ESO Live - Ask Us Anything!

AshTal · October 2015

Questions

1) When will Argonian racials be improved. The health bonus should equal Nords. The healing bonus should be to healing given and received (Yes an Argonian healer gets a double hit) and Amphibious should be changed to something useful. Damage reduction, magic & stamina increase, anything other than the completely worthless heal when drinking a potion. If the potion doesn't save my ass a crappy 6% extra to magic and health isn't going to do anything.

2) Will we ever see a solo / PvE version of imperial city. I would like to play through the story but right now it seems impossible. Most people are just grinding in the sewers and when there are enough people to actually do the arena or temple there is a much larger group ganking them. I know some people would like to play this but are not PvPers and don't just want to get killed over and over.

3) This may be answered after the DLC is released (so the question is pointless if it is) when I played through some of the new DLC I didn't like the idea that my pact solider was off to help the orcs just because he likes helping orc children and is a nice person (he doesn't and his not). Will we be seeing story reasons to do quests and to progress or is this basically - play with the orcs or grind in the sewers who cares about story, character development and role play?

4) Will we ever see an improvement to Cadwell Silver and Gold so my character has an in character reason for doing them rather than its the only way to level VET 1 - 11 without insane amounts of PvP? Would it be that difficult to have you play as an agent for your own faction or a mercenary rather than suddenly become a loyal member of the covernet and dominion?

5) Will Sorc pets every get bonuses that actually make them useful. Right now to use a PET I have to have it on both action bars so I can quickly swap bars and use all my skills and not lose the pet mid fight if I want 2 pets I am in effect losing 4 out of 10 slots. Their damage is also terrible and they have no use in PvP at all. Even the ultimate is a bit crap these days.

6) Personally I find the robes to have 2 sections I really dislike the flapping hip armour and the shoulder pads which jut out too far and don't look right (look like they come from women's clothes of the 80's). Are we going to see any new robes without these issues or will we ever get an option to hide more than just helmets such as hide gloves, shoulder pads etc?

7) SWTOR has recently made a change where they have released that getting groups to do older content and lower level content and have made most content (even what they now call heroic 2+) solo-able. Will we start to see the same where we will get solo versions of the group dungeons so I can play them when I get to them rather than have to wait till Vet16 and enough people want to do them?

8) A long time ago a question was answered saying that you would consider making AP (alliance points, ranks, titles and achievements) account wide so people could play alts without being at a disadvantage to people who just played one character. Is there any progress on this? What about making Skyshards and lore books account wide so I don't have to repeat the same content on every alt?

9) Will we ever see roleplay improvements, e.g the ability to write a bio others can see. Titles which go in front of the character name, will we ever see the chance of becoming a lord/lady and getting our own land (basically player housing). Will we see better titles for playing the main story. The player basically saves all 3 alliances and yet the only rank he has is that from PvP?

altemriel · October 2015

Hi ZOS devs,

I had an idea that it would be cool to create new racial specific questlines - for each race one, which would for example deal with racial history, racial specific lore, skills and areas. It would make the relationship between the player and his/her character even closer. It could for example include even timetravel to some racial specific events in history, which are important for each race, maybe also battles or spiritual events, which greatly contributed to the racial social development.
How cool it would be to explore the history or main events for my character`s ancestors?
For example for Khajiit it could be in Elsweyr, for Orcs in Orsinium (maybe some new free locations, provinces apart from the DLC), for Altmer Summerset Isle, etc...

It could be added as free content and could include racial specific homelands and quests. Or maybe even as a paid dlc, I would definitelly buy that one!

Mcac21 · October 2015

altemriel wrote: »

Hi ZOS devs,

I had an idea that it would be cool to create new racial specific questlines - for each race one, which would for example deal with racial history, racial specific lore, skills and areas. It would make the relationship between the player and his/her character even closer. It could for example include even timetravel to some racial specific events in history, which are important for each race, maybe also battles or spiritual events, which greatly contributed to the racial social development.
How cool it would be to explore the history or main events for my character`s ancestors?
For example for Khajiit it could be in Elsweyr, for Orcs in Orsinium (maybe some new free locations, provinces apart from the DLC), for Altmer Summerset Isle, etc...

It could be added as free content and could include racial specific homelands and quests. Or maybe even as a paid dlc, I would definitelly buy that one!

Would be cool, yes!!

altemriel · October 2015

An another 2 ideas for ZOS developers came to my mind just now:

1. How about creating new questlines, which would as a revard give a specific new mount? It could be an interresting addition to "only" being able to buy mounts ingame or in the crown store.

