Enjoying One Tamriel!

OldGamerESO

I usually don't like to come to the forums because of all the hatred, negativity, trolls and wound-way-too-tight min/maxers screamers. And yep, as I look through the "Recent Posts" I see 99 percent crying and complaining. So here is a "Love the changes" post.

I don't know how representative of the "average" ESO customer I am, but I know I am not like most of the posters here. Just so my comments can be taken in context:

• I started playing in May and play 1-3 hours a day
• CP 317
• Three 50+ characters: Main Magicka Templar (healer/dps), Magicka Nightblade (tank/dps), Stamina Sorc (dps). Mostly in purple 160 cp armors with a few gold pieces.
• Bunch of alts I am leveling for fun
• Only one character has undaunted 10, Mage Guild 10 and Fighter's guild 10. Rest are still slowly coming along.
• All my characters are skill point starved. I spend a lot of my time skyshard hunting
• Tempers/rosins/wax is slow to come by and I can't afford to buy them. I can upgrade one piece from purple to gold per week on average
• I don't do Trials or know where they are or anything about them
• I tried Maelstrom Area (normal) but it was too hard so I am not going back there.
• I do a lot of pugging on normal dungeons. Vet dungeons are too hard most of the time. All vet dungeons ones I have tried have been 1-2 hours of wipes. I am in three friendly 100+ person guilds and try to run with them, but it is a small step higher than a random.
• I try to do 3 normal pledges a day. If it is a new DLC normal (like WGT) I don't bother. Too many wipes and angry people yelling.
• My single target DPS on normal dungeon bosses are never higher than 11-15k on any character. That is with me trying to follow rotations from Delita and other experts.
• My crafting is not yet at all 8's. I do writs daily and have 2 characters with maxed crafting skills and max hirlings

So.. basically I am a sucky, terribad player compared to most of the people on this forum who find the game easy and boring. When I ask around my guilds, however, I don't seem a whole lot different than most people I see.

Ok with that context, here is how One Tamriel is shaping up so far:

1. Suddenly all my grey and green quests are yellow! It is amazing to now be able to run quests to my heart's content anywhere I go and on any character! This is my number one most favorite thing about the changes.
2. I was able to take my level 8 and easily go and get the Thief Mundus stone without waiting to level 40 since I now scale into the area.
3. The monsters around the world seem pretty hard now. For the first time in a long time I am dying pretty regularly. Last night on my level 10 sorcerer I died about 8 times.
4. The world bosses are no joke. I have been in some epic feeling fights around these new bosses. People /saying "this is so cool!" and "that was hard... so fun!"
5. I love seeing my stats normalized now! I always enjoyed level scaling in Wrothgar, so it is amazing to see it everywhere! I think it is scaling my health too much, but the rest looks about right.
6. For the first time I think I can enjoy leveling alts on zone drops. No longer will I dread "upgrade night" for an alt when I used to spend hours running around crafting/ upgrading/enchanting a full set of gear for my X level alt. It was very nice to run around at level 10 and get set gear that actually mattered! Every time you loot now is an opportunity to get gear you can use rather than just filling up your bank with stuff to deconstruct.
7. I am finding so much more materials for 160 gear now. It doesn't matter what zone I go to, I can now come across mats I can actually use. My bank is filled with 1000's of mats I can't use, its about time I can get the stuff I really need. Maybe I can craft my gold 160 gear in my lifetime now.
8. I love now I can find a set I am interested in and go to the right zone and stay there a for a while and usually find a few pieces. Bahraha for example is a great tanking set that was hard to find before unless you love thief guild dailies. Now you can jump into the zone, hit a few dolmans, hit the dungeons and maybe get a piece or two that you need.
9. I don't know if this is new, but I did a random normal with my level 10 magicka sorc and got an undaunted award in the mail of a purple level 10 lightning staff! It is exactly what I wanted.
10. I don't mind the prosperous and training traits on my leveling gear, its rather useful actually. I used some undaunted keys and got prosperous and training shoulders. That is OK with me. I have the set piece I wanted and more gold and more exp/kill is always useful.
11. I am not sure how I will ever get any helmets though. The mechanics for Veteran dungeons are too difficult for 90 percent of groups I have run with.
12. I love seeing so many people around! Everywhere I go there are people and it is great to get help for some of the more difficult stuff.
13. The constant duels and fights in the towns add a lot of excitement to the game. I stood and watched a punching duel while people danced in Shornhelm last night. It was pretty cool!
14. Craglorn is really great now! I never could do the quests there or even get a lot of the skyshards, so this opens up this whole area for me. It has some really gorgeous and interesting dungeons too!
15. I can now see harvesting nodes a lot better now, with that glowing aura around it. I will miss a lot less now!
16. As someone who is nowhere near max CP, every bit of exp helps, especially if it is incidental to what you are doing anyway. I got a couple CP last night because now when I am working on my achievements they are always in a leveled zone. It is much more interesting to hunt down a lore book, compete a dolman, grab a skyshard or even farm for materials when everything grants great EXP!
17. The treasure chests (and dolmen chests) are yielding much better stuff now. Its always more interesting to cross your fingers and see what happens when you pick that lock.
18. I love that I can now group with my friends anywhere and at any level. And when someone asks for help with a hard situation, I know that it might actually be challenging for me to help them! Rather than port in, sneeze on the level 17 werewolf world boss and leave, now I am fighting for my life as well! Much more exciting.

