Here is How-to Fix Elder Scrolls Online

Ch4mpTW

I've come to realize that 1 of these hasn't been made yet, or rather hasn't been made to my knowledge. So I figured I would compile as many things that need fixing and looking into all in a single thread. None of these things are listed in an order of priority, but there are some things listed here which do need attention to be paid to them more so than other things. Although, they all are equally things that would make the game dramatically better if looked into. This isn't a thread made to bash the devs, nor flame them. As my intentions are in a pretty good place upon writing all this up. But then again, I do lowkey feel a lot like there is incompetence plaguing ZOS. But, that isn't really something I'm aiming to take shots at here.

Anyway, here's a list of things you can do to make people enjoy your game more. As well as draw more people back to your game after having quit. Because clearly folks at the round table meetings have no clue about WTF it is that they are doing. So here. Ya mans Champ got you covered, fam'. Let's begin:

- Fix Cyrodiil lag.
- Fix Cyrodiil bugs and exploits.
- Remove or rework animation cancelling.
- Apply a token system for Maelstrom Arena.
- Apply a token system for dungeons and trials overall.
- Get rid of crown crates.
- If crown crates won't be removed, make the RNG involving them less infuriating.
- Fix the group finder/queue for dungeons, and LITERALLY fix it.
- Fix the Battlegrounds group finder/queue, and LITERALLY fix it.
- Thoroughly test your product out more, and allow more time for testing of things on the PTS.
- Actually adjust and consider the feedback that is given from the PTS.
- Buff the other traits to make precise and or sharpened not the only sought after traits for weapons.
- Buff the other traits to make divines and or infused not the only sought after traits for DPS armor.
- Buff the other mundus stones, so that the thief isn't the only sought after mundus for PvE.
- Buff crafted sets, so that they feel much more worthwhile to use. Essentially giving an incentive to getting involved with crafting, and learning motifs.
- Apply storage to housing.
- Increase heartwood and other furniture crafting material drop-rates.
- Communicate more with your player base overall.
- Stop having long periods of silence.
- Admit you screw up, if you screw up. And then mention what you'll do to fix said screw up.
- If you call something an expansion, make it an expansion. Morrowind was more so a DLC.
- Separate PvE and PvP balancing, so that 1 being balanced won't hurt the other.
- Nerf certain proc sets, and buff other proc sets.
- Allow proc sets to crit only in PvE environments.
- Create a CP Battlegrounds.
- Fix this garbage-ass heavy attack meta currently plaguing PvE and PvP.
- Do something to make trials feel more rewarding for having completed them, and having a top spot for weeks on end.
- Incorporate jewelry crafting.
- Incorporate spell crafting.
- Let certain content completions reward mounts.
- Bring back in-game Game Masters that patrol areas.
- Dial back the difficulty of content, if you're going to nerf and ultimately make players weaker.
- Have your tutorial explain things more in-depth, and things like CP break points.
- Let perms-bans be permanent.
- Take exploiting and cheating more serious. The 3-day and 7-day bans don't mean squat. Especially when people can keep all exploited materials and profits. Be it mats, skins, titles, etc. Take it away.
- Fix the server, and have maintenances regularly. As in once a week mandatory.
- Enable more action around Cyrodiil, instead of just towns and the "ring". It's a big-ass map that's usually empty.
- Instead of nerfing a class, buff others to match the overperforming class' proficiency.
- Match solo queue players with other solo queue players in battlegrounds.
- Stop having 2v4v4, 2v3v4, etc. matches.
- Finish the justice system.
- Increase the RNG of refining mats. Breaking down 500 mats, and only getting 2 or 3 gold upgrades is depressing.
- Address the prosperous and training problem plaguing trial drops, and undaunted chests.
- Give Cyrodiil more than 1 CP campaign.
- Balance CP and no CP PvP differently.
- Add more weapon types, and allow 2H and staves to count as a 2pcs. of a set.
- Rework Maelstrom shields.
- Stop having everything be a DPS race.
- Incorporate the cost reduction champion point star again, but this time rework it so it's more balanced.
- Follow the Elder Scrolls lore more closely.

