I'm really liking the mammoth and the bear skin. I hadn't spent my ESO+ crowns for a while, and so it's great to see new stuff like this in the store.

Sarannah wrote: »

uhhm, shouldn't all mammoth mounts be the same size for everyone? As it is a crown store item.

Mounts all scale to the character's size. A taller character will therefore have a larger mount.

The thing is that some polymorphs (like Molag Bal or the Minotaur) set your height to a specific value regardless of what you put in, so that makes you taller (or shorter in the case of the goblin), and therefore will scale the mount size as well.

Here's a height map I made for my characters that includes the minotaur polymorph. I tried to scale everything to be the exact same by matching their pose and position and scaling to an offscreen picture so I could see them all together, and the Nord at the end is a max height Nord (the tallest a character can possibly get). And the minotaur absolutely dwarfs him.


Another fun consequence of scaling mounts is the two-rider mounts. It will scale the mount to the height of the driver, so the passenger actually gets scaled to fit, making both characters the same height regardless of what was set up for them.

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Ah yes, gonna be so fun with obnoxious Molag Bal polymorphed people on giant mammoths blocking the view and whatnot.

Dropped by Belkarth last night and there were already three mammoths clustered around the wayshrine. One of them was also jumping on the spot from which I learned that, while mammoths are bigger than frogs, frogs can jump higher...

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

The question isn't meant to mean we have lost our way. It is only to signal this: Some have expressed frustration with cosmetic direction and saying years prior have been better and more grounded. It is helpful to have examples to specifically point to the team and say, "some folks are frustrated with some of the flashier cosmetics and would want something like (Insert Example). In future planning, can we have more thought into some less flashy, more grounded content?"

It's the info I need to do my job effectively. The team has a plan and is carrying it forth. Everyone in this thread I think wants player feedback to have an impact in decision making. So getting that info as early as possible is the only way to make that happen.

Many players likely think you have lost your way, because we often have for many years said the same things over and over again, given plenty of examples but it seems to fall on deaf ears so it ends with we us stopping give examples and only vent out our frustration. People get tired of repeating themselves.

It's like the never ending player desire for less hip and crotch flaps or random pieces of metal on clothes, yet those keep coming.

Or the request for different daedra forms for sorcerer pets, such as fire atronachs, banekin, dremora, and all manner of daedra, as well as different animals for wardens, which is now clearly possible with the skillstyles. But what we get are just expensiver crown recolours.

Or some attention to werewolves, to give them different werebeast forms or just even different fur colours.

Or more lore fitting and practical skins, like people have wanted a skin for vampires that only hides their vampirism without badly photoshopped flowers and whatnot. Like don't even need to stop there, could have skins for different strains of vampirism. Which would also be nice for npcs too so all of these vampires who are clearly from different strains don't look to be from the same one. Don't have to stop at vampires either, like we have access to all manner of weird skins, but not a Briarheart skin?

More lore fitting cosmetics in general that are based on lore and the setting's style and theme, instead of making random things and then give them some thrown together description to justify their existence. It's like when you make a character for tabletop or some story. You make them according to the setting and fit into it, not make the setting bend and fit to them.
After all these years it baffles me how much feel and look like random mmo cosmetics while we are missing existing things both from visuals of the game but also lore. Like I can wear what looks like bad photoshop of flowers, butterflies, weird stained glass windows as body markings, but not tattoos and body markings similar to those seen in Morrowind. My nibenese don't have gaudy tattoos and magic runes. In fact, few markings actually look like tattoos. There's too bold, thick and dark lines.
I can make myself look like Molag Bal, which is such a mind boggling polymorph in the setting. It being an illusion doesn't make it better, because who would make themselves look like Bal especially during this time period? It is such awful taste. Guards and npcs should react!
Then we have polymorphs that makes us look like things that are very niche and are barely shown in the game.
But we can't look like hagravens, nereirds, fauns, and other more common creatures. At least minotaur and lich was added after a long time.

Don't get me started on how much I loathe many of the recall and resource harvesting customisations. Many are so loud and flashy they are a big cause of my headaches and eye pain. Here again we see the tacky use of something that feels so bad for setting, such as the Molag Bal polymorph, in the form of the dolmen. Ah yes, lets just teleport away using this tool of a daedric prince that has caused and is still causing so much destruction, death and horrors. Or it's a giant explosion of bright light and noise.
But we can't have a recall that looks like the typical portal we see so many npcs use? Maybe a simple one that is just stepping into and vanishing into shadows.

