What do you expect from next chapter?

Pastas

I'm feeling really curious abaut what next year chapter will bring. Pretty sure it will come with a new zone and a new trial, but what esle will they add in order to justify the "chapter" thing?.

I mean, Morrowind came with new class and battlegrounds but I doubt they will be adding a new class every year. A new BG mode didn't worth the chapter status IMO.

Don't want to discuss here what zone will come (already have some open discussions about that), I'm asking you about that "extra" content.

I would love to see PvP arenas (1v1, 4v4, 12v12...) or a new PvP zone IC like.
PvE wise a new arena for 2 or 6 players will be nice too.

What do you expect or wish?

altemriel

PvP arenas (1v1, 4v4, 12v12...) would be really nice

actually when ZOS announced battlegrounds, I thought it will be like that, multiple numbers of players options on each side

altemriel

but hopefully bug fixes too and no new bugs

newtinmpls

I expect that there will be 2 BIG things for PvE
In the Morrowing "chapter" one was Morrowind the other was the new Warden Class.

My guess is that spellcrafting will be one of the above. Not sure what the other could be - but Morrowind generated a LOT of interest, so it will have to be something pretty special to even come close.

I hope that there will be 1 BIG thing for PvP (i.e. equivalent to Battlegrounds).

Not a clue what that would be, but then I rarely PvP, so I'm not even sure what I would want (well I have a few suggestions, but I'm not really invested, and I don't know that the "PvP crowd" would like the same things I like).

I also expect a new zone, at least 6 new sets of dropped armor, 1 new crafting station/set, 2 new motifs, 2 new undaunted, and 3-6 delves, 3-6 WB's and some kind of "story of the zone".

DoonerSeraph

Nerfs?

Enslaved

I expect to see something that will force me to buy that expansion. I don't care about the zone, have zero interest in SS (pun intended) islands lore, so Zos should add something more appealing for me to spend another, lets say, 70ish euros on it. Another class, additional weapon skill lines, jewelry crafting, housing that adds stash space, more char slots... Any of these would make me consider buying SS chapter.

Tandor

No idea as to the update itself, but hopefully by then the base game changes will include major improvements to the trading system so as to provide readily accessible trading open to all.

Vrienda

Jewellery crafting, transmog and Summerset Isle.

Wrubius_Coronaria

A huge place to explore, like morrowind but not almost empty, with more dungeons and quests to complete.

A rework of cities, they're almost all the same, add more functions and things to do new like some activities, horses races, mini games in tavern or something similar.

New weapon skill line.

More choices in skills morphs.

Make hybrids viable.

Improvement of npc behaviour during conversations, they're too static and do not seems to be really alive.

Some graphics improvements for old non dlc zones.

News game mechanices for dungeons, like puzzles.

Runschei

I expect it to be worthy of the title 'chapter' and not be an undercover dlc.

DMuehlhausen

altemriel wrote: »

but hopefully bug fixes too and no new bugs

As is with any patch, DLC, or Expansion it' just going to introduce new bugs. It's the nature of software development. You can never eliminate every last bug.

Zbigb4life

A huge zone to explore with a lot of quests

DMuehlhausen

Tandor wrote: »

No idea as to the update itself, but hopefully by then the base game changes will include major improvements to the trading system so as to provide readily accessible trading open to all.

Yeah we all know there will never be an AH. Just stop asking or wanting one. This system keeps things in balance, at least better than a central AH would.

People complain the big guilds control everything. You have any idea how bad it would be if those same large guilds had access to all the, say Rosin, in the game world. It would probably go up 500% or more in cost. You would only find it for sale really by people in the largest couple guilds.

DMuehlhausen

It will probably be a zone that we have never had a TES game fully before like Summer Set or Elswyr.

mertusta

We have lots of clues about Summerset so my bet is Summerset. Also spellcrafting too, when you think high elves and magic, spellcrafting will come most likely.
And more nerf to templars pls.

Blacksmoke

I'll take anything as long as it isnt more dark elf garbage give some love to a race that has one zone like the argonians high elfs or the khajit who only have one Island

red_emu

Meshes and textures brought in up to date. That's all I'm asking!

Agalloch

Directx 12 support.

2 Huge zones like Wrothgarr , 6 new group dungeons, 2 new Trials, and more PVP options.

Tandor

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

No idea as to the update itself, but hopefully by then the base game changes will include major improvements to the trading system so as to provide readily accessible trading open to all.

Yeah we all know there will never be an AH. Just stop asking or wanting one. This system keeps things in balance, at least better than a central AH would.

People complain the big guilds control everything. You have any idea how bad it would be if those same large guilds had access to all the, say Rosin, in the game world. It would probably go up 500% or more in cost. You would only find it for sale really by people in the largest couple guilds.

