was addeed: Learn Jewelry Trait - https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Learn_a_Jewelry_Trait

Not sure what more you could want?

SilverBride schrieb: »

I think it would be helpful to have a training area similar to what WoW had. It required you to pass simulated situations before you could queue for more difficult content. You could still do the content with a group, but couldn't queue for a random until you passed it.

I don't think we should be locked behind these, but it would let you know what content you are able to run adequately, and when you are ready for harder content.

I genuinely, honestly loved the short time when WoW required you to pass one of those before being able to queue up for heroic (aka vet version for wow).

but... and this is a big one...

wow combat is far FAR more forgiving than that of ESO. like... so much more forgiving. for all that people talk about how ESO trials (raids) are so easy and how end game content is not as challenging as wow... WoW provides a lot of end game content that is extremely accessible in part BECAUSE of how forgiving the combat is. rotations are still important. proper talent allocation is still important. but.
1. combat is slower because there IS no weaving. you have auto attacks for most classes/specs (with exception of ranged casters) which take place of basic attacks of ESO and they fire automatically. and your cooldowns cannot be circumvented with exception of occasional buffs that have multi minute cooldowns and interrupts/stuns.
2. there is no dodging, rolling or sprinting as baseline, so bad tends to give you more time to move out of it, since you have to run out at normal speed
3. this one is important - you select your targets and they are permanently selected so unless you are facing away from them, your attacks WILL always hit those targets.
4. as a tank - you have AoE taunt and just baseline extra threat built into every attack you make as long as you are in tank spec.
5. as a healer - you do need to select your targets manually to heal even for many of the AoE heals, very few heals are of smart variety, BUT... WoW has mouseover healing and in many ways good use of triage allows to prioritize necessary targets instead of "smart" heals bouncing to the wrong ones because they were closer.


so what does this all mean? learning to pass basic tutorials and understanding how roles work (which still exist btw, they are just not mandatory anymore) doesn't take nearly as long as it does in ESO. and your performance from basic learning is going to be MUCH higher then ESO because baseline performance in WoW doesn't require nearly as much practice.


last but not least. because of how skill lines in ESO work, that whole every class can learn every skill line deal.... specs constantly change. every balance pass, ever gear adjustment - what works and what doesn't and in combination with what - shifts. and because there are so many variations that are possible, it can be confusing trying to figure out what is good and what just sounds good on paper. ESO has skill advisor. give me a single experienced player who agrees with what skill advisor is suggesting.

in WoW. when I select a healing spec (and I have to have or be in healing spec in order to queue up as a healer - and not every class has one available) - I am given a full complement of healing abilities. I don't have to slot a weapon to level them, I don't have to figure out that... just leveling up does NOT level up my skill lines - i have to slot specific abilities and it will ONLY level those abilities, I do not have to deal with figuring out which morph to chose, and some of those morphs are less obvious then others.

ESO is simultaneously one of the more casual friendly games AND one of the most convolutedly complex and unfriendly ones.

I believed I could fix this fashion disaster of an outfit with a good dye scheme, but to my dismay the gold metal is undyeable.

My best attempt so far.



On the Vampire Noble outfit you let us dye the metal claws ZOS but why not here with this outfit? It really messed up all the ideas I had and makes certaint dye schemes just not work since you have this bright gold all over it!

Sorry to burst your bubble, and of course this could also be from RnG but I got all 3, in fact I have 4 pieces just simply picking up treasure maps hunting for the motifs. You didn't have to specifically steal from safe boxes.