Are you happy with High Isle?

Hvíthákarl

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

While it has its issues (mainly the druid chest visual bug & the oakensoul fiasco), I'm having a blast playing High Isle so far. As a loreseeker, I'm quite intrigued with the new additions and definitely look forward to Q4. The story, while not groundbreaking, is good enough, and both Isobel and Ember are charming and likeable.
Still, I'd recommend to get it on sale unless this is your comfort game.

MagicalLija

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

I actually enjoyed it. Love the new companions. Love the card game. Love the new furnishings and collectibles. The antiquities also seem interesting. The music and zone as usual are amazing. Especially Amenos' dense jungle, I think it might be one of my new favourite looking zones for sure. I still haven't completed the story, still haven't done Blackwood since I took a pretty long break, so I'm working on that. But overall, I'm really enjoying it so far.

I'm desperately hoping for a Druidic home such as the one we see in Isobel's quest. As well as the soundtrack release.

kieso

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

Is ok 🤷‍♂️

kaushad

I do not own High Isle

The zone didn't quite meet my expectations. The hype this year has been more promising but I want more Breton stuff. What we have in High Isle mostly relates to either knights or druids. Knights were part of the problem of Bretons being more mundane than described, although the Order of the Albatross and the Oaken Order are distinctly Breton. Druids are cool, but not representative of most Bretons; there aren't even any left in High Rock. There should have been more villages, especially in the north.

Tales of Tribute exceeded my expectations. I didn't have anything against it, but I don't play card games. And yet I enjoy it. I'm logging onto PTS occasionally just to play a few rounds.

That said my expectations for the last three chapters have been lower than they were for the first three. After Elsweyr, I accepted that the chapters are stretched too thinly depict the breadth of half a province and it's best when they don't. I do intend to buy this chapter, but I'm waiting for a sale, as usual.

Astiron

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

I'm enjoying it, but it still seems like more of a small DLC than a full chapter.

zaria

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

The quests has been high quality and nice that you are not saving the universe again.
Zone is well done but It has to be larger than southern Elsweyr who map show it to be smaller than.
Only complain is that the northern Island does not share quest markers with the southern as I guess they are different instances but this is annoying
The card game is pretty fun but speed up the opposite actions and show their cards, its not that we can do anything about it anyway, at least for PvE.
It would also be nice to have chat default on as you might play a game waiting for stuff and have to drop it to join stuff.

LesserCircle

I do not own High Isle

I don't own it because it seem to thin in it's content for it's price at the moment.

HowlKimchi

I do not own High Isle

The lack of any new combat skill line really sucks. I play ESO 80% for PVP and solo PVE, and 20% for the other features. While I think it's cool that ESO is continuing to get more well rounded (the story is political and full of intrigue, more companions, new mini game, housing furniture is great for making gold each time there's a new release, and there are actually things to collect now), them not adding anything new to the combat side really kills it for me.

I hope they add a new combat line in the other patches this year but is highly unlikely....

For now I'll stay in GW2 and FFXIV, but will still keep looking at ESO, which is still the first MMO I really sunk my teeth into, back in 2014.

xaraan

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

Not really.

I mean, it's fine. I don't hate it.

It has some quests to do, some gear to get, whatever.

But I don't like card games and not only is a big part of it, but in some respects feels like I'm forced into it because it will be the only way to get some rewards.

I don't like companions, so didn't really care about the new ones added.

I love housing, but this is the first chapter we've had that didn't let us buy a new home for gold after doing the main questline. (Except Elsweyr was different with: Home of Lunar Champion, but that was even better). So no housing fix for me.

But I'm happy that cyrodiil seems to be working better at least. And outside of that, just casually doing some questing.

Jinazai

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

Rowjoh wrote: »

When you consider you can buy a new AAA game for the price of this small, unfinished and underwhelming expansion, then that puts it into clear perspective.

ESO has become weighted towards the casual gamer demographic but I very much doubt the majority of people giving High Isle a 'thumbs up' can objectively say this is full value for money.

Summerset was the benchmark in quality and value, but apart from maybe Vvardenfel, nothing else has come remotely close to that standard, all of which is quite telling as long running MMO content is inevetibly dialed down as the game approaches old age and investment and resource reduce.

In fact I'd go as far to say that I actually feel a bit cheated, so I wont be pre-purchasing anymore updates in future.

