Is PVE not boring yet?

Schallen

Well? Is it still painful to level? I haven't checked because i'm scared.

Moonclaw

Not sure what you are getting at . PVE content is better written and more interesting than any other MMO I have played . Level 42 Main, and several Alts and really enjoying the ride so far.

Schallen

Moonclaw wrote: »

Not sure what you are getting at . PVE content is better written and more interesting than any other MMO I have played . Level 42 Main, and several Alts and really enjoying the ride so far.

Just wait- You'll cry when you get to VR.

smokes

the current options are:

grind it out in the vet areas through quests
join a craglorn anomalie grind group
go to cyrodiil and pvp for a month

1-50 is great, i can't disagree with that - but yea, VR content is still up in the air - currently waiting for the "road ahead" dev post that should hopefully have more details on what is going to happen to it.

Schallen

smokes wrote: »

the current options are:

grind it out in the vet areas through quests
join a craglorn anomalie grind group
go to cyrodiil and pvp for a month

1-50 is great, i can't disagree with that - but yea, VR content is still up in the air - currently waiting for the "road ahead" dev post that should hopefully have more details on what is going to happen to it.

Ive been doing anomalies for the past few days. Ive only gotten to VR6 and I want to kill myself.

smokes

Schallen wrote: »

Ive been doing anomalies for the past few days. Ive only gotten to VR6 and I want to kill myself.

i know the feeling, but i have not yet succumbed to the anomaly grind

nowt to do, other than wait, or suck it up. i'm very much in a love/hate relationship with ESO right now

Schallen

smokes wrote: »

Schallen wrote: »

Ive been doing anomalies for the past few days. Ive only gotten to VR6 and I want to kill myself.

i know the feeling, but i have not yet succumbed to the anomaly grind

nowt to do, other than wait, or suck it up. i'm very much in a love/hate relationship with ESO right now

#canarcheagelaunchnow

I feel the same way. I'm only here for the PVP. And the PVP is fun at times but its now just who can exploit the most or just change the damage values in a hex editor.

Falmer

Loving PvE myself. Have completed two alliances with two different characters and the final alliance I am leveling up two different characters at about the same pace.

Once I have these 4 level 50s I might check out what PvE content I can find in Cyrodiil. After that.... not sure what might be left in the game for people like me.

Veteran content holds no appeal, since I have already completed these characters storylines. Yes, to me these are 'characters'. They have stories and have loyalties to "their" alliance. Playing in another alliance just feels "wrong".

Imagine if once Frodo tossed the ring into Mt. Doom, the next chapter decides to put Frodo the Hobbit in the role of Dark Rider of Sauron and then see how the story might have played out if he was the 'bad guy'.

silent88b14_ESO

I don't mean to get personal, but if you are bored it is something you are responsible for. You are not a victim of the game. If anything, your perception of the game is the only victim, and if that is the case the only one making it a victim is you. Okay, maybe bots and spam have something to do with it too.

Most responses suggest that the game is pretty good. It is a little rough in spots but overall pretty good.

wafcatb14_ESO

depends if veteran is grinding mobs nonstop i`d rather do that than be forced to quest grind, from 1 quest hub to the next , while the game holds your hand leading you through the game so you don`t miss anything they created /yawn

Game has zero replay value , due to they only have 1 zone every 10 lvls per faction . unlike every other MMO where from lvl 5 - 15 you can choose 1 of 3 or 4 zones for that lvl range to go to , here you have 1 choice .

and the only option is to grind mobs or redo all the same quest you have already done , or you can reroll to another faction , but all the fighter guild, mage guild and personal story quest is the same regardless of faction , class etc lol .

it`s like they didn`t know what to do for a endgame so decided to make it so now you can go grind all the other factions zones haha wtf really .

personaly i think they wasted all their resources on voice overs and like SWTOR didn`t have a budget left over to add any real content until they got box sales and subs for a couple months haha .

Woolenthreads

I think I've mentioned on a different thread that I think their approach was wrong and that the Vets, should have been playing within copies of the finished areas as Agents Provocateurs against each other.

Cogo

I am having loads of fun and I only played one char, in one alliance so far.

I have so much more to look forward to once I decide to make an alt. But first I want to get up in higher levels and see if I am good enough to take on whatever awaits me there.

