In your own words, briefly describe each patch and how you remember it

Vynist

I would like to see your own personal summary of each patch as you remember it. Whether it is strictly factual changes or personal opinion on each patch, let's hear it out!

Time for nostalgia, y'all!

Example:

1.6 - High damage, rise of stam-blades and mag-sorcs,

1.7/2.1 - Damage reduction, rise of stam DK's, dodge roll nerfs

etc.

Have fun!

Elsonso

Hmmm

Update 1 ... finally.
Update 2 ... meh
Update 3 ... dyes! Guild kiosks!!!!!
Update 4 ... I remember liking it, but not why.
Update 5 ... stamina builds start seeing life
Update 6 ... justice system. Oh yeah, champion points
Update 7 ... meh, Imperial City.
Update 8 ... Wrothgar!

RedTalon

Look at all the crying, save for this one patch oh cool one shoting all vampires all the day followed by crying

Marrtha

1234567... Where are we now?

Manoekin

It's hard to remember exactly what the earlier patches were except for 1.2, but here's my shot.

1.0 - What am I even doing?

1.1 - OMG the bats and the standards! Don't get burned by that oil on the ground m8. Maybe Negate is good?

1.2 - Microsoft Powerpoint: ESO (now with better lighting effects).

1.3 - Magical orbs of DEEEEEAAAAATTTTTTHHHHHHHHHH aka Orb Wars (could have been earlier, but I don't really remember this patch). Brandon South-Ga (probably 1.2 also).

1.4 - My character is covered in dirt! #ThanksFragShield. Corrosive Armor OP. Wait did I just get sniped for twice my actual health?

1.5 - "That Wall of Elements totally melted that entire group whoa awesome" - Wrobel. Heal debuff stacking. Purge bug. I wonder how many negates I can stack in one group? Can I walk from Arrius to Blackboot only in negates?

1.6 - Maybe DK can still be decent. Oh wait that NB just killed me and went back into cloak before his character even appeared out of stealth. Man sorc shields are strong. #NerfSorc. Why can't I capture this IC district? Holy crap these mobs in IC hit hard. Why am I PvEing I just wanted more PvP content.

1.7 - RIP magDK. Wow wrecking blow hits hard. Can you please stop charge spamming me ffs I want to actually move. 2v1? Get out of here with your zerg m8 1v1 me. Watch your step!

Etaniel

My personnal experience :

1.0 Broken quests in starting zones and dying to dolmens, plus the lovely infinite loading screens.
Getting farmed 24/7 by tower farmers, bashers and batmans, and stream sniping Pryda.

1.1 Discovering that non set gear is crap, and that light armor actually helps out magicka builds. Go Warlock ! Also lag

1.2 Lighting paaaaaaarraaggagagagh cough cough patch, impulse trains start to show up more and more. Also, fps stuck beneath 10 everytime you got close to a keep and requiring a full client restart.
Also lag lag

1.3 Shiny colours and guild heraldry, about f**in time. This is the patch where I discovered potions and became a pot addict, and tremendoulsy improved my effectiveness in PvP
Also lag lag

1.4 Stamina builds get a slight buff, Rise of the snipers, 1000% speed bug
Did I mention lag?

1.5 Rise of the hate threads against dks created by said snipers, because one class could potentially defend itself against one shot sniping. Wall of element + purge combo, best zerg buster EU.
This patch is imo the closest we ever got to balance, requiring a tad more stamina buff and a slight dk nerf.
Impulse trains still lag by the way

1.6 intense depression during 2 months because magicka dk goes from strong to incredibly feeble, followed by rolling a stamblade and enjoying the crap out of kiting zergs with KiteSquad. Getting to enjoy the lovely feeling of getting feared through the floor every other min. Damage numbers become utterly ridiculous, except for magicka dk of course.
Lag is no longer caused by only impulse trains, but by any and every group over 20, thanks to lagnado and proxy lagonation.

