Catches_the_Sun wrote: »I'm not one bit happy about these changes. You've gotta be kidding me. I guess the WoW crowd has won another round (big surprise, their numbers will always exceed everybody else). If I wanted a Singleplayer game, Skyrim is far superior to ESO in every way.
Want me to group? With this community of ***, baggers, trolls and haters? No way.
AlienDiplomat wrote: »You know what really makes me sad? ALL of the things you mention are within the PLAYER'S ability to adapt to. Yet people are crying for nerfs without even bothering to TRY and adapt?
AlienDiplomat wrote: »Trolls ARE CC'able. ALL classes have access to CC. So, CC THEM! ALL classes have access to ranged abilities. Try swapping to them! It isn't some cardinal sin to use some different abilities in the mix for different content.
AlienDiplomat wrote: »Gargoyles and Atronachs are SUPPOSED to be hard. People cry about Sorcerers being OP, can you imagine an all cloth character facing them without being able to CC? It hurts us just as much. Some things SHOULD require a group unless they are main quest or instanced solo quest content.
AlienDiplomat wrote: »ALL players have the ability to bash healers and exploit them with a heavy attack to stun them long enough to kill them. Additionally all classes have access to abilities that interrupt.
AlienDiplomat wrote: »Again, this is a perfect example of why this game is doomed. People refuse to use the abilities and mechanics that ZOS designed and just complain whenever they have a challenge with their set-in-stone 5 abilities until ZOS caters to it and takes all the toys away.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Nostromo74 wrote: »
Jade_Knightblazerb14_ESO wrote: »Soon Fire will no longer deal damage to characters, in fact it will heal and give Exp + Title.
Jade_Knightblazerb14_ESO wrote: »Alphashado wrote: »
That being said, the reason so many people are frustrated is because the current structure feels like a making a normal MMO progression 3x harder at lvl 17 of a lvl 50 cap game. Imagine you were playing an MMO where the lvl cap was 50. Then imagine at lvl17, all of the quest and progression content got ramped up to a "one mistake and you are dead" difficulty setting.
Where can I play this MMO at? Been looking for this for a long time now...
Danisheraser wrote: »What people want is more brainless content, where they will be guided even more through easy content. It is extremely sad to see how people want this game to be easymode faceroll 10-thumbs handicap friendly. Let the game have its challenges, and let people die for not being able to complete it. Either they learn and become better players or they leave and whine. Fine. Atleast ESO will have its own niche.
AlienDiplomat wrote: »Danisheraser wrote: »What people want is more brainless content, where they will be guided even more through easy content. It is extremely sad to see how people want this game to be easymode faceroll 10-thumbs handicap friendly. Let the game have its challenges, and let people die for not being able to complete it. Either they learn and become better players or they leave and whine. Fine. Atleast ESO will have its own niche.
I really do agree with you, the challenge isn't that big a deal. But sadly, there is a huge group of people that want things to always be easy for them without having to adapt at all, and ZOS is a business first and foremost.
For this first year at least it seems that they are more interested in satisfying their investors than remaining true even to their own design model. It is sad, because they really had something unique and interesting here.
This is a rather unprecedented total restructure of the core game dynamic months into launch to satisfy the easy mode crowd. It feels a little unnerving, like the company is going into desperation panic mode, but sadly the almighty bean counters have spoken and that is what they think it will take to keep enough of the easy mode subscribers to afford to continue to improve the game, which EVERYBODY wants.
Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices. Of course sacrificing the engine so you can afford razor fins to make your car go faster is sort of dumb but we'll see...
I still think the best thing they could do, and I encourage more people on these forums to go to Support and Email and put in a ticket requesting it, is to allow the community a TOGGLE that lets you keep vet content as it is if you want, or play in a separate phase with all the people who want it easy.
That way everybody wins, and you don't lose subs by alienating one half of the community or the other. It would be very simple to implement as well, since all the work is basically done already.
Nostromo74 wrote: »
ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Saw it coming.
ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »Hi everyone,
One of the guiding principles of our Veteran gameplay was to encourage you (not force you) to group. We wanted you to be able to reach max level by playing solo if you wished, but still encourage you to group with others along the way. This principle was the reason we made our post-50 zones more difficult; we wanted you to get together with others to take on tougher challenges and form social bonds while you did so. But we understand that, despite our vision, this is not how all our players want to experience the game beyond level 50.
So nerfing instead of solving phasing problems... How am I supposed to group if our guildmates (or anyone not in the exact same phase that me) cant help me? You want us to group but prevented/prevent that.
You didn't test properly or ignore the beta test warnings....
Thanks to exploits? bugs? many people just skip the veteran content. Btw, this content destroys the experience (I was the great hero, what the hell happened?, I'm doing lvl 1 missions)
So nerfing instead of solving phasing problems... How am I supposed to group if our guildmates (or anyone not in the exact same phase that me) cant help me? You want us to group but prevented/prevent that.
You didn't test properly or ignore the beta test warnings....
Thanks to exploits? bugs? many people just skip the veteran content. Btw, this content destroys the experience (I was the great hero, what the hell happened?, I'm doing lvl 1 missions)
ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »We hear your requests to continue participating in solo content as you progress through Veteran Ranks, and we’re acting on that feedback.
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Thank you for sticking with us, sharing your concerns, and supporting a game we all love.