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Re: Possibility of the Vestige mantling Ithelia
randconfig wrote: »In such moments, the dead god’s power may recognize a new will, a new vessel. The void does not remain empty forever. It adapts.
Impeccable analysis, though I have to ask, is this a quote from eso lore? I've not completed the storylines between Murkmire and before Necrom, but am slowly working through them now.
If it's not a quote, I just have issue with the implication that Ithelia is a dead god. She's in a realm without magicka, so she cannot open a portal back herself, but there's no reason we couldn't reopen the portal to bring her back.
The Six Walking Ways are spoken of in Vivec's 36 Lessons, and the concept of Mantling is brought up in lore from the singleplayer games. Ithelia being "dead" or not is unimportant, so long as her mythic place in the Aurbis lies empty, another entity could Mantle her and take that place.
To be fair, this is kind of how I saw Ithelia's disappearance being "handled" in the grand scheme of things. She and her sphere were already heavily tied to Prisoners, and before Gold Road released, I theorized that the entire reason why Prisoners exist was her power leaking through the cage Mora had put her in. So now that she's gone for good, the hole she left behind is filled by every Prisoner that has ever existed, and will ever exist, as they are the only ones capable of walking the Many Paths, even if they are not aware of it themselves.
Benzux
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Re: Season of the Worm Cult
BananaBender wrote: »To feed my MMO addiction, I gave WoW a shot and it just made me realize how much more you can get for the same money in other games.
I would like to hear how others feel about the new content pass, especially when it comes to the price/content ratio, or if you have experiences with other game's expansions as my experiences are only limited to ESO and WoW.
i did something similar. when they announced the season pass, i dropped my sub. i have never agreed with their pricing. when you compare to other mmo's, you are getting far less than half the content for double the price. i always waited til they did the holiday events (like the wall one coming up) and if there was something during the event i wanted (like a house), i would buy it for half price. if not, i would wait for it to go to eso+. so upping the price and cutting the content was a deal breaker for me.
i went back to final fantasy and my first reaction was... why did i pay for eso+ for so long...
BananaBender wrote: »
I don't think the fact that ESO being a one year model and WoW being a two year model makes this any better for ESO though, if nothing else it makes it worse in my opinion. Having to spend 100€ in two years only to come close to having the same amount of content is not making ESO look any better.
makes it far worse in my opinion. in other mmo's, yeah there might only be an expac every other year, but every month or two they are adding new things. we only ever got one update with new zones in eso and they cut that out the last few years. plus it was never included unless you were paying for it ON TOP of the chapter/expac. plus... these other games do different holiday things every year. they will have a new quest to do with new items. yeah, eso gives new items, but it's the same quests year after year. they added a few new things to jester's over the years, which was great. but other games do it every year. also not a fan of the event tickets. other games, i can just go and do the event and get my items. i don't have to do it every day unless i just really really want to (sometimes this happens because IT'S FUN)
Re: Season of the Worm Cult
While I do think the season pass is overpriced and cuts into the worth of ESO+, it's not a scam. It's clear what you'll get for your money; whether that is worth the price or not is up to the individual.
Re: How would a forced name change due to Crossplay affect you?
I've played several other games with crossplay and I've never seen people kicked from the group/server for playing on a console or mobile platform. What makes ESO's community so different that they'd kick you for playing on "inferior" hardware?
Re: Season of the Worm Cult
I forever sort of have the feeling that there aren't enough devs working on ESO in general.
You can see it in the comparatively glacial pace of combat changes vs. basically every other live service game as well as in how long it takes for basic bugs to get fixed, etc. Without knowing much about WoW, your post seems to support that notion as well.
I think that the existing devs do a nice job overall but that there simply do need to be more of them. I also wouldn't mind a subscription to potentially pay for more manpower but that might not be a popular opinion.
You can see it in the comparatively glacial pace of combat changes vs. basically every other live service game as well as in how long it takes for basic bugs to get fixed, etc. Without knowing much about WoW, your post seems to support that notion as well.
