@Gegensmith hi, just wanted to say that I share in your frustration with some participants in this thread and maybe partially offset it with this message. You have shown 15/10 levels of adulthood throughout this very painful - and in many places entirely useless - thread (not that I am a judge to "rate" someone's adulthood levels, of course xD). Objective information, evidence, facts separated from assumptions at every step, all assumptions justified by providing evidence, context, and reasoning, being cautious with what you think at every step and not jumping to conclusions - all in an extremely calm and collected way (well, desensitized). Too bad you have to overdo it to 15/10 levels and simply 10/10 isn't enough.

I really hope that ZOS learns and teaches their employees how to resolve these matters quickly and really efficiently, because fake reports / mass reports for whatever reason, as well as all other kinds of, say, miscommunications is an intense worry a lot of us have (I do agree that your guilds being openly LGBT+ welcoming makes these "bad things" happening a lot more likely. Stuff like that should be obvious, of course, I am saying it just in case.). It is objectively a really difficult task requiring intense competence and not tolerating any naivete. I hope that Zenimax has enough employees, and those employees have enough time and skill to be dealing with such pressing matters thoroughly.

Thank you for opening this thread, I'd say it has brought a lot of clarity and will be really useful for ESO in the future and is really useful for ESO already.
(this one is definitely an understatement, but we'll describe it when we see it, aye?)

edit: a minor typo

Thanks for bringing this up. You weren't the only one who noticed this after the June 25 maintenance.

What could they have possibly done to tank FPS? That's historically been set by the clients video card, but not in this case. It's not just lag from the server now, it's super low FPS too.

...just when you think performance can't get any worse....

NO!

I like my arcanist taunt.

Desiato wrote: »

Why would a pvp enthusiast play eso in the first place? Why would they stay?

The bigger question is why any pvp main stays.

To be clear, I am talking gameplay. I know a lot of alliance loyalists who just enjoy the zone chat culture and hanging out with familiar faces.

Other players enjoy grouping with their friends in different kind of groups.

But at technical and gameplay levels, it's objectively bad. I think there are players who are seduced by the power fantasy derived from pugstomping pve casuals who are there to grind end of campaign transmutes on all of their alts without pvp builds. I don't consider them real pvp players though, because in my experience playing online pvp games for almost 30 years, true pvp players get bored by that kind of thing and will quit because of it.

And then on top of the technical and gameplay issues, there's the fact it's gated behind one of the most casual pve mmos ever made. Why would a pvp enthusiast bother?

How do I leave Cyrodiil though?

code65536 wrote: »

(This sort of thing--where a skyshard is placed in plain view in a deceptively close location but is actually only accessible via a long detour--is very common in this game, and the OP should not have been surprised to see this.)

The delve in Artaeum is infuriating because of this. I can never remember how to get to that skyshard, so I stopped acknowledging that delve's existence.

Cat mounts and cat pets!

Also, costumes I like, and adornments and hairstyles that appeal to me. Since I don't play without ESO+, buying the DLC doesn't really come into it. And since I have always bought the chapters when they were current, I didn't need to buy the classes separately.

But the longer I've played, the less there is that interests me in the store. I don't really like the whole "maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't" aspect of crates, so I tend to save up endeavors for things I want from crates.

We play every Saturday as a guild. The Vengeance campaign saw maybe 30 of us having a right laugh. Last night, it was back to Grayhost and ball groups spoiling everything. Bombers too. In the end, we managed 3 people. I used the DC ball group in Arrius to get my max damage achievement, then we all logged out because, as usual, it was hopelessly one-sided when you're part of EP, Ball groups everywhere, and bananas just farming AP in towers, very boring.

I hope Vengeance will be finalised soon so it can be a permanent addition to the game. Oh yeah, at one point my PC which normally runs along great at 80-144 fps was at 10 fps during a huge seige by all three alliances at Fort Ash.

So I am a casual PvPer, I get a few kills but I'm killed more than I kill. My rank is just coming up to Colonel so I have a long way to go, I doubt I will ever see Grand overlord unless Vengeance is a permanent feature.

Subclassing made some PVPer friends stop playing the game.
Some of them told me that even with a discount on the last DLC they would not consider buying it.
PVP balancing has not been going in the right direction for many years.

and for no one to be addressing it, other than dumbing down EVERYTHING in the game. I cannot believe how bad it really is these days.

How is this level of performance/crashing/frame drops in a triple A MMO even remotely acceptable?