Back in my day....

L_Nici

Back in my day girls didn't got flirtmessages from random people (mainly because no one believed there are girls in the game). Felt really uncomfortable today, but I am to friendly to destroy someones attempts.

xaraan

Back in my day...

the only perk you got from a sub was being able to play the game.

No craft bag, no extra bank space, no storage chests in homes. In fact, storage in banks was even smaller than it is now.

You had to level up every character separately through vet ranks. Be like CP only applying to one character that you leveled it on and every other character had to earn their own CP. And there were no XP bonuses and XP was not as generous as it is now and there was no sliding scale to make lower level easier to level.

Every zone had it's own level mobs.

Some of the quest fights like Doshia and Mannimarco were actually hard.

Everyone had purple weapons, or eventually red weapons b/c there was no outfit system or dying. And you had to constantly re-earn the same gear b/c they would up the Vet level from 12 to 14 to 16 like how they are doing us with the vMA weapons now.

There were no guild stores.

There were no stam morphs of class skills.

There were no transmute stones, you farmed until your fingers bled if you wanted a good trait or you used a bad trait.

Stats were 10% of what they are now, instead of 20000 health, you'd have 2000.

We only had horses as mounts, and you had to buy them for that crazy amount of gold you see them listed for at the stablemaster (and let me tell you at launch there were a lot less ways to make gold than there are now). And you had to have one horse for speed, one for gear and one for stamina b/c the one horse went up to 60 speed, another went to 60 stam and another to 60 carry cap. - the other stats stayed at 50.

and PvP was fun and mostly worked.

Iarao

daemonios wrote: »

Iarao wrote: »

Iarao wrote: »

daemonios wrote: »

Malthorne wrote: »

preevious wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Back in my day.....
Doshia was seemly impossible to kill and hitting VR15 was party time! Huzzah!!

*** gods, Doshia .. *shivers* .. I forgot many things, but I still remember her .. the nightmares.. the nightmares

I feel like I’m the only person who enjoyed pre-nerfed Doshia lol

I'm with you, buddy. The thrill when you finally got that you could interrupt her and use AoE skills to kill the healing orbs (back when you didn't know what an AoE skill was).

Also, in my day you paid a monthly sub to play the game, so ZOS had to keep you interested in playing. Now they just need a few suckers who'll pony up for pixels and fluff, even if they just come and go to be replaced by new suckers.

i sooo remember her. died and died and died. finally beat her with like 1 life left. i had no idea what to do for quite some time. was still all confused about playing, period. new to mmos. did i say i died?

she was especially hard in glenumbra as there was really no room to kite her.

I think it was Stonefalls. Most of my characters are DC and Doshia is fought in a decent sized room, but I think I remember EP players complaining about how much harder it was for them.

no no. it is def glenumbra. i fought her in all 3 zones. you couldnt get her out the entrance into the larger area. either she didnt come or she reset. it was a small room for sure.

Iarao

back in my day there were treasure chests labeled impossible.

Iarao

xaraan wrote: »

Back in my day...

You had to level up every character separately through vet ranks. Be like CP only applying to one character that you leveled it on and every other character had to earn their own CP. And there were no XP bonuses and XP was not as generous as it is now and there was no sliding scale to make lower level easier to level.

There were no guild stores.

there was the psijic drink you could buy. and pretty sure the crown store sold xp pots, too.
there was a guild store. but guilds were different. no cross faction.

Iarao

back in my day, to get/bid on(?) a trader, your guild had to have taken a keep in cyro? and i think all the traders were in cyro. i never went to cyro back then so i may be wrong.

doomette

Lysette wrote: »

Back in my day regions were level gated and one could outlevel a region pretty easily before even having completed it - it was terrible and is nowadays by far better.

🤬 I hated outleveling a zone before I finished it.
Oh and starting the next Fighters Guild quest too soon and getting stomped by the Dwemer Spheres. Or when I didn’t realize starter islands were a thing and finding it impossible to kill the very first boss you encounter in the Auridon zone quest because my character level was too low.
Yeah overland and quest bosses are way easy now, but I don’t think I would have stuck around without the flexibility of One Tamriel.

Iarao

Dirtybyrd wrote: »

Back in the day, I remember not being able to dye my gear and use to day dream of it so look at me now and than!
I sure needed some color in my gear styles!! ]


i like your then look best

Sylianwe

Back in my day, I did crafting the hard way.
A patron wanted 200 Shields?
I had to manually craft each and every one of them.
And, I felt accomplished doing so, more than I do now.

