Ideas that will make ESO epic !

KimoBitz

I really hope ESO becomes one of the best MMOs out there and stays true to Elders Scrolls experience. With that said, here are my suggestions to the development team at Zenimax:

World Bosses & Legendary Items: The developers should add world bosses to the game that have a chance to drop legendary items (e.g. Daedric Artifacts). These outdoor bosses are extremely rare and spawn at a random location. When a boss spawns, there is a zone-wide warning. To defeat, you require a well organized 12 man team. Imagine visiting a small town when all of a sudden you hear bone chilling laughter. You look off in the distance and see a powerful Lich roaming the countryside with his undead army.

Darkness is important for ESO: The developers really need to make nighttime and dungeons dark. Now I’m not talking about making it pitch black. People need to appreciate torches and spells like magelight. Attaching a small travel lantern to your character’s belt would be a cool feature.

Dueling & Inspecting: The developers need to add dueling to the game. Dueling allows players to get accustomed to PvPing and helps them practice for the Alliance War. This may even help get the die-hard PvE players out of their comfort zone and help with the war effort. For those players not interested in dueling, have the option to auto-decline any such request. Lastly, a player should be able to inspect another player’s equipment.

Character Sheet Background Story: The developers should consider allowing players to add a background story to their character sheet. Basically, a small text box would be displayed when other players look at your character sheet by inspecting (works with item 3 above). This allows you to feel more connected with your character, which ultimately increases immersion. People could write several basic facts about their character, or even write elaborate background story. This feature is for the role-players.

Unarmed Skill Line: The developers should add Unarmed Skill Line (Martial Arts Skill Line) to the game. These skills would be based upon stuns/disarming opponents as damage will be low. This would be a welcome addition.

Craft Cloaks: I’m hoping the developers add the ability to craft cloaks with varying styles and quality (cheap burlap to fine linen). Would be epic to show off your guild colors and/or symbols with your new cloak!

Rested Experience: The developers should add “rested experience” to the game, which slightly increases experience gained from exploration, killing mobs and completing quests temporally. You get the rested experience when you log-off from an inn and it slowly accumulates when you are away from the game. This gives casual gamers an extra incentive to log-in and play.

Character Origin & Birthsign: At the character creation screen, players will pick their Origin and Birthsign for their new character. This is for flavor only and does not affect gameplay. To pick Origin, players will choose from a list of home cities (based on chosen race). To pick Birthsign, players will choose from a list of constellations under which that character was born. Both Origin and Birthsign will be displayed on the character screen. Again, this is to add flavor. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Birthsign

Tamriel Holidays & Calendar: I’m hoping the developers add holidays according to the Tamriel Calendar (a calendar will be included in-game that shows holiday events and allows guilds to organize their own events/meetings; however, to stay true to the minimalist approach to the UI, the calendar can only be accessed while in a tavern). Taverns will become natural meeting spots for guilds. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Holidays

The in-game calendar will show the 12 months according to TES lore, such as:

Morning Star
Sun’s Dawn
First Seed
Rain’s Hand
Second Seed
Mid Year
Sun’s Height
Last Seed
Heartfire
Frostfall
Sun’s Dusk
Evening Star
The in-game calendar will also show the 7 days according to TES lore, such as:

Morndas
Tirdas
Middas
Turdas
Fredas
Loredas
Sundas

Buffler

Inspecting is a big no no!

KimoBitz

Buffler wrote: »

Inspecting is a big no no!

Why not ?

Buffler

KimoBitz wrote: »

Buffler wrote: »

Inspecting is a big no no!

Why not ?

It gives elitist fools more reason to kick ppl from groups in dungeons.

BruhItsOver9000

Nice ideas man, you get an awesome from me.

KimoBitz

BruhItsOver9000 wrote: »

Nice ideas man, you get an awesome from me.

Thanks dude

wayfarerx

KimoBitz wrote: »

Buffler wrote: »

Inspecting is a big no no!

Why not ?

