ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi All! We are looking to understand how Update 46 and the launch of Subclassing, and more recently making Scribing a part of the base game, may have changed the play experience and character build for you and the content you engage in.

• Did your ability to play and/or complete certain types of game content improve after the launch of Update 46?
• If so, prior to the launch of Update 46, what was your character build?
• What did you change to your character build when Update 46 launched that allowed you to play or complete content that you had trouble with before?
• What game content was it?

Any and all feedback is helpful for us to relay back to the Combat Team. That way, they have anecdotal experience to add to their existing data. Thanks in advance to all constructive feedback!

(This is strictly to get feedback on your play experience between Update 45 and Update 46. We are not factoring Update 47 PTS feedback in this since it is not available to everyone at the moment).

Did your ability to play and/or complete certain types of game content improve after the launch of Update 46?
No.

feedback is helpful
Zos policy/paradigm of catering to casual, ephemeral and/or occasional players rather than a more eclectic approach inclusive to existing long term players has pretty much hit many longer term players who have simply quit. You know: apparent lack of interest in them, their needs etc is pretty much reflected when they move on from eso. The ones like me who are left have been entrained by this policy/paradigm towards a much more transient and casual approach, expecting less and spending less time in game and less money.

Regarding scribing and subclassing I have barely looked at either. I just don't feel motivated to do so, especially since this casualisation policy/paradigm, among others, has driven away a lot of players I'd normally do group content with. In fairness, I do have time-constraints which also impacts my game time. My main concern with subclassing is the destruction of the core game classes which will make it much harder for these ephemeral/transient casual players (me now) zos have created and/or encouraged to resume eso with extant characters on relogging after an absence. With scribing and the associated Golden Pursuit currently active, which is presumably to encourage an exploration of scribing, zos have disincentivised me to engage because I actually bought Gold Road so cannot grab even the simplest of those by 'claiming scribing from the crown store'. Again, this apparent absence of real interest in me as a paying player is reflected as no interest from me in engaging with eso and any 'new' system introduced. In fairness, once more, Golden Pursuits are generally as interesting to me as watching paint dry but, still, I'd expect more effort and directed intent towards inclusivity in such game activities from zos, nonetheless.

I fully expect a new 'update 35' incoming which will hammer damage and sustain - and likely any interest in resumption of playing eso given the implied pressure at that point to embrace, in particular, subclassing for any of my characters to have any kind of group role viability. It's already clear that the core classes and their viability are the first casuality to subclassing and, despite statements that it's not zos' intent to do this, I don't really see this improving.

Thanks for asking, though.

I personally love IA, but yeah, if anyone is grinding out to get the Torc after they added the Daedric Jewelry Station and other leads into IA, then be prepared to be grinding for a couple of months.

I got my leads all in one run when I ran with a guildmate all the way to Arc 9+. But since they added in a ton of other leads and other things that can drop in IA, it will literally take you MONTHS of grinding to get the Torc now.

At the very least, they should make Torc leads (and only torc leads) drop only from the little side-event portals that happen in IA, so people know where to focus their efforts and it would limit the drop pool for the targeted event. That would be a huge help. And it will still be difficult to get because if you have finished buying all the extra IA buffs, you are permanently at the most difficult levels for all of the side events (looking at you Daedric Octopus), so you won't complete them every time.

Given that ZOS makes it a point to remove any unintended method to bre-build ultimate outside of combat, I doubt they'd be open to placing an easily accessible Ulti Top-Off inside scored content. Even if normal difficulty doesnt have scoring.

OMG I just realized y'all are giving us the Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos at the end of the year! Thank you!

For those who don't know, in the Elder Scrolls lore, the god Julianos is named after Julian LeFay.

I also found this: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Sigil,_Julianos. I'll put one in my main house tonight!