Overall I am very excited about all the changes and I am especially enjoying the leveling experience more!

Great job on having the courage to make so may sweeping changes to the game. It paid off!

rotaugen454

Overall, I am happy with the changes. Being able to gain full XP with my maxed out characters and run with low rank friends is great. I also really like the revamped Craglorn, as I don't have to find a group of four and can pick up the much needed skyshards now. Rkindaleft is not the best grinding spot, but now I can get my daily Inspiration used up anywhere.World bosses are fun again.

Asardes

My story, compared with OP
- Joined the game exactly one year ago, have 686 CP to date, never grinded anything, just played a lot;
- You can't hit undaunted 10. Maximum level is 9. Actually my main is stuck at 9.15 since forever.
- I started doing the normal dungeon pledges at level 45, just when I received the Undaunted invitation. I started doing the veteran dungeon pledges at level 50/VR1, a few days later. I've been doing both regularly since then (almost 11 months) on my main with just 3 failures (3 VCoA between VR2-10 on VCoA and one on VCoS the day after was introduced), with either group PuGs or zone chat ones. Most as tank, lately as DD or mix. I've only started doing the IC dungeons at CP cap (CP501 at the time, 6 months into veteran ranks). The first runs on those were indeed hard, but smoothed out over the time. ATM I have all achievements form the vanilla game veteran dungeons and getting the new ones as they rotate as pledges; from IC ones I'm missing just the one that you need to sneak past the guardians; from VRoM the speed and no death, from VCoS just the latter.
- Created my 1st alt as bank char when I started opening undaunted chests at VR16 (had about 240 CP), a couple of months after starting the pledges - I saved all until them to get the max level shoulders. Now I have 8, 2-3 of them are just bank characters until I train their riding skill - questing with a slow horse and just 140 inventory is rather frustrating. Have fully developed 2 of them but haven't started running pledges with them because I finished their training just before One Tamriel went online and wanted to become familiar with the updated dungeons in my main role before I tried others.
- ATM I have multiple monster sets and IC dungeon and PvP sets. I don't bother keeping the bad traits, so I either deconstruct, sell what's BoE, or lately share what's BoP with the other group members.
- I have almost of stack of gold tempers, but have only golded 2 sets of gear, tank and DD for my main. I use the latter exclusively in PvP because I see no use for tanking there.
- My main is a 6 trait master crafter, and I'm a couple of months from researching the final trait (nirnhoned) on weapons and light armor
- I haven't measured my DPS but it's probably not bad since I pulled speed-runs as DD on both VICP and VWGT.
- Did the crafting writs since the beginning on my main char, just for a month on 2 alts.
- Haven't bought all DLC, just IC and SotH, mostly for the dungeons. I enjoy PvP, but haven't really engaged much in IC up till now. I really haven't found much value in the other ones, but I might buy the discount pack in the future
- If you have your bank cluttered with stuff you can't use, just sell it on the guild stores. You can make good money. I'm standing on 5.5M selling just surplus, after I upgraded my bank, my chars and allotted money for their riding training.