Then we have mounts... The never ending FX effects, which again why do they need to explode into existence, and bizarre looks that are getting more and more extreme on the same old skeleton. Even a lot of the supposed more grounded mounts are getting strange currenly, like the current crate season nix-ox which someone dipped into a tub of gold paint. The colours have a tendency to be way more saturated than the enviroment.
Something I'd love, would be if ZOS put in the effort and try make a new horse model that looks a bit more like a horse. I want more horses, which is the most used mount in Tamriel, and a new good base would go a long way.
A long time ago a friend once showed me the mounts of Lord of the Rings Online, which despite being quite old, has very nice mounts, especially horses which were the majority of the mounts. What really grabbed my attention, was that most of the mounts are normal looking houses, and the creativity and difference is done through various coats, some slight breed differences, but mainly very varying tack. So much varied and well done tack. Simple ones, armoured ones, ones for specific occupations and themes, ones in between etc. All with different styles that fit a culture, race, faction, some order etc. LOTRO mounts if anyone is curious.

Meanwhile the majority of ESO's mounts that are not apex ones all use the same boring tack in just different colours. Where are guars with tacks themed after each of the dunmer Great Houses and some argonian styles? Breton knights heavily armoured horses with heraldries (Was baffling High Isle didn't have a jousting themed horse) and fancy noble show horses from the finest Cheydinhall stable saved from the war. A redguard trader's camel and the armoured ones their guards would use etc.

One of favourite mounts are the Baandari apex mounts, just because they are normal looking animals with interesting and well done tack. I could be without the constant silly holding of the compass, though.

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SkaraMinoc wrote: »

My main character, the one I've done all quests on and discovered all points of interest, found all skyshards, learned all crafting, etc. is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing. The builds that I need to stay competitive are no longer possible on my main class, so I must reroll another character and start fresh. Either that or buy skill lines from the crown store and switch characters anytime I need something crafted. You get the idea.

It's also been said before but Subclassing has distilled combat down to maybe 5 skill lines for the serious high-end competitive gameplay.

"oh wow, you're playing XYZ... how original" etc

My warden main is similar to yours in having done a lot of stuff and unlocked most of the game. She's not obsolete to me. I don't care what others think of her. She hasn't been meta beyond being a good healer in all the time I've had her. She still works in PvP as a pure class and can do all the PvE things she did before. I'm not going to subclass her for vet trials, as I honestly have no real interest in those any more.

Seriously, just play the game for fun rather than chasing metas and the flavour of the month. That's what I'm trying now. You can worry about what others think of your build and how you compare in terms of parses. Or do what I did and just accept ESO is going down this subclassing path, but you don't have to follow.

I was never a super meta chaser before, but subclassing has cured me of all interest in "the best" builds. Because what I've seen of the meta builds is just a ridiculous pick-and-mix that I wouldn't inflict on any character I care about. I'm not going to have fun with those builds, so why waste time on them? If ZOS insists on continuing "balancing" that makes pure classes weaker in favour of subclass ones, I'll quit long before I subclass.

Reizka wrote: »

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

Reizka wrote: »

I recently updated my system from Windows 10 to Windows 11. ESO used to work fine before, no problems. Now its just stuttering, freezing and even crashing. Sometimes it freezes my pc for a moment. ESO usually recovers after a freeze but most of the time it just crashes to desktop. Every other program and game works just fine. I even did another Windows 11 installation, this time it was clean install but nothing changed. I have tried different Nvidia drivers and updated everything i can. I tried low and ultra graphics settings and playing without any addons but issues just remain. Game is currently pretty much unplayable for me. I have a decent pc, that used to be more than enough for ESO. And still should be! So specs are not an issue. CPU i7 9700k, GPU RTX 3080.

This is not what most of us are experiencing, your issue sounds like hardware to be honest. Check your SSD, it could be failing.

I have multiple drives. M2 NVMe and sata SSD and neither works. And they're definitely not failing. LIke i said, everything else works just fine and normal.

Personally I would run a windows repair, as I doubt the drives are failing. It is more likely something ended up corrupted with the new windows install for some reason. Also, make sure to install your chipset/audio/network/SATA/etc drivers for your motherboard. And as with any clean install, check ALL settings for everything and see which background programs are running. Microsoft likes to send itself data and runs lots of things you don't need in the background, turn these off.

Elated to finally have a new Warden pet skin. Though it's only another bear skin, I can make use of it and I hope we're another step closer to getting a Wolf and Tiger type Warden pet skin. @ZOS_GinaBruno please pass on my thanks to the crew!

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

Elated to finally have a new Warden pet skin. Though it's only another bear skin, I can make use of it and I hope we're another step closer to getting a Wolf and Tiger type Warden pet skin. @ZOS_GinaBruno please pass on my thanks to the crew!

I'd much prefer to have class skill line themed skill styles, just imagine...

Ardent Flame Bear
Grave Lord Skeleton or Zombie Bear
Living Dead Ghost Bear
Winters Embrace Ice Bear
Storm Calling Storm Atronach Bear
Shadow Bear
Assassin Bear with a ninja suit

I don't know why instead of any of these things, we just get a bear with white fur. It breaks my enlarged bear heart.

just add a percentage ?