I think that the existing devs do a nice job overall but that there simply do need to be more of them. I also wouldn't mind a subscription to potentially pay for more manpower but that might not be a popular opinion.
Re: Season of the Worm Cult
Yeah it does feel over the years and especially with the recent shift the price to content ratio is getting worse and worse because msoft wants more revenues for less effort...
Re: A possible major design issue with Subclassing
Juju_beans wrote: »I'm not a competitive end game player. I'm the casual player that likes the lore and class identity.
Not only for the above skill line you mentioned but for all the skill lines for all the characters.
Will there even be "class identity" when you can take sills from other classes and use them yourself ?
Something similar happened to another game I played for a long time. One by one I stopped playing my alts and eventually stopped playing my main....all because they were not the characters I had created a decade earlier...not even close
And yet, this is an MMO, and MMO's tend to change over time. It has happened NUMEROUS times in ESO. Classes get nerfed, then buffed months or years later. Nobody is forcing you to change your class, they may be nerfing/changing/buffing some class skills or passives- but that is not 'changing your class identity'. You can still play that class fully, but expecting an MMO to stay stale just because you don't like change, that's bad for many players AND the longevity of the game itself.
That's ok. I know that's what games do. I'll give this subclassing a try. If I like I'll play. If not I'll find another game.
That's how I got here to begin with playing ESO.
Blizzard's WoW went through a lot of changes over the years and I stayed playing until Legion came out in 2016.
Sometime after that I moved over to ESO and have been here ever since.
I'm not complaining at all. Just giving my opinion and how I reacted to drastic changes in other games.
Re: New Furnishing plans 1in 5 drop rate
TBH I much prefer this drop rate to the absolutely hideous drop rate from the algae-laden bag thingies.
ApoAlaia
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Re: What's up with the outfit design? Pauldrons, tassets, and faulds keep being thrown on everything
While I do understand that changing ALL the armour models isn't something financially viable, it's not something that's been bothering (part of) the player base only recently, it's something very annoying — and inaccurate — from YEARS ago. What I DON'T understand is why ZOS kept doing armours wrong since... Orsinium styles, if I recall correctly, instead of doing things right back then, leaving only the handful of racial styles (and Orsinium's) plagued by such elements.
Now that we have hundreds of styles this likely won't be fixed AT ALL
Now that we have hundreds of styles this likely won't be fixed AT ALL
Re: Would you want to play with people on other Platforms or in other Regions?
Can't vote, since I don't really have a dog in this race.
Crossplay seems like a good thing and they should do it, but console by nature has a lot more to gain from getting crossplay than PC does - PC would by nature have to contend with longer Grey Host and DPS queues if more people were going into it, not to mention an added 2 weeks before any patches can land, which means any issues that are found after PTS would hang around for over a month. I also hear that PS isn't too bad in terms of population, but I'm sure XB is really seeing issues with low pop (especially XBEU, considering there are probably only 10 people who even have an XB console outside of the US). However, BG queues might be helped in all cases
Seems the most intelligent way is to keep EU and NA separate and merge the PC/PS/XB servers. Otherwise you'd get a lot of complaints about ping issues across the ocean.
But the one thing I want is to be sure that nobody's going to get a forced character name change from this. If they just went and made it so character names could be duplicated across the same server, then go for crossplay however you want.
Crossplay seems like a good thing and they should do it, but console by nature has a lot more to gain from getting crossplay than PC does - PC would by nature have to contend with longer Grey Host and DPS queues if more people were going into it, not to mention an added 2 weeks before any patches can land, which means any issues that are found after PTS would hang around for over a month. I also hear that PS isn't too bad in terms of population, but I'm sure XB is really seeing issues with low pop (especially XBEU, considering there are probably only 10 people who even have an XB console outside of the US). However, BG queues might be helped in all cases
Seems the most intelligent way is to keep EU and NA separate and merge the PC/PS/XB servers. Otherwise you'd get a lot of complaints about ping issues across the ocean.
But the one thing I want is to be sure that nobody's going to get a forced character name change from this. If they just went and made it so character names could be duplicated across the same server, then go for crossplay however you want.
