Can you guess anything that will happen in ESO in 2019?

Dragonnord

Good, bad, probably expected, unexpected, anything you dare to guess...

Shoot!





PD: Happy new year for everyone!

idk

My guess is players will be upset with "balance" changes Zos makes. This will likely start with the balance pass on racial passives but it will likely not end there.

Tasear

Spell crafting
Nercomancers
More skill points
New skills
Fix mend spirit so it doesn't make bar disappear
Guild Houses in Imperial City
Guild system update
Tasear will find a cipher in the wild

Starlight_Knight

I really hope we get a vision into the future and a more dynamic game with active world events and maybe even GM run events.
Another dimension into the very bland base game zones would be cool.
More customisation options including pet skins, and of course better pvp performance and some love to cyrodill

socivL

the order of Vivic will shut down due to lack of any serious funding for a real wall in Cyrodill

Vesper_BR

New PvP/pve área like imperial city, Just a little bigger and with more content, maybe a version of cirodill situated in one of daedric planes. Where we had pvp and hardcore pve mixed together... With high risks and high reward like we have in imperial city in sotha sil).

Shawn_PT

I predict... that the stuff which has been datamined will most probably show up on the Crown Store somewhere down the road

oXI_Viper_IXo

Nerfs
Lag
Game-breaking bugs

Yolokin_Swagonborn

In 2019:

• Max stat % bonuses will be removed from racial passives. (Ostensibly for "balance" but actually to pay for power creep)
• Most if not ALL new houses added to the game from this point forward will be crown store only.
• More class skills will have their utility robbed from them and that utility given back to us via new gear behind new grindwalls.
• More items offered for obscured gamble currencies, like selling an ice tiger for gems.

By 2025:
If the game survives this long, the classes and races will only differ by their particle effects and all of the power will come from the gear chase, or horizontal progression skill lines like psijic order locked behind DLC paywalls and grindwalls.

Elsonso

It will be really interesting to see what depravity they add to the Crown Store and Crown Crates for the annual improvements to the game.

Morgul667

Nerfs

JamieAubrey

I might start playing regular again

kojou

Combat team gives up on acheiving balance and just lets the meta be the meta so they can work harder on fixing bugs and making better quality content.

kargen27

I'm going to die a lot.

A whole lot if I ever decide to venture into vMA again.

Cireous

I'd like to see them liven up the older zones as well. Rewarding dynamic group events, more enemies that hit hard and provide dangerous encounters. I would love for the champion system to become more fun as well. Clicking off 30 points to boost your stats 4 times a year is not very engaging.

Also, Spellcrafting.

This is the year, yes?

No. No, of course it's not.

nihirisutou

Unexpectedly long loading screens

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

PvP performance and playerbase will decline.

Malkorga

One thing i know for sure is that it will be the end...

Of 2018

Happy new year!

Vapirko

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

In 2019:

• Max stat % bonuses will be removed from racial passives. (Ostensibly for "balance" but actually to pay for power creep)

Wow that’s a scary thought but it seems right up ZOS’ alley. Make players have to build more into max stat and another resource nerf. Lower the power ceiling in PvE, lower the PvP ceiling by making it harder for solo and small scalers. The racial changes just got too real. I really hope you’re wrong.

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Vapirko wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

In 2019:

• Max stat % bonuses will be removed from racial passives. (Ostensibly for "balance" but actually to pay for power creep)

Wow that’s a scary thought but it seems right up ZOS’ alley. Make players have to build more into max stat and another resource nerf. Lower the power ceiling in PvE, lower the PvP ceiling by making it harder for solo and small scalers. The racial changes just got too real. I really hope you’re wrong.

I hope I'm wrong too, but I have seen this trend so strongly in 2017-18, with all the nerfs, and seen the power creep ZOS refuses to acknowledge, nerfing percentage stat racials is the logical next step. Plus, they pretty much said this was the approach they were taking.

Here's what ZOS actually said in their Latest forum post on upcoming changes in Update 21.

I’m guessing many of you will be interested to know more about the racial balance changes. While we aren’t ready to share specific details yet, here’s a peek at the goals driving the team’s effort:

• When selecting a race, players should have multiple effective options for any given gameplay role.
• The combat power provided by each race should be more equalized.

There were a few more but lets focus on those. They flat out say they want to "Equalize combat power." How are you going to do that without nerfing the races that offer 10% boost to either stamina or magicka? 10% max stat comes out to approximately 300-400 more spell/weapon damage depending on how you measure it.

In one fell swoop, cloaked in the name of "balance." ZOS could effectively wipe about 400 weapon and spell damage from the TOP DPS builds in the game. Then come out with even stronger sets behind a new grindwall where you can get some of that damage back. If you buy the new chapter of course. It's par for the course with ZOS. Nerf everyone in the false name of balance, offer some of what they stole back via new grind. People feeeeeel like they are progressing but their characters are actually getting weaker.

And the most insidious part about it is that ZOS will have tons of apologists on their side arguing "But why should I have to choose a race with a 10% boost to a damage stat in order to be BIS? I should be able to get (meaningless relative number)DPS on whatever race I want.

And the community will argue that premise to death while completely missing the point: That ZOS doesn't just nerf "outperforming" classes, skills and races. They feel forced to nerf EVERYTHING or the end game raiders start posting people soloing trial bosses. And the nerfbat will never stop until ZOS admits and addresses the power creep issue.

templesus

Lag

killmove

Performance fix that will make ESO runs flawlessly at 60 fps min.

I'm dreaming I know...

Feel_Fried

post from 2019, nothing heppened

Finviuswe

Find me challenging lowbies to duel in the town centre

Fata1moose

The next chapter will be in neutral territory and not one of the faction provinces.

Sheezabeast

Nords will get buffed and be new BiS stam tank class

Kitty_Quietly

More skill points
More things to spend those skillpoints on
An interesting landscape in next chapter
Some hilarious and unforgettable dialogue in at least one quest

JaZ2091

MORE CROWN CRATES!

teladoy

I think they will finally fix the lag and concentrate in enhance pvp.

Just kidding, we know this will never happen 🤪

Turelus

People will complain on the forums.

goldenarcher1