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Returning Player: State of the Game

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Hello!

I find myself recently missing some of the unique mechanics of ESO, and am considering a return. But before I embark on installing what I assume is now a 150GB+ game, I wanted to get some opinion from the terminally online denizens of the forum.

So, what are peoples opinions of the current state of the game, especially for someone like me?
  • Last time I played "fo reals" was in Summerset Isles. I ran a little bit of nSS and barely touched Greymoore (definitely no trails). What are the major changes, how is the community, what big things have changed in the overall landscape beyond new lands, mythics and new trails?
  • I like to homebrew all my builds, make generic builds that can pull their own in vet trails, tank+dps in random dailies, and crush in BGs. Every one of my characters (listed in my sig) where unique homebrew builds that where godly powerful in almost all content - what is build diversity like these days? There will always be cookie cutter meta builds, but is there still plenty of space for 90-95% parse builds to be far more diverse? Last I saw with CP2.0 basically everyone could be an everything build, and with the rampup of hybrid builds I rather worried every build would become bland and mostly identical, using the same spread of mechanics to all be "everything" builds.
  • I like my vet trail content but havent done it in years. Is the vet trails scene healthy? The *vast* majority of players last I played where completely ill equiped to do anything beyond craglorn - is this still the case or are more people now capable of pushing the end game?
  • As you can probably see, I have several fully geared characters across both mega servers - what are the main differences on each server atm? Is there still massive price disparities, differences in skill level?

Thanks for any input.
EU: Magden, Magknight, Stamsorc(*2), Magsorc
NA: Magplar, Magden, PotatoBlade
  • freespirit
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    The game is around 100gb on my ssd(99.5 to be exact)

    There are many well equipped players and prog groups for vet trials on PC-EU but there has been a bit of a hit in recent updates with long time endgame players not being happy with changes made.

    Your gear may no longer be bis but that is relatively easy to fix, Belkarth in Craglorn always has people trying to fill up Trials, although you may have issues as they often want said Vet Trial achievement linked, there are still guilds that can help with that though.

    Players are very much better equipped these days and prog groups will often insist on certain set ups especially when score pushing.

    You will lose nothing by jumping in and taking a look and you may get a certain amount of negativity here on forums, just remember the people here are a small minority of those who actually play! <3
    When people say to me........
    "You're going to regret that in the morning"
    I sleep until midday cos I'm a problem solver!
  • pklemming
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    There are a lot of vet trials, it just depends on where you look. Less in craglorn than there used to be, but in some guilds I am doing trials every day, and some times multiple times a day.

    I am waiting, with bated breath, for Zos to decide that their balancing was off and Arcanists do too much damage. I strongly suspect this will coincide with the drop of sales of Necrom to a certain level. I mean, it is not as though they have done this before, right. That will be a fun day on the forums.
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