Dolmens definitely were not easy when levelling first characters in whatever drops gear and little knowlege how the game works. If you want do challenging content try arenas, dungeons and trials. Or solo Harrowstorms and Dragons.

I'd agree, then I remember Harrowstorms or whatever they're called and those things are deserted, with lone players having zero hope of completing them. Sometimes they're deserted close to an hour, even more. So folk go elsewhere and forget about them. Good luck ever getting one of those situated underground ticked off outside an event. So a lot of people, wait for a very small week or 2 window each year when it's possible. By then, though, they've moved onto another game usually. I have an underground one i have never gotten done due to how poorly they are received.

That's the trouble with that sort of content, folk get want they want from them, never to return, and what we're left with is what we have with those things, tumbleweed.

Craglorn proves it's only the vocal minority on the forums that want difficult zones and overland stuff. When they're in game, the places are deserted with little or no one willing to help.

I've always said, it would be ace to give folk a vet option, that puts them into a vet instance of each overland zone. That way, they're welcome to spend many hours in barren lands, seeing next to no one for days on end. Not too dissimilar to the old Vet gold zones. They would then come on the forums complaining how ZoS ruined the game by splitting the difficulty zones and how the vet versions are devoid of others. Nah, just no one wants to trudge through all that nonsense, so they'd say away from it. What you'd be experiencing is the true popularity of such vet type content. It ain't popular at all. It's already a ballache wading through garbage enemies every 5 foot you walk.

There's a very good reason Craglorn got changed, that they changed tact after the awful harrowstorms and other things. Must be really disheartening for those making that content to see next to no one using it. Like i said, these forums would lead you to believe we all want vet type overland stuff, the reality is, these forums don't represent the gaming population in game. Thank god. The game would be awful. To be clear, i'd like there to be a vet instance of overland.

In a nutshell, if you miss the release window when every man and his budgie are running around like demented demonic chickens, you're screwed getting some things done in ESO dlc/chapters.

W. Skyrim and N. Elsweyr are deserts of course but that is expected from inconvenient maps. I've been doing daily or more harrowstorms at The Reach and dragons at Southern Elsweyr. No crowds but people do em often enough to get daily done.