Q&A with Paul Sage on ESO Live #4

burkemi5_ESO

Paul! Why did you nerf the EXP gain from Craglorn daily POI quests? Please reconsider!

Divad Zarn

Q: Is there any news you can share about character appearance/race/fraction changes? Thieves guild coming our with Justice System in update 1.7.?

ers101284b14_ESO

Q: Paul when can we get a minion based on your likeness?

MrTtheDK

Question for Paul:

Justice System:

This DK is super stoked to enact some tamriel justice on some misbehaving fools. My question is, "What kind of queues will be in place to allow the good folk to identify these mentioned criminals?" I would hope it would be something subtle to add a little bit of detective work rather than a giant red arrow or outline by the person. Is there any word on this?

P.S. Props to your team for all the hard work you are putting into these updates. I love the directions you guys are taking this game.

FOR THE QUEEN!

Daenerys

Are there any plans to address itemization for quest rewards? I'm still incredibly upset about Cadwell's Gold reward. But it is bigger than that, the entire game does not reward you in any meaningful way specific to your character. I am a mage, I want light armor that I can wear, not heavy junk to vendor. I want to be able to choose the reward, so I can select what is best for my toon.

What is the timeline on player housing? Can you be more detailed than soon? This has been my biggest problem with ESO since its inception. This doesn't feel like an Elder Scrolls game without housing.

Are you going to address the storage situation? Worst I have ever encountered. I have begged and pleaded, provided many long winded explanations though the weekly surveys we used to fill out on the PTS, and it remains an issue. I have to have an alt for alchemy, blacksmithing, enchanting, clothing, provisioning, and woodworking. That’s 6 alts wasted as bank mules! I enjoy alts- not bank mules. Though with the current veteran system of having to play through all 3 alliances it ruins the sense of loyalty and discourages alts anyways. It takes so much away from available play time, discourages playing altogether

What is up with hirelings? Why did you abruptly stop Pacrooti and others, then give me these new hirelings that give me useless junk or 5 voildbloom? Why did you ruin the story of the hirelings? I was really enjoying their mails. Then they all quit without notice, and these new ones talk to me like they've known me forever. Why? Why can't hireling mail be titled by hireling, for example Enchanting Raw Materials?

Why don't mails from the guild store tell me what I sold, and from what guild? Why are you so against a global or factionwide auction house? Why do you believe it is better to traverse around the globe, and have to use drop down menus to try and find that recipe I'm looking for? Why can't we type what we are looking for without an addon?

Are there any plans to address quality of life improvements? Why don't we have a barber? Why hasn't the lightning in character creation been addressed? Why does my character always look different in game than character creation?

Why do you think everyone just grinds in Craglorn? Why did you make the quests there phased?

What is the timeline on provisioning revamp? When will our mats and recipes become obsolete? Will we have any warning? Are renowned recipes in the game? Is Iron Chef even attainable?

Why are Crafting Writs so unrewarding for maxed crafters? Any plans to give players incentives to complete them?

When will fishing be addressed? Why can't we type and fish? When will we be able to use fish in provisioning recipes?

Are there any plans to add more skill books? Why do they end around lvl 40? I really enjoyed reading them, and do still check eidetic memory, but more would be nice.

Any plans for jewelcrafting? Since most of the glyphs are jewerly related, it would be so very nice for the two to work together.

Will horses ever get retextured? They look like they came from Morrowind...

Grunim

Q: Will we be able to obtain additional character slots beyond the current eight and if so, is that something scheduled to occur within the next 12 months?

Q: Will characters be able to transfer their allegiance to another alliance in the future and if not, will cross alliance PvE for instances be implemented?

Aggelos

Are there plans to implement a third resources to be used for defensive abilities such as CC break, dodging, etc to help make it so Stamina is more viable for endgame PvE game play?

c0rp

Question: Forward camps offer nothing positive to Cyrodiil. They remove all transit lines from the game, make the map feel entirely too small, and encourage zerging near keeps leading to poor server performance. Why are they still in the game?

randolphbenoit

Plans for jewelry making at some point? Why 2-hand weapons only represent 1 item towards crafted trait set bonuses (kinda unfair to those using 2-handed weapons)

Denaia

Q: Will we see a barbershop in the near future? And what about those new hairstyles?

Empty_Emotions

Is jewelry crafting something we can look forward to seeing in the game?

WraithAzraiel

Teiji wrote: »

This is brilliant!

Question - I see many characters in the game, from those in Morrowind to those in Rivenspire, wearing Ashlander gear. Can we expect players to be able to obtain gear for all item slots for this specific style, sometime soon? As a drop only or perhaps an Ashlander motif?

They detailed the motifs (dropped armors as well, they didn't differentiate which was which BUT! that were in the works for the near future in the QuakeCon video.

