Firstmep wrote: »

I really don't get the OP's argument. For over a decade we had 2 updates every year for group content, and 2 overland zones mostly for solo play.
The devs clearly stated that NM is experimental, also much of the content like district quests, races and puzzles are soloable.
And on top of that the next update is fully solo friendly with multiple questlines and other solo friendly additions.
Nothing about this screams to me that the game is moving away from solo play.

Read the whole topic again, or at least my remaining replies. If you still don’t understand my point, what exactly are you trying to argue?

shadoza wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Athory wrote: »

• Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
• Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?

To answer the core questions asked:

Q: Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
A: No.

Q:Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?
A: No.

Just following up here generally. We hear the feedback from solo players about the Night Market content. We want to follow up with just few things.

We have no intention of pushing solo players out of the game. However, we started this year off by noting that we were going to try some new things. Night Market is one of them. While we always provide group players with trials, we also wanted to try something different. This was not to alienate solo players, but rather to add a new way to play. That being said, we do hear the feedback and have passed that on our teams for future consideration, especially for when Night Market comes back later in the year. Remember, part of the ethos of this event is to add to it over time.

As several have noted in this thread as well, we have a roadmap that is publicly available. The point of the roadmap is to showcase the content we have coming throughout the year. As is noted on the roadmap and current PTS testing, we have plenty of solo friendly content as well. Thieves Guild and Sheogorath Questlines, Favors system, Rumors system, Two Solo Dungeons, Sage's Vault, and the list can keep going. And that is all on top of existing content. We also understand that not every piece of content will be for everyone, and that is okay.

We know this may come off as a contentious statement, but it does bear repeating. While we are an Elder Scrolls game, we are also an MMO. Storytelling and the heart of solo adventure will always be an important part of ESO. However, some of our event/ event zone content will be focused on encouraging group play. It is the nature of the genre. Additionally, we know just like there are players who come for solo content, there are also players who come for group content and challenging group content. So we want to make sure we are providing new things for them as well.

We'll close with this. Last year, we saw many threads throughout the year asking us to address content and find new ways of renewing the gameplay experience, both in variety and challenge. We are in the first passes of this now with items like Night Market going live. But we will have content throughout the year to address both solo and group play within the community. The feedback is helpful to steer us on the right track. So thanks to everyone, both solo players and group players, who have given their constructive feedback regarding the Night Market. The team is taking a look at what can be done during this current running and what can be adjusted for the next run of the Night Market.

I just want to remind everyone, anyone, that MMO does NOT mean grouping. It never meant grouping. It meant shared map. It meant socializing. Using the term Massive Multi-player Online to provide an excuse to push grouping and guilds is trying too hard to validate attempting to change the way we play.

Push what? This game has over a decade worth of solo content, and they are going add solo dungeons in the near future. If anything the removal of the 4 group dungeons this year is a shift more towards solo friendly content.

noneatza wrote: »

@Athory Hey man sorry for the offtopic, i'm noticing you using this character " — " a lot across your forum posts, where are you getting it ? I can't find it on my keyboard

I believe it comes from ChatGPT, I usually run my messages through it to improve the wording and make sure everything stays within the CoC.
And? What’s your point with that? Proving you have the freedom to go even off-topic while others can’t even stay on topic. Congrats.
Nothing new here!

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We have no intention of pushing solo players out of the game. However, we started this year off by noting that we were going to try some new things. Night Market is one of them.

I commend you guys for trying something new. I really do. I was looking forward to this, but it just didn't land well this iteration. At least for some of us.

I just hope whatever you guys do next, you sort out the rewards. And honestly, this is something you guys have struggled with for a long time. Whether it's poor RNG or just scarce rewards, it's been a struggle. If this were a permanent feature, which sounds like some day it will be, why would I do it a year-out?

Again, you guys have years of crown crates, timed deals, old event skins, unreleased motifs that you can pull from. A few furnishings and heads/shoulders isn't much in the grand scheme of things. And the last thing we should be seeing as a reward is a base game gear set, I'm sorry. That really makes things feel rushed.

If you guys need more time, take it.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

As several have noted in this thread as well, we have a roadmap that is publicly available. The point of the roadmap is to showcase the content we have coming throughout the year. As is noted on the roadmap and current PTS testing, we have plenty of solo friendly content as well. Thieves Guild and Sheogorath Questlines, Favors system, Rumors system, Two Solo Dungeons, Sage's Vault, and the list can keep going. And that is all on top of existing content. We also understand that not every piece of content will be for everyone, and that is okay.

