How does Update 6 compare with the other Updates?

abigfishy

A lot of people are excited by this but many others are saying sure we can do a lot of things differently but what is there that is new to do?

By comparason I want to look at some of the other updates and saw what they brought. I will not be counting bug fixes and minor tweaks as they should not count as part of an update, they should be the things that are fixed in regular maintanance.

abigfishy

Update 1:
Lower Craglorn - fantastic to have a new zone but the forced grouping has been widely debated. Could have been A+ but more like a C.

Trials - loved by those that do then and the ultimate test in the game. Could have been better with more varied teams needed to complete them rather than the 1 tank, 1 healer and 10 DPS. Overall A

Death Recap - A nice feature but hardly a game changer. E

VR 12 - many will disagree but to me this was a really bad move. More grinding. F

Chest changes in group dungoens. Trivial. Sharing was an improvement though. C

PvP introduced new campaign Celarus - did this do much to improve PvP? D

Overall some exciting stuff here with Craglorn and Trials. B

abigfishy

Update 2

Veteran Crypt of Hearts - 1 not new dungoen just a varient on an old one and that is it? F

FOV slider - lol E

Pick up Armor and Weapons - while nothing bad about this kind of lacking a wow factor. I'm not sure they had to be made so bad. Most useful for new players. D

Improved Interior Lighting - looked nice but had performance issues and not really going to give you anything extra to do. D

Light Jerkins - also nice but underwhelming. D

So that was it. Wow I hadn't remembered this being such a nothing update. An entire update that basically gave 1 semi-new dungoen. F

abigfishy

Update 3

Armor Dyes - these were fantastic. I use them and I assume 90% of players use them. They didn't cost you real money, didn't destroy your inventory and gave you a reason to fish! I did have to answer the question "Where is the dye station in Davons Watch" about 1,000 times. Despite that 1 tiny issue overall fantastic implimentation. This also added a massive 47 new achievements. A+

Improved Guild Features - new ranks, heraldry, permissions and gold. All very good. If only the guild bank would open and actually stack stuff. C

Guild Traders - while I agree that some more kiosks around the world would be good these were a fantastic addition to the game and something that I certinly use (either through buying or selling) every single day. Also very user friendly for new players. A

Alliance War Campaign Updates - seemed good but the fact that PvP has been so ignored, so buggy, so laggy, and so much more like a horse riding simulation than an ESO game meant that these had a hard time succeeding. This is before even considering Emperor faming, Bat Swarm, Impulse, Elder Skirts Online etc. The Non-Veteran only Campaign idea was great but the bugs and lags mean that most campaigns are ghost towns with only Thornblade having a decent population. I applaud the fact that they tried to fix things but I am confused by the fact that they didn't fix the most glaring issues. D

Extra emotes - we all know that •/leanbackcoin is the key to the entire game. Ok seriously I like emotes and I know the RP crowd do so have to give big ups to this. •/juggleflame was my favourite one but I also like that all my characters can now dance like an Orc. A

So I loved a lot of the stuff in this update. But once you had colored your armour, juggled some flame, bought some cheap jute from a guild trader and discovered that the Chillrend campaign you just made your home was utterly deserted what was there new to do? B

abigfishy

Update 4

Upper Craglorn - awesome a new zone to explore...but wait a minute. Didn't they hear the 99% of people who were unhappy that all the content was forced group content that you could not solo if you wanted to? Really? How would giving players a CHOICE to group (much easier) or solo (much harder) be bad? D

Serpent Trial: Sanctum Ophidia - Trials are great even if this doesn't seem to be the most popular. It is something new to do. A

Dragonstar Arena - Another new thing to do. Always great to have more options although maybe it could have been written in such a way to give it better repeat value. A

Nirnhoned Crafting Trait - a crap trait with stupid rarity requiring many, many hours of mindless grinding. The counter argument is that everything shouldn't be easy and it is great to have some harder, rarer crafting achievements. E

Grouping Improvements lol. Fail, fail, fail! F

New VR Rank - Ahhhhhhhh more grinding! Did even V12s like this? F

Enchanting rebalancing - I can still get a new character from level 1-50 in provisioning or alchemy in 1 hour while it will take a month and countless thousands of gold to get an enchanter anywhere. Is going from pathetic to horrible an improvment? I guess so. E

So despite the many, many fails in this update there was a lot of new interesting content. C

abigfishy

Update Bug, uh 5

Veteran City of Ash - new stuff is always good but when it is half a dungoen I really have to wonder what have they been doing? D

Undaunted Enclaves and Pledges - fantastic way to encourage (not force) people to group and repeat dungoens. Still very popular even if the rewards weren't always so great. A

Dungeon scaling - was needed for the Undaunted Pledges and does allow groups to vary the difficulty by chosing who is the leader. Interesting mechanic. B

Solo-instance scaling - who ever asked for this? If things were too hard you could come back and do it later. I liked that things like Dosha and Balreth in the early days were so brutally hard. Now everyhing scales to your level but has been nerfed so much that almost everything is perminant easy mode. Remove this and up the dificulty and the game will be much better. F

Crafting Writs - a heap of fun and a great tutorial for new players. Need to make the rewards much better for max level crafters. Have been notoriously buggy. B

Improved Facial Animations - honestly I can't tell the difference, maybe it is my low graphics settings that I use to combat lag but they are still sock puppets to me. C

New Crafting Style: Dwemer - great to have a new style, great that it was a challenge to find, but why, why, why are the frames so stupidly hard to get? Want a set of gear in Dwemmer style? It will cost you 45-55,000 gold for just the trait stones. (Current prices of 5k per frame and 9-11 needed for a full set of gear.) B

So some cool stuff here in the pledges but repeating dungoens surely doesn't count as something new to do. The crafting is new but the novelty wears off. What else is new to do besides fight the million new bugs? C

ers101284b14_ESO

People are gonna be mad either way. We need the champ system. We want the justice system. We begged for the new collectible inventory. Provisioning revamp is appreciated. I thought each of those would be its own update so if they wanna put them all together then awesome.