shadoza wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

shadoza wrote: »

Other players are not interfering with YOUR experience. They are interfering with mine.

A player questing or running through delves or public dungeons is just playing as intended. A player may prefer to not see other players when they play but that is a not how MMOs work. I don't want to see this game turned into a single player game.

I'll repeat my statement because I think it was important. My post isn't about single play or even solo play. It is about some players not respecting other players.

"The bad behavior makes every game day feel like black Friday.

• I was playing a level 16 character on a new player island map. One or two players (both CP levels) farming an area fast-running from resource to resource, leaving the area resource bare. I waited for the resources to start spawning. Before the first one spawned, the one of the two was back collecting again. I just needed a couple plays to craft with. It took more than an hour because of these two farming the area.
• Just doing the quests there were players that ran pass me and 1-hit what I was fighting. Why? Right here in these threads, I am told that players are farming, they have a right to farm, the game encourages farming . . . What about my 'right' to play the game I paid for? That seems to amount to nothing compared to those who want to farm.
• Went into a dungeon to complete a quest. The dungeon was empty. Nothing to kill. I needed to collect items from the foes in the dungeon but had to wait for them to spawn. When the first foe spawned, it was a group of three. I started fighting. A CP 2700 jumped in with a AOE and all three were done. I got nothing. The dungeon took three times as long as it should have because two CP level players were making a circuit through the dungeon killing everything without even stopping. They were farming for leads.

As I stated, I just want to enjoy the game again. Farming players are an issue for those not playing that economy game because too many of those that are farming are disrespectful of other players. Not addressing these issues will lead to players who came for the story and questing to leave."

MMO things happening in an MMO? Inconceivable

This comment is not specific on the OP, but more general.

What really bothers me in all this is that players (including me) have been complaining that there isn’t enough transparency, too much secrecy of what is in the works and not enough time for player feedback to reflect on plans.

The post Jessica did is exactly what everyone wants for months. Instead of shooting down everything it would be more productive in the long run to give usefull and respectful feedback instead of going into full hyperbole mode or ragebate threads on reddit where people leave out some specific sentences to rile up people. Or this might be the last time ZOS is actually talking about stuff that is coming months before release.

I was thinking about this, the future of ESO isn't looking promising for me.

For me, its future isn't dependent on fixing issues with Cyrodiil, or subclassing, or even general combat. The issue with ESO is its fundamental gameplay loop. Even if ZOS somehow fixed all of the major issues we talk about today, even if they pushed out a new class, whatever the change is, I'd just be playing that through the current gameplay loop.

The stories and zones are increasingly thin. The most "updates" we see are time limited events where we get fragments towards something like a mount or outfit, meanwhile similar rewards are tucked into crown crates. If we do get a new zone, it's more-or-less the same thing as the last 7. And the only thing to do with its dailies are roll the dice to see if I can get a motif page for a style that I can conveniently spend $40 the next time it shows up in the crown store. If I create a new character, I have to log in for 180 days to be sure that my mount is fully upgraded. This whole game has become a system of time-gated busy work.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just burned out, I dunno. I haven't played much this year, especially after seeing how Solstice fared. After that release flopped for me, I decided to take a breather and go to GW2 on a whim. The difference has been staggering. The zones are fun. There's oodles of little activities. Rhythm games, jumping puzzles, account wide benefits like Masteries. Even their version of crown crates, I can earn the content just by playing. The zone events are mind blowing and foster a sense of community. Even the OG zones from 13 years ago are still active.

I love ESO, but they really gotta figure something out. I can't be the only one who feels like the "fun factor" is gone.

Northwold wrote: »

I find the misalignment of things like floors very annoying but also true to life (I live in an old house and have to overlook every morning that the floorboards don't line up to the walls), so it's not ideal but not a deal breaker for me.

The slow pace of furnishing releases, the inconsistency of architectural items supposedly of the same style so they don't fit together, the failure to release complete sets of architectural furnishings for each style, drive me mad though. Together with the usual why did it take such an incredibly long time to get even one transparent window and why don't we now have vastly more, and will we EVER get more water assets than fountains and things like the crown store trough.

There doesn't seem to be any consistency in what, exactly, furnishing releases are aiming to achieve. Once they opened themselves up to releasing structural sets, they needed to commit to releasing FULL structural sets of everything. Otherwise, what are we supposed to do with them in places like moon sugar meadow? Build multi coloured Vegas inspired pastiches? The offerings seem to oscillate between drip feeding structural pieces and drip feeding nice-to-have decorations without any eye on, for instance, aiming to have a complete suite of structural furnishings available for all the major styles by end 2026 (for example).

It doesn't bother me so much that we don't have a complete set of structural furnishings for every style—it bothers me more that certain elements are practically nonexistent. With every new release of structural furnishings, I wonder why we don't get roofs? Or if we do get roof elements, it's something like a domed Nekrom roof or tiny Nekrom shingles, of which you'd need far too many to cover an entire roof (hello, furniture slot limit!).

Well, Moonsugar was one of my favorite projects even without Elsweyr structural furnishings—Fargrave style is a great addition.

Oh great so they’re going to force changes on the PvP community which the majority do not want based on middling feedback from casual PvE players that only play reliably it there is a golden pursuit FOMOing them into doing it.

Performance on PS5 hasn’t been bad enough to warrant these changes since the server upgrade, and the performance in vengeance for me at least was actually worse than in grey host so I don’t believe them for a second that this is legitimately about performance issue.

I don’t buy for one second that population was higher in the third test than the regular baseline considering that a total of 10 people max were playing one of the alliances on PSEU and all servers reported struggling to get even one bar during the test. In fact immediately afterwards the day the test ended there was over 100 people on the leaderboard for that very same alliance. PvP players do not want to play vengeance, on the whole, and PvE/casual players will only jump in during an event or incentive like a golden pursuit. ZoS is just killing off a section of its community for 0 gain, yet again.

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Dungeons and overland do not have the performance issues or extremely low population that Cyrodiil does. Stop acting like ZOS came up with Vengeance out of personal spite. It is an attempt to fix a very real problem that PvE simply does not have.

Trials DEFINITELY have performance issues!

Ask anyone involved in the trifecta scene how many of their pulls get scuffed due to server performance. It's a shockingly high percentage.

I'm currently training my rotations and weaving and I struggle with it due to some weird behavior that I cannot explain. This seems to be like this since one of the last two updates iirc.

The bar swap is extremely clunky and unreliable. Every third or fourth occasion it just does not bar swap and I have to press the button twice to perform the bar swap. First I thought it might be my mouse so I bound a keyboard key to war swap and tried it in a consecutive way there and compared it to what I get when using my mouse. Exactly the same result. Frequently the bar swap was not performed at all and I had to reapply the key/button. Now it might be that there is a sort of cooldown on barswap too but then I have this same behavior during my rota where I could not hit that cooldown prematurely.
Also I observe that occasionally when I apply a skill it fires with a noticeable delay in the range of 0.5s.
And sometimes it does not fire my light attacks. There are phases when light attacks just are not performed. Now this might be a rota issue but then it would probably be more erratic and stochastically distributed and not be phases in a parse where all light attacks fire as they should and others where they don't.

I wish we could make Zerith look "normal" again. I really hate those glowing eyes, even if they make sense lore-wise...