You're welcome, ZOS. Everything I just listed will probably make your game much more sought after, and spoken better of. You'd attract players who left, and hold onto those who still play your game much firmer. All of which increases your cash flow, as bread seems to be what you're so strongly concerned about. Because while you see a masterpiece with ESO currently, I see something imperfect. And while something perfect could truly never be attained, a hell of a lot better polishing can done. Y'all aren't even applying elbow grease anymore. Just a half-assed rub down. N'ah. You gotta get in there, and get that shine in there. That Ferrari paint job shine. That wipe down so good that you can even see the imperfections of the carbon weaving. That type of clarity. You're welcome, ZOS. You're welcome.

Fishoscandi

So basically everything that gets at least 1 thread per day and everything that recieves a response from ZOS saying: No ETA, No plans or Soon?

Ch4mpTW

Fishoscandi wrote: »

So basically everything that gets at least 1 thread per day and everything that recieves a response from ZOS saying: No ETA, No plans or Soon?

Ya boy Champ made a "megathread".

GDOFWR420

Wait heavy attack is good? What u smokin?

Dasovaruilos

I usually don't take your threads too seriously, though some are good.

This one is actually a really good summary of most of the main issues that need addressing.

Ch4mpTW

GDOFWR420 wrote: »

Wait heavy attack is good? What u smokin?

Lmao. N'ah bruh. Re-read that.

"Fix this garbage-ass heavy attack meta currently plaguing PvE and PvP."

Easily_Lost

Just wondering about a couple of points:

- Thoroughly test your product out more, and allow more time for testing of things on the PTS
Just wondering if you are testing things on the PTS.

- Fix the server, and have maintenances regularly. As in once a week mandatory
So the weekly maintenance does not bother you.

Ch4mpTW

hagermanj wrote: »

Just wondering about a couple of points:

- Thoroughly test your product out more, and allow more time for testing of things on the PTS
Just wondering if you are testing things on the PTS.

- Fix the server, and have maintenances regularly. As in once a week mandatory
So the weekly maintenance does not bother you.

I used to test things on the PTS, yes. As I still do have my PC account (I mainly play on PS4 nowadays). I also would be fine with a weekly maintenance, to be honest. This is of course assuming that issues be addressed, and said maintenances would iron out a lot of issues happening sever-based. My logic is this: If I couldn't play on say Tuesday or Thursday or whatever for a few hours, that's fine. As I would know that day of the week was when the sever was taken down, and thoroughly inspected and updated. You know? Kind of like how WoW had weekly maintenances.

Mojmir

First you have to find a dev team that will listen and is capable. No ETA

Zer0oo

Way too long list!

Just fix the 1000000000000000 bugs, get someone who really knows the game to balance things and listen more to player feedback.

But they failed at all of the above points.

SchizoidMetal

Good luck with any of the stuff in OP's list being fixed. So far I dont think they actually do fix stuff. I think they just bandaid everything now and give us comments like "we have improved" FIXED>IMPROVED

Tandor

I'll just comment on a few of the points for now, most of the rest is a non-issue for me (as in I don't suffer the problem).

First, while it's true that if they call something an expansion they should deliver an expansion, in the case of Morrowind they didn't call it an expansion so the OP's point is meaningless.

Second, I'd say a hearty "No" to the suggestion of completing the justice system. That's even more of a dead horse than the constant calls for reform of the trading system both because ZOS have made it clear they aren't going to add PvP to the justice system and also because nobody even mentions it these days and probably won't now that we have dueling and battlegrounds.

Third, I don't have any issues with the recent sustain changes, indeed I rather enjoy the fact that there's now a reason to use heavy attacks.

As for the rest, as I say, I don't have those problems especially in relation to server performance which remains fine for me as it always has done. However, it's a typical OP rant that pretends not to be critical of the developers while stating that they "have no clue about WTF it is that they are doing" so I guess the tablets are running out and it's almost time for the OP to take another break.

Garwulf

Game runs on a computer so good to go. Anything other than that is an expectation. And expectations are never met.

