What did you enjoy most when you first started playing ESO?

Indoril_Nerevar

I enjoyed the ignorance. Hear me out.

It was shortly after where I realized it is the same as any MMO Game.

Nonetheless, I was very excited because I created a character, "Indoril Saint Nerevar" which was very lucky to have gotten as it is the official lore based game and therefore popular and hard to get. 1 in a few million.

I am not a roleplayer but I know every bit of lore and detail about The Tribunal and The First Era, Disappearence of the Dwarves and more relative matters.



With The Elder Scrolls Online, I was able to finally bring my favourite character to the world, all because of TES3: Morrowind GOTY for Xbox Original😂

That was my first game ever. That is where my fascination and motivation to reanact Indoril Saint Nerevar began.

Today, I am one of the best Tanks for PS4 NA on TES Online and I own a Guild called ☆The Chimeri King☆ to fulfill my build and lore info as Indoril Saint Nerevar.



On top of that, I mainplay a Tank, since the start... and I have used the same gear without any changes. This gear set I use though, also coincidentally happens to be the ONLY gear sets that have NEVER BEEN NERFED OR BUFFED ONCE.

I have provided leaks, tips, I've even been a bit of a rat when I complain about botters or how bad players can grief or cheat or troll, and I have also broken the forum rules a few times out of frustration - but it was in such a borderline, unique and truthful way that I have not been banned which I am grateful for, and am currently walking on eggshells.

Is it though, because of who I am? That I have been blessed with no conviction or nerfs? Second chances and popularity? Or because there is a lot of truth in what I say?

And who better to TELL these truths and opinions, than me😂 Seriously. It's befitting that I am the one good soul who clashes against corrupted odds✊👌

I know one day, Indoril Saint Nerevar will return in-game. I know for a fact he is apart of the End Game content for ESO Lore and more, and that he did not actually die - as ESO has failed to implement this yet, is more reassuring to me because it is a big peice of this game and a very popular aspect to it.

The player community sucks, though. Especially on PS4 NA. It's hard to find people who aren't going to waste your time.... and I miss having dozens of good people to enjoy the game with like in the beginning.

Unlike now; you could literally buy a DLC and still never get into a Trial or obtain certain things, or play the DLC's content because of how other players have designed it for you and how little players even run the content; successfully or at all. Join a guild and run a randomly voted trial once per week? Ghost Town . . .

Fortunately for me, I have accomplished so much already and can do so on my own. Look who you're speaking to!

But I have empathy. I have patience. Those who know and play with me or have ever met me, know how kind, laidback and perfectly normal I am. But it's not always helpful when you are surrounded by a majority greater than your own kind.

Most people act like losers. There are a lot of Trader Guilds, if not all of them, exploiting and taking advantage. Tons of liars and bank thieves; trolls, too. That is why I only wish that I had the same ignorance I did in the beginning.

It's a burden to know these truths, and to be disrespected for speaking of it👎

It's a burden and a very hard task to find players who aren't like this but that are also good enough at the game so they wont waste your time, quit a guild after a few days/weeks, or act like a loser.

It seems that, in order to have a large guild, people to play with or completed content, you literally have to become a loser. You have to either do one, more or all of these:

read every Patch Note
play for hours every day
pay to win
bot
create/exploit multiple traders
run in circle a.k.a farming/grinding/insanity
scam
be an elitest

HAPPY THOUGHTS! NEREVAR OUT!

tinythinker

Eifleber wrote: »

The beautiful world and the voice acting.

I still love that.

Agree

AOECAPS

Questing and exploring never played another TES game or MMO for that matter and fell in love zones and quest lines were done very well then it was 4 man content and lastly PvP even though it’s my favorite. Zos has a really great game here just unfortunate the problems have persisted with PvP for years

Drdeath20

Discorvering new skills and skill lines and learning what they did. Playing an up and comming new game.

kargen27

Dying to Slaughterfish. Okay, maybe not really but I looked behind every tree and under every rock. Sometimes when you want to go everywhere ya gotta die a few times to know you reached the edge. Lots of exploring and screenshots.