As it stands the only I can remember are: (As motifs, seeing as they were displayed as a layout of every type of armor and weapon)

Dwemer - coming in Update 5.
Thieves Guild - ETA ?
Dark Brotherhood - ETA ?
Kothringi - ETA ? (dropped armor from future zone or motif, unknown)
Morag Tong - ETA? (dropped armor from future zone or motif, unknown)
Glass - ETA ?
Undaunted - ETA? (dropped, bought or motif, unknown)
PvP gear with special aesthetics for the Alliances
Imperial Daedric - ETA? (likely dropped from Imperial City or motif'd like the Dwemer armors will be)

Erock25

Hello! Is there any talk of somehow addressing the glaring imbalance in racial bonuses, either through offering race changes (paid or in game currency/quest) or changing racial bonuses so they are on equal footing? The classes out there that are receiving 25%-10% bonus on top of a primary stat are vastly superior to races which receive 3% - 0%.

I would be happy to give you my 20$ this second for a paid race change on my first day of early access Khajiit Sorc with 300+ hours invested.

LasurArkinshade

QUESTION FOR PAUL:

Is a continuation of the main quest, or the introduction of an entirely new 'main quest'/continuation of the guild questlines something that we can expect for the future?

MornaBaine

On the subject of fluff:
1. Will you be adding new hairstyles and/or makeup/adornments any time soon? If yes, will there be a way for EXISTING characters to access them?
2. Are you planning for there to be ANY lore-inspired holiday content?
3. Will there be any new emotes in the near future?
4. Will our characters be able to sit on benches and chairs any time soon?
5. Will you be making cats and any other "normal" animals available as vanity pets?
6. Will you be creating clothing for the disguise slot that we can purchase through in-game vendors so that we can further customize our character's looks and dress them for activities OTHER than battle?

MornaBaine

Will you be making any of the following changes/additions to vampires?
1. Lengthening the time of Stage 1 to over half an hour? If yes, how long?
2. With the justice system will there be any adverse consequences for vampires in Stage 4?
3. Will you make available the ability to "hide" one's vampirism so that a vampire may look like they did BEFORE becoming vampires either through the use of a potion, an item, or a new skill?
4. Will you be making changes so that NPCs will react to vampires depending upon their Stage, similar to what we are familiar with from Skyrim and Dawnguard?
5. Will you be maing any additions to the vampire skill line?
6. Will you be doing ANYTHING positive, that meaning making vampires more rather than less enjoyable to play, in the near future?

radiostar

1) Will we be able to write a backstory for our characters that other PCs can access ingame? A small pop-up window to edit that players click your character and it displays your intro. (Or craft/sell prices.)

2) With the Provisioning revamp, will we be able to take quests that give special area recipes, such as a Daggerfall Brew or Stonefalls Stew? Foods or drinks to give unusual buffs. (Only from PCs.)

Zavus

-When can we expect actual PvP content?

I understand imperial city is down the road, but there's no sign of when it'll be released meanwhile the PvP pop continues to take a dive. Besides imperial city we will need more content for PvPers to actually engage in. Is there any content planned after imperial city is released that might be available to us 4-6 months in the future? I'm asking this because of my next question.

- How will PvP campaigns be affected when imperial city goes live and people flock over to the buff campaigns where imperial city is available all the time? Are there any plans to help combat this?

-Can we ever expect to get new game types to liven up PvP a bit more? Things like the CTF 3v3v3 we saw at quakecon? Arena? Small scaled Cyro?

The dwindling numbers in the population surely reflects the player's distaste of the current laggy zerg vs zerg experience. We need something different.. anything really.. even changing the spawn points would help.

- Is there any possibility of making alliance war ranks and their leveling account wide on post 50 characters?

I would love to be able to PvP with my alt and not be punished for doing so. It would be a breath of fresh air in cyro, but currently it means any AP gained stays on that character. The AP gained on alts amount to nothing as I don't see anyone getting more than one character to rank 50 which already takes a ridiculous amount of time.

-Are there any plans to put in a barber of some sorts?

One that lets you change your hair style, facial hair, tattoos maybe even height etc etc. I know a lot of players are OCD about customization and I personally went through about 6 deletions before getting my character exactly the way I wanted to.

- Is there any possibility of making achievements account wide?

- Are any future costumes going to be instated? Maybe allow these to be dye-able?

I would personally love to be able to wear a chef's hat in this game xD

- Any news on player/guild housing?

glak

Are there plans to give group members the option to jump into a group leader's phase if they already completed the phase's quest?

Nazon_Katts

When even more than a month is not enough to get a questing group going in Craglorn, what exactly are your reasons to keep that particular content group-only?

Garbrac

WraithAzraiel wrote: »

Teiji wrote: »

This is brilliant!