1.7 Imperial city ! About fu**in time ! And total disappointment when I realise it's nowhere near DAoC's darkness falls.
Nirnhoned nerf makes magicka dk somewhat viable again, hurrah, but game is horribly frustrating thanks to the 10 min loading screens between each zones. Banner forests, meteor showers
Also huge tons of lag, even reaching in PvE zones

1.8 Best time to grind stamina character, thanks to the crouch + block combo = infinite stamina
gap closer ministun starts being abused and makes playing PvP a horrible experience
improved lag by adding 200 ping to everyone in intense lag situations

Asmael

1.6 I have no idea what the hell Ima doing (and still get Emperorship, go figure). Keep hearing about vet PvP being all about crazy damage and one shot wonders, let's stick to non-vet.

1.7 Non-vet goes craptastic mode, still old battle leveling, but 50% mitigation on top of that. Everyone becomes unkillable (high health, high mitigation, low damage). Starting a magicka sorcerer to get the burst to actually keep killing people. Also starting to 1vX a lot, since guildies try out vet campaigns desperately and left me alone . BwB stays yellows for a few weeks (because no opposition, since most group leaders left).

Few months later, guildies are back to non-vet, I start trying out many different build, trying out my mag DK build, and failing hardcore. Campaign (kind of) becomes balanced again, before EP rises from the grave, crushing everything. I make my first DC alt, can't stand zerging, so I'm helping the outnumbered faction.

Few weeks later, things are once more (somewhat) balanced. I try out vet a bit on buff campaigns. Very disappoint.

1.8 Non-vet battle leveling changes, and BwB becomes pretty much like the vet campaigns (with less lag). Finally got a PhD in animation cancelling, tried out most classes, I take upon myself to make magicka DK "work" and start going to vet campaigns.

Much lag (Lagzura and Truelag), rest buff servers filled with PvE. Much disappoint. Focus on vet duelling. Starting pledges / farming mats to prepare the final mag DK build to d00m the world.

1.9 Coming Soon. My magicka DK destroys the world thanks to OMGWTFBBQ buff to Fiery grip. (No ETA on world destruction).

Minno

Start: April 2014: "these dual maces are pretty cool with my 30mag, 20 stam, 10 health resource pools!" Also the vampire mafia was a thing (players that would restrict players getting natural vamp bites to control the cost of getting a player bite in zone.)

1.4.3 :rise of the nirn! Blood and Sand guild ditched pvp for buff server. Joined HoD but left for NPK looking for quick fights.

1.5.2: the great forward camp diaspora. Elder Horders Online.

Morozov

1.0 - yay! I finally got a computer that can run this game! wewt

1.1 - WOW, leveling is fun! oooh look at my fireball I just shot at that wolf! woooot, Hey I can craft gear in this game too?!? AWESOME

1.2 - COOL! I can see light in windows...cause......WOW

1.3 - Cyrodill? What the hell is Cyrodill? What the **** why am I dead? am I getting T-bagged? Awww crap, this is the PVP area...

1.4 - Moonlight? What guild is Moonlight? whatever, maybe they will keep me alive longer

1.5 - Spamtastic Wall of Elements! I love spamming impulse too! Yay fire damage!!

1.6 - Well........I guess I 'll never have top end gear again. Keep the MagDK hope alive!

1.7 - I hate stamina.....but sniping people for 99% of their health is hiiiiiilaaaaarious!

Jhunn

I can't remember what patch was what before 1.5, so I'll just do from there

1.5 best patch and the closest the game has ever been to perfect.

1.6 insta-gabbing sharpened maces, nirnhoned and 30 min lag-fights in keeps with no skills doing anything.

1.7 the worst PvP has ever been IMO.

LokoMatic

1 ... Why have I been stuck in the wall for 2 days now?
2 ... Hay that guy just wiped 65 people.
3 ... Yayyyy bats
4 ... Should have made a Magicka DK. Shouldn't oil on the ground burn my feet too?
5 ... Zerg vs Zerg, initiate 3 FPS. PC fried at 153 degrees.
6 ... CP sweet... More balance, probably the most fun I had was at this moment.
7 ... Sweet damage nerf (as sarcastic as humanly possible), camo scrubs, focused aim spammers. This update was basically AIDS.
8 ... more pve? Awesome, we haven't been asking for new pvp updates for almost 2 years or anything.

