I could probably level through the solo content in my sleep.

Difficulty seems mostly ok for me. Currently, I'm running around with my level 16 NB alt in Grahtwood with decent gear and some champ points assigned. Of course normal quests are easy, yet when I feel like some challenge, there are plenty of worldbosses, public dungeons and group dungeons to do (just died while trying to solo Lady Solace due to my less than optimal healing/dodging).

The one thing that seems too easy are public dungeons and group challenges inside them. There seems to be no point of grouping for them if you more or less know what you are doing. This could use ramp up in difficulty to let us have some fun in groups.

If you don't know what your doing, then the game is harder

If you know what your doing, then the game is easier

If you know what your doing, then you can make the game as hard or as easy as you want it to be.

Well, there are probably some limits in both directions with that.

I find it just right.

UrQuan wrote: »

I can't even remember the last time I had to have help to do one of the group challenges in a public dungeon... Well, aside from not being able to actually summon the one in Alik'r without help.

Yeah, which seems a bit wasteful. These kind of encounters would be nice if they were tailored for larger groups of people (like 6+), since for now, there is nothing to do with that kind of group outside of PvP.

RakshaTheKhajiit wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

I can't even remember the last time I had to have help to do one of the group challenges in a public dungeon... Well, aside from not being able to actually summon the one in Alik'r without help.

Yeah, which seems a bit wasteful. These kind of encounters would be nice if they were tailored for larger groups of people (like 6+), since for now, there is nothing to do with that kind of group outside of PvP.

Public dungeons are pretty easy to solo for some people. Yet on the other hand, I still see people going into them and getting totally wrecked. They are actually a pretty good example of the divide between optimum playing and sub par. I remember when I first started I was watching people solo public dungeons while I struggled. I remember telling myself that someday I would be the guy blasting through those places making it look easy. Well eventually I did. I learned more and more about the game, developed builds, understood more about gear sets and basically memorized fight mechanics to the point where they became muscle memory.

In other words I got better and better at the game. Some people like me are driven to constantly get better and some people are perfectly content to just enjoy the ride. And that is just fine. Different strokes for different folks. Now I can solo most anything that anyone else can solo. That's where I set the bar for myself.

But the point I am making is that I remember very clearly when I couldn't play like that. The game needs to have something for people of all skill levels. One must consider the bigger picture. It's very easy for us to see things through our eyes only, but this is an MMO and as such it needs to offer entertainment value for every person that pays the bills in one fashion or another. And as this poll demonstrates, ZoS would have a very hard time making everyone happy.

I remember around launch there were times I legit had to cancel fighting various storyline bosses and come back later when I was stronger.

Now, I just steamroll right through them in a few seconds.

In my opinion the game shouldn't be very hard. It's an MMO, it's meant to appeal to a wide audience, and extreme difficulty would get in the way of grinding/farming which is a big aspect of any MMO. PvE should be fairly easy save for bosses and difficult group-orientated content.

That said, you can breeze through all the content without so much as worrying about what your character does or wears, and that's too much.

What I find lacking is content for bigger groups (like 5+) that is not catered for Pr0 minmaxers (like trials currently). When I have a group of, for example, 6 people, the only option is to go to cyro and take a resource... Public dungeons could be something like that, if they were harder.

To be honest, for me it's not that it's too easy or too hard, it's just so much of a grind.

I have made multiple posts regarding this matter. There are quite a few ways to increase the difficulty without making the game harder to play for new players or more time consuming to level alts.

One way is to voluntarily apply a player debuff on character creation that rewards you with achievements and only applies to questing PvE. (Essentially a difficulty slider.)

Another way is to adjust the levels of side quests in a way that increases the levels of some side quests in ever y zone, so that more experienced players find solo pve challenges in every zone, and less experienced players can come back later or with friends to beat these elite quests.

there is hard and easy content like in most mmos.. aslong as the hard content doesn't get nerfed to often its good as is

Alphashado wrote: »

There has been some debate on this issue lately. I am curious about a more detailed demographic. Please leave a comment in order to keep this poll active so we can get as many votes as possible.

Do not like the way it play? Then try out something else?

If you're in the VR levels, and want a challenge, go fight in PvP!

Vaerth wrote: »

Alphashado wrote: »

There has been some debate on this issue lately. I am curious about a more detailed demographic. Please leave a comment in order to keep this poll active so we can get as many votes as possible.

Do not like the way it play? Then try out something else?

Ah, so I see you've completely missed the point of this poll... Unlike many polls posted on these forums, this one was clearly set up in an unbiased manner (ie. with a neutrally phrased question and neutrally phrased voting options) with the intent clearly being to get an idea how people feel about the topic, rather than trying to push any agenda.

At over 300 votes, we have probably squeaked about as much out of this poll as we can, as that is more votes than the typical poll on this forum receives. We all know that these polls cannot be considered gospel, but over 300 votes is as much of an accurate representation as we can hope for considering limited exposure.

So the results are about as close to a 50/50 split as I have ever seen on any poll here, with a very slight tilt towards "just right".

I'm not sure what ZoS can do here, as any major change in difficulty would massively change the results.

My personal opinion is that CP shouldn't be available to characters under level 50. While I believe 1-50 is balanced just right for the average new player, it is certainly very easy for an experienced ESO player already w/o any CP. Adding CP to alternate characters just makes it even easier and this will continue to become more of an issue down the road as people earn more and more CP. So just remove CP from any character under level 50 and that problem is solved.

Another part of the problem in my opinion is that classes and abilities are adjusted to match endgame content (Vet dungeons, trials, DSA etc) which the vast majority of the community finds to be plenty challenging. So this leads to certain class/build combos that are very powerful in lower level quest content.

Perhaps some kind of optional debuff food or something is the answer. You could give it a slightly worthwhile kickback like a 5% increase in gold and XP. I think it would have to be instantly removed when joining a group though. Any debuff in my opinion would have to be set up to effect individuals for solo content only. Otherwise we would be opening an epic can of worms.

I don't know what the answer is. I guess this is something for a research & development team to deal with.