2. Great idea would be to create a location, where we could change the appearance of our current mounts - for example mount dyes, mount "barber", etc...

Mcac21 · October 2015

One other thing, can you please remove the health, stamina, magicka potion cool down effect in a next patch or something because it's really stupid when fighting a boss in a solo or team instance dungeon and getting your ass kicked and die when it could all have been avoided if there was no cool down on the potion use. Just like diablo 3 it's really stupid please remove it or make it available to purchase in the Crown Store.

Mcac21 · October 2015

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Armitas wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Armitas wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Armitas wrote: »

I really hope you comment on the Magicka DK in this ESO live. The DK hate is getting real.

Sounds like a personal problem.

Personally that is the only class I play. So yes it is a problem, as has been demonstrated in length on the forums. Very insightful.

And yet I have no gripes with my DK and he isn't even that high level yet.

Oh ok, then it must be fine, cause you have no gripes with it yet. Thanks for clearing that up, wow, you're incredible.

Your welcome

Aerieth wrote: »

Aerieth wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno The Nightblade's ultimate Soul Siphon (Soul Shred morph) doesn't heal the caster, unlike other healing abilities. Is this intended? If so, why?

This still wasn't answered in the last ESO Live. We Nightblades have been asking this since the beginning. Could we perhaps, maybe get a response?

I honestly think it's justified. The heal is strong and the synergy is there. Who would run Templar if Soul Siphon did heal the user?

Zaldan wrote: »

Any plans to add ingame customer support as currently you just have the option to ask for support via email, carrying on a conversation via email every couple days isn't really very good, week long interaction with customer support via email could be over in couple of mins via ingame chat.

And do you know how flooded said chat would be? No, E-mail is definitely more effective since the flood in the chat could cause some people's requests to be missed.

UltimaJoe777 · October 2015

RenhardtESO wrote: »

So question with what Eric Robel said about the grouping tool now forming groups where it will always put a tank, healer and 2 dps into a group. I am a healer but I also have DPS checked as my job just in case there is another healer and they feel better healing than DPSing. Will that make it harder for me to find a group if I have both selected now and should I just select the role I want to fill each time I queue?

So many people run DPS it's not even funny... If you can fill an alternate role I'd sign up for that instead, which in this case would be healer. Also I do not believe this question belongs in this thread lol

AshTal wrote: »

Questions

3) This may be answered after the DLC is released (so the question is pointless if it is) when I played through some of the new DLC I didn't like the idea that my pact solider was off to help the orcs just because he likes helping orc children and is a nice person (he doesn't and his not). Will we be seeing story reasons to do quests and to progress or is this basically - play with the orcs or grind in the sewers who cares about story, character development and role play?

5) Will Sorc pets every get bonuses that actually make them useful. Right now to use a PET I have to have it on both action bars so I can quickly swap bars and use all my skills and not lose the pet mid fight if I want 2 pets I am in effect losing 4 out of 10 slots. Their damage is also terrible and they have no use in PvP at all. Even the ultimate is a bit crap these days.

7) SWTOR has recently made a change where they have released that getting groups to do older content and lower level content and have made most content (even what they now call heroic 2+) solo-able. Will we start to see the same where we will get solo versions of the delves so I can play them when I get to them rather than have to wait till Vet16 and enough people want to do them?

8) A long time ago a question was answered saying that you would consider making AP (alliance points, ranks, titles and achievements) account wide so people could play alts without being at a disadvantage to people who just played one character. Is there any progress on this? What about making Skyshards and lore books account wide so I don't have to repeat the same content on every alt?

9) Will we ever see roleplay improvements, e.g the ability to write a bio others can see. Titles which go in front of the character name, will we ever see the chance of becoming a lord/lady and getting our own land (basically player housing). Will we see better titles for playing the main story. The player basically saves all 3 alliances and yet the only rank he has is that from PvP?

3) We help all sorts of NPCs we dislike. However, the Orcs are not trying to rebuild Orsinium for the sake of the Alliance War but rather for their own sake. Orcs have always been targetted by other races and had their home constantly ravaged so they need all the help they can get to fortify their people's homeland...

5) You're kidding right? Storm Atronach crap?! What are you on? Seriously... Also I have a Sorcerer that has both pets slotted on 1 bar and not on the other and I manage to make it work. If I happen to need them at all times though I will temporarily slot them on the other one as well. The pets serve quite well as meat shields if anything in PvE and you can always slot something else if they are not working for you in PvP.