Rohamad_Ali

I love that all my missed old starter area quests are now good xp again . Finding people to do things with is very easy now . I am having a ball .

Publius_Scipio

One Tamriel is a good update. Some small hiccups to iron out of course. But the zones are so much more alive now. So much more activity going on all over the place.

itehache

OP, I don't know which server you play in but if by any chance is PC/EU, let me know, I can invite you to our guild who is a chill pve / social one and we run the pledges daily (so you don't have to pug them haha).
I have recently started running veteran dungeons and with friends/guildies is way more fun, we wipe of course, but hey who doesnt in the first tries.
Questing and exploring is my favorite part of the game, and world bosses now are not soloable so we also help each other with that ^^

Related to you post, I too love one tamriel so far!! As you said, I haven't seen that much people playing in a loooooooong time and it is just awesome!!

VaniTealeaf

This was a very interesting and fun read! Love all the details, agree with all of it and relate with alot of it!
And the not so "average" eso player, in my opinion, are the best kind of players and usually stay longer than most.
Havn't been able to play much becuase of the log in issues, but sure that will be sorted in time, but so far i've had a blast!!! The only problem i have with OneT now is having to decide what to do where and when sooooo muuuuch options!
Thank you for some light through all the darkness here!
And i do "LOVE the changes"!

Glaiceana

Great post! Was a very nice read I too am enjoying all aspects of One Tamriel!

UrQuan

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I usually don't like to come to the forums because of all the hatred, negativity, trolls and wound-way-too-tight min/maxers screamers. And yep, as I look through the "Recent Posts" I see 99 percent crying and complaining. So here is a "Love the changes" post.

Cool! Overall I love the changes too. I'm pretty sure I'm not representative of the "average" ESO customer, so since you did a "for context" list to show where you're coming from I'll do the same.

• I started playing at PC launch, and the number of hours I play a day varies quite a bit, but I'm going to say probably averages out to about 2.
• CP 600+ (I don't remember exactly where it is) on my main account, CP 175 on my second account, CP 75 on my 3rd account.
• 15 level 50 characters (10 on my main account, 4 on my 2nd account, 1 on my 3rd), 11 level 25 characters (4 on my 2nd account, 7 on my 3rd), 2 level 20 characters (on my main account). Between them I've got I think every combination of class and magicka/stamina setup.
• All of my level 50 characters have multiple gear/skill setups to do multiple roles, and use almost entirely CP160 gear.
• Only a couple of my characters have max Undaunted, Mages Guild, and Fighters Guild - the rest are still working on them.
• All of my max-level characters on my main account have maxed-out crafting skills so that their hirelings bring max-level mats, so between that and different setups for different roles they all tend to be pretty starved for skill points
• I have loads of hirelings, so I get loads of raw mats and I never have an issue with upgrading stuff to purple quality - I rarely upgrade to gold until I'm sure I really like a particular gear setup though.
• I've only done trials a couple of times, but I'm planning on starting to do them more.
• I've done normal MSA a lot (I leveled one character almost entirely from level 16 to level 50 in there), but I've only tried vet MSA twice. On my magicka DK I didn't get very far before I decided to stop. On my magicka sorc I just started and found the first arena way easier than I expected despite my setup being totally not optimal, but I decided not to move on to the second arena until I've changed my gear/CP/skill setup somewhat (I'm going to have to farm some dolmens to get the gear I want to use for it)
• I run normal and vet dungeons quite a bit with friends and guildies. I PUG sometimes but not very often.
• I have no idea what my DPS is, because I don't generally track it, and I usually prefer to tank or heal anyway.

