ESO Expert Diffculty

Solohope

Alright, I'm an 600cp+ player who has not played the game in a couple of months because the game started to feel to easy and trials felt more like really long and tedious dps dummy's. However, today I realized that if I want a challenge I just have to create one for myself. So here is what I have for ESO Expert difficulty

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** Note this is all you, ZOS doesn't need to change anything for this**

1. If your character dies you must delete it (Not for PVP of course)
The reason this is here is that it actually punishes the players death. If you die you are dead.

2. No CP
This is to prevent the whole power creep thing.

3. The only money or items you are allowed to use is the money and items that you earn on this character. You cannot transfer items between your characters.
Truth is if you have enough gold you can buy dps and tanky-ness because of golding rare sets and whatnot.

4. You must discover the entire map yourself
This is using the TrueExploration Addon by Shinni. This is just supposed to add to the challenge of essentially not knowing where you are going.

5. No guides
You may not search up how to do anything. Not quests, not dungeons, no matter the difficulty.

6. No intentional animation-cancelling
Game honestly becomes too easy if you use it. However, it does happen unintentionally so that doesn't count.

7. No add-ons except for the ones on the list
The game becomes a lot easier with add-ons.

8. Most basic UI Settings
Again, having all those numbers and buff trackers really makes the game much easier.

9. Hybrid build only
Since hybrids are so non-meta that this alone adds a fair bit of challenge.

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The reason I'm posting this is because I need some help brain storming some more legit things I could add to the list to make the game feel more difficult.
Don't say some *** like : Play only using feet, control multiple characters at the same time etc.
Thanks!

VaranisArano

No food/drink buff.

Solohope

VaranisArano wrote: »

No food/drink buff.

Ok, yeah that works. Would make it much, much harder

Banana

Naked only

Deep_01

Perma-death is too punishing. Char deletion limit exists too.

Non CP will be amazing to play with. Would love to do vet dungeons with 4 players non CP. Anyone in PC EU interested? ;D

Have a character theme instead of asking for hybrids? Like using blood/soul magic only NB (soul assualt, equilibrium, blood drinker set, axes to help chop etc). Adds something to build into instead of doing the math.

No storing crating mats in bank. Farm and craft is more difficult too.

Betsararie

Broom and bucket only while wearing the Nordic bather towel.

Juhasow

Start doing HM trials with top scores.

Anotherone773

I feel like you are going to drastic on this. When people complain about how overland is to easy i make a suggestion of how to make it harder for themselves while still making it viable. Your delete character upon death, isnt going to allow you to progress very far and after a 2 or 3 stupid deaths, you will give that up quickly.

So this is what i came up with:

1) You use CP, but you can only put CP in a single skill per tree and you must do 1 skill per ( minor) tree. So you might do Spell Shield, Light Armor Focus, and Expert defender in the warrior trees. With 630 CP each skill would get 70 points.

2) You cannot use anything crafted. No pots, food or armor that was crafted.

3) You must use every item you pick up in the slot it goes in until you pick up a replacement item. So if you are wearing a blue heavy chest and pick up a green light robe, you have to equip the robe until you get a replacement chest piece. You must loot every mob( open chests and containers at your own peril though).

Easier mode: Set a color limit for replacements. IE: you only replace if the item is blue or better. If you want hard mode, replace every piece including with white.

Easier mode #2: Replace only two hand with two hand and one hand with one hard weapons.

4) You cannot use anything off guild traders, or acquired on another character or received from another player.

Harder mode: Use only one ability bar.

Harder mode #2: distribute attribute points evenly between all 3 attributes.

Harder mode #3: No werewolf or vampires

Harder mode #4: Play in first person only.

Now run all your content. Get all skyshards and lorebooks, do all quests, and run all dungeons, MA, DSA,etc.

I think you will find the game gets significantly harder when you can no longer "build" a character for min/max and BiS. And you wont have to keep starting over which is going to do nothing but frustrate you, i think. You will have to rely a lot more on your own skill rather than gear/cp/rotations to carry you. ability wise you will have to rely on class/guild skills a lot more and weapon skills a lot less.

Edit to add: I forgot...

5) Picking race and class. Assign a number to each race. Have someone, without telling them why, pick a number between 1 and X, That is your race. Repeat for class.

AlienatedGoat

No UI at all.

TheValar85

em i just say no to all

MajesticHaruki

Bare fists.

red_emu

monitor turned off

mocap

you still can faceroll 99% of overland content with just Puncturing Sweep and maybe Solar Barrage and/or Reflective Light if you want more facerollness. Even without CP and food. Even naked...