PerkFGC

brand new to ESO so the first impression is still fresh for me. Much like with the other Elder Scrolls games, the scenery, lore, music, and combat just all hits the right notes for me. I've never been able to get into an MMO mostly due to feeling like there was too tedious of a grind with and not being able to enjoy that aspect. I've tried a few MMOs in the past and none of them clicked, mostly due to the combat feeling really dry. I love being able to explore and do whatever I want in any order, and be able to do it in 1st person.

Helps that my main game (Destiny 2) has been kind of in crisis for a while, and I managed to sway my entire clan over to ESO for some fun. We're all a little scared by how into it we are after just a couple days lol.

jm42

basically Morrowind in HD I still go there sometimes with no purpose just to see landscapes

Sun7dance

This....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQqytEB7-VE

Alomar

Started 9 months before launch; I enjoyed the mystery of what the game fully involved and would add in the years to come. In the end those inspiring devs were replaced and I got to see the hardcore population leave the game and performance become utterly horrible.

kichwas

Nothing.

Odd answer especially since here I am but... at first the answer was nothing. I was thrown into some random zone full of mushrooms about some super-hero who thinks he's god and sits in a pose where the first time I saw him, my camera upskirted him and some rendering error made it seem like I could see his goods...

(I noticed he's angled a little differently now so maybe I wasn't the only person who saw this...)

There was no context and a disjointed plot I felt I was in the middle of rather than the start of, and people kept telling me I'd died and had no soul which was kind of... odd...

I was mildly impressed with the level scaling, but since I didn't yet realize I was in a zone that was 'post endgame' for most of the people around me that was just an intellectual point at that moment and I didn't yet see how it was different, let alone so much better, than what I'd seen in Guild Wars 2 - as again, I was in some random super-elf's mushroom kingdom without context...

Also for some reason I joined at a point where a lot of addons were being abandoned and new replacements had yet to take over - so people kept sending me to addons that would spam my screen with errors... which made me feel things were in a dying state when in actually I know now that the game was in rapid growth. Lesson: don't overwhelm the newbies in your guild with all your addons... even if they tell you, as I did, that they were coming from two other addon-heavy games (Wildstar and WoW for me). Ease them in and... seriously... make sure you send them to ones that are actually current...


It wasn't until I came back later and figured out how to leave super-elf's mushroom kingdom that the game started falling into place for me.

Lesson: stop sending new players to the latest expansion's zone and randomly throwing them into it's 'post main story' quest... Not all of your new players have been playing Elder Scrolls since the 1970s...


So...


It was on my second time trying the game that I realized 3 things:

1. The scaling here is amazingly well done and the ability to freely explore anywhere is a major great feature - if people are eased into it rather than overwhelmed by it.
2. The voice acting is really, really, really nice here - and brings the world alive. I used to log in just to stand around the 'dog cage' in Kennarthi's Roost and laugh <--- little details like that really drew me into the game world.
3. There is a near perfect balance here between plot/quests that are about my character becoming 'the hero' and plot/quests that make me realize not everything revolves around me. Coming from FFXIV and WoW that are the two extreme ends of this (in FFXIV, it's slowly dawning on me that the universe in it's current state might have been created by my character in a past life... in WoW despite saving the universe many times I can't even get a cutscene where I am considered relevant). As such, the questing here is maybe the only MMO where I actually enjoy questing and seek it out, rather than avoid it or 'slog through it to unlock stuff'...

A_Silverius

Stealth

FatFred

making new girl friends

Uryel

I loved being a sneaky thief, exploring the wild and the caves I found, hiding and moving past danger when I felt like, picking people's pockets and locks.. Over time my character became very good at that, to the point she could even run normally and remain hidden, for instance. I still display "Master Thief" as a title for that reason.

Unfortunately, this is dead. After 4 years playing my Bosmer as a thief, this gameplay was forcefully ripped from her for silly PvP balance reason disguised as a "more choice" patch. It's been over a year, and unsurprisingly for the past year I barely played her, and I'm playing the game less and less as time goes on.

4 years, one grows a certain attachment to their character. I'm not changing her to a khajiit, that's just not her. I can't expect to match the performance level I had without turning her to a khajiit. I don't want to play her as not-a-thief. So, simple solution, I'm not playing her.

Good job, ZOS. If you don't want my money, I am mighty glad to spend it on other games.

