Hello! With the new class colors of blue and orange for Arcanist. Are there any word from the devs of implementing a way to also change crux colors? I really want to use the purple beam and even the blue runeblades and tentacle but the crux staying green is making the mix of colors look unpleasant to look at.

I did buy the regular one because I appreciate that they're trying something new and I wanted to support the game and give them a chance to follow through this year. I want to like what they're doing, I really do.

But, going forward the premium offerings would have to be quite a bit more interesting to entice me to pay again. There are a couple items of interest in the premium tier, but there's a scary amount of filler / junk in there. At least from the perspective of a long-term player.

They will also need to work out the bugs and rough edges of the tome system. It hasn't been a great roll-out. There are significant differences in points awarded between some of the tasks, and it feels too rng-based.

I got low-point tasks that are just tedious and boring, while others I know got high point tasks that are too difficult for them or not content that interests them. It seems like there is a limited variety of tasks. Re-rolls should not give you the same task again. Once again they have a system that heavily relies on their flawed rng foundation, where the results are absolutely not random and players regularly get stuck in repeating patterns.

Finally, having it so you have to repeat each task multiple times is boring. Standing there in a huge crowd waiting for the same boss to spawn over and over again so that it can melt in 3 seconds is the laziest, worst, unengaging "content". More re-rolls, more variety, more generic tasks and choices (like "kill any WB in these zones" as opposed to "kill a specific WB over and over").

And most of all, the actual content that's coming is going to have to be interesting and engaging, or this system is all for naught. I've always said, if I'm enjoying the game and actively playing it, and others are doing so and the vibe is lively and happy, I will spend. But I'm not going to force myself to repeat dry old content just to grind a tome when there's nothing new to do.

I am just not having fun at this time, and it's not great.

TheGamerSeal wrote: »

Disclaimer: If respecting players' time spent in-game is truly a goal for ZeniMax, then I would ask the decision makers to kindly consider this request and take action as soon as possible. Thank you again for your time and patience.

If respecting players' time spent in-game was truly a goal for ZeniMax, the tome points wouldn't expire. I suspect most people's lives are lived in seasons as well; there might be times when entire days can be spent doing weeklies, and then they're lucky if they can log in for ten minutes to get the daily crafting writs done. I know that's certainly how my life is. As mentioned in another thread, building up points to save for the future doing activities we enjoy is fun for at least some of us. I know I often used to do that with seals, because I enjoy, for instance, simple exploration while looking for crafting materials when I don't have time to do anything more substantial in the game.

As it is, I'm with @lookstwice. I feel no motivation to go back to this game at all, even with the festival I usually enjoy. I already overpaid to have what I want from the current tome, so there's no point in accumulating more points for no reason. There's little incentive to go back next season, because it's incredibly unlikely I'll have the time to gain enough points to even unlock the rest of the tome, and I don't want the points I do accumulate auto spending on inventory clutter I don't want when THAT season ends.

The point of video games is, still, to build something people want to pay for and play, right? 'Cause this is starting to feel like "The Producers" in the modern, video game era...

Soooo... I just this morning watched a video on YouTube where I learned I was going to be capped at 2000 tome points that will carry over to the next season...

It's a currency. I expected it'd just sit with all my other currency until I spent it on something. As annual plus subscriber, I had ELEVEN tome caches on day one. I opened them all. Then I paid $30 for premium + tomes and got two more caches... which I opened. I bought everything I was interested in buying from the rewards this season and have more than 4000 tome points leftover. This doesn't even account for the tome points I'll earn playing the game over the next three months.

I thought "sweet! I'll have a head start next season!" This morning I found out you'd be taking them from me. Who thought it would be a good idea to TAKE CURRENCY AWAY FOR NOTHING? I spend a lot of real money on this game... This feels like theft.

Please remove the cap. All tome points should carry over. You don't take our gold, alliance points, telvar, writ vouchers, or crowns at the end of every quarter. Why the heck would you take away this new currency and give us nothing for it?

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

I for example only care about cosmetics and often need to select stuff i dont really care about to unlock the next pages....so the requirements too progress always feel a little bit too high?

You unlock pages by earning, not by spending, tome points.

