I am in the rift as well. The trash mobs I can handle it is the bosses that seem to really suck. the worst are single instance as well. I gave up on my main story line quest when I got to a point where there was a boss who spawned to adds after I killed the two adds. So I go on my merry way questing and come to a Khajit village. Not to spoil but there is one point where it spawns trash mobs of 2 then 3, then 2 then3 then 3 ---I mean group after group...all archers and duals..I felt like i was in a group dungeon. I would do dolmen and world bosses but try and find more than 3 people in a vr zone to do that with..

Yankee wrote: »

ZOS does not appear to be concerned though. Must be their subscription base overall is not dropping as fast as our guild members are bailing from this game.

The thing is when you unsubscribe there is no option to give feedback. In other MMOs that I have played you get to fill out a box stating your reasons for leaving. Perhaps having something like that would help ZOS understand why some people are unhappy with the game's current state.

Seems legit.

Homm wrote: »

Seems legit.

ye getting one shotted by puke... if thats working as intended the devs need to be one shot to the job centre and told to find another career imo

Taking mudcrabs, skeevers and spiders and scaling them up to be more powerful than your highly experienced character was indeed a stupid move. Story-wise, I feel like my AD character had better report back home to the Queen, saying that we should simply surrender immediately. Those beetles in Stonefalls rip me to shreds in seconds, yet the locals seem undaunted and go about farming their fields nearby wearing only shirt and pants. And if the city guards have any chance at all dealing with the local wildlife and those super powerful bandits I see roaming the land, then we should have simply sent a pack of those guards to Coldharbour to rip Molag Bal to shreds with their bare hands.

I can get through the fights, if only barely and with many failed attempts. It's just that the entire concept is utterly stupid story-wise and makes me feel like a wimp. Where is the fun in that? I remember feeling this underpowered at the start of Morrowind where none of my sword swings even landed on the bandit I tried to fight. (I actually rage-quit that game before I had a friend tell me that I was stupid to dive straight into a random bandit cave with bad gear and no training and expect to live. After that I had hundreds of hours of fun.) The same happened when I turned up the difficulty to max in Oblivion just to see if I could handle it. In both cases I had to fear a single skeever looking my way, but that passed quickly, and after a little while I felt rewarded for learning to play and having my character pick up some skill.

Not so in ESO. There has been nothing but humiliation in PvE after I hit VR ranks, a constant struggle to survive any encounter and an endless series of deaths. It seems like it only gets worse as I progress through the VR zones, because I don't get any stronger, just ever so slightly better geared (and rapidly poorer). Every single trash mob around me seems to have superpowers. It. Just. Doesn't. Make. Sense.

For me, VR content is simply broken. Luckily, I can roll two alts to see the "VR zones" at regular levels the way they were designed, without the stupid and mindless difficulty scaling and with rewards that match the risk and actually make you feel like you are getting somewhere. So, still months of fun before I need to quit for lack of things to do. Just don't expect to see me help populate the empty VR zones. They are empty for very good reasons.

Some of this is tough when no one is around. Soul gems are your friend here.

I had an NPC sorceror proc their execute tonight at VR 8 and it killed me with 1900 damage. Mind you I only have 2200 Hitpoints, so that's ridiculous.

OFC_it wrote: »

Some of this is tough when no one is around. Soul gems are your friend here.

Any content for whom the winning tactic is 'die your way through it' is a fail as epic as Lord of The Rings.

renton1x1x1 wrote: »

it's possible that some mobs in some area's be slightly overtuned.

This is at vr 9 on one the cadwell's gold quests in greenshade. fire mage dk 5 light 2 heavy.

From an imp ?

Great balls of fire !!!

Yup, slightly overtuned

steveb16_ESO46 wrote: »

You could take the /sarcasm off and it'd pretty much pass for what some people say.

yes i put that there just so some nugget who can't detect sarcasm or irony reported me for being a troll. You are correct tho , thats more or less what folk keep saying the moment anyone speaks up about the horrible vet mode.

I like the difficulty for the most part, i've managed to solo most of the game including some world bosses. Basically the one with no adds or special mechanics just lots of dodging and blocking.

It reminds me of the secret world specifically the gatekeeper dps ( youtube it and see what i mean) it filtered out the people who would struggle at endgame PVE. If you can't get to endgame then you have no business being there in the first place.

If you want it easy and want to experience content of all the game's factions to
re-Roll and do 1-50 again. If you want to get to endgame with out questing just grind bosses in craglorn it's boring as hell but it gets you there.

A problem is that is there is no endgame to speak of - trials, veteran dungeons and pvp are there but there no reasons to repeat them once you've beat them. Sure pvp is ongoing but cyrodil is empty really - this might change with redesign of the campaign

So over to zenimax give us stuff to do:

solo player stuff, gold sinks, pvp improvements, ways for me to improvement my character, some kind of rewards for repeating dungeons and trials. Just more resons for me to log in everyday.

I've maxxed all professions with enchantiing at 40 i'm vr 9 and ill be vr12 by next week. I'm happy to work on my alts. To be honest this is the first game where i actually felt like doing that. I Like questing and missed large chunks of zone story quests the first time round so that will keep me busy.

My mum is shouting time for my hot pocket, time to crack open a window basements get a bit minging if not aired out.

Worstluck wrote: »

Mobs are still borked. Humanoid and skeleton VR mobs just spam special attacks, and do a lot more dps than many players and usually have more hp than most players.

I took my epic and legendary, op-caster spec VR12 Nightblade to finish off some quests last night in The Rift (VR10 for me). Well, I should say that at first I tried to the quests with a 2h and a bow, as 2h is 44 level and bow is at 49 (both legendary covenant weapons) and I'm trying to level them. I had a very simple escort quest, to escort some scout to a sacrifice. This quest was not possible as melee or a bow. It just wasn't. Three skeletons spawn when you get to the quest area, all spamming 350 quick strikes every second, with 800 uppercuts every 4 seconds. It's nuts.

To top it off, there are 3-4 waves of this, with the last wave containing a 20,000 hitpoint bone colossus, that also summons three adds of it's own. The amount of damage this quest puts out is just nuts. After repeated deaths, I said fine, I'll just put on my op light armor, equip my destro/resto staves and finish the quest. I finished the quest with 0 magicka and stamina, and about 1100 hp...just barely.

After all this, spending probably an hour doing this thing, I am thinking, 'wow, the quest reward must be great!''. 151 gold. Yep. 151 gold for this. I spent 500+ in repair costs easy. I don't think there is any way a green/blue geared vr9-10 would be able to do this quest by themselves. My character is pretty strong and I could barely do it.

It's really no wonder why veteran zones are mostly ghost towns during non-primetime hours. It's also no wonder why my alt has not budged from VR3 since the Craglorn patch hit.

I've been having the same problem with this stupid quest, it should be a group quest.