7) I've said it before and I'll say it again... Please stop comparing ESO to other games. That being said I think you mean Group Instances which are named so for a reason? Actual Delves are totally soloable as is lol

8) If it was "considered" a long time ago there's a chance it was put on the back burner or at the very least is still low priority. I do wish people would stop asking for absolutely everything to be done account-wide rather than characteristically because A) You may as well ask your new alts be the same level as your main at this point while you're at it and

A game that hands out free maxed out characters in any regard is just plain boring and doesn't last long. I'd say be thankful what already is account-wide, especially CPs, is account-wide. They could easily revoke the CPs and Dyes from alts if they wanted to ya know...

9) I wish people would stop asking for player housing... It's already coming!

Mcac21 wrote: »

One other thing, can you please remove the health, stamina, magicka potion cool down effect in a next patch or something because it's really stupid when fighting a boss in a solo or team instance dungeon and getting your ass kicked and die when it could all have been avoided if there was no cool down on the potion use. Just like diablo 3 it's really stupid please remove it or make it available to purchase in the Crown Store.

I'm not a fan of the massive cooldown myself but it exists for a reason. Having no cooldown would make Potions not OP but broken! While this would substantially boost the value of Alchemy I must disapprove of this idea. If they did remove the cooldown though they would have to nerf Potion effects drastically to make up for it! Also the Potion Speed Glyph would become useless.

RenhardtESO · October 2015

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

UltimaJoe777 · October 2015

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

I have asked this one already actually. Feel free to refer to my questions list for anything else you may be wondering I have already asked about: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2294108/#Comment_2294108

RenhardtESO · October 2015

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

So question with what Eric Robel said about the grouping tool now forming groups where it will always put a tank, healer and 2 dps into a group. I am a healer but I also have DPS checked as my job just in case there is another healer and they feel better healing than DPSing. Will that make it harder for me to find a group if I have both selected now and should I just select the role I want to fill each time I queue?

So many people run DPS it's not even funny... If you can fill an alternate role I'd sign up for that instead, which in this case would be healer. Also I do not believe this question belongs in this thread lol

I guess I could just select the healer tab. I was just doing it because I have had only the healer selected and it still put me in a group with another healer so I ended up DPSing. So I figured I would just select both and maybe expand my pool for finding a group. Guess I am not sure of the mechanics on how this works exactly.

And that doesn't make any sense. Where would you suggest my question for "Ask us anything" belongs?...lol

RenhardtESO · October 2015

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

I have asked this one already actually. Feel free to refer to my questions list for anything else you may be wondering I have already asked about: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2294108/#Comment_2294108

All due respect, you have posted this once or twice before in a reply to a question I asked and no, I didn't go digging back through the 115 pages to see if anyone else asked the same thing. If you don't have something to contribute to or argue against my "version" of this question, then please stop telling me you already posted it in another part of this thread. Thank you

Mcac21 · October 2015

Player housing on the elder scrolls online? How much is that going to cost? I mean getting some cheddar is already so hard, could only buy Mr. SWEETROLL (cheapest mount) from the stables for 10000 gold. Getting all that gold took me 5 million years

briandivisionb16_ESO · October 2015

Question: Why have our pleas to balance PvP by removing AoE caps that are currently giving zergs 75% damage mitigation been ignored? What is your policy concerning these? Just knowing you have a stance here will help.
Thank you.

UltimaJoe777 · October 2015

RenhardtESO wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

I have asked this one already actually. Feel free to refer to my questions list for anything else you may be wondering I have already asked about: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2294108/#Comment_2294108

All due respect, you have posted this once or twice before in a reply to a question I asked and no, I didn't go digging back through the 115 pages to see if anyone else asked the same thing. If you don't have something to contribute to or argue against my "version" of this question, then please stop telling me you already posted it in another part of this thread. Thank you

It's the same question no matter how you slice it, but I suppose people repeating the same question only increases the chances of mine getting answered

That said it also serves to remind Zenimax I have unanswered questions still without repeat posting. You can get salty all you want but the fact I have posted the question already is why I replied so. I don't blame you for not digging through this thread considering how large it is which is all the more reason I mention my list just in case...

