Official Discussion Thread for "Greater Dangers Means Greater Rewards with Challenge Difficulty"

ZOS_Kevin · May 26

This is the official discussion thread for, "Greater Dangers Means Greater Rewards with Challenge Difficulty"

"Tailor your overland and quest experience via Season Zero’s new Challenge Difficulty system."

LunaFlora · May 26

awesome image.

i wish seagulls could fight us, most birds just fly away when our characters get close to them

metheglyn · May 26

Poor pirate dude. First his ship wrecks (I assume) and he's washed ashore, and then he's attacked by swarming, leaping mudcrabs and opportunistic gulls. But I'm sure it'll be fine, and that tiny axe will be all he needs to extricate himself from this situation.

I am looking forward to seeing what the difficulty levels are like. I have a feeling, though, that I'll stick with default setting for the most part.

fizl101 · May 26

I guess from seeing those seagulls he had just bought a portion of chips

SeaGtGruff · May 26

Alternate interpretation: Those sea gulls aren't attacking him; they're actually going for the mudcrabs which are attacking him. (Yeah, I'm probably wrong!)

Cosmo_Nova · May 26

This has got to be one of the greatest promotional renders you guys have ever put out lol

Skorro · May 26

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Alternate interpretation: Those sea gulls aren't attacking him; they're actually going for the mudcrabs which are attacking him. (Yeah, I'm probably wrong!)

Right or it's his warden buddy behind him throwing seagulls with his up-and-coming skill style 🪿

Dojohoda · May 26

I agree, that's a good image.

I am looking forward to trying this difficulty system.

SkaiFaith · May 26

Am I the only one thinking this is a tease for the rewards of the upcoming Golden Pursuit tied to the increased difficulty?
The tats, the tiara, the costume? Or maybe they will come with high seas event...

LunaFlora · May 26

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Am I the only one thinking this is a tease for the rewards of the upcoming Golden Pursuit tied to the increased difficulty?
The tats, the tiara, the costume? Or maybe they will come with high seas event...

Swift-Winds Sailor costume from the currently available Warrior Wave crates.

i cannot recognise the tiara and tattoos sadly.

UntilValhalla13 · May 27

So instead of getting like 35 gold from killing something, I'll get like 70 gold.... No actual rewards?

dcrush · May 27

gorky1 · May 27

UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

So instead of getting like 35 gold from killing something, I'll get like 70 gold.... No actual rewards?

But hey, the battle will take 5 times longer...

Seems like they should have at least made the reward 5x too.

FurryCandyHearts · May 27

I am very much looking forward to NEVER using this feature as i already find the programming of overland wildlife to be highly passive-agressive in its current design and annoying beyond all measure. How you would think that intensifying that would be something people would want is well beyond my ability to comprehend. No thank you!

Attorneyatlawl · May 27

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

I am very much looking forward to NEVER using this feature as i already find the programming of overland wildlife to be highly passive-agressive in its current design and annoying beyond all measure. How you would think that intensifying that would be something people would want is well beyond my ability to comprehend. No thank you!

Many of us asked for it.

SirAxen · May 28

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

I am very much looking forward to NEVER using this feature as i already find the programming of overland wildlife to be highly passive-agressive in its current design and annoying beyond all measure. How you would think that intensifying that would be something people would want is well beyond my ability to comprehend. No thank you!

Options are nice.

The people who want a more hardcore challenge have the option now.

ZomZom · May 28

Very much looking forward to it, but it would be nice to have overland mobs that have not chance of winning to just stay calm.

BretonMage · May 28

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

I am very much looking forward to NEVER using this feature as i already find the programming of overland wildlife to be highly passive-agressive in its current design and annoying beyond all measure. How you would think that intensifying that would be something people would want is well beyond my ability to comprehend. No thank you!

Many of us asked for it.

Tbf a lot of the requests were about quest bosses. I personally only wanted harder delve/PD bosses, and had zero interest in trash mobs.

FurryCandyHearts · May 28

If people want harder content then how about forcing people using trial in in 4 man dungeons be required to do vetran dungeons. That would give the "we want harder content crowd" some harder content and help reduce the speed running on normal dungeons so people can do the actual quests the first time they get a dungeon.

FurryCandyHearts · May 28

using trial gear

FurryCandyHearts · May 28

and enforce it by kicking them out of group if they don trial gear in a 4 man normal dungeon

FurryCandyHearts · May 28

and a half hour time penalty

Necrotech_Master · 2:34AM

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

If people want harder content then how about forcing people using trial in in 4 man dungeons be required to do vetran dungeons. That would give the "we want harder content crowd" some harder content and help reduce the speed running on normal dungeons so people can do the actual quests the first time they get a dungeon.

good luck with queue times then if that were to happen lol

honestly in most normal dungeons experienced players could probably still burn through all the mobs naked (no armor) so it wouldnt solve your speedrunner problem

Silufadumar · 7:10AM

For me, the implementation of this is possibly the worst Zos could have chosen.

What I was hoping for, was a Veteran version of the different zones, I wanted something akin to Craglorn from way back when, where everyone knew they were facing harder content, knew they were better off in a group or soft grouping and could get rewards unavailable in a normal zone.

A level playing field IS IMPORTANT!

We don't have mixed normal/veteran dungeons or trials for good reason, so why thinking doing it on a zone scale is a good idea is.... frankly beyond me.

Maybe I'm wrong and most players will love it, but as it stands I don't think it's a system I'll be engaging with much.

colossalvoids · 9:24AM

Silufadumar wrote: »

For me, the implementation of this is possibly the worst Zos could have chosen.

What I was hoping for, was a Veteran version of the different zones, I wanted something akin to Craglorn from way back when, where everyone knew they were facing harder content, knew they were better off in a group or soft grouping and could get rewards unavailable in a normal zone.

A level playing field IS IMPORTANT!

We don't have mixed normal/veteran dungeons or trials for good reason, so why thinking doing it on a zone scale is a good idea is.... frankly beyond me.

Maybe I'm wrong and most players will love it, but as it stands I don't think it's a system I'll be engaging with much.

Pretty much how I feel.

duagloth · 11:15AM

Greater rewards,lol