Estin wrote: »

There isn't actually a lot of complaints. If you look, it's just the same 5 or so people spamming threads saying to nerf DK. I don't know what their goal is. Do they want pure classes to remain barely usable? Do they really want Animal Companions + Assassination + Storm Calling/Restoring Light to remain the top PvP build? It's really hard to understand the thought process behind people who are still running stage 3 vampire in a patch where everyone is using temporarily imbalanced flame damage. The U50 class passives will solve 90% of these people's complaints about class imbalance until everything is refreshed. Why is it so hard to wait? The worst thing ZOS can do is revert back to the heavy handed spreadsheet nerfing of the previous dev team that caused us to be put in this situation. Do you really want more of that just because you lost a hand full of times to DKs?

Same people, and its all in pvp, its always either people that are in pvp or have issues getting into trial group runs.

Malyore wrote: »

I'm not a WW main so take my word with a grain of salt, but I almost like the WIP model more than the new one 😅. Maybe that is also just due to the A-posing... I can't really describe my impression of the new style, yet.

I do appreciate that there is some attempt for a "unique" look for this affect of Hircine, rather than it just being generic.

Glad to see that they are larger, though.

One step closer to those sexy werewolves the devs were talking about (and one step further from the pickles...)

I also prefer some features of the original WIP model over the one shown here. In particular I really don't like the fur patch on the forehead and the haircut. Really happy about all the other changes though. Love the size increase.

That's it title says everything really, just an idea for future content, some kind of questline where we restore the Morag Tong to it's former glory it could be made on the zones we already have and involve the entire ebonheart pact. Always felt like the 2 Morrowind Chapters we got didn't make this organisation justice and everyone loves Naryu so it's a win win.

My immediate impression is that this is somehow actually much worse than the previous new model (which in itself is still not as good as the original one). Artistically, the original one remains the best, but this new one is the absolute worst.

Please, please FIX THOSE SAGGING, WEAK, NARROW SHOULDERS.

They look awful! They are narrow and sagging and make the werewolf's entire frame look weak and silly. The old shoulders were not great, but they are better than this (stronger, broader, squared off).

Otherwise, my other impressions and complaints:

• He has very separated lizard toes...
• His body shape is just not good. His shoulders to waist has no real taper and his torso looks like a thick bar of soap instead of having a muscular shape to it. It somehow looks even worse than the already chonky original model, which had the same problem of having a baggy torso.
• His arms and legs are still too stubby and short, imo.
• What exactly happened to his tail? Why is it a mega fluffy featherduster? I do not like this. The big and floofier his tail is, the less scary he looks, and now it also looks strangely short? If he has a little fluffy stubby puff there, he is not going to look frightening.
• What's with his crazy hairdo?
• His brow and eyes are still very forward out from his face. His brow needs to be heavier to make him look angrier and more threatening, and his eyes need to be deeper set and shadowed (see: original model).

What I like:

• Thank you for leaving his abs visible. I like the fur distribution. I personally do not want super fluffy werewolves any more than I want hairless werewolves, and this is meeting a good middle ground.
• I like the new ears and his teeth.
• I LOVE the size increase! But the funky weak shoulders negate it completely for me.

That said, this is still not at all a net improvement; I'm sorry to be so critical, but I desperately do not want this to be the final werewolf model. Please look into this again. I am not kidding. I cannot play as my werewolves anymore if those shoulders remain like that. That's incredibly upsetting to me.

Syldras wrote: »

The problem now really is that many people of the target group for chapter content have already left over the years, and that an opinion about ESO's current writing has formed. If someone has already left, it might be difficult to bring them back. Also, many already have a negative opinion about the writing, so how to convince them to give it another try if it really improves one day? Even if there'll ever be a great chapter again, it will be difficult to reach many people with that info, I'm afraid. Unless it's really outstanding, so those people see lots of praise online, and might get curious to have a look.

This is actually one of the things from the reveal stream that fell absolutely flat for me.

They're really trying to sell 2026, and this new system, on the strength of the writing. Look at it: new zone? Gone. Dungeons? Gone. Those things generally are received well from the players (at least the players who choose the interact with them).

But pretty well everyone says the stories have been on a steep downward trend since Summerset, and their whole thing was "we want to get back to what ESO does best: the stories." But does it though? Trying to leverage everything on two good stories which were 10 and 8 years old respectively is... not the best.

We know that the only permanent content we're getting in 2026 is a single trial and two stories, one of which features the most divisive character in the franchise's history. Everything else is set to evaporate once its respective event is done, and the other things that could draw people in are not dropping in 2026 at all.

LPapirius wrote: »

It's not a viable alternative to the normal live GH the PvP community logs in to play.

Who exactly is logging in for lag, ball groups, proc sets, and one shots? Not me.

I'm hearing they are moving forward with GH and Vengeance as the only two campaigns. I think this is a sound move, we are long overdue to condense the queue.

This weekend, the Golden Vendor offers:

• Amulet of Winter's Respite (Necklace, Arcane, 125,000 gold / 225,000 AP)
• Baron Thirsk Set (Arm Cops / Epaulets / Pauldrons, Infused / Impenetrable, 100,000 gold / 200,000 AP)
• Darloc Brae's Amulet (Necklace, Robust, 125,000 gold / 225,000 AP)
• Maarselok Set (Arm Cops / Epaulets / Pauldrons, Infused / Impenetrable, 100,000 gold / 200,000 AP)
• Trappings Of Invigoration Necklace (Necklace, Robust, 200,000 gold / 375,000 AP)
• Ulfnor's Favor Necklace (Necklace, Healthy, 200,000 gold / 375,000 AP)

JohnG wrote: »

So who else will be taking a week off from ESO starting April 20th?

Nope... It'll be the only time I go in to Cyrodiil to check it out. Hopefully they extend Vengeance to IC at some point.

Giaur wrote: »

In my opinion, Bethesda sold the soul of ESO with the tomes. With this battlepass ESO ist just another grinder with no own soul!
The daily and weekly grind for the tomes is boring as hell!
I already miss the questing of the chapters and not being forced to harvest 6 times 15 ore, kill 1.000 foes for stupid battlepass points.

just my cent

Nobody is forcing you to do anything. Here's a radical idea, just play what you want, when you want. Don't let FOMO govern your life.

A big reason it's not being run very much imo is that IA has been mostly abandoned like many other systems that have been added over the years. We're still waiting on that third class set. There haven't been new rewards added in ages. IA was last updated in u43 if I'm remembering correctly. It's the same enemies, the same verses and visions, the same side quests, every single time. Some of us really did enjoy it and ran it a lot and have *everything* one can get from it, but It gets old when it's left stagnant for months to years.