Double XP again, are you serious?

Lord_Eomer

Fjnally! I can level up my 12 th toon

BigBragg

Bunch of people grinding is equal to ruining the game? I must really not understand what an mmo is then.

Mrs_Malaka

"In addition, drinking Breda's Magnificent Mead (located in a keg near Breda) will net you double XP for two hours."

The great thing about this is that you are not forced to participate in earning double XP.
If you have reasons to need this, then go for it! If you don't have any need for it, don't partake of the keg!
Either way, just get along with your fellow Tamrielians (is that spelled correctly?) and have fun this holiday instead of trying to go grinch on everyone

Berret

BigBragg wrote: »

Bunch of people grinding is equal to ruining the game? I must really not understand what an mmo is then.

That train of thought happens in every MMO forum.

"I don't like this thing, REMOVE IT NOW! The game is dead!"

Malamar1229

Zombies will be dyin!

disintegr8

Mrs_Malaka wrote: »

"In addition, drinking Breda's Magnificent Mead (located in a keg near Breda) will net you double XP for two hours."

The great thing about this is that you are not forced to participate in earning double XP.
If you have reasons to need this, then go for it! If you don't have any need for it, don't partake of the keg!
Either way, just get along with your fellow Tamrielians (is that spelled correctly?) and have fun this holiday instead of trying to go grinch on everyone

For me it is not about being a grinch, it is about people leveling up so fast, doing whatever they like, however they like, that they do not learn how to play the game well.

The game allows people to level up too fast, while teaching them nothing about how to play the harder content, then gives them access to all of the high level content. They then go to dungeon finder and get dungeons they cannot complete and frustrate themselves and everyone else in the PUG.

Thrasher91604

Guess I'll level up another character I will probably not play.

Grind for the sake of grind. Thanks!

Funkopotamus

code65536 wrote: »

Uh. Do anchors even grant that much XP? People crowded there during the previous festival for the skulls. Not for the paltry XP. .

Umm heck yes the exp is decent.. If you know the right routes you can hit 3-4 of them on a nonstop exp train.

Last time I leveled out two characters in two days by farming 3 dolmens! I see no reason why this would negatively effect you in any way. In fact I have rolled up two more characters that are standing with training gear and a pocket full of ambrosia potions waiting for the patch to drop. They should be leveled out by Friday or Saturday.

I used to agree with you, but then I came to understand that ESO is not a true MMO it is a confused half breed that doesn't know if it wants to be a single player RPG or a MMO.

This game is a lot more enjoyable when you give up on thinking it is a MMO and just go with it. This game is Casual scrolls and I see no problem with free exp.

This game lost its competitive MMO feel the day it gave up the Subscription model.. Now it is just a decent single player RPG with the OPTION to play with friends. I must say that if it wasn't for the people I play with and my guild I would have left this game a long time ago.

Mrs_Malaka

disintegr8 wrote: »

Mrs_Malaka wrote: »

"In addition, drinking Breda's Magnificent Mead (located in a keg near Breda) will net you double XP for two hours."

The great thing about this is that you are not forced to participate in earning double XP.
If you have reasons to need this, then go for it! If you don't have any need for it, don't partake of the keg!
Either way, just get along with your fellow Tamrielians (is that spelled correctly?) and have fun this holiday instead of trying to go grinch on everyone

For me it is not about being a grinch, it is about people leveling up so fast, doing whatever they like, however they like, that they do not learn how to play the game well.

The game allows people to level up too fast, while teaching them nothing about how to play the harder content, then gives them access to all of the high level content. They then go to dungeon finder and get dungeons they cannot complete and frustrate themselves and everyone else in the PUG.

If they are so bad, don't play with them. What this game allows, it allows. If you don't like PUGs because of "fast levelers who don't play the game well", find some solid friends that you mesh perfectly with and do content together.

Pangnirtung

ZOS is obviously not catering to the end gamers with the dbl XP.

When you are already way over the cap what difference does it make?

Nope. This dbl XP is for all the new customers they hope to pick up over the holiday season.

Funkopotamus

Mrs_Malaka wrote: »

disintegr8 wrote: »

Mrs_Malaka wrote: »

"In addition, drinking Breda's Magnificent Mead (located in a keg near Breda) will net you double XP for two hours."