I'd be careful with "that is okay" statements. It's not, and that's why you're having to defend ZOS again. FWIW, I don't disagree with you, but just looking at the big picture here. Right or wrong, people are upset.

I think some of the frustration is: there's really not much meaty content coming this year for solo players or small groups. Quest lines are great, but they're not exactly repeatable to the degree that something like Night Market is. And they're not a substitute for new zones, like Night Market is.

Yes, they'll keep you busy, but you're assuming that stories are the main experience that solo players want. Some may, but some may not. I sure don't. For me, I'm looking for rewarding content where I can get 2-4 friends together, run around, and kill enemies.

The two solo dungeons are great, but are ultimately older content being refactored. It's not net new content. So, players who want to solo or soft group something, don't have much to look forward to. We don't have much information on Sage's Vault yet, so maybe it'll scratch that itch. Who knows.

Again, it needs to be rewarding.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Additionally, we know just like there are players who come for solo content, there are also players who come for group content and challenging group content. So we want to make sure we are providing new things for them as well.

That's fine and all, but are you making a distinction between hard and soft grouping when designing these? Are you considering smaller group sizes when designing these?

It doesn't seem like that's the case. It seems like the assumption is purely group or purely solo. That's not how people play the game. There's all sorts of variations:

• Truly solo players
• 2-4 friends who can hard group
• Solo players who will soft group once in the zone
• 6-11 players in organized groups
• 12 player organized trial groups
• 6-12 players in PUGs
• Groups with loose organization, someone dies has to run back, can't catch up.

Now, I went into this thinking I could just find other players there, roam around with them, and make some progress. That absolutely wasn't the case. The system assumes a larger group size through its difficulty, but then doesn't enforce that in any way.

It's completely fine if there's group content, but you absolutely have to be more clear on group size. My preference would be that this would be something 2-3 people could reasonably do. At least trash mobs. Let's say that most of the zone could be tackled in small groups, there's WBs, a trial and dungeon that could require more coordinated groups.

Soarora wrote: »

DeathStalker wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

DeathStalker wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

DeathStalker wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Athory wrote: »

• Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
• Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?

To answer the core questions asked:

Q: Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
A: No.

Q:Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?
A: No.

Just following up here generally. We hear the feedback from solo players about the Night Market content. We want to follow up with just few things.

We have no intention of pushing solo players out of the game. However, we started this year off by noting that we were going to try some new things. Night Market is one of them. While we always provide group players with trials, we also wanted to try something different. This was not to alienate solo players, but rather to add a new way to play. That being said, we do hear the feedback and have passed that on our teams for future consideration, especially for when Night Market comes back later in the year. Remember, part of the ethos of this event is to add to it over time.

As several have noted in this thread as well, we have a roadmap that is publicly available. The point of the roadmap is to showcase the content we have coming throughout the year. As is noted on the roadmap and current PTS testing, we have plenty of solo friendly content as well. Thieves Guild and Sheogorath Questlines, Favors system, Rumors system, Two Solo Dungeons, Sage's Vault, and the list can keep going. And that is all on top of existing content. We also understand that not every piece of content will be for everyone, and that is okay.

We know this may come off as a contentious statement, but it does bear repeating. While we are an Elder Scrolls game, we are also an MMO. Storytelling and the heart of solo adventure will always be an important part of ESO. However, some of our event/ event zone content will be focused on encouraging group play. It is the nature of the genre. Additionally, we know just like there are players who come for solo content, there are also players who come for group content and challenging group content. So we want to make sure we are providing new things for them as well.

We'll close with this. Last year, we saw many threads throughout the year asking us to address content and find new ways of renewing the gameplay experience, both in variety and challenge. We are in the first passes of this now with items like Night Market going live. But we will have content throughout the year to address both solo and group play within the community. The feedback is helpful to steer us on the right track. So thanks to everyone, both solo players and group players, who have given their constructive feedback regarding the Night Market. The team is taking a look at what can be done during this current running and what can be adjusted for the next run of the Night Market.

If you spent the next year or 2 making every dungeon and trial soloable, don't you think the people who like things hard would be throwing a fit the way solo players are now? This makes most of the people screaming for things to be harder hypocritical for criticizing solo players for just wanting to be included.