Hadria

Loving pve...but I don't spend all my time farming one mob then complain about it being boring.

Shaun98ca2

Im personally glad we get to play through all 3 factions on 1 character. Veteran Levels being a NEW level of Difficulty is also amazing forces you to simply be a better player. Luckly I have a LONG way to go to get there but at least when I do OVERLEVELING wont be an issue as I am currently experiencing.

Krinaman

Frankly, I love solo questing but found the vet levels to be tedious. Unless you roll one of the faceroll builds killing mobs was slow and tedious and worth next to no XP.

Sure, you learn new skills and ways to beat the content. But when you have to do it over and over and over and over again for every single pack of mobs it's beyond tedious. This is why most MMOs put faceroll easy mobs everywhere and then a challenge at the end of the quest.

Grim13

blah blah blah, something something 4 of, yada yada 3 over there, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz <huh!?> "wait! what was that last part!?".. ah, nevermind... thank goodness for quest markers...

...re-engage autopilot...

Bromburak

Schallen wrote: »

Well? Is it still painful to level? I haven't checked because i'm scared.

It never has been painful, but some casuals have a hard time because they think Vet content must be something like start zone friendly with no challenges.

If you made it to Vet content you actually start dealing with your class more in detail and learn that its all about being flexible instead using the same anytimer slot that never was adjusted ...

Vet Content makes you re think and get rid of trinity thinking.
If players don't they must deal with the consequences.

Hadria

Bromburak wrote: »

Schallen wrote: »

Well? Is it still painful to level? I haven't checked because i'm scared.

It never has been painful, but some casuals have a hard time because they think Vet content must be something like start zone friendly with no challenges.

If you made it to Vet content you actually start dealing with your class more in detail and learn that its all about being flexible instead using the same anytimer slot that never was adjusted ...

Vet Content makes you re think and get rid of trinity thinking.
If players don't they must deal with the consequences.

Whoa whoa stop with that logic they don't want to hear it.

Custos91

I really liked Vet areas, nothing painfull about that, painfull would be to lvl 2 other chars to get the missing story, because I am only playing healers, and afterwards the char would never be used again.
I actually kept a couple of items from the story, like the prophets and verandis rawenwatch staff, I will uprade them to legendary in the future, just because these nps earned it, same goes for gwendis, cariel, emeric, ayrenn, for the new mane, for the silvenar and the green lady, raz, the morag tong assasin, almalexia...
Great Npc, would never have seen a couple of them without VR areas.
Back to topic.
Vr areas are not that painfull if you don't try to rush.
I played a templar healer and literally kited half of the mobs to death xD
Just do a few dungeons from time to time, do the dolmens and whatever, cadwells quest, pvp...
In short:
Do what you have done in elderscrolls so far, just make something, then make another thing, it was never a good idea to push just one thing xD

mlecho74

smokes wrote: »

the current options are:

grind it out in the vet areas through quests
join a craglorn anomalie grind group
go to cyrodiil and pvp for a month

1-50 is great, i can't disagree with that - but yea, VR content is still up in the air - currently waiting for the "road ahead" dev post that should hopefully have more details on what is going to happen to it.

So wait, if you go to the other factions after you hit 50, you don't level through doing their quests? I've been kind of looking forward to it now that I have a character that might actually make it to 50. What's the point of being able to go to the other factions, then?

jambam817_ESO

After I hit VR1 on my Nightblade, my playtime has significantly decreased. I was hoping for some more group content after playing 1-50 basically solo with the dungeons once for quests. Now that i see i have to grind 2 factions its a bit daunting. I wish the community embraced group content more, thats where i find my fun. I payed for 3 months but... ya....

Censorious

Yes.

Carnagan

mlecho74 wrote: »

So wait, if you go to the other factions after you hit 50, you don't level through doing their quests? I've been kind of looking forward to it now that I have a character that might actually make it to 50. What's the point of being able to go to the other factions, then?

You do level by doing the faction quests in the Veteran rank zones. In fact, it's the best way to level since it takes the entire zone worth of quests (and a bit more besides) to go up to the next rank.

So of course it frustrates people if they don't care about the story and just want to get to max level as fast as possible. You're going to find it boring if you don't want to actually, you know, play most of the game.