Bouldercleave

Bummer, I came to this thread thinking you actually had a solution to some of the problems. All you did was make a list.


Grats for compiling a list of all the things we already know and giving ZERO insight on fixing anything of them.

StormWylf

Zer0oo wrote: »

Way too long list!

Agree, would be interesting to see what the players top five fixes would be. Of course, you would probably need to break your list down to subsets,

• PvE
• PvP
• RP
• Crafting
• End Game
• other (idk)

The problem with the OP's post is that these suggestion threads turn into "I hate Zos because" threads. And any good intention ends up being wasted. But Credit to the OP, there are some reasonable ideas.

charlie_delta

I totally 100% agree with this post.
But everytime I log in I see the text saying I can buy more character slots at the crown store. I see how it overlaps the text of my champion point level. I see how crap it looks.

It annoys me.

It annoys me as much as when it overlapped the text on the otherside of my screen. Before it was moved. Moved to fix overlapping text.

This game aint never going to be properly fixed yo.

Crowzer

Guys, we should buy a ton of crates to support ZOS on order to fix ESO !

No, I'm joking but this thread reveals why ESO isn't on the top level of most played MMOs.

And I'm pretty sure they won't fix anything soon even they get paid for. Sometimes I just wonder if devs care about ESO.

Btw, I'm 100% agree with OP.

idk

Cyrodiil
Cyrodiil lag is something Zos has been challenged with. After more than 3 years It is unacceptable it is still as bad as it is. The unfortunate part is Cyrodiil cannot be tested properly on the PTS. Just not enough players at the same time.

Animation Canceling
It would be nice if the Animations fit the time required for the skill, however, Zos recently double downed that it will not happen since the Warden has a skill that the animation has not completed, barely on your screen, when the next one can be activated. Animation canceling itself should not be removed since ESO required every player to be active in their defenses. With the Templar the increased the ammont of time that needed to pass before doing another skill after jabs. It was horrid. They reverted the change. This was during the first few months the game was out.

Tokens
Zos, think it was Matt, mentioned a few months ago they were looking at changes to certain drops. They mentioned the Undaunted chests we use gold keys to open. Tokens was one thing they were considering, however, not a peep since. Of course I expect tokens will also raise a stir since it mean players will not get something for every boss and probably either a chance to get a token or roll against other players. I seriously doubt they would go to tokens for everything. Big change needed is the extremely poor drop rate on weapons. Really stupid they have such a low chance to drop.

Crown Crates
Crown crates are here to stay. Heck, based on merely the forums it seems many are buying them. They will not make changes as long as they are successful.

Storage
Storage is not coming to housing, at least not a simple craft something. The only way it will happen is the ability to craft or buy an item, one per account or maybe character (not per house) that has 10 slots and gold would be used to add storage space. A second bank account. That would be the only way Zos would do it based on the choices they have made. ESO+ perk probably cemented this.

PTS testing.
Not enough players on PTS to test properly. They have responded to feedback. Of course they will not change everything based on feedback. No game makes every change suggested.

Traits, Well, infused is part of some builds now, Think off bar or DW builds. Cannot recall off hand.

Proc sets
They just announced they were looking at making changes to proc sets. Less than 2 weeks ago.

Gave up. to many things.

kuro-dono

pve pvp main and primary fix> destroy animation cancelling.

whoever doesnt understand, this partically demon brings stupid amount of power creep into eso. it esolates 99% of population from the elite 1% who animation cancels bazillion of damage per second and their heals and procs added.

after this we can start to understand where rest of the problems are coming from>>>

animation cancelling allows you to combo *** loads of skills and procs into one line without you need to really play it.

this comboing, when many others does it too causes the server go to overload mode where it just has to try calculate all those attacks/heals/procs this strains the server

ok. so at this point we talking about calculcations and lagg etc, social wise vast majority of players who get isolated from the endgame club just gives you midfinger and says ok, you guys suck, while the middleclub aka honest ppl go. oh well!
the endgame club is just... *** place to be aka ppl obsessed with being number one in the world. looking at you us!!!

ok. next step.

eso issues> rng. rng is meant to be rng but atm... eso RNG feels heavily manipulated, in fact! weekly, when golden [Snip] arrives it feels like they trying to tell you to go procmode. buy yourself proc and you never need to feel lonely!

