Saves and skips so you can jump straight into the interesting stuff.

More random game modes in portals of the unknown

Nerf the minotaur and Gothmau marauders, the others are fine

New cool power ups and more variety in the looks of the arenas

Cycle in and out cosmetic rewards that you can randomly loot

New class sets

Major rework: take the existing IA and add in a seasonal progression track with savable points (each arc stage can be saved). This is essentially taking Arcs and putting them into their own prog groups.

Ex: Arc +1 would be 10% of total prog to 100% etc.

Let's say an Arc +10 is 100% complete meaning at +10 you get the seasonal rewards. Now, because it's "infinite" let's say a player continues past a +10...well, each +2 clear after that yields bonus rewards (think gold or some other farmable currency with the level of reward scaling as the player clears more).

A timer should also be added -- clear an Arc under time? Bonus rewards, fail to clear in time and you'll still prog but just not with the bonuses.

You can save an Arc after clearing it and wayshrine anywhere else and take a break and come back to it at any point...BUT if you leave mid-stage/cycle without reaching the Arc checkpoint, you get a deserter debuf with a 30min cooldown.

This Arc +10 prog seasonal track should be tracked on the UI to be able to refer back to where you are. Rewards can be given out to the player as they meet the reqs OR put them behind a weekly prog rotation maybe in a Necrom Vault where the player can collect their reward for highest Arc cleared.

Seasonal rewards for clearing a +10 though can only be collected at the end of a season (let's say a season lasts 8 weeks) - so you have 8 weeks to clear a +10.

You're welcome.

A save option, a smoother difficulty curve that would allow for much longer runs, more choices with less always picking the offensive option, remove the garbage options like additional XP, and maybe allow us to remove some of the vision and verse options from the pool so we don't see options that aren't viable at all for the build we are running.

I want a better illusion of choice regarding where you go. You only ever get one portal to the next area — the "Portal to the Unknown" always leads to a minigame or side area that then leads you through a singular portal back to the next area.

I'd rework it like this:

• You always get at least two circular portals that take you to the next area.
• Rarely, you get a third portal — the "Portal to the Unknown" which works as it does on Live.
• The two circular portals lead to different areas, with some hint to where they lead or what Verses/Visions you might get from them.
• The "hint" could be as simple as an icon above the portals, or special VFX that is unique to the area (e.g., a portal may have fire particles if it leads to the fire areas)

There you go — the player now gets to choose which direction in the Infinite Archive they go, and may get a clue as to what they'll expect going in that direction.

It's just incredibly boring when you realize that the Infinite Archive is currently a completely linear experience with an optional minigame every now and again.

For me Infinite Archive need :
◾the final panel of class set,
◾Second wave of class style,
◾2 New Marauders,
◾Save system
◾New Verses & Visions,
◾New Achievement & Collectible,
◾Rework of marauders,can spawn in all phase Boss & Tho'At too.
◾Shardborn Dremora Companion ,
◾Tho'At New Form,
◾New Fables,
◾Rework of leaderboard,
◾Hard Achievement with exclusive Collectible,
◾Rework of actual verses and visions

Double exp and or fortune weekends

Think your 3rd suggestion is probably the best one to keep players coming back. My IA sticker book is completed and outside of a few style pages there is very little reason for me to go back in there.

Would be cool to have different themes when it comes to the rooms you go to instead of the constant apocrypha/library theme in every room. Have us visit different places of tamriel, maybe from previous areas we've visited during zone quests, stories etc.

Cooperharley wrote: »

For me, I'd love:
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2) To have a save option specifically for solo or duos in case you have to log off for dinner or some event for instance and would like to continue when you come back, similar to most other games of similar structure

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this!

For me to play it, it would need a complete rework.

I find it incredibly tedious, boring and repetitious. There's no way in hell I'm going to grind all the sets and leads.

If ZOS adds more essential sets and leads to this content that I already hate, it will contibute to pushing me from the game.

