Main Story Quest Scaling, Yes or No?

MornaBaine · December 2014

So how have you all been enjoying ZOS's decision to scale the Main Story (Harborage) quests?

AshySamurai · December 2014

There is no option I don't care.

And why so many people frustrated about this decision?

SFBryan18 · December 2014

All quests should scale, or at least have the option.

Gyudan · December 2014

I agree with the "I don't care either way." option. I've done the main quest before and after scaling, and it didn't make much of a difference, especially now that most fights have become easier.

Ashtaris · December 2014

The reason I voted "Optional" is that I believe people should have a choice. Certainly those who prefer a challenge would want to have it scaled to their level. However, there are some who didn't grow up since birth with a keyboard in their lap, or might have some disability that prevents them from continuing the main story and may have to overlevel to be able to complete it. Why prevent them from enjoying the game?

MornaBaine · December 2014

I enjoyed doing the quests at level on my FIRST character. But on my alts I just really want to speed through them and get them over with. They're just too time consuming and now that I know what happens the drama is lost on me and I could really care less. So I merely find them irritating now.

danno8 · December 2014

Like others in this thread, I guess I don't care?

I blew through them pre-scaling and blew through them just as easily post-scaling. Maybe I got better rewards post-scaling, not really sure.

Samadhi · December 2014

Don't care about the quests scaling themselves, but love that the quest rewards scale.

Rezzy64 · December 2014

I'm not upset or happy about the scaling of the main story quest line. I do think there is a benefit to the Main Story line quests being scaled to your level. I found some of the quests challenging and others are way easy.
For a short amount of time I was having trouble with one particular boss fight in the Main Story Quest, and it took me a few tries to finally beat it. I mentioned to my sister about how the boss provided a challenge but I was eventually able to overcome it. My sister then told me something that I agreed wholeheartedly with, she explained to me that she thought the quest scaling was a good thing because it helps provide a decent challenge that is level appropriate to your character that tests your character's survivability and battle utility before getting involved with much more complicated challenges. A smooth run on a scaled solo quest with a few minor bosses provides just enough of a challenge/test to prove decent survivability in future quests or delves.

When ever I fail or die in a scaled quest, it gives me the opportunity to stop and ask myself, "What am I doing wrong with this character?"
Then I can improve my battle plan and also have a future battle plan when fighting bosses similar to the one that was scaled in the quest.

Draxys · December 2014

I would like the option to turn it off so my alts can breeze through them. Tired of having done all game content on my first character and them seemingly forcing players into questing and/or doing things their way.

Ad.Absurdum · December 2014

MornaBaine wrote: »

I enjoyed doing the quests at level on my FIRST character. But on my alts I just really want to speed through them and get them over with. They're just too time consuming and now that I know what happens the drama is lost on me and I could really care less. So I merely find them irritating now.

Rosveen · December 2014

Options are good, no?

Draxys wrote: »

I would like the option to turn it off so my alts can breeze through them. Tired of having done all game content on my first character and them seemingly forcing players into questing and/or doing things their way.

Basically. I don't mind levelling up alts, but I wish I could do it my own way and not be forced to go through this boring questline time and time again.

Lord_Kreegan · December 2014

I have no problem with the main storyline quests scaling because you never receive notification of those quests before you are on level; that is, the Prophet tells you to show up only after you hit the appropriate level gate.

HOWEVER, for Fighters' Guild and Mages' Guild quests, you can receive the quest at an inappropriate level. An NPC will run up to you and say, "So and so wants to see you right away! Drop everything and go to some location you've never been to yet..."

In your quest log, the Guild quest will indicate that the quest is at whatever your current level happens to be. PROBLEM: With scaling, quests have a minimum level, so -- since you can receive a Guild quest early -- and won't know that you're too low of a level to perform it since the quest log will indicate it's at your level, you can end up doing a Guild quest when you're way too low a level.

I ended up doing a Fighters' Guild quest that way when I WAS SIX LEVELS BELOW THE MOBS IN THE INSTANCES, to include the bosses. Needless to say, I was pissed... especially when the first quest chained right away to a follow-on quest. My character died a lot, especially fighting THREE BOSSES in those instances who were six levels higher than the character.

Very poor design on ZOS' part... the quest level in the GUI should NEVER indicate a lower level than the minimum level for the quest.

So long as the main storyline quests never suffer from the same oversight, I have no problem with their scaling. I don't mind my characters dying when they have a reasonable chance of beating the opponents; I just despise being put into impossible situations.