Ghostbane

1.0 - Yay!, "OMG NERF DOSHIA", WTB a Dwarven Oil 2k

1.1 - "Don't stand in the bats.. Don't sta.. DONT STAND IN THE DAMN BATS." /groupkick

1.2 - "Don't stand in the oils.. Don't sta.. DONT STAND IN THE DAMN OILS." /groupkick, LSD Cyro

1.3 - Stack dem Healing Springs. Caltrops everything. Veteran Points suck ass.

1.4 - Craglorn xp grinds and Craglorn xp grind nerfs. #fastestDevWorkNA #invertedTakeFlightTravel

1.5 - If you ran Take Flight instead of Fercious Leap, you're a pleb. Purge dat breach oil or swim in WoE, choose your fate.

1.6 - CP, Stamina!? HA magicka DKs, 40k sorc shields, useless negates, rollerblades™, dis proxi is turd. dis proxi no gud. Proxi's, proxis everywhere. Some tornado homeslice?

1.7 - Nerf everything, here is the sewers, empty Cyrodill for a month (great times)

1.8 - nerf more kek, here is some orc horses and some bears you can get yo funk on. Bustling Cyrodill. "Y YO REK MAH SMALLSCALE FARM BRP!?"

1.9 - OP Siege, "Purge pug groups", more small scale

Mythk

1.1 - I can still be effective at level 30 in cyrodiil because crystal frags always knocks down! Oh wait, what the hell is going on, am I getting attacked in melee range? Put a hard casted frag on that!

1.2 - Hey guys I think something is wrong with my computer, what's going on? Guess I'll go back to abusing the flesh atronach spawn in spindleclutch to get max level...

1.3 - Awww yeah! New updates to current gear sets! Let me get some beastly gear crafted for PvP to destroy every- ohmygod I suck at PvP, I thought having 1337 gear and being max level made me good! Now, if only we had gear dying so I could die in style....

1.4 - I will learn how to defeat DKs with my sorc! Oh this infinite magicka, how did no one ever tell me about harness hardened stacking before! Well, let me go make a DK to learn how to counter them - OH SWEET GOD DK IS SO OP HOW DID THIS HAPPEN INSTANT 1V20S, GROUND OIL IN STANDARD ERMAHGERD. Oh and shield restacking instead of renewing : The best change to sorc ever YES thank you ZoS, our savior!

1.5 - I am become god of sorcerer, fear my wrath, oh wait 3.2k snipe.... I only have 2.7k health! Is that a ball group? Using wall of elements? What is going on? Why did I just get a purge on me WHERE DID MY HEALTH GO. Been dueling for a while now, I wonder how good I'm getting... Hey I just beat Sypher and Aetcha in individual duels, oh is that guy dave considered the best sorc currently? Hey I beat him in a duel on my DC sorc! I'm really getting good! Also running in a guild in PvP turned into SPRINGS SPRINGS SPRINGS - NEGATE 18 ON ME NOW!
Oh and how can one forget... I AM SHELIZA THE UNKILLABLE FEAR ME

1.6 - Did I say I was a god before? Oh I lied, THIS IS GODMODE BABY aww yeah feel my reign of death and destruction and infinite dama - oh wait that dude has 7/7 nirn on... FEEL MY TICKLING BUTTERFLIES! 1 shot meteors until people learned what blocking was were absolutely delicious! COLDHARBOR SIEGE! Oh my, did my coldharbor trebuchet just instagib that group of 18 on the resource flag? SURE DID! Oh look, a rolling little stamina build thinking he's viable! Oh wait, a group of 4 stamina builds thinking they're via - oh my lord where did all the magicka builds go? ALL I SEE IS PERMA ROLLERS! Oh and I guess proxi det leaping to one shot small groups of people was alright.
Oh and Havoc getting 1v5d? Aw yea, feed me the salt anon!

1.7 - So.. Guess it's time to grind up a new character, RIP account! Holy hell is it hard to kill someone with only having 100 CP! Is my damage really that low now? Oh wait super reduced damage in Cyrodiil now? This could be ALRIGHT I guess... Looks like I've got some catching up to do this patch guys, I'm sure PvP will get fixed next patch and the CP catchup system will really help out a ton!

