Why so much hate on VR?

Kalfis · March 2015

b_archaonpreeb18_ESO wrote: »

People hate VR levels so much because they feel the need to cry about something.

There is this amazingly flawed philosophy in mmo circles that pushes players to reach max level as fast as possible, all the while skipping dialogue, rushing from point A to point B without even thinking and perhaps collecting bear butts along the way.

Of course some mmos justify this approach.Their story is bland and their creators only bother to put effort in the endgame content, making the levelling experience a 'grind'. ESO is NOT one of those mmos.

Most of the quests are interesting, in the spirit of the Elder Scrolls series. The world is finely crafted and the NPCs fully voiced.Yet there are still many that play it like a WoW clone: They rush through content like zombies in desperate need of brains, complain it takes too much, because heaven forbid that a game lasts more than 10 hours these days, then complain there is little endgame, afer rushing through the rest of it.

The VR levels were put there as further character progression after lvl 50. Cadwell's silver and gold were explained as an elaborate and controlled Dragon Break, not that most endgame zombies would care about anything than grind-grind-grind. Faction loyalty means little in the story's grander scheme, but most of those who complain don't even know what that 'story' thing is all about.

Also keep in mind that VR levels only really block you from doing Trials. The vet dungeons scale to your level.

Personally, I've enjoyed the veteran levels. The enemies are more challenging and you rarely outlevel content, like it often happens in lvls 1-50. Storywise, you are time-travelling around Tamriel and removing Molag Bals' infuence bit by bit retroactively, which is how you won against him in the first place.

tl;dr: VR levels are fine. People are in a hurry to finish, so that they can complain about how ESO is a WoW clone, while it's not.

Yes, yes. A thousand times yes. This man cannot be more correct.

LonePirate · March 2015

If ZOS were to lower VR Level XP requirements from 1M per level to 400K per level and allow Enlightenment to impact VR levelling, the complaints about the VR level grind would cease to the point where future complaints could be ignored.

Once new content is released, players will have options besides the Silver and Gold zones in which to level their characters so the faction loyalty and similar complaints can be ignored.

I hope ZOS has realized this and has decided their limited development time would be better spent on other things besides removing veteran ranks.

WillhelmBlack · March 2015

I just hit VR14! Don't take it away from meeee!

I'm fairly casual (3 nights a week) been playing since beta and I'm half way through Cadwell's silver. I levelled through PvP, so I never got bored (Cyrodiil XP has been fixed now as well). It was better than doing AD quests though haha.

technohic · March 2015

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

I just hit VR14! Don't take it away from meeee!

I'm fairly casual (3 nights a week) been playing since beta and I'm half way through Cadwell's silver. I levelled through PvP, so I never got bored (Cyrodiil XP has been fixed now as well). It was better than doing AD quests though haha.

Another thing that would make it not so bad in my view; make it to where battle leveling in Cyrodiil affects VR levels 1-11. Then I would give no ***.

Snit · March 2015

The concept is fine. I like it. I even like running through the other factions' content. I paid for all that content, and I'd like to see every bit of it.

The issue is that it's a much longer journey than most expect. People think of 50 as the level cap, but it's not. Add to that ZOS's curious decision to systematically nerf any area where people earn reasonable exp by killing monsters. ZOS has spent too much time worrying about what bots and exploiters can accomplish, and too little time looking at how their actions impact the median player.