Mcac21 wrote: »

Player housing on the elder scrolls online? How much is that going to cost? I mean getting some cheddar is already so hard, could only buy Mr. SWEETROLL (cheapest mount) from the stables for 10000 gold. Getting all that gold took me 5 million years

They have not said much about Player Housing at all beyond it is coming and they are planning to let players decorate their house with Trophies and Collectibles. For all we know it could be reminiscent of homesteads from TESV: Skyrim!

RenhardtESO · October 2015

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever have the ability to custom keybind our controller for PS4 and Xbox? I play on PS4 and would love to exchange the swap weapon bar button on the left directional pad to be on the touch pad in the middle. I feel it would be so much faster and efficient for me to weapon swap when I am healing a dungeon if I could just quickly reach down with my right thumb and hit a giant touch pad than to fumble around trying to hit the left directional button and instead accidently hit the down button which sends me into first person or the up button and accidently consume a potion or food... And I barely use the map, so I wouldn't mind having that on the left button instead of the giant touch pad that could be used for way more useful things!

So someone private messaged me on here and totally resolved this issue I posted on here a while back for me on the PS4. They suggested in the PS4 settings that I could change the left arrow keybind with the R3 (sneak) button and I gotta say it works BEAUTIFULLY! Just gotta remember to switch it back when playing other games since it is changed in the system and not just ESO. But yeah!! This is not an issue for me anymore accidently drinking potions or eating food when I want to do a quick weapon swap

RenhardtESO · October 2015

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

I have asked this one already actually. Feel free to refer to my questions list for anything else you may be wondering I have already asked about: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2294108/#Comment_2294108

All due respect, you have posted this once or twice before in a reply to a question I asked and no, I didn't go digging back through the 115 pages to see if anyone else asked the same thing. If you don't have something to contribute to or argue against my "version" of this question, then please stop telling me you already posted it in another part of this thread. Thank you

It's the same question no matter how you slice it, but I suppose people repeating the same question only increases the chances of mine getting answered That said it also serves to remind Zenimax I have unanswered questions still without repeat posting. You can get salty all you want but the fact I have posted the question already is why I replied so. I don't blame you for not digging through this thread considering how large it is which is all the more reason I mention my list just in case...

Sorry didn't mean to sound like I was that angry about it after reading what I wrote. It just comes off like I shouldn't be asking it since you already did. I was more annoyed with the comment about my other question not belonging in this thread. Whatever. All good man. Water under the bridge.

timtbag123ub17_ESO · October 2015

Will we be seeing an Overhaul update that could possibly add more events, more variety of monsters, Npc's, and other items?

Mcac21 · October 2015

timtbag123ub17_ESO wrote: »

Will we be seeing an Overhaul update that could possibly add more events, more variety of monsters, Npc's, and other items?

Maby in the long run? I believe we will.

UltimaJoe777 · October 2015

RenhardtESO wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

I have asked this one already actually. Feel free to refer to my questions list for anything else you may be wondering I have already asked about: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2294108/#Comment_2294108

All due respect, you have posted this once or twice before in a reply to a question I asked and no, I didn't go digging back through the 115 pages to see if anyone else asked the same thing. If you don't have something to contribute to or argue against my "version" of this question, then please stop telling me you already posted it in another part of this thread. Thank you

It's the same question no matter how you slice it, but I suppose people repeating the same question only increases the chances of mine getting answered That said it also serves to remind Zenimax I have unanswered questions still without repeat posting. You can get salty all you want but the fact I have posted the question already is why I replied so. I don't blame you for not digging through this thread considering how large it is which is all the more reason I mention my list just in case...

Sorry didn't mean to sound like I was that angry about it after reading what I wrote. It just comes off like I shouldn't be asking it since you already did. I was more annoyed with the comment about my other question not belonging in this thread. Whatever. All good man. Water under the bridge.

Well the reason I said it didn't belong in this thread is because it's honestly more of a question to ask your fellow players rather than Zenimax themself. No offense was meant by it of course lol

Also no worries all is well and all that

Mcac21 wrote: »

timtbag123ub17_ESO wrote: »

Will we be seeing an Overhaul update that could possibly add more events, more variety of monsters, Npc's, and other items?

Maby in the long run? I believe we will.

I would add GM events to my list of questions if I didn't already know it's been suggested before and I knew they actually had the time to do them lol I mean seriously has anyone even seen a GM in-game on consoles at all? I know I haven't, and yet there is a tip about "not being fooled by imposters". Has merit and all but still...

Uberkull · October 2015

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

If they do this, why not just put in text chat?