1.8 - Well I guess I was wrong about PvP being any better... At least the catchup system is nice! Look at all the stamina builds! What did I miss in the time I was out of commission? Any magicka builds left? Anyone? Oh well, I got all my gear and I'm doing decently well with champion points! This can work out anyway (plays Cyro for a week or two) oh my, what happened to this game I love(d) so much! Oh well, guess doing writs and crafting isn't so bad to pass the time...

1.9 - No ETA on well... anything! Stay tuned!

Spacemonkey

Etaniel wrote: »

1.5 [...]
This patch is imo the closest we ever got to balance, requiring a tad more stamina buff and a slight dk nerf.
Impulse trains still lag by the way

Agreed, and oh so much more fun, for ALL classes.

Soris

1.0 Broken quests, infinite loading screans, BOTS

1.1 Zero cost bats with Pryda. Birth of the "impulse spam monkeys" And Craglorn grind aka lfg shadow/anomaly spam.

1.2 Microsoft Powerpoint ESO edition. This is where I finally finished leveling and discovered good old seducer+warlock combo and various game mechanics which allowed me to improve myself.

1.3 DYES! Also blazing shield got buffed so no more stops magicka regen while active yay! But they created a new bug that you could cast BS repeatedly while taking damage and hit for over 9000 when it explode. ggwp

1.4 Slight buff to stamina builds and birth of the stamplar. Second best patch imo. (minus the snipe spam.)

1.5 Monster sets! Also another slight buff to stamina builds and peak of the stamplar build. Best patch so far. Best balance between magicka and stamina. Each build was well balanced if you knew the mechanics. Maybe a small nerf needed to light armor tanking but not much. Snipe ganking defo needed a nerf though.

1.6 Big hopes, big disappointment. Nothing to say more. This is where I stopped playing.

1.7. Imperial City about *** time! I came back with the hypetrain. But the hammer of the reality came right after the hypetrain. Game turned in a generic Asian grind mmo. Plus wrong decisions with block nerf and battle spirit.

1.8 More grind.

1.9 Will be more grind.

Aldarenn

1.0 - WTF I can't complete the main story quest! Wow... there are 10 more levels after hitting lvl 50... I'm getting pissed at these s&b noobs spamming bash for 500 dmg... Why is everyone quitting? This PvP is tight! That dude just hit me for 7 dmg Funnel Health.

1.1 - This fixate/niccole duo is really OP... I knew I should've rolled Sorc... Also, summon those Merc Contracts!

1.2 - OH WOW COOL LIGHTS SHOWING OFF THROUGH WINDOW, BUT WTF I KEEP CRASHING... Those sorc streak/bats combo was pretty cool.

1.3 - Caltrops them sieges to render them useless. People are beginning to ask for performance issue fixing and PvP updates. Armor dye was actually a legit update. Frag shield was too OP.

1.4 - Rise of the Blazing Shield stack causing 5k dmg! I felt great! Also Snipers and Sap Tanks begin to receive recognition! This was also the time when using jabs in duels was considered cheating. Vet DSA was much fun at the beginning.

1.5 - Templars running around as tanks now, NBs still having some trouble due to DK reflects and Sap Essence not strong enough, but was arguably most balanced patch. Don't purge those UWoE Heart of Daggerfall! GG WP. Quit getting farmed by IR at Ales Farm, TFL... Performance issues were moderate, but still playable. Monster helm sets and pledges was a good addition.

1.6/2.0 - This had to be the biggest fail relaunch to my knowledge; A patch that rendered all Magicka builds useless due to a bug that couldn't get hotfixed. A 1 1/2 year delay on console release was priority due to being suckers of paid beta testing. (I admit the console transfer was fun being v14 wrecking lvl 10s.) The CP system was a real grind, this couldn't have just turned Korean. Performance was just abysmal, therefore I left.

1.7/2.1 - I gave ESO another try when the PTS for this came out. I knew it was going to have an awful start when all you could do was camp the doors due to it not having immunity. I thought the new Battle Spirit buffs was going to be a good thing, so I considered this a possible positive. Chaining people off spawn was fun, but that was just bad design. Also, where were the objectives? This surely was made to be PvP content right? Nope, so I didn't come back.