Odovacar

Exploring the beautiful world of Tamriel and doing all the little quests that I could without a care in the world. Those were some good times. I kind of wish I could go back. Now its making roster times and dealing with all the changes which most times feels like a second job. Chasing the shiny things and forgetting the big picture of why I started playing ESO has been a pitfall for me...

I will always love ESO. This thread is just another reminder that I do want to take a step back from my current game play and just enjoy the sights again.

TineaCruris

I enjoyed that it worked, and that there was some occasional communication between the company and the customer other than , "don't like it, too bad".

Vicinia

Old school PvP pre-one tamriel was a thing of beauty. IC was popping, azuras star was great with minimal lag while engaged in large fights.

I yearn for those days 😌

Jaxious79

For me I really started playing ESO when I learned I could use zygor and now the addon zygor clone. I love exploring and doing quest when I first started ESO the amount of quest was a bit overwhelming with zygor it walks you through which quest to pick up in what order which allows me to explore at my pace and still complete each zone.

Tommy_The_Gun

After questing, I started doing PvE & PvP... and tbh - I enjoyed it. Yes, at some point it was super exciting because server performance ok, and lag was not even noticeable. It worked. Using a skill ? No problem. Using a potion ? No problem. Press a button, and Boom ! Potion used... now it is like.... *spams potion button 10 times*.. oh, 7th time, it worked !...

Then we had a wave of nerfs that wrecked everything I used and I was like... ok I am done...


Now for example, if I need AP, I make a perma-sneak build & leach AP. I am not proud of it. I know I should fight & kill people to get AP... but ZOS did not gave ma an option really.

Same for PvE. I very rarely do dungeons. I used to, but since server performance is bad, group finder often does not work. And even if it does work, there are a lot of wipes simply because people can't fire up their skills & ults.

So, I pretty much only do content (and group dungeons too) that I can solo. There is simply less lag & its is bearable. Once I got gear I want - I never go to that dungeon again, as there is no fun there left.

I have adapted, but I highly doubt this is a way ZOS (or any game dev really) wants their players to adapt to changes...

Vevvev

Playing it like a single player Elder Scrolls game. I started off in Covenant lands and I remember trying to be a sneaky Breton thief. This was shortly after Tamriel Unlimited launched and I had a blast with the quests and entering Cyrodiil for the first time. It felt like playing Oblivion again with the similar story and the way magic worked. We had less flashy mounts back then so the whole thing was very immersive and enjoyable.

ESO has come a long way but I wish I could go back in time and enjoy it new again.

MartiniDaniels

kichwas wrote: »

Nothing.

Odd answer especially since here I am but... at first the answer was nothing. I was thrown into some random zone full of mushrooms about some super-hero who thinks he's god and sits in a pose where the first time I saw him, my camera upskirted him and some rendering error made it seem like I could see his goods...

that's the same feeling which majority got when series became popular after TES3:Morrowind.
Strange island full of bugs and mushrooms and nasty elves. Though ESO version of Morrowind is not so good as TES3. In TES3 city of Vivec has approximately same amount of content as whole zone in ESO.

idk

Eifleber wrote: »

The beautiful world and the voice acting.

I still love that.

I completely agree here. Especially with the voice acting and number of people who have posted here have said similar. For me, that includes the big-name artists that voiced some significant characters like John Cleese's Cadwell to the lesser-known voice overs.

Phanex

Coming from playing old school FFXI, not 14 but 11, WoW, DC univ, city of heroes & Star trek online, the ease of playing the game. I've only been playing for a couple of years so I missed out on the whole "this zone is for level 1-10 etc.", but the ability to solo most of the game is awesome and relaxing.

While there is a bit of grind in most cases, its not nearly as bad as those I experienced in other MMOs.

The lore.

The music.

Graphics are nice, not the best, but nice.

Ability to dress your toon.

Being able to ride a mount on day one, slow as all get out, but one can ride it.

Although I do miss rolling with guilds and such, but I don't have a keyboard and me talking alone in a room annoys people, so I have to stick with solo content. I'm not into PVP so I'm not missing out on much with all the issues they are having.

There are features I do miss (some are available for PC players but not consul players) but overall the game is a lot of fun and relaxing.