Optimise all the fun out of stealth and you can basically stand on top of an NPC's head and pickpocket them and then Blade of Woe them. You need a couple of sets, some speed boost, a mythic, few passives and CPs, preferably a vampire, and the cloak from NB Shadow skill line. You never need to do any combat.

Pretty much moving in sneak faster than many sprint, no NPC can see you, and even if you get caught you can just jog away and enable the cloak. A guard might throw a flare at you, but if you invest in speed, you don't need to care about the flare because you will be out of the aoe before it lands.

Skywatch has a lot of NPCs you can rob. After pickpocket it takes some time before you pickpocket them again, and with less probability of success. Up to 3 times, so the optimal way is to pickpocket -> pickpocket -> blade of woe -> loot the body. If you pickpocket the third item you would have to wait after the second pickpocket and then have very low probability. So after the second pickpocket, just kill the NPC so you don't have to wait and have 100% chance... since the NPC is dead. And soon you have an inventory full of stolen goods you can sell and advance your various thieving achievements. But that leaves behind a lot of dead bodies.

https://alcasthq.com/eso-stealth-thief-build-all-classes/

I saw that today while doing a couple Jester's fest quests. It was totally unexpected and made my daily grind much less boring.

that is an April Fools joke by the developers of one of your add-ons

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This all comes down to powercreep, the faster the better as more chance of survival & finishing.

Looking back at the time when 30k DPS was good DPS to do the craglorn trials it was slow & hard back then which I miss when you actually had to be good & do mechs but due to powercreep all trials in game are rushed & easily crushed even by pug groups, I think this was to allow more access of the player base which isn't a bad thing but it leaves those who are top players having resentment towards those that they believe shouldn't be there & this is the same premises as old builds like oakensoul that are more than capable of completing all hard mode trials just it's not at the pace other players would like so it comes down a community created issue mixed in with a road zos wanted to take the games direction in.

Personally I like to see more people doing trials & also the same goes for PvP, these people complain about how end-game trials or PvP are dying but it's a situation they create themselves mainly by gatekeeping or constantly asking for nerfs because they don't like that play style themselves.

Dolgubon's.

Every year, there are people shocked about Dolg's April Fool's joke. And every year, people think it's a ZOS thing. And every year, people complain about it.

I really wish people would learn what their addons do. I remember the one year that he changed the UI to make it seem like you were using gold mats for daily writs and people freaked out and started complaining to ESO's support team.

Pranks are one thing, but when your pranks are causing logistical issues to a third party, then it's too much.