So you could call me a casual who plays a lot.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

Suddenly all my grey and green quests are yellow! It is amazing to now be able to run quests to my heart's content anywhere I go and on any character! This is my number one most favorite thing about the changes.

Isn't it awesome? Almost since launch I've been running into issues of out-leveling quests just by doing all of the content (ie. no grinding - I hate grinding). I don't think I've had a single character who didn't start having quests go grey before getting to Coldharbour. I love that I can go and do any quest now without worrying about being over-leveled for it!

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I was able to take my level 8 and easily go and get the Thief Mundus stone without waiting to level 40 since I now scale into the area.

Isn't that awesome? I mean, it's not super relevant for me anymore, but I remember back in the day when I did all of my medium armour crafting on a character who was below level 20, it was always a challenge sneaking to various crafting stations in higher level zones. Now it wouldn't matter!

OldGamerESO wrote: »

The monsters around the world seem pretty hard now. For the first time in a long time I am dying pretty regularly. Last night on my level 10 sorcerer I died about 8 times.

Well, I haven't experienced that, but I've been playing a lot longer than you so I'd be pretty worried if I was getting killed regularly.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

The world bosses are no joke. I have been in some epic feeling fights around these new bosses. People /saying "this is so cool!" and "that was hard... so fun!"

I tried a few of them on PTS and they seemed a lot more interesting and fun now. I haven't actually done any on live yet, aside from a guild run of Wrothgar and Gold Coast ones, but I don't think those ones were changed at all. I am looking forward to going back and doing the base game world bosses again.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I love seeing my stats normalized now! I always enjoyed level scaling in Wrothgar, so it is amazing to see it everywhere! I think it is scaling my health too much, but the rest looks about right.

I think for lower level characters they artificially boost the health more than the others in order to make them more competitive.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

For the first time I think I can enjoy leveling alts on zone drops. No longer will I dread "upgrade night" for an alt when I used to spend hours running around crafting/ upgrading/enchanting a full set of gear for my X level alt. It was very nice to run around at level 10 and get set gear that actually mattered! Every time you loot now is an opportunity to get gear you can use rather than just filling up your bank with stuff to deconstruct.

On PTS I created a brand new character with no CPs and did the tutorial and the starter island (Khenarthi's Roost) just using whatever gear I had drop. It seemed to work out pretty well. The level of difficulty seemed about right, and long before I was done with the starter island I had a full usable set of 5-piece Trainee gear, with a couple of extra pieces.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I am finding so much more materials for 160 gear now. It doesn't matter what zone I go to, I can now come across mats I can actually use. My bank is filled with 1000's of mats I can't use, its about time I can get the stuff I really need. Maybe I can craft my gold 160 gear in my lifetime now.

On the one hand I love this because I'm getting max-level mats everywhere. On the other hand, I don't like it because I often craft lower level stuff for my lower level characters and for other people.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I love now I can find a set I am interested in and go to the right zone and stay there a for a while and usually find a few pieces. Bahraha for example is a great tanking set that was hard to find before unless you love thief guild dailies. Now you can jump into the zone, hit a few dolmans, hit the dungeons and maybe get a piece or two that you need.

Yeah, for me the big thing isn't so much that it's easier to get the sets that you want (although that is big), it's that every set is the right level for you!!! I love this!

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I don't know if this is new, but I did a random normal with my level 10 magicka sorc and got an undaunted award in the mail of a purple level 10 lightning staff! It is exactly what I wanted.

That's not new - they've been doing rewards by mail for doing random dungeons for quite a while. It is nice, but I think the main reason people do random normals is to get the massive XP tick for the first one you complete in any given day (about 100K for a max-level character).