I wish they would change the quick chat for joining group to "Join Group?" This would be more universal and could be used to start a group or to ask to join a current group.

Jump around like a idiot spamming "Join Group", that's basically where we are at on console.

olsborg · October 2015

If you are looking at ways to change/nerf the nbs cloak, wich is pretty op and spammable for a magicka nb, but not so for a stamina nb. Can you make it so its initially the same as sneaking/crouching in regards to stamina regen and stamina cost. So a magicka nb cant keep being invisible forever and will have to keep managing his stamina aswell while being cloaked because its essentially the same as sneaking?

This will be a very small impact on stamina nbs who cant rly spam this abiltiy much at all, but will impact the magicka nb in a much stricter way, since they can atm spam it indefinately.

@ZOS_JasonLeavey

RenhardtESO · October 2015

uberkull wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

If they do this, why not just put in text chat?

I wish they would change the quick chat for joining group to "Join Group?" This would be more universal and could be used to start a group or to ask to join a current group.

Jump around like a idiot spamming "Join Group", that's basically where we are at on console.

Oh believe me I am all about text chat on console. I play FFXIV and love having text chat on there. But you know a lot of people are for it and a lot of people seem against it. So my compromise would be customizable quick chat bubbles

But yeah, I would take a chat box any day of the week but that horse has been beaten 6 feet into the ground.

Mcac21 · October 2015

Poor Sweetroll...

UltimaJoe777 · October 2015

uberkull wrote: »

RenhardtESO wrote: »

Will we ever get customizable quick chat bubbles for the console? I've grouped with a lot of PUG's who don't use their mic's and it would be nice to have some visual way of communicating with them something short and sweet like "Stop standing in the red!" Or "Archer want this bow I just looted?" Or "Don't pull, I gotta pee!!" Well... I guess I could just say "Don't pull, brb"

If they do this, why not just put in text chat?

I wish they would change the quick chat for joining group to "Join Group?" This would be more universal and could be used to start a group or to ask to join a current group.

Jump around like a idiot spamming "Join Group", that's basically where we are at on console.

Nothing wrong with that lol

Titansteele · October 2015

Could ZOS`s very own Stiffler (Eric) say this on the next ESO LIVE please?

Kuroinu · October 2015

LOL

Apokh · October 2015

(When) will we see the other (gorgeous) dungeons in eso as veteran version, like you did in the past? I mean with new story, new bosses ? (E.g. Blackheart, volenfell, arx corinium, selenes web etc.)

Adryssa_Joneley · October 2015

- Will there ever be player and guild housing? If so, when will this likely take place?

- Will Spell Craft still come sometime in the future? It was sounding really good, but there has been no mention of it for a very long time.

- When will a whole bunch of new hairstyles become available? It would be an idea to add a barber to the game where it costs game money and not crowns but perhaps leave some exclusive hairstyles for the Crown Store too.

- Please add more Character Slots to the game.

- Please add more spread out dailies throughout the continent.

- Add storylines to the vampire and werewolf factions. Perhaps allow them to give players a whole bunch of different dailies to do for faction rewards.

- Will you ever introduce cloaks to the game?

- Any chance of having mount armor for cosmetics? Allowing us to also dye them?

- Please add jewelcrafting to the game

- Please increase the capacity of guild banks

KriHavok · October 2015

Have you got any plans to have quests in the game that link into the other zones of Tamriel, instead of just in the one zone that you start the quest? Similarly to how in other Elder Scrolls games, the quests there took you all over the map.

MrTtheDK · October 2015

Are there any plans currently to make Imperial City more meaningful to PVP guilds by tying in perhaps the control of the districts into the alliance war or maybe some other pvp game types within the districts themselves such as king of the hill?

Has there been any thought into implementing the arena style seen at past quake con for duelers while limiting the amount of campaigns currently out so that those interested in large scale pvp would still have a throne to fight for? I believe by eliminating the amount of pvp campaigns ESO has in this scenario that it would compensate for the players that chose to duel as opposed to the alliance war and make campaigns less one sided. Heck might even assist the servers from being overwhelmed.

I really like the concept of hard modes within trials and like the idea set by WGT and ICP having the same fights but at a higher difficulty within the dungeon by switching it to vet. Could this be implemented into trials where all the fights are at a high difficulty instead of just the final boss fight? Then at the end of the trial still have the option to make it even harder by triggering the hard mode. This would allow players of all skill sets be able to see the awesome content and provide a challenge for the more hardcore. Just a thought from an old AD player. Cheers.