It's a strange decision to increasingly focus the entire game on solo play, only to then make the main event of the year truly enjoyable only for groups.

Since there's no new area this year, I would have at least expected multiple difficulty levels. That would also be a great test for introducing difficulty levels in the open world.

Right now, the new area is unplayable and devoid of any fun – I'd rather go to the dentist.

It's better than the Test Server. It gives some fun, and it gives some kind of achivement, when you do a boss with a random buch of people you meet in a district. The story is nice and the zone itself is beautiful, I like it.

BUT:

- Who in their right mind thought that running the main boss of a district through the areas of all other bosses? You are trying to explain the mechanics of a Boss, then you run it with people, some of them do mistakes, you do mistakes, but you keep going, you get the Argent boss to 20%, then BAM, this ugly giant spider slams into the middle killing everybody. THIS IS NOT FUN. AND it kills the experience for not so hardcore players.

Give the opportunity to lure the big wandering boss to the boss area, for veteran players, but leave the possibility to avoid it. Move the path of the big boss to the edge of the area, so you can run single encounter away from it. Maybe give an achievement for killing the boss while the wandering boss is in the fight, for the veterans to enjoy.

- the "hit boxes" of objectives (especially burn the propaganda! You need to find an exact spot to stand and an exact angle and point to click, otherwise you cannot interact with those. Also, quest markers for many objectives (e.g. bodies) appears AFTER you trample over body few times. It should be visible if you are few meters away, as per normal quests... given the zone is not a OLDSCHOOL QUESTING zone (as those new additions you have advertised), but full of nasty encounters.

- the "friendly competition" between factions. Gives a lot of FOMO. You had the experience of the FOMO last year with a "friendly competition" between servers, and it backfired. Just don't. Nobody is asking for a friendly competition based on grind outside of PvP...

- drop rates from the "easy" mobs. They are laughable at this point. I got lucky after 4 h of play to get the fragment, but heard a lot of people got nothing for hours, and the mobs does not drop anything except the relic fragments, so a person who does not see a single drop in a few hours might wonder if this is broken or not.

- the Curated Coffers are a joke. Base game overland pieces? I havent got a single one that I haven't got, so it seems only base game zones equipment drops. Ando only equipment. No gold, no sellable items, no motifs, nothing. Provided how hard it is to get one quest (relatively to other sources in game) and that the mobs do not drop gold, this is a joke.

- the population. The instances were completly empty. I found two people doing my instance inside, had to recruit in the guild. You can say it is why guilds are there in the first place, but... Instance has 36 people cap. SO what is the probability, that you have empty isntance one day after event start. It does not seem very promising. I think a lot of "casuals" (I'm a casual myself, btw.) went there, could not find a decent group and they got frustrated and quit. I have read some people suggesting vet/normal mode. That's a good idea. Also, drop the requirement everyone in the group needs those keys for dungs, because this kills runs. When one person left good luck finding a replacement in a foreseeable future...

So far my experience with that zone: 2.5 / 5.

Well after about an hour I managed to get round solo and do a couple of daily quests and finally got the mobs under control and with a few other players managed to kill off calamitous roksa. Unfortunately the reward is gear pieces in sets i’ve completed in other dungeons or trials so not great. However if you don’t have the gear i’m sure it’s worth it. House is nice enough and the vault with my modest wealth spilling out is a nice touch.

AdamBourke wrote: »

It does seem a bit weird that they are adding challenge difficulty so that elite players can enjoy easier content, and solo dungeons so that casual players can enjoy harder content, and generally making ESO more accessible...

And then the big flagship event of the year, replacing new dungeons and new zones, is tailored to the top 1% of players?

It's not for the top 1%. I spent 5.5 hours there last night with a ragtag group of players mostly running pvp builds, and none of us being pve kings and we did just fine. No voice comms, no stacking buff sets etc.
The difficulty is fine, its a group zone.

