You are allowed to name other games on this forum, you just can't make a topic entirely about another game.

Gear grind in this game mostly revolves around sets. Even when sets aren't a straight upgrade having the right one for your build makes a huge difference, and a lot of the best ones come from dungeons and trials, so collecting them is a big part of the game for a lot of people.

We used to have a straight-forward gear treadmill where every so often new tiers would come out that were stronger - that's why the best gear in the game requires a seemingly random amount of CP, that's what they got up to before they stopped. It was never very popular with players because it just meant wasting time grinding for basically what you already had but with slightly bigger numbers whenever a new tier came out, before you could go back to getting new stuff.

I suspect scrapping that also gave ZOS the opportunity to add a lot of the QoL improvements we've had since. I doubt they'd have made things like the armoury and set collections if they were still relying on players re-grinding stuff they'd already collected every time there was an update.

You're taking it too literally I'm afraid. It's "another" gear chase, not "the" gear chase he's talking about. It's already there, with each update there is a new desirable piece(es) for the min max crowd out there, if you're competitive player you're constantly upgrading and as a newer growing player you do the same to a different extent, that's the gear chase. Just more specific sets for the appropriate content.

well when they introduce new dungeons thats a new "gear chase" due to the new gear, the amount of chase though varies from people not interested, to collectors who need to have all the gear (thats me lol), and if 1 or more of the sets gets deemed to be the new "meta" and then theres even more trying to get the gear

Ok so its just 1 or 2 new sets thats mostly useless. Ok thanks now I understand

We call "Gear Chase" in this game "fill the sticker book". I am totally down for more cool sets. Lots of things I'd love to see have not yet made it in.

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I play another game where you slay demons and in that game youre chasing the best gear to be as powerful as you can be, but how would a Gear Chase work in Eso?

There are absolutely sets that are best for certain classes and builds, but it is a real min-max thing. You can clear pretty much every piece of vet content in game in crafted gear or just gear you pick up along the way. Having good knowledge of mechanics, a tight rotation, and coordination with group members is more important than gear. If you are going for high end trifecta hard mode leaderboard stuff, then you will indeed need the right gear to squeeze out that extra bit of performance to kill the boss at 295 seconds instead of 305 seconds because they enrage at 300 seconds in hard mode.

But other than situations like that, you can get by just fine with mediocre gear if you know the content and know your groupmates. It'll never hurt to have better gear, but I would not obsess over it unless absolute top-notch performance is key to you. Even then, skill choice and rotation and timing and rhythm are better places to focus on for high DPS, not gear. A good player in mediocre gear will easily outperform a mediocre player in meta gear.

Healing and Tanking can be a bit different. Since those roles are often more about buffing DPS than about tanking or healing, gear can be very important because of how helpful it can be for other players in group.