Zorgon_The_Revenged · December 2014

To be honest, it feels so nerfed.............meh. Still love the story and the new facial animations are great, but some of the hard challenging content has become so easy it's taken all the fun out of the fights.

Blkadr · December 2014

I had to overlevel Mannimarco about 10 levels to beat him, and then I had to teach my archer sword skills also just for him, so yeah, I wasn't too happy about the forced scaling. By that time all 5 of my peeps had beat him though so it didn't affect me. But it really would have made the game impossible just because of him being so OP for me.

RDMyers65b14_ESO · December 2014

Lord_Kreegan wrote: »

I have no problem with the main storyline quests scaling because you never receive notification of those quests before you are on level; that is, the Prophet tells you to show up only after you hit the appropriate level gate.

HOWEVER, for Fighters' Guild and Mages' Guild quests, you can receive the quest at an inappropriate level. An NPC will run up to you and say, "So and so wants to see you right away! Drop everything and go to some location you've never been to yet..."

In your quest log, the Guild quest will indicate that the quest is at whatever your current level happens to be. PROBLEM: With scaling, quests have a minimum level, so -- since you can receive a Guild quest early -- and won't know that you're too low of a level to perform it since the quest log will indicate it's at your level, you can end up doing a Guild quest when you're way too low a level.

I ended up doing a Fighters' Guild quest that way when I WAS SIX LEVELS BELOW THE MOBS IN THE INSTANCES, to include the bosses. Needless to say, I was pissed... especially when the first quest chained right away to a follow-on quest. My character died a lot, especially fighting THREE BOSSES in those instances who were six levels higher than the character.

Very poor design on ZOS' part... the quest level in the GUI should NEVER indicate a lower level than the minimum level for the quest.

So long as the main storyline quests never suffer from the same oversight, I have no problem with their scaling. I don't mind my characters dying when they have a reasonable chance of beating the opponents; I just despise being put into impossible situations.

It does indicate that a quest is over your level by the color. With that said, I will note that my Sorc hit level 27 from the XP of finishing the mages guild quest line which was before 1.5 dropped. It is a level 43 quest. My templar had to be V1 to finish the same quest.

MornaBaine · December 2014

RDMyers65b14_ESO wrote: »

Lord_Kreegan wrote: »

I have no problem with the main storyline quests scaling because you never receive notification of those quests before you are on level; that is, the Prophet tells you to show up only after you hit the appropriate level gate.

HOWEVER, for Fighters' Guild and Mages' Guild quests, you can receive the quest at an inappropriate level. An NPC will run up to you and say, "So and so wants to see you right away! Drop everything and go to some location you've never been to yet..."

In your quest log, the Guild quest will indicate that the quest is at whatever your current level happens to be. PROBLEM: With scaling, quests have a minimum level, so -- since you can receive a Guild quest early -- and won't know that you're too low of a level to perform it since the quest log will indicate it's at your level, you can end up doing a Guild quest when you're way too low a level.

I ended up doing a Fighters' Guild quest that way when I WAS SIX LEVELS BELOW THE MOBS IN THE INSTANCES, to include the bosses. Needless to say, I was pissed... especially when the first quest chained right away to a follow-on quest. My character died a lot, especially fighting THREE BOSSES in those instances who were six levels higher than the character.

Very poor design on ZOS' part... the quest level in the GUI should NEVER indicate a lower level than the minimum level for the quest.

So long as the main storyline quests never suffer from the same oversight, I have no problem with their scaling. I don't mind my characters dying when they have a reasonable chance of beating the opponents; I just despise being put into impossible situations.

It does indicate that a quest is over your level by the color. With that said, I will note that my Sorc hit level 27 from the XP of finishing the mages guild quest line which was before 1.5 dropped. It is a level 43 quest. My templar had to be V1 to finish the same quest.

I've frankly been avoiding doing the damn things on my alts....which is going to reallllly suck when I finally break down and tackle them. I just was NOT impressed enough by the story of the Main Story questline to suffer through it all AGAIN.

Belrim · April 2015

Good change. Difficulty could be much higher, as it used to be around when game was released, now things tend to be faceroll in the storyline+guild quests.

MercyKilling · April 2015

Prior to scaling, I had to outlevel every solo only quest in order to complete it.

Since scaling, I have left off every solo only quest line, including the main quest.

Way to lock out content, Zenimax.

Chuggernaut · April 2015

I love that the main story + fighters/mage guild scale to your level, so much better than the old system. My only regret is my main completed them before the scaling change.

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