Antiquities System - Are you excited?

EpicRekkoning

All depends on what the Mythic pieces give as a bonus and how it is incorporated into the armor/weapon slots. It would nice if they gave us a new mythic slot so we can still run 5/5/2 or 5/3/2/2.

Anotherone773

Alcast wrote: »

What are your opinions about the Antiquities System, are you excited about it?

Reserved excitement. I am excited for the potential but i know it is probably going to go one of two ways. It will either end up like the Justice System, PVP, etc. and other similar features and be mostly neglected. This will lead to either not doing it after the novelty wears off or having to type "DESTROY" 90 times a week because we have a half dozen one trick wonders in every zone and that one elusive item that drops 0.00000000000001% of the time. So they can give the impression you have a lot to do.

OR what may be worse, and i really hate typing "DESTROY", is they turn it into an ATM like housing while mostly ignoring the requests from the housing community. For example, since they refuse to up furnishing limits,we asked for smaller housing that the average player could afford. They gave us medium houses that are still huge just a bit less crowns and with a lower furnishing limit.

I really hope i am wrong but i see current zones getting artifacts once and then being forgotten about and the only time we get new artifacts is in the new zones when added which will be boring. It would be nice to see them add new artifacts to 3-4 zones every update.

So i like the potential, but i know that its probably going to go sideways and going to end up more meh than awesome.

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Guardedly optimistic here.

- Combat Enthusiasts (both PvE and PvP) ***


*** I don’t see 1-piece items moving the needle that much on player gear builds. Antiquities will only allow one slotted artifact at a time (not two). So, it doesn’t change the meta 5-5-2 or 5-3-2-2 setup. Unless the artifacts have an expressively strong 1-piece bonus.

5-3-3-1 and 5-4-2-1

wolfbone

yes! it sounds like tomb raider and uncharted style things being added in, that makes me happy

Hotdog_23

Reserving judgement until more details available but excited at the same time.

Little cautious because of how the psijic skill line was implemented as far as number of skill points needed and having to grind for it so many times since I have 18 characters. If we have 2 new skill lines will there be enough skill points available in the new chapter to complete both skill lines. Personally, I like to complete each character with psijic, darkbrotherhood, thieves guild, mages or fighters guild, undaunted and of course class and weapons skill lines.

Also concerned about the one-piece bonus items and how they will be worked into some builds for combat. Will have to wait and see the details.

MLGProPlayer

Honestly, it sounds exactly the same as every museum collection quest we've received with expansions so far.

Integral1900

Hell yes🤩

Not only are we going back to the mighty complex of blackreach, my favourite location in skyrim but a whole slab of lore hunting as well

An underground zone, piles of lore and Lyris!!!!!!!

Sign me up baby 😇

eso_lags

No not really. They need to fix pvp performance and give us another somewhat pvp related update, preferably open world and not more no-cp bgs. Other than those two things idrc about what they do, but im sure many people will like it.. Plus many of us will end up doing it anyway if the rewards are worth it. Hopefully they do it right.

Also they should have done spell crafting, like they said they would so many years ago, but r i p to that idea.

Aptonoth

Yes if the stuff is as good as thieves guild and dark brother hood outside of combat for roleplay this is going to be fantastic. To this day I absolutely adore when a noob first sees a player killing an npc and is like wtf should I do? lol.

Rake

If this was a DLC feature Id have no issue with it.
Since its presented as major chapter feature I already dislike it a lot.

Kel

RefLiberty wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

I just hope the final piece isn't behind some HM 12 man trial that only 10% of the population can reach.

Per site:
"you can scry the location of ancient relics and excavate them via a series of new minigames."

I don't think they would put "mini games" in the middle of Trial or Dungeon run, that would be crazy.

Let that sink in....

Mini games.

The feature of this chapter is a series of mini games.

How many sites are you gonna have to dig before a mythic piece drops? Now, how many digs before RNG favors you with the piece you actually want? You honestly don't think this "mini game" that's the big "game changing feature" of this chapter will favor you with a piece on day one, do you?

[removed for baiting]

Again, let it sink in that the feature of a CHAPTER is a series of mini games. 😶

Anhedonie

This is....boring.

RaddlemanNumber7

Sceptical rather than excited. I suspect the worthwhile rewards will require a massive grind for each and every character.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was monetised for everything except the very basics. Not just the opportunity to buy the skill lines once they're max'ed on one character. The scrying tablet with its mini-game matching shapes and colours sounds an awful lot like playing candy crush on a phone. So, how many extra goes are we going to get per $?

Fitting one piece of mythic armour or jewellery into a 5/5/2 equipment set-up will also come at a price.

The lore will all end up on the wiki's anyway.

At this point in time I'd say I'm not sold on the idea.

Edit: I forgot to mention RNG. Most of the time you'll be digging up that same book you already found a thousand times, or the Antiguities equivalent of Crown Crate potions, or maybe even sell-for-gold trash.

goldenarcher1

TelvanniWizard wrote: »

No

Yes

Akrasjel

Need to know more to decide.

darthgummibear_ESO

I'm reserving judgement until we know a lot more. The system has the potential to be a lot of fun, it all depends on how it's done.

essi2

Yes, hopefully the gear items are useful and the furnisher/collectables well crafted.

LanteanPegasus

Yes, I'm excited about the Antiqities idea !

It's the one and only thing I'm waiting for in all the new stuff they announced. (Not a big fan of Nords or Skyrim; no use for dungeons, trials or arenas; Lyris is by faaaar the least interesting of the companions; less than zero interest in all things Vampire, be it lore or playing one.)