The great thing about this is that you are not forced to participate in earning double XP.
If you have reasons to need this, then go for it! If you don't have any need for it, don't partake of the keg!
Either way, just get along with your fellow Tamrielians (is that spelled correctly?) and have fun this holiday instead of trying to go grinch on everyone

For me it is not about being a grinch, it is about people leveling up so fast, doing whatever they like, however they like, that they do not learn how to play the game well.

The game allows people to level up too fast, while teaching them nothing about how to play the harder content, then gives them access to all of the high level content. They then go to dungeon finder and get dungeons they cannot complete and frustrate themselves and everyone else in the PUG.

If they are so bad, don't play with them. What this game allows, it allows. If you don't like PUGs because of "fast levelers who don't play the game well", find some solid friends that you mesh perfectly with and do content together.

agreed..

Also wanted to point out that 99% of this games content is trash mob fodder. There is too little content that requires players to "Play a role" Take a look at how the dallies have been run. 4 DPS and just smash through! I am sorry, but it is the sad truth. ESO is just too casual to be worrying about people not understanding how to play a role.

We have ourselves to blame honestly. Most of us that take those "Pugs" through even trials mostly only teach the DPS to stack up on bosses and smash out DPS. ESO does not force players to use mechanics or even strategy for most of the content.

On stuff like VDSA or VMOL then yes it is better to play with people who know wth they are doing, but for the other 98% of the game blind players without thumbs could make it through the content.

Bottom line... When ZOS starts putting out content that pushes players to use more strategy than button smash in a DPS race THEN we can start worrying about players leveling too fast and not understanding the game. That being said. I can agree with you in the fact that I have found that there are a growing number of players at 561 who I would rather take a few 300cp players that I know than take the 561's, but there is too little content that this holds true for so I say bring on the EXP. as I could use it to level out 2 or 3 more PvP alts.

SnubbS

Does double xp level up your skill lines faster? It does right? RIGHT!?

I'm an idiot. Rip.

disintegr8

Mrs_Malaka wrote: »

disintegr8 wrote: »

Mrs_Malaka wrote: »

"In addition, drinking Breda's Magnificent Mead (located in a keg near Breda) will net you double XP for two hours."

The great thing about this is that you are not forced to participate in earning double XP.
If you have reasons to need this, then go for it! If you don't have any need for it, don't partake of the keg!
Either way, just get along with your fellow Tamrielians (is that spelled correctly?) and have fun this holiday instead of trying to go grinch on everyone

For me it is not about being a grinch, it is about people leveling up so fast, doing whatever they like, however they like, that they do not learn how to play the game well.

The game allows people to level up too fast, while teaching them nothing about how to play the harder content, then gives them access to all of the high level content. They then go to dungeon finder and get dungeons they cannot complete and frustrate themselves and everyone else in the PUG.

If they are so bad, don't play with them. What this game allows, it allows. If you don't like PUGs because of "fast levelers who don't play the game well", find some solid friends that you mesh perfectly with and do content together.

No, I'll do what everyone else does and tick all roles on my characters so I get into dungeons faster. Then me and a couple of friends will use dungeon finder, because we want the daily random bonuses, kick the fourth player out regardless of how good they are or what level they are and then three man the dungeon.

I have been a huge advocate for giving everyone a fair go in group finder and wanting ESO to improve it so that people are better prepared for the dungeon it puts them in.

All I am saying is that double XP reduces the amount of experience a person has before they start the harder content (i.e. vet dungeons and trials) and then they wonder why they can't complete them.

BlackPhillip

How much xp boost can you have? I My main character has 85% xp boost from gear and plus. Tomorrow will that become 185%xp?

Hanzus

Snit wrote: »

Tune in next week, when we complain about Ice Cream, Sunshine and Puppies!

It's a basic rule of the internet that, no matter how awesome something is, there are people out there who hate it.

ROFL!
So much of this, you sir have won the internet with this one!

Katahdin

I am not a new player, Ive been here since beta.
I have 12 characters, 8 are at level 50. The other 4 are 49, 40, 39 and 39.

I am looking forward to getting them all to level 50 in this event.

So thank you for the XP boost ZoS.

