I would like to see the problem with phasing in groups addressed, it was promised 4 patches ago and nothing has been done about it yet and no news has been published about how far a long the fix is either....... I still cant play with my friends without only playing with my friend when they are online and being very disciplined and not doing quests ahead of them. Its very frustrating still.

drakevalianceub17_ESO wrote: »

yes for now if you want to quest with friends you have to have a separate character dedicated to playing with that person so you can make sure you are on the same stage of the same quests.

This is exactly correct, and annoying as hell.
The phasing issue has been posted about since back the beta.
Still no fix.
Still no ETA on a fix
... and No, ZOS, "we are working on it" doesn't cut it anymore.

Currently, it seems that ZOS simply doesn't care about the lack of group play ... In this MMO. <facepalm>
To top it off: "let's release a content expansion that *requires* grouping!" (Read as: "let's highlight ALL of the grouping issues and failures ... All in one go, shall we?")

The lack of forethought running rampant in the design of ESO is simply staggering.

I want ESO to succeed, and the game has serious potential, but these continued failures in basic design are making it Very hard to continue to support the game.

Logan9a wrote: »

irre_greg wrote: »

Curious about dungeons leveling to the group leader. Does this mean we could actually replay (grind) in dungeons and actually get loot and experience? Or does it simply mean that dungeons will auto level to the leader and that you can still only go through it once for rewards?

You might want to consider having the dungeons auto level to the highest leveled player in the group as opposed to the group leader.

As a side note, I've always disagreed with the concept of being over leveled. Lower level monsters give lower level loot and experience. That's the check and balance. 5 levels is too small a spread. How about over leveled if 20 levels above current creature?

There was some MMO I played (don't remember which) that had 'mentoring'. You could set your level down and thus be able to adventure with your buddies. It scaled you back though you were a fairly powerful lower level guy. In MMO's it is important to be able to adventure with your buddies and that is one of the weaknesses of this game. If you've already completed a quest and brought peace to the area, you are not even able to see the monsters and help your buddy on the quest.

Rather than scaling up the dungeons, I'd rather be able to scale down my character.

gw2 came out with a system that automatically set you to the same level as any zone you were wandering in. this worked marvelously for people to be able to play with friends who may've been new to the game, and so on. rift, after gw2 launched, offered the ability to "mentor" by choosing to set your level to the same level as wherever you were. this was done so those who require the "op" feel of being 50 levels above content could maintain it, and those who wished to quest with friends, etc, could do so.

well nice.. in vr my dragonnight has a survivability next to zero.. and one thing wich should be fixed is that ultra laggy slow and tar like gameplay... if i sometimes have 1 second freeze in a ifght or im not able to switch weapons because its so laggy... than anything esle is cosmetic.. its like making some nice flashy new colors on a bucket of lard.. still lard ... i quit my subscription.. next one or check back in a year

Are all features that bring huge success for a game related to huge programming efforts and hardware requirements? I don't thinks so. ESO has great graphics and is huge, still it is only 'borderline addictive'. One contributing factor is the fact that it is always the same: You walk around, do quests, walk around, kill, walk around, do quest, do dungeon, do another dungeon.... In order to keep the game exiting something has to change. If you have played a few levels you basically know everything that may happen: It's another dungeon, It's another quest, It's another group dungeon.... boring.
My suggestion is to have more variation of what can happen:
- Light (a simple thing) make dungeons/forests where you cannot see anything without a torch.
- Implement deadly NPCs in a lower level zone that cannot be defeated but have to be evaded.
- Make stuff that happens only at night. Make areas to avoid at night.
- Vary the scales of dungeons from: takes 3 minutes to cross to takes hours to get lost in.
- Terrain: Go deeper, Go higher. Make dungeons that take 5 minutes to descent to - Make mountains that take long to climb but give a great view.
- What if certain spells don't work in certain areas?
- Vary the city size go smaller and go way larger.
- Make zones that are rich in loot and material but have a risk of loosing the gear that you are wearing! (an incentive for grouping? or risk it and go alone so that you get more loot)
- Make areas that can only be accessed with certain gear.. maybe because it is to cold or to hot there.
- Make content aside from quests and make the content so that it is not confined to a certain leveling area but rather the whole world!!
What I mean is .... stop people from mindlessly grinding the map to level up. Keep them excited! And make them feel they are in a world and not only in separate leveling areas). I want to have conversations in the chat window like that: "A: I just almost spend an hour trying to escape that stupid Dunmer cave. B: why? A: My torch went out.. did not know that could happen...took me forever to get out without light. B: Get the "Eterna-Light" from Sir Skuller. A: Where?. B: Get into the eastern tavern in Windhelm, talk to the sleeping guy first floor. He will tell you where to find a map in Riften. Go there pick up the map, it will tell you the location of the "Eterna Light" in the Eternal Swamp. A: I can't go there, my level is to low for the bats. B: Either level up, or wear the Ring of Doom (needs to be on left hand) it will keep the bats from attacking but stay on the path. B: That is so cool... thanks.

A feature to not see friends logging on/off would be great. #easy2please

I certainly hope those coming plans and hard to get gear include something in the crafting system. I mean if you have to spent 51 real days per item to get 8 traits then the sets need to be on par with some of the better dropped sets now. As it sits right now it is hard to sell anything crafted for more than 10% mark up over materials.

I just have one Question, are their any Dev's who play a weapon based stamina build dps (no skirts or staff) and if so what is their take on the current state of the problems that build is facing.

Don't know if its been mentioned...too many pages to read atm. I would love to see some indication when the rest of Tamriel will be filled out.... and whether or not any new areas will be
1) available to all levels of the neighboring factions, or will they be level restricted
2) whether any new fill in areas will be PvE or PvP.