Not going to sub my DK. Not interested in playing for anyone else's expectations. My DK still achieves results. Completely disagree that the DK passives or skills are awful or that the class itself is obsolete. DK is meant to be played a certain way, if I wanted something else, I would have gone for... something else. I'd focus more on what a DK is rather than what it isn't.

Where there's a will there's a way, old ways. Let others go - but this mountain shall not be moved, and I will not be shaken.

War, war never changes. And subclassing owns. Adapt, overcome.

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I'm curious to hear why so many players avoided this most recent Midyear Mayhem event. Each event the turnout gets lower, but this time it's shockingly low. The added campaigns were not needed at all. Personally speaking, I only played a little for the first 2 days and lost interest after that. I have a long list of reasons, but it would probably be useful for ZOS to see other perspectives.

Feel free to share your reasons.

There has been a general drop off in the player base because the game hasn’t had any real new content since West Weald and the Season of the Worm has been a complete disaster. In other words there is nothing in the game to keep PvE players engaged so this time around PvPer won’t be able to get their rocks off griefing us while we scramble do to the quests for event tickets. Sorry not sorry!

If you look at the Steam charts, the game traditionally loses players during the summer through September. It isn't anything new, and the numbers will probably start going up again later in the fall and winter. People are vacationing, camping, beaching, enjoying the summer weather for the most part. I spend more time on ESO in the summer because I have time off, but that isn't the norm for most people.

I feel like I'm screaming into the void but...

"extremly low turnout" and a"2 hour queue" just don't go hand in hand (at least in zos pov). They will say oh look our logs said the queue is 2 hours clearly there is a ton of participation for the event.

But... everyones afk.

Many years ago, before the fear of data breach or hackers ruining the gameplay, the game's packet calculations (your healing, damage, character spreadsheet, etc.) were handled by your Elder Scrolls Online client! The game started development in 2007, being Zenimax Online Studios' first project, our beloved ESO! Some time between 2018-2019 (I can no longer recall specifics), our server calculations were reconfigured from Client checks to Server checks to increase security of the game. While this prevented a sizable amount of player tampering with code and calculations, it came to the detriment to the server performance. You see, the game was designed to be played with Client-sided packet calculations in mind over a decade before the change. We've never managed to restore performance back to what it was in 2017 and before. It has nothing to do with your sets, skills, procs or what have you! It is simply that the calculations per player in instances has become much more complex, increasing the load that the server has to handle at any given moment.

Cyrodiil can be enjoyed once again in the way we did long ago! The only solution I can propose is that we work together to make Client-Side Server Calculations a reality again. This is no easy task because of the security issues that may come with it. I am willing to put up with ANY and ALL Anti-Cheat Softwares to enjoy my beloved ESO and Cyrodiil again as I did in those years; wide eyed with wonder exploring the beautiful and treacherous landscapes of Cyrodiil. My aim for this is not to be controversial. I love ESO and I want to see it return to its former glory!

Now, Vengeance? Thats super fun. I don't propose scrapping that at all. But imagine if our Alliance-Locked CP Cyrodiil Server and Vengeance Server could run side-by-side without a hitch! No lag, no performance issues, just straight up fun! We know what works, guys. We played it! Client-Sided Server Calculations can do it. There is no shame in returning to it if we can do so in a safe and secure way. I hope this message reaches all of you well. If nothing results from it, at least I can say that I also did my very best in contributing towards progress in one of my absolute favorite games of all time.

It's of my unprofessional opinion that the Crown Store cosmetics have begun to reach critical levels of immersion breakage.

I ran into a dancing Molag Bal, in the middle of town.

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I feel like this is another one of those "if you sign up for a random pug, you get a random pug" things.

I never have issues with the DPS focusing the wrong things and I can get the HM every time I'm in these. Must have something to do with the fact that I run with people I know and not pugs.