Question - I see many characters in the game, from those in Morrowind to those in Rivenspire, wearing Ashlander gear. Can we expect players to be able to obtain gear for all item slots for this specific style, sometime soon? As a drop only or perhaps an Ashlander motif?

They detailed the motifs (dropped armors as well, they didn't differentiate which was which BUT! that were in the works for the near future in the QuakeCon video.

As it stands the only I can remember are: (As motifs, seeing as they were displayed as a layout of every type of armor and weapon)

Dwemer - coming in Update 5.
Thieves Guild - ETA ?
Dark Brotherhood - ETA ?
Kothringi - ETA ? (dropped armor from future zone or motif, unknown)
Morag Tong - ETA? (dropped armor from future zone or motif, unknown)
Glass - ETA ?
Undaunted - ETA? (dropped, bought or motif, unknown)
PvP gear with special aesthetics for the Alliances
Imperial Daedric - ETA? (likely dropped from Imperial City or motif'd like the Dwemer armors will be)

You forgot Xivkyn style which drops within Imperial City.

EDIT: Oops, no you didn't... Missed it (Imperial Daedric)

Draehl

Paul,

What are your thoughts on class specific content?

-Class specific quests.
-Class focused areas of the world, like a Templar Cathedral.
-Class specific items. Maybe give players the options to forgo traditional set bonuses and instead equip items with bonuses to specific skills IE maybe a pair of boots adds half a second to Shadow Cloak's duration, or pair of Gloves increases damage of Funnel Health by 8%, etc. It would certainly liven up the item builds in the game!

Past MMOs have largely foregone this approach in favor of broad content for everyone, but I can say from experience that this type of focus is very much appreciated and has more of a personal feel, even if it comes at 1/4 the pace as other content.

jamie.goddenrwb17_ESO

Heavy armor in this game is geared completely to tanks in ESO right now. It boosts health, health regen and defensive properties with only very minimal stamina and magicka regen added recently. Templars are shown on the character creation screen in full heavy armor while wielding a greatsword which is currently far from optimal.

What I would really like to know is whether greater utility is expected to be available to heavy armor (well all armor types really) in the future in order to make heavy warriors and battlemages viable choices in both PvP and PvE.

I haven't really heard any specific input from the team on this topic before. I would really like to know:

is the overall vision for armor class/role specific or will all three will later be revamped and expanded on to fill multiple and varying character and role designs?

Heavy warrior, battlemage, medium spellsword, light spell tank just to name a few possibilities.

Will the champion system perhaps cater for this?

Thank you!

Elsonso

Ok, I will ask this one:

When is Update 5 going to be released?

TGiordano92

1. Can nightblades get more buffs to crouching stealth? Maybe like faster crouching speed or not being visible if standing in front of an enemy. I do not like the dark/red look of the shadow ability, don't like my character to look like he uses blood/dark magic to stealth.
2. Anything happening with PvP population? Only 1 campaign seems to be active, I love the non-vet campaign but its kind of boring and slow most of the time
3. Housing info? PLZ
4. A graphic update that allows people to see their feet if they look down in first person view?
5. Will we ever get to swim underwater?
6. Will different races ever get different animations? ALl of them look the same.
7. will there be minigame sort of things in the future? Maybe make fishing more interactive and less boring? or lockpicking more difficult as well? Inn card games or something?
8. Will we ever be able to rent a inn room somehow???
9. Weapon dying?
10. Capes for non-pvp? or for pvp with option to disable?
11. Leather hoods?
12. Thieves guild?

Wing

Any news on more character or gear cosmetic customization options?

such as but not limited to:
-shield and weapon dying
-character appearance change (ala show race menu or skyrim face sculptor)

my main is vet 14 and there are some longstanding cosmetic issues I would love to fix, from face to body shape.

Gidorick

I have 2 questions:

1: I would like to know if there are any plans to have a more regular and dependable question/answer method in the future.

2: Is there any timeline for release or news about a mobile APP/companion?

I also have 1 comment:

All of us here believe in what you and the ZOS team are doing and while we may gripe and whine, we all appreciate the opportunity to experience Tamriel in the way ESO has allowed us to. Our sincerest thanks goes out to you and the team and I for one hope to be playing ESO well into the next decade and beyond.

Leijona

A question I forgot: When can we expect the free trial? I think we all have some friends or guild members who hesitate to buy the game before being able to test it.

TehMagnus

Question for Paul:

A big part of the community is asking for evolutions to the User Interface as well as the reopening of some API functions allowing buff/debuff tracking on allies/self/PVE-NPCs. ZOS hasn't taken a position regarding this subject. Any comments on the matter?

Tapio75

Hey!

The game is good oriented at moment, will we see implementation of evil gameplay in some point? For example, necromancy, Evil storylines and guilds.. Evil options for quest choices.