I keep the vast majority of my gold on my main crafter/original character as, other than my trial tank, she's the character I play the most. And generally if I'm gonna spend money, it's on motifs or furnishing plans she doesn't know. Since I can't tell that if I am on other toons, I never buy those on other toons.

I do keep a small amount of gold on each toon for "traveling money" when not near a wayshrine, but otherwise it all stays on my crafter.

AScarlato wrote: »

There are thousands of hours of solo quests in this game...

Yes, there's a lot of story content. The problem is that you aren't rewarded for repeating it. Dungeons, trials, and arenas have the sticker book. Daily dungeons have transmutes, and if you do the undaunted quests, you get keys.

The game offers absolutely no incentive to repeat the zone story content (main and side quests). Once a player has completed it, unless they want to repeat it on an alt (and since AwA, you don't even get achievements for doing so), there's no reason to do it again.

I don't have anything against the Night Market, and I'm not upset about it, so I don't care that a zone was added for groups (though I do object to "encourage grouping" - come on, it's 2026. Get over it, already!). But this notion that, hey, you solo players have a ton to do. Look at all the quests!!! Where's the incentive to do them once you've done them once? If there were no rewards for repeating group content except 20g and a piece of overland gear, only the diehards would ever repeat the content. But solo players are told they should be happy that they can repeat the same content for virtually zero reward.

There's only a ton of stuff for NEW solo players to do. A lot of solo players who have been here for a while don't have much to do.

Having said that, perhaps solo content coming later this year will have a repeatable REWARDABLE element to it. The story content will not. Maybe some other stuff will.

My message to ZOS: The bulk of the solo content in this game is questing, so figure out how to entice people to repeat it. Unfortunately you threw out a system that was an incentive (achievements), and you didn't replace it with anything.

And to posters who trot out the tired old, "But look at all the solo quests!!!!!" If you wouldn't repeat content for zero rewards, don't expect solo players to do so.

I like the NM even though I'm primarily a solo player. I only wish there were less mobs so you could run around freely and do the quests and general exploration of the area. Now you can barely move two steps before running into enemies. If you don't have stealth you are helpless.

Regarding the Night Market Den/House, I wonder what will happen with bank vault access after the event runs out. Will we still retain access? What about next season when we might choose a new faction? If the vault requires you to have 5000 favor with your current faction, would it count as 0 again and lock you out?

shadoza wrote: »

AScarlato wrote: »

shadoza wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

It's amazing to me how a singular update not catered to solo players during the quarter that has literally never catered to solo players has suddenly become ZOS abandoning solo players. And it's not any one person, it's a sentiment being expressed many places. I have no idea where this is coming from but quarter 1 has literally not been solo content for like 10 years.

It really shows the power of ideas when they spread through groups.

Anyway for anyone worried about this, remember much of the rest of the year will be solo friendly content. And that quarter 1 has always been dungeons. I hope the sage's vault is as fun as it sounds on paper.

Could you be overly focused on this one event?

Could you?

There are thousands of hours of solo quests in this game and most events are meant for soloing. I think the rest of this year which are questlines and solo-dungeons are for solo players. Once in a while group and PvP players are thrown an event and the PvP events get complaints too.

I could be, but I am not.
Do you realize that there is very little content that a grouped player cannot access?
That PvP is unbalanced because of enhanced group dungeon rewards?

You have access to groups, you just don't want to. So don't. But that is your choice and MMOs can't design only content for solo players if they want to maintain interest. ESO has never ONLY had content for solo players and that's how it should be.

IMPORTANT PLEASE: I'd like to know from devs - are we going to keep the faction Favors we gained first time when the second time will come around?
What I mean is: I need 10K Glittering Goad Favors to purchase some faction items. If I reach it during first time, will I be able to purchase them again when it comes second time, even if I'll be pledged to someone else?
My 10K Favors gained for Glittering Goad, will they ever "go away from my account"?
I understand that second time the factions will start from 0 on servers, but shouldn't our accounts work differently individually, keeping track of how much we earned in each faction "lifetime", and therefore keeping things unlocked and forever purchasable, not depending by other factors?

Interesting.

If you tried all the tips in that thread, and followed them properly, and you are still unable to beat the dragons, then nobody should be able to beat the dragons and they are a death sentence for all of us.

But it looks like some/a few/a minority/ a majority of players can beat the dragons.

Something doesn't sum up here...

Ardriel wrote: »

I get the point about class identity when it comes from role-players.

I don't. I'm an active Roleplayer and have used subclassing to better RP some characters with diverse interest.

If I can double-major in real life, why can't I learn more than one thing in Tamriel?

The orders have no real discernable lore or headquarters that requires extensive training for many years at the exclusion of others, so I don't see any RP reason a character couldn't use any combination of skills they decided to pursue in their training/studies.

Blood_again wrote: »

You got plenty of tactic tips for IA dragons in Feb 2025

I still can't get your approach "do something with the content because of me" instead of learning.
OP, it is you who needs to do something with these dragons. You need to learn to fight them. So please, do something about them.

DenverRalphy wrote: »

The dragons are not too big for the platform. Just stand between the dragon's head and the knuckle of either wing, and you're completely safe from wing/tail slaps. Step to the outside of the AoE when he goes into flight phase.

Which was explained to you many times in an older thread you created.

Yes I have complained about this before. I find it interesting that this thread from over a year ago was found and brought up here now as having already provided answers for this problem. But it hasn't.

I tried all the tips in that thread, yet nothing has helped. Seeing a Dragon during a run is still a death sentence.

Dragons are just way too big for this platform and no amount of "getting gud" is going to change that.

shadoza wrote: »

Could it be that this concept that ESO does not support its solo players festered long enough that it has found a path to the surface so those players are talking about it?

The majority of the content for the past several years has been solo content? Do you have any specific examples of why solo players may have felt this way? Is it moreso maybe the lack of casual content rather than group size? For example, they cut the Q4 DLC and replaced it with IA a couple years back? IA is designed to be solo content too but it's not particularly casual solo.

shadoza wrote: »

Could it be that ZOS irritated the wound when they said that they want to encourage grouping. When someone says they encourage something, that usually means they prefer it. (Seriously, Night Market should have been billed as an alternative form of a dungeon. People would not be upset about a dungeon requiring grouping.)

It's not an alternative form of a dungeon but it was billed as replacing the dungeon content for this year. Hence the confusion why this event would be where it would explode. As people are essentially upset that the "dungeon" content for this year requires a group.

shadoza wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

It's amazing to me how a singular update not catered to solo players during the quarter that has literally never catered to solo players has suddenly become ZOS abandoning solo players. And it's not any one person, it's a sentiment being expressed many places. I have no idea where this is coming from but quarter 1 has literally not been solo content for like 10 years.

It really shows the power of ideas when they spread through groups.

Anyway for anyone worried about this, remember much of the rest of the year will be solo friendly content. And that quarter 1 has always been dungeons. I hope the sage's vault is as fun as it sounds on paper.

Could you be overly focused on this one event?

Could you?

There are thousands of hours of solo quests in this game and most events are meant for soloing. I think the rest of this year which are questlines and solo-dungeons are for solo players. Once in a while group and PvP players are thrown an event and the PvP events get complaints too.