Lets make a list of things that trigger people that are part of the game directly

jommerryrth

and lets avoid a lot of unnecessary commentary about the list but just make a list

i have found two things that are triggering for me in game.

the first you may know, arcanist visual effects... the green swirlies cast on my character. other effects are just gross and annoying but the swirlies are def triggering.
the second is every music box in game. i stay away from all guild homes that sport these foul demons and i mention it when applying to a guild so as to avoid that trigger.

who's got another?

TaSheen

*shrug* Neither of those bother me. Actually, nothing really in the game bothers me.

Well.... other than people who want to make this game into something else, like WoW, GW2, FF14 etc. But those are forum triggers.

Soarora

What definition are we using here? Trigger as in it triggers distress due to trauma or disability? Trigger as in it makes you angry? Trigger as in it's annoying?

I know as for the first one, being forced into first-person and lots of templars/sorcerers cause nausea and migraines for some people.

phaneub17_ESO

The only thing that triggers me are clingy people, otherwise I'm a pretty chill person, almost nothing gets to me.

Braffin

You may add flappybirds onto your list. They definitely trigger me (in the meaning of making me angry).

DinoZavr

i am not sure about "trigger", but there are several annoyances i face barely every single day:
- arcanist stroboscope effects
- flappy matriarchs near bankers, guild traders, npc vendors
- two bright splashes on scrying screen (i have to close my eyes)
and, of course, out new Stuga - Sorinne Gerard, the vocal barker

jommerryrth

Braffin wrote: »

You may add flappybirds onto your list. They definitely trigger me (in the meaning of making me angry).

Other people have c/o the flappy birds and mentioned they have a def mental effect, more than an emotional response but it seems also that too. so yah i think that should def be added to the list for both of you.

DinoZavr wrote: »

i am not sure about "trigger", but there are several annoyances i face barely every single day:
- arcanist stroboscope effects
- flappy matriarchs near bankers, guild traders, npc vendors
- two bright splashes on scrying screen (i have to close my eyes)
and, of course, out new Stuga - Sorinne Gerard, the vocal barker

i mean if you can't play or have to flee or close your eyes and not see what you're doing those all seem legit to me if it legit disrupts your ability to play. seems like it does.

rpa

The brain drill noisemaker from hell called Nirncrux spawning nearby while fishing.

Soarora

Thy_Game_Is_Over wrote: »

Braffin wrote: »

You may add flappybirds onto your list. They definitely trigger me (in the meaning of making me angry).

Other people have c/o the flappy birds and mentioned they have a def mental effect, more than an emotional response but it seems also that too. so yah i think that should def be added to the list for both of you.

DinoZavr wrote: »

i am not sure about "trigger", but there are several annoyances i face barely every single day:
- arcanist stroboscope effects
- flappy matriarchs near bankers, guild traders, npc vendors
- two bright splashes on scrying screen (i have to close my eyes)
and, of course, out new Stuga - Sorinne Gerard, the vocal barker

i mean if you can't play or have to flee or close your eyes and not see what you're doing those all seem legit to me if it legit disrupts your ability to play. seems like it does.

The light thing reminded me of nova and hardmode scroll white flashes. I’m not bothered by most things in the game but those hurt my eyes hah.

SeaGtGruff

Two things that irritate me are (1) long loading screens when changing zones and (2) targeting issues when trying to interact with something or someone.

The loading screen times don't usually annoy me, but they do push my buttons if I'm trying to finish doing something within a certain period of time, such as before a daily/weekly reset or before the server goes down for maintenance.

As for the targeting issues when trying to interact with things, I'm speaking of situations such as trying to interact with one of my assistants but ending up interacting with some bulletin board or NPC instead, when I'm directly facing my assistant and standing close to them whereas the bulletin board or NPC is further away and off to the side or even behind me. I feel like the way it used to work was fine, but then a lot of players complained and ZOS tried to "fix" it by messing around with priorities. Proximity to things and one's line of sight now seem to have less importance than what something is, such that standing in front of my assistant and being in their face has less importance than being vaguely in the vicinity of some interactable object or NPC which is way the heck over there (waves to the side and slightly behind).

Ishtarknows

rpa wrote: »

The brain drill noisemaker from hell called Nirncrux spawning nearby while fishing.

Nirnroot the plant? Nirncrux is a trait material you have to mine nodes to get. But yes I agree the noise of nirnroot is annoying, but easily dealt with.

rpa

Ishtarknows wrote: »

rpa wrote: »

The brain drill noisemaker from hell called Nirncrux spawning nearby while fishing.

Nirnroot the plant? Nirncrux is a trait material you have to mine nodes to get. But yes I agree the noise of nirnroot is annoying, but easily dealt with.

Nirnroot. Obviously it's the sound of player brains turning permanently to mush.