People need to stop being so obsessed with an AH, especially when others are calling for improvements to the present system rather than the introduction of an AH ! There are plenty of ways in which the present system can be improved so as to offer decent buying and selling opportunities for all, without having to depart from the present guild traders concept.

newtinmpls

red_emu wrote: »

Meshes and textures brought in up to date. That's all I'm asking!

Oh yes, Daedra Bless it, primal (argh - needs a rework - pretty much always been awful)

Azurya

Nerfs, Nerfs and many more nerfs.

the next big move move from ZOS towards the ultimate universal never dieing max dps built.

no improvments to performance from server.

many new crown crates

new homes for all Barbie-players

that is all what I expect.

Urza1234

newtinmpls wrote: »

My guess is that spellcrafting will be one of the above. Not sure what the other could be - but Morrowind generated a LOT of interest, so it will have to be something pretty special to even come close.

IMO you are so out of luck dude, adding spell crafting in any meaningful way would basically be rewriting the design of the game from the ground up. That would essentially have to be ESO 2.

newtinmpls

Urza1234 wrote: »

IMO you are so out of luck dude, adding spell crafting in any meaningful way would basically be rewriting the design of the game from the ground up. That would essentially have to be ESO 2.

Dudette, but yeah, I think you are likely correct.

However the two "PvE" things might be transmorg and Jewelry Crafting.

Vrienda wrote: »

Jewellery crafting, transmog and Summerset Isle.

Yeah, you may have nailed it there.

Still not sure what the PvP thing would be.

Dragath

apart from the usual stuff like balance, etc?
new skill lines, because classes are not the right way to go about customization.
new classes are okay, but they made a big mistake in the development of the game. they shouldn't have used classes. they should have gone for archetypes.

newtinmpls

Archetypes?

Please explain, @Dragath I'm curious to know how you would see that working?

Vaoh

.... and Spellcrafting ....and possibly a Crystal Tower trial

Morrowind was a chapter based on nostalgia. The next chapter will probably be far better in terms of what we are given since it won’t be relying at all on nostalgia to be amazing

newtinmpls

I think the Nostalgia was BIG in terms of motivation to purchase. It will take something equally BIG to generate equal interest and shekels.

EDIT: For myself and my husband (and the other couple we game with) it was THE motivating factor in our purchase.

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Turelus

Forums tears, I expect lots of forums tears.

I don't see them doing another class so soon, and neither adding another new game mode. So they're going to have to pull something interesting out if they want to keep selling expansions as "more than a DLC"

I would at the very least expect another longer 12 player trial.

Dragath

newtinmpls wrote: »

Archetypes?

Please explain, @Dragath I'm curious to know how you would see that working?

might be a bit offtopic, because its too late to be implemented and nothing like that will ever happen in a chapter, but here you go:
lets take the dk class as an example.
the magicka version is basically a fighter that is themed around fire. you can mix that up with other abilities from different skill lines like the mages guild, destruction staff and so on.
why put that limitation there in the first place?
why not just make a fighter archetype and a fire skill line?
make a fighter archetype, a mage archetype, a thief/stealth archetype and so on.
make a fire skill line, a lightning skill line, a healing skill line and so on. (you could even split those skill lines into smaller ones or increase the amount of abilities per line).
then, if i play a fighter and choose fire as a skill line, give me the abilities from that skill line AND give me the option to morph my archetype skills to a fire based version with additional/different effects.
for example, a basic fighter ability. lets call it "Slash". now i add the fire skill line, the healing skill line and the necro skill line.
"Slash" can now be morphed to "Flame Lash", "Strike of Devotion" (Hitting the Enemy for X and healing you or an Ally for Y) or "Death Embrace" (effect lasts X seconds, after effect ends or enemy dies, a skeleton is spawned for Y seconds). Obviously, those are just examples.
i could just be a dragon knight like they are today. choose fighter, choose fire and some other skill lines called "earth", "stone" or whatever.
i could be something totally different too. lets say i choose fighter the healing skill line (and some other skill lines i'd like to use), making me a melee based healer.
could be a fire mage, an ice archer, necro thief, whatever.
you get the picture.

newtinmpls

Turelus wrote: »

I would at the very least expect another longer 12 player trial.

Would that really be enough to be a PvP motivator as compared to Battlegrounds?

I don't really know. Only did one trial, ever, got invited to Maw of L (non-vet) when I happened to be wandering around and there was amazing leadership and communication and we did fine - but it wasn't "easy".

But that doesn't really have the feel of PvP...to me, anyway.

Cherryblossom

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

No idea as to the update itself, but hopefully by then the base game changes will include major improvements to the trading system so as to provide readily accessible trading open to all.

Yeah we all know there will never be an AH. Just stop asking or wanting one. This system keeps things in balance, at least better than a central AH would.

People complain the big guilds control everything. You have any idea how bad it would be if those same large guilds had access to all the, say Rosin, in the game world. It would probably go up 500% or more in cost. You would only find it for sale really by people in the largest couple guilds.

Nonsense argument, it doesn't happen.