This has been said over and over again for the past 2 years. They'll remove the VR system 'soon', and yeah you still have to bear with it for now.

As a long time Elder Scrolls fan I cannot see eye to eye on this issue. Questing has always been a central part of Elder Scrolls games, and it's one I enjoy immensely. Of course, I am not the type to have 4 or 5 toons going when I can put more focus into 1 or 2... So maybe I am just not suffering the repetitiveness as much.

Also, when I play the other factions zones I always nerd out a little and pretend I am a spy sent to uncove secrets as get close to their leaders to serve as an informant. Cheesy, but it adds a fun edge enough to keep me interested.

The whole purpose of an MMO is to get you to play longer and pay more ... how is ZO giving you a V1-16 free boost going to help that ? ... they want you to buy XP boosters via the Crown store and the ESO+ XP booster

Celestrael wrote: »

OzJohnD wrote: »

The whole purpose of an MMO is to get you to play longer and pay more ... how is ZO giving you a V1-16 free boost going to help that ? ... they want you to buy XP boosters via the Crown store and the ESO+ XP booster

MMOs aren't free to run, content isn't free to generate, and shareholders still have to be fed. Don't complain because you're too broke/cheap to support the game and reap some benefits.

oh I'm not complaining, in fact very supportive of paying for service. Just pointing out that there is no incentive for ZO to offer free level boosters.

WoW did it, but to get people back into the game. ZO doesn't need to do it ... yet

You know what I'd really like to see them do?

• Levels 1-50 (well, really level 1-whenever the heck you beat the main quest, but let's say 1-50) you do your own alliance's zones in exactly the same way as you do now.
• You beat Molag Bal and Cadwell offers you the ability to experience another alliance, as he does now, except...
• When you agree you get to select which alliance you experience second as your silver zones (VR1-5)
• There is only one set of these silver zones, so you'll see players from other alliances as well as from your own (no PVP in these zones though)
• Once you gain access to these silver zones, any time you teleport/wayshrine to one of your own alliance's zones you select whether it will be scaled to non-vet (so the exact same zones you're visiting now), or to silver (VR1-5). This allows you to go back and complete any quests or world bosses that you missed the first time through, except now everything will be VR1-5 depending on the zone (note: any quests etc you already completed as a non-vet count as completed in all versions of the zone), as well as group up with friends from other alliances who are questing in this zone (note: there's still no way for members of another alliance to go to the non-vet version of your alliance's zones, and vice-versa)
• When you complete your silver zones, you move on to the 3rd alliance, which is now scaled as gold zones (VR6-10). At this point when you teleport/wayshrine to any zone in any of the 3 alliances you get to select whether it will be scaled to non-vet (for your home alliance only), silver (VR1-5), or gold (VR6-10).
• Craglorn and other non-alliance PVE zones will now only have 1 instance of the zone, in which members of all alliances can quest alongside each other (or if this makes the population too high, have 2 or 3 versions you can choose from, much like choosing a campaign in Cyrodiil).

I feel like this would give people much more flexibility in how they want to do their progression after completing the level 1-50 part of the game (thus hopefully reducing the tedium OP complains about for doing the same alliance's quests over and over), allow much more opportunities for social gaming (I know there are tons of times I'd like to group with guildies for something but can't because one or more of us only has a character of the appropriate build/level in a different alliance), make it more balanced in terms of which alliance has access to the best high level places to farm different types of mobs (answer: all of them, because you can choose to travel to the VR10 version of each alliance's final zone etc), and still retain a separation of alliances while you're doing your home alliance's main questline.

There are probably (definitely) all kinds of reasons why this would never happen - some of which I may find quite reasonable, and some of which I may find incredibly stupid. I'd love it if this was the way it was done, though.