Danikat

Lights don't bother me (I have my screen set up for reading text, so a completely white screen is about as bright as a sheet of paper) but repetative motion is annoying. I certainly wouldn't call it a trigger (as someone else mentioned that's a clinical term which gets frequently overused and misused online) but it's irritating and I'll move away to avoid it. I also don't use the twilight on my sorcerer for the same reason.

I think the only thing which might count as an actual trigger is giant spiders (or lots of small spiders) because I have arachnophobia. But because so many fantasy games seem to default to always using the same enemies, and that includes spiders, I've learned ways to cope with it most of the time and avoid areas I know there are (or might be) spiders when I don't feel up to it.

PrimeSeptim

- Chest/node thiefs When the player can clearly see that you're approaching the chest/node but turns it into a competition or flies out of nowhere like it's life or death to harvest it. There's a few chests which spawn bandits or are near enemies and that always makes me anxious. There's was one in Gold Coast where I was killing the bandits and a player comes along and takes the chest. I want to reach through the monitor and strangle the person but I can't and that is annoying. It's something that will definitely ruin my day. Nowadays, I just don't go for chests if there are players nearby (most of them drop junk) and nodes are plentiful and I have more than enough stuff to last a lifetime so I just ignore or look around first.

- Getting kicked from groups Usually for no reason from my point of view. Players don't have the decency to at least give you a reason first beforehand. I would happily leave a dungeon group for example if I were holding the group back for whatever reason.

I don't know if those class as part of the game directly.

- NPCs the follow you around/harass you or repeat the same dialogue every time you're passing by.
- Mountains everywhere that you can't get over and have to travel several miles or use a wayshrine to pass it.
- Inability to climb on most objects or roofs - too much collision and/or invisible walls.
- Objects placed near to or on writ hand ins which can earn you a bounty - just why?

IsharaMeradin

Extremely fast speeds especially when mounted on a maxed out mount.

The maxed out mount in sprint mode is about as fast as I can tolerate the scenery going by. If I accidentally get caught up in someone else's speed boost, it hurts my eyes not to mention making it difficult to steer.

I understand why the speed boosts are there (Cyrodiil is a PITA to get across) but they do not serve much purpose anywhere else.

Arcturus

People spaming skills that make my character draw their weapon while at the outfit station in Craglorn or anywhere really.

People playing "thief/assasin" constantly getting caught and spamming Blade of Woe like they're some kind of cool edgelord.

People believing they're entitled to an online stranger's time and expect you to walk in an rnd just to hand-hold them.

People complaining about no new PvP content for the last X years when ToT is PvPvE and came out last year.

People expecting you to take the time to craft for them for free. Like excuse me, what the actual F.

People asking you to craft items from a set that isn't craftable.

People begging for gold/items etc in zone chat.

People trying to scam in zone chat.

People who don't let nodes respawn.

People that expect to be welcomed into endgame without putting in the work to be worth something to the group.

People who don't listen to a raid leader when they are explaining mechanics and assigning duties to each group member.

People that use selfish builds in the ballgroup. Like seriously, it's called ballgroup for a reason.

People who don't force the lock in a dungeon/trial chest. Level up the skill or duck off and let some1 else do it.

People that aggro the friendly NPC's in Dreadsail Reef.

People faking roles beyond a simple rnd. Like seriously I've seen fake tanks in trials.

People who lead trade guilds and keep scamming with their "lotteries".

People who lead trade guilds and ask for too much gold sales/donations for a subpar vendor location (they're stealing it).

People playing NB sending you hate whisps just because you had the braincells to counter their stealth.

People playing any other class sending hate whisps because you killed them repeatedly.

People who are met with any of the above and fail to remain respectful to the annoying person and avoid causing drama.


And finally:

The DB assassin personality.

Being unable to mount while in combat.

Crafting certifications.

Vanus Galerion.

Tandor

PrimeSeptim wrote: »

- Chest/node thiefs When the player can clearly see that you're approaching the chest/node but turns it into a competition or flies out of nowhere like it's life or death to harvest it.

That can often be blamed on differential lag. You may see yourself as being closest to the chest but he may see himself as closest.

LukosCreyden

Animations that delete your weapon from existence.

New jabs animation.

Warden's entire class fantasy. WHAT ARE YOU??

That weird, glitchy flailing nonsense your character does whenever you LA weave NB bow proc.

Sorc pets.

DK's crusty stone spells. Also the unhinged animation for dragon blood. Why??

whitecrow

Constantly changing guild message of the day.

jommerryrth

Tandor wrote: »

PrimeSeptim wrote: »

- Chest/node thiefs When the player can clearly see that you're approaching the chest/node but turns it into a competition or flies out of nowhere like it's life or death to harvest it.

That can often be blamed on differential lag. You may see yourself as being closest to the chest but he may see himself as closest.

also, if a player is playing in first person mode they might not see you in their periphery but yah i can def see how that's annoying.

