I started playing ESO because it would enable me to explore more of Tamriel (and Nirn) than any of the single-player games, and that priority hasn't changed, so new zones are always going to be my priority.

Fiddled with that on two accounts yesterday until I realized that I had to crack the furnishings reward crate to get the relic into Collections so that I could actually place it on the pedestal. Not a particularly intuitive system.

Be in building mode, search for the relic by name in the list of your furnishings, place it like any normal piece of furnishing on the pedestal (like you would place a candlestick on a table).

If you cannot find it by name, make sure that you opened the mail that contained the relic (If I remember correctly, it was in a container. If so, make sure to open that container).

MJallday wrote: »

* the respawn ghost timer is faaaaaaaaaaaaaar to long. it needs to be 5s max - not almost 20s (1)
* the respawn points need to make sense - not put you 4000043 miles away.(2)

(1) It's intentional to let you go back to the place of the fight without being hindered.
(1) and (2) are related. It totally makes sense!

SkaiFaith wrote: »

I got an insight from another player's comment about the respawn long time - it's made on purpose to help you run through enemies without aggroing them and rejoin your group/turn in quests. Yes, you can interact with quests while ghost.
So it helps and can stay, now that we still get credit.

this, and you can technically do other things while in ghost if you are in a group such as rez (not sure if thats intentional, but it might be since its an "interaction" and they might have had to allow that to be able to interact with the quests while in ghost)

BardokRedSnow wrote: »

Different kinds of underwear too lol

This is 2026, cmon now lol y'all know you'd make money off underwear packs

Absolutely! I can see it now, "Covenant assorted collectible warrior briefs" or "Vvardenfell flame resistant undergarment pack"!

Psyphiman wrote: »

I don’t understand the criticism about social interaction. In most of the groups I’ve been in many people don’t say a word. You can think of playing in a group as having 11 companions. They just help you with hit points and damage. And you can make them go away when the quest is finished.

Edit: The 11 Companions would be a great guild name!

I think some folks have had a bad experience because not every group is pleasant. Some are very selective and will kick you or avoid you if you do not meet their gear or skills standards. (gatekeeping is real)
Asocial people might find public rejection confusing or difficult to not take personally. They want to experience the Night Market and maybe they want the house, but they are loathed to risk that aggressive behavior that sometimes comes with dealing with strangers. (You can see the aggression in the fora. Imagine what it might be like for them in the game chat where the Devs don't see it.)

The house rewards are often viewed as a great reward by those that do not decorate because they give a quick access to various countries on the map for new characters that had not been there.

On the bad side, the Night Market was billed as an event for everyone when it was introduced. While that bill has been toned down, it still rings in the minds of the players that heard it. If the Night Market had been billed as a new approach to a trial dungeon, this whole scene would have been different. The controversy with solo players would not be.

I would honestly caution hyping up engagement so early in NM's release, because EVERY big release goes this way. People pile in for about a month or so and then engagement starts to die out. People either get bored, get frustrated by X or Y grind, or get what they wanted and then don't mess with the content. I'd say it would be better to wait until the end of the cycle for the NM to get a better idea of how many people KEEP engaging with the content.

There's also something to be said about people needing to farm Keys, because that can make engagement seem like it's higher than it is. Are a majority of people doing the general content because they WANT to, or are they only doing it over and over because they HAVE to in order to do the content they'd prefer to (the Dungeons and Trial)?

And then there's definitely something to be said about making group content where grouping doesn't work as often as it should. Random groups can be hard to fill, especially if you're looking for specific things. Groups can fall apart quickly for a variety of reasons. Groups can be too weak and wipe repeatedly. Getting to a group that's further in can be impossible because of overtuned trash packs. Groups can consist of people in different factions but faction quests as I understand can't be shared to people in other factions. If the answer is going to be "just group" then grouping ACTUALLY needs to work and groups need to have an easier time at succeeding than it sounds like many have.

The biggest issue in regards to grouping seems to be trash being too strong, honestly. If you die and get separated from the group, it can result in not being able to get back to them. If the group is too far in you might not have any ability to even get to them. If enough people die and they get scattered around the map, people can wind up just giving up and the group winds up being too small to do much of anything else. Trash packs genuinely need to be tuned down to SOME degree so that getting to a group isn't so hard and getting separated from a group isn't so punishing.

Because as it stands, I 100% see the NM going to same route as big "group" things have time and again. Activity for a while after release, but then after a time too few people are doing the content for one reason or another and it gets to a point where a majority can't get a group together to run it. I would say it would be better to make things a bit more accessible so the NM actually sticks around for the long haul, then to keep it where it is and risk it vanishing after the initial three runs because interest and engagement dropped off too hard.