Level 8 , should I grind already ?

UrQuan · June 2015

HerculesGL wrote: »

Having received the Hero of Bleakrock in gonna assume Ive done 100% of the island?

Probably. That's the one that you get when you've found all 10 (or whatever the number is) of the missing villagers, right? If so, and if you've completed the quests to evacuate the island, then it's likely that you've done everything there is to do there. It's still possible that there might be a skyshard that you didn't get (although that's unlikely - you should have come across them while doing the quests), or an area of interest that you didn't discover, but most likely you've done everything there, and can move on to start doing everything in Bal Foyen (the 2nd starter zone for Ebonheart).

SirAndy · June 2015

Danikat wrote: »

This game is a bit odd in that after the introduction

Per player request. One of the bigger design errors by ZOS, they should not have listened to the people who wanted everything at level 1.
In the old days, you were dropped off at the starter island for your faction after the prison but some people complained that they couldn't leave the island until they had finished a quest so ZOS decided the right way to fix that is to dump everyone into the next zone.

UrQuan · June 2015

SirAndy wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

This game is a bit odd in that after the introduction

Per player request. One of the bigger design errors by ZOS, they should not have listened to the people who wanted everything at level 1.
In the old days, you were dropped off at the starter island for your faction after the prison but some people complained that they couldn't leave the island until they had finished a quest so ZOS decided the right way to fix that is to dump everyone into the next zone.

I have a word for those people: idiots. Seriously, listening to them was one of the absolute biggest mistakes ZOS has made. I literally cannot count the number of new players who I've spoken to who struggled with the game in one way or another because they had no idea that they were supposed to go and do the starter islands first. Back at PC launch I was one of them.

I really wish the people who bitched and moaned about this could be publicly shamed for all of the grief that they selfishly caused for new players.

SirAndy · June 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

I have a word for those people: idiots.

@UrQuan
I have another word for them: (wannabe) Journalists

The decision to skip the starter islands was made by ZOS shortly before the game launch after the last "Meet the press" beta weekend.
Quite a few well known names in the industry complained that they had to finish the main quest on the starter islands before they could roam "freely" around Tamriel.

Everyone who was part of the closed beta told ZOS that skipping the starter islands was a BAD idea.
But they were more afraid of bad press than a confused player base.

Syntse · June 2015

HerculesGL wrote: »

Having received the Hero of Bleakrock in gonna assume Ive done 100% of the island?

Think that is only that you have done the main quest line in Bleakrock. Do you have Bleakrock Isle pathfinder achievement?

RefreshDaemon · June 2015

This game promotes uncovering the entire map. Most of the experience is given exploring, lockpicking chests, spelunking, etc... Quests are just there to guide you in a direction, but then you have to explore too. I am currently playing a Daggerfall toon, but by the time I got to the second starter island, I was already lv8; my advice is to explore, explore, explore.

In fact, this is the only MMORPG on console I would ever recommend because it doesn't feel like a "sandbox," and it doesn't feel like it is trying to push people to end game as fast as possible just to rinse and repeat arena based group content.

Glockaholic · June 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

This game is a bit odd in that after the introduction

Per player request. One of the bigger design errors by ZOS, they should not have listened to the people who wanted everything at level 1.
In the old days, you were dropped off at the starter island for your faction after the prison but some people complained that they couldn't leave the island until they had finished a quest so ZOS decided the right way to fix that is to dump everyone into the next zone.

I have a word for those people: idiots. Seriously, listening to them was one of the absolute biggest mistakes ZOS has made. I literally cannot count the number of new players who I've spoken to who struggled with the game in one way or another because they had no idea that they were supposed to go and do the starter islands first. Back at PC launch I was one of them.

I really wish the people who bitched and moaned about this could be publicly shamed for all of the grief that they selfishly caused for new players.

I wholeheartedly agree with this post. As a brand new player on XBox, I assumed that finding myself in Auridon was my starting point for the Aldmeri Dominion, and completed a couple quests. If I hadn't been watching some early gameplay video and doing research in the wiki yesterday, I would've never heard of Khenarthi's Roost or known that it was my actual starting point with a quest to travel to Auridon. Fortunately, I wasn't so far into the game that it couldn't be fixed easily.