1.8/2.2 - I slowly made my adjustment back to this game. A bit disappointed about the lack of stam regen in this patch. start seeing a lot of classes come back to life with the exception of Magicka DK.

1.9/2.3 - RIP ESO.

Joy_Division

1.0: Broken quests.

1.1: People hardcasting crystal fragments and standing in DK banners. Batswarms wrecking everyone. Why are AoE caps in the game?

1.2: Think I was still trying a hybrid sorc with a two-handed sword. Why are AoE caps in the game?

1.3: Fun with ground oils. Maybe I can live with AoE caps in the game.

1.4: Ridiculous Snipes

1.5: High point of PvP. Low point of sorcerers, er negate monkeys, though. Where are my ground oils? Why are AoE caps in the game?

1.6: Perma dodge-rolling and ridiculous sorcerer shields. Why are AoE caps in the game?

1.7: We waiting over a year for this (IC)? How do you like your DK? Why are AoE caps in the game?

1.8: Where have all those people on my friend's list go? Why are AoE caps in the game?

Rylana

Closed Beta Weekend October - Day one: Awright finally made it in, what was this, third beta cycle? Dunno, ok Dunmer DK Dannika, EP, BUT OMG GAME LOOKS AWESOME... wtf this alt key crap, oh well, learning.... damn coldharbor is mean looking. Ok, take weapon off rack, do this newbie stuff, aha im done with tutorial, FLY UP IN PILLAR OF LIGHT TO HEAVEN... and get dropped back to the ground, dead. WTFZOS. Day 2: Okay I am finally out of that damn prison, land of ice and snow wut, time to (client crash).

Closed Beta Weekend November (Cyrodiil Stress Test) - Gonna try AD this time. High Elf Sorc Victoria. Grindgrindgrind to level 10. Aw yeah, time to kill ***. Get to cyrodiil. (client crash - these were common in beta). Alright back in, OH MY GOD THATS LIKE 200 PEOPLE AT ROEBECK. Okay, get me a horse, get a horse CHARGGEEEEEEE to nikel. Holy crap theres hundreds of blues here, IS THAT A RED KILL IT WITH FIRE AND MAGNETS. BEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Is that a GM? KILL IT. Oh.... it cant be killed, FOLLOW IT TO ASH. SCAROLLL RUNNNNNN, No lag whatsoever. A few stability bugs but wow. Just wow. I am buying this game.

Closed beta weekend December - Back to EP - testing out actual builds this time, Rylana is born, Dunmer DK dress + stick, It just feels right. KILL ALL OF THE THINGS. AW YEAH I FINISHED ALL THE QUESTS AND IM LEVEL LIKE 15. Wait.... theres more? Oh, cant port out of zone, wtf. Whatever, TO CYRODIIL. HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT GUY V1? Oh well. Whoa someone is actually emp? in beta? lawllawl. Kill more things, time of life.

Open Beta January = March - Back to AD Bosmer NB Kailiana, Aldmeri Vice forms, Star trek online is dead broken piece of crap, we shall prey here. EXPLORE AURIDON, FALL OFF CLIFFS LIKE NOOBS. Learn most game mechanics and stuff, figure out what we will be playing in april. Make a bunch of friends. *** there are so many people everywhere, you see hundreds doing every quest. Find out we are gonna be able to make any race any faction F-YEA! NOW I CAN REMAKE MY DK HERE. Woot.

Pre-order period - OMG GAME COME BACKKKKKKKK

Early access - Vice is officially formed with 10 guys from a multi-game community, I show up late due to billing problems with ESO. >_> Stupid ZoS. Anyway, game is awesome, roll up the bosmer NB, Dunmer DK, and Breton Sorc today, reserving names etc... WHO THE HELL TOOK RYLANA AS A NAME, I WILL CUT YOU. Rylana Dionysis then, deal with it. The real grind begins. We divvy up crafting among ourselves, by the end of the week we can make just about every 4-5 piece set in every weight, half the potions, yeah we doing awesome. DUNGEONS. Dawnbreaker shall be home of Vice.