I prefered the old chapter system where you got it all in a big chunk. There was a million things to do and explore. Now its just lazily drawn out. And those launches felt big with a lot of players around. Some say its due to instancing but the game feels empty and even the zone chat is deathly quiet.

Treselegant

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

For the very first time in 8 years playing this game I regret buying an expansion. I have no interest in card games and prefer male companions. I had very low expections anyway but I was hoping the story was going to make up for the lack of features.

I played through the main quest and apart from Jakarn having something to actually do at one point in the story, I really couldn't tell you what happened. Seriously, you could have removed several reoccuring characters and it would had zero effect on the over all story. There also seemed a lot of poorly written innuendo in some of the quests which felt so awkward and childish. I had my gripes about the Blackwood/Deadlands story but at least I had some feeling about it when I finished, my main feeling when finishing High Isle was " I just need this end so I can move on to something more interesting".

Wandering around High Isle, I look at the sunflowers, the pretty vistas, and think - what am I actually doing here?

peacenote

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

Every new release will be found lacking to me until the map completion and alt replayability aspects that were broken with AwA are fixed.

I would rather see that be addressed before we get new content. And I'm extremely disappointed that this wasn't prioritized in the expansion over other fixes. The stickied thread has been open for weeks and weeks with no official comment / update.

I got the expansion for the trial. I'm not going to be cut off from my friends over this but I do vote with my wallet by boycotting the Crown store. No more houses or mounts for me!

Bouldercleave

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

I hate the card game - but I knew that I would. Not into that stuff.


The rest of High Isle I like a lot. Love the voice acting, Companions are decent although I would like a companion with a "darker" vibe.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

I do not own High Isle

I voted with my wallet when they announced the card game. I dont regret that decision. Not currently in an active trial prog group, and the disastrous state of the mythic farm has me LOL'ing pretty hard. They do not learn from their mistakes.

I may buy it when it goes on sale in a few months, but I wont lie, I am really struggling to log in these days.

Destai

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

So far, I love it.

In general, I find my perspective shifting away from "where's my new class" to just enjoying what's been given. Not to say I wouldn't want more - but there's a lot to enjoy in this expansion. What cons there are, can be fixed in hotfixes, but the overall bones are good for what's delivered.

Pro's
- Overland is beautiful. Not since Summerset have I enjoyed wandering around and taking in the vistas. The zone designers are true artists and I love the assets used in the expansion. There's these dressers with a compass on them. Love those.
- No one is blocking the writ turn-in. Thank Zenithar.
- Delves and Dungeons have personality. I've done a handful of these and so far they're all unique, I liked the stories in them too.
- Identify with the themes presented. I mostly play wardens and templars, which seem to fit the druids-and-knights theme of this expansion, so it's resonating with me.
- Card game is fun once you get the hang of it. It's not something I'm super in-love with, but fun enough for a short spell.

Con's
- New content quests/ads are too frequent. The zone quest is obtainable in too many spots, that card game is advertised everywhere. It's immersion-breaking. You guys do this with every new piece of content and it gets tiring. Find a less intrusive way to introduce content.
- Missing textures. I've seen many NPCs with missing chestpiece textures, seems to be isolated to the Druids.
- Lag. The vents and WB's seem to have a lot of lag around them, but that's almost to be expected given it's launch. Hopefully it clears up soon.
- Main city house isn't for sale. I am surprised you'd launch an expansion without the house. Seems like a missed opportunity.
- Many new features aren't working. I get that bugs happen, but features like menu music options aren't working. ToT audio cuts out. Just again, release quality could be improved.

PrimusTiberius

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

Only two days in but I'm enjoying the new content, looking forward to getting off of work and jumping back in to see how this new main quest unfolds. Good Stuff!

Marginis

I'll reserve judgement until they fix Ember being hidden in the outfit station and allow you to change the menu music on console. I also haven't tried the card game yet, but I'm definitely interested in it as a diversion.

New area looks nice though. And I like a lot of the QoL stuff being added too.

Lumsdenml

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

I've found the chapter entertaining so far. I've finished the main quest and most of the WB, working on side quests now. Thought it was worth the $. I do want my 2 person mount, though...

Jack-0

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

My expectations were that I'd enjoy the new trial (yes), the story line (yes) and the scenery (yes). I also anticipated that I would strongly dislike the card game, and that has also proven correct.

