I wake up this night
I can't sleep so I come here
And read these haikus

I went to the camp
To try to do my fair share
Instead I just stared

Day off, I can play
Maintenance, maintenance, ugh
Cram it all... again!!!

Danikat wrote: »

Unofficially ZOS cannot let the event go on too long (it can't fail, only stall if all players stop doing quests), so if not enough people are doing it they'll manually adjust the progress again. They've openly done it 2 or 3 times already and can make adjustments without announcing it whenever they want.

And that's the big problem – what's the point of such a "competition" if everything is just manually "fixed" over and over again...

Are there some players here who, like me, prefer to level at a moderate pace? There are times I need to level quickly (for example, while levelling a subclassed line), but generally I prefer not to. So during events with double XP, I find myself slowing down my activities to avoid jumping too many levels ahead for no reason. But then it becomes particularly problematic when there is a concurrent event going on with rewards I want to grind for.

So I'd love a way to disable event double XP. I think? atm we can right click on our buff list to disable XP scroll bonuses, so I'm asking for the same treatment for event-related XP bonuses. Let us dismiss/disable our event XP bonus with a click.

I played New World for about a year. The music thing was fun for a while then got kind of annoying. Personal opinion I know but I ended up muting the music.
New World was designed to be PvP centric with the zones created to optimize that aspect of the game. ESO zones were not created with PvP in mind. Beyond a couple of weeks on curiosity I doubt PvP would amount to more than a few gankers hiding by wayshrines hoping some unlucky player forgot to turn their flag off.
I liked PvP in New World but when I finally decided to leave the game there wasn't the population left to make it compelling. Spent a lot of time trying to get a fight coordinated.
What ESO needs for PvP is better performance in Cyrodiil. They fix that and they will have a very vibrant PvP population. I would like to see some more done with the alliance zones but looking towards what New World did I believe would be a mistake. The world designs are vastly different and what works for one might not work for the other.

We've been regular players, often daily, since public beta. We've bought every bit of DLC that was not PvP focused (because we never had much pleasure from PvP in this game). We had many ESO+ memberships, though we would let them lapse when there was no new content of interest to access.

The Writhing Wall feels like our last chapter. This new content is structured to force me to complete days of pointless grinding. I can't experience the quest content *that I paid for* -- until I first also pay a lot of grinding dues. It's not interesting. It's not fun. I don't mind some community-wide events and rewards. But using it as a turnstile for slowing down access to content is a big change.

In the early days of ESO, we discovered some of the fun offered by the Elder Scrolls solo gaming experience. We enjoyed the ESO implementation, we enjoyed the quest writing and dialogue, we enjoyed the huge world, we enjoyed the mod community. We also enjoyed the player community interaction, at least in the early years. There were lots of pleasant adults playing along with us, and we made friends. Nice strangers hopped in and helped out. People said "thanks" after collaborating. The guilds were interesting and engaging.

In recent years, the ESO business model evolved. We understand that this was probably necessary; but it's like we've moved from an interesting novel to a nerfed-down "tune in tomorrow" soap opera with American Girl doll rewards. The unashamed grinding model of today's event, a novelty, seems to be telling me that it's finally time to depart. (I know, it's not an airport; we don't have to announce a departure. But this forum is the only mechanism for leaving feedback breadcrumbs that might reach the decision makers.)

As I read the tea leaves, we are presumably no longer the kind of users who keep the lights blinking. So get out your Tales of Tribute cards instead. It's disappointing to feel that the ESO world has simply moved away from the kind of gaming we enjoy. Oh well. For what it's worth -- this is how we reacted to the latest drop.

1.90% time cyro is a dead zone,you hard found other player
2.you can put treasure Map in bank and swap other toon
3.you can queue and port to IC and leave from base backdoor,maybe in 30sec -1 min

like now i buy a treasure Map and dig up in 3 min
https://youtu.be/8OwSfQOFzGY

Chrisilis wrote: »

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Just want to put out an opinion that could be hot take but I can't keep it for myself: about exploration, I loved Oblivion and Skyrim but ESO has a lot to learn from games like Genshin Impact, Breath of the wild, and the likes - I felt like exploration was way more rewarding and fun in those games, while in ESO falls flat.
Skyshards were a good idea! But these days, if we compare how chests work in ESO and in other games... I think a lot of ESO players just avoid chests and even get annoyed by them, while in other games they actively look out for them and explore everywhere just to find them, rejoicing in seeing one.

If they reduced world chest numbers by 25 percent (or something) but guaranteed zone specific furnishings (more than one furnishing, say 20 new unique furnishings per zone) ((or praxis/patterns, unique motifs, etc. new and zone specific)) people would be crawling all over every zone in ESO to find them. Exploration would go crazy with people on every map hoping to snag a new furnishing or furnishing recipe. Something simple like that would reinvigorate every zone and wouldn't be bad for the in game economy either assuming they weren't bound. Binding them would be a mistake, just sayin. I for one would love to canvas over existing zones for a chance at a chest like that.

No no no don't you see, we must put that in the random zone treasure maps that there's no way to farm for specifically! That makes SO much more sense! /s