First Impressions One Tamriel PC/MAC

XDragonDoomX

After day 1.. starting to get bored with ESO, which hasn't happened before.
All areas are the same, no sense of progression.
Too many people duelling within the cities.
The massive increase of sets after a while just becomes.. oh, that - NPC sell.

driosketch

It's been pretty great personally.

I had no lag, not even Rawlka where I had parked a throw away character. I get on after work on the west coast, so maybe that has something to do with it, I don't know.

Builds options are huge right now, I have 6 characters that need to go hunting, and I know exactly were to look instead of hoping for a random drop.

Stonefalls Zone chat is mainly the same, still people who don't know you can go around the north side of the fort to reach the Rift. Some Alliance baiting going on now, however.

Saw some in town duels, nothing I thought was too intrusive. Received zero invites to duel.

Took my level 26 into Craglorn, where I can finally turn in writs. Enemies were no more challenging, maybe even a little easier than when I used to solo them on my main. There were always groups doing the mines, something that took forever to try to clear solo.

Most importantly, every zone is relevent. I don't have to worry about my dwindling rubedite inventory because I'm not farming DLC zones. All enemies drop loot, and world bosses ate thougher but you're also not lacking for help to finishthem off. Had a 30 and 40 level help, actually help with one boss, and at the same time I'm not one shotting the boss and spoiling the fight for them.

Dolmens are crowded right now. The mobs phase has some interesting mechanics, new varieties, and a lot more landing at once. Even with 8 or more players, I could still get some mostly to my self. The final boss pretty much melts in 2-3 seconds though.

XDragonDoomX

I disagree over all zones being relevant now - since the crafting mats are the same, the mobs are the same - the zones no longer matter, they're just melding into one, which is somewhat stagnant. No more going hunting for those lower level mats, etc.

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driosketch

XDragonDoomX wrote: »

I disagree over all zones being relevant now - since the crafting mats are the same, the mobs are the same - the zones no longer matter, they're just melding into one, which is somewhat stagnant. No more going hunting for those lower level mats, etc.

By that same token, I'm also not picking up useless CP 10-80 gear or mats anymore. Or sub CP 150 solvents in endgame zones. If I have a reason to be in a particular zone, quest, gear drops, achievements, I'm able to farm at the same time. I have lower level toons who can farm their own mats, that's not an issue. And in fact, they are always able to find the mats they need now, so I'm not ignoring other zone to farm the one zone that mostly dropped what I needed. (Mostly because solvents and runes were always seemingly off cycle with the other mats.)

Lucius_Aelius

Gargath wrote: »

I can't say I fully accept the stats we get from the very beginning, for lvl1 already like we were lvl50. Same with weapons, found a Staff with over 1k damage, felt weird, I think it lowers much the immersion of progressing up in levels gaining more and more stats with each level. That's also a bit inconsistent, since we get increased base stats and regen without any armors, but not the criticals. That is a bit confusing.


Other impression: much much much lower amount of raw mats found due to much much higher amount of players around. Economy should suffer from this, or our wallets .

I don't get this impression at all, to me it was always more immersion breaking to have enemies be so wildly different levels across zones, makes no sense in an open world where there's supposed to be any sense of continuity. It's like in real life you go one place and the wildlife is something that will tear you apart, like lions, but you go a little distance and suddenly the lions are things that are a joke to you. Like, what? Lions are lions, doesn't matter what "zone" they're in, and they should always be the same difficulty to fight.

So no, I don't get it, having enemies be a fixed level with you having to level up your skills as a new player but still having half-decent stats while you do so makes far more sense to me than the alternative ever could.

Loves_guars

Underwhelming...

I don't care much about new sets.

I like doing stuff with 1 or 2 friends low CP. Now they made Craglorn solo and (apparently from what I'm reading) raised difficulty for vets, so we won't be able to do much.

I tried doing the fighter's guild daily but the rewards were hilarious, not doing those again.

I did a world boss with a friend and got a green piece with training trait. Bleh.

Not liking that everwhere is crowded.

I'm happy for duels I guess.

Sigtric

Reading through and have not gotten all the way through this thread so if I am repeating what someone said already, apologies!

sarahb16_ESO wrote: »

Haven't got a chance to play yet (and will probably wait until the novelty dies down a bit) so specific question: Can you still identify ppls alliance in PvE via their name tag? (Pls no)

@sarahb16_ESO There is a little colored chevron or rank indicator to the right of someones name when you have them targeted. The color indicates the alliance. I find it pretty unobtrusive and I have to go looking for it if I want to know.

Gargath wrote: »

I can't say I fully accept the stats we get from the very beginning, for lvl1 already like we were lvl50. Same with weapons, found a Staff with over 1k damage, felt weird, I think it lowers much the immersion of progressing up in levels gaining more and more stats with each level. That's also a bit inconsistent, since we get increased base stats and regen without any armors, but not the criticals. That is a bit confusing.


Other impression: much much much lower amount of raw mats found due to much much higher amount of players around. Economy should suffer from this, or our wallets .

@Gargath
I played a lowbie last night and that did feel a bit weird. But you just have to teach yourself to think a bit differently. As you level up and spend your attribute points, you'll see your resource pools changing even when scaled. This scaling is basically the same as it had been in the DLCs and inside Cyrodiil (minus the pvp buffs).

Cyro and the DLCs have shown that a lvl 10 character scaled to 150 (at the time) is NOT as far along in the power curve and not as capable as a true CP150+

The increase in power as you level is still there, it's just a bit more subtle, and the numbers you see are larger.

RaddlemanNumber7

Not a happy experience so far.

Spent a few hours collecting on some of the Treasure Maps I'd saved up. So far I've done about 20 maps and got trader trash. The new sets seem to be designed to be useless. A prime example is the prisoner set - light armour with stamina bonuses. All a big disappointment. Not sure if I'll bother collecting the rest of my maps.

I've seen one dual. It lasted about 5 seconds.

Trash mobs still all go down with one shot. Haven't tried, or seen any heavy combat yet.

Population on EU PC server seems an awful lot lower than before the update. Not what I was expecting considering all three alliances now share the same zones. I guess most people are still unable to play because of the login mess.

Acrolas

One Tamriel is like member berries minus anything to actually member, promoted as a no-borders sandbox experience while simultaneously dumping crown store alliance pride on you. It's also a crowning achievement of the beta testing argument, as this is probably the game that should have been released two and a half years ago. Or the reason to delay the game just as long.

Yes, you can wander all the available Tamriel zones now. But 916 days past first launch, what's really left to do that you haven't already seen before? Being able to farm high level resources in a starter zone isn't new content. Gathering resources wasn't even that difficult to begin with.

Nothing's really changed. While visiting the snowy Wrothgar countryside or climbing sedimentary stone formations in Hew's Bane was a pleasant rush of something new and different, there's an emptiness in this update. One that ZOS surely wants to satisfy with crown crates, but one I'll satisfy by just going outside more often.

Tasear

Disappointing, the dungeons are fun especially with random people with diff locks. It's not a matter of skill but who can deal most damage. As such why would even give someone not even 160 co a chance. They no matter how skill are just a burden. One tamerial ruined dungeons for me by making them boring.

Deuce

I was highly irritated that they reset the progress in Craglorn...they did not mention resetting questline progress.

What makes it worse is that I tried to finish the questline on PS4, but there was a bug for the Broodmother quest which prevented progress!

This bug was patched fixed on PC but they reported that it would not be fixed until One T dropped on PS4.

SO basically they lied to me and screwed me on Craglorn....

THANKS ZOS!