No, we wouldn’t throw a fit like solo players are. We don’t have dungeons this year and you don’t see anyone wailing about that. There’s a few comments of “I would’ve preferred to have dungeons this year” and the like, but calmly stated. Now granted, there was a thread that was about not having dungeons this year before PTS but that was before we knew what Night Market was (and thus we assumed the difficulty would be too easy).

In fact, I’m well prepared that ZOS tackling solo dungeons might mean we don’t get more dungeons for a while. I would like for us to at least get 2 next year but… suitable additions to Night Market could help hold us over. Either way, no, I don’t think we’ll be throwing a fit. Besides, there’s so much solo content coming this year… so really, the equivalent would be if dungeon endgame was wailing right now and we’re not… except to keep Night Market hard, I suppose 🤷.

People aren't complaining about no dungeons because absolutely EVERYTHING else is about group and harder play. posts like this just prove to me that none of you who like group or harder play have a shred of integrity

Mmhm... the super hard group content that is overland questing? The super hard group content that is solo story mode dungeons, made precisely for people who can't or won't solo normal dungeons? The 12-man content of the game that has a different (yes, overlapping, but different) community than dungeons is relevant to the dungeon community? Tales of Tribute? Is Tales of Tribute equivalent to dungeons now? How about New Life, or Jester's Festival, or the Anniversary event, or Heart's Week? Zeal of Zenithar? Those are all about group and harder play? If everything other than dungeons is about group and harder play, then what are you even playing? Sure, throw a personal insult at me as if you know anything about me as a person beyond a couple of forum posts , especially when I literally just pointed out that there's solo content coming out this year but the only thing dungeoneers get is Night Market. Solo players get more content than we do this year and no one's throwing a fit as far as I can see.

Solo content coming sometime in the mythical future doesn't erase what you and others are intentionally ignoring, which is the last year or more of a primary focus on group, pvp, and hard difficulty content. Even the bread crumbs of solo content will be overshadowed by the majority of this year or more of content that is for group, pvp, and hard difficulty. If there was a significant solo content drop, then where is the new zone? Again, no integrity. Intentionally ignoring the past year or more of solo players being ignored

Edit: Overland difficulty and pvp changes are included in my talking points

"Mythical future"... update 50 is dropping next month. Do you know what's in update 50?... solo content. You know when solo dungeons are coming? Q4. Do you know when Q4 releases? Late October / Early November. Like it does every year. It's not mythical at all.

Alright, let's say I'm intentionally ignoring the last year (which saying intentionally is once again insulting my character, so thanks for that). Last year... we had 2 dungeon dlcs like we used to before 2023. In 2023 and 2024, we had 1 dungeon dlc and 1 story dlc when before 2023 we had 2 dungeon dlcs and 2 story dlcs. Last year... we had... 2 dungeon dlcs... and two halves of a story... so... like... before 2023. Now granted, there are slightly less quests than a Chapter + story dlc would get you pre-2023, however Solstice has 11 quests. Gold Road (the only story content in 2024) has 5 (+1 if you had done Necrom iirc). Necrom has 9 (the only story content in 2023). So, last year was an improvement over the two years prior.

So, in the past year what was focused on groups? Well the trial's always there and not relevant when I'm talking about dungeons specifically. Writhing Wall was a group event... are you referring to Writhing Wall and... the... Vengeance tests? Writhing Wall absolutely is not equivalent to difficult group content, aside from the assault on the wall it wasn't even group instanced, and PvPers seem to not even like Vengeance. Overland difficulty? That's not relevant to dungeons? That's for solo players that want a harder difficulty? The only time I can imagine this argument working right now is the Naj Caldeesh pressure plates. Which is one singular thing. And you can get around the pressure plates solo.

Bread crumbs of solo content? Like the FOUR OR MORE ENTIRELY NEW SYSTEMS FOR SOLO PLAYERS? You know, like, the two entire questlines, favors, rumors, sage's vault, solo dungeons, and other things we've not heard much about yet? But hey, none of that matters because there's no new zone, right?

So then why does Night Market equal dungeons if two new questlines, favors, rumors, sage's vault, solo dungeons, and more don't equal a zone? Take a look at a mirror.