Poss

When I’m fishing and a random person comes and steals my hole

thorwyn

There are remarkably few things that are triggering me ingame. (Now, forum is a different matter of course.. .:))

The one thing that stands out for me are people who are constantly making calls during a raid despite not being the raid lead. If you are not the raid lead, shut the hell up and do whatever the raid lead or the person who is in charge of making the calls says. And if the raid lead says "target A", then target A and don't say "but target B is almost down". -.-
Bonus points go to those people who keep fighting the boss after a "lay off" call when they are last one standing, just to show how long they can survive.

RandomUser123

We need to stop fighting among ourselves and band together against the real enemy:
Sorinne Gaerard.

SilverBride

Loud and flashy things, such as the horrible trumpetsolo emote.

I hate cutesy things and the flower petals and wreath especially irritate me.

Jimbru

I don't have many triggers in this game, but the ones I do have are big ones.

- Fake tanks and fake healers in dungeons.
- Being ganked repeatedly in IC when I just want to do a BLEEPing daily. Seriously, IC is the most toxic, un-fun place in the entire game, and that's why it's always nearly empty outside of events. Just make it a group PVE zone like Craglorn already.

That said, it can fun when other people take the game and/or themselves way too seriously. For example, one day in Cyrodiil zone chat...

Serious PVP Man: "All these lazy PVE players not helping blah blah blah"
Me fishing for the achievement: "Shhhh, you're scaring the fish."
Serious PVP Man: "REEEEEEEEEE"

Necrotech_Master

the biggest things for me:

• people who dont fully loot chests/nodes
• speedsters in dungeons (though really anyone not being a team player in the dungeon)
• fishing doesnt have an option to automatically reel in
• leads in treasure maps

Arizona_Steve

Things I dislike intensely (I won't use the word "trigger"):

Winged twilight sorc pets. Those flapping monstrosities are the reason I ditched my Necropotence gear and went with a more conventional lightning sorc set-up. I play in first person and the constant flapping in my field of view when talking to NPCs drove me nuts.

Over aggressive quest NPCs. There are some wayshrines I will not use (High Isle, I'm looking at you) as the quest NPCs near them are so obnoxious. Mr NPC, it's not the end of the world, you'll still be there begging and hollering when I pass by again in six months' time. Whatever you may want... it's not that urgent!

fizzylu

Saw some weird comments about the word "trigger" so I'm here to simply say:

The sorcerers twilight matriarch is a trigger for my misophonia. The SFX for bound armor is also very jarring and my ears don't like it either, but it's not as bad as the constant flapping of twilight matriarchs.... just kind of makes me cringe for a second when it goes off.

The bright flashing on the scrying screen, that someone also mentioned above, hurts my eyes. I am very light sensitive so I have to close them when I start scrying. If not, I go blind for a second and it can trigger a migraine if it happens one too many times. And my game is already set below the recommended brightness setting, haha.

And not really a trigger for anything, but to agree with someone above; I also dislike that weapons disappear with animations and I usually avoid using classes that are riddled with "disappearing weapon skills". It even bothers me that only the weapon on our active bar is shown equipped, to the point that I usually avoid using two different types of weapons. Waiting for the day they finally make both weapons show, but also doubt Zenimax will ever do that since they're.... well, Zenimax.

Dokolus

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Two things that irritate me are (1) long loading screens when changing zones and (2) targeting issues when trying to interact with something or someone.

The loading screen times don't usually annoy me, but they do push my buttons if I'm trying to finish doing something within a certain period of time, such as before a daily/weekly reset or before the server goes down for maintenance.

As for the targeting issues when trying to interact with things, I'm speaking of situations such as trying to interact with one of my assistants but ending up interacting with some bulletin board or NPC instead, when I'm directly facing my assistant and standing close to them whereas the bulletin board or NPC is further away and off to the side or even behind me. I feel like the way it used to work was fine, but then a lot of players complained and ZOS tried to "fix" it by messing around with priorities. Proximity to things and one's line of sight now seem to have less importance than what something is, such that standing in front of my assistant and being in their face has less importance than being vaguely in the vicinity of some interactable object or NPC which is way the heck over there (waves to the side and slightly behind).

That, and I'd like to add when you go to talk to an NPC, but they turn around at the last moment, yet you're talking to them as if they were facing you the whole time. Then after the convo ends, the camera goes straight back to them moving in the direction they were already headed before you clicked E on them, that will always get me.

Also I really don't like those types of quest giving NPC's that straight up scream and follow you around certain areas (ESO is so far the only MMO I know that has something so repetitive and yet obnoxious as that).

Sheezabeast

One complete facepalm in the game for me is the fact that you have to log in to set yourself to Offline mode. People can still message you in Do Not Disturb mode, so it's completely moot. Having to go online to go offline triggers that part of my brain that hates redundancy and things that should make sense but don't.

Adaarye

Non aggressive pixel representations of real life animals (bunnies squirrels foxes pigs goats etc) are not immune from attack.

Multiply the trigger x10 because of the sounds the pixel creatures make when they "die".