Yesterday afternoon I began working on the Golden Pursuits and enjoying doing them. I was making progress very quickly and very easily, basically doing stuff that I would do anyway. And I was rapidly getting rewards that were similar to Daily Rewards, plus the bigger rewards of Seals of Endeavor! I liked doing it!

I'll finish the Golden Pursuits sometime today and get the big prize of 1,000 Seals of Endeavor, and that felt like it was worthwhile to do!

I took a little time to review some information on Tamriel Tomes, especially regarding benefits you would accrue if you maintained ESO Plus. There were Tamriel Tomes "freebie" benefits for those players who have the ESO Plus subscription, so I was pleased about that and may not really need to make additional purchases, although the price is nominal.

So, overall I am liking the direction that this is going in.

Kitty_Quietly wrote: »

Radiate77 wrote: »

SuzieQBoston is still running around with her blue zerg so you guys aren’t out of the game yet.

Yeah, if it’s a pure population problem then having players like that is a huge plus. I’m scatterbrained, play half asleep, and never thought PVP on the big campaign would feel as fun as it did, until grouping up with her. I mean, I play a one bar toon shooting fighters guild crossbow, using siege weapons and often turning into a big wimpy werewolf for giggles. Not that effective, in the grand scheme of things. Still, she accepts the randomness of it all and continues to find and group with players like me.

Looking at the DC campaign from a bigger viewpoint, I agree with others that the population in that alliance seems smaller. Winning when outnumbered would be interesting. I fully admit I know I haven’t been a lot of help in that regard. I know I should build other toons and learn to actually play better. That’s maybe a goal I’ll set for myself to accomplish in the coming weeks. Can’t guarantee much, but since I do enjoy the friendly players I’ve grouped with, I want to be at least slightly more useful when I group up with them.

Yeah I’ve heard only good things about her, glad you guys are having fun.

this is maybe the next setp, but that won't happen for several years, because first everyone needs to get fully used to subclassing;

Moonspawn wrote: »

Could you

No. Not until you post a BGs board showing your performance on a clearly bad team, so we can establish whether you have the competency to meaningfully engage in this discussion.

SgtSilock wrote: »

I believe the OP’s point is that the developers created a problem in the game that the crafting bag is designed to solve.

Yep, we all know that. We've all always known that. It is what it is.

You have these choices: Leave the game, learn to play without the craft bag, or subscribe. There's a fourth choice: stick around and complain that the craft bag isn't free. But that's the least constructive choice and isn't going to get you anywhere. You'll be much better off going with one of the first three.

The Golden Pursuit this month looks better than I expected. I don't log in daily, I log in on weekends mostly so I love that I can get most awards just during my regular play time in basically one session. This gives me more freedom of how I should approach ESO. I really disliked the feeling that I am missing something if I don't log in, now it is gone.

This is actually, kinda big overall. Most MMOs create system to enslave player to log in daily just to boost engagement numbers. In this case we are getting rid of it. I feel very confident about ESO future with this kind of management.

Quality of player engagement should be superior index over quantity! My and many others game time quality is now much better even if our quantity is lower. And my quality time = more spending for things I like in game

Enemoriana wrote: »

frogthroat wrote: »

Levelling up everything is preparing for the future. That is why I have been levelling up everything.

Including legerdemain, scrying, ww and vampire on all characters?

Yes?

If you haven't levelled all skill lines/skills/morphs in all 20 (currently) possible characters per account on multiple accounts... do you even lift play ESO?

(I meant that tongue in cheek btw, I don't expect everyone to be infected with this flavour of madness that haunts me, in fact I hope most players are spared, is not healthy).

Either way in this particular case losing a 100% XP scroll doesn't really mean much because currently I have no use for XP scrolls. Maybe the devs did this 'math' too.

Maybe in the future if they make new skills or more character slots available (hence not destroying them just yet).

The good news is that properly balanced battlegrounds returns in U49 next week but only as special weekend events. Be sure to play those because ZOS said if it has a lot of activity, they will bring it back as a permanent mode. The other combat issues will still be there, but at least there won't be spawn camping by a team of 8 with 2 healers.

SwordOfSagas wrote: »

DC has come third 5 campaigns in a row, simply because we don't have the population of AD and EP. Got on today and looked at the campaign and like usual AD and EP were at 3 bars population and DC was only 1, by the look of the score I think DC are going to lose this month as well. Anyway since you can't force people to play on DC maybe think about giving low population double siege damage or a special artifact weapon that only people on low pop can use? All I know is something needs to be done because joining DC is a guaranteed loss on Xbox NA.

I play Blue on Xbox NA, and my guild sometimes comes into Greyhost to PVP. I can tell you that the reason the population is lower and Blue is not competitive is that there is a lack of organized groups in there who know what they are doing, the people who are doing call outs often don't know what they are doing, and when someone else who does starts making call outs nobody listens because they're not a "local" or a "regular" in there. That's how you get Blues defending Chalamo as the last emp keep rather than planning our defenses such that we're defending last emp keep much closer to home. Because of this, Even when we are in there in numbers, there is zero incentive to play the map - we just play for fights.

On top of that there is a certain big name player in GH that doesn't have a clue as to what she's doing, but she's used her clout to control emp and run off very good PVP players, and as a result, there was an exodus of sorts of quality players from blue.

Lastly, From what I have seen, nobody in GH knows how to seige. Offensively, I often seen 5-6 blues seiging and 20 people standing around doing nothing. Defensively, you can call for a killbox, and half the people don't know what to do.

At least SOME of this is L2P stuff, but there seems to be a resistance to even learn how to do that. So we recruit those who are interested in upping their game, and we play for fights in GH. If we're going to help push a campaign, we'll help push BR.

So to improve GH competitiveness, at least SOME of that improvement will have to come from within Blue itself TBH. Outside of that, I've always thought that Cyrodil needs changes to scoring and to provide more than AP buffs to the team that is outnumbered to incentivize them to keep playing. It's just not fun to play night in and night out and get swarmed by overwhelming numbers, or get blown up because members of your own alliance don't know how to block through pulls.