CREEP

Even though I'm at CP soft cap (currently 561), I'm glad that they are having this double xp opportunity. Maybe we will finally get a significant CP cap raise instead of the 30-60 every year. For those of you that don't know, the CP hard cap in this game is 3600. At the current rate this game is going it will have been out for 10+ years before we get to that hard cap at the current rate. If this game even lasts that long.

notimetocare

Only people that would complain about dble xp are:
Fools
People who need to be carried by cp in pvp

SanSan

Sooo...you get a free event with double exp and other goodies and you're complaining ?

rhapsodious

I'm looking forward to it so I can either level up my stamplar or get some really annoying skills (weapon ults >_<) leveled. Plus at least we get to keep our appearance this time so it's not like the entirety of Tamriel will be wearing a Santa hat.

There's no specific reward from being at a Dark Anchor this time (unlike the Plunder Skulls last time), so if anything the usual grind spots will be busier whereas the Dark Anchors in areas nobody cares about will still be relatively empty.

K4RMA

Looking forward to it, need to reach max cp as fast as i can

Sounomi

code65536 wrote: »

Uh. Do anchors even grant that much XP? People crowded there during the previous festival for the skulls. Not for the paltry XP. If you want XP but don't want people crowding you, Maelstrom is an excellent private-instance grind spot.

My thought exactly. Yet every time I do fighters guild dailies, I often find tons of people at them, even outside of the "dolmen train" zones. The exp doesn't seem that great and most of the mobs drop no loot. It's not like the jewelry is worth that much anymore either.

copito

This event is awasome. Can't wait to get home from work, do the quests and level up an alt.

Paraflex

Double xp is a good catch up for new players in the game is fine leave it be

raasdal

Some guy just gave me free money. I hate that guy.

FuriousMonk313

I've been playing ESO for about 3 months now, and I love the double XP events. I only have 1 character and participated in the October event and went from level 42 to cp 260 through hard grinding. Currently I'm at cp 335 and will try to take advantage of this event and hopefully reach cp 561 so that I can be more effective as a dps for vet content.

As a new player these bonuses are very beneficial for me as to where I can level up without getting "burned out" and tired of the game, trying to reach cp 561 over god knows how many months.... just so I can do more challenging content. I do not have a lot gold to constantly buy xp boost potions, and I'm still in the process of researching a lot of gear for crafting.

I know this may be hard for some, but people have to try and think of other player's needs and benefits, instead of their own. There are other players who need things such as this to get caught up.

Bumblebeelzebub

This comes up whenever there's a push to attract new players. People seem to think that by offering bonuses to new players, ZOS is somehow taking something away from veteran players. I just don't get it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

Enslaved

VinyParsley2016 wrote: »

I just saw double XP will come back tomorrow. I bet, tomorrow, tons of PPL will show at each Dark Anchor. Come on, ZOS, pls make some patch to stop Dark Anchor grinding, don't let double XP ruin the game.

U wot m8?

Best thing ever, leveling alts, leveling FG, leveling weapon/armor/guild skills.
I might just go and finaly make a Khajiit NB lol

SickDuck

disintegr8 wrote: »

Mrs_Malaka wrote: »

"In addition, drinking Breda's Magnificent Mead (located in a keg near Breda) will net you double XP for two hours."

The great thing about this is that you are not forced to participate in earning double XP.
If you have reasons to need this, then go for it! If you don't have any need for it, don't partake of the keg!
Either way, just get along with your fellow Tamrielians (is that spelled correctly?) and have fun this holiday instead of trying to go grinch on everyone

For me it is not about being a grinch, it is about people leveling up so fast, doing whatever they like, however they like, that they do not learn how to play the game well.

The game allows people to level up too fast, while teaching them nothing about how to play the harder content, then gives them access to all of the high level content. They then go to dungeon finder and get dungeons they cannot complete and frustrate themselves and everyone else in the PUG.

This.

Then the same people will start complaining about content being too hard, because they think getting high enough cp will make things easy. Then nerf will come ruining perfectly good content.

SickDuck

raasdal wrote: »

Some guy just gave me free money. I hate that guy.

If the guy is the goverment and is giving out free money to everyone it is not that good thing. Getting the money is obviously good but the consequences won't be.

Also I couldn't help thinking the government is just being lazy and populist.