This poll is pretty poor and only reinforces your opinion, which I totally disagree with.

I'm a pretty casual player I'd say. I've been playing since Beta and early access and my main/first char just got to VR1 last week. He's pretty much my go to standard character for any mmo, you're typical stealth high crit dual wielding rogue type.

Originally I was running him full stamina, but by about lv 20 I found this would not work out so well. Ultimately he's split 50/50 on magicka and stamina. In theory he would be what most people consider the most broken combination in ESO.

Even so, I haven't ran into anything I wasn't able to handle. There were challenging bosses and easy bosses. The level pacing seemed rough (I was almost always under level all the way to VR1, even going into VR1 zone at 49).

I wouldn't say any of them were game stoppers though. Sometimes I had to level a bit more and come back to try it again, sometimes had to craft better armor/weapons. Yes I know you specified self found. I also rarely used potions/food/drink which could make up the difference between crafted and found armor I imagine.

I also understand everyone's expertise and such are different and what one person finds difficult another might find easy and visa-versa. the solo boss battle is odd among the MMO world. I think FFXIV is the only other I've seen to have bosses you couldn't bring someone with you.

It would also be helpful if the NPC allies did some decent damage instead of just being inefficient meat shields though

Pyatra wrote: »

I think the options are skewed.

There is no:

• Casual and fights are easy
• Hardcore and fights are challenging
• Bad poll is bad.

Pretty much, might as well made a poll, "What's your favorite color?" then give green and red as the only options

I voted I'm casual because I'm not what I have witnessed some people in various guilds over the years to be when it comes to being hardcore.

But I'm not sure I'm really that casual either. I like a good challenge, I love hard (not impossible) content, I love raiding.

But I also love crafting, mooching around site seeing, really wish ESO had housing.

When a game releases new content, I prefer going into raids etc blind and learning from our mistakes, and only googling if we get completely stuck after a few hrs of trying. When the raid wipes, I prefer being in a guild that laugh, jokingly mocks whoever caused it, and retries. Does that make me casual?

What I hate is when a new raid is released, the guild is instructed to read up on exactly where to stand etc before we've even been through the door, and where if someone makes a mistake, the raid leader moans and makes us feel like we're getting told off by teacher (and judging by ingame tells, I'm not the only one who feels this way). And being instructed on what to wear and equip down to the last detail. That is what I call hardcore.

I do appreciate that for example a raid doesn't want to continually wipe because a new member comes along and hasn't got decent equipment and hasn't a clue how a raid that's been run for 3 months works. But that's not quite the same thing.

On the other hand, I count casual as the sort of person that loves Lotro in it's current stare, not from the point of roleplaying, not because they are in to Tolkien, but because they think the games fun and challenging, when you can level from 1 to endgame repeatedly pressing one button and never ever using a moral pot.

So really I don't 'count myself as either.

The forced solo main quest is the one that really, really needs to be changed. I don't care as much about FG, or MG but would like those to change as well.

No middle ground options.

Like I'm a enthusiastic gamer, not hardcore nor casual, and the single player battles are annoying as I would like the option of grouping, but aren't gamebreaking.

That's what I would have chosen.

Game stopper? No. But I still say that MMOs nowadays are just spoon feeding terrible players.

@Ojustaboo‌ My situation/opinion exactly.

I don't know if I'd be considered casual or hardcore. In terms of time played, probably hardcore. In terms of content completed, probably casual. Haven't reached max level or done anything in Craglorn or trials yet.

I have no problem with there being some solo only quests (WoW is my only mmo experience, but I recall at least several parts quests for legendary items being solo only and that seemed reasonable), and it sort of makes sense that the main quest is solo since it focuses heavily on your character and their specialness. But I dislike the guild quests being solo only. A guild is a community and it stands to reason that its members should be banding together to defeat enemies. And for the quests out in the world that have bosses that are solo only, I would be willing to sacrifice some immersion for the ability to help people who are stuck on them.

n/t

the only boss fights I found to be difficult were a couple of vr bosses, and only because they ate my face if I didn't kite them for 99% of the fight.

I'm not a hardcore player, and most often I run with builds that are counter intuitive with weird synergies that match my jerk-like combat style.

all that being said, I can see the really casual gamers being absolutely frustrated by a few of the boss encounters, especially the ones that kill you a bunch before you find a strategy.

@RatsnevE: You realize you didn't really need to vote, right? Your sentiments are coming through quite clearly from the thread title.

Can I have an option for: "This is a game and there are no rules that have to followed when making a game."?

Edit: Except, of course, labor laws and other government instituted requirements.

n/t

floweringmind wrote: »

This poll is pretty poor and only reinforces your opinion, which I totally disagree with.

^^^This^^^