Do you find this game to be challenging enough?

Chryos

A poll to determine if you think this game is easy or hard in terms of overall difficulty. Do you feel a sense of accomplishment from a good challenge or does it feel like your having everything handed to you on a silver platter? Do not take into account bugs or balance issues in PvP. This is more of a PvE question.

Chryos

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

I voted middle off the road, because I love clawing my way to the top to feel like I truly acheived gaming greatness. Thats just me tho, I crazy like that.

rioinsigniab16_ESO

This game is both challenging and rewarding on all levels.

Sorry to say, but this poll is pointless because the concept of difficulty in an MMO can depend a lot on various factors that do not apply to everyone.

For instance, a Sorcerer may find it hard, whereas a melee class doesn't. Or vice versa.

michaelpatrickjonesnub18_ESO

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

Too easy. Console game. No depth.

I have zero fighting skills. All crafting skills. Did all content, alone. Only grouped for the 4-man dungeons.

Poorly designed game. Too many bots and other players running around.

Less people and less bots would make it more challenging. But if I picked one fighting skill right now, It would instantly feel like god-mode.

It's good practice, though. Playing the game with no skills. You get good at surviving tough fights. If the lag doesn't kill you first.

reggielee

This game is both challenging and rewarding on all levels.

depends on the class you play whether the pve content is challenging or not. as a templar healer i find it challenging in some areas where my dk soars thru, but generally on landscape mobs it easy going. boss and dungeons fights can be a pita solo

ZiRM

No, just frustrating at certain points but that isn't a choice OP.

Nox_Aeterna

You lack the option i would like.

"The game is poorly balanced , and goes from really easy , to insane , from time to time."

Most mobs are not a problem , tons of bosses , are not a problem. All this i would consider from easy to normal even on VR.

Now , in the middle of those "normal" mobs , they add completely broken enemies , that are clearly OP , and those destroy you.

My opinion is , something things need to become stronger , and some weaker. The problem is not just one sided.

Terminus

It's difficult but only when you get to the end game. The rest is easy.

I learned a lot from playing during the Beta sessions,
so I was relatively experienced with combat mechanics when it launched.

I was able to get to VR1 during the first week,
And it gets significantly more difficult after that point.

Which is a good thing!
Nice poll question.

Tatuaje

Missing poll choice: Not hard at all.

elvigy01

This game is both challenging and rewarding on all levels.

IMHO, it's kind of all over the place. Some quests are just faceroll easy. Then you hit a Harvester and scream at your monitor for 20 minutes. Overall I'm loving it. But there are times....

stungateb14_ESO

I hope you're not a professional pollster.

MasterSpatula

Didn't vote; answers are all inaccurate. Some content is just right, some is stupidly easy, some is ludicrously hard.

Sometime there's a boss that's been built up and built up and built up, and you're expecting to have to pull out all the stops, only to nearly 1-hit the thing. Other times you'll go wander right into something that obliterates you in no time flat--or you'll fight a spawn of 7 mobs that respawn on you in the time it takes you to loot the first spawn (Forgotten Crypts, I'm looking at you!).

You can't really say the game is too easy or too hard. What it is is unbalanced and buggy.

Malediktus

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

Way too easy, at least the non veteran content. Everything was doable on first or second try till now (I am lvl 41 atm). Got mage guild and warrior guild finished at 37/38 (suggested lvl 43), all dungeons on first try with uncoordinated group finder groups (when they didnt bug out of course).
I heared even veteran group content is easily soloable for some builds.
They should make everything like 3 steps harder instead of nerfing it (see v1.1 patchnotes)

Chryos

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

stungateb14_ESO wrote: »

I hope you're not a professional pollster.

I am barely smart enough to play this game, let alone be a professional anything!

Chryos

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

Some of ya'll non answer'ers are reading too much into the answers. Don't over analyze it, it's just a question, not a trick.

I lean more on the side where for the most part, I like a wee little more challenge. Seems like so far, a good amount of people are finding it just right, which is perfectly 'k with me.

Chryos

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

@MasterSpatula Doshia cleaned my clock a dozen times before I decided to come back later, she was pretty difficult, until I figured out her shennanigans.

Chryos

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

rioinsigniab16_ESO wrote: »

Sorry to say, but this poll is pointless because the concept of difficulty in an MMO can depend a lot on various factors that do not apply to everyone.

For instance, a Sorcerer may find it hard, whereas a melee class doesn't. Or vice versa.

I'm not here to make some profound point. It's a poll, you can make a poll, I made a poll, why make it more than that?

I will however give reactions based on your answers, so maybe it isnt pointless?

MasterSpatula

Chryos wrote: »

@MasterSpatula Doshia cleaned my clock a dozen times before I decided to come back later, she was pretty difficult, until I figured out her shennanigans.

When I talked about balance issues, I wasn't meaning the bosses like Doshia with a "trick." I was meaning more like Merdyndril, a level 18 solo-instance boss that gives some people trouble at level 22. High-health, high-damage, can't be rooted, can't be snared, can't be stunned, has an add. No trick (unless you count "interrupt his special attack" or "stay out of the circle" as a trick) to learn, you just need higher dps and health than a level 18 is going to have.

On the other hand, there are some big bad bosses out there that you can stun with Silver Bolts, damage until they get up, stun again, etc. to kill without taking a point of damage yourself.

Unbalanced.

OmegaCorruption

It's difficult but only when you get to the end game. The rest is easy.

As a full blown temp healer spec with sword and Board as my questing skill line, The 1-50 was not hard, but going into VR content I get destroyed like no tomorrow. I cannot solo anything without Vamp Swarm up. I cannot dps without running out of both Stam and magicka. My weapon AA is so ***. I dont get this game if it has options to spec everything and still get destroyed.

Chryos

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

I do ok now, but my skills are all over the place, I know when I reach VR I'll have to respec and tighten up some.

Falmer

Didn't vote as none of those options feels quite right.

This is part of the problem of an MMO. You can't exactly set it to certain difficulty levels based on players skill and interaction levels. How do you set difficulty with such a wide range of player skill levels?

There is no good answer unless they would actually allow players to choose a difficulty level of the instance when entering a dungeon. Even that opens up a whole lot of other issues.

Personally, I would have been happier if they made a lot more instancing. People could choose to tackle a dungeon solo without a ton of other players killing everything around them. If people wanted to actually group to take on an instance, that option would still be open to them. Much of the game doesn't seem challenging, only because there are always 10 other people (or bots) around killing those things that are supposed to be challenging fights. All the 'boss' characters never live longer than 2.3 seconds.

Chryos

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

@Falmer Yeah, so much fine tuning to be done, and the wide variety of people playing must be maddening trying to figure out how to appease the masses. Alot of passion for this game, so thats a good sign right?

Ezrith

Theres no sense of accomplishment in todays games, they cater to the instant gratification crowd now.

I would appreciate more skill based content to up the difficulty, but ESO concept usually kills it. When a boss would be tough you usually have lots of players running around killing it in 2-3 sec. So besides dungeons which feels ok, the rest is easy if you are using the appropriate abilities and hard if you have no clue what you are doing and stand in fire eh. Heck I see players running naked, killing stuff trying to find a challenge!
Along with the wayshrine every 20 steps and quests completed in less then 10 min, hard to find accomplishment in this game. Don't get me wrong I still love it but unfortunately it's cathering too much to the modern feed me with a spoon player type.