As someone else said above, it does feel more like Q4 than a full chapter, though I imagine that if I actually enjoyed the card game, I'd feel like it was much better value for money. I also have very little use for companions, so two new ones don't really do it for me, either, though I can understand people being enthusiastic about them way more than I can about the card game.

I really do hope the next chapter comes with, as a minimum, a glorious new zone with regularly, sensibly positioned wayshrines, a new trial, and both a new class and a new skill line, to make up for the shoddy offerings of the last two chapters. Some love for pvp, performance improvements and an NPC to do my surveys for me would be super, too. So not a lot, then

TPishek

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

The companions are great, the card game is pretty fun, the zone is pretty, quests are decent, the trial sucks.

EozZoe1989

I do not own High Isle

IAM POOR.. ican not buy it for like year or so.. so i have wait till it goes down in price and events should be once month make more fun for players

Jusey1

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

It met my expectations. Got the usual stuff like we always get in an expansion (story content, to do list, another dolmen type, etc). The card game was the only thing I was worry about and it came out pretty well (minus Orgnum deck being too strong right now).

I don't usually expect too much out of ESO's expansions. Sure, I would love to have extra stuff instead of the usual amount (like extra delves and locations we got in the Morrowind expansion), and sure I would love to see something unique instead of another dolmen type (like the dragons from Elswyr) but ZOS will make what they want, and as long as they do the usual, I am fine.

Mik195

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

It has lots of places to roam so I'm happy. I'm enjoying walking down the beach and looting clams. This may become one of my favorite areas for walking and picking up resources.

SickleCider

A bit mixed. I love the atmosphere, the medieval themes, the cozy architecture, the little druid cottages and all the sea faring themes. Little touches like the gondola cruising along in Gonfalon, the ornaugs playing in the water, etc. But, I feel like they were strapped for time or resources. Ran into several bugs, and some features seem to be thin or missing. Oakensoul farm is an absolute fiasco on console. I haven't tried the card game yet.

Altruz

I do not own High Isle

I'm not interested and not satisfied with the direction of the game, might buy it later at lower price idk...

Hapexamendios

All I can say definitively so far is I don't like the card game.

WiseSky

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

I rather have have a card game then another Class, I am happy that with ToT

jecks33

just had the time to play 2 hours so I didn't completed quests or the new trial (and i'm not interested in the card game). I just did world bosses, delves and skyshards and the whole zone is aesthetically amazing

Lugaldu

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

I didn't have great expectations for the new chapter, especially since I'm not very interested in Bretons and the card game wasn't an incentive either.
In the meantime I've already spent a few nice hours on High Isle and Amenos and playing ToT can also be quite nice for relaxation (especially if you want to get really tired before going to bed....). The shoreline of High Isle is very beautiful and it's nice that you can find so many shells. There are also a few places where you can loot closets in search of blueprints and materials. I haven't played the main story yet until the end, but Jakarn and Arabelle really get on my nerves with their flirting.

For Q4, I hope that we get a little bit more exotic environment... maybe under water?

Kitziboo

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

I’m enjoying it very much so far. Companions were my main priority, especially Ember and I really enjoyed her quest, thankfully, as I have 23 characters to go through. She’s even more adorable than I hoped and I wasn’t expecting to like Isobel but did take an immediate liking to her too.

I’m hopeless at understanding card games so I have no interest in trying TOT at the moment.

The islands look exciting and there is so much to explore but I don’t have time for anything other than unlocking wayshrines at the moment because of the three dailies there plus Undaunted, Mages and Fighters dailies on both XEU and XNA for my two mains and trying to unlock the Companions on other characters every day. Phew! Oh and I nearly forgot Endeavors and daily writs.

I like the contrasting environments and architecture. I initially didn’t realise that the vents showed as active like dolmens and spent quite a while standing at a few until I discovered them all. I’ve found a few WB’s that I was unable to complete as there was no one else around and I can’t seem to solo them. I thought I was doing ok with the faun until he called a gang of indriks which killed me instantly.

I’m looking forward to starting the main quest and antiquities but will wait until it’s a little calmer. It’s a shame that the leads don’t glow in some way as it means a deliberate hunt with a guide rather than discovering them myself while playing. I would never have seen the lead for the owl hat or the bowl without help.

It’s also a little disappointing that we still don’t have any small or medium homes to buy and yet again, we have two homes in the same town and this time only a street apart.

Overall, I love it and it was worth waiting for 😸