Launch day 1.0. - Whole lotta grinding goin on, Zetto and I get to V1 first, OH MY GOD VET CONTENT IS RIDICULOUSLY HARD. Groups for dolmens and world bosses, damn this game is nuts. Some cyro here, not much, Sisko and I get our first emperor slayer achievements around level 30 on Beavery on Dawnbreaker. Make it to Tyro and we are having a blast. Emperors are insane right now, especially vampires. (I was one of the first vamps in the game and made over a quarter million gold in the first month alone off it). Infinite bats, infinite DK, much crazy.

1.1 - The first DK nerf to Talons, the first nerf to vampire ultimate cost. Sorcs and DKs still OP. Joined BDG/TKO around this time, I am the zerg, I am a zergbad. 90 day cycles half over. So much buff server, emps reigning 30+ days. THE BATTLE OF HOPESFIRE FOR CASUALE. Immense D-tick. The rest of Vice gets to v1+, zetto and I get to v10 just before 1.2 comes out. Roll up a templar healer for TKO.

1.2 - Dawnbreaker 2.0. The early purge is mostly over (people that only subbed one month or did the free month trial are now here or gone). Game has sooo many people in it. Veteran Rank 10 on two chars, v4 on the templar. So much AP. Much wow. This was one of the personal growth times, making my money, playing with numerous guilds, making my name for myself, FORUM WARRIOR. v12/craglorn. GOD DAMNIT ZENIMAX I JUST GOT GOLDED UP ON MY V10S. Whatever. More nerfs to DK, merc contracts, stamina still sucks but I carry on with the bowtard.

1.2.3 - EVERYTHING DIES. The game comes to a screeching halt in Cyro. FPS = 2 for everyone. For three weeks. Half the PvP population up and quits. Worst day in ESO history right here. The game never fully recovered. Out of the 10 vice members that joined at launch, six would quit on this patch. The diehard four reconsider the game.

1.3 - Upper craglorn eh? Challenge accepted, v14. Goddamnit zeni, we just upped level cap, whatever. Four v12s now. End of the 90 day campaigns, emp farm server celarus becomes a thing, never go there. Vet PvP is becoming a laggy joke. Home Haderus. AD buff server, ugh. Decide to roll EP, home Blackwater. FIRST EP EMP OF BLACKWATER ON BRETON SORC LYZARA, F-YEA *** I HAVE ARRIVED. The great craglorn grind to v14 hath begun on five toons. The Vice invasion of Chillrend and the deposition of Hovaling in 12 minutes happens in this era. Half of Yellow rolls red. Vet content nerf, vet content is now stupid easy. So thats gone. Guess its Cyrodiil for life.

1.4. Balance hath come at long last. Lag sucks. Playing red most of the time now, leave AD guilds. Drama, anger, hostility, loldontcare. Runnin in a red guild, also roll up a blue toon and run with fake fixate and grunt in LoM. Probably my most prolific period, maxed chars, big guilds, much AP, much fun, not the best for game performance (old computer dying, got a new one in 1.5). Emp again, zerged down. F-U. Deposition of Kamikaze on Chillrend, the great search for grand slam emperor begins. the Prophet is born. Thornblade dies, Azuras becomes the new superserver. 2 members of Vice left. 2 others return but leave by the end of 1.5.

1.5 - Playing blackwater a crapload in this time period. Trying to get an emp in every faction, get it on blue, not on yellow. Oh well. Former emp passives going away when games goes buy to play in a couple weeks anyway. Still making money off of PvP gear and fueling my massive bank account with sweet DC/AD ap gains. Camps are gone, wut? Grinding dat undaunted too. So much left undone while ive pvped.

1.6/2.0 - Game balance completely destroyed, champ system out of control, another sizeable portion of the game quits, the childish bads return now that the game is free. This is the real death of good PvP as well, DK nerfs, sorc nerfs, hellacious buffing to stam and nightblades. Half of red rolls blue. LAST VICE MEMBER STANDING. gg ZoS on that 10 percent player retention rate from launch.