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I don't mind the prosperous and training traits on my leveling gear, its rather useful actually. I used some undaunted keys and got prosperous and training shoulders. That is OK with me. I have the set piece I wanted and more gold and more exp/kill is always useful.

Training is great for when you're leveling a character or leveling skills. I don't like it on gear for end-game stuff though, and I don't like prosperous at all.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I am not sure how I will ever get any helmets though. The mechanics for Veteran dungeons are too difficult for 90 percent of groups I have run with.

It seems like all vet dungeons got buffed with this patch, and I'm not really sure why. In my experience PUGs often have difficulty with vet dungeons, but when you group with friends and guildies you have much more success. One thing that I've particularly noticed in my main guild is that I've been running a regular weekly group dungeon event for quite a while (probably about a year), and while we often get new people participating, most of the people who come out to it are regulars. I'm at the point where if I'm grouped with any of those regulars I'm confident that we won't have serious trouble in any of the non-DLC group dungeons, even if we've got a relative newbie or two in the group. The moral of the story is that practice and knowing the mechanics really makes a huge difference, and as long as you've got a couple of experienced players, it won't take long for newer players to learn the ropes. When I started doing these group dungeon nights, most of the people coming to them weren't very experienced, but I feel like we've all learned a lot from each other.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I love seeing so many people around! Everywhere I go there are people and it is great to get help for some of the more difficult stuff.

Yeah, that's pretty damn cool isn't it?

OldGamerESO wrote: »

The constant duels and fights in the towns add a lot of excitement to the game. I stood and watched a punching duel while people danced in Shornhelm last night. It was pretty cool!

I don't like duels inside banks and stuff, but I don't mind seeing them anywhere else. I did a little bit of dueling on PTS, and while it's not something I was excited for at all, and it's still not really my thing, it can be fun when you're just doing it for *** and giggles with friends.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

Craglorn is really great now! I never could do the quests there or even get a lot of the skyshards, so this opens up this whole area for me. It has some really gorgeous and interesting dungeons too!

I'm really excited about the changes to Craglorn, but I haven't checked it out for myself yet.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I can now see harvesting nodes a lot better now, with that glowing aura around it. I will miss a lot less now!

Agreed, the new glow is better than the old glow.

OldGamerESO wrote: »

As someone who is nowhere near max CP, every bit of exp helps, especially if it is incidental to what you are doing anyway. I got a couple CP last night because now when I am working on my achievements they are always in a leveled zone. It is much more interesting to hunt down a lore book, compete a dolman, grab a skyshard or even farm for materials when everything grants great EXP!

So much better when you get XP everywhere!

OldGamerESO wrote: »

The treasure chests (and dolmen chests) are yielding much better stuff now. Its always more interesting to cross your fingers and see what happens when you pick that lock.

So much better stuff in chests!

OldGamerESO wrote: »

I love that I can now group with my friends anywhere and at any level. And when someone asks for help with a hard situation, I know that it might actually be challenging for me to help them! Rather than port in, sneeze on the level 17 werewolf world boss and leave, now I am fighting for my life as well! Much more exciting.

So much better to be able to play with anyone regardless of level!

So yeah, I'm with you on almost everything you say. Best update ever IMO (although naturally there are some things that aren't perfect).

STEVIL

Sent my main back home after so very long, ran two delves that had bern missed.

So goid to be gsthering yseful stuff at every turn.

My crafters has bern deconning so much stuff its ludicrous.

New sets starting to fliow in.

So much fun.

And stsrtedbundaunted delves.

Asardes

For one, I will actually not level my chars from 15-50 in the zones anymore. I will send them to IC sewers for a quick grind, then start experiencing the game ac CP160 in every zone. This way the drops will be scaled to maximum level and I will be able to sell them at optimum prices or use them myself if they have good traits. The advantage of grinding IC is that I can amass key shards and TV that I can use on my veteran characters to acquire max level gear at once.

Nolic1

Love all the changes as well makes the game feel more like it should then just another run of the mill candy land mmo. But yes all these changes make the game alot better.