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.

i was also curious about same thing as the OP lol

it feels like there was a LOT of things that are unclear/unanswered with how these tomes are supposed to work from start to finish

to be honest at this point they need to draft a full on FAQ page for these tomes

DoofusMax wrote: »

JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »

So, let me get this straight.

If we have an excess of 2000 tome points, enough to buy something else, we will be *forced* to get the stuff we didn't claim from the tome?

So, if I skip all the potions and upgrade materials because I don't want them, but manage to earn enough points to get them at the end, I have no choice but to take them?

If I'm reading @ZOS_GinaBruno's comment correctly, then yes. Bites biggly if true. OTOH, getting something rather than losing everything in excess of 2K is marginally better than the alternative, but shoving a stack of Crown Meals into my inventory (which I will immediately destroy) because that's what RNGesus decided? Yeah, not a huge difference over just losing the points.

Based on what she said to, if you have more than one Tome active, excess points will be allocated automatically to the oldest tome first, and rhen onto the second, and third etc...

Bah, this is annoying. If there is stuff that I absolutely dont want then I honestly feel more incentive to just avoid the tomes and challenges entirely.

This feels counter productive and is not helping me feel any benefit to buying in. Which, while good for my wallet cant be what ZOS wants.

Techwolf_Lupindo wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

@ZOS_Erin


Please make start-to-finish Werewolf only runs of March of Sacrifices possible!

When I started playing ESO, I went all in werewolf style. I went into MoS as a werewolf and ended up getting kicked after a while. Does ZOS really want new players to get kick from dungeons just because they are werewolves?

March of Sacrifices is one of the two upcoming Solo Dungeons, so now is the right time to inquire about Werewolf's new "sneaking" mechanic in relation to the werewolf dungeon.

ADarklore wrote: »

It's interesting. Because with the daily login, you still received stuff you didn't want. So I don't see this as a difference. At the end of the season, you'll end up with stuff you don't want- same as the old system.

My issue with this is that I thought this was meant to be an improvement over it, and if it is going to be forced, why bother to make it so that we seemingly have the option to skip it, and even with the dailies, we had the option to just not claim the dailies.

Sure, we couldn't get anything after, but we didn't have to claim the stuff we didn't want.

Plus, the dailies had the 'free' idea behind them.

By making us 'purchase' the rewards, it just feels wrong to make us 'purchase' rewards we don't want, especially since some tome points will roll over and others won't.

I am even fine with the idea of just losing those points and NOT getting the things I don't want (and have no use for, but my brain doesn't want me to delete, just in case!!!!) rather than having them forced upon me.

Though, I think that the ability to turn points back into caches, even at a loss (say a 2000 point cache would take 3000 points to create) would be best.

I understand the reasoning behind not allowing the rollover (at least what I think the reasoning is), but don't necessarily agree with it.