Are you serious? 2023 and 2024, you are aware it's 2026. No Integrity at all. The thieves' guild is like 8 quests, so stop. 8 quests for a year is a joke and an insult. Whether they like the pvp changes or not doesn't remove the fact that it's been a primary focus for ESO. Between the pvp changes and the overland changes, mixed with the Night Market, is why we are not getting a new zone. A new zone is where most solo players spend their time, and no new zone because of pvp, group, and harder content, as I said. All we get are crumbs. Since you have proven to be unable to have an honest and truthful dialogue about this, not able to demonstrate a shred of integrity, I'm done with this conversation.

Bguk wrote: »

shadoza wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Athory wrote: »

• Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
• Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?

To answer the core questions asked:

Q: Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
A: No.

Q:Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?
A: No.

Just following up here generally. We hear the feedback from solo players about the Night Market content. We want to follow up with just few things.

We have no intention of pushing solo players out of the game. However, we started this year off by noting that we were going to try some new things. Night Market is one of them. While we always provide group players with trials, we also wanted to try something different. This was not to alienate solo players, but rather to add a new way to play. That being said, we do hear the feedback and have passed that on our teams for future consideration, especially for when Night Market comes back later in the year. Remember, part of the ethos of this event is to add to it over time.

As several have noted in this thread as well, we have a roadmap that is publicly available. The point of the roadmap is to showcase the content we have coming throughout the year. As is noted on the roadmap and current PTS testing, we have plenty of solo friendly content as well. Thieves Guild and Sheogorath Questlines, Favors system, Rumors system, Two Solo Dungeons, Sage's Vault, and the list can keep going. And that is all on top of existing content. We also understand that not every piece of content will be for everyone, and that is okay.

We know this may come off as a contentious statement, but it does bear repeating. While we are an Elder Scrolls game, we are also an MMO. Storytelling and the heart of solo adventure will always be an important part of ESO. However, some of our event/ event zone content will be focused on encouraging group play. It is the nature of the genre. Additionally, we know just like there are players who come for solo content, there are also players who come for group content and challenging group content. So we want to make sure we are providing new things for them as well.

We'll close with this. Last year, we saw many threads throughout the year asking us to address content and find new ways of renewing the gameplay experience, both in variety and challenge. We are in the first passes of this now with items like Night Market going live. But we will have content throughout the year to address both solo and group play within the community. The feedback is helpful to steer us on the right track. So thanks to everyone, both solo players and group players, who have given their constructive feedback regarding the Night Market. The team is taking a look at what can be done during this current running and what can be adjusted for the next run of the Night Market.

I just want to remind everyone, anyone, that MMO does NOT mean grouping. It never meant grouping. It meant shared map. It meant socializing. Using the term Massive Multi-player Online to provide an excuse to push grouping and guilds is trying too hard to validate attempting to change the way we play.

And at the same time it does not mean strictly solo only. An online game should have varying contents for all types of players. Not all activities in EO are meant for group or solo only. You are trying too hard not to try different content.

EDIT: Having a mix of content is healthy.

This.
I would also like to add that it's not really a binary choice, not just "grouping vs never grouping". There is a difference between grouping for an Elsweyr dragon and building a trial prog team. And the Night Market is more akin to the former (outside of a couple achieves).

tomofhyrule wrote: »

twisttop138 wrote: »

Syldras wrote: »

I've read on these forums what the Night Market as a whole (plaza plus 3 districts) has a player cap at 36 players. Does anyone know what happens if you open a new 12 people group through the group finder if there are already more than 24 people in the zone? Would players teleporting to group get an error message when trying to enter the zone or end up in a different instance than their group?

Talking about this in guild last night, I really think something is bugged. Like it's spinning up a new instance when just a few people are in one instead of 36 players. That's not to say I agree with the cap. 36 per district maybe but not the whole thing. I can see what they were going for but this didn't work out. Let's get this cap thing fixed and hopefully see if the instances are spinning up while under 36 players.

I think it’s related to the Faceted bug that’s been mentioned.

The game’s normal logic is likely to spread players evenly across multiple instances so none of them start to have performance issues. But the Night Market opened loads of instances and doesn’t seem to be shutting them down properly, which means the game prefers to spread players thinly across too many instances instead of trying to fill them and remove the unnecessary instances. That would explain why you can look at a guild roster and see everyone in the Market, but when you go in there are only like two other people.

If they just managed to make instances shut down properly, the Market would feel more alive.

EDIT: Anecdotal information to this extent - I was in with a guild group on Saturday, we had like two groups of ten and then ran across another large group. It really felt like 30+ people in one area… and it was already at the “enemies die when you look at them” state. Not to mention that the performance had degraded so badly during the Skirmish that we all thought we were on the verge of d/cing.
That’s why I say increased instance caps ARE NOT the answer. 36 is fine. It just needs to get to 36.