Iarao

Malfoy wrote: »

Back in my day, I did crafting the hard way.
A patron wanted 200 Shields?
I had to manually craft each and every one of them.
And, I felt accomplished doing so, more than I do now.

ditto for decon.

Iarao

back in the day it took how long to research your final trait?????? over a year iirc

Iarao

Iarao wrote: »

back in the day it took how long to research your final trait?????? over a year iirc

just to be clear, it all changed up before i got there, so i never had to wait that long. but i was hearing of a really long time. maybe 6mon?

wenchmore420b14_ESO

Iarao wrote: »

xaraan wrote: »

Back in my day...

You had to level up every character separately through vet ranks. Be like CP only applying to one character that you leveled it on and every other character had to earn their own CP. And there were no XP bonuses and XP was not as generous as it is now and there was no sliding scale to make lower level easier to level.

There were no guild stores.

there was the psijic drink you could buy. and pretty sure the crown store sold xp pots, too.
there was a guild store. but guilds were different. no cross faction.

There was no Crown Store in the beginning and you are right, the only "guild store" was if you took a keep in Cyrodiil. XP drinks werent around yet iirc, and Ring of Mara was only XP boost.

Iarao wrote: »

Iarao wrote: »

back in the day it took how long to research your final trait?????? over a year iirc

just to be clear, it all changed up before i got there, so i never had to wait that long. but i was hearing of a really long time. maybe 6mon?

Yes. I started research in May 2014, finished all 9 June 2015. What a long strange trip that was!!
Huzzah!

godagarah5000

back in my day u could fall beneath the map by walking near wayshrines lol

Lumsdenml

Common soul gems.... I actually still have one of those...

Tyrthax

Sneaky-Snurr wrote: »

Back in my day.. you would be hard-pressed to pump in one stat due to what's called overcharged softcap. Hence the need for a variation of hybrid builds. ;D

I actually miss the soft-cap days. It prevented 1-Shot MinMaxing

Tyrthax

Back in my day...

You could play the game.

Lumsdenml

Tyrthax wrote: »

Back in my day...

You could play the game.

Seems like there are more people playing now that ever before...

https://steamcharts.com/app/306130

Ghnami

Back in my day, Light Attack Weaving and animation cancelling were known about, but they were never used because straight BASHING out dps'd EVERYTHING.

It was beautiful. How ESO could have been. How ESO should have been.

thegreat_one

Mindcr0w wrote: »

Back in my day we had to ascend the 7,000 steps of High Hrothgar barefoot in the snow. Uphill both ways!

While stuck in combat....

rotaugen454

Back in my day (beta), everyone met in the starting town of their faction for a party in the minutes before the servers shut off. Lots of dancing in their underwear and setting off spell effects.

Saucy_Jack

Back in my day you could find jaedi and lire runes!

Lumsdenml

I could steal and kill until my heart was content and no one would care...

kargen27

Back in my day this was the best thing going.

deleted008293

I was happy!!! :'(

preevious

Back in my days, there were only 14 motifs.
And all motif books were blue colored, even imperial.

Lumsdenml

preevious wrote: »

Back in my days, there were only 14 motifs.
And all motif books were blue colored, even imperial.

Imperial was blue? I didn't get into crafting until later, so I don't remember that, but was it a more frequent drop?

daemonios

Lumsdenml wrote: »

preevious wrote: »

Back in my days, there were only 14 motifs.
And all motif books were blue colored, even imperial.

Imperial was blue? I didn't get into crafting until later, so I don't remember that, but was it a more frequent drop?

All motifs were blue. They changed it to reflect their rarity, hence playable races stayed blue, rare motifs like Daedric or Barbaric changed to purple, and Imperial was made gold. Idk if they tweaked the drop rates then, but Imperial was always the rarest motif from those available at launch.

ValkynSketha

Back in my day I used to have a spot memorized to grind mobs in each area when the world was not scaled. Back in my day I used to have fun in combat, I used to hit abilities without having a trauma from resources managment.

xshatox

In 2016 an emp nightblade or magsorc can solo a defended keep. I think there still footage on youtube. People complaint about nerfing and balancing but I think its better now. There some player who can find tanky and high damage build but never seen one able to solo keep, at most an outpost.