Zero_Tolerance

Questing in VR is good.

Too hard for some it seems, so they go and try grinding xp. But since they were born bad, they fail at this too and farm Anomalies for xp, LOL

methjester

PvE was boring the first time I did it, Worse the second, and a cruel joke the third time around.

Inco

Leveling 1-50 is just AWESOME!.. Things flow well and its a little bit of effort and time, but very fun and moves along pretty nicely. I plan on taking all my ALT's to level 50 if I hang around. (About to UNSUB for many reasons - #1 being Templar)

VR1-VR10 (now VR12) leveling has the developers one way tickets being purchased for MMOTitanic. My first complaint was you no longer get XP/VP for Exploration. So throw away all that Exploration Trait gear. I mean who makes and totally markets an MMO around "Explore and see everything" but eliminates Exploration XP/VP in game for TWO Whole Factions of exploring that are required? Bad call ZOS!

My Biggest VR complaint is you no longer can "Play your way" and are forced to basically complete 90%-95% of all World Bosses, Dungeons, Dark Anchors and Quests in the zone in order to get enough VP's to continue leveling. Each new zone seems to gradually increase in VP reward, but doesn't scale OLD content like it did in BETA (Which was awesome BTW).

ZOS needs to remove heads from rears and can still "Save" this game IMHO. Things like RETRO gaining points for revisiting old content should level to VR rank at the time (Not stay back in OLD points land).

poodlemasterb16_ESO

I think the game is misunderstood. The point of the 50 PvE levels is to make you a useful char with some idea of how things work. The VR stuff is for PvP. That's where the game's endless combat can be properly exploited.

The cries for more VR leveling as though it should be infinite kinda baffles me. It should be hard to be in those ranks and you should face hard, nearly impossible tests on a regular basis.

Keep it rolling Zenimax and I might even consider it as good as Stalker which had more rage quits than almost any other game. It is still the best though.

Schallen

smokes wrote: »

Schallen wrote: »

Ive been doing anomalies for the past few days. Ive only gotten to VR6 and I want to kill myself.

i know the feeling, but i have not yet succumbed to the anomaly grind

nowt to do, other than wait, or suck it up. i'm very much in a love/hate relationship with ESO right now

#canarcheagelaunchnow

I feel the same way. I'm only here for the PVP. And the PVP is fun at times but its now just who can exploit the most or just change the damage values in a hex editor.

Bromburak wrote: »

Schallen wrote: »

Well? Is it still painful to level? I haven't checked because i'm scared.

It never has been painful, but some casuals have a hard time because they think Vet content must be something like start zone friendly with no challenges.

If you made it to Vet content you actually start dealing with your class more in detail and learn that its all about being flexible instead using the same anytimer slot that never was adjusted ...

Vet Content makes you re think and get rid of trinity thinking.
If players don't they must deal with the consequences.

I'm not really a casual player by any means. I am a casual PVE player yes, because PVP is my domain. I just have to level up in VR zones to co pete properly in PVP.

Bromburak

Schallen wrote: »

Bromburak wrote: »

It never has been painful, but some casuals have a hard time because they think Vet content must be something like start zone friendly with no challenges.

If you made it to Vet content you actually start dealing with your class more in detail and learn that its all about being flexible instead using the same anytimer slot that never was adjusted ...

Vet Content makes you re think and get rid of trinity thinking.
If players don't they must deal with the consequences.

I'm not really a casual player by any means. I am a casual PVE player yes, because PVP is my domain. I just have to level up in VR zones to co pete properly in PVP.

So what? You want free levels instead dealing with your class or what is your post about?

born2beagator

Some nice elitism going on here. Brom uses the word "casuals" like its a insult.

News flash: not everyone wants every mob over 1 enemy to be a grueling fight. That does not make them bad players.

btw, no offense intended, but if you are subbing to this game just for the pvp, you are in it for the wrong reasons imo. But its your money.

Bromburak

born2beagator wrote: »

Some nice elitism going on here. Brom uses the word "casuals" like its a insult.

Thats the way you want to understand things, to distract from the problems this group of players have!

As usual, cause they don't L2P Vet content because QQ is easier.

You know, we don't have problems with Vet Content or need any help, its them.
So deal with it or get over it!