We've managed to keep the leet e-peen contests in this community pretty low (or at least kept them in Cyrodiil), there is no reason to add features that encourage it.

Also, you can just ask someone what gear they have on.

esometric

idea that really makes ESO epic is: FIX FPS DROPS

Totalitarian

KimoBitz wrote: »

Character Sheet Background Story: The developers should consider allowing players to add a background story to their character sheet. Basically, a small text box would be displayed when other players look at your character sheet by inspecting (works with item 3 above). This allows you to feel more connected with your character, which ultimately increases immersion. People could write several basic facts about their character, or even write elaborate background story. This feature is for the role-players.

Can I fit the whole story from my signature in? lol, that might be a bit too long.
It would be something cool to add though.

KimoBitz wrote: »

Character Origin & Birthsign: At the character creation screen, players will pick their Origin and Birthsign for their new character. This is for flavor only and does not affect gameplay. To pick Origin, players will choose from a list of home cities (based on chosen race). To pick Birthsign, players will choose from a list of constellations under which that character was born. Both Origin and Birthsign will be displayed on the character screen. Again, this is to add flavor. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Birthsign

Also another cool thing to add.

itehache

World Bosses & Legendary Items: +1

Darkness is important for ESO: Some places at night look dark enough already though but yes, I know what you mean. They could also add a torch for immersion, but imo the night is dark enough!

Dueling & Inspecting: +1 for dueling even though I'd always reject haha But it is a needed feature.
Although I agree about being able to inspect other's equipment, it has already been said that some elitists would kick people with "bad" out from groups, it happened to me in WOW many times when I used to play. On the other side though, if you come across nice people, they can actually help you an advice you what gear would be better than you have.

Character Sheet Background Story: Yes yes yes and yes!! This would force me to develop my little bosmer story haha!! They should let the option to leave it blank though, for people who don't care about RP.

Unarmed Skill Line: Maybe for a future new class?

Craft Cloaks: I come from playing wow so... I think cloaks (and trikets!) are needed

Rested Experience: I guess you took this idea from Oblivion/Skyrim. We already have something similar, to be enlightned! You get triple xp or something like that, it is already in game.

Character Origin & Birthsign: +100000

Tamriel Holidays & Calendar: Yeah I am waiting for this, I have the faith they will implement it!

Really nice ideas, I really hope this gets read by Zos and they can at least show this ideas to the creativity team

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

KimoBitz

itehache wrote: »

World Bosses & Legendary Items: +1

Darkness is important for ESO: Some places at night look dark enough already though but yes, I know what you mean. They could also add a torch for immersion, but imo the night is dark enough!

Dueling & Inspecting: +1 for dueling even though I'd always reject haha But it is a needed feature.
Although I agree about being able to inspect other's equipment, it has already been said that some elitists would kick people with "bad" out from groups, it happened to me in WOW many times when I used to play. On the other side though, if you come across nice people, they can actually help you an advice you what gear would be better than you have.

Character Sheet Background Story: Yes yes yes and yes!! This would force me to develop my little bosmer story haha!! They should let the option to leave it blank though, for people who don't care about RP.

Unarmed Skill Line: Maybe for a future new class?

Craft Cloaks: I come from playing wow so... I think cloaks (and trikets!) are needed

Rested Experience: I guess you took this idea from Oblivion/Skyrim. We already have something similar, to be enlightned! You get triple xp or something like that, it is already in game.

Character Origin & Birthsign: +100000

Tamriel Holidays & Calendar: Yeah I am waiting for this, I have the faith they will implement it!

Really nice ideas, I really hope this gets read by Zos and they can at least show this ideas to the creativity team

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Ill try to contact them and make them read this post wish me luck haha

Eshelmen

Interesting ideas indeed.
But that resting XP is called enlightenment and we already have that. No?

phreatophile

Enlightenment= Rested XP without the need to got to an Inn.

Inspection... NO! I'm with Wayfarerx, keep that epeen waving garbage in the big playpen in the middle of the map where it belongs.