There is no need to spend any points until you unlock something you want.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

I want to ask some points of clarification regarding tome points, tome cache's and the Premium benefit of "Tomes not expiring" when the season ends. i do NOT see any of these covered in any article or post, or in the help menu or patch notes.

How exactly does this benefit work? how to Tome points get allocated to a previous tome vs the current one? We have been told that tome points expire once a season ends and only a certian amount (2k) will carrry over to the next tome. Does this mean also that we can no longer earn tome points on the prior tome? can challenges be done on the prior tome AND the exisiting one at the same time? or is it the same source? How does the game know where i am spending tome points? If we have a permantent Tome, and we beleive we are done with what we want from it, how is that tome cleared and gotten rid of?

Also, someone mentioned that once a Tome season ends, all remaining tome points will be used to redeem unclaimed rewards, how is this chosen? most value or in order? how does this interact with the premium benefit of keeping the tome active.

Also, when Tome Caches are redeemed and lets say i have 4 tomes active via premium which tome can those be redeemed at? Also, can there be a disclosure about which tome is being allpied to when redeeming? there should be a confirmation of some sort.

I am not trying to be difficult with the questions, but there is no documentation anywhere that i can find that gives specifics, and with the communities general surprise about how tome points that are unspent willl only carry over 2000 points, something that wasn't mentioned in any of the ariticles and ONLY found in the ingame help menu is rather frustrating.

So i just want to ask these questions, now so that its clear as to what we should expect when tomes start to stack up. I dont see writting anywhere, and if its not confirmed or documented by ZOS then its an assumption, assumptions lead to misunderstandings and comunication failures. more information is needed.

If anyone has information that ZOS has already commented on one or more of my questions, please link it. i dont see it in writing, and i would prefer the questions be answered in writing for easier reference to the source.

I am playing more but not because I am pursuing Tomes challenges, because I'm not. I enjoyed Endeavors and Golden Pursuits and always worked to complete them because they felt like they were in addition to new content rather than in place of it.

I have one character that hasn't done any base game zones yet, so I have started her on a long journey of questing through every one of the base game zones and it is refreshing. The whole atmosphere is simpler and full of stories and I feel like I am back home again. That is the ESO that I fell in love with.

I much prefer this over doing tasks for cosmetics.

Like with 2026's pass, I did it while holding my nose.

It really felt a bit icky to buy it since I'm not really happy with ESO's current model of "play alone together" and how they're cutting the things I like (Dungeons, new Classes) to focus on honestly what is ESO's weakest point (the writing). Plus, this whole "we're reducing FOMO and we will not add any content that is gone after the Season ends" is totally false when pretty well every big thing they announced in the reveal except Crimson Veldt is going to delete itself like the Wall did. The Night Market? Gone after 7 weeks, but at least it returns for another period before going away again. The High Seas ships and Underwater stuff? That's an event, not a permanent zone, so that's gonna be gone after that's over.
It's like the Wall all over again: Sure it was fun, but why spend the dev time to make something that's going to be deleted when that time could be used to make something that's not going to cease to exist after a few weeks?

But I bought it for one thing specifically: the Personality. It looks so good and I know exactly which character I need it for, but I'm still praying they're gonna fix it.
We told them on PTS that the permanent prop weapon clipping was an issue, and they changed it by... removing the unique sneak animation? Uhh...

I get that replacing the prop weapon with the character's equipped 2H is "beyond the scope," but as a premium Personality, they really should have someone from the art team sit down and get that to work. If they did that, even if it was just for that Personality and just with a 2H equipped on the active bar, that Personality would be a 15/10.
At least it is still possible to use the emote weapon replacement trick so somewhat see what it would look like in a perfect world. But it does only make me want the character to be able to walk like that always.

Many people jumped excitedly into Season 0 and may have accidentally opened all their Tome caches with 6 months or annual ESO+. It is understandable that some people may have missed the help section, a refund and maybe a tome reset wouldn't be that hard i think, it is the first season after all, mistakes and oopsies were about to happen. The team should include things like that in the articles.

I for example only care about cosmetics and often need to select stuff i dont really care about to unlock the next pages....so the requirements too progress always feel a little bit too high?