I know it won't happen, but for me to enjoy it, it would need to be restructured to be more similar to a conventional arena.

I want to complete a session within 30-45 minutes once I have the hang of things. I want that session to contribute to my overall completion to the same degree a single completion of vMA or vVH would.

I do not want and would never accept IA as part of my daily or weekly routine indefinitely. I want to learn it, grind it, and move on.

I HATE the ramping difficulty. Please just give me the normal/vet paradigm so I don't have to play through the ezmode trash.

To me, the problem is foundation. They developed IA to be an incredible, extensible, low-budget time sink and it shows.

If I sound bitter, it's because I am. It's not an accident that ZOS has incentivized it with a disproportionate number of attractive sets. They clearly want this to be a routine item for ESO players. But I am actually repulsed by it. I just won't play it. I honestly dislike everything about it. I want to say I at least like the art assets because they are well done, but because of the concept the artwork is necessarily generic in many ways and so it becomes painful for me to look at endlessly. So every awesome reward they add to it is extremely frustrating to me.

It's too slow.

One year later and I still only have 1/3 codex on all furnishing leads. I don’t even have full stickerbook on the one character I run it on, even though I run two cycles each time.

This is taking grind to a whole new level.

I can’t run this every day, maybe only once per week. It’s frustrating to get through arc 2 and not have a single lead.

I don’t care about saves, I just want to make reasonable progress for an hour’s run and not end up with nothing.

I am starting to hate this content and feel like it is a complete waste of time.

Nothing is going to make it entertaining, but it could at least be bearable.

Save options similar to Maelstrom Arena would be great (as many ppl here have commented).

I would also add in that the Marauders need to be toned down a bit, or otherwise, make them spawn in specific arenas or where they don't spawn in other specific arenas. Too often Marauders feel like a scheduled loss because a) depending on which marauder spawns and 2) what map the Marauder spawns on, it can basically feel like the game is intentionally making you lose by putting you in a situation that is impossible to win. Example, spawning Bittog on a map that provides ZERO room for kiting.

At least make it so certain Marauders can't spawn in certain maps, or perhaps spawn Marauders at specific intervals so we can actually be prepared for the fight by stacking things in our favor (transformation verse, stacking defensive verse or utility verses to improve survivability, etc.).

Along those same lines, I'm not a big fan of the dragon bosses, whose chief way to beat you is to simply knock you off the edge of a map that IMO is way too small. The Archive is hard enough on later arcs, there's no need to have a gimmicky boss fight that can hand you a cheap loss because you or your partner were at the wrong place at the wrong time. I think the boss arena should be built slightly larger (maybe an additional 8M radius to the circular boss arena) just to make this more of a fair fight.

And also class sets should drop from doing the side events. Too often they can just be skipped unless you are farming leads. Give us a reason to do them!

Fix the companion disengagement bug!

SilverBride wrote: »

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

I'm not a big fan of the dragon bosses, whose chief way to beat you is to simply knock you off the edge of a map that IMO is way too small.

I agree! These are by far the worst and I can only defeat the lightning dragon when running alone with a Companion. I don't think they should be showing up in the early Arcs at all but I see them in Arc 2 a lot.

LOL I know we've talked about the dragon bosses before so I figured you'd approve of that one.

Arc 2 is still an early Arc though. Lately, when I go in IA, I usually end the run around Arc 6-7, depending on what visions I get, and I don't even take a specialized character into it. I just take my HA sorc with Macabre's Vintage. I do know how to stack visions and verses very well to take advantage of my build, but it is nothing special.

I know people who go in and just do Arc 1/2 over and over again, but I can't handle playing IA like that. That would bore me to tears.

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

I know people who go in and just do Arc 1/2 over and over again, but I can't handle playing IA like that. That would bore me to tears.

My friend and I used to run 4 Arcs on the weekend but going any further without a break is just too exhausting for me, both physically and mentally. So if I run it at all now it's just for 1 or 2 Arcs, which isn't exciting any more but it's all the non-stop combat I can do. We really need a save.