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I_killed_Vivec wrote: »

Would vote for Gold Road but it doesn't really count as a chapter

Don't agree but I respect the dedication to being a hater

I don't really have a least fave. The main story of High Isle/Galen is deffo my least fave, and I hate re-running it on my third character. BUT! I love High Isle and Galen themselves. Best incursions, soloable, best world bosses before they went mad with invul phases, again solo friendly but still a challenge. The environment is awesome. Love the sunflower fields and druidic nature.

Maybe Northern Elswyr as I don't like Cadwell (not a John Cleese fan anymore) and I didn't like the map. But then I like khajit.... Egh...

I vote none.

High Isle. I don't have Gold Road yet.

OsUfi wrote: »

I love High Isle and Galen themselves. Best incursions,

My least favorite incursions. The druid going through the same spiel every single time makes them tiresome for me. Also all the red is not pleasant to my eyes.

I have a great problem with Blackwood/Deadlands, some parts are cool like Deadlight, Longhouse Emperors, new enemies, but it lacks so many things. There are Plot-holes and non-sense, many places that got no use, etc...
Like the foundations are okay but almost nothing is built on top :
-Sul-Xan ? No Lore
-Incarnates ? No Lore
-Agonymium ? No Lore
-Dremnakens eat knowledge : Why ? How ?
-The Tempest Engine ? No Lore
-Fargrave's Plaza of Portals ? Links to Deadlands only.
-Fargrave's Bazaar ? Almost empty.
-etc...

Proxy this Proxy that..

Also not to mention the chapter feels like you're supposed to be an Arcanist.

Both Blackwood and Necrom.
While I preferred the atmosphere in Necrom than in Blackwood, both have World Events that I don't really enjoy, and World Events are top priority to me.

Blackwood introduced companions, which I appreciate, but the story was the most predictable ever to me, every character move... and yes, I am "the only" High Isle story enjoyer, so...

I'm not a fan of "dark themes" but Greymoor had cool locations, and snow!

For me personally, Necrom was the worst. The storytelling, treating the hero as if they were an imbecile, didn't sit well with me at all. Gold Road is somewhat better in that regard, and overall, I rather enjoyed the main quest, unlike Necrom. The downside, however, is that it feels too short and quickly resolved.

On the other hand, all that routine with scribing, while somewhat fun, feels overly tedious—almost as much as the dullness of completing the Psijic Order storyline.

And although I know most people seemed to like Necrom, here's the strange thing: many of those people didn't buy Gold Road. I think Necrom gave players too many goodies, made the game too easy, and as a result, over the next year, people simply lost the motivation to keep playing. They used the overpowered new class to complete everything they wanted and then quietly left the game.

ToT 👎🏻

Necrom. Bastion nymics made me so upset I basically skipped the chapter after a short while and took a break from eso doing the absolute minimum in game.

I was so enthralled with eso before, and that chapter really killed it. I am still only partially back mentally.

I resent Necrom as a Morrowboomer for denying us new Morrowind lore. At this point, only Tamriel Rebuilt is going to explore House Indoril and that's scheduled towards the end of their programme. Although we have been getting pieces, including the site of the "Telvanni Peninsula".
Also, Necrom's story was so boring. So there's a secret that could destroy the world (which it obviously won't anyway) and we spend the whole quest line chasing maguffins that could reveal it or the antagonists chasing those maguffins. That should have been covered in the prologue and pre-chapter dungeons. However, I must admit that I like Apocrypha.

The developers for High Isle decided that Bretons were "underdogs" of Tamriel and extrapolate the Medieval European aesthetic into their being mundane Europeans. So they're still irrelevant instead of being among the greatest sorcerers in Tamriel as they were original written (as well as the original Direnni and Septims before Redguard). And the zone barely gave them room for exposition. There was the hub, Stonelore Grove and Amenos station, but beyond there, it was strangely undeveloped. Galen is distinguished as being wilder and more druidic than High Isle, but nobody lives in the north of High Isle and the shipyards dotting the coast seem to exist indepently of towns. Nevertheless, Bretons still exist in the rest of the franchise, so they might become interesting in TESVI or VII. Also, the isles are pretty and Tales of Tribute is honestly one of my top three favourite chapter features.

Gold Road did a lot right, but I'm not that that into it. I think it's almost completely an aesthetic issue on my part. Colovia has nearly always been portrayed as a bit bland. And yet I enjoyed the Gold Coast DLC's take one it.

the worst one for me was blackwood

the story was exceptionally awful, between the blackwood/deadlands story and the black drake villa dungeon, it actively made me hate eveli (who i saw as a kind of funny side character before this chapter)

the zone also felt kind of bland, and there were a huge amount of unnecessary invisible walls to prevent you going over some mountains you absolutely could get over

the atoll of immolation was badly implemented too especially when they created a same-but-not-same instance of the same name in the deadlands that even to this day confuses people

the only good thing about this chapter was the introduction of the companions, but even then they were still implemented poorly (requiring to do the freaking intro quest on every character for something that is an account wide unlock was an extremely poor choice, especially with newer companions getting longer/more involved intro quests that make me want to use them even less)

I chose Blackwood, but Necrom is a very close second.

The only things I really loved about Blackwood was the introduction of companions (I still enjoy the ones that were introduced) and the city of Leyawiin as a crafting hub.

Blackwood's story is very repetitive and commits a major lore error that I still can't get over. It also ruined Eveli Sharp Arrow, who was majorly flanderized.

It's the only chapter with no chapter-exclusive feature.

It's the beginning of the year-long storyline most guilty of treating the player like they're dumb.

The world event is overly long and they went out of their way to make it difficult to skip any mobs in there, even for stealth based characters. I see no point in that because it's not a dungeon.

The trial is not interesting either mechanically or as an environment. And we don't have any good way of hearing the stories anyway.

Overall, Blackwood feels like it's the least thought out chapter of all. It's companion story of Fargrave redeems it's yls a bit, but as a standalone chapter, Blackwood is the least fun of all the chapters IMO.

At least Necrom gave us Arcanists.