1. Report
2. Put them on ignore
3. Learn not to care about every barking dog unless there is some real threat (no offence to dogs).

There always will be trolls and idiots. What do you expect ZOS to do? Make psychological profile of every player before letting them join? All that they can do is to act on your report or make profanity filter even more ridiculous, that's it. It's up to you to remember that, however disgusting, most of those idiots are completely harmless.

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I'm not defending real hate speech and derogatory comments of course, and I'm not saying that words can't hurt you, [snip]

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I think ZOS only listen the feedback from high tier players ?

It's not the best DPS set, but it's a good second set that works across a variety of content and can be used to fill out a build.

Drive a bulldozer through the server room would be a good start.

No, but it's a good beginner set, and easy to obtain if you don't have anything better (from dungeons or trials for example).

ForeverJenn wrote: »

@Raideen

I'm not sure why you are finding the need to be sarcastic or rude. I haven't insulted you. I called myself a potato DPS for pulling 18k. I'm sorry your dps isn't where you want it to be. Maybe try the players helping players forum. I am asking about ppl who do 3k dmg. Not 18k.

To be completely honest, its because I don't believe that you pull 18k without trying. Calling yourself a potato for pulling 18k insinuates anyone who pull less is..well whatever is worse than a potato.

I watched my Gf tonight at the target dummy try to get over 12k on multiple toons and it completely bummed her out because she uses textbook builds by alcast including gear (except for monster helms because vets intimidate her and rightfully so. WE both have been at the receiving end of some extreme elitism in this game). She is trying extremely hard to pull better numbers, and its just not happening.

I just find it...odd and coincidental that someone can try extremely hard and not pull more than 10k, and yet someone like you, a self admitted potato can mosey on along and pull 18k without even trying.

Something is not adding up, but knowing her builds and watching her try her butt off tells me that "something not adding up" is more rooted in some BS commentary than reality.

markulrich1966 wrote: »

Munkfist wrote: »

markulrich1966 wrote: »

Munkfist wrote: »

markulrich1966 wrote: »

when a server is so deserted, that Mundane rune sell for 2000 gold each...

I would jot it up to more of a convenience thing. While prices are high, a lot of us will just pay to get them quick if needed. Price of not wanting to take the time to farm them

a year ago, the price was 200-250.
During the last (half) year, it slowly raised to 400.

Now approx 10 times higher than a year ago, I think this is pretty concerning.

I could be happy, if I can sell my remaining 4000 runes for 2k each, it would be a good deal. But I am not happy about it, because it shows that the economy is messed up completely.

There's demand for it. More housing, more housing enthusiasts. This makes more demand, less supply as people would still rather pay for the convenience than to farm them themselves.

It's only natural that prices will increase as the demand increases.

yes, the fluctuations you talk about are normal. Runes went up from 200 to 300, even 500, then 400 again.
But we talk about an increase by factor 10.

For comprison: I pla on EU and NA (xbox)
EU has approx 1/5 of the amount of players compared to NA.

On NA, price increased from 200 to 400 gold.
On EU, from 200/400 to 2000.

This gets out of proportion and is similarily inconvenient like the fact that you no longer find groups on EU to farm worldbosses.

I think what is missing is a scaling factor, who compensates for low player population. Like increased drop of runes, and health/damage scaling of worldbosses.

People say, that it is "normal" when prices go up. It is - in a real economy. ESO though is no real economy, but an artificial microcosmos without real economic mechanisms (subventions, laws, lobbys). It is a game mechanic, mixed with real economic dynamics. And I think the game mechanic has problems to deal with situations like a weak playerbase.

Regardless how you look at it, it still comes down to supply and demand. Low supply, great demand, prices will skyrocket. Population will reflect that as there is even lower supply (fewer people actively farming materials), so it makes sense that the demand, and ultimately, the price will shoot up.

This is very simple economics, and while it may not be ideal, it's going to happen so long as people are willing to pay inflated prices for the convenience of not farming themselves. It doesn't show that this is a broken economy, but more that there is an economy and it's effected very much as real world economy.

volkeswagon wrote: »

Sorry that happened. Unfortunately zone chat is full of people from bad environments. [snip] Zone chat can get pretty nasty and vulgar at times. These people aren't usually in guilds because they would have been kicked for their behaviour so they take to zone for their social interactions. Reporting them is really all you can do then switch zones after reporting or turn off the chat hub temporarily.

Thank you. I agree some people dont have a good start to life but why focus on females and degrade them? It is blatant bullying...if they were being abusive about several topics it would not be as obvious....the gehaviour is vicious and predatory in a sense.

I am so sorry to hear you had a bad experience. And please don’t listen to people who say you shouldn’t let it bother you, they don’t understand what it’s like at all.

It's also worth trying to derail the zone chat by bringing up other topics—the kind of thing loads of random people love to respond to, like what the meta builds are in PvE/PvP or what addons are essential or an easy lore question or how do guild traders work. For some reason, asking trolls how they make gold or whether they like PvE/PvP more can distract them. At the end of the day, they just want attention and to expeess themselves, and it's often 1 or 2 people "trolling" other people into responding to them. So neutralizing the 1 troll or drowning them out helps. Don't argue with them.

Reporting is easy and it works. I always quote the exact harassment exactly as they said it. People do sometimes get temporary or permanent bans. Sorry you had to go through all that