Nothing happened with my characters

Scaletho

Well, I'm sorry for my shameful ignorance but so far I didn't see any progress or advantage for my characters regarding this "Account Wide Achievements".

All my toons still have the same quests to make,same achievements to get, and seems to be in the same situation as before. One of my less used toons received, for instance, the "Hero of Clockwork City" achievement, but I didn't went to Clockwork with this particular toon yet and all quests related to this achievement still show up as not finished!

Did I completely misunderstand this new feature?

heaven13

Scaletho wrote: »

Well, I'm sorry for my shameful ignorance but so far I didn't see any progress or advantage for my characters regarding this "Account Wide Achievements".

All my toons still have the same quests to make,same achievements to get, and seems to be in the same situation as before. One of my less used toons received, for instance, the "Hero of Clockwork City" achievement, but I didn't went to Clockwork with this particular toon yet and all quests related to this achievement still show up as not finished!

Did I completely misunderstand this new feature?

Yep. Think of them like Steam achievements for a game. Now you can see what you’ve done as a player. New characters still have to do quests they just have to do them without an in-game tracking option per character like those other games have.

Scaletho

heaven13 wrote: »

Scaletho wrote: »

Well, I'm sorry for my shameful ignorance but so far I didn't see any progress or advantage for my characters regarding this "Account Wide Achievements".

All my toons still have the same quests to make,same achievements to get, and seems to be in the same situation as before. One of my less used toons received, for instance, the "Hero of Clockwork City" achievement, but I didn't went to Clockwork with this particular toon yet and all quests related to this achievement still show up as not finished!

Did I completely misunderstand this new feature?

Yep. Think of them like Steam achievements for a game. Now you can see what you’ve done as a player. New characters still have to do quests they just have to do them without an in-game tracking option per character like those other games have.

Many thanks. It's a bummer, but now I get it.

Danikat

The update doesn't remove or auto-complete any of the content in the game, it's all still available for each of your characters (except things they've completed of course). It's just the achievements which are shared.

So for example when you make a new character you'll still need to level them up, but they won't get a notification every 10 levels to tell you that you've reached a new multiple of 10.

heaven13

Danikat wrote: »

The update doesn't remove or auto-complete any of the content in the game, it's all still available for each of your characters (except things they've completed of course). It's just the achievements which are shared.

Not quite true. There are a few things it does remove (Melina, Adoring Admirer, Markarth epilogue for examples) for subsequent characters as these interactions were only ever tracked through achievements.

Scaletho

Thanks all,

I admit have some hope that main quests were account wide too. Not that I don't like them, by the contrary. The truth is I'm afraid to repeat the Main Quest missions and other important quests all over again for each character I create and finally get bored of ESO.

I wish all regions main quests could be account wide, and all side quest not. This way ESO questing will be less repetitive and boring and more engaging imho.

But that ship has sailed already. It's ok then. Let's move on.

Wolf_Eye

Scaletho wrote: »

Thanks all,

I admit have some hope that main quests were account wide too. Not that I don't like them, by the contrary. The truth is I'm afraid to repeat the Main Quest missions and other important quests all over again for each character I create and finally get bored of ESO.

I wish all regions main quests could be account wide, and all side quest not. This way ESO questing will be less repetitive and boring and more engaging imho.

But that ship has sailed already. It's ok then. Let's move on.

I'm sorry, but as someone who loves replaying story, please please please I beg of you. Please do not take this away from me. Please do not convince ZOS to take away the main reason I am even here. Please do not deprive me of my ability to replay any and all stories.

Please. Please don't do this to me. Please don't ask this of them.

ArchangelIsraphel

Scaletho wrote: »

Thanks all,

I admit have some hope that main quests were account wide too. Not that I don't like them, by the contrary. The truth is I'm afraid to repeat the Main Quest missions and other important quests all over again for each character I create and finally get bored of ESO.