Otherwise, sounds pretty good.

The world bosses would have to be super rare and somewhat varied, nobody wants to seem the same Lich, Daedra, whatchamabugaboo rampaging every single time they go through a zone. What you describe seems like it would be pretty disruptive, which is cool, as long as it's really really infrequent. Legendary is good, Daedric artifacts would be silly as there should only ever be one of each of the big artifacts.

Darkness: I can't agree enough, there is so much light at night and in dungeons. There is literally no situation outside of 10seconds of the main quest where you need a light. That sucks. Turn down the lights, turn up the mood!

Dueling would be cool depending on the way it's implemented and the community itself.

Character origin/birthsign/ background story, cool, not especially important. I can't see ZOS dedicating resources to these with everything else on the plate.

I'm not sure about the calendar, I'm not sure exactly how many Tamrielic days there are to an Earth day, but I think it's somewhere between 2 and 3. If they got accurate about timekeeping, they'd have to stop the cutesy real world holiday tie-ins and celebrate them more than once per year. Or not, does anybody know how long the Tamrielic day or year is actually supposed to be? Maybe a year is about 900 days.

I'd love to see cloaks but it won't happen. Have a look at the Breton Hero Costume for an explanation. ZOS can't do cloaks.

Unarmed is a great idea. Khajit must get a bonus.

itehache

Good luck haha I am sure they read the forums though they just can't reply to every single post.

KingYogi415

There are so many mini games that can add life to this MMO. All of them should be a skill line.

Boxing: no weapons areana for dueling
Jousting: we all ride mounts!
Gambling: dice games, on duel outcomes
Hunting: for mats maybe?
Gardening: hopefully coming with housing

Any one of these can be a side feature in a upcoming dlc.

Cheers!

idk

WBs - No need for daedric artifacts as we have master and MA weapons and good gear all around.

Darkness - many dungeons are dark enough and same with night time. Magelight doesn't give out light and we have no crafting otherwise fro light. More important aspects for Zos to work on.

Dueling has NEVER contributed to making a game good or great. Certainly won't help make it epic.

Inspection - Zos is firmly against it though I have no issue. It's actually helpful. Most of those who have an issue with inspection probably are running with a group that has no issue if they cannot clead a boss in trials.

Backstory sheet - meh. Nice to have for RP community but their the only ones that will read it.

Unarmed skill line. - this may be coming. There are unarmed NPC fighters in the game now. New dungeons so it may come to us but don't hold your breath.

Cloaks - a big FORGET ABOUT IT as the Devs have said no for their reasons. They've been firm. Ain't gonna make ESO epic anyhow.

Rested XP - we have the training trait for this. No need.

Character origin and birth sign - first, this isn't Neverwinter, thank the divines. Also, this doesn't add anything to the game, as you even pointed out.

Holidays and events - we have had an event. Anniversary. Also, we will have another event soon. If you read through the recent patch notes you will find some info. Although events only help the game if they're well designed. I'd rather have good new content added for long term.

Sorry that I don't see how these ideas will make the game epic. In reality, it is a good game. We wouldn't be playing it if we didn't think so. They're really aren't any options worth considering. WOW. SWFOR. LOL. Neverwinter. All no.

KingYogi415

We better be able to captain a ship and kill legions of Sea Elfs this next year as well!

Acrolas

ZOS wants their events to mirror the real world calendar, even though several in-game days pass every calendar day. So no in-game calendar.

No character sheets because ZOS can't quickly and effectively moderate/approve the contents of millions of in-game profiles.

World bosses already drop unique items.

Some of this stuff is more suited to a single player experience.

Rohamad_Ali

Player group created portals for easy travel to group location . Not nearest wayshrine bogus still got to ride there nonsense .

shadelon

Yeah, we already have rested xp, it's called enlightenment which you start getting at lv 50. You can clock up to 12 days of it and it speeds up getting cp.

