ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

All that being said, happy to take any additional feedback to the team for their consideration

Cosmetics grounded in the setting are great.

Great:
We see Durzog tamers (Arushna, Nikolvara, multiple goblin clans). We see tame guar, Necrom guards on guar, ambient dialogue about guar burials. We see Kagouti, Nix Oxen, even the little vvardvark babies convinced me the grown mounts make sense. I have several of these mounts & will keep buying more of those variants.

I'd buy an Echatere mount - we see them used by merchants as pack animals, herded by Clan Shatul, in the wild, etc. I'd buy a silt strider pack companion after seeing NPC merchants & Ashlanders traveling with them.

Gloomspore Mounts (in Blackreach)? Vampire thrall skins? Lamp Knight armor? What they all have in common is that they have in-game representation and thus players can form attachments to some or come up with cohesive reasons to have one. One group of friends all got Gloomspore mounts after an adventure in Blackreach, figuring we already had a mycoturge in the guild & OOC it'd be our little memory of the expedition.



Not Great?
The "Ice Wolf" claims Nords of Hjaalmarch ride them yet no one in Morthal does - they only have 4 horses in their stables.

The "Black Bear" claims warriors use them as mounts in northern High Rock & Skyim - but Shornhelm's stables are all horses.

These aren't even obviously glowy mounts - an overwhelming amount of the time, humans either (1) don't use mounts or (2) only have horses. I feel like I'm being pranked each time a mount claims to be used by humans & yet never appear unless its a horse.

No two elven races pretend to be homogenous, yet humans all too often seem to settle for "normalcy". Instead of distinct civilizations with their own legends & creatures & magic, it feels like so many glowing mounts exist because there's no "need" to connect humans to their myths.

Morrowind has a handful of unique fauna it can recolor & sell to me - but I'd be livid if I got a "free magma horse from Red Mountain!" - I'd buy an Echatere from Wrothgar immediately, no interest in "ice camels from Orsinium!" - I'd buy a camel or duneripper from Hammerfell, but don't want to see a "ancient Yokudan sand bear!"

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Wormmouth are native to Hammerfell & their skeleton might resemble a Kagouti - I feel that's a more natural fit for an exotic mount than, say, a glowy 4-armed pony-spirit.

One of my pet peeves is owning the Nenalata Ayleid Bear - they had Guar, Camel, Wolves, Horses, etc? How did these animals outlive their extinct masters? No previous lore suggesting a magic zoo, no in-game representation - every time I see the bear in my collections, I quit thinking of ESO & see Narnia. It doesn't feel a part of the setting.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Is there a style or kind of cosmetic we have made in the past that you would like us to lean more into?

Bugs. Cosmetics don't have to be mundane - but using local materials (chaurus, echatere, duneripper, armored mites, parrapton, assassin beetles, shalks, elytra, glyptodons, hoarvor.... are all more "real" than a thunder pony).

Morrowind's has Dreugh, Bonemold, Morag Tong, Ashlander - the https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Roksa_the_Warped_Style is great stuff.

But they're not the only culture with giant bugs. Bosmer, Argonian, Redguard also have giant shalk, wasps, hoarvor, giant scorpions and snakes. Bretons have a couple giant spider bosses. The Grim Harlequin crates gave us Falmer "Chitinous" style some years back. But imagine:

• Maybe Nords in Blackreach adapting local materials (I love how Blackreach Vanguard mixes chitin, metal, leather and fur).
• Maybe Dunmer artisans adapt their techniques to chaurus shells?
• Maybe deep-cave dwelling Wrothgarian Orcs crafting a lamellar chaurus plate?
• Maybe some kind of "Falmer Witch" that's less half-naked barbarian & more robes?

I'd argue some of the consistently strongest Crown Crate products are the styles & weapons - I love seeing Lamp Knight on NPCs, I'd love to see Betnikh orcs wearing Seamount style, etc.

The strongest crate items are always the ones one would be willing to use on an NPC in-game. If something is too zany for that low bar, then it's going to be distracting. Conversely, actually putting some models into the game would help make more sense of them.

I should point out that the reason the Mammoth is the size it is because your comparing it to a Skyrim Mammoth, the mount is a Timber Mammoth, you find them in Malabor Tor and they are a bit smaller.

They are also friendly.

Just noticed this today, and don't recall having an event that should be affecting the Archival Fortunes drop in IA. The marauders, Tho'at, and Pilferer are dropping increased Archival Fortunes in IA. Muniment chests from side portals and cycle bosses are normal.

[edit] PSNA if that matters.

As a guild leader, a topic that I see come up fairly often is how certain guilds will park characters at wayshrines in busy cities and spam guild invites to anyone nearby with an empty slot. Ignoring them only goes so far as they turn up on another new account later, and it seems to be multiple iterations of the same main guild. This is an ongoing problem, and previously the only advice given was to ask them to stop and then report if they continue, otherwise they are technically not breaking any rules.

We already have auto-decline settings for things like duels and ToT matches. Adding a setting which allows players to toggle receiving guild invites on and off wouldn’t be a perfect fix, but it would definitely help alleviate some of this issue.

JeroenB wrote: »

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...

I don't think this is British vs US it's an inflection you're reading into it. I would not interpret it as a slight but a factual statement and I'm a British English speaker.

OsUfi wrote: »

Stafford197 wrote: »

I agree but reason they don’t allow it is because we would use the Armory to bypass Luminous Ink costs (even though they’re dirt cheap now so who cares). Not sure this will change but we can hope!

Might be wrong, but I thought for ink you had to pay for every skill, suffix, and affix only once. So changing back to a skill you've used prior is free.

You get charged an Ink for each change that is made each time.

So for example if you have a Scribed Ability that uses Physical Damage, Warrior’s Opportunity, Vulnerability, changing just the Physical Damage component while leaving the other parts unchanged will charge you 1 Ink. Changing all 3 parts will charge you 3 Ink.

If you decided to change all 3 parts of your Scribed Ability and pay the 3 Ink cost, but then decide to return to the old version you had just prior, you’ll be charged another 3 Ink.

sounds awful.

So more skill lines for more weapons that will either not be used, or be OP in order to be used, all to perpetuate this fallacy that more somehow results in "build diversity" and "balance." When all it does is create a meta-meta because new has to be insanely powerful in ESO in order to make it worthwhile. Which is exactly what has happened with subclassing. As predicted by anyone who played ESO longer than 20 minutes.

This game has become laughable in the amount of options on paper players are offered versus actual, usable skills. Stop adding more and actually balance what is there. I don't need a crossbow or my player singing a silly song. I definitely don't need more power. Heck, I ran a VHRC pug this weekend where we got the trifecta without even trying.

So, in a game open to the general public, some people are toxic. And guess what - they can be found participating in all aspects of the game. I've encountered them in dungeons and trials, at spellscar, in a public dungeon, in pvp... I've even encountered toxic players in the housing community. It's really not mind blowing news. With a large enough sample size, one will encounter such people anywhere and everywhere.

Making it into this fake "us vs. them" thing based on the parts of the game we prefer, as some always do, is ridiculous... and imo little more than a way to absolve ourselves of examining our own behavior and that of the communities we're part of.