This is a good point and I can see this is probably whats happening. Hopefully they can get it taken care of. Because yes, your anecdotal info matches my own, I had a group of 24 in on Friday night and called out the skirmish was active in the sorrows. More players came, and sure stuff died fast but the performance was crazy. I actually had a DC I've never had before. I was frozen for about a minute before it would let me force close the game. The entire PS5 seemed to lock up. I've only ever had that with fallout 76 which is notorious for bad performance. Then the game didn't realize I was not logged in so couldn't log back in for 5 minutes. Whatever the problem is, I would just like it fixed.

I assume by endgame you just mean "don't find Night Market too difficult". You say in your post not to mention setups or rotations, but frankly that's more than half the battle. You need to setup for the fight you want to be in.

Most damage dealing setups for a vet trial also will struggle solo against Night Market trash packs. That can very quickly change with just small modifications like increasing resistances (for example, getting Minor/Major Resolve, adding 1 piece of heavy armour), increasing health (changing food or even moving some points to health) and gaining a means of self regenerating health (Ring of the Pale Order, Reaving Blows CP or an actual healing skill). Much of these principles are helpful even when grouping up in Night Market, just remember to remove Pale Order. The same principles apply to getting any kind of reasonable distance into Infinite Archive, and also have some similarity to not getting vaporized on sight in PvP (though there's more to it here).

Once you've sorted out not being prone on the ground, you need to do damage. Without getting into specifics, most popular damage dealing setups are popular for a reason because there's very little obfuscation of the results (unlike tank/support sets which have a lot more misinformation floating around). You can make less popular setups work well but my advice would be to let that come after you've got bored of doing good damage with popular setups.

You say not to discuss rotation, but the rotations explained in various guides have a reasoning behind them. You can get quite far by simple memorization, but you will get further if you actually understand why skills are cast in specific sequences and which to stop casting in various fights. You don't need some kind of encyclopedic knowledge, you just have to understand for example that if you expect to wipe out a trash pack in 10 seconds then perhaps you don't want to be refreshing (or even casting at all) long 20+ second DoTs.

Night Market specific tip: Do the oddities and races for the boons. Some are more effective than others (Flame Aura from spiders) but all are helpful.

Personally, my main issues with the event are:

1, the keys. Having to refarm them repeatedly each time you want to do the dungeon or trail isn't fun.

2, the rewards are rather...lackluster, as far as the sets go. They're decent beginner sets, but you can get them easily pretty much anywhere else, why not some unique sets that are nightmarket exclusives that show up every time so that people will always be wanting them and so have incentives to do the event each time it comes around? I'm not sure how that'd work though, but I know people in other games like GW2 absolutely swarm their seasonal events for account-bound cosmetics and the like.

3, the daily quests you discover in the zone aren't displayed on the map or compass until you're basically right ontop of them unlike every other daily quest you can pick up in the game where you can see them on the compass from quite a way off. It'd be great if they were shown on the map or compass if you get within their ~1/4th of the map or so, so that they're easier to find and get favor for those that are soloers or simply want to knock some out for easy favor? I think that might help with favor for soloers feeling so slow.

4. Why do we have to pick up the favor orbs that drop? I think it'd also help the favor thing if that source favor was just considered a basic drop that was instantly added to your favor count instead of having to find an orb and hope you get it before it despawns. But even then its such a small amount of favor it's not usually worth picking up anyway.

5. The skirmishes might need a bit toned down, but not a ton I think. Earlier we got crushed doing the Sorrows one because the sword mini-boss was slamming our tank for half his health per auto-attack swing, and both them and the spider simply one-shot anyone else they so much as looked at funny, alongside needing to deal with the pillars while said boss is rampaging through the party because both tanks got two-shot faster than I could heal them. I've been in full 12-man squads with healers, tanks and all and have failed them a lot more than completed but there have been some victories. Especially that one and the Brood one in the Skittering district in particular. The Parch one isn't nearly as bad as those two.

6. Speaking of getting two-shot. The damage enemies deal might be a tad much for said skirmishes. The bosses are generally fine with a non-fake tank, but I'm not sure tanks should be getting squished in two hits vs skirmishes like that. Even the Calamatous boss doesn't do that. Plus the fact that said calamatous bosses are set to patrol through the skirmish zones, and a it means that we've had to face off against multiple bosses simultaneously. Once the cala ghost lady in Sorrows wandered into the skirmish zone so we had to fight the equivalent of 3 bosses simultaneously + adds.