And i for one do not ever want to see that gear inspection trash! I got sick of that elitest bs in ffxi and it's the whole reason i refuse to touch ffxiv. All that feature ever does is create more and more elitism, and elitism has literally been the death of many a community. It's bs and we don't need it. And it's kinda the reason i play solo or with my own guild mostly in cyrodiil.

Van_0S

Nerf, and that what they promised.
Each patch changes the meta thus new content.

Daemons_Bane

KingYogi415 wrote: »

There are so many mini games that can add life to this MMO. All of them should be a skill line.

Boxing: no weapons areana for dueling
Jousting: we all ride mounts!
Gambling: dice games, on duel outcomes
Hunting: for mats maybe?
Gardening: hopefully coming with housing

Any one of these can be a side feature in a upcoming dlc.

Cheers!

Why make it a game of minigames already enough of that junk online

SleepsInShade

I really like these, so you get an awesome from me , but I have to agree with Buffler on the inspecting.

stevenbennett_ESO

Most of these are pretty good -- I'll just address one: Dueling.

Dueling in WoW was a major annoyance, but I'm open to the idea. My thought is it ought to be in some kind of Arena -- if you go there, you can challenge other people in the Arena to a duel. Saves us the need for an auto-reject, because if you don't want to duel, you don't go to the Arena. And it saves us the spectacle of duel after duel in our cities, which I found to be a big detraction in WoW.

That said, don't expect it to become a PvE player's gateway to doing PvP. Most PvE players simply have no interest in PvP, and dueling really won't get us interested. Just saying.

KimoBitz

stevenbennett_ESO wrote: »

Most of these are pretty good -- I'll just address one: Dueling.

Dueling in WoW was a major annoyance, but I'm open to the idea. My thought is it ought to be in some kind of Arena -- if you go there, you can challenge other people in the Arena to a duel. Saves us the need for an auto-reject, because if you don't want to duel, you don't go to the Arena. And it saves us the spectacle of duel after duel in our cities, which I found to be a big detraction in WoW.

That said, don't expect it to become a PvE player's gateway to doing PvP. Most PvE players simply have no interest in PvP, and dueling really won't get us interested. Just saying.

I think it would be great If they added a weekly tournement where player across Tamriel compete aganist each other in a 1v1 or maybe even 3v3 arena (gladiator arena style) to get awesome rewards and stuff

ZakuBeta

Make a PvP instance of all of Available Tamriel, with only shopkeepers, and Guards(now Killable for town capture) NPC's about the town. Leave Monsters, Bandits, and such in place, just get rid of the quest givers, and non essential NPC's.

Make a PvE instance of Cyrodil, so those who don't want to PvP can do the quests, get Skyshards, or go fishing in piece.

Make Tamriel Unlimited work without causing lag issues, and fix the bugs in the game.

dannymcgr81b14_ESO

Lots of good ideas but the only way I would want dueling is if there was an option to turn off duel requests.

kip_silverwolf

dannymcgr81b14_ESO wrote: »

Lots of good ideas but the only way I would want dueling is if there was an option to turn off duel requests.

I agree. Either turn it off or have it in a specific arena only.
I remember playing an MMO years ago (can't even remember it's name now, but I remember fighting small dragon-like creatures & having to go through portals). Anyways, ppl could ask to duel with you and you had the option to agree or not (but there was no 'turn off' option) . I ended up leaving the game because the constant duel requests got so annoying.

Ghettokid

Good ideas mate!
I have also one:

No lag:
Players will be able to run through Orsinium without getting 5 loading screens. Weapon swapping in cyrodiil wont take over 5sec and gap closers wont throw you under the map. Enemies wont be invisible for 5min after traveling to new zone.

s_jscorpiorwb17_ESO

redesign the keeps/forts/castles so they aint all very similar for a start.

Cogo

Remove the dumb dueling and inspecting part and replace the "Rested Exp' part with LOWER exp gains.

And l'll click "Agree". Love the rest.