Why do trials have two modes, why do dungeons have two modes, why do IC and Cyrodiil have multiple modes, and why will OW have multiple difficulty levels when comes to the game? Because everyone likes something different. So why is Night Market only available in "hard mode"? Why can’t it have two difficulty levels, or at least make the large quest zone (districts) easier so players can at least do the quests solo, while keeping the dungeon and trial harder? I don’t understand why they couldn’t at least do this—since it’s a group activity, at least the part of the market where quests are done should, in my opinion, be accessible as a solo experience...

lagrue wrote: »

I can't even figure out how to continue anymore. I'm missing 1 sliver for each zone that only comes from coffers and the game is not giving me coffers when I complete the dailies. I've done 10 across the 3 zones.

This is where I am stuck currently. Just grinding without progress because idk where the last fragment drops.

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merevie wrote: »

Came home to find the Night Market empty and 1 group in group finder that promptly wiped and disbanded. It's Day 1 -half the player base should be in there?

Very disappointed as I thought on the first day at least there would be groups.

Only empty instances.

Going back to Windrose until you people fix whatever reason the entire player base decided it wasn't worth doing. Once again the ESO hype team is full of hot air and content is rubbish. Utterly sick of getting let down over and over again by ESO.

*And yes, slot Pale Order and you can spend millions of hours of soloing content without dying. But why? There are more fun games to play.

The timing with D4 and a new POE league couldn't be better far as I'm concerned. It's baffling that they would implement group content in this way, and it's not so much the difficulty, moreover the fact that in 2026 they still haven't added tools to properly complete group content. Almost no one will be playing this content in a month. I can guarantee.

The sad part is they already have the tools to make this way better:

- make it like a big zone like craglorn or like incursions during events where there are 100s of people dropping in and out on the fly and zerg the content and have fun (spellscar, geysers, harrowstorms, ...)
- make it like Cyrodill where you have 10 night market campaigns running where 100 people can queue and join and where people can see how full each market is. When markets are full, create new ones and remove empty ones.
- make quests you pick up in group automatically shareable like trials upon entering
- people know all these systems already so learning curve is very low

They have all the tools to make this technically and gameplay wise much better and much more fun, but for some reason they choose it to it like this....

Firstmep wrote: »

Ive tried to share my dailies with another player of the same faction but the game says unable to share.
Edit: Some people are unable to get my shares but it looks like most people can.

5 of the 6 quests are picked up from your faction leader (Blood on the Sands is the only one not from the faction leader).

If you are Eyes and you have the Brazen quest, someone else from Eyes cannot share their Argent quest with you, until you've completed or dropped your Brazen quest (which is how things normally work, like if you're sharing overland world boss quests). But if someone else from Ruckus shares their Argent quest with you, then you can accept that alongside your Brazen quest. So it's possible to have up to 3 faction leader quests active in your journal at the same time, but only if you got the shares from people in other factions. Otherwise, if you are only getting shares from your own faction, you can still do all of them, but you can only have 1 active in your journal at at a time (which, again, is how things like wb quest sharing normally works).

ZOS really wants you to cooperate with players from other factions (there's also the Portent recipe and ingredients which require trading with people in other factions), which is strange because they then have this silly scoreboard thing to say that we are supposed to be "competing". Riiiiight.

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

code65536 wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

one thing im really confused about is where do you get windglass to get through the sand walls in the parch district

there is 0 explanation, hints, or anything on what to do about those

Windglass is one of the three relics. Being able to bypass those sand walls is the reward for completing the relic for that district.

that would have been helpful to know earlier on, but there was no indication thats where it was from

when interacting with the sandwall it just gives an error message saying "you need windglass to get through this" without any context

none of the quest dialog up to this point indicated that would be needed either, and there are no friendly npcs or lorebooks nearby to give any hints on this

i found the parch to be the most annoying zone because of the sandwalls, there were several bosses that it was unclear how to even reach them because of the sandwalls, which makes needing to kill them first to get the windglass in the first place makes it more frustrating

the other 2 districts i found fine, they had side areas for the relics but not actively blocking any of the boss encounters

There is always at least one open route to every boss in the Parch at any given time, the sand walls rotate periodically. I believe the zone handler (the little Ska'afin dude) at one of the Oases also gives some information about needing to acquire the Windglass, the splinters required and where they drop from.

They mentioned in a livestream that there would be alternate lead drops when Night Market closed. Where they might be I cannot remember if they said or not.