2.1 IC at last - V16 (really ZoS?). Fun for 2 days, buyers remorse. Starting to think this game has no future. More people leaving every day. IC was okay but a huge disappointment. The v16 mats are stupid overpriced, too much PvE in a PvP zone, six story quests? really? Whatev.... Azuras is unplayable, Haderus is the sweetspot. The zergs have come, DAMNIT. Chillrend is removed (whyyyyyy). Get my five vets to v16 and max geared, but my love for the game has pretty much died now. Half of the remaining yellows roll blue, blue is finally (and fatally) the new overpopulated faction.... with awful results regarding server performance, ***.

2.2 - present - laggy unplayable mess, i stopped caring after IC dropped. Orsinium, whats that? Didnt buy it. same lag, same bugs, same same. Play with friends now, no longer really competitive, no real hope for the future. TG sounds like another debacle, ZoS is totally out of touch with its PvP players, and we still have the FPS bug from 15+ months ago. FFS.


And there you have it.

PainfulFAFA

1.0 What am i?

1.1 1vZerg with DK perma bats/standard ^_^

1.2 Wtf just happened?

1.3 ?

1.4 snipe snipe snipe poison poison poison dead dead dead

1.5 Spam Wall of Elements at the breach!!

1.6 Aoe Caps. Thornblade Exodus. The death massive PvP. Rise of Magicka Sorcs and Stamblades. Disappointment

1.7 IC hits and everyone realizes IC is really just PvE and a grind and abandons within 2 weeks. More Disappointment.

1.8 Maelstrom Arena. Nightblades everywhere in PvP.

Teargrants

1.0 No lag.
1.1 No lag.
1.2 LAG.
1.3 Lag.
1.4 Lag.
1.5 Lag.
1.6 Lag.
2.0 Lag.
2.1 Lag.
2.2 Lag.

heystreethawk

1.0 - woke up at 4am and got married to a cat

1.1 - still unable to solo banished cells. I go to Wabbajack with Catface Meowmers and we both crash immediately, because we are using the Mac client, and Zenimax dislikes that.

1.2 - every trash mob in silver feels like a world boss and this will mark the final time that doing silver is engaging in the slightest. My cat husband logs off at level 38 and will never play the game again. We eventually did complete Banished Cells; this is the only dungeon he will ever know.

1.3 - I don't actually remember what any of the patches before "5" did. Is this when they took away forward camps? That's when I stopped playing like an 8 year old. I'm pretty sure I'm in the original incarnation of Hello Kitty by now; the Russian man has yelled at everyone except me.

1.4 - wtb mudcrab motif

1.5 - receive the skeleton costume as a reward for joining DiE and I get scolded for wearing it to my grandfather's funeral. I spill coffee on my computer during an ulti bomb and when I buy my first PC in ten years, I make sure the new keyboard is loud like Moon's

1.6 - I am the falcon skoria.

1.7 - people, for the first time ever, regard cloak as an overpowered victory trigger instead of a developer's drunken urination into a crowd of bawling orphans. The only noticeable change to it seems to be that I used to be able to cloak through oil and certain ground effects, if my timing was right; no longer. People agree that everything is stupid and nothing is important, but for reasons that are different from my own. I get married to a cat again.

1.8 - I learn that someone has called out my 12-man group as "the Josh Zerg" in a rival faction's zone chat, and I realize that we've finally done it; we've beaten the game.

1.9 - JETPACKS?

K4RMA

1.6 - fun
1.7 - disappointment
1.8 - disappointment

Forestd16b14_ESO

Hmm never had good memory but what I do remember is U6. U6 is when ZOS made it clear they hate tanks and made HA paper and everything after that was nerfes to DKS and Tempalrs. U7 or Imperial City update when ZOS just made things worst by making Night Blades crazy over powered and U8 or Orsinium update ZOS did nothing to balancing.

