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I like the rock paper scissors statement. Theoretically we can have to builds, each Bar , but since weapon swap is iffy at best, it's not viable. So we are limited to one bar that we rely on heavily, and a second one to use as a specialty bar. Neither are useful in every case because we are limited to five freakin buttons.
That's my only gripe today.

The new way MMOs are setup, is to entice you to play every night. ESO gives you hirelings, but you don't get stuff unless you log in. The more you fight in Cyrodiil, the better your reward at the end of a campaign.

This gets people burned out on the game. If you take a two week break and come back, you're now loosing out on a lot of stuff and you're not going to be competitive on the leaderboards till the next campaign.

It's a bad system.

I will wait and see how the champion system goes and the combat mechanics change.
As beautiful as the world is to explore and adventure ..even quest...I cant play much longer in a bug infested, unbalanced system that's just left to rot by the devs.

They need to focus on the here/now/real life of the game as it stands rather than the dreamy romantic future.

If they cant show they are fixing the core foundations and fundamental mechanics and even understand clearly whats required (and tell us how/what/when/why) there really is no point investing all my time in a game that's falling apart at the seams.

I hoped ESO would be that perfect game. It still can be. Theres even some hope. But its a slim hope and I am clutching at straw TBH.

Your post makes me sad , you are where I am heading and I don't want to . I found myself updating my mods for Skyrim and actually ordered DA Inquisition (something I didn't think I would do) I thought (since I'm paying) this would be my goto game .. idk .. sad though

Well, to be blunt, I'm enjoying leveling up (still). That's why I have 3 alts. I'm not sure what the end game holds for me here but as long as I'm having fun leveling I'm happy. I'll worry about end game when leveling gets old for me. Then we'll see what happens - either I'll enjoy whatever end game ESO has at that time and stay or I won't and find another game. Or go back to WoW.

@OP I am in the same boat. Well said man.

I burned out a month or so ago. VR2 Nightblade on EP, VR9 Sorc in DC... No incentive for groups, felt like a single player game with a sub.
Sorry, waste of money for someone looking for an ACTUAL MMO.

In my opinion MMOs have an incredible high fluctuation rate these days which is mostly the fault of powergamers but also the gaming companies who see those as their main customers and feed them with items, achievements and statistics to lift themselves above other gamers.

Items:

This is where it all starts and ends. If you don't play for a month or two then your gear becomes worthless and since MMOs are all about gear these days, you as a player become worthless.
Long gone are the days when you had items for a whole year or even longer and they stayed competitive and respected by the community.

This mechanism puts a huge pressure on people who want to see all content when its current or better said, want to explore the MMO aspects such as grouping up for difficult encounters.

Content:

Those encounters however, get harder with every day. Not because of some buff but because of the community and their demands.

If you now don't start the content when a new patch is out, you will sooner or later run into problems of finding a group. These problems are once again based on point A, the items. Even not raiding the first ID puts you behind as the community does not tolerate slackers or better put, people who don't constantly work and improve on their char.

Char:

Your Char however can only be worked on if you play and find items so that you can replace your old. That system however isn't the only burden for the player, something else is the "achievement".
After about one or two weeks, players will demand and expect that you were in a dungeon before. I would even go as far and say some do expect that you were actually on the PTS or watched multiple videos in advance. Long gone are the days when it was ok to be new, to not know something.

Guilds

Being new while trying to join a guild seldom works out. Many guilds have such high requirements that hardly anyone actually applies and then these same guilds complain instead of fixing their high demands.
Back in the days a guild was mostly a place to come together and chat while you play. Today however most guilds are based on achievements and tasks that you accomplish together, the social aspects are seldom of any relevance to guild leaders.

Because of this many guilds serve only as a spring board, a place to be for a few weeks so that you can move on to the next, better guild.

You have to ask yourself why guilds don't change their mentality or why we players don't and eat every new update, item patch that the Devs throw at us.

In the end I think it all comes down to what we face in RL so often, people just accept things rather than trying to change them. Why go the hard way if you can go the easy one?


Personally that burn out syndrome be it in RL or VL is something that you can avoid but you will need to accept that this also means you wont be swimming with the swarm most of the times. In my case this means no more guilds or raiding in MMOs and I finally have a wonderful time at these games again where I don't have to prove anything to anyone and can log on when I want to and not when someone wants me to.