RNG aka procs + combat isnt very rewarding when you can feel like an winner without really trying anything!

and lately we got this competision going on between superman and batman ( I give on Pc eu 50k gold to whoever first mails me which 2 class we talking about, and obviously the classes have to be named right, as in which is superman and which is batman. )

when ppl finally starts to admit that this game is heavily unbalanced, and favors certain playstyles, can we eventually start think about balance and what we can do about powercreep and endgame lv pve/pvp. until then ALL OF YOU are going to repeatedly be here whining about procs, classes, meta, unfriendliness, ppl excluding you from dungeon run, or ppl trashtalking you down for being filthy casual.

ok. i hope i gave you enough information/ideas and i hope i dont get longer than 3 day ban from forums!

[Edit to remove profanity and insulting content]

Rohamad_Ali

You took on every controversial topic in one thread with the exemption of global action house . PM your addy so I can send this asbestos jacket .

CyrusArya

Here's my advice to ZOS: ignore all armchair devs.

People who complain cry and whine on the forums are probably bad or frustrated, and taking advice from unsuccessful and disillusioned people is not something I'd recommend in any context.

disintegr8

That is a long list of things that you think need fixing/changing. If I was being annoyed by so many things in the game I would have stopped playing a long time ago.

I suggest the following easy fix (for console players at least):
Step 1 - close the program.
Step 2 - eject disc from console
Step 3 - insert other game disc in console
Step 4 - start playing other game

KingYogi415

Remove animation cancling from this list and I am on bored.

lowering the skill cap is not good for any game.

Ch4mpTW

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

You took on every controversial topic in one thread with the exemption of global action house . PM your addy so I can send this asbestos jacket .

@Rohamad_Ali Lmao. You should know by now, bruh. I say what needs to be said. Not what someone wants to hear. Whether that someone be a: Friend, popular, streamer, mod, developer, relatively, homie, etc. Like I give a damn, if someone can't swallow the truth. Lol. That's the problem with society nowadays. Too many scary people roaming this Earth, and smelling like Build-A-Bear Workshop. But, that's a topic for another time and not on ESO boards.

Betsararie

The problem with this is half the points in OP are opinions, and a lot of people don't agree with you.

Ch4mpTW

CyrusArya wrote: »

Here's my advice to ZOS: ignore all armchair devs.

People who complain cry and whine on the forums are probably bad or frustrated, and taking advice from unsuccessful and disillusioned people is not something I'd recommend in any context.

Yeah...? When we are lacin' ZOS' pockets? Lol. Ok.

idk

CyrusArya wrote: »

Here's my advice to ZOS: ignore all armchair devs.

People who complain cry and whine on the forums are probably bad or frustrated, and taking advice from unsuccessful and disillusioned people is not something I'd recommend in any context.

Enlightening.

LadyLethalla

This isn't so much "How to fix" as a list of what requires fixing.

My 2 cents.

kargen27

"Dial back the difficulty of content, if you're going to nerf and ultimately make players weaker."

There is very little content in this game that is more than just a stroll in the park. Was doing some main quests and mages guild quests on my Warden and it made me a little sad that the only way I was going to come close to dying would be if I stood by a mob then went to the fridge for something to drink. Most of them if i didn't linger staring into the fridge to long I could make it back and still have close to half my health.

I liked it better when it might take you a couple of tries to get through a guild or main story quest.

I was in gear well below the level of my character and had 14 attribute points I forgot to apply and still could solo the public dungeons with no deaths. That should not be. Those things should include some mayhem where the best course of action is to run.

SanTii.92

Sorry, but I had to stop at remove animation cancelling.

RobDaCool

Only complaint(s) I have about the game are; you have to log out and back in to receive a purchase from a guild trader. (Who's idea was it for no auction house? lol) And no mud crab merchant came with the Morrowind expanion