Reducing my play time. I need advice.

Asardes

Lightninvash wrote: »

ok to reduce play time go outside lol jk

just set a timer for x and when it goes off stop playing. if mid dungeon finish the dungeon and go outside or something.

you can always grind for xp if you need more CP or do 1 dungeon a day for items and you can grind or do pvp after for the remainder of the time.

Currently I have 744 CP and gaining more CP is not necessary. I've been riding above the cap for almost 6 months. As for dungeons, and helping people in them, I've done my fair share of that already. Helping people I'll never meet is one of the inefficient ways I've been spending my in game time. I may help guild mates progress, and expect help from them, but "open sided" experiences are no longer part of my long term strategy. It's really not fun wasting 1 hour in a dungeons even when I average 6 hours, and it will be significantly less fun with a time limit of just 2.

Alucardo

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Just load in PvP . That should fix that .

HAHAHA best advice so far

Asardes

Alucardo wrote: »

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Just load in PvP . That should fix that .

HAHAHA best advice so far

I will join the campaign on the side which has the shortest queue. EU/PC is actually pretty annoying from this perspective, since everybody just goes on Trueflame, but the other 2 are empty. I roamed Spellbreaker for 3 hours once without even meeting another player, and I finally met one which was from my own faction

Junipus

Asardes wrote: »

It's not an addiction. I just feel I'm wasting too much time overplaying certain content, to the point where it has diminishing returns in terms of gear, money and XP gained. For example I run the pledges every days. I was thinking about having some sort of a weekly schedule for example:
- Mondays: Solo questing
- Tuesday: Undaunted Pledges
- Wednesday: PvP day
- Thursday: flexible day
- Friday: trials
- Saturday: gather surveys and treasure maps
- Sunday: log off day
The only content I want to do every day is the writs, because they are time effective. Is such a schedule workable?

Also:

Mondays: Assuming by this point solo questing is guild dailies? Otherwise ask yourself if it's something that interests you.
Tuesday: Can do them, but if you have the head/shoulders you need and undaunted 9 on all characters do you need to do them?
Wednesday: Good luck to you.
Thursday:
Friday: No comment
Saturday: Can move it to any other day or do it daily unless you're super lucky with many surveys per day. Treasure maps you could sell since those in zones with good sets can net a decent amount.
Sunday: No comment.

Basically, ask yourself if you gain any actual benefit or progress from completing those activities and then stop doing them if the answer is no. Focus your time on content you haven't done so it's more productive and can be streamlined into fewer hours with the same end result.

Junipus

Asardes wrote: »

Junipus wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

At the moment I'm playing for 5-6 hours a day on average every day, and as much as 10 during the week end. I've kept playing like this almost daily for the last year. I feel I need to reduce my play time because it's very tiring and feels more like a job. I need advice on how to reduce my play time to around 1.5-2H a day, while I keep playing in the most effective way, XP and money wise. Has anyone taken this step?

Get a job. Easiest way to reduce your playtime and gives you something to feed into the expeditious crown items

As I have mentioned above I already have a full time job. I start playing as soon as I arrive home, and only stop late at night, when I go straight to sleep. I sleep ~5 hours a night, but that's a lifetime habit

Then my apologies. I would suggest finding things that force you out the house/apartment to do during the evenings such as:

- Gym
- Exercise classes
- Language classes
- Professional learning courses
- Volunteering

Just generally things that contribute to your real life skills so that when the servers go down for the final time you don't realise you've wasted 3+ years without anything to show for it. Once you force yourself into fewer hours you learn quickly to prioritise what you want to do.

Curtdogg47

Set a timer!! I can get totally lost in ESO PVP or PVE doesn't matter. And my intent to jump on for a quick hour or two can easily become 3-5 hours and still feel like a few minutes. So I use a timer, to bring me back to reality.

Asardes

I play setting specific tasks already, and get very angry at people when I cannot achieve them in a set time because they play badly. It's one of the reason for which I stopped grouping with people other than guild members and friends that I know they play well. So I don't simply wander in game, losing track of time. In fact I check the clock on the map every half an hour or so. Everything is already tuned for efficiency at this point, but I'm thinking of reducing the number of tasks so the ones with the lowest return are eliminated. This is why I quit PvP - once I had leveled my skills on my main character there was little incentive to keep earning AP. Time spent in PvE on alts or even my main produced greater rewards.

Asardes

For the time being I've also trained a healer I'm playing alongside my tank. I will send her in PvP soon to get those skills. Playing as different role/class/build freshens things a bit.

Asardes

I've finished running a rotation with my healer. Leveled her undaunted to 9 and got all skill points. A good decision I've taken today: I will stop running the daily pledges until I have a new character on which I need to level up Undaunted and get the quest skill points. I had been contemplating this decision for a long time, but the thing that really convinced me for good is the damned scroll from Tempest Island who reset 5 times in a row mid fight. Working for 4-5 hours a day finishing HM pledges, and failing because one stupid mechanic is simply too annoying. And even when I get all 6 it's either an useless trait or something good I already have. Even with perfect traits at least 3/4 of the sets in dungeons, including the monster sets are worthless. I have no less than 150 shoulders and heads with decent traits and most new ones I get and are worth keeping are simply doubles. The only group content I will be running once a week is trials, and I will train hard to beat the HM on those. I will be running new content and actually getting sets that I don't have yet, which are much better than dungeon ones (Infallible Mage, Twilight Remedy, Moondancer, Vicious Ophidian, Alkosh etc.)

Asardes

I think I've finally reached a tipping point. I decided to quit my guild and not play anymore for some time. I will probably just log to train riding on a few characters and put items for sale. Maybe do some crafting writs. Shoud take ~1h every day at most.

Asardes

I have rejoined the guild in the mean time, completed almost all pre-Morrowind content on my other 3 vet chars, have rejoined the guild and running 1-2 trials per week, made 5 more characters including 3 wardens and got horse training up and running, got the Star-Made-Knight title on 4 characters during the event. My daily routine now includes crafting writs on 4 characters, with one day per month for master writs and another for survey collection, I've started research on my 3 other vet chars, doing TG and DB dailies on my NB and also trying to slowly progress vMA on all my 4 veteran chars. I only play that for an hour a day since it's pretty tiring. All in all about 3 hours per day logged in, a tad more than 2 hours actual play time. It's pretty decent.