I just hope I'll also be excited about the Antiquities system. Playing some ESO-themed candycrush/minesweeper is fine with me, if it unlocks lore and nice things. (Nice things in my book are mostly "cosmetic", though. Or special gear effects that are interesting in overland game. I find no joy in some "New BiS" same-old boring combat bonus stuff.) Travelling Tamriel to actually get to ancient sites sounds like fun ! Even more so if there are some puzzles/riddles/obstacles at the end, to get the true Indiana Jones vibe !

But if the system is designed as too much of a grind (with fragments to make pieces to make stuff, and the fragments you find solely determined by RNG, for example) I'll probably run out of steam. If it calls for a lot of work, then I'd wish you could at least choose to direct that work towards something specific (for example a certain kind of item). Or, if the thing you find is totally random, it shouldn't be a grindfest to arrive at something you maybe never wanted.

Getting told stories and lore about the ancient places/things you find will definitely be great, and I'm looking forward to that in any case !

berzerkdethb14_ESO1

It's archaeology in WoW all over again.

TheNuminous1

LanteanPegasus wrote: »

Yes, I'm excited about the Antiqities idea !

It's the one and only thing I'm waiting for in all the new stuff they announced. (Not a big fan of Nords or Skyrim; no use for dungeons, trials or arenas; Lyris is by faaaar the least interesting of the companions; less than zero interest in all things Vampire, be it lore or playing one.)

I just hope I'll also be excited about the Antiquities system. Playing some ESO-themed candycrush/minesweeper is fine with me, if it unlocks lore and nice things. (Nice things in my book are mostly "cosmetic", though. Or special gear effects that are interesting in overland game. I find no joy in some "New BiS" same-old boring combat bonus stuff.) Travelling Tamriel to actually get to ancient sites sounds like fun ! Even more so if there are some puzzles/riddles/obstacles at the end, to get the true Indiana Jones vibe !

But if the system is designed as too much of a grind (with fragments to make pieces to make stuff, and the fragments you find solely determined by RNG, for example) I'll probably run out of steam. If it calls for a lot of work, then I'd wish you could at least choose to direct that work towards something specific (for example a certain kind of item). Or, if the thing you find is totally random, it shouldn't be a grindfest to arrive at something you maybe never wanted.

Getting told stories and lore about the ancient places/things you find will definitely be great, and I'm looking forward to that in any case !

I agree with every word of this. 0 excitment for all things released. Except this. And even then it has the potential to be ruined.

Maxx7410

wild_kmacdb16_ESO wrote: »

At this point no, and I suspect by the popularity of mods that direct players exactly to the location of items, a lot of players don't enjoy these types of scavenger hunts, and do them as a means to an end.

It depends on how it is made, and if it is something farmed, i mean if you have to do it a lot of times or if it is an unique system with nice rewards for the time invested.

anitajoneb17_ESO

I'm very happy about this new game mechanic. I'm exactly the type of player that enjoys that sort of things.

vesselwiththepestle

Antiquities. Another one grinds the dust.

Now I'll have to do antiquities-missions over and over to grind / farm all the stuff I need for my characters.

Also I'll have more items to fill my inventory. Which is already full despite maxed bank, maxed character inventories and maxed house chests.

Additionally I don't plan on buying the new chapter (Grindmoore) before/at release, as we know now it will probably 50% off after three months like it happened to Elsewhere.

Jannisaries

Cautiously optimistic. There isn't enough detail yet but I am a lore buff (my first play through of each zone I read everything and talk to everyone) so it looks like it has potential.

Cheers

Seraphayel

berzerkdethb14_ESO1 wrote: »

It's archaeology in WoW all over again.

It’s basically a carbon copy. In WoW you had almost the same mini games, locating the artifact, digging it up and then puzzling pieces together to create...

... mounts
... pets
... cosmetic items
... high end gear
... recipes for professions

I mean it looks quite nice but it feels like ZOS just checked out WoW‘s Archeology profession (introduced in 2010) and copy pasted it into Tamriel.

Elsonso

Seraphayel wrote: »

berzerkdethb14_ESO1 wrote: »

It's archaeology in WoW all over again.

It’s basically a carbon copy. In WoW you had almost the same mini games, locating the artifact, digging it up and then puzzling pieces together to create...

... mounts
... pets
... cosmetic items
... high end gear
... recipes for professions

I mean it looks quite nice but it feels like ZOS just checked out WoW‘s Archeology profession (introduced in 2010) and copy pasted it into Tamriel.

You cannot really say "it’s basically a carbon copy" about something you have never seen. Maybe it is. Maybe it is not. We will find out more when Greymoor hits PTS. However, Elder Scrolls and Tamriel is a much better environment for archeology than what you get with World of Warcraft. There is the potential for ZOS to do it better than WoW, even if they do it the exact same way. I doubt that they will do it the exact same way, but it will be interesting to see what they do.

oxygen_thief

it looks like treasure maps v1.1 its not interesting to ride to another side of the world to get 100 gold coins and few trash items even if they are called Antiquities

craybest

I am, it's something different and values exploration. I hope it'll be fun 😎

drkfrontiers

Looks thoroughly exciting and rewarding for effort. Thanks.

zvavi

Damn it was a guide so i was expecting some inside information or something, disappointed in the link

ATomiX69

Meh its gonna be a fun side activity for a few days after launch and thats about it.