Mojmir

beta-this is cool af
1.0-give it a time to work out the bugs
1.1-hmm still there?
1.2-yea im sure theyre aware
1.3-lol rly? still?
1.4-wow
1.5-is this the same game?
1.6-and yea they've given up

Cody

first few updates: AD gate camping most of PvP and claiming many buff servers (I still have a negative opinion about one of these guilds to this very day in fact, said guild was an AD guild on hopesfire, but I will not name names)
1.2, 1.3, 1.4: lag, mana builds OP, NB and templar horrible state
1.5: age of DK dominance (not calling DKs OP) much use of DW skill known as sparks lag, wabbajack with an AD emp that was crowned for months, I still have memories of AD blobs charging at BRK constantly. Also ground oils. Perma block, Light Armor being better than everything, Heavy armor sucking..... what else.... thats it for 1.5
1.6: rise of the stamina builds. I took a break around this time because of the nirnhoned issue

Modern Times: now its 14K WBs and the like due to absurdly high weapon and spell damage. But its the NB fault and the class should be nerfed to the equivalent of the at launch templar

oh and I forgot softcaps being removed at 1.6; bad decision in my opinion

riverdragon72

1. something, pve went from semi challenging to face roll
1. something pvp was awesome for 2 or so months
1.6 game went to f*****g crap
1.7 meh
2. whatever it is now, after i'm in pvp for 5 minutes I want to throw my mouse through the screen, so I quit.

MisterBigglesworth

1.0 to 1.1 - I want to tank but hate how tanking/aggro works in this game

(unsubbed, went back to WoW)

1.3 - Resubbed, Crafted and dyed a full set of legendary V12 gear... a week later they announce V14

(unsubbed again, months of raiding in WoW)

1.6 - Came back for B2P. Have rage-quit and uninstalled, a week passes, reinstalled (3 times so far)

2.1 - Imp City bought with leftover crowns, found something actually enjoyable for once (endless deathmatch in Memorial District) until that dried up, too.

2.2 and beyond: Ignoring the cash shop

Manoekin

Cody wrote: »

first few updates: AD gate camping most of PvP and claiming many buff servers (I still have a negative opinion about one of these guilds to this very day in fact, said guild was an AD guild on hopesfire, but I will not name names)
1.2, 1.3, 1.4: lag, mana builds OP, NB and templar horrible state
1.5: age of DK dominance (not calling DKs OP) much use of DW skill known as sparks lag, wabbajack with an AD emp that was crowned for months, I still have memories of AD blobs charging at BRK constantly. Also ground oils. Perma block, Light Armor being better than everything, Heavy armor sucking..... what else.... thats it for 1.5
1.6: rise of the stamina builds. I took a break around this time because of the nirnhoned issue

Modern Times: now its 14K WBs and the like due to absurdly high weapon and spell damage. But its the NB fault and the class should be nerfed to the equivalent of the at launch templar

oh and I forgot softcaps being removed at 1.6; bad decision in my opinion

Hopesfire had multiple 500 person EP guilds on it.

Poxheart

Combine Etaniel, Rylana, & Trargrants' posts to get my recollections of the patches.

DeanTheCat

1.0 - Avoid the vampire DK/Sorc, unless shooting them from the back with Camo Hunter (RIP Princess Sandy)

1.1 - Merc Mages + 86k Dee Tick Ghatok Gate last stands on Auriel's Bow (I still remember AD had a guild named "Dean worst merc spammer EU")

1.2 - The Elder Scrolls Online: PowerPoint Edition

1.3 - Figured out how to effectively use sparks in combat. Ground oil parties and forward camps on towers.

1.4 - RIP Ground Oil, managed to figure out how to land 2k damage snipes.

1.5 - Took Snipe off the bar, because ZOS's overbuffed it to the point it became a machine gun. Had quite a bit of fun sparking the new MagNB rerolls.

1.6 - Finally put down my bow because ZOS overnerfed every single Bow ability that wasn't called snipe. Took up my twinned swords and put on my Radiant Magelight to eradicate enemy stealthers.

1.7 - Etrian Odyssey: Imperial City

http://etrian.wikia.com/wiki/FOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUs2_7SYAI8

2.2 - Axploiters, Axploiters everywhere.

Ghostbane

heystreethawk wrote: »

and we both crash immediately, because we are using the Mac client, and Zenimax dislikes that.

Mentally blocked this out. Didn't have the courage to install the game on Bootcamp till 1.5 like a pleb.