I wish all regions main quests could be account wide, and all side quest not. This way ESO questing will be less repetitive and boring and more engaging imho.

But that ship has sailed already. It's ok then. Let's move on.

Making main quests one time only would be a horrible change that would place even further limitations on people who have already lost so much due to the implementation of AWA. No thank you, I didn't pay for my chapters and DLC's to play them one time only. There's nothing engaging about being unable to play a quest line again on a new character.

Lets not encourage ZOS to strip this game down further, please.

Ilsabet

Scaletho wrote: »

Thanks all,

I admit have some hope that main quests were account wide too. Not that I don't like them, by the contrary. The truth is I'm afraid to repeat the Main Quest missions and other important quests all over again for each character I create and finally get bored of ESO.

I wish all regions main quests could be account wide, and all side quest not. This way ESO questing will be less repetitive and boring and more engaging imho.

But that ship has sailed already. It's ok then. Let's move on.

Good news there, you can choose to do only side quests on alts, and ignore main quests. Nice thing about the flexibility for each person to choose how to spend their time.

Saieden

All progression must still be earned exactly as before. The only difference is in most cases your character will be treated as though it has, and many things are impossible track at all.

Kesstryl

Ilsabet wrote: »

Scaletho wrote: »

Thanks all,

I admit have some hope that main quests were account wide too. Not that I don't like them, by the contrary. The truth is I'm afraid to repeat the Main Quest missions and other important quests all over again for each character I create and finally get bored of ESO.

I wish all regions main quests could be account wide, and all side quest not. This way ESO questing will be less repetitive and boring and more engaging imho.

But that ship has sailed already. It's ok then. Let's move on.

Good news there, you can choose to do only side quests on alts, and ignore main quests. Nice thing about the flexibility for each person to choose how to spend their time.

You can craft your own stories with your characters and don't need to do every single quest. If you are doing it to level up, there are far better ways to level up than by quests. Pretend you are not a Vestige and you didn't die and are just a regular mortal who never heard of The Prophet. All my characters did different things, and some never did the Main Quest.

fiender66

Unfortunately, the sharing across characters is not limited to achievements. Maybe the biggest issue is with delves: if you have already done them with even only one toon, every and all toon of yours (as well as the older ones that never went into those delves) are "graced" by having killed the relative boss. This means that when you reach the final boss with your new toon, you find the spot empty (well, most of the times) and you have to wait a VERY long time for the boss to respawn.

unjulation

fiender66 wrote: »

Unfortunately, the sharing across characters is not limited to achievements. Maybe the biggest issue is with delves: if you have already done them with even only one toon, every and all toon of yours (as well as the older ones that never went into those delves) are "graced" by having killed the relative boss. This means that when you reach the final boss with your new toon, you find the spot empty (well, most of the times) and you have to wait a VERY long time for the boss to respawn.

yep just did a delv on my new toon to check this out and you are correct very anoying tbh, and i presume i'm not getting the xp for doing a delv on a new toon now is very......Grrrrrrr - anyways at least in the old delv's finding the sky shard is easy

Scaletho

I like ESO immersion, and the lore. I think those aspect of the game are amazing and essential to enjoy this game. But perhaps I'm wrong to wish less repetition by the dozen. And it seems most players don't want this.

As I say, I don't believe ZOS will ever do that. And regarding such big overall decisions I'm the least influential guy around here.

Edgemoor

fiender66 wrote: »

Unfortunately, the sharing across characters is not limited to achievements. Maybe the biggest issue is with delves: if you have already done them with even only one toon, every and all toon of yours (as well as the older ones that never went into those delves) are "graced" by having killed the relative boss. This means that when you reach the final boss with your new toon, you find the spot empty (well, most of the times) and you have to wait a VERY long time for the boss to respawn.

I agree, starting a new character I like to go into delves to get the boss and complete the delve, it gives something extra for going after the Skyshard. Now it's kinda pointless as it's all marked complete.