Also, recovering from said two / one-shots, the slow-fall from the respawn is difficult to control. Several times I've ended up sailing away, plus the long duration of it means that it often results in a disaster-dominoes effect where a couple key people die, and then the 30-second or whatever timer is still ticking as they're just standing there waiting to see if they can revive in time or if everyone's just going to be finished off, then suddenly respawn and the boss goes for them. It'd be nice if you could, say, attack to cancel the invincibility period early or something.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Athory wrote: »

• Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
• Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?

To answer the core questions asked:

Q: Does ZoS have plans to turn ESO into something like a Dark Souls-style game?
A: No.

Q:Do they have any plan to push solo players out of the game?
A: No.

Just following up here generally. We hear the feedback from solo players about the Night Market content. We want to follow up with just few things.

We have no intention of pushing solo players out of the game. However, we started this year off by noting that we were going to try some new things. Night Market is one of them. While we always provide group players with trials, we also wanted to try something different. This was not to alienate solo players, but rather to add a new way to play. That being said, we do hear the feedback and have passed that on our teams for future consideration, especially for when Night Market comes back later in the year. Remember, part of the ethos of this event is to add to it over time.

As several have noted in this thread as well, we have a roadmap that is publicly available. The point of the roadmap is to showcase the content we have coming throughout the year. As is noted on the roadmap and current PTS testing, we have plenty of solo friendly content as well. Thieves Guild and Sheogorath Questlines, Favors system, Rumors system, Two Solo Dungeons, Sage's Vault, and the list can keep going. And that is all on top of existing content. We also understand that not every piece of content will be for everyone, and that is okay.

We know this may come off as a contentious statement, but it does bear repeating. While we are an Elder Scrolls game, we are also an MMO. Storytelling and the heart of solo adventure will always be an important part of ESO. However, some of our event/ event zone content will be focused on encouraging group play. It is the nature of the genre. Additionally, we know just like there are players who come for solo content, there are also players who come for group content and challenging group content. So we want to make sure we are providing new things for them as well.

We'll close with this. Last year, we saw many threads throughout the year asking us to address content and find new ways of renewing the gameplay experience, both in variety and challenge. We are in the first passes of this now with items like Night Market going live. But we will have content throughout the year to address both solo and group play within the community. The feedback is helpful to steer us on the right track. So thanks to everyone, both solo players and group players, who have given their constructive feedback regarding the Night Market. The team is taking a look at what can be done during this current running and what can be adjusted for the next run of the Night Market.

Let me start off by saying I'm almost always a solo player, and I have nerve damage in my primary hand and have to play heavy attack builds to even play at all. My right hand shakes uncontrollably at all times. I have been taking part in the night market. I wanted to get the house completely unlocked, including the bank, which requires getting 5k favor. I got that done a day ago, as well as earning the skin for completing 40 objectives in the Golden Pursuits. The only things I haven't done are 2 things: I got 5k favor instead of 10k, and the trial. The trial I tried with, we tried for 2 hours and couldn't get past the first stage. I will not use Discord (should never be required for anything imo), so the trial was confusing and just made no sense to me. I finally quit the trial after 2 hours of failure; my hand just hurt too badly. I guess I will never get the trial done.

Now my feedback. The fact that this statement is even necessary speaks volumes. The NM is way too hard. I don't think anyone is saying don't do group content, but just to please find a way to include us solo players as well. I've done this content, and it was miserable. Everything about the NM is just miserable because of how hard it is. For me, this event is just an example of the direction that ESO seems to be going in right now. Absolutely everything seems to be about pvp and making things harder. If things are harder than they are terrible, horrible, and miserable. If the zone is instanced, then why not make the current difficulty vet mode and drastically cut the difficulty for a normal mode for others? If you spent the next year or 2 making every dungeon and trial soloable, don't you think the people who like things hard would be throwing a fit the way solo players are now? This makes most of the people screaming for things to be harder hypocritical for criticizing solo players for just wanting to be included. Because of my hand, I will always be limited, and I accept that there is some content, like the trial for the NM I just won't be able to do. But if you can, please find a way to remember and include people like me, it would be appreciated. Thank you for your time