Yudo wrote: »

Anyone remember this?

Personally the dancer personality where people wiggle non stop is kind of odd...like what is wrong with them.

They need to pee.

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.

I think the #1 thing for me is if the designs are some how based in lore they will end up directionally correct. If they are not clearly aesthetically grounded in any kind of elder scrolls culture its probably not a great fit. Ok to have some creative stuff but thats got to be a secondary objective to "fitting" some established culture or setting in Tameriel. Or a new culture yall are creating (which is awesome by the way) Lots of the stuff from West Weald and Solstice has been great at this. Shardborn, Worm Cult Hunter, Cult of the Worm (blue accents), most recent black and bright red crown store motif...etc.

Updated early zone lore appropriate motifs and mounts would be really cool, theres tons of variations on things that would probably sell great if updated to more recent trends (i.e. smaller hip pieces, fewer or no front/back flaps etc.). New Hlaalu, Redoran, Telvanni armor and mounts there are absurdly limited options from those settings and early zones especially. We have a decent amount of Nord and Wood Elf looking stuff thats good quality. There is a somewhat shocking lack of good armor, motifs, and things from Vvardenfell and Aldmeri somehow that I think is just because it came out a long time ago.

More things that are like this but with the ESO teams take on it.



This stuff would benefit greatly from releasing some new creative variations from your team (with fewer flaps and smaller hip pieces)







Fewer bright neon things. Not everything needs to be muted shades of brown and grey. Some pop as subtle accents works well but entirely ultra bright flashy things sorta clashes with the setting or feel artificial and not part of any character/story from this game (some of the recent armor from solistice was awesome at striking that balance I think).

Not asking for no bright colors at all but toning it down a bit so the game doesnt look & feel like a generic culture-less or lore-less MMO would be good. Bright colros as accents not the "core" of the asthetic is a good goal. Definitely can get goofy and colorful though. Majority of the Indric Mounts are pretty great examples of more brightly colorful stuff that feels lore appropriate without its defining feature simply being the word neon.

Its tough because I am sure the brightest most neon things sell the best but I think you can still release exciting things that arent totally over the top in that category. Giving people a range of options to personalize their look is a good thing but all of the options should prioritize the look & feel being obviously grounded in the lore and the setting in some way.

Below were fantastic recent examples of something fun that do something unique while still looking real.


I think the key for me is that ESO sort of sets itself apart by looking like a more grounded game (by looking like Elder Scrolls). More direct way to say this...if you see something that looks like it was lifted straight out of world of warcraft it probably should be toned down before release.

I have done what no one esle has. This isn't datamined, this is fact.



https://x.com/ShirakoTheFirst/status/1952834960672387522?t=2E2p3q81cv8K7wVjbsqWzg&s=19

It's impossible to complete!


..because the login server is down.

Never had anyone protecting me, but I would appreciate that for sure. I do hate those who attacks me and sometimes I text something in a chat like what's your problem. It's no fun to run to the objective over and over again without reaching it because some *** won't let me. Or when I'm bussy fighting a boss or a group of enemies.

I hate PvP so much.

The awesome Mammoth mount is quite large, but compared to the Mammoths elsewhere in the game it's a bit of a runt. Want to make it bigger? Well I found out that the mount size scales to your character size quite considerably. Shown in the picture is Azander on his Mammoth and me on mine after adding the Lich Polymorph, this is the Polymorh that increase the character's height the most that I could find. The result is a much bigger Mammoth lol.

Is this one of those British English vs. US English things perhaps? Sure, technically "some players" can be interpreted as 'all players less one', but that is certainly not how I would naturally interpret "some players". Rather, in the way ZOS uses the phrase, it indicates to me a small, probably even insignificant, sub-set of all players. Is that different for a US reader? If ZOS wants to reliably indicate a significant subset, or leave it ambiguous, they should use different phrasing. But I'd prefer it if they just fixed the servers...

If you think heavy armor is what is causing players to have 150%+ crit damage, I am not sure what to do.

The damage problem comes from subclassing allowing you to stack unique % crit damage sources. While easily gaining Force buffs that are everywhere in the game now. While getting brittle. With monomyth vastly outpacing the rest of the mythics. While Assassination gives both an unprecedented amount of crit chance and damage. While medium armor also gives a % crit damage buff

No part of heavy armor enables the damage meta. If anything slotting heavy armor lowers your damage considerably. Heavy hasnt been an issue since the stacking WD buff per hit was removed like a decade ago.