Being a solo player has always been more appealing to me than joining a group so I'd also prefer to have more solo-able content to come out but at the same time I have no problem with anyone who enjoys grouping.

Same here. I'm a solo player the majority of the time and prefer groups of 4 or so at the most. I've only done AA once and it was fun but I'm not one for all the preparation and waiting for a group to get its crap together.

Circuitous wrote: »

Vvardenfell's a Tribunal nature preserve atm, exceedingly unlikely they'd open it up for exploration. There aren't even any towns on it.

Oh right Update 4. Dear solo players: you've already got the entire game. Nothin' wrong with more group content.

Totaly agree. I imagine they will bend the lore more to have the entire Tamriel usable for this MMO rather than having so much of it blank.

Mzuleft wrote: »

Circuitous wrote: »

Vvardenfell's a Tribunal nature preserve atm, exceedingly unlikely they'd open it up for exploration. There aren't even any towns on it.

Oh right Update 4. Dear solo players: you've already got the entire game. Nothin' wrong with more group content.

Totaly agree. I imagine they will bend the lore more to have the entire Tamriel usable for this MMO rather than having so much of it blank.

Right? There are a ton of places we've never gotten to see yet that would be way more interesting than Vvardenfell atm.

Logan9a wrote: »

I thought "meh".

Seconded. But not so much because of the sort of content that's shown, but for the making of it. It really looks like there wasn't put much thought and effort behind it. It's looks like someone said:

"Hey, lets just have a couple of random, disconnected tracking shots put one after another, to show off some sights. And then let's repeat that, until the specified time is met."

No story, no dramaturgy, no nothing. Just a tick-off list of features.

Ok, maybe I'm spoiled by the way the 800 pound gorilla in the room does it. But let's not forget that after all, it took them some time to get their bearings on style and presentation, and hone their composition skills, too.

Let's just say that ZOS has wiggling room for improvement, which in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The biggest issue with Trials and Dungeons is always that you must be interested in it and that you must find others who are interested in you. It may sound simple but in reality this breaks the neck of so many MMOs lately.

First of all do players not meet anyone until max level but they also don't learn about group mechanics, CC, how to heal or tank - as its all about DPS. At max level however they must know all this before entering a raid or dungeon which leads to the big problem number two, the community.

Most people that do trials or dungeons expect that you have a long MMO history, that you theory craft and min max your char. They don't accept that you are not like them and this leads to abuse & harassment in many groups.

It is fully understandable that players are afraid of this and therefore not interested in this type of content.

A solution to this was the VR zone, you didn't had to invite someone nor did you have to "attune" yourself to a raid leader but still could explore the MMO world with others.

Right now ZO doesn't do its gamers a big favor by releasing another update that many wont touch, its not about solo or group its all about accessibility it always was.

These "trials" should be moved into an open world zone and then everyone could fight these encounters just like it worked in the old VR zones or with the Anchors now.

World bosses that scale to the players around them, bosses that occur from time to time. That whole instance design worked 10 years ago, today it doesn't anymore thanks to Elitism.